Console Survivors, please at least try the crossplay...

I play on Switch and the matches I'm getting are outrageous. I was so excited to play against Freddys and Quentins and in Badham Preschool for the first time ever. But with the matches I'm playing, it's not worth it. We just aren't meant to play against high fps PC players on our tiny handheld devices. I play on a monitor still but it's just not the same anymore. I can't loop cause M1'ing is so easy, and the opposite for playing for killer. Everyone just has stretched res and hug the wall AS TIGHT as they can and we're just not used to it. Ranks are being spot on in matches. but with the difference between platforms WE NEED the MMR. Console players I feel are so much more casual (but still more toxic sometimes), and care less about skill.

It's just a buff for PC and a huge nerf for console. We're kinda forced to opt out and then get kicked with longer queue times whereas PC gets to kick everyone's butt. I get that console players can still be better by all means but in a general sense we're just weaker. For an especially small console like the Switch, we just want to play what we normally know. And the skill bar for PC is much higher. I've been willing to try lots of games, but I'm better off quitting for a while.

Idk about your matches but I kinda feel offended about that 'Everyone just has stretched res' as I never used it and never will. Never used/enabled anything. Do not throw us all into that bucket pls...

How do you even know that for sure? From my point of view it can only be an assumption.

Nontheless I can understand some complaints like the FPS issues for example. That is a huge no-go and even without crossplay quite the funkiller.

I did a few cross play matches, it definitely felt choppy. I was curious about disabling it and to my surprise, zero delay in matchmaking. Was no different than yesterday. A lot of people I've met and spoken to indicated they've disabled it because of the perceived Advantage for PC killers.

Yea, overall this is definitely a positive thing for the game and us console players. (I'm on PS4). I tried out a few survivor games to see how quick matchmaking was and to my surprise, it did actually seem to place me in lobbies faster. (Thank God, sometimes I wonder why any of us kept playing when matches took 15 minutes to start). Fwiw I'm currently rank 2 survivor and rank 1 killer.

The only major disparities I can foresee will be playing against huntress, deathslinger, nurse, and maybe plague. I did go against a PC huntress for the first time, and it was without a doubt the hardest huntress I've ever played, as she was making pinpoint shots. But so be it...console players can adjust, it's not the end of the world and it'll be fun to go against a new player base.

Also PC survivors may have an easier time quickly glancing behind them while in chase, but again, not really a huge deal.

One BIG downside I've been experiencing though. Frame rates on DBD have already been worse than any other game I play on PS4. Today playing with crossplay, it seems to have gone from really bad to even worse. Like so few frames that it actually strains my eyes, even when playing as survivors. This is an issue that's usually worse while playing killer.

I really, really hope the poor frame rate issue has a solution in sight, or even just a dev update would be great. Other than that, cross play should be a solid addition to this game and I'm glad they were able to enable it.

I've played a few a matches now as survivor and I haven't noticed any difference in other survivors. Some are good, bad, stealthy or aggressive, it's no different from normal.

I've played against one crossplay spirit on the lab and all 4 of us got out. She wasn't bad or great. She was fairly on point with her phasing but dead hard to extend chases that little bit and that everyone was all over the gens helped quite a bit.

The biggest issue though is the massive frame issues now and then, even more then normal which has to get sorted. Had a legion down me at a rather safe pallet even when I knew where he was coming from. I didn't even get hit through the pallet, I just got downed before I could even throw it. He just kind of slid at me really quickly and I was dead. The killer wasn't even a pc killer either it was on ps4 with a couple other crossplay surviors.

I'm looking forward to crossplay and getting better at the game but I might have to turn it off if these weird frame spikes are going to be the norm. :/

Edit: I've played some more games and so far it was only one match where it had strange lag spikes. I still get lag spikes, frame drops and bad hits now and then but its the normal ones I'd get anyway. So, yeah, I am enjoying it so far.

The last few comments are mostly about the frame difference. Yes it´s an advantage for those who have more FPS on their platform. And I think, they will never come to that point that you have as many frames in dbd as in other games on your platform.

Or maybe they are just working very slow.... If I started the game few weeks ago, there was the old intro with the raven and the lockers and it was so incedible laggy that you only saw a slideshow of pictures and couldn´t skip it fast. They fixed it with the new intro when you starting the game, it´s okay now and you can skip it instantly. But I mean the offerings are still just colored squares and you only can guess what it is, I think fixing this issue is much easier than changing the intro, but they didn´t do that.

I don´t know why, but I feel no big difference when I played on PC with PC players and on Switch with Switch players, but with crossplay of course. On a standard-low PC that I own I was used to have hard FPS drops randomly ingame, but I guess it´s still better because most time ingame you still have more FPS than on console. I don´t want to think about playing with a good graphic card and a little bit more ram. On Switch it was (not anymore since crossplay) a constant low FPS rate, I got used to it, everybody have the same hardware and software and I resigned that FPS are low, but they didn´t dropped at any point ingame and it run smoothly.

Not everyone on PC plays with stretched resolution. I don’t and I know a lot of other players who don’t. Just so you know, so many PC players are against stretched res.

That last sentence of yours is where things get complicated. More often than not, it's becoming increasingly difficult to do so by the hundreds of other players who, aren't so humbled in their gaming. The competitive advantage is of the mindset that they're MLG Players they believe.

Rare to come across anyone in their own platform a player who plays for fun unless they already know the players they are having fun with.

But then again, I'm a solo player. With casual Tendencies. Who never learns to turn off texts messages post game 😖🤷‍♂️

"With a controller and relatively stable framerate, you have near the same skill floors and ceilings as PC survivors."

Survivors on Console do not have a stable framerate.

Frames can get janky when a Hex Totem breaks, Noed activates, a gen pops, Get hit by freddy, go to pull someone off the hook, vaulting...

Frames get bad when you: get hit with Sloppy, Get hit by Madness, Enter Clown Gas, Dead Hard, Spin the camera too fast...

There are more, these are just examples.

So many babies here... Killers camping, slugging or survivors being toxic is not something thats connected to ONE platform.

We are playing the same ######### game for ######### sake.

Stop dividing this community even more. Crossplay is great option and should stay in the game.

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I was mentioning that yesterday. As a PC Killer, average at best, I'm loving cross-play because now I can actually get matches. I've had some cross-platform players give me good runs for my money. Others were fairly bad, but the same is also true of survivors I've faced who are also on PC.

That said, far too many cross-platform survivors tried to 360 me in matches. Yeah, it doesn't work the same against a PC killer, and gifted me with a lot of free hits.

I've honestly been enjoying my games more now that there is cross-play. I main survivor on ps4 and have still been dealing with the same types of killers that are on console. Yea you might not win every game against pc killers but at least instead of crying about you can quickly find a new match. Just play the game and have fun.

Yea,sure. The game performance is terrible on console because of my survivor/killer skill. Maybe I should get better so that the game stops running at 10 fps and I don't get stuck in place every time sloppy butcher is applied.

The statement you have made is false there are lower frame rates for console first of all, we also cant adjust our computer settings to make our view better or anything of the sort. Plus another reason to turn it off is the fact that pc players are toxic and im not just talking about killer survivors too. I was playing solo survivor and someone was farming blood points on ppl by getting them off the hook and running away. In order for the killer to get us down and then at the very end having a key. They also dc alot for unknown reasons just getting down dc. They are also tunnelers too ik its a strategy but on console I don't deal with it very much. When yall joined everything became a lot more toxic too tbh. Yall dont know how to have fun or either your fun is making other people miserable. In fact if there was an opt out of crossplay for pc I would take it.