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PS5 thread 2.0

johnny_ultimate

Hi folks, just to tidy things up and since the other thread is heading towards 10,000 posts, please use to discuss the PS5 if you’re lucky enough to have gotten one.

Please keep posts about orders or stock to the other relevant threads. Thanks!

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Markitron

dingledosser wrote: »

The first game I’ve played through on the PS5 was The Last of Us 2, just finished today. Holy crap I am emotionally exhausted. It’s a masterpiece in storytelling. Magnificent, and looks glorious (even though it’s only PS4 game). It’s only €30 on the PS store for Black Friday mid anyone is interested.

Game was incredible. Only played it once at launch, waiting for the inevitable PS5 version. Ray traced reflections in that game would be incredible, Seattle is basically one gigantic puddle.

johnny_ultimate

Took a break from Demon’s Souls to try out The Last Guardian. And yep, after often struggling to hit 20fps on my base PS4, it runs at a silky smooth 60 with the unpatched disc version on PS5.

A genuine thrill to revisit the game too. I’ve always held it up as one of the finest achievements in the medium: a peerless director and team putting their efforts towards a madly ambitious culmination of everything they’d done beforehand. To see the game unshackled from its technical problems and running the way it was always meant to... a true triumph is all I can say. Looking forward to a full play-through again: already reminded a dozen times of why it’s such a remarkable piece of work.

RedXIV

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Took a break from Demon’s Souls to try out The Last Guardian. And yep, after often struggling to hit 20fps on my base PS4, it runs at a silky smooth 60 with the unpatched disc version on PS5.

A genuine thrill to revisit the game too. I’ve always held it up as one of the finest achievements in the medium: a peerless director and team putting their efforts towards a madly ambitious culmination of everything they’d done beforehand. To see the game unshackled from its technical problems and running the way it was always meant to... a true triumph is all I can say. Looking forward to a full play-through again: already reminded a dozen times of why it’s such a remarkable piece of work.

Is there anything needed to prevent the game installing patches? I have the disk but for some reason I had it in my head that as soon as you install it, it'll try to download patches and install them?

johnny_ultimate

RedXIV wrote: »

Is there anything needed to prevent the game installing patches? I have the disk but for some reason I had it in my head that as soon as you install it, it'll try to download patches and install them?

It tries to download them, but I just cancelled it and it worked just fine (also played my PS4 save no bother - must have been lucky to play it before it was patched). Not sure if it will try to download the patches again when I boot up the game again - I reckon it will.

Zero-Cool

Is it worth playing the ps collection version or does the patched digital version run that bad? Any reason why the fps was reduced in the patches?

WarZoneBrother

Finally got my Bugsnax platinum, infuriating at times but worth it in the end to free up some space..

2 ps5 platinums in the bag now, might grind the No Mans Sky platinum again..

Playing Dirt 5 a bit too and the Sprint race is just annoying me.. So hard to control those cars but it will probably take a while to get used to it

Nicetrustedcup

Been playing borderlands 3 since I got the ps5, played it last year on the one x however I love borderlands and not going to say no to another play of this game,

Picked it up for 10 euros and it includes a free ps5 version of the game

It runs amazing at 4K, HDR and 60 FPS also the ps5 controller is just so nice to play on reminds of the Xbox controller now

Very impressed with the PS5

F1ngers

RedXIV wrote: »

Is there anything needed to prevent the game installing patches? I have the disk but for some reason I had it in my head that as soon as you install it, it'll try to download patches and install them?

Go to Settings > System > System Software > System Software Update and Settings and disable Download Update Files Automatically.

It will stop it updating unexpectedly, downside is it will not download updates for other games.

sticker

Looking to put get a smaller tv for ps in converted attic. Any decent ones here for gaming?

https://www.currys.ie/ieen/tv-and-home-entertainment/televisions/televisions/301_3002_30002_xx_ba00013738-bv00313856/xx_xx_xx_xx_5-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-criteria.html

Markitron

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Took a break from Demon’s Souls to try out The Last Guardian. And yep, after often struggling to hit 20fps on my base PS4, it runs at a silky smooth 60 with the unpatched disc version on PS5.

