The PlayStation 4 / PS4 Thread: Still Going Strong
11-26-16 | 12:47 PM
#7451
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re: The PlayStation 4 / PS4 Thread: Still Going Strong
I set that to the dimmest setting the second they made that an option in an update - it used to not be.
If you go back in this thread, you'll find my post complaining about not being able to turn it off completely. I've still never used/needed that stupid light bar once. Such a dumb idea for a rechargeable controller.
11-26-16 | 12:54 PM
#7452
DVD Talk Godfather & 2020 TOTY Winner
re: The PlayStation 4 / PS4 Thread: Still Going Strong
I probably get 6-7 hours per charge, but maybe it's only 5. Hard to be sure.
My advice to everyone is bite the bullet, spend $40 this weekend and treat yourself to a new controller in the color of your choice. Keep an extra controller plugged into the PS4 at all times and swap it out when you get the low battery warning. Totally worth the expense to never worry about charging or swapping out batteries again.
My advice to everyone is bite the bullet, spend $40 this weekend and treat yourself to a new controller in the color of your choice. Keep an extra controller plugged into the PS4 at all times and swap it out when you get the low battery warning. Totally worth the expense to never worry about charging or swapping out batteries again.
11-26-16 | 12:54 PM
#7453
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re: The PlayStation 4 / PS4 Thread: Still Going Strong
I just think they went super cheap with these batteries and picked shit quality ones compared to the ones in the PS3 controllers. I would like to take one apart and see if it is the same battery or not. My guess is that it is not.
11-26-16 | 03:24 PM
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re: The PlayStation 4 / PS4 Thread: Still Going Strong
I have no idea how long my controllers last. I rarely play for more than a couple hours at a time, and they go on the charging station when I'm not using them. I've never had a low battery warning.
11-27-16 | 11:54 AM
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re: The PlayStation 4 / PS4 Thread: Still Going Strong
Not officially.
Need For Speed: Most Wanted
and
Need For Speed: Rivals
were both made by the same studio (Criterion Games, although Rivals was Criterion and Ghost Games...) so there's some similarities there, but as I recall they don't have quite the same feel as Paradise. I never played the newest NFS game (made entirely by Ghost Games, but I believe some staff from Criterion carried over?)
Most Wanted was a lot of fun, though. I enjoyed Rivals, but the "always online" bit made it annoying.
Need For Speed: Most Wanted
and
Need For Speed: Rivals
were both made by the same studio (Criterion Games, although Rivals was Criterion and Ghost Games...) so there's some similarities there, but as I recall they don't have quite the same feel as Paradise. I never played the newest NFS game (made entirely by Ghost Games, but I believe some staff from Criterion carried over?)
Most Wanted was a lot of fun, though. I enjoyed Rivals, but the "always online" bit made it annoying.
For controllers I found one for $40 on bf. Great desl! I got a solid black instead of blue camouflage
11-28-16 | 08:34 AM
#7457
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re: The PlayStation 4 / PS4 Thread: Still Going Strong
For a decent Burnout-type game on PS4 specifically, excluding the NFS games mentioned? I'll leave it to the experts here who have played far more racing games on the system than I have. If Burnout Paradise is what you're after, I don't think any other titles will live up to that one. The game is now available on Xbox One (via backwards compatibility only), but that doesn't exactly help you here.
The game is now available on Xbox One (via backwards compatibility only), but that doesn't exactly help you here.
11-29-16 | 08:53 PM
#7458
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re: The PlayStation 4 / PS4 Thread: Still Going Strong
I am so pissed to learn right now that the PS4 does NOT support external hard drives. I bought a 2TB Seagate HD over the weekend because (of course) I'm out of space on the internal HD, and I can't fucking use it. Didn't think it would be an issue since earlier this year I did the exact same thing for my XO and it works perfectly...figured Sony wouldn't let Microsoft have that kind of advantage. Fuck off Sony.
11-29-16 | 09:31 PM
#7459
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re: The PlayStation 4 / PS4 Thread: Still Going Strong
So return it and buy an internal hdd?
11-29-16 | 09:35 PM
#7460
re: The PlayStation 4 / PS4 Thread: Still Going Strong
Or like 99% of people who own consoles delete a game when you're done playing it.
11-29-16 | 09:39 PM
#7461
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re: The PlayStation 4 / PS4 Thread: Still Going Strong
We are just a couple of days shy of the PS4's third birthday. I mention this because I just realized it and I had purchased a three year extended warranty in that first month. I've been having a lot of connectivity issues with my launch console. I called up the warranty number and they said since my warranty was going to expire in a few days anyways, they are setting up a case for me and are sending me a prepaid label and "coffin" for my console. They will probably just swap out my wifi system in the console and hopefully make it work better. I always agonized over buying an extended warranty, but if they fix up my console at the three year mark, I'd say that alone is worth the $50 I spent on it.
