PC gamers rejoice! Today the announcement you’ve been waiting for has been made; Fable Legends will be available to play on both Windows 10 PCs and Xbox One.
If that’s sweet music to your ears, then you’ll be positively ecstatic when you hear Fable Legends will be playable across devices. Put simply, for the first time EVER Fable players on Xbox One will be able to play with (or against!) their friends on Windows 10 PCs.
Suddenly feverish with excitement? Got questions? Watch this video to hear the inside scoop (oh, and check out our castle):
WILL FABLE LEGENDS RELEASE ON WINDOWS 10 AND XBOX ONE AT THE SAME TIME? While Xbox One and Windows 10 will experience a different beta testing schedule, the game is due to launch on both platforms at the same time.
WILL FABLE LEGENDS SUPPORT CROSS-DEVICE PLAY? Yes! Using the power of Xbox Live, we are enabling cross-device play between Windows 10 PC and Xbox One. Play with friends and match-make on either device, with any combination of Windows 10 PC and Xbox One players in exciting 4v1 multiplayer matches.
HOW DO I DOWNLOAD FABLE LEGENDS ON PC? If and when you’re selected to take part in the Beta, you’ll be sent instructions explaining how to get hold of the game.
WILL I BE ABLE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN KEYBOARD AND MOUSE OR CONTROLLER ON PC? Yes, you can play with either mouse/keyboard or gamepad plugged in to your USB. You can hotswap on the fly too!
CAN I CUSTOMISE MY CONTROL LAYOUT? Absolutely!
IS THERE ANY SUPPORT FOR LEFT HANDED PLAYERS? We will launch with a Left Handed friendly control scheme, but you can also customize your mouse/keyboard mapping.
MY PC HAS (X, Y, Z) SPECS, WILL IT BE ABLE TO RUN FABLE LEGENDS? Currently Fable Legends is still in development and as such we’re not ready to share minimum system specs just yet. Don’t worry though, we’ll share that information as soon as we can so you can make sure you’re all set for when the game launches!
WILL I BE ABLE TO PLAY FABLE LEGENDS ON AN EARLIER VERSION OF WINDOWS? Fable Legends is designed specifically to take advantage of the cross-device gameplay functionality that Windows 10 offers, and will be available exclusively to Windows 10 and Xbox One.
WILL WINDOWS 10 AND XBOX ONE SHARE ACHIEVEMENTS/GAMER POINTS? Absolutely – your achievements and gamer points will be shared between Windows 10 and Xbox One.
WHERE CAN I SIGN UP FOR THE FABLE LEGENDS WINDOWS 10 BETA? Visit fablelegends.com and click the 'Register for Multi Player Beta' link. Enter your email address and then follow the instructions to create your Beta account. Once you've done that, you'll just need to sign into your account and select Platform Preferences from the account drop down, and select which platform you'd like to test on.
I’VE SIGNED UP TO THE FABLE LEGENDS WINDOWS 10 BETA! WHEN DO I START? The Xbox One Closed Beta program is already well under way and the Windows 10 Beta will kick off soon! As long as you’ve fully registered and flagged your interest to test on Windows 10 in your account page, then you’ll just need to wait until you’re selected. We’ll email you when that time comes!
IF I GET INVITED TO THE XBOX ONE BETA TEST AND I ALSO HAVE A WINDOWS 10 PC, AM I AUTOMATICALLY PART OF THE WINDOWS 10 BETA?! While it’s certainly possible to be part of both beta programs, you won’t automatically be enrolled into both when you’re invited to take part in one.
WILL FABLE LEGENDS USE DX12? Yes, as long as you have a DX12 graphics card! The fantastic Unreal Engine 4 combined with DX12 means Fable Legends promises to be one of the most visually stunning spectacles on PC – see for yourself by watching this video!
WHERE CAN I GET THE BETA FOR WINDOWS 10 ITSELF FROM? You will be able to get hold of the Windows 10 Technical Preview here.
Fable Legends is coming to Windows 10, despite being announced as an Xbox One exclusive. I sat down with David Eckelberry, game director on Fable Legends, to chat about the game and its transition to PC. He assured me the PC version was not at all an afterthought: "If you've got a kickass graphics card, put it up to 4k, have fun—why not?" he said, "We're not trying to make a ghetto PC port out of Fable Legends, we're definitely trying to make a quality experience."
The logic behind this thinking is simple, according to Eckelberry: "There are more Windows 10s out there than there are Xbox Ones, so we have to have realistic expectations about making the Windows experience great." As for the Windows 10 element, it brings with it the addition of DirectX 12. What does that add, though? "It's not that there's anything in a truly gameplay sense that we can do with DirectX 12," Eckelberry told me, "It's about putting more polygons per square inch.
"We can do things that may seem silly, like every blade of grass having its own shadow. It doesn't change the nature of the game but it does make it gorgeous to look at and make you feel like you're really in the space." With DX12 power, of course, comes DX12 responsibility—and Eckelberry maintained his team at Lionhead isn't getting complacent just because it has access to a more powerful, easier-to-tinker-with backend.
"You would think that," he said, "But I'll be honest—as soon as you give us 25%, or whatever the exact percentage is, we want to eat it. We want to put more creatures in, or make them look better, or the heroes, whatever the technology allows.
"We push the limits, we don't just say 'this is easy to do now', we say 'oh we have this much more processing power now, let's make the cloth more realistic, let's make more shadow passes, let's make better bounce light...' Stuff like that just makes the world feel more real."
Fable Legends releases towards the end of the year, though you can sign up for the beta right now.
It's just sad to see a once great studios end. Remembering the moments when I first played Black and White 1 by Lionhead Studios (long before it was acquired by EA).
Jan 22 2015, 07:53 AM, updated 10y ago
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