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Gears of War 4 adds competitive cross platform multiplayer

Versus social cross-play between Xbox One and Windows 10 is now live

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Developer The Coalition and Microsoft have announced the launch of cross-play between Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs in Social Quickplay of Gears of War 4.

Up till now, cross-play was limited to the game's cooperative modes. But, late last year a beta test was conducted to see how the community would enjoy competitive play between the two platforms. The test saw over 750,000 matches with over 115,000 unique participants – 91/9 split from Xbox to Windows 10. Average of 6.2 matches were played by Xbox users, with 11.2 for Windows 10 users. Windows 10 and Xbox players had closely-matched results when comparing Average KD, Score and Kills per match based on skill ratings.

Following this successful test and feedback from the community, Social Quickplay will now be a Cross-play playlist. This step is planned to be a permanent move for the future of Social Quickplay, with the first few months being a ‘trial period’ in order to monitor player feedback alongside data to ensure the Test Weekend was representative.

Core and Competitive will remain platform independent, only matching Xbox players with each other and Windows 10 players with each other. Due to the major popularity of Social Quickplay on Windows 10, the developers will be looking at introducing new Core and Competitive solutions for Windows 10 players in the future to provide more focused offerings to experience the more competitive ranked play of Gears of War 4.

Gears of War 4 was released last year on Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs.

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