Now I've got to do that HDD swap thing again. Gotta watch You Tube videos to remember how it was done, but don't think it was difficult. I assume that with this generation, the HDD is movable to a different console. That was maybe the most idiotic thing about the PS3 -- they encrypted the HDD so you couldn't move it.
11-29-16 | 09:51 PM
#7462
DVD Talk Legend
re: The PlayStation 4 / PS4 Thread: Still Going Strong
No, I don't want to deal with the hassle of opening up my PS4.
please, I bet that not even the majority of people do that.
please, I bet that not even the majority of people do that.
11-29-16 | 09:53 PM
#7463
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re: The PlayStation 4 / PS4 Thread: Still Going Strong
Removing the old HDD from the PS4 is literally sliding a cover and removing 1 screw.
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11-29-16 | 11:02 PM
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11-29-16 | 11:20 PM
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11-30-16 | 01:00 AM
#7466
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re: The PlayStation 4 / PS4 Thread: Still Going Strong
Oh My GOD!!!!! I'm so fucking pissed right now I can't even see straight. I sent my PS4 in because the wifi was a little wonky. The unit was under extended warranty and the gal I spoke to said that they would likely just change out the wifi receiver. Instead they send me a refurbished unit with a 500 GB HDD in it and my 2 TB HDD (wrapped separately) back to me. Now after swapping out the HDD I find that I have to wipe the Hard Drive clean to use it in the "new" PS4. And that's after backing up absolutely nothing.
I'm beside myself here. How the fuck can they justify that? I'm going to scream at them tomorrow when they open up.
I'm beside myself here. How the fuck can they justify that? I'm going to scream at them tomorrow when they open up.
11-30-16 | 02:03 AM
#7467
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re: The PlayStation 4 / PS4 Thread: Still Going Strong
Oh, Decker, that sucks. Do you lose everything on the 2TB? Game saves, etc.? I don't understand how they could possibly think any of what they did is the best solution, yikes!
11-30-16 | 05:53 AM
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It sucks, but it doesn't necessarily surprise me once you said that you got the hard drive back in bubble wrap. The PS4 hard drives (and PS3 hard drives before them) are encoded so that they can only be used in one specific PS unit. They can't be "hot swapped". You move your HD from one PS to another, and it has to be formatted.
Sorry Decker, but you're pretty much screwed without your original unit. This doesn't help you now, but probably the best thing to do would have been to back it up to an external before you sent it in, then I think you could do a restore from the external.
Sorry Decker, but you're pretty much screwed without your original unit. This doesn't help you now, but probably the best thing to do would have been to back it up to an external before you sent it in, then I think you could do a restore from the external.
11-30-16 | 07:57 AM
#7469
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re: The PlayStation 4 / PS4 Thread: Still Going Strong
But yeah, always assume you're getting a refurb back.
11-30-16 | 08:11 AM
#7470
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re: The PlayStation 4 / PS4 Thread: Still Going Strong
https://support.us.playstation.com/a...Request-FAQ#08
The data on your system will not be saved by our service facility. We highly recommend deleting all personal information, including any PlayStationŽNetwork account details prior to sending your system in for service. Please be sure to back up all data on the HDD that you wish to save.
11-30-16 | 08:34 AM
#7471
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re: The PlayStation 4 / PS4 Thread: Still Going Strong
Yeah, I was going to say that at least most (all?) of your saved games should be on the cloud.
11-30-16 | 08:52 AM
#7472
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re: The PlayStation 4 / PS4 Thread: Still Going Strong
Man Decker...that's bad but as Jay G. posted the link, I assume the basic game information would be in the cloud but your actual game data like progress of a character, stats and so-forth would need to be saved via Flash Drive...almost like when you swap out your HD.
11-30-16 | 09:34 AM
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re: The PlayStation 4 / PS4 Thread: Still Going Strong
11-30-16 | 09:53 AM
#7474
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That sucks, but like others have said, getting saves off the cloud shouldn't be that difficult. The only thing that might suck really bad is if you had a copy of P.T. on there that is now gone for good.
BTW, does the cloud sync only work if you have your console in stand by mode? Or will it do it another time while it's running? I always power mine completely down, so it's never running when it's not being used.
BTW, does the cloud sync only work if you have your console in stand by mode? Or will it do it another time while it's running? I always power mine completely down, so it's never running when it's not being used.
11-30-16 | 09:56 AM
#7475
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re: The PlayStation 4 / PS4 Thread: Still Going Strong
I remember when my first fat PS3 shit the bed (YLOD) before we had cloud saves and there were backup disabled saves. I was in the middle of a Rainbow Six Vegas 2 match with my level 10 elite and the system just turned off. Needless to say, I lost that game save and many others when I shipped that off. It sucked even worse when I found out that you could not swap HDDs.