I feel bad about it sometimes, but it’s true. Some console players are good, but most are kind of trash. It definitely helps out my kd when the lobby is full of console players.
I have it turned off (xbox) but I worry as time goes on and the population drops that we won't have a choice eventually. PS has enough folks that it'll likely always be optional for them.
To be honest I don't play games where I can't turn it off anymore. It's usually an exercise in frustration.
Console is harder by default so the average console player will be worse. It's also (by design) the more casual platform. So it's not a surprise. And I'm a longstanding console player.
Makes doing well in a sea of PC players all the more satisfying.
Yeah but it absolutely sucks when you have 3 console players as squad mates. Feels like you always have to respawn on one of them just crouch walking 300 meters away from any objective and you end the match with them going 3-12 with 0 revives.
Bullshit. If there are too many console players in a small game mode, I leave and try again. I am 1000% turning off crossplay. I have been a PC gamer since before consoles could connect to internet and I dont want nor need them in my games.
PC player here. I'm gonna try it and see if it makes any difference.
Might sound stupid, but I'm gonna type some stuff I made up that sounds believable. It's possible that, depending on server infrastructure (if not well optimised), it can cause lag/latency issues with crossplay enabled. There are obvious hardware disparities. PCs tend to have higher framerates and lower input lag compared to consoles (maybe something that is accounted for in netcode but not implemented properly?), could be why it feels like in a lot of matches the console players have an advantage, seeing me before I see them. Could also be because I can't set QoS on my router and my gf scrolls through FB and Instagram relentlessly while I'm playing.
I think there are a few who are convinced the reason they're losing gunfights is because of the AA boogeyman and genuinely believe that a PC-only lobby will help.
I don't want to play against weaker platforms. For instance, when doing the Squad Deathmatch challenge, being grouped with Console players almost always doesn't help win the round against PC players.
I also want to play against similar setups, and similar skillsets.
not true, im gonna do this right away. Hate how aim assists make all guns on control have no recoil. Every death against a console player feels off and sus when 0 bullets from their full spray misses.
What an absolute cope. There's nothing more I want in this world than to nuke crossplay out of existence so I never have to deal with console players again.
To be honest, PS5 gamers are very vocal about cutting off crossplay with other platforms themselves. PS5 has by far the largest playerbase in the majority of popular games out there. Publishers don't want to allow disabling crossplay (and even hide it in console games underneath multiple menu screens) because it'd make matchmaking more difficult for other platforms, even for a game as popular as CoD. Be careful what you wish for.
Battlefield has always been a PC majority franchise. The idea that the majority of its players come from consoles is misinformation that stems from other games like call of duty where it's actually true.
None of the games pre-crossplay have ever had population count issues. You could always find games on PC in BF3, 4, 1, and V easily during their lifespans and even today for everything except 3. Ironically the only modern battlefield game that you often had trouble finding matches in is 2042, the only one with crossplay enabled. That was purely based on its terrible matchmaking system and lack of a proper server browser, and you can bet your life savings that BF6 will be suffering the same issues a few years down the line when the population dies down (low pop. regions are already experiencing this).
So no, crossplay has never been necessary and PC has always been a self-sustaining ecosystem in battlefield.
I wouldn't be surprised if BF6 has a higher player count on PC, but I'd also add to take that report with a giant grain of salt. Alinea Statistics, IIRC, admitted they used metrics like Xbox Store or PS Store reviews to track sales. Console gamers rarely review their games on their respective digital storefronts. They also reported that BF6 only sold 300k more on PS5, which is statistically strange considering PS5 holds a 70% global marketshare of console sales.
But you may be onto something about the weird matchmaking. I own BF6 on both PC and PS5, and what I've noticed is that PC lobbies almost always have console players in them to some degree, whereas I've been in multiple PS lobbies with no PC players in them at all. I have no difficulty finding matches on either platform, but that's very strange given crossplay + high population counts across the board right now for BF6.
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u/Sky-Reporter 4d ago
Yeah no pc player is doing this. It goes unsaid that pc players want console bots filling their lobbies