Current FC Patch 4 and the PS4

[[PS4 Pro - PC] earthtone99]

Dear PS4 CMDRS.

I would just like to confirm, are any of you, since installing FC patch 4, experiencing extreme framerate drops/rubber banding in instances?

Are you experiencing these in Open/PG/Solo?

Are you in a wing or by yourself

I was in a Wing of initially 3, then a full wing of 4. For around 2-3 hours the game was mostly unplayable in CZs.

Selecting targets, trying to hit them etc.
Near impossible.

Around midnight BST, framerates improved ever so slightly, was there a server overload yesterday afternoon/evening on PS4?

If the game continues to do this, then I’m afraid it will be impossible to continue to play.

1 frame every 5-10 seconds, inconsistently is not fun.... At all.

Will test this again and report findings.

o7

 

[pzykozomatik]

I played for two hours in Open yesterday, no wing, and had no (new) problems. Did a bit of bounty hunting in a HazRes and some bulk trading missions. I saw three other Cmdrs in SC at one point and several single ones docked, without noticeable performance issues.

 

[[PS4 Pro - PC] earthtone99]

Thanks for the reply, good to know. Just trying to figure what on Earth was causing the problem, we were all experiencing the issue and reporting on Comms, I should have recorded the footage.

I suppose it could have been broken instancing between the real life locations that we were winging from?!?!

 

[pzykozomatik]

I suppose it could have been broken instancing between the real life locations that we were winging from?!?!

That's usually the reason for performance issues with several people in an instance, since the multiplayer networking relies on P2P. One CMDR with a bad connection can be responsible for a lot of problems, I remember some strange occurences from BH CGs apart from the usual stutter and rubber-banding, like invisible or invincible ships.

 

[[PS4 Pro - PC] earthtone99]

That's usually the reason for performance issues with several people in an instance, since the multiplayer networking relies on P2P. One CMDR with a bad connection can be responsible for a lot of problems, I remember some strange occurences from BH CGs apart from the usual stutter and rubber-banding, like invisible or invincible ships.

That will likely be it then, one of us possibly had a dodgy internet connection last night, and we all felt the dark forces pulling us.

Thanks again. I will check my router and run some speed tests tonight. I’m ultrafast fibre optic, but worth checking download/upload speeds.

 

[pzykozomatik]

That will likely be it then, one of us possibly had a dodgy internet connection last night, and we all felt the dark forces pulling us.

Thanks again. I will check my router and run some speed tests tonight. I’m ultrafast fibre optic, but worth checking download/upload speeds.

Like with most multiplayer online games, a good response time (ping) is far more critical than pure connection speed (that is, if you're not dropping below a certain threshold in the lower MB/s range).

 

[Stinja]

I should have recorded the footage.

Always good to do, it lets others really see the issue, and you can throw it at FDev support to prove it's not made up too (not saying they'll do anything though).

 

[[PS4 Pro - PC] earthtone99]

Yeah, I think pure frustration got the better of me a few times when I was in the ‘Share’ menu trying to prepare a quick save of the last 10 minutes. Meanwhile, slideshow...

If it happens tonight, I’ll hit save for definite and upload to YT, as long as the other CMDRS are in agreement for the upload.

 

[PopePhil]

nothing like that.

STILL getting the Exclamation Mark on the local comms window though