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It’s been a long time coming but Overwatch is finally getting cross-play support, enabling players to compete with and against one another regardless of platform.<\/p>\n

Game director Aaron Keller announced the feature during Blizzard’s latest developer update<\/a>, working through some of the special matchmaking rules that’ll be introduced once cross-play arrives for PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC.<\/p>\n

Essentially, while parties of console-only players will continue to be placed with other consoles players during matchmaking, and those on PC will continue to be placed with other PC players, mixed teams will be placed in the PC matchmaking pool. The one exception to this is Competitive Play mode, which will not permit mixed groups at all.<\/p>\n

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It’s been a long time coming but Overwatch is finally getting cross-play support, enabling players to compete with and against one another regardless of platform. Game director Aaron Keller announced the feature during Blizzard’s latest developer update, working through some of the special matchmaking rules that’ll be introduced once cross-play arrives for PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC. Essentially, while parties of console-only players will continue to be placed with other consoles players during matchmaking, and those on PC will continue to be placed with other PC players, mixed teams will be placed in the PC matchmaking pool. The one exception to this is Competitive Play mode, which will not permit mixed groups at all. 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