Rematch Multiplayer Overview: Queue Times, Fatal Errors, and Crossplay Info in One Place

Rematch has quickly become one of our favorite football-themed games of all time. It's not your granpappy's FIFA or PES, that's for sure! Instead, it opts for an almost Rocket League kind of gameplay loop, where each player in a team of up to five only controlling their own footballer avatar instead of the entire team. It's a wild change of pace, and boy howdy does it work wonders.

As Rematch positions itself as the go-to multiplayer sports game, though, we absolutely need to take a gander at its netcode and the way it behaves in the real world. What we mean by this is that even though Rematch's gameplay loop is the stuff of perfection, its technical aspects will need a bit more time in the oven, as we've come across prolonged queue times and a number of fatal errors in our experience. There's also the big question mark that is Rematch crossplay, and we've got to touch upon it for sure.

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Rematch Online Issues Summarized - What's Up With Multiplayer?

Even though a substantial number of players enjoying Rematch won't have encountered many of the problems we're about to discuss, it's still absolutely worth staying on top of them regardless. Things change, especially in the context of live-service games with constant updates, and so you never really know when you might end up being accosted by networking issues. To that end, simply reading through this piece should give you all the context you need. Good luck!

Rematch Queue Times

One of the biggest issues with popular, beloved multiplayer games have always been the players themselves. No, hold on, not like that. The queues, obviously! Rematch queues have been a royal pain from day one onwards, and we'd go so far as to argue that they are the issue that the developers now need to contend with.

Two things to keep in mind about queue times, then:

• There's really not much you can do about them on your end.
• The developer Sloclap is working on them.

In fact, Rematch's Hotfix #0.5 (build version 1.20.005) has already been released as of June 23, with the update specifically working on improving the game's broader networking tech-stack. Again, though, there's virtually nothing players themselves could possibly do here, and so we need to wait to see what else Sloclap might put out in the coming weeks and months.

One of the other ways in which Rematch might alleviate its queue time issues is through the introduction of proper, full-featured crossplay. More on that a tad later, though.

Rematch Fatal Error Instances

The rarer, but present nonetheless technical issue found in Rematch are all those 'Fatal Error' pop-ups you may get every so often. It doesn't seem like there's a singular core issue responsible for these, either, so the wide variety of fixes recommended by folks online may well work on your end. These alleged fixes include:

• Verifying game files on Steam.
• Running Rematch as an Administrator.
• Disabling any and all in-game overlays you may have running (e.g. Steam, Discord, Xbox, etc.).
• Updating your graphics card driver.

For what it's worth, this set of advice is about as generic as it could possibly get, and though we're sure some affected users will find some of these methods to help, they're unlikely to be the be-all-end-all kind of fix some of you might be hoping for.

We've also come across a more comprehensive set of recommendations that are more likely to assist, though it's still a pretty big crap-shoot:

• Update and/or repair your Visual C++ Redistributable.
• Confirm that your PC Xbox app is installed and fully updated, and that you're actually signed into it.
• Add '-dx12' to Rematch's launch options.
• Absolutely do not use RAM cleaning software.
• Consider temporarily disabling your GPU overclocking software (e.g. MSI Afterburner).

The hard truth, though, is that if none of these help in your specific case, then you're going to be stuck experiencing Fatal Error instances in Rematch until the game is properly patched-up. It's still early days, though, and the developer is already shipping updates left and right, so we've got hope!

Rematch Crossplay: What Do We Know?

Finally, the big issue present in Rematch discussions is the (un)availability of crossplay. Crossplay would basically allow all Rematch players across all platforms to play with one another, without worrying about platform discrepancies and matchmaking issues, obviously massively boosting the game's ever-present queue times and beyond. On this front, Sloclap has already chimed in.

"We did our utmost to include crossplay at launch, but Rematch is the studio’s first crossplay title, and we faced unforeseen technical complexities which prevented us from having this feature ready in time. We should have communicated as soon as it became apparent that crossplay wouldn’t be available at launch, and we’re sorry for the inconvenience and frustration it caused to some of our players," says the official blog.

"It’s very important for us that our players are able to enjoy Rematch with their friends, so along with bugfixes, crossplay is our absolute highest priority, we're committed to delivering this feature swiftly, and we’ll share a more precise deadline as soon as possible. We already have a basic working version from a technical standpoint, but we need to implement the relevant interfaces, before debugging and polishing it, and finally passing console certifications successfully — all this takes time but we are doing our best to move forward quickly."

All clear, then: Rematch crossplay is coming, and it's coming as soon as humanly possible. It's just going to take a tad bit longer for Sloclap to implement it. Stay tuned on that front, and in the interim, rest assured that there's usually plenty of players around on any given platform. Most times, at least!

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