Should BHVR stop supporting last gen?
I'm just speaking from a hypothetical standpoint here.
many games are dropping out of their support for last gen due to outdated hardware.
If you think about it last gen is actually holding back current gen.
BHVR keeps updating the game and providing graphical updates and new content but it's coming at a cost with last gen performance and working on last gen consoles could actually be slowing down current gen progress.
I don't know what will happen to last gen players but all your purchases should in theory be transfered over to the next gen consoles. So you won't be losing anything but having to buy a new console.
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another good example is GTA 5
because they dropped support for the PS3 after PS4 came out
but they are graphically updating it to be more inline with new gen
allow me to point you back to this
RE Village, a true next-gen game, on the PS4
DBD, a 2016 game, on the PS4.
And RE Village runs better
They stopped DLC's a couple years after the pS4 came out. I know because that's when I upgraded.
The servers for GTA 5 on PS3 are shutting down December 16th, 2021.
Gotta give lord tony props on this honeypot thread tbh
okay and when was the last time they updated the PS3 online version?
because if I recall PS4 got majority of the updates
I haven't played the PS3 since I switch to the PS4. My point was it will be a couple of years before games will stop getting updates on PS4.
Since they promised good performance on min specs and consoles, they should not.
Dude....Current Gen doesn't exist yet unless you got lucky. All of these "Next Gen" consoles don't exist for people in masse. It would be financial suicide to drop support until the silicone shortage goes back to normal. Which may not be until 2025 and thats being hopeful.
No, last gen support should not be dropped. I got DBD for free from playstation plus about 3 years ago, its worked in a relatively good fashion over the years. Its only recently that the game has had a significant drop in quality, game play wise. DBD itself is a 5 year old game so if it was brought to ps4 in a state where its playable I expect it to remain playable despite updates and additions. Like others have said there are many other games that run better despite requiring more resources that don't freeze, crash, or make my system sound like a jet engine. Buying a new system or a pc to play a 5 year old game doesn't make sense if it used to work fine for last gen consoles.
Uhhhh, this is in reference to LOD right? Not like.....entire maps and multiple maps that aren't even on screen right?
The newest Xbox Series S is actually widely available..... but for all the wrong reasons.
A. Most of the games titles are either not out yet, or pretty much suck.
B. Most of the consumers of the product still have no idea which ######### Xbox is the newest Xbox because of the dumbass naming structure.
C. B shows why you keep things simple.
No, they should fix their game because it worked perfectly fine before and it can again.
I think she means that people went code digging and killer powers are treated like undroppable items and every single asset and every single line of code and for every single power and every single cosmetic for every single killer is loaded into every trial in one long line, which is why later killers are so badly optimised compared to trapper for example
Friendly feedback BigBrain, the expression is 'en masse', not 'in masse'.
It also doesn't help that the s does have worse hardware than the x so people will look at the specs only and think they're better off waiting for the x
This is why people should switch to PC over a new gen console anyday, one day the PS5 or series x will have the same issue , PC won't ever have this problem and can be upgraded over time instead of all at once
Still end up costing more.
Also, I'm literally never switching to PC.
You can get a decent gaming rig for like 600 dollars that will run plenty of games , that's fine if you never want to make the switch but don't complain when your out of date hardware isn't running games properly if you decide to choose that path knowing the outcome
Except when the hardware is still fully competent of running better, theoretically more intensive software then you have plenty of grounds to complain. See above for my comments on RE Village vs DBD
The hardware isn't out of date.
If I switch to PC, I don't want a "decent" rig that will more or less be the same experience as my current Console. I want a better experience, which can easily hike up prices into the thousands
You can literally buy one for 600 that will run better than your current console I promise you that but it's fine some people like console better than PC and I understand that , some people have been there for years and don't want to start over with every game on a new system , performance wise biting the bullet and upgrading is your best bet
Its mainly the way BHVRS code doesn't seem very compatible with console , the game should run fine on console because it's not a super in depth game but for some reason its never ran smoothly
It's never ran smoothly on pc either so maybe the issue isn't with the hardware
Seems fine for me
and you have to pay for online to play DBD on console anyways
So by switching to PC you;re saving money monthly.
