Off The Gridis an Extraction and Battle Royale shooter that lets you customize your own loadouts and get cyberlimbs with unique abilities. It has a couple of modes you can play right now, with a few more that will be available once the game comes out of Early Access.

Being a multiplayer game, you’ll want to know essential details, like how to play with friends, if it has crossplay, and other relevant details. Here we will cover each important thing you need to know about how to play online Off The Grid and enjoy it with your best teammates.

The menu with the different modes of Off The Grid.

Multiplayer Modes, Explained

Off The Grid has three modes while in Early Access:Battle Extraction, Deathmatch, and Tutorial & Practice.

A Battle Royale mode and a 60-hour campaign are expected to be released in the future.

The player using a cyberlimb that charges forward in Off The Grid.

Battle Extraction isa mix of a Battle Royale mode where you’re able to play solo or in squadswith two teammates. Here you’ll play as any regular Battle Royale, jumping from a plane to a big map, looking for resources, and trying to be the last player/squad alive. One of the main differences is thatyou can find Hexes, which work as lootboxes in the game,and you need to extract themto add them to your inventory.

Deathmatch is the classiceverybody against everybody. You can only play this alone, without any other players in your party.

The Social Menu in Off The Grid, with an empty squad and friend list.

At the time of writing these lines, I had difficulties finding matches here, with queue times that went on for too long and got canceled automatically, without finding a match.

Finally,Tutorial & Practice includes a brief tutorial of all the essential thingsyou need to know about the game, andtwo different practice arenas, with one focused on weapons and the other on cyberlimbs. Here you can spend all the time you want learning how every gun and piece of equipment works.

Opening a chest with Rare loot in Off The Grid.

How To Add Friends And Play With Them

If you want to play Battle Extraction in Trio with one or two friends, you’re able to do it easily.

First,go to the Social menu (on the top right side of the screen, next to your earned Gun and the Settings button). Here you’ll see your current squad.

On the right side,you’ll see any friend connected on the platform you’re using, and you’ll be able to invite them right away. If you need to invite someone that you don’t have on your friend list, you need togo to the Add Friends tab and type their ID. Then you have toadd them to OTG Friends.

This works no matter the platform of your friends.

If you want to play Battle Extraction with friends, you don’t have to do anything else. However, please note thatyou won’t be able to play Deathmatch or go to the practice areawhile you are in a party.

Is There Cross-Platform Play?

Yes, Off The Grid has cross-platform play, and it’s selected by default the first time you boot the game. Console players can play against PC users with no issues.You can also invite your friends on other platformsto play with them.

If you want Crossplay disabled, you can go to the Settings menu and turn off the option.