{"id":112769,"date":"2016-12-01T15:40:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T13:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=112769"},"modified":"2016-12-01T15:41:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T13:41:44","slug":"gears-of-war-4-will-test-pc-and-xbox-one-multiplayer-crossplay-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/112769-gears-of-war-4-will-test-pc-and-xbox-one-multiplayer-crossplay-this-weekend","title":{"rendered":"Gears of War 4 will test PC and Xbox One multiplayer crossplay this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gears of War 4 will be hosting \u00a0a PC and Xbox One crossplay event this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The test is being conducted to evaluate the potential of a more permanent crossplay solution in the future to allow Windows 10 and Xbox One gamers to play together in Versus outside of Private Matches.<\/p>\n<p>Developer The Coalition has previously expressed concern with matching PC and Xbox One players in public matches due to the advantages conferred by playing with a mouse and keyboard.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The settings for this test are as follows:<\/li>\n<li>Playlist Type: Social<\/li>\n<li>Modes: Team Deathmatch, Dodgeball, King of the Hill<\/li>\n<li>Maps: All (including Checkout and Dry Dock)<\/li>\n<li>Win XP: 1500 (up from 600)<\/li>\n<li>Loss XP: 750 (up from 100)<\/li>\n<li>Maximum Squad Size: 5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;re not exactly sure what&#8217;s changed to stop mouse users having an advantage, but we&#8217;re still excited at the prospect of more crossplay titles.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/106857-gears-of-war-4-review-roundup.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gears of War 4 Review Roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This could be the first big step for PC and console multiplayer shooters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":112771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[31,23589,4654],"class_list":["post-112769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-crossplay","tag-gears-of-war-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}