PC vs PS5

[Ebon Wolf]

Which should I get? My only concern is a lasting healthy playerbase. Idk why this game doesn't have pc to console crossplay.

[Lunamorte]

PS5 seems like it has less hassles and the match making isn't bugged. The game's largest playerbase is also in Japan and Consoles are still more popular than PC's in Japan.

[Ebon Wolf]

Originally posted by Lunamorte:

PS5 seems like it has less hassles and the match making isn't bugged. The game's largest playerbase is also in Japan and Consoles are still more popular than PC's in Japan.

Ugh it looks so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ blurry tho. I almost bought it here by default until I looked into it.

[Medina_Rico]

Hard to say, man. No one knows what the future holds for a game like this.

Only input I could say is Stellar Blade will most likely take a majority of the PS5 players away.. Same can be said for PC when Dragon's Dogma 2 and Horzion Forbidden West comes out.. The updates will bring people back for a short time, depending on what exactly they'll be adding. One new boss isn't going to be enough to hold people.

[Ebon Wolf]

Originally posted by Medina_Rico:

Hard to say, man. No one knows what the future holds for a game like this.

Only input I could say is Stellar Blade will most likely take a majority of the PS5 players away.. Same can be said for PC when Dragon's Dogma 2 and Horzion Forbidden West comes out.. The updates will bring people back for a short time, depending on what exactly they'll be adding. One new boss isn't going to be enough to hold people.

I don't trust the DD2 port to be good but I could be wrong. HFW is a different kind of game so it shouldn't disrupt this too much. Them not having crossplay for this ultimately hurts the playerbase for PC because it is typically smaller.

[Kriss Hietala]

pc because it has mods.

[Gundamn]

My very first experience with random online players was against a boss that players have to farm for the final weapon.
One player was a rackam with damage hacks and proceeded to kill the boss in 5 seconds.
It was truly the peak PC experience. :)

[Val the Moofia Boss]

PC has better performance, but you can only get the bonus codes for the gacha if you buy the console version.

[Lunamorte]

Originally posted by Ebon Wolf:

Originally posted by Lunamorte:

PS5 seems like it has less hassles and the match making isn't bugged. The game's largest playerbase is also in Japan and Consoles are still more popular than PC's in Japan.

Ugh it looks so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ blurry tho. I almost bought it here by default until I looked into it.

Well, there are still a good portion of players on PC. If you set your download region to Tokyo and play during Japan's prime time, you should get no shortage of people.

PS5 matchmaking isn't bugged and has in game settings, and consoles being more popular in Japan does give it the bigger base. So if the multiplayer playerbase size is your main criteria, PS5 has the edge.

PC lets you push the game performance if you have the PC specs to do so. It has been upkeeping a good 100k 24 hour peak as well. Though I think DD2 will affect it more than Stellarblade will affect the PS5 base.

[Valinov]

PC playerbase fluctuates from 35k to 90k every day. Also, it doesn't look blurry on PC. You just need to make sure your graphics settings are properly set.

But yea, really stupid that we live in the year of our Lord 2024 and we don't have crossplay. I was hoping with the great success of the game that they would announce that they're working on it.

[Bigboss PC Faster]

PC : full of cheaters who called themselves a modder,they hacked damage cap,spawn loots,edit gear or one-shoted bosses for fun in multiplayers,you can join them tho cuz there is zero anti-cheat on this game.plus PC version have soft region-lock so you might have a hard time to find a onlineroom to play unless you change your download region to japan

PS5 : almost zero cheaters cuz only few who willing to break their $500 PS5 or get PSN account banned by jailbreak PS5,it take much more effort to cheat than on PC. And no region lock

[Lunamorte]

Originally posted by Valinov:

PC playerbase fluctuates from 35k to 90k every day. Also, it doesn't look blurry on PC. You just need to make sure your graphics settings are properly set.

But yea, really stupid that we live in the year of our Lord 2024 and we don't have crossplay. I was hoping with the great success of the game that they would announce that they're working on it.

