Alright folks, let’s dive straight into me trying to figure out this whole Dying Light cross-platform mess. Woke up yesterday morning with my buddy Mike texting me – “Hey can we play Dying Light tonight? I got it on Xbox”. Problem is, I’m on PlayStation. So I started digging like crazy.
My First Moves
Hopped onto my dusty old laptop and checked the official sites first. Couldn’t find squat about Xbox and PlayStation playing together – just a bunch of marketing fluff. Then I hit up forums and subreddits. People were arguing left and right about this crossplay stuff. One thread claimed it worked, another said it got patched out, total chaos.
Real World Testing
Decided to just install the darn thing and try it myself. Fired up my PS5:
- Loaded my save near the Tower settlement
- Opened multiplayer menu – only showed other PlayStation players
- No Xbox icons anywhere, just those little platform symbols
- Tried joining Mike’s session through invite link – got “platform mismatch” error
Mike did the same on his end – exact same roadblock. We even rebooted routers like idiots thinking it might magically work. Nope.
The Cold Hard Truth
After all that headache, here’s how cross-platform actually works:
- PC versions can play together whether bought from Steam or Epic Games Store
- Console to PC? Forget it. That bridge doesn’t exist
- PS4 to PS5 players can team up just fine (same for Xbox One to Series X)
- PlayStation to Xbox? Like mixing oil and water – doesn’t work at all
Felt pretty bummed telling Mike we couldn’t smash zombies together. Ended up watching Netflix separately like some divorced gaming couple. Techland really dropped the ball not figuring this out.
