Netcode Discussion

Rikuto

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Well, if you spend $800 on a pre-built gaming PC, you'll get something far stronger than a console, you won't be paying annually to play online and you'll get games a lot cheaper because steam sales are plentiful and godlike. Eventually you end up saving money as a result of that.

Occasionally, fixable problems happen. The quality of life improvements are worth it, in my opinion, but this is all very off topic.
 

Brute

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You say that, but a 1 bar connection on PC is quite often better than a 4 bar on PS4. It's that significant.
In my experience, a 2-bar on PS4 was often better than any match on PC. The PC version has always run like shit for me, and it's not my rig since I've played it on two entirely different towers with entirely different hardware, not to mention that every other online game has run fine.

I'm aware that there's a healthy group of people who swear by this mythical experience they claim to have had with DOA5 on PC, but that could not be further from my repeated experience with it.
 

Raansu

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Consoles have network problems in general because they have to tunnel through PSN/XBL on top of just having cheap NIC's on the systems themselves. They have even worse wifi chips. Think that's why in general lag is so much worse.

I have 150mbps connection. I'm lucky if I get 20mbps on both the xbox and the ps4.
 

Princess Kasumi

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Consoles have network problems in general because they have to tunnel through PSN/XBL on top of just having cheap NIC's on the systems themselves. They have even worse wifi chips. Think that's why in general lag is so much worse.

I have 150mbps connection. I'm lucky if I get 20mbps on both the xbox and the ps4.
The pain of having to play on console. I'll see, if I ever get the money to pay a gaming PC in the future, for now it's console.
 

Goarmagon

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I am with the PC feels better crowd but as its been said here and elsewhere its pretty much about where you are moreso than the netcode and bandwidth itself. Most matches feel like shit on PS4 but on PC it feels much better. I recon people on the (US)coasts have a much better experience with the game online but for me I always felt like I was getting screwed with how the frame data was more or less irrelevant online.

That said the PC version had some colossal glitches.

EDIT: There are countless $500 dollar PC build guides on YouTube for you guys who want to make the jump to PC. If you can change cartridges on a console you can build a PC. The only complication I can see is the GPU inflation which incidentally is winding down. Used GPU's can be a godsend when on a budget but be careful and do your homework. My gpu is actually a used R9 290X which can still run stuff on high at 1080P with 50-100 FPS on most games. again if you gonna go for used parts do your homework.

 
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Matt Ponton

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Bringing on a specialist does not necessarily mean that specialist will be the only one working on it. Typically it is a temporary consultant paid to teach them more than do the actual work on their own.
 

Giannola

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Better save your pennies. I would recommend either in Intel i7 7700K or a AMD Ryzen 7 2700K

An i7 or ryzen7 is overkill for gaming in general for most games. Unless you're streaming you dont need more than an i5 or ryzen 5.

Cygnis uses wifi quite often when we play on PC and I don't even notice.

Only twice I used wifi. 99.9% of the time I'm on my home PC which is always wired. But yeah, We didn't have much issue on the wifi. But you're right. On ps4 if one of us was on wifi it would be terrible.
 

Project Bokuho

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An i7 or ryzen7 is overkill for gaming in general for most games. Unless you're streaming you dont need more than an i5 or ryzen 5.
Very true. But nowadays, mainly due to the fact that games are getting more and more CPU intensive, it's better to be safe and get an i7. Having an "overkill" PC is better than having a weaker PC (specs wise) that has to deal with stutters, frame drops, etc.
 
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