We need a better mechanism for joining a friend's crew.

@redwoodtheelf you can use the game bar or the xbox companion app, the gamebar is needed if one of you are on steam. find your friends name in the friends list right click and join game.

@redwoodtheelf
There is an invite friend option in game: Escape -- Crew.

In the xbox companion, when you click on someone's profile, after a while you get to see that he's sailing the seas, clicking on that and you have the option to join that person's game.

@d3adst1ck said in We need a better mechanism for joining a friend's crew.:

I don't have any issues joining on friends or friends joining on me. I just use the gamebar and accept invites or join players through the right click menu on their profile.

Do you get an error message at all?

Nope. Clicked the accept check box, and nothing at all happened. Repeatedly. I'm on a PC and he's on a console, does that cause problems with joining existing voyages?

@lem0n-curry said in We need a better mechanism for joining a friend's crew.:

@redwoodtheelf
There is an invite friend option in game: Escape -- Crew.

In the xbox companion, when you click on someone's profile, after a while you get to see that he's sailing the seas, clicking on that and you have the option to join that person's game.

Is the Xbox Comanion the thing that comes up when you hold down the windows button and hit "G", or is it something else? Because that's what we've been trying to use.

@redwoodtheelf said in We need a better mechanism for joining a friend's crew.:

@lem0n-curry said in We need a better mechanism for joining a friend's crew.:

@redwoodtheelf
There is an invite friend option in game: Escape -- Crew.

In the xbox companion, when you click on someone's profile, after a while you get to see that he's sailing the seas, clicking on that and you have the option to join that person's game.

Is the Xbox Comanion the thing that comes up when you hold down the windows button and hit "G", or is it something else? Because that's what we've been trying to use.

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/apps/console-companion-app

Invaluable with Windows 10

Join party
Join game
Start party
Invite to game
Invite to party

Etc..

@redwoodtheelf said in We need a better mechanism for joining a friend's crew.:

@d3adst1ck said in We need a better mechanism for joining a friend's crew.:

I don't have any issues joining on friends or friends joining on me. I just use the gamebar and accept invites or join players through the right click menu on their profile.

Do you get an error message at all?

Nope. Clicked the accept check box, and nothing at all happened. Repeatedly. I'm on a PC and he's on a console, does that cause problems with joining existing voyages?

Only if he has selected the cross play opt out option in the settings. If he has that selected then you can't join his game. I've noticed that this selection also can cause problems between Xbox players joining games - I can't join my friend's game if he has that option selected and I have selected play will all players (I'm also on Xbox), leading to one of us having to change the matchmaking settings in order to join the other's game. Not as much of an issue now for us since we both now play on the real servers.

@dlchief58 said in We need a better mechanism for joining a friend's crew.:

@redwoodtheelf said in We need a better mechanism for joining a friend's crew.:

@d3adst1ck said in We need a better mechanism for joining a friend's crew.:

I don't have any issues joining on friends or friends joining on me. I just use the gamebar and accept invites or join players through the right click menu on their profile.

Do you get an error message at all?

Nope. Clicked the accept check box, and nothing at all happened. Repeatedly. I'm on a PC and he's on a console, does that cause problems with joining existing voyages?

Only if he has selected the cross play opt out option in the settings. If he has that selected then you can't join his game.

He says it's turned off, and we can play together, but ONLY if we form the crew before entering the seas.

@redwoodtheelf said in We need a better mechanism for joining a friend's crew.:

@dlchief58 said in We need a better mechanism for joining a friend's crew.:

@redwoodtheelf said in We need a better mechanism for joining a friend's crew.:

@d3adst1ck said in We need a better mechanism for joining a friend's crew.:

I don't have any issues joining on friends or friends joining on me. I just use the gamebar and accept invites or join players through the right click menu on their profile.

Do you get an error message at all?

Nope. Clicked the accept check box, and nothing at all happened. Repeatedly. I'm on a PC and he's on a console, does that cause problems with joining existing voyages?

Only if he has selected the cross play opt out option in the settings. If he has that selected then you can't join his game.

He says it's turned off, and we can play together, but ONLY if we form the crew before entering the seas.

Well something is amiss there as I've had PC friends join my game with no issues, but it has been at least a month or so since I've done that.

@redwoodtheelf
wagst already replied, but I've had a few times that invites ended up in the new (?) Xbox app (that is to replace the console companion), instead of the Xbox console companion or the Game Bar (Windows+G).

@lem0n-curry said in We need a better mechanism for joining a friend's crew.:

@redwoodtheelf
wagst already replied, but I've had a few times that invites ended up in the new (?) Xbox app (that is to replace the console companion), instead of the Xbox console companion or the Game Bar (Windows+G).

Yeh the new Xbox app works really well too. We have an Xbox here and it just makes it seamless for our two PC's to join in to an Xbox game or party with either of these two apps installed.

You don't say what release of SoT you're using.

The Steam release requires the existing crew to send an invite, where as the MicroSoft store release your able to join a player using the xBox app [or gamebar].
Assuming everything is working properly as the xBox app can do stupid things sometimes. I often play with xBox players while I'm on PC.