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PS4 BETA firmware 5.00 out today

Savantcore

Unconfirmed Member
Link. Whole lotta nuffin.

The beta for the PlayStation 4 system's next major system software update 5.00 (codenamed NOBUNAGA) rolls out today for those of you that were selected for the beta program. If you signed up and were chosen, you'll receive an email with instructions on how to download and get started.

Whether you're in the beta program or not, we wanted to give a first look at the features included in this update. We're introducing family on PSN, making it easier to manage your friends, and adding a variety of new features for Broadcast, Notifications, Messages, and much more.

Family on PSN
We're overhauling the current master/sub-account system, and introducing the new ”Family on PlayStation Network." This new system will offer a more flexible experience for families on PS4 by making it easier to setup PSN accounts for children and customize parental control settings. Below are the new features that will be introduced with family on PSN:

Family Manager, Parent/Guardian
Family on PSN will allow multiple adults to be part of a single family. The Family Manager can promote another adult inside the family to a Parent/Guardian, who can then customize parental control levels of children's accounts.

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Individualized Parental Controls
Before this update, the same parental controls were applied to all users on the same console, including adults. But with 5.00, all controls (including game age ratings) can be individually attuned for each child.

Friend List Management
In place of the current ‘Favorite Groups' tab, we're adding a new ‘Custom Lists' tab within Friends, which allows you to create and edit custom lists of your friends. This makes it easier for you to manage your friends and access specific groups. For example, you can create a custom list of your Destiny teammates and easily send them raid invites.

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Broadcast feature updates

Communities
If you own a community, you can now bind your community to your broadcast. When a broadcast is linked to a community, the community button appears on the Live from PlayStation spectator screen. Once a spectator clicks on the community button, they'll be able to jump directly to your community page to check out the details.

PlayStation VR
We've added a new setting in PlayStation VR: Display Message to Spectators and Spectators' Comments. Once this is enabled, spectator comments sent during a broadcast is displayed not only in cinematic mode, but also in VR mode. This makes it much easier for VR broadcasters to keep up on comments and communicate with their viewers.

PlayStation 4 Pro
Good news Twitch users: with this update, PS4 Pro will support 1080p 60fps streaming on Twitch.

Messages Improvements
You've already been able to share your favorite music to Twitter and Facebook via PlayStation Music, but now you'll also be able to share via messages using your PS4. If your friends are on PS4, they can listen to the track right inside the message by booting up Quick Menu, and if they're on their mobile device, they can jump directly to the Spotify app from the PS Messages app to check out the song.

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In addition, if you're part of multiple message groups, you can now easily leave several groups at once. Just open up Options in the message list, select Leave, and choose the message groups you want to leave.

Notifications Updates
We've added a new setting that allows you to disable pop-up notifications while you're watching a movie or TV show on your PS4. This setting is off by default, so go to Settings > Notifications to disable notifications and go uninterrupted during your videos.

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Furthermore, you now have the option to turn off message previews on your pop-up notifications. If you turn this setting off, the pop-up notification will hide the message senders' online ID and will display a generic user icon and message instead.

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Lastly, you'll have the option to change the color of your pop-up notifications to either white (default) or black.

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Quick Menu Updates
If you want to keep an eye out on what's happening under Notifications, like the progress of your game downloads/installations or new party invites, you can now access this directly from the Quick Menu so you don't have to step away from your game every time you want to check your notifications.

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Also, we've added a ‘Leave Party' option in the Quick Menu, so you can easily exit a party and go right back to playing your game.

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In addition, now you'll see the system clock in the upper-right corner of the screen when you pop open the Quick Menu.

Virtual Surround Sound on PS VR
PlayStation VR now supports 5.1ch and 7.1ch virtual surround sound on your headphones when watching Blu-rays and DVDs in Cinematic Mode, making for an even more immersive viewing experience

Improved Tournaments Bracket Viewer
We have a new bracket viewer that shows full tournament brackets for Single Elimination and Double Elimination tournaments on PS4. This makes it easier for you to see the current tournament standings.

