ARC Raiders crossplay guide: How to add and play with friends

ARC Raiders is out now on PS5, Xbox Collection X|S, and PC, and like all good multiplayer recreation, it has full crossplay throughout all of its platforms. This implies that you could celebration up with buddies enjoying on PlayStation, even in the event you’re on Xbox or PC, or vice versa — and also you’ll face off towards gamers on different platforms, too, within the wilderness. 

On this information we’ll go over add buddies from different platforms in ARC Raiders, in addition to play with these buddies and flip off crossplay. 

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If you wish to add your pals from different platforms in ARC Raiders, you’ll must know what your good friend’s Embark username is. That is arrange while you create your Embark account, both the primary time you open ARC Raiders or in the event you performed The Finals beforehand. You may also discover it on the social tab within the menu. 

An Embark username would be the chosen username in addition to a 4-digit discriminator, like Username#1234. That is separate from the platform username, corresponding to your Xbox Gamer Tag, PlayStation ID, or Steam username. 

Upon getting your good friend’s Embark username, open up the social panel by urgent the choices/begin button on the primary display, as proven above, then press the Add Good friend button. 

Enter your good friend’s Embark username and discriminator, ensuring to incorporate the # image in between, and settle for to ship them an invitation. Your good friend will then want to just accept the invite from the identical menu, although in the event that they’re in-game while you ship the invite, they’ll obtain a popup for simple entry as properly. 

When you’ve added your good friend, including them to your recreation is so simple as urgent the plus button subsequent to your icon above the Play button. Choose your good friend from the listing and ship them an invitation to hitch your recreation. As soon as they settle for, merely press the large Play button to start out enjoying collectively. 

There is perhaps cases the place you wish to flip off crossplay, for no matter cause. That is pretty easy to do, fortunately, and you’ll flip it on and off as you’d like. 

Open up the menu, then press the Settings button. On the Gameplay tab within the settings, scroll right down to Crossplay and toggle it on or off as wanted. You may’t do that when you’re actively matchmaking or whereas in a recreation, nevertheless it’s freely accessible in any respect different occasions.