Last summer, a good few months after the Borderlands 3 next-gen update arrived, the game received cross-play support. However, it was limited, as PlayStation owners missed out and the functionality only worked between Xbox, PC, Mac and Stadia users.
It appears that'll soon change. 2K has now said that cross-play support for PlayStation 4 and 5 will arrive "in the future" (thanks, Eurogamer). Once that functionality is added, PlayStation users should be united with all the other Borderlands 3 communities, including on Xbox.
Why this has taken so long, we're not quite sure. At the time of cross-play's initial announcement, it seemed 2K and Gearbox couldn't strike a deal with Sony to allow PlayStation platforms to support the feature.
However, Gearbox did just reveal that the upcoming Borderlands spin-off, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, is getting full cross-play support at launch. It's looking like this new release allowed the teams to revisit the Borderlands 3 situation. At the time of writing, no date has been provided on when Borderlands 3 cross-play will go live.
Will you be diving back in to Borderlands 3 once cross-play arrives? Or is it time to move on to Wonderlands? Let us know below.
[source eurogamer.net]
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Very mixed on borderlands at this point.
The online matchmaking for borderlands 3 was straight garbage and basically nonexistent. Would be lucky if got another player ever. Not think it was ever fixed?
No idea how this happened after coop online in borderlands 2 was so freaking amazing.
A bit late for this isn't it
I hate cross play. Too many pc mods for cheating on most games. They make this sound like this is a positive thing to add.
No information on cross platform save?
People complaining about a cross play option that allows people to join their friends regardless of platform, in a co-op game where you have complete control over the people you play with, will never not be funny to me.
Just so every one is clear. Cross play with PC has been available for nearly a year now, and has the option to turn it off crossplay matchmaking. If you actually played the game, and cared about crossplay, you'd know that.
This is great news for me. I have a couple friends on PS who have this & to be able to join them again will be great.
@BBB "Or join randoms via matchmaking this is also a thing too but you would know that right?"
I would, which is why I mentioned the fact that the option in BL3 is specifically for turning off crossplay matchmaking.
Let's say for a moment that for some strange reason, that this spin off that uses the BL3 engine, decided to removed an option that is both present in BL3 and more or less an industry standard in crossplay titles, what stops you booting modders or leaving their game?.
Hopefully it's optional wouldn't mind crossplay between xbox & playstation but not pc
@Richnj some games like halo infinite don't have the option of turning crossplay off I don't think anyone is against having the option of crossplay it's just when it's forced that it becomes an issue
@Would_you_kindly yeah but I consider Halo and War zone different because they are botch jobs and are competitive. They are also the only two I know of that have had issues with this.
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