EA and Hazelight Studios have revealed information about how Split Fiction’s Friend’s Pass and cross-play between totally different platforms work. There’s even a free trial for gamers who do not personal the sport.
Much like Hazelight’s earlier co-op video games like It Takes Two and A Approach Out, Split Fiction additionally provides a Friend’s Pass. This permits gamers who purchased the sport to attach with somebody who does not have a duplicate, and play via the sport in its entirety. However this time, Split Fiction’s model has some expanded options that weren’t in these earlier video games, resembling cross-platform play.
How does Split Fiction’s work?
Step one is that one individual has to personal the sport, whether or not it might be a bodily or digital copy. The subsequent step is to have a buddy obtain Split Fiction’s Friend’s Pass on their chosen platform, whether or not it might be PC, PlayStation, or Xbox via their respective digital storefronts. Simply remember that when you and your good friend are enjoying on totally different platforms, for instance PC and PlayStation, each of you want an EA account.
Subsequent, the one who owns Split Fiction ought to ship an in-game invite to their good friend, whom then accepts the invite. As soon as that step is accomplished, each gamers can play via your entire recreation collectively.
What occurs if neither of you personal the sport? No downside. The Friend’s Pass provides a free trial for each gamers which incorporates the opening levels of Split Fiction. Each gamers might want to obtain the Friend’s Pass model of the sport, and as soon as both of you buy the complete recreation, progresses might be continued.
One other side to notice is that in It Takes Two and A Approach Out, the participant who was on the Friend’s Pass model didn’t unlock trophies or achievements on their platform, whereas the one who owned the sport did. At the least in A Approach Out, if the participant on the Friend’s Pass decides to buy the complete recreation in a while, they will retroactively earn the trophies and achievements they’d have unlocked whereas on the cross. It is unknown whether or not this is identical case for Split Fiction.
How does cross-play in Split Fiction work?
It Takes Two and A Approach Out did not have cross-play, which means that each gamers needed to be on the identical platform to be able to play with one another. Nonetheless, It Takes Two had cross-gen play, which means that PS4 and PS5 gamers and Xbox One and Xbox Collection X|S gamers may play with one another so long as they had been on the identical platform household.
Split Fiction is barely on current-gen consoles, so cross-gen play does not exist. Nonetheless, Split Fiction now provides cross-play, which means that PC, PS5, and Xbox Collection X|S gamers can all play collectively. Cross-play requires each gamers to enroll in separate EA accounts every, which you’ll make for free.
Hazelight additionally has a Discord server with a channel referred to as “On the lookout for Participant” for individuals who wish to play Split Fiction with however haven’t got anybody accessible to rearrange recreation classes.
Split Fiction launches on March 6 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Collection X|S. In different associated information, director Josef Fares not too long ago shared his ideas on AI, and likewise stated that Hazelight Studios won’t ever make a live-service recreation.
For extra Split Fiction protection, remember to try GameSpot’s Split Fiction preview.