Xbox player that’s played the PS4 version’s opinion

[HiroCheeseMuh1 68]

This is probably going to be a long one so settle in. 

Ok, so up until it’s release on Ps4, I have played DayZ primarily on Xbox, starting out on 0.63 all the way through to its current 1.02 version. Not exactly super important to my assessment of the PS4 version except to point out I am not a “newcomer” to this game and therefore have some degree of experience with the game on console prior to it’s release on PS4 including (controls, button config, known glitches, map knowledge, hot spots, player behavior in those hot spots, etc.)

Side to side comparison PS4 vs Xbox? No real difference game play wise with the exception of accessing your inventory and maybe an ever so slightly more effort needed timing wise when choosing to hop over fences. Other than that there really are no differences between the different consoles when it comes to actual game play. 

Areas where there are some differences are as follows:

The darkness of the night cycle is comparable to how dark it was on 0.63 on Xbox where you really struggle to see anything without the use of a light source. I definitely found myself pondering server hoping a lot of the time when night sets in, in search of daylight, that is until I found the wonderful world of excitement and joy that can be found trolling other players in the dark. I’ve done everything from playing the song  Somebody’s Watching Me over my mic while following other players, to speaking in creepy voices or telling super cheesy jokes while watching players try and figure out my location. 

My absolute favorite nighttime experience thus far has been running down the road to Kamiwobo torch in hand with like 5 random people who, none seem to have had mics but me, also carrying torches while playing the theme song to Rocky. So not to get too far off topic in my assessment there is definitely something almost nostalgically fun with the darkness on PS4 that you just don’t experience on the Xbox version anymore. 

This would be considered a very positive thing if it weren’t so tragically predictable that this will soon eventually morph into what has happened to the Xbox version at it’s current state the second duper’s figure out how to completely ruin the experience for PS4 players. A little advice to all the new players of DayZ on console, while it may be tempting to find ways to cheat and have the advantage do your best to avoid the temptation because the second you turn this game into the mirror image of the shit show going on with Xbox with all the duper’s, ghosters, combat loggers, etc., say goodbye to continuing to experience  the full enjoyment of this game. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Another difference that I’m sure will be fixed with the next patch is there is something weird going on with the lighting in the game. It will be the middle of the day, super bright out but while running through the woods it looks as though it’s dusk especially if on the move and you happen to scan behind you and then look forward, everything turns really dark and  lightens back up slowly. There have been plenty of times where I almost decided to light a torch in the middle of the day because visibility was that bad. 

Rain also on some servers seems to never stop or will stop for roughly 30 seconds only to go back to a full on downpour. 

As I mentioned in the beginning, timing a jump over a fence requires a bit more effort than on Xbox (it’s not really that big of a deal just more of a personal annoyance to me at this point)

A major difference and biggest issue between Xbox and PS4 that I personally have a problem with is purely server related. PS4 has double the amount of servers than Xbox which is great but where I take issue is with the ridiculous number of PERSISTENCE OFF servers there are compared to PERSISTENCE ON servers. 

On Xbox there is just a handful of persistence off servers and according to the devs their existence is primarily for promotional purposes whenever there is a deal going on as far as cost that allows new players of the game to sort of whet their beaks and get used to the game in servers where there is very little consequence to losing gear and supplies because it’s implied that nothing is saved once you log out. So base building, stashing supplies etc is supposed to be pointless on these types of servers except those rules don’t seem to apply on PS4. Stuff you find on these servers persists onto other servers whether they are “persistence off” or not. Which considering how plentiful the loot seems to be on these “persistence off” servers seems to me to be opening the flood gates for cheaters but then again I’m a moron who, because I don’t understand how a lot of technology works, is convinced that the way pictures of typed words are printed out on physical paper is due to wizardry so there is a very real possibility that my level of understanding when it comes to persistence being on or off is seriously lacking. 

As for player behavior on PS4 vs player behavior on Xbox? It’s freaking night and day. I’ve had way more interaction with other players on PS4 than I’ve had on Xbox for a very long time with really only one instance of kos since I started playing the PS4 version. But sadly as I mentioned above as great as that is right now, I know where things are headed the second players on PS4 learn how to cheat. This is why again I implore you PS4 players to avoid at all cost the temptation of cheating because once you embrace it there seems to be very little turning back and being the best idea the devs have come up with in regards to combating the duping/cheating problem on Xbox is to essentially remove servers forcing players into strictly high pop or full pop servers in hopes that the “every man for himself” “dog eat dog” forced interaction will take care of the issue, a decision to embrace the temptation of cheating means certain doom for those of you who just want to play and enjoy the game for what it’s supposed to be. 

So in closing, comparatively speaking there isn’t much difference between the two console versions aside from a few bugs that need to be worked out. The only real major difference, at least coming from Xbox’s current state to how PS4 is right now, Is that because the PS4 players are new with a lot of them having no experience outside of watching streamers play the game they are still very much “Bambi like” and genuinely  seem to play the game with an enthusiasm for having a good memorable  game play experience whereas on Xbox the mood is grim and everyone seems to have forgotten the whole point of the game isn’t turning it into a giant sized adaptation of  fort nite.

For now I’m staying on PS4. 

[etaab 70]

Great feedback and reassuring that us PS4 gamers aren't missing out on much.

I do struggle to find other players myself, in fact it's been 4 real days of gameplay since I past saw another player and that was at the start in cherno.

