Sorry to hear it, hopefully it gets up and running soon for you and anyone else having issues. I was ready to be frustrated last night but things went surprisingly smooth for me.
The UnionVGF PS4 general impressions thread! Got a PS4? Share your impressions.
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Sorry to hear it, hopefully it gets up and running soon for you and anyone else having issues. I was ready to be frustrated last night but things went surprisingly smooth for me.
Question for those who have a ps4, do games look much better than the online videos lead you to believe?
I'm just wondering why so many PSN problems? With an install base of 80 million (according to Sony) why so many problems at launch? It isn't like PSN is new. And isn't it only going to get worse once more units are sold? I hope for Sonys sake they get this straightened out.
How does killzone shadow fall stack up with Battlefield 4 graphically in single player? For those who are playing both, which is better graphically? Yeah there are lot of variants judging graphics, like textures, FR, scale, effects etcera, but if you had to pick one game from the two based on gfx, which would it be?
Okay, played Knack, BF4, Ghosts, and NFS. I only played each title for 20-30 minutes, so these are early impressions of course.
Knack: Very much enjoying it. If you like Crash and Spyro, you should enjoy this; if you think those games are boring, repetitive crap, I would stay away from Knack. It looks crisp; it is colorful; gameplay is tight; and it is difficult. Like, almost old school difficult. My wife was playing with me as Robo Knack, and the drop in/drop out co-op works great.
BF4: Most excellent. No 64 player servers were up, so I had to play 32 players. 60 fps makes a world of difference in this game. Night and day s*** from what console exclusive players were used to. It's awesome.
Ghosts: It's COD at 1080p. Played MP exclusively. Didn't experience any frames dropping, but I can't say there were any instances when a ton of s*** was going on, either. Day 1 patch is like 750mb--I guess that makes the SP 1080 or some stupid s***.
NFS: On the positive side, this is very much like Hot Pursuit when it comes to gameplay. It is open though, like Most Wanted. It appears to be a nice marriage. The problem with NFS is some f***ed up frame drops. It isn't even technically dropping frames, but it certainly looks like it. Check out DF's comparison. Some weird s*** going on in this game which makes it appear it is dropping frames. Definitely the most disappointing graphically because of the frame drops. It's 30 fps--give me a break. What's with this judder? It's junk.
I feel bad for those having network issues. I've been able to play everything online, no problem. Even NFS.
Knack: Very much enjoying it. If you like Crash and Spyro, you should enjoy this; if you think those games are boring, repetitive crap, I would stay away from Knack. It looks crisp; it is colorful; gameplay is tight; and it is difficult. Like, almost old school difficult. My wife was playing with me as Robo Knack, and the drop in/drop out co-op works great.
BF4: Most excellent. No 64 player servers were up, so I had to play 32 players. 60 fps makes a world of difference in this game. Night and day s*** from what console exclusive players were used to. It's awesome.
Ghosts: It's COD at 1080p. Played MP exclusively. Didn't experience any frames dropping, but I can't say there were any instances when a ton of s*** was going on, either. Day 1 patch is like 750mb--I guess that makes the SP 1080 or some stupid s***.
NFS: On the positive side, this is very much like Hot Pursuit when it comes to gameplay. It is open though, like Most Wanted. It appears to be a nice marriage. The problem with NFS is some f***ed up frame drops. It isn't even technically dropping frames, but it certainly looks like it. Check out DF's comparison. Some weird s*** going on in this game which makes it appear it is dropping frames. Definitely the most disappointing graphically because of the frame drops. It's 30 fps--give me a break. What's with this judder? It's junk.
I feel bad for those having network issues. I've been able to play everything online, no problem. Even NFS.
If you were to pop in a game to show off the sysem, it would be KZ. BF4 looks great, but part of it is due to experiencing 60 fps BF on consoles. It's quite a shock.
KZ just looks brilliant. Yeah, there isn't as much s*** going on, but if you take the "I'm going to sit here and stare at s***" test, KZ wins.
Those reports of people noticing that fking controller light on their PDP's is concerning to me. And i made this concern few months back when yoshida said you can't turn off the controller light. I game on a projector in a pitch black room. Any sort of light is just a distraction. Does that controller light even serve any purpose? What the hell is it there for? And im not bothering using tape on new peripherals, i want the option to have it turned off.
So killzone doesn't feel like running in 60 fps in any instance in single player, i read it was variable between 30-60 fps? In mp, killzone was supposed to be 60, does mp play a lot smoother?
