NWN2 EE Crossplay and PS5

hello!

I'm new to the game on PS5 and saw that a common way to connect to servers was via direct connect.

I'm not sure if it's the boomer in me but I'm unable to see how to access the direct connect menu on PS5, only the "join multiplayer game" server list which is unfortunately empty.

Another question I had was if I could play with my friends on Xbox, saw some pretty mixed results regarding crossplay after googling.

Any help would be appreciated, looking forward to getting into it :)