Rematch Dev Explains What Went Wrong With Crossplay, Apologizes for Failing to Tell Players as Soon as It Knew It Wouldn’t Make Launch

Rematch developer Sloclap has issued an update connected the deficiency of crossplay successful the game, apologizing to fans and admitting it should person fto players cognize it wouldn’t marque motorboat earlier.

Rematch, from the workplace down Sifu and Absolver, is simply a 5v5 online multiplayer arcade shot crippled played from a third-person perspective. Its caller beta was hugely popular, with 1.9 cardinal taking portion crossed PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. But fans complained erstwhile Sloclap confirmed Rematch wouldn’t person crossplay astatine launch, conscionable hours earlier aboriginal entree began.

Now, successful a blog station shared with the property to coincide with Rematch’s afloat motorboat today, June 19, Sloclap explained what went wrong.

“We recognize galore of you were looking guardant to playing Rematch crossed platforms from time one,” the workplace said.

“We did our utmost to see crossplay astatine launch, but Rematch is the studio’s archetypal crossplay title, and we faced unforeseen method complexities which prevented america from having this diagnostic acceptable successful time. We should person communicated arsenic soon arsenic it became evident that crossplay wouldn’t beryllium disposable astatine launch, and we’re atrocious for the inconvenience and vexation it caused to immoderate of our players.

“It’s precise important for america that our players are capable to bask Rematch with their friends, truthful on with bugfixes, crossplay is our implicit highest priority, we're committed to delivering this diagnostic swiftly, and we’ll stock a much precise deadline arsenic soon arsenic possible. We already person a basal moving mentation from a method standpoint, but we request to instrumentality the applicable interfaces, earlier debugging and polishing it, and yet passing console certifications successfully — each this takes clip but we are doing our champion to determination guardant quickly.”

Elsewhere successful the post, Sloclap addressed the show issues that affected the aboriginal entree launch, saying fixing them is simply a priority. These see lag, stuttering, and framework drops affecting gameplay. Server and lawsuit desync has been impacting lucifer quality, too.

“For instance, we are alert of issues wherever players would sometimes beryllium incapable to interact with the ball, with subordinate characters and the shot seemingly moving crossed the transportation unpredictably,” Sloclap said. It’s connected the case. And past determination is enactment being done to squash game-breaking bugs that origin crashes, freezes aft goals, and paper lockouts.

Besides these issues, Sloclap said it’s moving connected upcoming updates, “with plentifulness of chill contented and features we privation to bring to the game.” The 4 main areas of absorption are halfway gameplay changes, competitory features (tournament system, a leaderboard strategy for players supra Elite ranking, arsenic good arsenic a nine instauration system), societal components (crossplay is the large one, but others see being capable to spectate your squad’s crippled erstwhile you articulation a squad, and allowing players to squad up and rematch with teammates they enjoyed playing with), and casual play features specified arsenic AI-controlled bots truthful players tin bid with and against AIs.

Sloclap concluded its station by pointing retired that it is simply a tiny workplace and each the features it has outlined volition instrumentality clip to travel out. “Please retrieve that we are not a immense team, and that these features instrumentality time, truthful don’t expect each this by the extremity of the year!” it said.

Despite the motorboat issues and deficiency of crossplay, Rematch is well-received connected Steam, wherever it has a 'mostly positive' idiosyncratic reappraisal rating. At the clip of this article's publication, Rematch has 35,595 concurrent players connected Valve's platform, a fig that looks acceptable to emergence arsenic the crippled heads into its archetypal weekend.

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