A brand new replace for downsized survival recreation Grounded has been launched, and should you’re not a fan of getting to signal into your Microsoft account if you play on Steam, that is the replace for you.
Per the replace’s (admittedly small) patch notes, you will now not must signal into your Microsoft account if you wish to play Grounded‘s multiplayer modes with your pals.
In case you’re not logged into your Microsoft account, now you can host and be a part of normal multiplayer classes with different gamers who’re already in your Steam buddies listing, so should you’ve been hoping to get pleasure from Grounded with out your Microsoft account getting in the way in which, in the present day’s your fortunate day.
There’s one main caveat, although. If you wish to play Grounded cross-platform, otherwise you wish to play on shared worlds or in Playgrounds, you are still going to want to signal into your Microsoft account.
In addition to this transformation, Obsidian and Microsoft have additionally carried out a brand new swap that permits you to toggle between a Crossplay State and a Steam Native State, and you may must be in the identical state as your pals to see them on-line.
In case you favor, you can even unlink your Microsoft account out of your Steam account utterly by way of Grounded‘s Choices menu; simply navigate to Sport, then Unlink Microsoft Account. Once more, although, this may forestall you from accessing among the recreation’s options on Steam.
Naturally, should you’re enjoying Grounded on Sport Go, you will nonetheless want to make use of your Microsoft account to entry it, so there have not been any adjustments on that entrance.
This transformation comes within the wake of the controversy surrounding Sony requiring a sign-in to a PlayStation account with the intention to play its video games on PC, with Helldivers 2 coming in for notably vicious criticism over this resolution.
Finally, Sony walked the change again, and the truth that each Helldivers 2 and Grounded do not require exterior accounts will most likely set tongues wagging the subsequent time a Sony recreation hits the PC.
In any case, Grounded is on the market proper now throughout PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Swap.