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What is it like to play Dead By Daylight on Console you may ask?
Frame rate drops during gameplay, lag spikes, random booting, getting force DC'd, getting blue screened, getting hit miles away from the Killer, miles away from the window, frame rate drops while turning, vaulting causes instant lag, hit boxes (as in I get hit whilst being behind the Killer, nowhere near of their cone of hitbox) 75% of every skill check is lagged which makes Ruin super strong due to game optimization, maps never change and stay the same 2 to 3 games in a row, booted from lobbies I load into cause of "network error" (nothing I do fixes it), lobby simulator, the game freezes if the Killer leaves the after game lobby and pauses for more than 10 seconds, anything else?
Oh! You want me to state some good things about playing on console? I play on PS4, you would love to know how it's like, wouldn't you?
I think I can play the game sometimes?
Yeah, that's about it.
EDIT: It's not my internet, it's not just a me problem as multiple people have been having it, I've checked my router, everything, I live in the cities so my reception is pretty good.
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Regarding frame rate I am finding survivor on PS4 to be better than its ever been. Although I do agree with you its possible to get hit a looong time after you have been through a window. But since I play mainly killer I don't mind quite so much...
The Ruin thing has come back again. That was fixed for a while but now the skillchecks can be laggy again (although not as bad as it was before..)
Killer has always been worse than survivor. I think its better than it used to be but its been so long now, so many ups and downs I'm not really sure!
I also sometimes get the network error when trying to load into lobbies.
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extremely framey also bad connection almost all the time we xbox players have a literal potato for wifi
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that's why I gen tap ruin sometimes the skillchecks are just laggy to the point it's not possible to hit greats
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Currently every game plays out like this...
Random game
Leatherface spawns
-Survivor is found and put in basement
-leatherface camps
-Survivor gets saved but is downed with their rescuer
-leatherface eats a DS or rarely leaves the rescued survivor on the ground then they recover with unbreakable
-Leatherface continues after survivor that escaped
-Downs survivor and face camps them because they ran him around for 2-3 gens
-Is salty afterwords for not getting 4K
Dbd In a nutshell
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I swear people exaggerate about the state of dbd on console. Not sure if I'm lucky or my console was crafted by the gods, but I never experience these bugs nearly as often.
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The frame-rate drop since the last patch is something that the devs have acknowledged so hopefully Yui and the Oni will be bringing a patch with them for that.
Lag issues such as getting hit through Windows will not be helped if you are in the US and play SWF with British people, because you might find you are getting matched with killers from their area rather than yours.
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the no network connection ######### is stupid believe me I'm clearly connected to the Internet 100%
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Console dbd is awful
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I have had a lot of killer games lately where it becomes impossible for me to see a survivor when they're basically in a dead zone. The frame drops and lag spike causes my screen to just look like a giant blur and I end up swinging at air.
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I was about to say the same thing, yeah the frame rate drops sometimes when I use the blight skins but all I have to do is reset the game and I'm good. All the other ones rarely affect me. Definitely not as bad as people like to make it out.
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I can't play killer on console anymore. I play on ps4 and It's very survivor sided. Seems everyone automatically goes into party chat when playing now. I've even had them send me invites by accident and I'm the killer. Nothing but tryhards that genrush and relay every move the killer makes, and once you do get them, they DC. Frame rate is just horrible during chases, and it seems like the killer is a lil slower then on PC. They really need to get a separate team to focus specifically on console so they get the same experience PC gets, and find a way to buff around swf's or com's so it's a lil more fair for the killer.
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The only plus I find in playing on PS4 as opposed to PC is that it’s easier to look behind you while running with a remote than it is using a mouse and keyboard.
But yeah everything else you said pretty much sums it up.
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Must have some really bad luck or something. I plan on Xbox, though, so I haven't experienced any of this. Well maybe the hit boxes but I only play Killer so I don't care about that one.
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Long ago, I had Killers party invite me and all of the other survivors and we just do what’s basically a Kill Your Friends except with complete strangers.
Good times.
Also I can guarantee that PS4 players rarely jump into party chats with each other since I’ve had it happen to me literally only 4 times.
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Then you got to spend SO MUCH longer just cause the game can't manage.
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You're one of the lucky ones. Sometimes I can't even turn my camera too fast or else my entire PS4 will go into overdrive trying to process the bad coding while the game runs at 6 frames for the rest of the game.
I'm on good Ethernet, by the way.
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I wouldn't complain if it didn't happen every day, every time I played, either I get "internet connection error", lag on any actions I do, get screwed over by hitboxes or blue screened constantly, it's my favorite game and I can't go a match without having an issue, I'm not one to exaggerate or stretch things out to sound worse than it is but console stability is really piss poor.
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Huh. I thought it was just me having issues with skill checks.
My frame rates usually aren't too bad. Except with the Doctor. I'm always lagging into things when I play against him.