A genuine thrill to revisit the game too. I’ve always held it up as one of the finest achievements in the medium: a peerless director and team putting their efforts towards a madly ambitious culmination of everything they’d done beforehand. To see the game unshackled from its technical problems and running the way it was always meant to... a true triumph is all I can say. Looking forward to a full play-through again: already reminded a dozen times of why it’s such a remarkable piece of work.

Yea, it is an amazing game. The jankiness and controls put a lot of people off but if you are willing to put up with them the result is a game like no other.

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Is it worth playing the ps collection version or does the patched digital version run that bad? Any reason why the fps was reduced in the patches?

IIRC it will run at 30 fps about half of the time, the other half it will hover around 26/27 but it can go down to 20 fps sometimes. I still enjoyed it when I played it like this on the Pro but it is very much a YMMV situation. Now that a 60 fps mode is possible I highly suggest you play this version.

As far as the patches go, the original release ran at an unlocked framerate which was all over the place, so they patched in a framerate cap after a couple of updates. It made the game more stable on the PS4 but obviously the PS5 can't overcome a hardcoded cap like that.

Mr Crispy

Looks like Smyths don't have it. Might pick it up secondhand then.

sticker

Loving demon souls... just one boss down but farming a lot on long sword strength build. Question... what stats should i invest in as I'm aware the cost per stat addition increases soul cost and it's important not to spec poorly early.. Thanks

Markitron

Mr Crispy wrote: »

Looks like Smyths don't have it. Might pick it up secondhand then.

CEX has loads of copies for €12, if Sony don't unlock the framerate in a future patch (which I don't think is likely), that price will start creeping up over time.

sticker wrote: »

Loving demon souls... just one boss down but farming a lot on long sword strength build. Question... what stats should i invest in as I'm aware the cost per stat addition increases soul cost and it's important not to spec poorly early.. Thanks

You are much better off asking in the DeS thread, if you are going for a strength build then you want to be levelling str/vit/end. Just watch out for the soft level caps where they lose their effectivness. Depending on your weapon, you may want to start levelling other stats later on too.

I am also a strength build but with support magic, gonna turn my greatsword into a magic sword later on, after which I am putting points into magic instead of strength.

johnny_ultimate

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Is it worth playing the ps collection version or does the patched digital version run that bad? Any reason why the fps was reduced in the patches?

If you’re not willing to shell out, the PS Plus version will do fine - it’s still the same game, and should run at a stable 30 FPS. I played it on a base PS4 with wildly uneven frame rate and it still became one of my favourite games.

But to see it running at a hyper-smooth 60 FPS is imo transformative, and by far the best way to play the game.

Obviously the ideal would be to roll out a patch to ensure everyone gets to play it this way, but given Gen Design is now its own independent entity I’m not sure that’ll happen alas.

markcahill1985

Thought this was interesting for those experiencing the extremely loud disc noise every so often. Might be a very easy solution.

https://twitter.com/13_Watty/status/1330109443741245445?s=19

Wing126

markcahill1985 wrote: »

Thought this was interesting for those experiencing the extremely loud disc noise every so often. Might be a very easy solution.

https://twitter.com/13_Watty/status/1330109443741245445?s=19

Hmm, anyone going to try that?

Mr Crispy

No need to try it blind, really. Just remove your side panels and if the noise is still there, you know the pads won't do anything for you.

gerrybbadd

Can't get enough of Astrobot. My kids even demanded i play some songs on Spotify this morning. So I re-downloaded Rescue Mission for the PSVR this morning.

Was a little sad when the realisation hit that I need the adapter for the VR to connect to the PS5, and Sony have yet to send it to me

Wonda-Boy

sticker wrote: »

Loving demon souls... just one boss down but farming a lot on long sword strength build. Question... what stats should i invest in as I'm aware the cost per stat addition increases soul cost and it's important not to spec poorly early.. Thanks

What class are you playing.....really need to know before we can help you.

