PalworldPocket pairs “Pokémon The survival game “With Guns” is released today, January 19th, after starting early access. Shortly after release, it counted 300,000 concurrent players on Steam, but for those playing the game via Xbox Game Pass on PC or console, there are some limitations to the multiplayer features. That’s because the studio has confirmed that the game will support fewer players if you play anywhere other than Steam due to a lack of dedicated servers on other platforms.
On Steam, Palworld supports dedicated servers that host up to 32 players in a session of the game’s open world. However, the Xbox Series multiplayer options are particularly annoying for anyone using their Game Pass subscription, as even PC players who access the game through the service are segregated into four-player servers. Although it’s not uncommon, it’s becoming increasingly rare for PC gamers to play on different servers simply because they use different launchers. Epic even has it firmly anchored in its rules that multiplayer games on PC must support crossplay with other launchers to get into the Epic Game Store. But there is clearly a problem with compatibility for Palworld
Talk about the official Palworld Discord server (Thanks, IGN), “Bucky,” a community manager, said the reason for the disparity is “not anyone’s ‘fault,'” but the team is in talks to provide non-Steam users with dedicated servers to use their Increase the number of multiplayers. See you then, Palworld supports up to four players outside of Steam.
“We would like to have dedicated servers on Xbox, but unfortunately that is not up to us and is quite difficult to negotiate at the moment,” the representative said. “But… we’ll try!”
It’s unclear what Pocketpair means by negotiation because, how IGN points out in their story that many games have dedicated servers on Xbox platforms. We’ve reached out to Xbox for comment and will update the story when we hear back.
While the Internet has moved on to telephone calls Palworld “Pokémon With Guns has a lot of elements of survival and of course shooting that help it stand out due to its obvious inspiration in character design and ball-based catching mechanics. But is it actually any good? We have a few people there My city I’m playing it, so check out more about it in the next few days.
