PC vs CONSOLE: What's it like?

PC makes a lot of killers easier and I’m not playing a PowerPoint presentation which is nice.

I started on the PS4 back when it was free on PS+. My god what a nightmare, with framerates so low that survivors would vanish mid-chase from leaving LOS for a split second. It was literally easier to chase by staring at the floor and following the scratch marks, and the reduced visual clutter improved the framerate. Lery's was unplayable for a while because the PS4 would run at about 10 FPS on that map.

The abysmally low max sensitivity also made 360s a lot more effective. Against a survivor that did 360s, you had to predict they'd do it (thanks, low framerate), full hard turn on the stick, lunge, and hope that the autoaim did the rest, which to its credit it usually did.

TV screens also tend to pick up more glare, which made playing killer in the daytime a painful experience.

On PC, you're not restricted by extremely low sensitivity limits, limited button mapping, PC monitors are easier to keep away from glare, and you can apply nVidia filters to help yourself see to boot. The biggest and most impactful difference is the performance. A good PC runs the game at a very stable high framerate, even with how horribly optimized the game has been since its inception.

Also, most killers just plain play better on PC. Even something as simple as chasing around a loop is improved by the increased control precision, able to pull sharper turns and precise corners, which EVERY killer in the game benefits from, not simply ranged killers.

The game is just BETTER on PC in every quantifiable way, which is why I abandoned the PS4 version when it became obvious cross-progression was never going to happen and the game barely runs on it as it is.

smooth as hell, hard as hell to do survivor on mouse. yeah faster spins and smoother, but controller is way easier and tbh spins arent hard to deal with 360 should mainly be a last resort not a playstyle. and finer aim for huntress and way easier to hit people with mouse and keyuboard as killer

It took me a few days to get used to the button layout I chose, definitely alot of mishaps and getting myself killed with the change. I changed drop item to square and actions to circle because it just feels better hitting circle on ps4 controller when I need to vault/drop pallet. Also figured 3 things v like a dozen would be easier to relearn button. 😂

Edit to add: killer side it's all 1 button so it's kinda annoying that vaulting as killer and kicking gen or picking someone up is all the same button now that I have separate ones for survivor.

I have the game on PC and PS5. About 4k hrs on PC. Only played the PS5 version for about 10 hrs before I uninstalled.

The lack of options on console is really annoying. The game is too dark. It's a pvp game to me, so it's not acceptable to have limited vision for no reason. I can turn up the brightness on my PC monitor and run the game on low settings to see just fine.

Not a huge difference on survivor between PC and console. Console version had some annoying input lag. Had to disable HDR on my TV and console to hit skill checks. I play survivor with a controller on both platforms unless it's a Nurse.

Killer on an analog stick is painful. There's no precision with an analog stick at higher sensitivity. So you choose between a killer that turns like a semi-truck or one that spins like a top.

I'd honestly keep it installed if cross progression was a thing. I'd just only play survivor. But I'm not about to re-grind everything.

IMO, the only really clear difference is that killers who relay on aiming and flicking are miles easier to use on PC (I find certain killers to be almost unusable on console), and you have greater control of your input options on PC. Other than that, not much to choose from between the two.

I generally find survivor play to be pretty much the same on either (I use a controller for surv on PC, too).

Load times.

Just changing one button was rough enough, I can't imagine changing more. 😂

For me, the healing under the pallet shows up as 'heal' but when I press the button it throws the pallet. After one too many survivors furiously clicking their flashlight at the downed pallet after I've healed them, I now wave them towards me, out of the pallets range. Most seem to understand why lol

Night & day difference. Not only is mouse & keyboard way better for multiple reasons, but you also get access to filters to improve the graphics. PC is far and away the best platform and it’s not even close tbh.

Oh, and you also get access to mods to change your perk icons and stuff, if customization is your thing!

I actually disagree with this, the reason I use a controller for surv on PC is that I like if better for hugging loops than the keyboard. With killer (and in shooter games) you often benefit from strafing and other quick lateral movements, but that's not as necessary with survivor. I think in most cases the analog of a stick is smoother than WASD movement. While you lose some of the quickness of lateral movement, you gain smoother control of everything between the four primary directions. There are god tier survs out there playing on console, not so much with killer.

Of course that's given it's a good controller with all the settings just they way you want them.

I often times can identify PC players right off because their movement has a certain...choppiness to it. Though in the end, I think it just comes down to what you have used the most, and your comfort level (muscle memory) with it.

And to be honest, while on PC I use the mouse per the typical arrangement, but rather than use the keyboard for movement, I have a Razer gamepad on which I mapped WASD to the thumbstick. That's in part because I've never really liked WASD, granted.

But in the end, all of that is really just a further endorsement of the PC generally, because there are so many setup options that simply aren't available on console, on top of all the other things you can tweak. If we ever get cross progression, I'll almost certainly go almost exclusively to PC.

I think in the case of players like JRM and others like them (players with 8K+ hours in game), it's more of the operator than the equipment. Comfortability with a tool is the most important thing.

That said, Switch might be too much (or too little) for anyone to work with, lol

PC is much darker than on console. You can't see anything in a lot of the maps without switching filters on

Quite often on a modest PC the frame rate drops so you can easily miss skill checks. Frame rate is constant on console.

On PC you can adjust your dead zones to make the controller more responsive