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Doug Lombardi of Valve has told IGN that PC and Xbox 360 gamers could well be playing against each other when Team Fortress 2 is released for both platforms later this year. “Technically it’s done,” said Lombardi, although it’s not 100% definite that cross-platform play will be included in the final game.
It looks highly unlikely that cross-platform will be possible for PlayStation 3 players though.
“The PS3 version is being done by EA over in the UK, and they don’t have all the networking stuff in yet to do anything other than [pause] it’s rending and running the games and whatnot, but they’re still dropping in the network layers. They’re going to be using a piece of code that EA uses for its PS3 multiplayer stuff,” Lombardi explained. “Chances are the PS3 version will only play other PS3s. There’s zero chance of them talking to 360s.“
Valve’s Robin Walker also revealed that there should be no control issues with the Xbox 360 version as the game is being handled by the same staffers that worked on HL2 for the Xbox.
“… we have all the tweaks we did to the controls, the sticks and everything. One of the advantages of TF2, relative to something like Counter-Strike, is that it’s not so much about aim,” said Walker.
Team Fortress 2 will be released for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 towards the end of the year as part of the The Orange Box – includes Half-Life 2, Episode 1 & 2, Portal and Team Fortress 2.
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