How to add and play with friends

ARC Raiders is out now on PS5, Xbox Collection X|S, and PC, and like several good multiplayer recreation, it has full crossplay throughout all of its platforms. This implies that you could celebration up with associates enjoying on PlayStation, even should you’re on Xbox or PC, or vice versa — and also you’ll face off in opposition to gamers on different platforms, too, within the wilderness. 

On this information we’ll go over the right way to add associates from different platforms in ARC Raiders, in addition to the right way to play with these associates and the right way to flip off crossplay. 

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If you wish to add your mates from different platforms in ARC Raiders, you’ll must know what your pal’s Embark username is. That is arrange if you create your Embark account, both the primary time you open ARC Raiders or should you performed The Finals beforehand. You can even discover it on the social tab within the menu. 

An Embark username would be the chosen username in addition to a 4-digit discriminator, like Username#1234. That is separate from the platform username, similar to your Xbox Gamer Tag, PlayStation ID, or Steam username. 

After getting your pal’s Embark username, open up the social panel by urgent the choices/begin button on the primary display, as proven above, then press the Add Buddy button. 

Enter your pal’s Embark username and discriminator, ensuring to incorporate the # image in between, and settle for to ship them an invitation. Your pal will then want to simply accept the invite from the identical menu, although in the event that they’re in-game if you ship the invite, they’ll obtain a popup for straightforward entry as properly. 

When you’ve added your pal, including them to your recreation is so simple as urgent the plus button subsequent to your icon above the Play button. Choose your pal from the record and ship them an invitation to affix your recreation. As soon as they settle for, merely press the massive Play button to begin enjoying collectively. 

There could be cases the place you need to flip off crossplay, for no matter purpose. That is pretty easy to do, fortunately, and you’ll flip it on and off as you’d like. 

Open up the menu, then press the Settings button. On the Gameplay tab within the settings, scroll right down to Crossplay and toggle it on or off as wanted. You’ll be able to’t do that when you’re actively matchmaking or whereas in a recreation, but it surely’s freely obtainable in any respect different instances.