{"id":198378,"date":"2025-06-19T23:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T23:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/198378\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T23:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T23:31:09","slug":"sifu-devs-new-game-rematch-launches-without-crossplay-but-its-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/198378\/","title":{"rendered":"Sifu dev\u2019s new game Rematch launches without crossplay,\u00a0but it\u2019s coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9i ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/reviews\/22918073\/sifu-review-ps5-ps4-windows-pc-release-date\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sifu<\/a> developer Sloclap launched its new soccer title Rematch on Thursday, but the arcade-style soccer game has kicked off without crossplay, limiting players to their own platforms. As Rematch is an online, team-based experience, it\u2019s only natural for players to expect crossplay to team up with their friends across platforms, but the functionality will not be present during the game\u2019s launch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9i ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya1\">During previous beta tests, developer Sloclap said on its Rematch Discord server that the team had been working on getting crossplay ready for launch and the feature is at the top of its priority list. But the option is not ready for launch, leading Sloclap to apologize to early adopters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9i ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya1\">\u201cWe understand many of you were looking forward to playing Rematch across platforms from day one. We did our utmost to include crossplay at launch, but Rematch is the studio\u2019s first crossplay title, and we faced unforeseen technical complexities which prevented us from having this feature ready in time,\u201d the studio said on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.playrematch.com\/post\/rematch-launch-priorities-next-steps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official blog<\/a>. \u201cWe should have communicated as soon as it became apparent that crossplay wouldn\u2019t be available at launch, and we\u2019re sorry for the inconvenience and frustration it caused to some of our players. <\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9i ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya1\">The developer added that \u201calong with bugfixes, crossplay is our absolute highest priority, we\u2019re committed to delivering this feature swiftly, and we\u2019ll share a more precise deadline as soon as possible. We already have a basic working version from a technical standpoint, but we need to implement the relevant interfaces, before debugging and polishing it, and finally passing console certifications successfully &#8211; all this takes time but we are doing our best to move forward quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9i ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya1\">Sloclap doesn\u2019t have an official timeline for when crossplay will be released, and said it hopes that players remember features like crossplay can take a long time to develop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _11x6rb9i ku7vx11 ku7vx10 t0irya1\">Rematch is available now on PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X. If you\u2019re looking to bring out your inner Ronaldinho, check out Polygon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/guides\/607583\/rematch-beginners-tips-before-you-start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beginner tips and tricks for Rematch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sifu developer Sloclap launched its new soccer title Rematch on Thursday, but the arcade-style soccer game has kicked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1583,12,546,342,53,16,15,289],"class_list":{"0":"post-198378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gaming","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pc","11":"tag-playstation","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-xbox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}