To be fair, Sony probably charges a premium for crossplay. Like it feels like Sony really does not like cross-play. Plus I feel like Cypress is very new to AAA game development. Plus, they probably were not expecting the game to do this well. Adding crossplay after the fact is probably far harder than having it planned from the start.

Originally posted by Bigboss PC Faster:

PC : full of cheaters who called themselves a modder,they hacked damage cap,spawn loots,edit gear or one-shoted bosses for fun in multiplayers,you can join them tho cuz there is zero anti-cheat on this game

PS5 : almost zero cheaters cuz only few who willing to break their $500 PS5 or get PSN account banned by jailbreak PS5,it take much more effort to cheat than on PC

While it is harder on console; I wouldn't call it almost zero. Save editing shouldn't require any console modifications. A quick search and I found someone selling save editing services on ebay.

Same for calling PC being full of cheaters. There is a report bias. People talk about it when they see it, not when they don't see it happening.

[Valinov]

Originally posted by Bigboss PC Faster:

PC : full of cheaters who called themselves a modder,they hacked damage cap,spawn loots,edit gear or one-shoted bosses for fun in multiplayers,you can join them tho cuz there is zero anti-cheat on this game.plus PC version have soft region-lock so you might have a hard time to find a onlineroom to play unless you change your download region to japan

PS5 : almost zero cheaters cuz only few who willing to break their $500 PS5 or get PSN account banned by jailbreak PS5,it take much more effort to cheat than on PC. And no region lock

I have 131 hours and have yet to see anyone one-shot bosses and neither have any of my friends that play. Also, the region-lock issue was a Steam setting issue that the developer patched out with one of the first updates to the game.

[Bigboss PC Faster]

Originally posted by Valinov:

PC playerbase fluctuates from 35k to 90k every day. Also, it doesn't look blurry on PC. You just need to make sure your graphics settings are properly set.

But yea, really stupid that we live in the year of our Lord 2024 and we don't have crossplay. I was hoping with the great success of the game that they would announce that they're working on it.

Nah,I'm a PS5 owner, and I don't want those "modders" on PC ruining the multiplayer experience of my PS5 games by one-shotting Proto Bahamut on online or using damage cap hacks.

If they're going to make cross-play, they need to implement an anti-cheat on the game first. If my friends have a PS5, I wouldn't buy the PC version.

[Lunamorte]

Originally posted by Bigboss PC Faster:

Originally posted by Valinov:

PC playerbase fluctuates from 35k to 90k every day. Also, it doesn't look blurry on PC. You just need to make sure your graphics settings are properly set.

But yea, really stupid that we live in the year of our Lord 2024 and we don't have crossplay. I was hoping with the great success of the game that they would announce that they're working on it.

Nah,I'm a PS5 owner, and I don't want those "modders" on PC ruining the multiplayer experience of my PS5 games by one-shotting Proto Bahamut on online or using damage cap hacks.

If they're going to make cross-play, they need to implement an anti-cheat on the game first. If my friends have a PS5, I wouldn't buy the PC version.

I can assure you that your experience would not be ruined and that you would almost never if ever run into a cheater or modder if there was crossplay. People exaggerate the rampency of online cheaters by many magnitudes.

Anti-cheats also cause far more problems than they are worth. *points at Capcom*

[Bigboss PC Faster]

Originally posted by Lunamorte:

Originally posted by Bigboss PC Faster:

Nah,I'm a PS5 owner, and I don't want those "modders" on PC ruining the multiplayer experience of my PS5 games by one-shotting Proto Bahamut on online or using damage cap hacks.

If they're going to make cross-play, they need to implement an anti-cheat on the game first. If my friends have a PS5, I wouldn't buy the PC version.

I can assure you that your experience would not be ruined and that you would almost never if ever run into a cheater or modder if there was crossplay. People exaggerate the rampency of online cheaters by many magnitudes.

Anti-cheats also cause far more problems than they are worth. *points at Capcom*

Are you sure about that? In this thread, a Valinov guy saying he willing to cheating for loots because he lacked the patience to grind for it on many other threads

And in the thread titled 'You guys are aware of mods, right?', it seems that about 80% of the people there are pro-cheaters. I sure as hell i don't want these guys infesting my PS5 multiplayer games