{"id":110922,"date":"2020-03-29T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/pc_jedi_knights_are_destroying_star_wars_players_on_nintendo_switch"},"modified":"2020-03-29T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T03:30:00","slug":"pc-jedi-knights-are-destroying-star-wars-players-on-nintendo-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/29\/pc-jedi-knights-are-destroying-star-wars-players-on-nintendo-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"PC Jedi Knights Are Destroying Star Wars Players On Nintendo Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d8b4fef35df1a\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d8b4fef35df1a\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Anakin Skywalker\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d8b4fef35df1a\/anakin-skywalker.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d8b4fef35df1a\/anakin-skywalker.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Anakin Skywalker\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/star_wars_jedi_knight_jedi_academy\">Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy<\/a><\/strong> has <em>finally<\/em> been released on the Nintendo Switch, but there seems to be a disturbance in the force.<\/p>\n<p>There is reportedly an issue with the game&#8217;s online multiplayer component. While there&#8217;s no mention of a cross-play feature in the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/games\/detail\/star-wars-jedi-knight-jedi-academy-switch\/\">official Nintendo description<\/a>, right now, PC players are able to join Switch matches and it&#8217;s causing all sorts of trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s going on, according to ResetEra user <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resetera.com\/threads\/jedi-academy-console-rerelease-seemingly-has-unintentional-cross-play-with-pc-users.177788\/\">Max Payment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I was excited to play this game online, so I picked it up immediately. I joined a game where 1 player was absolutely mopping the floor with us and he had .twitchtv in his username.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, I looked him up and he was playing on PC in a switch server absolutely decimating everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently all you have to do is take the server IP from a console match, which is clearly visible on console, and enter it in the PC server browser and join.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>A number of Twitter users have reported the same issues in the Switch release. There&#8217;s even some cheating happening:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/673ea08395e4e\/twitter.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/673ea08395e4e\/twitter.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Although Aspyr didn&#8217;t include multiplayer of any sorts in the Switch version of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/star_wars_jedi_knight_ii_jedi_outcast\">Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast<\/a><\/strong>, it did make an effort to patch the solo experience when certain issues were reported. With any luck, it will resolve this problem with its latest release right away.<\/p>\n<p><em>How&#8217;s your experience been with Jedi Academy on the Switch so far? Comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy has finally been released on the Nintendo Switch, but there seems to be a disturbance in the force. There is reportedly an issue with the game&#8217;s online multiplayer component. While there&#8217;s no mention of a cross-play feature in the official Nintendo description, right now, PC players are able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}