A brand new replace for downsized survival recreation Grounded has been launched, and in case 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 may now not have to signal into your Microsoft account if you wish to play Grounded‘s multiplayer modes with your pals.
For those who’re not logged into your Microsoft account, now you can host and be a part of commonplace multiplayer periods with different gamers who’re already in your Steam pals checklist, so in case you’ve been hoping to take pleasure in Grounded with out your Microsoft account getting in the best way, at present’s your fortunate day.
There’s one main caveat, although. If you wish to play Grounded cross-platform, otherwise you need to play on shared worlds or in Playgrounds, you are still going to wish to signal into your Microsoft account.
In addition to this alteration, Obsidian and Microsoft have additionally applied 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.
For those who favor, you may also 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, it will stop you from accessing a few of the recreation’s options on Steam.
Naturally, in case you’re enjoying Grounded on Sport Cross, you may nonetheless want to make use of your Microsoft account to entry it, so there have not been any adjustments on that entrance.
This modification comes within the wake of the controversy surrounding Sony requiring a sign-in to a PlayStation account with a view to play its video games on PC, with Helldivers 2 coming in for significantly 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 in all probability set tongues wagging the following time a Sony recreation hits the PC.
In any case, Grounded is out there proper now throughout PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Change.