Crossplay has become a little bit of a lifesaver for games with smaller online communities. While it’s great that games like Fortnite and Rocket League enable you to play together, irrespective of console – the feature can be an essential means of establishing a healthy playerbase among less popular games. One particular beneficiary is the fighting game community.
It’s big news, then, that King of Fighters 15 is adding the feature. This game previously supported crossplay across the PS5 and PS4, but will soon add PC and Xbox Series X|S to the player pool. Given that the SNK fighter is a little on the niche side, this should help seriously bolster its player numbers, ultimately improving the experience for everyone. Great stuff!
[source twitter.com]
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Everybody should jump on board with KOF, let’s see how SF6 goes but as of now KOF is king.
King of Fighters 15 is definitely my game of the year. I kinda slacked off on the online matches as of late but I can always get back into it.
That's great news.
This is amazing news. Should be the standard for all fighting games from now on, especially because it's such a niche genre.
Even include the Switch. Whenever I go to Fighting Events, there's always that guy who brings out his Switch, connects it to a random TV set no one is using, and plays UNIST or DBFZ on it. And they're good too.
We should all play together regardless of platform. It makes no sense to wall people off anymore.
@Royalblues sorry, what’s UNIST?
@shonenjump86 Under Night In-Birth: Exe Late[ST] Stupid name... yep. The [ST] was added to tell us that it was the "Latest" version by the time it released. The original was abbreviated UNIEL, just remove the [ST].
From French Bread, the makers of Melty Blood: Type Lumina and Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax, which people abbreviate as DFC, also on PS4, but it's an old game People don't play that anymore.
The latest version of UNI is affectionately abbreviated UNICLR. Just look for "Under Night" in the PS Store. I love French Bread games. Aside from KoF, their games are my favorite 2D fighters. UNI is French Bread's original game (Melty and DFC characters don't belong to them), so people still play that. They're waiting for a rollback announcement similar to the SamSho one.
Sorry, I know you only pinged me with three words, and here's how I respond, but I thought I'd give you a little background, should you be interested.
@shonenjump86 Also, I think in the PSN store, you'll only find UNIST, and UNICLR might be a free add-on. I forgot how they did it.
@Royalblues ah ok, thanks. I appreciate the info there. I’ve heard of Under Night In Birth but just haven’t played it.
@shonenjump86 I see. My apologies for the info dump. I hope to see you whenever they implement Crossplay to KOF, which should hopefully be soon.
Have they bought back Choi yet? What a character he was in KOF 90s
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