Hello creators!
We’re excited to announce updates to our recently launched direct joins feature! When we released this first in September 2023, we allowed you to enable your players to directly join their friends wherever they are in your experience. This had the limitation that all places had the same setting across your experience. We are addressing this with today’s announcement:
Enable direct joins by individual place
You are now able to toggle this setting for individual places. This means you can let players directly join your experiences by default, but disable this for some places that may be more sensitive than others (for example, places with level/experience requirements or requiring players to join all at once). We heard feedback from our original announcement that this was a much-requested addition, so we’re very excited to announce that this is now available.
How to use this feature
As before, you have the option to set an experience-wide setting on the “Access” setting page for your experience:
Now, you will also be able to make exceptions for individual places on the “Access” settings page for the individual place:
Once you make an exception for this setting for an individual place, that place will always have this setting and not follow the experience-wide setting unless you clear the exception. Clearing the exception can be done either for just that one place (on the settings page for the place) or for all places in your experience (on the settings page for the experience).
Clearing an exception can be done for one place:
Or for all places in your experience:
Coming soon - players can teleport into your experience from other experiences
We have also heard feedback that you’d like for more ways to directly join non-root places. We previously enabled the direct joins feature for only some join endpoints. This primarily involved joining specific servers, such as when following a friend into their server. We’ve heard feedback that you want us to make this more broadly available, so we’re working on no longer restricting direct joins by join type. This means that when a place has this setting enabled, any valid join into that server will now work, including matchmade joins such as teleports. We’re excited to announce this feature will soon be in the works, and we would love any feedback you have.
Thanks
We’re hoping this change will help make this feature more useful for you and your experiences. As always, we would welcome any feedback, comments, or suggestions that you have.
