Modern Warfare II Xbox Fans Can't Easily Turn Off Crossplay, But PlayStation Gets Extra Perks - Kotaku

Anyone playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, which got released today, on Xbox oregon PC is uncovering themselves successful the shallow video crippled trenches, but not the benignant they had hoped for. Infinity Ward’s first-person shooter seems to person a console preference, with Xbox players unable to switch off crossplay, a relation that allows radical connected antithetic platforms to play together, done the existent game. Meanwhile, PlayStation users tin toggle the relation with cheerful wantonness acknowledgment to a built-in option.

Disgruntled Xbox players privation to debar PC cheaters and precise mice and keyboards, portion PC users would alternatively debar consoles’ smooth purpose assist. PlayStation users, meanwhile, are dealing with audio dropouts and being required to delete their files if they tried stealthily starting a crippled successful a antithetic portion for aboriginal access.

But they aren’t, astatine least, disquieted astir crossplay. And Sony sweetened their woody further—shortly up of release, the Call of Duty website listed a fewer PS4 and PS5-specific benefits, including monthly treble XP events, +25% limb XP erstwhile playing with different PS users successful a party, and 2 other loadout slots aft reaching Level 4.

Console wars are an anticipation for Call of Duty games astatine this point. While Microsoft is dilatory moving connected buying billion-dollar-baby Activision, connected October 26, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said helium was much funny successful mobile and readying connected “[treating] CoD similar Minecraft,” The Verge exertion Tom Warren reported.

Activision’s existent spouse Sony is, instead, treating the franchise similar a precious kid prodigy. And, possibly to Xbox players dismay, adjacent aft Microsoft’s woody goes through, Sony volition commandeer Call of Duty for “several much years” aft its declaration with Activision expires.

So Call of Duty’s inheritance console wars aren’t ending soon. In the meantime, Xbox players can spell into their settings and artifact crossplay from wrong the “Online information & family” tab. From there, you prime Communication & multiplayer, and past you artifact radical from extracurricular Xbox Live. Doing this to play Modern Warfare II, however, volition astir apt summation your queue times, since you’ll lone beryllium capable to lucifer a much constricted radical of players with the aforesaid information settings. You conscionable can’t win.

Update 11:33 a.m: We’ve updated the header to bespeak the workaround mentioned successful the article.