Fallout 76 Still Lacks Crossplay Seven Years On, Bethesda Not Ruling It Out

Fallout 76’s team says it is still “looking into” adding crossplay, but the feature won’t arrive with the upcoming February 11 update and isn’t expected in the near term. “We are looking into it, and we have plans to try to scope out what that work is going to entail for us,” creative director Jon Rush said.

“It’s just not in the immediate plans for us. We know players want it.” Production director Bill LaCoste pointed to the difficulty of retrofitting crossplay after launch. “It’s just huge technical hurdles that are things that you tackle before release, during your actual development of the product…so going back and retrofitting it to do that, when you have different places that players are pointing into, and now you’re having to worry about entitlements and account purchases and currency,” he explained.

Cross-progression has been treated as the higher priority in past discussions, and Fallout 76 already supports it.

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