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PS5 Discussion

DrDamn

Did the screen share thing with @Brave last night playing co-op Ghost of Tsushima Legends. Once you work out what and where it is it works really well. Picture in picture popped to a useful position and you can see what they can see, plan and strategize better. It just works, which is nice :-)

I also finished off the Platinum on Astros, looked up the last couple of trophies - and actually have one more which is defined as an add-on trophy so not required for the platinum. Of note is that after finishing up on Ghost I switch out to Astros via an activity card and was straight into the level I wanted in under ten seconds - I love NextGen 😃

Brave

That picture in picture feature is bloody brilliant by the way. That’s gonna be a major part of my online play.

It made coordination so much easier, it made it more fun to wait to be revived, and it just looked cool. Proper futuristic touch that.

Brave

What isn’t so cool, and I’m actually pretty pissed off about it, is the “HD” camera. Which is frankly shocking, especially from a company that’s absolutely at the top of the imaging industry right now. It’s grainy and the colour reproduction is just as bad as the PS4 camera if not a little worse; to the point where I switched to monochrome during yesterday’s Demon’s Souls stream because it was unbearable.

Not only that but it seems to not be properly in focus which means I may end up going even further retro and using the scanlines filter to just make it an intentional novelty because it looks better than the bare camera.

And THEN we get to what’s been my biggest issue with Sony this last few months. Their absolute shit show when it comes to giving us the info we need to make the right purchasing decisions.

It turns out that the PS4 camera is perfectly usable as a streaming camera on PS5 if you use the VR adaptor (arrived today). So I didn’t fucking need to buy the thing anyway.

It was bought on a whim, but with the reasoning that it seemed like the PS4 camera adaptor was for VR on ps5 only (edit: and I assumed it would be a much better camera overall. It isn’t). I don’t recall seeing anything anywhere that said otherwise. In fact, why aren’t they just selling the adaptor? That’s a rhetorical question btw.

So yeah, I’m way more impressed and happy with my PS5 so far than I dreamed possible. I absolutely love the machine.

But yet again there’s something off about the messaging here and it’s beginning to feel less consumer friendly the more I think about it.

DrDamn

@Brave I’ve always found the camera that Sony chuck out for PS consoles shocking in quality. From the original eye toy to the PS4 one (of which I have two! - one came with the PSVR). Lighting is generally not great, but phones manage to get a decent enough image I don’t know why a dedicated camera you are paying £50+ for doesn’t.

The PS5 FAQ does say that the PS4 camera is compatible for streaming, but that FAQ surfaced quite late.

Brave

DrDamn for the price, it’s unforgivable imo. They’re the industry leaders in sensor making and imaging.

It might be made more usable if I could manually specify the area of the sensor that gets used, but what you get is either a ridiculous wide shot of your whole room, or a cropped in head and shoulders shot. Neither of which are acceptably in focus.

it just doesn’t have a redeemable feature. Oversaturated, contrasty, unfocused awfulness, that’s also grainy as hell in low-ish light. And what, are they expecting people streaming from their sofa to set up a studio light?

I have a cheap knock-off webcam that I use on my sim rig, that I’m not especially pleased with. But this makes that look like the height of technological achievement.

Jonbwfc

Kind of glad I cancelled the order for mine in the end. Blimey.

Can I just address the group? SODDING BUY SACKBOY, IT’S BRILLIANT.

I was raving about the ‘Treble in paradise’ level but there’s a later one called ‘Blowing off Steam’ that is even better. A platform level set on a moving train, soundtracked to ‘The Private Psychedelic Reel’ by The Chemical Brothers.

It’s just spectacularly good.

Gordon

Jonbwfc Oh wow. Haven’t heard that in years. Off to Spotify I go.

DrDamn

Jonbwfc I’m giving Ratchet & Clank a proper go (available on PS+ collection) before moving on to Sackboy.

Jonbwfc

Gordon Released nearly 25 years ago. Just to ruin your Tuesday evening 😉.

Gordon

Jonbwfc I actually saw “1997” when I played it on Spotify. I may have let out an audible “oh” at that point.

Jonbwfc

Gordon IYeah, I was like ‘Oh, oh really? oh no’.. I have to say though the sequence ‘Lost in the K-Hole / Where do I Begin /The Private Psychedelic Reel’ is STILL ruddy brilliant.

Jonbwfc

DrDamn Ratchet & Clank is a pretty great game to be fair, but I don’t know if it’s quite the same - R&C has the thing with the lunatic weapons and what have you, it’s a bit of a hybrid platformer/shooter whereas Sackboy is a much more traditional platformer.

You’re certainly not wasting your time with R&C though. Very much looking forward to the PS5 one.

Gordon

Jonbwfc I sat down for a proper go at Sackboy last night. I played through the two stages you mentioned and past the first boss. You’re right, it is absolutely wonderful. I never would have guessed Sackboy would be in the running for soundtrack of the year, but here we are.

Jogort

Had my first scare with the ps5 last night, playing Miles Morales while usb drive plugged in updating some PS4 games. System just shutdown. Wouldn’t respond to ps button and eventually came on with power button and had the repairing HDD screen on when it did. While doing the HDD repair etc it appeared to finish but just stayed on a blank screen, hitting the ps button just give me the no symbol and nothing else.
Had to hard reboot it and came on with failure in software on last boot….😱
Never had any issues without the PS4 HDD plugged in, maybe just coincidence, we’ll see.

DrDamn

Jogort I’ve stuck with just the internal drive for now. I have an external with all my PS4 games on but I’m not plugging it in until a firmware or two hit.

Only issue I’ve had so far is DS not starting up. A shutdown and start resolved that. I’ve also been careful about shutting down games and only occasional use of rest mode.

Brave

This may well already be known about but worth reiterating anyway.

In Saved Data and Game/App Settings there’s a whole section devoted to tweaking spoiler warnings. You can set it to either spoilers identified by the developer or anything you’ve not seen yet, which is brilliant. I only discovered it by messing around with the interface of one of the videos I’d posted on the ps5 message group so there’s a chance someone will have missed it.

I think @Alex also posted about this area of the settings too because it has specific presets for games. I.e. those of you who need inverted controls.

Brave

DrDamn if it’s for DS then rest mode shouldn’t be needed tbh. It saves every minute or so iirc, as do most souls games (so you can’t quit and try again).

I’m just avoiding it entirely until I know it’s safe. And yeah, no external drives of any kind for a good long while

Jogort

DrDamn yeah I think I’m gonna leave the usb HDD with PS4 games out for now and eject it if I’m fine playing PS4 games.

Jonbwfc

I have had one ‘pull the power plug’ lockup so far, which is recovered from OK after a drive check, and a couple of game crashes. Generally speaking I do a reboot after a game crash just in case it’s actually left it in a wonky state you can’t immediately see.

Gordon

There’s a firmware update out this morning. I’ve installed it and nothing has exploded yet.

Deej

Mine had a moment on the first day with an external drive which I mentioned at the time. I did try another drive yesterday and it was fine but it still didn’t like the first one even though PS4 uses it.

I’m staying clear using them on PS5 for a while just to be safe.

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