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Here's A Comparison Between The DualShock 4's Lightbar: Brightest To Lowest Settings

GearNuke: "We decided to compare the lowest lightbar settings to the highest and see how dim the light can get."

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Cha0tik3650d ago

LOL that difference isn't enough to actually help the battery.

BitbyDeath3650d ago

It's an LED, it won't help the battery even if turned off. The dim option was for those complaining about the light reflecting off the TV.

Cha0tik3650d ago

Oh, mine doesn't reflect off the TV so I didn't even know this was an issue.

ZodTheRipper3649d ago

Me neither but at least a handful of people have nothing to complain anymore. I won't change the light, never had any problems with it.

BitbyDeath3649d ago

Same, probably just those that sit really close.

gatormatt803649d ago (Edited 3649d ago )

My newer LED TV has the shiny and reflective surface. I really only notice the lightbar reflection during dark scenes or when I game in the dark. My older Samsung LCD TV from 2007 has the nonreflective surface. I don't game on it though cause it's only 720p. The lightbar reflection wasn't a big enough issue for me to complain about but as a new feature and option I will gladly take it.

Kidmyst3649d ago

I can see my lightbar reflect on my TV but only if I am actually looking at it. Once playing there is so much else to look at I don't notice it, some I think are just nit picky.

Christopher3649d ago

Yeah. I game on a monitor 3' away and oftentimes late at night when it's dark. The light is distracting. This will at least reduce the intensity.

zeee3649d ago (Edited 3649d ago )

This is one problem that almost every PS gamer (who doesn't own 2 controller) faces. The battery life on DS4 is indeed terrible compared to DS3. In the future version of DS4, they should change the battery quality/size. Whatever it gets to give us at least 15-20 hours of uninterrupted gameplay.

I have turned off that little microphone and also turned off the vibration yet, I still have to recharge the damn controller every now and then. It's downright annoying!

XisThatKid3649d ago

I'm SOOOOO glad I'm not affected by this both our TV's are wall mounts and I use a projector for my PS4 anyway.

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EverydayGuy3650d ago

Shu told us about there is no difference already. Hopefully this will help with the glare issue some are experiencing.

Cra2yey33650d ago

At first, you can barely tell the difference. After giving it a good look, the slight difference is there. Don't know how much battery life it will actually save tho...

ziggurcat3650d ago

considering that it had zero effect to begin with, it won't save any battery life.

Volkama3650d ago

Looking directly at the LED isn't really a great comparison. Looking at the reflected image off a glossy TV screen in a dark room, that's where the change will hopefully be more evident.

GeofferyPeterson3650d ago (Edited 3650d ago )

What I don't understand is why they gave us the option to just dim the light, and not the option to completely turn it off.

admiralvic3650d ago

Well, it could be because the bar indicates which controller it's (similar to how the DS3 has a small indicator) and which controller is on, so they wanted to keep people happy without causing confusion and so we ended up with this.

Beyond something like this, I haven't a clue.

nevin13650d ago

Who would get confused by which player they are.

A quick press of the button also reveals what player they are on PS3.

Baka-akaB3649d ago

Still that's a lot of tiny uses being disabled by an off setting . Sure maybe they shouldnt have to begin with used only the light for those ... But it's still used in games , the way you differenciate pads without going into menus , the batterie's state display etc

Volkama3650d ago (Edited 3650d ago )

They did say previously that they can't turn it off, they literally do not have "off" as a valid setting the controller can handle. They could only control the colour.

I would imagine a firmware update on the controller may resolve that, but there is probably no user friendly way to do that.

Melankolis3649d ago

Maybe (just maybe), DS4 active controller indicator is a part of a-fixed-design industry,

turning it off need hardware/software re-engineering or anything related to the law (patent, etc),

and (maybe) those are millions of dollars of money needed...

"Turning the lights off may not as easy as we think"

Apex133650d ago

Errrrrrrrrr, what's the big fricken difference?

mogwaii3650d ago

Time for some 3rd party controllers, im getting sick of having to charge to charge the thing after every session

Fishy Fingers3650d ago

That's one lengthy session.

(Please, no "that's what she said")

GeofferyPeterson3650d ago

"I got Fishy Fingers." (That's what He said.)

IndoAssassin3650d ago (Edited 3650d ago )

An Led diode is 2mA. The battery is 1000mAh. So it would.take 500 hours to drain the battery.

mkis0073649d ago (Edited 3649d ago )

Correct sir thank you for pointing this out.

dantesparda3649d ago

Are you sure its 1000mAh?

IndoAssassin3649d ago

I read it on Neogaf when they were trying to figure out why the battery life was so bad.

I have a feeling it's due to the TouchPad and a firmware problem with it constantly sending audio cues for the speaker and the earphone plug even when it's not plugged in that's causing the shitty battery life. But that's just me speculating.

ironfist923649d ago

How many hours does the battery last till it needs a recharge?

mkis0073649d ago (Edited 3649d ago )

About 8-10 hours....though i usually just play with my cable plugged in unless im in bed...I bought a usb extender.

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KEMCO ditch the RPGS for a horror Visual Novel - Horrific Xanatorium

Available right now on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC is the latest from a prolific KEMCO team - Horrific Xanatorium; a horror Visual Novel

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Days Gone, 5 Years Later

Almost unbelievably, Days Gone has just turned 5 years old after launching on April 26th, 2019. What's changed in that time?

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mkis0076h ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows906h ago(Edited 6h ago)

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

-Foxtrot5h ago(Edited 5h ago)

Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.

I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.

I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.

mkis0075h ago

Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.

Michiel19894h ago

the score on metacritic is 71 from journos, its 9 points lower than your review so stop making stuff up. They didn't hate it from the start, they on average just liked it slightly less than you.

-Foxtrot4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

@Michiel1989

I'm not making anything up, they held a grudge against it and made stuff up themselves like mkis007 has just pointed out. That 71 on Metacritic is why it didn't get a sequel.

Anyway how can I make anything up when I didn't even mention metacritic in my original post?

Leeroyw6h ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Inverno6h ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak6h ago(Edited 5h ago)

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.

andy855h ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week

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