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PS4 Launch Thread [Thread being archived 1/1/14]

dave_m123

Member
Testing the 65" I got from Black Friday.

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Gotta love that blazing fast multitasking.

Lol love it!
 

Arnie

Member
Just unboxed, downloading the update now. God the UI audio is lovely. Had a scare, too, TV wasn't recognising the HDMI input initially. All good now, though.

One thing... do the EU bundles come with a PS+ trial and a music unlimited code? Can't see one in the box.
 

Alpende

Member
Just unboxed, downloading the update now. God the UI audio is lovely. Had a scare, too, TV wasn't recognising the HDMI input initially. All good now, though.

One thing... do the EU bundles come with a PS+ trial and a music unlimited code? Can't see one in the box.

No they don't. You can activate 14 days of free PS+ with a CC. No music unlimited trial as far as I'm aware.
 

Chaos

Member
I got my ps4 on launch yesterday and I've had an issue with it and was wondering if anyone else was having the same problem. Basically if my tv is on and set to the proper HDMI port the ps4 is using it will not detect the console and come up with a 'no signal' message on screen. Funny thing is that if I turn the ps4 on then turn my tv on after it has started up it comes on no problem.

I read about some people having issues with Samsung Tvs and it was fixed by updating the TV's firmware.
 

Arnie

Member
No they don't. You can activate 14 days of free PS+ with a CC. No music unlimited trial as far as I'm aware.

Cheers.

How do I start this 14 day trial? Is it just when I log into PSN (downloading update now)?

Don't mind linking my credit card, as long as it doesn't auto-renew.
 

Kyoufu

Member
Cheers.

How do I start this 14 day trial? Is it just when I log into PSN (downloading update now)?

Don't mind linking my credit card, as long as it doesn't auto-renew.

It'll auto-renew if you don't disable it. So once you redeem the trial code in the store, go to PSN settings and disable it.
 

Captain N

Junior Member
Cheers.

How do I start this 14 day trial? Is it just when I log into PSN (downloading update now)?

Don't mind linking my credit card, as long as it doesn't auto-renew.

It will auto renew so you'll wanna remob e your credit card after it goes through.
 

Sambrez_

Member
I have an issue with my PS4, the sound of the system is considerably lower than the PS3. Is that normal with everyone ?
For ex with my amplifier for a reasonable sound the PS3 is at level 55, for the same level I have to go to 70 for the PS4.
I didn't find any info on that. It's not the troubleshooting of the year but kind of annoying when I switch between two sources.
 

Replicant

Member
Wow, I'm impressed at how accurate the voice control seems to be. As a background, I'm not a native English speaker and at the moment I have a nasty sore throat so as you can imagine, my voice isn't exactly the best for this kind of activity at the moment.

But much to my surprise, the voice control seems to recognize my word accurately and did what I asked it to do. Kind of have to stop that for now though because my throat is getting worse. :/
 

Arnie

Member
It'll auto-renew if you don't disable it. So once you redeem the trial code in the store, go to PSN settings and disable it.

It will auto renew so you'll wanna remob e your credit card after it goes through.

Thanks guys, much appreciated.

Kyoufu do you have me on PSN? Pretty sure you do from TLOU.

I just tried downloading the update then and at the end it said 'can't download'. Now the download is starting from scratch. Hm.
 

LiquidMetal14

hide your water-based mammals
Wow, I'm impressed at how accurate the voice control seems to be. As a background, I'm not a native English speaker and at the moment I have a nasty sore throat so as you can imagine, my voice isn't exactly the best for this kind of activity at the moment.

But much to my surprise, the voice control seems to recognize my word accurately and did what I asked it to do. Kind of have to stop that for now though because my throat is getting worse. :/
It's pretty good but I still don't use them a lot.
 

mrklaw

MrArseFace
Enjoying resogun a lot, but I don't know why some of my humans just seem to die before even being released. Is there a manual or something that explains?

NFS is fun but I'm not liking any autolog vs friends leaderboards that require you to escape the cops - too random vs a simple fixed length race
 

DBT85

Member
It's pretty good but I still don't use them a lot.

I think once they add play/pause for BluRay and other media playback I'll use it more.

