Hunts unplayable on PS3 in many cases

[Seibah]

Yeah, so...I'm sure the dev team realized this would be an issue before even implementing the hunt, but PS3 players are at a gigantic disadvantage in hunts, just like with Behemoth and Odin previously.

The loading into zones already gives PC/PS4 players a gigantic advantage to reaching their hunt, and the HP drops far too fast upon pull for us to even hope to catch up when someone inevitably doesn't wait for others and pulls the monster. In addition, S rank hunts are just completely unplayable--upon reaching an S hunt BEFORE the monster was pulled to it being killed, none of the PS3 players I know in the group were able to see the monster.

This was annoying with Odin and Behemoth, but at least they dropped items mainly used for cosmetic features. In the case of the hunt, which rewards oils, sands and alexandrites large group of the player base is at both a severe and insurmountable disadvantage for some of the game's best gear.

[Phantasmid]

The visibility issue isn't just a PS3 thing. With enough people, even high end PC players have to get lucky to see the S ranks, anyone telling you otherwise has got to be on a low population server. Over on Exodus we had Croakadile disappear for almost everyone as more people showed up.

[Zaft]

Yes, unfortunately the game does not prioritize the enemies over players or other entities, so the marks will sometimes fade in and out.

But hey, at least you can still see those 10 Garuda-egi!

[Ephany]

Buy a ps4.
I know that's the "troll" answer, but it's also the most obvious one.

I've had no lag or loading problems at all on ps4 so far with any content.

There's no point in complaining about others having an advantage if you're unwilling to spend the money.
That's like saying it's unfair that people who spend more money get to go on better holidays abroad.

[Stormrider]

I don't think you need to worry yet. I am sure most people are reporting less then 1 minute kills. If you don't find it first don't worry.

[Phantasmid]

dumb stuff

Except that this issue happens even on top of the line PCs. It's not lag, it's the game choosing not to render characters either because it's not receiving all the data before receiving more, or because it's trying to keep your framerate up - the issue is that it doesn't do so in an intelligent way that keeps things playable.

[Brainberry]

Ehhh, as a PS3 player I dont mind this direction because I dont want them to hold back with the game.

Going PS4/PC soon and having to upgrade to enjoy the game isnt that demanding knowing how outdated PS3 hardware is these days, its holding the game back from its full potential.

[Elven]

They've been trying to entice people off PS3 for ages now it might play flawless up until the end storyline but beyond that it's pointless.

[Edli]

It's a 7 years old piece of tech. At some point you have to accept that is old and underpowered.

[Seibah]

They've been trying to entice people off PS3 for ages now it might play flawless up until the end storyline but beyond that it's pointless.

Uh, except it's not? I've cleared the entire first coil and every extreme primal except Ramuh EX on PS3 multiple times. Lag has NEVER been a reason why I couldn't progress in the game.

Until right now with these S hunts. Odin and Behemoth are like, the only other troublesome thing for me on PS3, but both of those bosses have enough HP that they can load before being zerged down

The loading time between areas is also annoying but that could also be fixed largely by giving the hunt enemies more HP.