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Edited by NODUGONOKO: 2/1/2022 1:45:09 AM
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Connection difference (ping to server) between Playstation and Xbox

Hello! If you have read this title and felt like it applies to you, you likely also play on Xbox. I am making this post as a long time Bungie supporter. I have been playing their games since I first tried Halo: Combat Evolved as a kid. I am also making this post in deep sorrow and after much hesitation and forethought. But what I am about to say is something I feel must be said. Others have likely brought it up, but I don't read forums or keep up with much news on games. Outside of what new things are coming to the games I play. The game I would like to post about today is Destiny 2. As you could probably guess. I have been playing Destiny since launch with a few friends. I, as well as many others, longingly anticipated and hoped for cross platform. That is until it happened and has, thus far, ruined our PVP experience. If you play Xbox, I likely need not say more about the subject. But yes, there's a huge problem with PVP specifically when in cross play against Playstation players. (Disclaimer, this has nothing at all to do with the fact that Sony has bought out Bungie.) As an Xbox player I, as well as my playgroup, have noticed a consistent pattern of poor connection issues against players that are specifically on Playstations. For example, I will lay into an opponent with my entire magazine. Not only will he survive around 30+ bullets, but they manage to somehow kill me and "rubber band" around before dying or taking any damage at all. Which, as you could imagine results in a huge advantage for a PS player. I am only posting this now because I have been patient and have been waiting for the issue to be resolved, believing my friends and I aren't the only Xbox players with this issue. However, This issue is ongoing and continues to get worse by the day. I continually experience this whenever I try to play crucible with my friends. At this point it feels like I am being punished for trying to play Destiny online. At this point, whenever somebody on the other team in crucible is having terrible connection issues and it benefits them, we all assume that they are PS players before even checking. When we notice the connectivity issues, they are ALWAYS on Playstation. Now that I have said what my problem is, before all you conspiracy theorist keyboard warriors start exploding comments on this, I have something else to say about it before I go any further. We have been experiencing these issues since the launch of cross platform play. So I have 0 reason to believe or suspect that this is due to some kind of favoritism of Playstation players over Xbox players. That being said, I can see how things may look and I urge everyone to use their brain before sending tons of nasty hate mail about favoritism. There's no reason Bungie would want to lose the patronage of their Xbox fans. Now, as you could imagine, the fact that there is a widespread and noticeable difference of ping between PS and Xbox is extremely irritating. And I would like to know if it is both ways, or if my fellow Xbox players and I are the only ones being stiffed in this regard. This is literally ruining our Destiny experience. Every time we want to play with 6 of us together, we jump into crucible, get paired against PS players on a consistent basis, and watch the opposing team survive an impossible amount of damage as they lag across the floor right by us. It just isn't fair by any means. (Even in TRIALS OF OSIRIS) I would like to ask if anybody knows the reason, has footage of this, or if you also experience this while playing Playstation. I will also take a second to mention that the amount of people who cheat while using a computer is disgusting. Bungie is clearly taking measures to prevent that, but it literally makes it so we can't include our friends on computer when we play multiplayer as well.

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  • [quote]or if you also experience this while playing Playstation.[/quote] All the time, everything you said goes both ways and we experience the same BS against Xbox players. If there is even one Xbox player in the lobby the connections can be all over the place. I would much rather play without crossplay because of these constant lag issues, but half the time you cannot find games before the matchmaking times out when you turn it off. I don’t think they can do anything about it considering Bungo has been completely silent about this after months of feedback, and i also think they dont even care when you consider that lag and inconsistent hit detection has always been an issue in this franchise (although crossplay made it much worse), and they only tested the crossplay connectivity in strikes.

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    • I'm on Xbox and only games against other Xbox players feel like a fair fight. Not a one off either order all the tube after hundreds of PvP matches.

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    • I have experienced everything you mention. I play on xbox. I know instantly from the first ingagement if the other player is on PlayStation. 99% of the time I'm right when I check the rosta. Every time this happens it feels as though the PlayStation players top the lobby and any xbox players struggle. In my experience it does not seem as though this is the same for both consoles as it always feels like it's the xbox players struggling as the PlayStation players dominate the lobbies

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      • Do like I did, I cancelled my WQ pre order and I'm never touching crucible again. They've ignored the issue for too long. It affects everyone and needs disabling until they can do it properly I'm not sulking, I'm not quitting, I will buy WQ probably, but right now I'm struggling to get excited at all, bcoz every time I load the game up I'm plagued by teleporting ps players n very slow load times when joining a psn area or tower.

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        Все пекари тупые дупы. - 2/7/2022 5:45:34 AM

        I play on PS4 and most lagging players for me... from Xbox! So that thing works in both ways.

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      • I just think it was a bad idea to force Crossplay I mean u can turn it off but your experience will be a lot different.

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      • Thank you for re-iterating my concerns since S15 began. I have been active on the forums commenting regarding this issue, even jokingly saying that Blink is now intrinsic to all classes! Cheers matey! Let's hope this spaghetti connection system gets sorted out. Best wishes, FireSupport72@Xbox

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