Of all the PS4 and Xbox One AAA titles, perhaps none is more infamous for its load times than Destiny 2 . Booting up the game is a chose on current-gen machines, and then comes loading into the planets and Tower. Considering you have to go to the Tower to collect bounties, missions and decrypt engrams, getting around Destiny 2 is a chore. While we await the proper PS5 version coming December 8, playing the game on PS5 via backwards compatibility actually isn’t so bad. Load times are dramatically lower than on PS4, making getting around less of a chore. It excites us to imagine what next-gen load times look like.
Cold Front has a different god roll in PvP compared to PvE in Destiny 2 . The idea here is to have a weapon that helps keeps players alive just as much as it dishes out damage on enemy Guardians. PvP is a chaotic endeavor and battleground Conduit data pad using weapons with proper rolls is every bit as crucial as playing smart in the Cruci
Combined, this roll makes Cold Front a decent weapon for most PvE encounters, such as the Security fight in Beyond Light’s Deep Stone Crypt in which Guardians have a lot of adds to kill. Together, this Cold Front god roll looks like t
Next, gamers will want to get the Tactical Mag perk, which increases, stability, reload speed, and magazine size. This gives players more uptime during fights to shell out damage and helps them stay accurate with the recoil reduction. However, it is in unison with the third perk for the PvE god roll that Tactical Mag shi
Prior to the release of The Witch Queen and The Final Shape, the bar was set pretty low for Destiny 2 expansions. Most players were happy just to be getting some new content and the occasional quality-of-life update, yet, with it coming right off the back of Shadowkeep, it was hard not to be disappointed with Beyond Li
Before the beginning of the Season of the Chosen in _Destiny 2 _ , Bungie had announced in Jan. 2021 that they planned to bring back “sunset” weapons from the Moon. The Season of the Chosen brought back four weapons, namely Heretic, Blasphemer, Apostate, and Premonition. While Premonition and high roll Dreambane armor can only be farmed in the Pit of Heresy dungeon, the other three weapons can be acquired by defeating one of the three bosses of the Altars of Sorrow. In Season of the Splicer, these bosses and their drops
Originally introduced during Season 17, Bungie features Raids and Dungeons in a weekly rotation to make them farmable with updated rewards. Bungie is making 2 of each available in the featured rotation each w
Ubisoft’s already large open worlds continued to expand exponentially throughout the PS4 generation. It all started with Caribbean in 2013 and ended with all of Ancient Greece in 2018. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey delivered Ancient Greece in an extremely-detailed way, which also meant some extremely-long load times. Getting into the game could take minutes, and even worse, getting around quickly or back into the game after death also cost precious time. PS5 mostly solves this, shaving off about 10 seconds when first booting up the game, and bringing the load time into the game well under a minute.
Released early in the PS4’s lifecycle, Bloodborne remains one of the best games on the platform. Unfortunately, at launch, the game was hampered with extremely long load times. Thankfully, From Software continued to work on that post-launch. Today, Bloodborne’s load times are extremely fast on PS4, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be better, which is where PS5 comes in. Overall, we’re looking at modest improvements to an already fast-loading game.
Our 2019 Game of the Year , Capcom’s remake of Resident Evil was an astounding addition to the PS4’s library. Despite being a linear game in a set map, Resident Evil 2 took a long time to load, especially when first booting up the game. While it didn’t reach the horrid minute mark, it always cut it too close. On PS5, the bootup time is cut in half, getting players in faster. There’s not a huge change when loading a save, but there’s at least a slight improvement.
We’ve taken some of PS4’s most popular, and longest-loading titles, and put them to the test on PS5’s SSD. Do note, to get the most out of PS4 titles on PS5, the games have to be installed on the PS5’s SSD. You can still play PS4 games off an external HDD, but you won’t get the load time benefits.
Square Enix finally delivered its long-awaited first part of Final Fantasy VII Remake earlier this year. While fans anxiously await details on what’s next, there’s plenty of reason to revisit the game on PS5, now with less waiting time. Booting up the game and loading up a save file is much faster than on PS4, but we’ve noticed something weird with Final Fantasy VII Remake on both PS4 and PS5 compared to all other games we rested. For some reason, our testing found that it takes longer to load into a save file than it does to boot up the game. We’re not sure this is, but at least both loads are still an improvement over PS4.