If you are new to the game I would strongly urge you to pick one of the last two classes either ROYALTY or Templar Knight.

Royalty is overall the best class to choose for many reasons but 1 of them is that they start at soul level 1 so upgrading is very cheap straight away as the upgrade points are around 70 souls. And it has a ranged magic attack you can damage enemies from a far not as intimidating as hack n slash up close.

Markitron

Wonda-Boy wrote: »

What class are you playing.....really need to know before we can help you.

If you are new to the game I would strongly urge you to pick one of the last two classes either ROYALTY or Templar Knight.

Royalty is overall the best class to choose for many reasons but 1 of them is that they start at soul level 1 so upgrading is very cheap straight away as the upgrade points are around 70 souls. And it has a ranged magic attack you can damage enemies from a far not as intimidating as hack n slash up close.

Soul arrow is ridiculously OP, I am using it with a Knight having put no points into magic and it is wrecking most enemies.

johnny_ultimate

Soul Arrow’s great for 1-1 and a handful of the other 1s, but think it starts having diminishing returns fairly quickly and you definitely need to diversify. A certain NPC in 3-1 is when you start getting the really cool spells

That said, it can be used to snipe that annoying ass dragon in 1-2 if you have the patience!

Markitron

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Soul Arrow’s great for 1-1 and a handful of the other 1s, but think it starts having diminishing returns fairly quickly and you definitely need to diversify. A certain NPC in 3-1 is when you start getting the really cool spells

That said, it can be used to snipe that annoying ass dragon in 1-2 if you have the patience!

What spell should I move onto afterwards? I wasn't planning on levelling magic until later but I might do this earlier if I need to.

Wing126

If anyone turned off Trophy Videos, go double check it. I disabled them, but it seems an update turned them back on.

Zero-Cool

Wing126 wrote: »

If anyone turned off Trophy Videos, go double check it. I disabled them, but it seems an update turned them back on.

Checked, mine still off.

CastorTroy

Thinking of picking up American PSN credit from cdkeys or one of those sites to take advantage of their sale. No issues with doing that, I assume? Anyone try on the PS5 yet?
Have only used American account to claim humble bundle games before

Atomic Pineapple

Wing126 wrote: »

If anyone turned off Trophy Videos, go double check it. I disabled them, but it seems an update turned them back on.

How do you turn them off actually?

madmoe

This TV any good guys, in terms of PS5 and getting a food quality pic?

Thanks

Notorious97

Anyone know how game sharing works?

I gameshare with a ps5 in australia, from the videos i have watched i followed the below

My ps5
My account disabled for sharing
Aussie account enabled for sharing

Aussie PS5
Aussie account disabled for game sharing
My account enabled for game sharing

The aussie account still cannot access my ps+ or games, also the aussie account downloaded a free game and my phone app popped up saying the game is ready to play?

Anyone know anything about this?

Zero-Cool

CastorTroy wrote: »

Thinking of picking up American PSN credit from cdkeys or one of those sites to take advantage of their sale. No issues with doing that, I assume? Anyone try on the PS5 yet?
Have only used American account to claim humble bundle games before

I have my US account setup and works fine, get my credit from the sites below. Demons Souls cost me 65 instead of 80 and comes in very handy for the sales. If making an account, google it (not allowed to talk about it here) and choose Oregon as a state to avoid tax being added on to each purchase.

https://www.instant-gaming.com/en/games/playstation/
https://www.pcgamesupply.com/buygames/sony-playstation-network-cards/
https://www.eneba.com/store?countries[]=US&page=1&platforms[]=PSN&sortBy=PRICE_ASC&types[]=giftcard

Markitron

Notorious97 wrote: »

Anyone know how game sharing works?

I gameshare with a ps5 in australia, from the videos i have watched i followed the below

My ps5
My account disabled for sharing
Aussie account enabled for sharing

Flip this around and you should be all good