Keeping skill consistent across pc and console...

[Smiffy11]

Hey guys, I have a ps4 and a good gaming pc, and I feel I have more skill on console than I do pc (my pc was a recent investment) so if I wanted to get good at PC it would probably mean spending pretty much all my gaming time on PC to get used to the controls, sensitivity and General fell of playing on it and therefore spending little to no time playing console. Do you think that I would be able to go between, if i got good at pc, between console and pc and keep my skill/gameplay high/good or do you think I have to play either one or the other. Anything would help, thanks guys, Adam

 

[Greysonj]

I finished building my first PC a few days ago, and I'm already starting to adjust I think that controllers can help you learn skills to use with M&K, and vice versa. I haven't noticed any decline in my console gameplay, but I have been playing it a lot less!

 

[i7Baby]

Try using your ps4 controller on your pc for a while - google it.

 

[synthaside]

honestly , your talking about two completely different mediums , Even if you are playing the same game the control style and aim assist that goes in the background of a console shooter for example make the actual skill of playing the game different on each device .

I am a fairly decent PC gamer .... but hand me an xbox or PS4 pad and i'm terrible , i prefer playing even platformers with keys and a mouse , but that's how i grew up a child of the AMIGA > early pentium machines.


Obviously some of the skills are transferable map knowledge , general reflex and observational skills but the control finesse from a keys an mouse in shooters is just better suited to shooters, so much so that aim assist exists in console varients to interpret the intended aim point of a user with a pad rather than the definitive position of a mouse.

Here's an article from a few years ago from an industry guy i remember reading which talked about tests of mult-platform VS arena between pc and Xbox which you might find interesting .

http://www.rahulsood.com/2010/07/console-gamers-get-killed-against-pc.html

 

[Smiffy11]

Try using your ps4 controller on your pc for a while - google it.

Thanks but, linking in with the question, I wanted to be able to keep skill consistent moving from a controller to a mouse and keyboard... Do you think that this is possible ?

 

[Smiffy11]

honestly , your talking about two completely different mediums , Even if you are playing the same game the control style and aim assist that goes in the background of a console shooter for example make the actual skill of playing the game different on each device .

I am a fairly decent PC gamer .... but hand me an xbox or PS4 pad and i'm terrible , i prefer playing even platformers with keys and a mouse , but that's how i grew up a child of the AMIGA > early pentium machines.

Obviously some of the skills are transferable map knowledge , general reflex and observational skills but the control finesse from a keys an mouse in shooters is just better suited to shooters, so much so that aim assist exists in console varients to interpret the intended aim point of a user with a pad rather than the definitive position of a mouse.

Here's an article from a few years ago from an industry guy i remember reading which talked about tests of mult-platform VCS arena between pc and Xbox which you might find interesting .

Thanks, I wasn't able to find your link... So overall you don't think that it possible... How about sticking to a certain genre (FPS etc.) or specific title on a specific platform( pc or ps4) so for example just playing battlefield on pc and Call of duty on console, that would surely work, right! ... ?

 

[synthaside]

sorry , I forgot to copy the link on , its in there now as an edit .

That would work , there are also some fantasic new genre's on the pc which you now get to try , Moba's
RTS , CCG , Sim's in my opinion its a bigger richer market But ofc im bias

 

[i7Baby]

http://www.gamesradar.com/how-use-ps4-controller-on-pc/

 

[Smiffy11]

sorry , I forgot to copy the link on , its in there now as an edit .

That would work , there are also some fantasic new genre's on the pc which you now get to try , Moba's
RTS , CCG , Sim's in my opinion its a bigger richer market But ofc im bias

Thanks dude, I think that's what I'm going to do (keep BF on PC and COD on Console ) Sounds like a plan?
And keep exclusives obviously to the platforms that there on