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    Aeliott Cadenza
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    What differences? Frame-rate? Screenshot quality? Seeing more people when afk in Mor Dhona? Load screen being 5 seconds longer which is irrelevant once you're in the instance anyway? :P
    What exactly is stopping them from being amazing? _IF_ fewer PS3 players are amazing it's likely because most don't come from an MMO background, nothing to do with the format itself hindering their ability to clear stuff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aeliott View Post
    What exactly is stopping them from being amazing?
    -Things appear later on ps3 than on a serious pc or ps4. You thus get less time to react to things (plumes, landslide, dives, dashes).

    -UI is messy and makes it harder to keep track of everything -- elements will overlap with mechanics visual tips.

    -Most of the time, they are using a controller (although they could M+KB), which means having controls that are less fines -- ps3 players hit the boundary of TT during dive way more often than others. Not saying you CANT do it, once again, but on average, they just do, because movement is less precise. Also means they can't click targets in the list of ennemies, making it harder to switch between targets. This is a HUGE problem for tanks, and can be for a dps (switching between the two titan adds during bomb is not a realistic option for example).

    -Can't have access to a vpn service if the game gets laggy. 80% of the players i play with encounter at the very least minor lags at times without a tunnel service. We all use some at least occasionally. This is not an option for ps3 players; when they get some lag, they have to deal with it, and for some fights that is not an option.


    Most of those you can compensate for. But that's the thing. You "compensate" for it, aka you have a disadvantage you have to overcome by being better than others to achieve a similar result.

    Edit: i play on PC most of the time, and sometime during week end i am not at my usual place and play on PS3. The difference is night and day. Given, i am bad with a controller anyway -- but all those other things i listed are not just small details, they are meaningful differences you need to compensate for. There is no way i would be able to play as well on ps3 as i do on pc, no matter the time i use to learn.

    Edit2: I am well aware you can use a SSD to compensate for 1, put some thought into your UI to compensate for 2, use a M+KB to suppress 3, and then with a good connection be mostly fine regarding 4. But first of all, you may still have occasional lag issue, so be at a disadvantage, second of all, that's a lot of work to, as i said, "compensate", and third, i have yet to find a ps3 players running with a SSD, an optimized UI and a M+KB. The "vanilla" ps3 player is simply at a huge handicap compared to the "vanilla" PC player.
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    Last edited by Casper; 04-14-2014 at 10:32 PM.