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Or maybe you just have a bad ps4? The only part I really agree with is that the map stays the same and getting kicked out of lobby’s with “network error”
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On Xbox the major issues is frame rate. It's not at all consistent and when an notification pops up you get crazy hard frame drops. I've literally been hit by a killer with Sloppy and had my camera do a complete 180 forcing me to run back to the killer, all while not even pressing a direction on the right stick.
As far as skill checks go, if you get a frame drop during them yea it sucks. But skill checks are client side AFAIK so are not affected by latency. If you are getting laggy skill checks it's the frame rate.
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I was playing Ghostface 2 days ago on PS4 and everything was laggy! The lobby and blood web were laggy, chases were laggy, entering bloodlust was laggy, breaking objects and interacting with entities was laggy, etc. It made playing killer so frustrating and made it extremely easy to get juked or 360d because it was so laggy.
But other times are just fine with no lag at all. I played Demogorgon the next day and probably didnt have a single lag spike.
This game is strangely inconsistent on consoles.
I cant image what the Nintendo Switch version is like.
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Don't forget the horrific aim assist for console
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An alternative version of hell
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Same like I think it might be there internet not the console
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Same, I've never had like 75% of these issues. Though I will say they really need to fix the "network error" and the the freeze in the after trial screen.
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Xbox player here! Can usually deal with the frames a majority of the time (either that or I don't really notice anything too drastic?). My gripe with the DBD console experience are the encounters with the endless loading screen when returning to the lobby, the occasional "Host Unreachable (something something check NAT type)" which my NAT type is open and I can usually get a game after that happens, and loading into a game that was green or yellow ping (which are decent nine times out of ten) and everyone is rubberbanding all over the place- though that could be that the host just has bad internet but still.
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Host unreachable, Nat error, no network connection, Framerate drops, Laggy Hits/misses and kicked out of lobbies for no reason or stuck in the end screen. The game ran better in my opinion before the curtain call release June/July 2018.
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I really hate the extreme FPS drops when opening the blood web, getting hit, clicking on something too. I also am annoyed at how outdated KYF is since I tend to play it after a few survivor matches. And the random errors that occur when you exit a lobby.
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It's terrible. I was on the ground getting healed by Nea but The Legion returned, so he ran towards the left side of my screen to get her and during this time another Survivor healed me up and somehow he went to swing for Nea and I got struck lol
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It would not be the result of a "bad ps4", everyone in this thread is saying they have the same issue, on Xbox and PS4.
Not internet as I check it and it's running optimally, multiple people say they have this issue.
Lucky you, it happens 24/7.
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The devs DO NOT care about console players AT ALL. Period.
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Sitting in a lobby for 30 minutes now.
Fun.
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I guess I must just be lucky to not get much bugs or problems
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All I can say is, close the game and try to restart it, i'm sorry that you gotta go through that.
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The no network one gets me all the time. Other than that though, I have really no complaints. I will only start getting laggy if my PS4 has been running for a few hours, then I just restart it and its good as new.
Sometimes framerates are bad, I will admit.
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Oh yeah the game also makes my PS4 Pro fan go crazy. No other game does that and yes I clean and dust mine.
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It's been worse.
Also what do you mean by being blue screened?
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Me too! The worst I get is a little bit of lag and a random freeze if the killer quits while the match is loading up, but that's pretty rare.
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Thanks for the tip <3
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Same like ######### is up with everyone else’s lmao
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I have an easier time wiggleing out on console compared to pc
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The game will all the sudden close and your screen goes into the blue screen saying "There was an error in the following application", hence the name, kicks you out and closes your game, I can sit there for minutes at times.
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That's what I thought you meant.
Hasn't happened to me, when playing DBD, for a while now.
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I play on PS4, and I have had nearly none of these issues. Frame rates for Survivor are better than it has ever been, but Killer has significantly lower FPS. As Killer, Hawkins has terrible FPS, making it nearly unplayable, which is the only big issue with console DbD. Other than that, playing DbD on console isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be. This is just my personal experience though, and there is definitely still a lot of room for improvement for the optimization of DbD on console. Lobbies as Killer are instant, and Survivor lobbies only take around 4-6 minutes, which isn't too long, for me.
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Internet can run optimally but with video games we had to have a set specifically for me to play games on and nothing else run on it so we have like two different set ups for the internet one for gaming and one for the rest of the stuff on internet or else everything is as you quoted it’s been like that on other games for me till we got this set up and playing any game on it is fine (it is not the console) and people who quote it as the console only give reason for pc people to feel more entitled about oh we are so much better then console yadda yadda
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You know, you can plug remotes into PCs too. Alot of ppl playing on PC using a remote.
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Crap frame rate after i've played for a bit, I'll have to restart the console if i want it to be atleast okay, not even consistent anyway though. The sensitivity needs to be higher or they should support mouse and key board for console.
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I only get bad connection sometimes and frame drops as the killer not to the point where frames are a problem tho. I play on Xbox btw maybe ps4 is just worse when it comes to dbd for some reason.
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I play on ps4 daily and live stream frequently and hardly ever have these problems must be your internet provider. I would say game state on ps4 is good!
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