The new Epic Games Store Social Panel comes equipped with a more efficient search tool. In the future, you’ll also be able to join their party, invite them to a new party, and even customize your Player Card. Viewing the card will allow the player to take important actions to manage their friendship and see mutual friends. Player Cards are coming! Clicking on a friend in the Social Panel will pull up their Player Card and give you multiple new options. We’re revamping our Social Panel to improve functionality across the board and here’s some of the awesome features you’ll start to see this month: Player Cards To make sure that we’re creating a seamless social experience for our users, we are constantly building, improving, and iterating on existing features. A simplified view of the party will be toggleable while in-game, showing party members and their status. The addition of the Party Window will also feature In-Game Party Representation. You can also invite other players and lock the party. Inside the window, each party member will have control of their own audio and video options. There will be no single owner of the party, so if a friend needs to head offline, the remainder of the Party will continue on. Share your latest highlights to convince your friends to play a game with you or kick off a match with only a few friends in the group while being able to continue talking to your entire Party. In this window you’ll have a host of options with your friends and teammates to communicate and play. The Party System coming soon will feature an “Active Party Window”, a dedicated window for the Party you are actively engaging in. Talk to your friends and teammates whether you are playing a game or hanging out while searching for a new game to play together. You’ll drop in or drop out at any point of a party experience with shared controls among all teammates. In the future, the Epic Games Launcher will feature a new party system that enables players to group together and communicate via voice, text, and more. There are a lot of exciting features to come but today we want to share with you an early look at the Party System. We want to transform the Epic Games Store into a place where you can connect with your friends across platforms, effortlessly jump into parties with voice chat, and play games together without missing a beat. Vision for the Future of Social on Epic Game Store That involves improving existing features like Wishlists, adding Achievements, and rehauling the Social Panel! Now it’s time to take a deeper dive to talk about what is changing, what’s launching now, and what’s around the corner.Ī major priority continues to be including more features that connect you to your friends and to the games you love.

We kicked off 2021 by recapping major features added in 2020 in the Epic Games Store Year in Review and gave a taste of what’s coming in 2021.

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