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console vs PC
alright time to dig this grave-
i play on console a lot and its pretty easy for me. i hear a lot about how pc is better and i want to ask: how? like i get the 360-ing and basic stuff like that but ive learned how to do this kind of stuff on console without having to obliterate my bank account for a computer.
so dear players, is pc better? or is it just a topic of debate for the heck of it?
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Speaking strictly on hardware and components, yes. My PC is leagues better and stronger than a console could ever hope to be.
Outside of DBD, PC is even more substantially better than console.
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I think they are talking about controls. I could be wrong though.
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On PC you could use a controller as well, i guess?
PC will be always my fav. Upgrading hardware from time to time isn't much more expansive than console. Graphics are better/adjustable. On some games you can use mods better. And you don't have to pay extra money for playing online, like Playstation network or whatever.
PC is overall much more customizeable and less money consuming in the long turn.
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If you are asking about controls, the PC is better due to mouse movement being better, but playing with a controller on console is fine. You can still do the same things, just not as cleanly as with a mouse. Although some killers are said to struggle with advanced tech, Blight and Oni for example. But I don't play them, so I can't comment. Nurse feels fine on PS5 though.
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I used to be a PC Gamer, now a PS5 gamer, but yes mouse and keyboard is far superior for precision compared to controller.
The simple reason is on a mouse you use your proprioception to move your aim. You can accelerate, decelerate and flick your aim to where you think you need to be at any moment, and you are using your spacial awareness to maximum effect.
On a console you have to hold your stick on an axis for a timeframe and let go when you feel the time is up. It's a completely different mechanism and skill, that doesn't afford you the same use of your spacial senses and offer the same flexibility to move as fast as you please to where you want to go.
Spin techs don't really work on PC. I've played console for 500 hrs vs. 10 mins on PC, and the ease at which you can adjust to land a hit on PC is night and day, and this feeds into the advanced techs as well. Console Billy's, Oni's and Blight's simple cannot accelerate their aim any faster than the sensitivity their controller is set to, which makes banking suddenly around corners during their charges is basically impossible.
It is also not as responaive on console cause of dead zones, these ever so slightly slow your inputs down and ofc make it very tough to make micro adjustments to where you're aiming. You have to nudge your aim slightly out of the drad zone and immediately return to centre instead of just stopping. This makes the accuracy affored to ranged killers on PC an easier experience than console as well.
For survivor the differences are less substantial, but for killer it's a huge difference.
That said I love playing on console. The constant high expense, debugging software, and system hardware spec race in PC gaming, combined with the generally more sweaty and hack ridden PC gaming culture has turned me away from it over the years. Also my right hand is bust, so I can't use a mouse anymore... I've had to become left handed for work xD
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wow very descriptive thank you very much :D
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The main problem controller users have with dbd is the keybinds. Most famous offender: pallet drop vs. healing.
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ugh yes, im starting to agree with pc people becuase nothing is worse than being in a chase and going to vault near a gen and hittin' that quick repair on the way to death 💀
// i was just going to fast vault in killer shack and got an inch too close to the gen before hitting the button and this gave the killer enough time to down me lol
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Awesome description of the differences.
Being a console killer on DBD with a controller simply means you can never play most of them to anywhere near their full potential.
Most techs are out, flicks unheard of, and strafing very difficult. Swinging the camera around feels slow and unnatural.
Trickster is actually unplayable, and Singularity is sadly trying very hard to join that club. The fps means most times Hag cannot teleport and insta-hit, where as on PC it's usually bound to the mouse wheel and is instant. Similar issues with Nurse as well.
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It's mainly better for playing killer. Playing killer on controller is awful based on the times I tried it out. I'm convinced that most people who think killer is hard are playing on controllers. On PC you have so much more precision which makes higher skill killers much easier to play. Getting 360'd is basically impossible unless you are bad.
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And the lack of a deadzone adjusting setting, don't forget that.
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I have both PC and XBOXSX. Mkb is just much easier.
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I don't use a controller, so I didn't know about that. But this also sounds bad.
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There is a similar problem on PC but with windows/pallets and lockers.
Luckily it's only a few spots where this is the case, so it's predictable.
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Yeah me neither anymore, PC is way better. But got around 3k hours on DBD on my Ps4.
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