[HiroCheeseMuh1 68]

Yeah well because the map is so huge if you venture inland chances of running into other players greatly decreases with the exception of the high value loot areas. I have a feeling a lot of the players are hovering around the coast In the typical popular places. Let me know if you want to link up in game at some point. I usually lone wolf it but playing with others can be fun too. I’ll be on later in about 3 hrs 

[bent.toe 529]

The graphics, rendering, frame freezing and texture loading are horrible on my pro compared to my X. I got grey blocks of houses in cities. It's like 4 patches back on the X. 

Cities are unlplayable on ps4. 

Duping and hoarding has already begun. This weekend me and 7 of my mates split up on different servers and looked for ak, m4 and ballistic vest. Nowhere to be found... Tisy, zelenogorsk, kabamino, stary sobor, NWAF.... Nothing. 

And the lightning part... You mentioned you ran in the forest. Shadows from trees and hills make it dark, if the sun is behind a hill it's darker. Otherwise it's your tv and dynamic contrast. 

Edited June 9, 2019 by bent.toe

[HiroCheeseMuh1 68]

4 hours ago, bent.toe said:

The graphics, rendering, frame freezing and texture loading are horrible on my pro compared to my X. I got grey blocks of houses in cities. It's like 4 patches back on the X. 

Cities are unlplayable on ps4. 

Duping and hoarding has already begun. This weekend me and 7 of my mates split up on different servers and looked for ak, m4 and ballistic vest. Nowhere to be found... Tisy, zelenogorsk, kabamino, stary sobor, NWAF.... Nothing. 

And the lightning part... You mentioned you ran in the forest. Shadows from trees and hills make it dark, if the sun is behind a hill it's darker. Otherwise it's your tv and dynamic contrast. 

Response to your first statement = that must be something with your set up because I haven’t experienced that at all. 

Response to your second statement = false cities are perfectly playable (at least on my end) and I have an old PS4. 

Response to your 3rd statement = must be you and your friends I was at VMC yesterday and picked up an M4 and an AKM and there were a lot more so I don’t know what you’re talking about on all 3 of those statements because that has not been my experience at all. 

Response to your 4th statement= possible although didn’t experience this on Xbox so I’ll file that under maybe it’s my set up. 

[bent.toe 529]

Ok....... 

[Duck Solo 13]

Another difference that I’m sure will be fixed with the next patch is there is something weird going on with the lighting in the game. It will be the middle of the day, super bright out but while running through the woods it looks as though it’s dusk especially if on the move and you happen to scan behind you and then look forward, everything turns really dark and  lightens back up slowly. There have been plenty of times where I almost decided to light a torch in the middle of the day because visibility was that bad. 

This one is really doing my head in.

I literally have to make my character "look down" all the time in order to see anything that is near me, if I look down, the immediate area brightens up. The area about 10 to 20m around my character is almost pitch black when I look straight forwards. Hope they fix it sometime soon. I have almost missed out on good loot because of it, and one time I totally missed the fact that a player was near me.

 

Edited June 10, 2019 by Duck Solo

[Tw2Brick 2]

The daytime lighting/shadows is/are darker for me on PS4 as well - to the point where it often hurts my eyes.  Same settings as the Xbox version where this issue is nonexistant.

[BeyonderG0D 12]

Time cycle needs better endurance for day.....night time is way to long.

[Jair Whiit 0]

On 6/9/2019 at 6:51 PM, HiroCheeseMuh1 said:

Response to your first statement = that must be something with your set up because I haven’t experienced that at all. 

Response to your second statement = false cities are perfectly playable (at least on my end) and I have an old PS4. 

Response to your 3rd statement = must be you and your friends I was at VMC yesterday and picked up an M4 and an AKM and there were a lot more so I don’t know what you’re talking about on all 3 of those statements because that has not been my experience at all. 

Response to your 4th statement= possible although didn’t experience this on Xbox so I’ll file that under maybe it’s my set up. 

no i agree with all his complaints the game runs like trash on PS4 and cities are a train wreck of 10fps and rampant screen tears, another player nearby cause 3 second freeze to FPS.  it runs fine on PC compared to this

[EzyStriderPS4 191]

On 6/10/2019 at 11:11 AM, Duck Solo said:

Another difference that I’m sure will be fixed with the next patch is there is something weird going on with the lighting in the game. It will be the middle of the day, super bright out but while running through the woods it looks as though it’s dusk especially if on the move and you happen to scan behind you and then look forward, everything turns really dark and  lightens back up slowly. There have been plenty of times where I almost decided to light a torch in the middle of the day because visibility was that bad. 

This one is really doing my head in.

I literally have to make my character "look down" all the time in order to see anything that is near me, if I look down, the immediate area brightens up. The area about 10 to 20m around my character is almost pitch black when I look straight forwards. Hope they fix it sometime soon. I have almost missed out on good loot because of it, and one time I totally missed the fact that a player was near me.

 

If it's day, and I'm on the move, scanning the horizon, trying to locate that zombie sound I just heard, or just rollin in the city, I literally don't need the bottom 90% of my TV. I think it's improving my posture.

[Crowdolskee 26]

I run an SSD with my PS4 so my performance is probably a bit above the average. I'd highly recommend investing in one if you have a chance. The only advantage I see to playing on Xbox is that on PS4 your gamertag lights up when you are talking in gamechat. This means that anyone within range, even if they are in party chat, will know you are there. This kills the immersion a bit, and I've definitely been killed and killed others that I'm not have if this wasn't a thing.