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PS4 (console): Framerate issue, that will kill a struggling survivor. Literally.
So I have been playing for 2 years and some change, (console player - PS4) and even a few months ago I have become accustomed to the term "chest lag". If you don't know it is pretty self explanatory; just whenever a chest is searched, the framerate can sometimes almost completely stop. Sometimes when the chest is searched, there is little to no drop, but at other times it can be pretty detrimental to both sides - both killer and survivor. And it was not necessarily detrimental before, just it can screw up the fluid, in the moment gameplay, of both sides and whatever they are actively doing at that given time if it messes with the game hard enough.
If chasing someone as killer, or being chased as survivor. But lately, ever since this new update came out with the auras and such, what I have noticed chest lag, can and will usually do, as its been happening ever more so often within the past few days. But if a survivor is on their second hook phase struggling, if a chest is opened, it will more often than not, drop the framerate and kill the person struggling.
So if you are struggling, and someone opens a chest, more often than not you will die, from the frame drop, as a side affect of a chest being opened. And yes there are counters, such a communication and searching all the chests, and I have been notifying the people I play but if I play survivor I do gens before I search chests. I would appreciate it if the game would be optimized better, as it would hurt nothing and help both sides. Thank you behavior.
Step 1: Join a survivor game
Step 2: Get hooked 1 once, and get hooked again
Step 3: Struggle regularly (as game intended)
Step 4: Open a chest, therefore procedurally generating a RNG item
Step 5: Instantly die, and laugh helplessly because the frames dropped to almost absolute zero because someone searched a chest. (The generation of an item causes game to lag, but more so, frames to disappear and your "struggle" input isn't registered.
Step 6: Ponder if this game is even worth playing at this specific period of time until this gets fixed and blue screens are just wow (worse than basement Oni glitch). Spent good money on it and I love it but my experience right now is thrashed.