That's your opinion , my pc runs this game perfect I never drop below 60fps even right now with all the complaints I don't drop but I'm also on a i9 processor with 16gb of ram and my graphics card has an additional 8gb so it can literally run this game in it's sleep
I know I can't believe people still fall into the console traps and refuse to believe they would be happier with a pc I used to be the same way until I finally made the jump
try playing dbd on the minimum specs, because i was doing that on slightly over said "minimum requirements" for about 2 years and i couldnt exceed 15fps. ever.
minimum requirements to run the game at an acceptable level and i would never exceed 15.
even now i get framerate drops (especially since 5.0.0) playing on my new pc, with some pretty impressive specs. modded minecraft with shaders for the shaders of the shaders' shaders can run at smooth 60 on this but dbd cannot keep stable. it's genuinely tragic.
Im having lag spikes on xbox one s, and the only way i can play is camping with bubba. Wish i was my fault, but it isnt.
Or yes...?
read the above comment about minimum specs. right now im getting fps drops with a gtx 1660, 32gb ram, and a ryzen 7 3700x (as well as a 1tb ssd) playing on low.
suggested specs are an intel i3- with my cpu equivalent to an i7- and a gtx 760- gtx 1660 btw- and 8gb of ram- 32gb here. so, yeah, maybe it's the software.
Well I'm not sure why you would be having problems I agree that's strange
Take a guess, and it isn't the hardware
Well mine runs fine so I can't really say what your specific problem would be
a decent computer costs about the same as console and you don't have to pay for monthly online fees unlike console
DBD was released last gen, so this excuse of “old hardware” doesn’t stick. There are plenty of more demanding games running better than DBD on last gen.
Also, US is not the only country in the world, you know? It may cost that to you, but it’s not the same for everyone else.
The updates normally shouldn't cause such issues with last gen. The graphical updates and changes are still well within the capability of those consoles, and they have handled more intense games, which far exceed that of DBD, so I don't believe it's a gen issue.
BHVR have said they're investigating an HDD issue, which sounds like an error their end and not a problem with last gen consoles anyway. Hopefully, the mid-chapter patch will solve it. However, because the PTB is not for console, I'm uncertain how they'd properly test the fix.
There much more graphically intense multiplayer games that run at 60 FPS on PS4/XB1. Overwatch, DOOM, and some COD games run at 60 FPS.
DBD is a LAST GEN game that’s engine was built in the middle of the last gen consoles life cycle. Of course it was released on PC first but the game isn’t new and isn’t specially designed for new gen consoles.
A majority of DBD’s playerbase is on last gen consoles, they aren’t gonna just phase them out and be like, “well you just gotta get the new gen console that’s never in stock anywhere. Or ya know, just drop a few grand on a PC.”
Also Sony won’t stop supporting PS4 games for quite a while (can’t say I’m knowledgeable about Microsoft) so I’m highly doubtful that a game like DBD is going to completely drop support for last gen consoles.
Except the fact they've been constantly releasing graphical updates.
you haven't seen the new graphic updates?
Most of us have hundreds of not thousands of hours into this game, not to mention whatever money spent as well. There is no Cross Progression nor is it coming.
So anyone wanting to abandon these archaic stone-age devices would have to rebuy this wonderfully stable game, rebuy the dlc's, and any wanted cosmetics. Plus the best part, regrind everything from scratch.
I don't think many vets will be willing to do all that again. You know the grind of this game.
rockster dropped ps3 support pretty fast though
Graphical updates aren't the problem though (maybe Disturbed Ward and Father Campells Chapel with those smoke effects).
The real problem are all kind of status effect,icons popping up on your screen (e.g Prove Thyself,Leader,Dying Light etc.) and Hooking/Unhooking.
Those things that i mentioned are the reason why FPS drops keep happening to us.
I think they've already stopped without explicitly saying so.
I don't know if it loads other maps, but it apparently loads every killer and survivor asset
Yikes....
This game is optimized p i s s poor on PS4. The game literally has an FPS stutter every few seconds where it drops to 0 then goes back to normal. It's annoying during regular gameplay but also can completely mess you up during chases as survivor and killer, as well as on skillchecks.
The game is near unplayable on PS4. I don't know if Xbox players have the framerate issues.
Dead by Daylight just came out on the Switch at about the end of 2019. It hasn't even been two years yet. Or are you lumping the Switch in with the other next gen consoles, since Nintendo is nowhere near about to release another console yet?
Less than two years, there's no new Nintendo console in the near future, and it runs terrible on Switch, just like on PS4 and Xbox One.
The devs said they'd get this working on console, they've continued to sell their game and all the new DLC on these consoles, so they need to get it working.
Stop optimization because the dev's don't know what they're doing, yeah ok.
At this point l would say they already have.
You should focus on swf hating posts and let the serious issues to people who know what they talking about