PS5 Discussion

BritishBean

Alex nice to see my Stealth 700s recommended there 🙂

Im on the fence with the Seagate 1TB Xbox Expansion Card. It’s a LOT of money but obviously you get fuss-free direct gaming without having to transfer stuff. I wonder how long it’ll take for them to drop in price…

Jonbwfc

I got a 1TB SSD and a USB-C enclosure to use with the PS5 and it didn’t like it at all 🙁. Works on literally everything else, even the PS4, but the PS5 just won’t see it. I can still use it elsewhere obv but a bit of a pain.

Deej

Jonbwfc That’s the combo mine didn’t like either. Again, works on everything else.

Another, non-USB C one worked fine.

DrDamn

So planned to play the new Worms game this evening with a group of four of us. The trouble being the game only supported a party of 3. So rather than play something else we made sure at least two of us were doing screen share in the PS5 party and just cycled the game party. The person not playing could then chat with the rest and watch someone else play. Switching people in and out was really simple, people could duck out when needed, everyone had fun. It felt a bit more like all being round a single TV and waiting your turn. It’s very clever and useful this screen share business 😁

Gordon

DrDamn Yep, worked very well 🙂

Jogort

Seeking help from the networking gurus on here. I currently run a powerline adapter from my router to a network switch that then goes to all my consoles etc. I can’t seem to get the ps5 out of NAT type 3 even with putting it in DMZ on the router, any ideas?

Jonbwfc

Jogort So here’s what the internet says…

NAT Type 3 is not what you want. NAT Type 3 means that your PlayStation is behind a router and does not have the PlayStation network ports forwarded to it, or it is not in the DMZ, or UPnP is not working. Your PlayStation can connect to other players, but other players can not connect to you. This means that you will never be the host in a multiplayer game. Being the host in a multiplayer game can sometimes reduce your lag so much that it makes the difference between coming in first and last. I’m terrible at Call of Duty type games but when I’m the host I do significantly better.

if the PS5 is in the DMZ on your router, port forwarding shouldn’t matter, but my suspicion is it’s because something is blocking UPNP (which is basically the PS5 telling the router what ports it wants forwarded to it) and the PS5 is bitching because of that. Basically the PS5 expects that to work, and it doesn’t know that it actually isn’t needed. So I’d have a look in your router and see if UPNP is enabled, or if there’s some extra settings in terms of what internal IP addresses are allowed or whatever.

if that doesn’t work, try explicitly forwarding the required ports to the PS5 and see if it notices that traffic is coming in anyway. The ports you apparently need are listed here…

https://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/psvita/psn/firewall.html

Jogort

Jonbwfc yeah I have upnp enabled and can see ports opening as required, ones for playing FIFA anyway, even labels the tunnel as EA.
I’ve manually forwarded a heap of ports that I found in another guide and it still shows as NAT 3. I wonder if it’s the network switch, I’ll try just straight from the powerline adapter into the ps5 tomorrow see what it does as it has 2 ports on it so I could do the ps5 direct and everything else still through the switch.

Gordon

The PS5 upgrade for Destiny 2 is up on PSN

Gordon

And if you try to kick off the download from the app and don’t have the PS4 version installed, it’ll download both versions for you. That’s thoughtful of them.

Brave

It’s downloading two copies for me as well. Jesus. That’s straight from the console. I’m assuming the fractionally larger one is the ps5 version.

Gordon

Brave if you cancel them both then go into the library on your PS5 you can choose just the PS5 version. The whole thing is a mess 🙂

Brave

Another system update available. I’ll let you know if my PS5 explodes in about 15 minutes. It’s 868 MB

Jogort

Brave apparently an update for the controller also, it’ll ask for you to plug it in

Brave

Yeah all working ok

I’m just … Uh… “Testing” WRC 9 to see if I can detect a difference as imo that’s by far the best haptic usage so far.

It’s hard to tell what made the difference as wrc 9 also updated yesterday (I don’t think it’s the big update that current gen consoles got as there’s no codriver mode in there).

I could swear though, that the right trigger is giving me more feedback now. It feels like a solid resistance up the biting point or traction point and then a more spongey - for want of a better word - resistance as you accelerate. This is on snow so I don’t know if that’ll change on tarmac for example.

What I do know is that I felt there was next to no right trigger resistance the last time I played, just a few days ago. So something has changed.

Alex

I wish they would start putting in proper patch notes instead of just “improves system performance”. What’s the point of patch notes when they always say the same thing?

DrDamn

A bit more detail here:
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/hardware/ps5/system-software/

Expand the “PS5 System Software Features” section

Version 20.02-02.30.00

This system software update improves system performance.
Resolved an issue where data transfers and downloads were cancelled when trying to download content while a data transfer from a PS4 is in progress.
Some issues that were causing errors during text input in some PS4 games have been resolved.
The connection stability has been improved for some Wi-Fi routers.

Brave

I’ve figured out that the right trigger thing is happening when engine damage kicks in, which is kinda cool. It’s definitely not something I remember before today though.

Jonbwfc

My mate who has his PS5 pinched by the Amazon delivery driver on release day got a replacement from Amazon yesterday. I’ve heard a couple of other people who did too. Good news.

Gordon

Something I just noticed about the wishlist - if you buy a game on your wishlist, the option to remove it from the wishlist disappears. So I’m apparently stuck with Immortals on mine forever, unless I’m missing something. Glad to see they’ve thought it through.

DrDamn

Gordon can’t you press option button when on it in the wishlist and remove it that way?

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