Son Of Sparda
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Before anyone asks I keep my PS4 in a clean environment and clean my console regularly. Also, the temperature of my room is cool (even cold) so no problems there either.
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Okay, so I started playing AC: Unity on PS4 for the first time a while ago and I had the latest update applied and everything. I had played through it for a few hours (few sessions) and I had seen many bugs and performance issues but those were somewhat tolerable.
Now, after giving PS4 a 6-7 hours rest - as in turned off (my last gaming session was AC:U as well) I fired it up to play Unity a little bit more. Game booted up nicely, everything was working perfectly until (almost immediately after the game finished loading my save) I ran into a crowded area and framerate started to dip. I thought it was like any other frame drops but then the game completely froze! Since the sound was still playing I thought I give it a little bit of time and after 7-8 seconds the game came back to life. Thought it was another bug so started moving around but the same thing happened again.
I said screw it, tried to close the game but the PS4 would just go to a blue screen when I choose the option. Press the PS button which sent me back to the game which was working again. Didn't want to risk it so I tried the close application option once more but the same result. Tried to go through settings in dashboard but PS4 wouldn't respond to that either (more blue screen).
Choose the rest option from quick menu but this time PS4 froze on a blue screen. Tried to shut it down with the power button and got few beeps but nothing changed. So I was forced to take out the power cord from the back of PS4. Waited half a minute before putting the cord back in.
Tried to power the PS4 on but as soon as it turned on it got shut off again! Pulled the cord out and put it back on again after a minute and tried once more. This time PS4 turned on but a blue screen appeared and then some broken whit noise covered upper part of it and then the screen turned to black (PS4 was still on though).
I was panicking so hard at this point but decided to wait and see what happens and after 15-20 seconds the check HDD screen came on and after it was done PS4 turned on normally.
Immediately deleted AC:U and then rushed through a couple of tracks in Driveclub to see if everything was working fine. The game played perfectly. Again shut down PS4 for 10 minutes and powered it back on to see if everything is okay and played DMC4SE for a around 10 minutes and thankfully had no problems.
Yeah, so that's what happened GAF. Now thankfully my PS4 survived but honestly I thought console games get certify for these kind of things! How the hell can a game that got through certification do this PS4 especially after getting so many damn patches?! Come on, Sony & Ubi.
So, fair warning to anyone who might be interested in AC: Unity. It might break your PS4.
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Okay, so I started playing AC: Unity on PS4 for the first time a while ago and I had the latest update applied and everything. I had played through it for a few hours (few sessions) and I had seen many bugs and performance issues but those were somewhat tolerable.
Now, after giving PS4 a 6-7 hours rest - as in turned off (my last gaming session was AC:U as well) I fired it up to play Unity a little bit more. Game booted up nicely, everything was working perfectly until (almost immediately after the game finished loading my save) I ran into a crowded area and framerate started to dip. I thought it was like any other frame drops but then the game completely froze! Since the sound was still playing I thought I give it a little bit of time and after 7-8 seconds the game came back to life. Thought it was another bug so started moving around but the same thing happened again.
I said screw it, tried to close the game but the PS4 would just go to a blue screen when I choose the option. Press the PS button which sent me back to the game which was working again. Didn't want to risk it so I tried the close application option once more but the same result. Tried to go through settings in dashboard but PS4 wouldn't respond to that either (more blue screen).
Choose the rest option from quick menu but this time PS4 froze on a blue screen. Tried to shut it down with the power button and got few beeps but nothing changed. So I was forced to take out the power cord from the back of PS4. Waited half a minute before putting the cord back in.
Tried to power the PS4 on but as soon as it turned on it got shut off again! Pulled the cord out and put it back on again after a minute and tried once more. This time PS4 turned on but a blue screen appeared and then some broken whit noise covered upper part of it and then the screen turned to black (PS4 was still on though).
I was panicking so hard at this point but decided to wait and see what happens and after 15-20 seconds the check HDD screen came on and after it was done PS4 turned on normally.
Immediately deleted AC:U and then rushed through a couple of tracks in Driveclub to see if everything was working fine. The game played perfectly. Again shut down PS4 for 10 minutes and powered it back on to see if everything is okay and played DMC4SE for a around 10 minutes and thankfully had no problems.
Yeah, so that's what happened GAF. Now thankfully my PS4 survived but honestly I thought console games get certify for these kind of things! How the hell can a game that got through certification do this PS4 especially after getting so many damn patches?! Come on, Sony & Ubi.
So, fair warning to anyone who might be interested in AC: Unity. It might break your PS4.