The Continued Ignorance of Performance Issues Continues to Hamper Player Fun

I feel like Ormond is a map that enhances the performance issues. I had a match against a Clown there running Sloppy and both myself and my swf teammate were experiencing a 1-2 second freeze just before the hit actually connected - was like the game knew the hit would connect but was freezing to load up the status effect. Sloppy is bad on any map but it's terrible on maps like Ormond that have increased performance issues.

Same clown was also finding people without any sort of informational perk. He was finding players hidden in areas he shouldn't have seen or heard them, sometimes going straight for them across map after a hook like he was running BBQ. Hoping he was just very lucky at finding people and not hacking.

Sloppy is such a drag on performance for both sides that I haven't run it for over a year. Sad we have to decide between frames and perks, especially the known trigger ones that have been with us for many a patch.

Oh ok. I thought it's the pallet vid.

Ormond, Crotus Prenn, and Coldwind maps are currently the worst for me with performance issues. Compared to other maps it feels like I not only get more freezes but some of the freezes feel more harsh too.

How long? Until BHVR stops supporting the game on those platforms. As long as BHVR continues to support the game on these platforms AND continues to make statements that they will continue to work on fixing performance issues because they "want the game to run smoothly on all platforms" (see last Dev update and Mandy's recent comment) we will continue to hold them accountable to make the game run smoothly on our consoles. This post is pointing out the performance issues that we have experienced so they can fix said performance issues, Mandy has even said the comments/videos in this post have helped.

Back 4 Blood beta is the newest game I played that I experienced no performance issues while playing, either in campaign or versus. Predator Hunting Ground which came out in 2020 was just made free on ps+, tried that out and again no issues. For solo games Ghost of Tsushima and Horizon Zero Dawn had no performance issues.

I tried out DBD on my friends PS5 for the first time last night. I played survivor on Lery's which I thought was a good test for performance. I was surprised that the game ran smoother than my PC as of the latest patch and it looked really pretty at 4K with HDR enabled.

I'm not sure what has changed with the latest patch but myself and many other people who play on PC are experiencing performance issues. It's good to know that the PS5 version of DBD seems to be performing well.

It could well be that. I am very cautious when it comes to optional updates and every few months I reinstall windows

I think simple replies will suffice. The PS4 does not play DBD at a consistent 60fps and probably never will. Both Xbox One and PS4 play DBD at a stable 30fps however. Did we just forget what BHVR said back in 2019?

Comparing these two games is quite hilarious. RE8 will sacrifice graphical fidelity/consistency to hit target framerates. Doing this in DBD will probably be a "competitive" nightmare. Since then the complaint will be "sometimes Clown looks like a rainbow potato and it's hard to tell what he is doing." which is a much worse complaint than "my 2013 console lost 15fps when he threw a bottle at me". Competitive consistency will serve this game far better than making things' LOD low just to squeeze a few more frames to hit a target fps. Which is why BHVR specifically said in 2019 pushing 60fps on the old consoles will be a long and tedious goal. This is exactly the mess that is going on with Warzone. Old gen console players are in arms about how bad the game looks past 50m and the FOV. Which is a more than fair point, but this was done to hit a "target framerate".

It's also just crazy how no one will just come out and say "Hey, my console is getting kind of old, yes it's still supported but some of my issues im having is just because it's just that, old." This is exactly why I got the Series X. I understand the limits, and the Xbox One and the PS4 has met theirs. This is this childish mess I see everywhere in forum communities and it's insane. No one will stop and admit maybe IT IS their hardware. Everyone will just point fingers at devs.

Just to further explain why it is because I understand not everyone here has a job in server management, it goes like this. If the gamestate bugs out on the server whatever data you receive that was in reply to the bugged whatever, than it will bug you out. This wasn't a problem with the game itself, just a server issue. Which is why it is classified as a network issue.

As an example, say you go to hook someone you freeze as you put them on the hook, that survivor more than likely freezes himself as well. Some interaction that happened the server bugged and you had to wait for the packets where the issue was already resolved internally on the servers gamestate. In other words, there was some interaction that made the server hang-up. And again, this would be deemed a network issue.

1. Player interactions are more complicated than fixing one line of code...one additional killer or perk and a rework can easily make the same bug appear.
2. HDD problems....interesting how the HDD can cause hangups when everything you need (unless you have like 3GB of system memory) is stored on the ram for quick access. Again, if you don't know how this works, then why act like you do?
3. You got me. Maybe it's because I'm not here to be mean or hateful, rather helpful. Like I've stated, if this is something everyone is serious about when it comes to fixing game performance issues on old consoles than it's important to distinguish what is what to give clarity to the devs to fix things.

So you are denying what devs stated and them fixing dead hard clearly means they are wrong right? Also what about people who don't have freezing after switching to ssd?

Dude just stop, you are embarrassing yourself trying to be right when you are wrong.

Also I won't respond anymore since you are either trolling or have such a big ego to face the facts. You are basically saying devs are wrong lol.

I guess everyone on last gen has bad internet. I am done lmao.

You do know that if it the server that causing the problems then why hasn't it been addressed as such and why hasn't it affect everyone that been playing the game regardless of how powerful the their console and pc?

This specific issue with perk activation/deactivation, status effects, prompts that seems to effect HDD more does not make it an issue with how the game handles unloading and offloading on a HDD or even account for every performance issue that commenters on this thread is referring to.

BUT IM the one derailing the thread, gotcha. Couldn't be the BHVR bashing or even the the thread name being that way. No way, impossible. Jesus. If this is a report thread then pin it. It's as simple as that. It's not like im here shitposting. You wanna maintain the BHVR bashing, and aggressive reports, that's cool and fair. PIN...IT. If it was pinned for the topic, I would not be here. Every post I've made in this thread has been related to the topic of "Performance Issues". Discussing the validity of what these performance issues are, or could be is on topic. So as far as it's concerned I'm not breaking any forum rules.

But, I'll leave this thread be. I advise if you want this to be a report topic, pin it.

You may have a point in terms of balance, fun, etc, but when what the devs are saying is echoed by so many people in both experience and the one time the code got leaked itself then I'm inclined to trust the majority, including the devs, over one person on the forums insisting it must be a network issue