Post by account_disabled on Jan 28, 2024 4:44:14 GMT -5
Pocketpair's new open-world survival game Palworld has enjoyed runaway success since its recent early access launch on Xbox and PC, as well as Xbox Game Pass. Its creative mix of survival mechanics and base building with a combination of creature collection and fighting gameplay, which is basically "Pokémon with weapons", quickly became very popular, and the game has now even broken 1 million simultaneous players and broke Steam records . But while Palworld has made progress on Valve's PC game client, players have noticed that the Xbox and Microsoft Store versions are currently missing features and fixes. Many, including myself, assumed that this was originally the number for an earlier version of Palworld on Xbox.
However, after Fax Lists joining Pocketpair's Discord server to try and find out more, I saw some recent posts by its community manager Bucky that shed some light on things. They said that the version numbers between the platforms can always be different because they are two different versions of the game, and the main reason that the Xbox version is currently missing features is that the updates have to go through Microsoft's certification queue. "Applied on Steam, 2 days ago. On Xbox, sitting in the MS certification queue," Bucky wrote in a fan asking when the fix would go live. Then, in another article about feature parity: "Some of these things will take extra time...we're really at the mercy of certification. We're working hard to speed this up." "Issues like missing game exit button etc are not the result of 'old builds', these are separate issues.
In fact, Steam and Xbox will probably never have the same version numbers until the games are made cross-compatible, because at that point they will be an inside game," they said in a lengthy statement . "Again, that doesn't mean Xbox is necessarily 'behind' or anything, they're just two different versions of the game because the Xbox architecture is different." Palworld, Pal throws the Orb at Pal to catch it. Player about catching Pal with Pal Sphere. (Image credit: Pocketpair) So, there you have it. While Pocketpair aims to get the Xbox/MS Store edition of Jahani Pal in line with the Steam one as soon as possible, it's taking some extra time to do so because the developer has to go through Microsoft's update certification process. In terms of what's actually different between the two editions of Palworld, Xbox and Microsoft Store users are unfortunately missing quite a bit.
However, after Fax Lists joining Pocketpair's Discord server to try and find out more, I saw some recent posts by its community manager Bucky that shed some light on things. They said that the version numbers between the platforms can always be different because they are two different versions of the game, and the main reason that the Xbox version is currently missing features is that the updates have to go through Microsoft's certification queue. "Applied on Steam, 2 days ago. On Xbox, sitting in the MS certification queue," Bucky wrote in a fan asking when the fix would go live. Then, in another article about feature parity: "Some of these things will take extra time...we're really at the mercy of certification. We're working hard to speed this up." "Issues like missing game exit button etc are not the result of 'old builds', these are separate issues.
In fact, Steam and Xbox will probably never have the same version numbers until the games are made cross-compatible, because at that point they will be an inside game," they said in a lengthy statement . "Again, that doesn't mean Xbox is necessarily 'behind' or anything, they're just two different versions of the game because the Xbox architecture is different." Palworld, Pal throws the Orb at Pal to catch it. Player about catching Pal with Pal Sphere. (Image credit: Pocketpair) So, there you have it. While Pocketpair aims to get the Xbox/MS Store edition of Jahani Pal in line with the Steam one as soon as possible, it's taking some extra time to do so because the developer has to go through Microsoft's update certification process. In terms of what's actually different between the two editions of Palworld, Xbox and Microsoft Store users are unfortunately missing quite a bit.