A brand new replace for downsized survival sport Grounded has been launched, and in case you’re not a fan of getting to signal into your Microsoft account once you play on Steam, that is the replace for you.
Per the replace’s (admittedly small) patch notes, you may 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 part of normal multiplayer classes with different gamers who’re already in your Steam associates checklist, so in case you’ve been hoping to take pleasure in Grounded with out your Microsoft account getting in the way in which, immediately’s your fortunate day.
There may be 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 carried out a brand new change that permits you to toggle between a Crossplay State and a Steam Native State, and you may should be in the identical state as your pals to see them on-line.
In case you desire, you can too unlink your Microsoft account out of your Steam account utterly through 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 sport’s options on Steam.
Naturally, in case you’re enjoying Grounded on Sport Go, you may nonetheless want to make use of your Microsoft account to entry it, so there have not been any modifications on that entrance.
This transformation 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 notably vicious criticism over this determination.
Ultimately, 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 following time a Sony sport hits the PC.
In any case, Grounded is out there proper now throughout PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Swap.