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New System Language Additions
With this update, we're adding the following system language options on PS4: Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Romanian, Thai and Vietnamese.
 

magawolaz

Member
Notifications Updates
We've added a new setting that allows you to disable pop-up notifications while you're watching a movie or TV show on your PS4. This setting is off by default, so go to Settings > Notifications to disable notifications and go uninterrupted during your videos.
the real megaton

EDIT: also clock in quick menu. yeahhh
 

Wollan

Member
Odd they made this the 5.00 update
There's big behind the scenes changes for developers that let's them put bundle content and DLC on a standalone disc .etc without including original game code.

The now built-in Tournament Bracket viewer is cool stuff:
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Ragarra

Member
I like the friends list management. Ive wanted a way to sort the massive group of people for a while.

Though yeah I was hoping for system wide down sampling on the Pro.
 
Download status on the Quick Menu is god send, but the rest is pretty okayish at best.
It's good to see they're adding new UI languages, though.
 

Vanillalite

Ask me about the GAF Notebook
In this thread everyone is gonna say the update sucks even though the total overhaul of the PS4 is a big fucking deal for families.

*Eye roll*
 

Arttemis

Member
I'm actually pretty excited about being able to sort my friends list. I need to know who I friend-ed from which game.
 
Extremely lame. Why bother asking what people what and including a survey of what you know everyone wants, if you're not going to give it to them?

Although to be fair, I never did think that external hard drive support would happen.

I don't recall seeing many people clamor for family accounts though. And this actually weakens their excuse for not allowing crossplay, lol... now they will have to come up with another BS excuse.
 

Mengetsu

Member
PlayStation 4 Pro
Good news Twitch users: with this update, PS4 Pro will support 1080p 60fps streaming on Twitch.

Notifications Updates
We’ve added a new setting that allows you to disable pop-up notifications while you’re watching a movie or TV show on your PS4. This setting is off by default, so go to Settings > Notifications to disable notifications and go uninterrupted during your videos.

Furthermore, you now have the option to turn off message previews on your pop-up notifications. If you turn this setting off, the pop-up notification will hide the message senders’ online ID and will display a generic user icon and message instead.

Lastly, you’ll have the option to change the color of your pop-up notifications to either white (default) or black.

The most important things. I'm so glad the PS4 is now complete for me. Updates from here on out will be added bonuses.
 

ryanofcall

Member
Still no changing country for the people who moved to a different country and are stuck in the PSN Shop of their old country? Sucks.
 

kiguel182

Member
As usual, Sony focuses on the social aspect of the platform. It has been like that most updates with minor improvements to everything else.

New Quick Menu is nice. Still no Activity Log sucks.

Edit: Would also love an interface cleanup with flatter elements and different options how to display games but not holding my breath.
 

HowZatOZ

Banned
Arrogant Sony is back, the doomsday was real!

Also, please remove the shitty TV and Video subsection. It is atrocious.
 
Some neat little updates in there for me more control notifications, changing their colours and improvements to quick menu.

No megaton like Boost mode but don't really think I was expecting much in the first place.
A bit weird it's labeled as 5.00 then.
 

dealer-

Member
Underwhelming for a major update that I presume will be the last of the year.

Black notifications being the best addition says a lot.
 

Ditaloi

Neo Member
So does this new family thing open some new options for digital game sharing between family members or is it only for parental control?
 

nowhoney

Member
There's a few decent changes / additions (most notably being able to leave a party via the quick menu, along with creating custom friends lists).

However for 5.00, I really expected something bigger / better.

It sucks because now we'll be waiting another 6 months for the next major update.
 
Here's hoping for a secret improvement to the process of deleting twenty or so Bluetooth devices off of consoles used at SFV tournaments.
 
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