However, it's worked pretty flawlessly for me so far, even when talking at a normal volume and when I had music playing and spoke up a bit.

Enjoying resogun a lot, but I don't know why some of my humans just seem to die before even being released. Is there a manual or something that explains?

NFS is fun but I'm not liking any autolog vs friends leaderboards that require you to escape the cops - too random vs a simple fixed length race

I was playing on experienced at first and struggling with the same thing so moved to easy to get a grip on it better. The mobs spawn slower so you have more time to think and get to your humans.

In experienced I couldn't get to the first boss half the time and kept losing multi and humans and lives. On easy I got to 5x multi, no lives lost, killed the first boss and never lost a human. So at least now I know ow what I'm doing a bit better for harder modes.

Within 2 minutes on the second level I died lol
 

theaface

Member
Picked up my Killzone bundle this morning. Had a play with the UI, quick dabble with with Killzone and then tried Resogun. The console UI seems very responsive indeed, and Resogun is immediately an absolute treat. Quite staggering that it's a PS+ freebie, really. Can see it becoming a proper time sink.
 

Zafir

Member
Erm, I'm getting connection errors. Gave me connection errors, then I tried to reset up my Wifi and it's stuck on "Checking network environment..."?

Can't even exist out of this check. :/
 
Enjoying resogun a lot, but I don't know why some of my humans just seem to die before even being released. Is there a manual or something that explains?

NFS is fun but I'm not liking any autolog vs friends leaderboards that require you to escape the cops - too random vs a simple fixed length race

If you don't kill the keepers in time then the human will die in the box. Keepers are enemies with a greenish glow around them. Killing them frees the human so you can save them
 

jjasper

Member
Enjoying resogun a lot, but I don't know why some of my humans just seem to die before even being released. Is there a manual or something that explains?

NFS is fun but I'm not liking any autolog vs friends leaderboards that require you to escape the cops - too random vs a simple fixed length race
It doesn't really explain it but some human releases are dependent on your multiplier.
 

Zafir

Member
Weird, restarting my net fixed it. Even though I was using the same net on my PC fine...

Edit: Nope, accidentally turned it off instead of ejecting my disk and now it can't connect again.
 

Hellers

Member
My PS4 arrived just after 8pm last night (After the tracking changed to say it was back at the depot too :) ). Had the update ready on USB and surprisingly after that I got connected to PSN straight away.

I have ACIV, KZ, Lego Marvel, NFS, Injustice and BF4 on disk. Also currently downloading DC Universe Online which is bizarrely split into three downloads. One small one, one of about 8 gig that both download in the background and one even bigger one that seems to require the game running constantly to download rather annoyingly.

Hope they don't do that for Planetside 2.

Loving the console. Really impressed.
 

Ragona

Member
Got my Ps4 yesterday aswell :) thanks to Amazon.de !
now i wonder...did they announce an estimated date when they will enable video playback? i kinda promised my 360 to my younger brother but i need something to play mp4's
 

DBT85

Member
The PS4's audio level isn't very high, so maybe the "muffling" is it's just too quiet? But that shouldn't cause distortion.

I pressed the PS button while using music unlimited and it brought up a volume control for the output and it was only at 50‰ no idea if it's valid for all audio.
 
Am I supposed to hear the PS4 when it's in standby? Because I do, and it's annoying.

Definitely not. You might have a crappy fan. I can hear my PS3 when it's on Standby, it was annoying enough that I stopped using the feature. It's not loud like the fan is spinning fast or anything, just drones at a certain (annoying) frequency.
 

kmg90

Member
I have ACIV, KZ, Lego Marvel, NFS, Injustice and BF4 on disk. Also currently downloading DC Universe Online which is bizarrely split into three downloads. One small one, one of about 8 gig that both download in the background and one even bigger one that seems to require the game running constantly to download rather annoyingly.

Well each of those downloads would be apart of the infamous PS3 new game tradition of downloading game, install game, download update, install update then play game...

With PS4... you download a bare minimum version of the game that allows it to start up.... another file that includes the rest of the game that can download in the background while you are playing the game and usually a 3rd file which installs the latest update/patch
 
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