When Will Destiny 2 Be Cross Play

Destiny ii developer Bungie revealed a whole lot of information well-nigh the game'south upcoming crossplay support in a blog mail service on Thursday afternoon. Let'southward get this out of the way showtime: Bungie still doesn't take an verbal date for when you'll be able to play with your friends on other platforms, but the studio promises the feature will launch "early on" in Season fifteen, which is expected to kick off on August 24th.

Season 15 volition as well bring an of import alter to ensure you accept a persistent identity across platforms for crossplay: a new Bungie Name organization. Your Bungie Name will be generated based on the name associated with the platform you play Season fifteen on beginning, and will look something like PlayerName#1234. You tin can become a better idea of how it volition expect in-game in this screenshot:

*A preview of Bungie Names in* Destiny 2.

Bungie won't accept a name alter feature available at the launch of crossplay — that's not expected until the winter. So make sure you showtime play Season xv on the platform with the name y'all desire associated with your Bungie Proper noun.

The studio will run names through a moderation process to aid preclude offensive terms from slipping through and says that characters in names that "we are unable to display in the game or that tin't be typed into the player search box via console virtual keyboards" volition be stripped.

Bungie also discussed how players beyond dissimilar platforms will exist matched upwards at the launch of crossplay. For PvE modes, "there will be one global matchmaking pool," Bungie says, but for competitive modes (Crucible, Iron Banner, Trials, and Gambit), matchmaking will break down similar this:

PC players will match with PC players
Console players will match with console players — and, notably, Stadia players, who can use mouse and keyboard
Fireteams with any mix of PC and console players volition be matched with other PC players

This approach at launch may modify at some point, withal — Bungie says that it "might not be the answer forever."

One missing feature at launch will be voice chat between platforms, Bungie said. "We accept run into some belatedly-breaking issues with development and are currently working on making sure this experience is set earlier aircraft it live," according to Bungie. The company considered delaying crossplay to make certain the characteristic was included, just has opted instead to launch without information technology and add it in an update "targeted for shortly afterward Cross Play goes alive."

Bungie details a lot more than about crossplay in its latest blog, and if you're interested in learning more, I advise taking a few minutes to read the whole thing.

Bungie confirmed in December that Destiny 2 would be getting crossplay in 2021. Only in May, some players got to try it out early when the studio accidentally turned the feature on for some players — a loophole the company eventually closed. There was as well an official crossplay beta after that month.