Arc System Works will maintain a Guilty Gear Strive cross-play open beta take a look at for PC, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation 4. The firm will launch a beta shopper that can let PlayStation and PC customers struggle in opposition to one another within the preventing sport. The take a look at will start on October 13, 2022, at 21:00 (9 PM) ET and finish on October 17, 2022, at 3:00 AM ET.

The cross-play beta shopper will seem as a separate entity from the present full sport. People occupied with testing the PlayStation-PC connectivity must obtain the standalone shopper on PlayStation Store and/or Steam.

The shopper will include 21 playable characters consisting of all 15 launch characters, 5 DLC characters from the primary Season Pass, and the most recent addition, Bridget. That means all testers will be capable of check out the DLC characters even when they haven’t bought them within the full sport.

Cross-play for Guilty Gear Strive was initially restricted to the PS5 and PS4 as a part of the identical console household. After the open beta take a look at concludes, Arc System Works will ultimately add cross-platform multiplayer between the PlayStation and PC variations to the complete sport with a future replace patch.

Arc System Works revealed at Tokyo Game Show 2022 that it’ll convey Guilty Gear Strive to Xbox Series X and Xbox One in Spring 2023. However, it has but to announce whether or not the Xbox variations can even help cross-play or not. While the preventing sport additionally has a thriving arcade neighborhood in Japan, the corporate has not introduced cross-play between the Japanese arcade guests and the worldwide console and PC customers both.

Guilty Gear Strive is accessible on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, PC, and arcades. Arc System Works can even convey the sport to Xbox Series X and Xbox One in Spring 2023. The PlayStation-PC cross-play open beta take a look at will happen on October 13-17, 2022.