I have a plasma with a glass screen, so yeah, I hear you. Doesn't appear to do much besides show which player is which--blue for 1st player; red for 2nd. If you're playing NFS, you're blue when you're a cop; red when you're a racer.
It's titled slightly downward (the light), so you have to flip the controller slightly to get a view. I can see it on my plasma if I'm looking for it, as in, my eyes aren't focusing on the game, but the controller. I have to be sitting straight up for this to happen, because of my tv height.
Hasn't been a problem for me, but I don't get why you can't disable it, or at the very least, dim it.
And you shouldn't watch anything in a pitch black room. Need an ambient light bro.
Got signed in. KZ and NFS downloading ever so slowly.
Light is easily noticeable with my setup. Even on the blue background, but with dark backgrounds it's glaring. And I have my lights on in the room.
I really don't get why there's no menu option to disable it. It's pretty much useless outside of the camera.
The health bar idea is almost offensive.... You can't see the light when the controller is in your hand... How the what?
Light is easily noticeable with my setup. Even on the blue background, but with dark backgrounds it's glaring. And I have my lights on in the room.
I really don't get why there's no menu option to disable it. It's pretty much useless outside of the camera.
The health bar idea is almost offensive.... You can't see the light when the controller is in your hand... How the what?
I think you'll be fine.
Just tested it in a dark room, it doesn't cast light far.
The issue is that depending in TV height and your couch height/angle it reflects on your TV glass.
The controller light will be an annoyance for you, then... Well, nothing tape can't fix.
Another thing: Why do I have to "install" dd games still?
God damn Sony, lol... And it's just been sitting there for 10 minutes with no progress bar. Only the 60MB "first file" downloaded but it told me it was ready to install.
God damn Sony, lol... And it's just been sitting there for 10 minutes with no progress bar. Only the 60MB "first file" downloaded but it told me it was ready to install.
I haven't figured this out yet. I downloaded Resogun and whatever that other game was, Sound Shapes, Flower, some patches, and I felt at times, it installed itself, but there were some instances I had to manually install. Wasn't sure what was up.
Finally delivered, but now it's time for dinner and a movie. I'll probably be on super late tonight, for about 10 minutes. DAG
Killzone in SP runs fairly consistently at 30, but if you're up against a wall with very little else in the field of view, it can spike up to the low 50's. It never hits 60fps... And honestly, I don't like the variability. I'd prefer a locked, consistent frame rate. So yeah, Killzone SP does not feel like it runs at 60fps.
Oh and I bought 2 games... It downloads them concurrently... No option to prioritize or pause one of the downloads, only option is to delete one of them... Of course since the game is spread across 2 files I have no idea if that is a good idea or not.
And it's slow as he'll for me. The install files are only 8GB and 4GB but it says 24 hours and 8 hours to download.
I downloaded a 30GB game from Steam the other night in 3 hours.
And it's slow as he'll for me. The install files are only 8GB and 4GB but it says 24 hours and 8 hours to download.
I downloaded a 30GB game from Steam the other night in 3 hours.
I like the look KZ singleplayer, can't tell any fps issues, seems pretty smooth, my neighbor played it the whole night and this morning said the game went from more open to more restricted gameplay a few missions in and hasn't went back to the open style again.
I had to duct tape the light on my controller. Plasma FTW.
Can someone check their Settings-Sound and Screen-Audio Output Settings
And tell me if the "Output to Headphones" is greyed out? I've tried everything, but I can't change my audio to headphones. I've plugged in my headphones, the option is there, but it's greyed out. Grrrrrr........
EDIT: Drewfonse am moron. Headset wasn't plugged in all the way. Crisis averted.
Can someone check their Settings-Sound and Screen-Audio Output Settings
And tell me if the "Output to Headphones" is greyed out? I've tried everything, but I can't change my audio to headphones. I've plugged in my headphones, the option is there, but it's greyed out. Grrrrrr........
EDIT: Drewfonse am moron. Headset wasn't plugged in all the way. Crisis averted.
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You got some magic tool to test this bro or just pulling stuff from the entrance to hell?
Yes for games that never had any near-raw direct feed footage on Gamersyde. Knack has a few ugly close-up textures on models like the tanks/machines but the character models have a nice semi-toy story look to them.
KZ already had some near-raw 60 fps footage on gamersyde so it looks about like that footage.
Seems like a major oversight if they've forgotten pause-option on downloads. :-/
Googling abit, I read that in notifications, you can get the option to cancel and delete, downloads by pressing triangle.
Perhaps if you 'cancel' a download, perhaps cancel option will change to resume a download, since you don't delete it?