Where's the love for PS4 users?

[Eulogy]

Hey guys, I downloaded "Don't Starve" a while back in like January off the PS4 market and it seems like PC users have more additions than console users, like myself. I love the game from the artwork all the way to performance to it's creativity but dread the fact that PS4 users can't: spawn items in, don't have Reign of Giants, and options to put spawns to "Lots". If anyone could give me insight as to when PS4 users may expect these or, at all, even get these.

 

Thanks!

[DeadpanQuinkan]

PS4 seems like the serious version.  Not nearly as many ways to cheat.  It's valuable for a version like that to exist.

Don't worry about RoG, it's coming in a couple months.   

[oCrapaCreeper]

Consoles simply have some limitations that automatically rules them out in having some features. Spawning items involves the developer console, which does not go so well with consoles. Ps4 probably doesn't have "Lots"  world options due to performance issues.

 

Reign of Giants will come out at a later date for Ps4.

[jbeetle]

Consoles simply have some limitations that automatically rules them out in having some features. Spawning items involves the developer console, which does not go so well with consoles. Console probably doesn't have "Lots"  world options due to performance issues.

 

Reign of Giants will come out at a later date for Ps4.

seconded. They don't choose to not include things "just because."

[JanH]

Hey guys, thanks for your feedback on Don't Starve: Console Edition; we really do appreciate it. I'd like to let you know that Reign of Giants should be coming to the PS4 some time after launching on PC, Mac, and Linux. It just takes a bit of time to get to the PS4 because it has to be ported and must go through Sony's certification process before going live.

 

As for not including the feature to add "Lots" in world customization or including console commands for spawning stuff in game, in order for us to be able to publish the game on the PlayStation 4, there are certain certification standards that we have to follow.

 

Just as one example, if we allow the players to put in "more" berry bushes - and they plant too many of those bushes in one area - this can cause the game to stutter and perform poorly. Of course, that's just one of many variables which could cause stuttering or poor performance too happen. What if players put in "Lots" of berry bushes, creatures, trees, and other stuff in their game world?

 

Basically, if there was the ability to turn all those customization options up to "lots", there may be potential to cause performance issues with the game. This type of thing unfortunately doesn't follow certification standards and would have not allowed us to bring the game to the platform.

[jamblock]

In the event that we continue to have developer attention in this thread, I have been wondering if we are any closer to a specific release date on the Chester update for PS4?

[JanH]

We don't have an announced date for Snow and Shadow Chester on PS4. If we have any details, we'll be sure to shout about it on either here on the forums or through social media. 

[scize]

PS4 seems like the serious version.  Not nearly as many ways to cheat.  It's valuable for a version like that to exist.

Don't worry about RoG, it's coming in a couple months.   

your right is more serious. i play both mac and ps4 (rather ps4 tho) but yeah its bare bones. really have to be prepared when entering the ruins!

[scize]

Hey guys, thanks for your feedback on Don't Starve: Console Edition; we really do appreciate it. I'd like to let you know that Reign of Giants should be coming to the PS4 some time after launching on PC, Mac, and Linux. It just takes a bit of time to get to the PS4 because it has to be ported and must go through Sony's certification process before going live.

 

As for not including the feature to add "Lots" in world customization or including console commands for spawning stuff in game, in order for us to be able to publish the game on the PlayStation 4, there are certain certification standards that we have to follow.

 

Just as one example, if we allow the players to put in "more" berry bushes - and they plant too many of those bushes in one area - this can cause the game to stutter and perform poorly. Of course, that's just one of many variables which could cause stuttering or poor performance too happen. What if players put in "Lots" of berry bushes, creatures, trees, and other stuff in their game world?

 

Basically, if there was the ability to turn all those customization options up to "lots", there may be potential to cause performance issues with the game. This type of thing unfortunately doesn't follow certification standards and would have not allowed us to bring the game to the platform.

good just do what you need. i really appreciate the game on my ps4. its how i discovered it. if it wasn't for the free ps+ download i don't think i would have ever tried this. sorry i judge books by their covers.

[Eulogy]

Thanks or the info, much appreciated.

 

Done with playing "Don't Starve" for the night and I finally past the first Adventure world, so hopefully no more wormhole'ing for a while and I have to deal with the winter world and brought two Spiked Tentacles, a Football Helmet, and like 14 Gold Nuggets.

[Eulogy]

Also, is it good that I found all pieces and beat the first Adventure world in about 11 days and on the verge of going mentally insane, though I practically was (as Wilson) but escaping my hallucinations. Also, quick shout out to the Butterflies in the game because I survived off them mostly for health.

 

And any tips for "The King of Winter"? And maybe the future Adventure worlds? And if I die in "The King of Winter", will that world basically get deleted?

[jbeetle]

And any tips for "The King of Winter"? And maybe the future Adventure worlds? And if I die in "The King of Winter", will that world basically get deleted?

unless you have touchstones or similar things, yes, completely deleted.

[Eulogy]

unless you have touchstones or similar things, yes, completely deleted.

 

So I'd have to find Maxwell's portal again and do the first Adventure all over again?

 

[jbeetle]

So I'd have to find Maxwell's portal again and do the first Adventure all over again?

 

Sorry I thought you meant the adventure world. Your normal world will not be deleted at all - you'll just be at maxwell's door again. Your adventure world will be.

[Eulogy]

Sorry I thought you meant the adventure world. Your normal world will not be deleted at all - you'll just be at maxwell's door again. Your adventure world will be.

 

I just experienced this a few minutes ago. I has on the 3rd Adventure World and I died by the damn robots. I got Wes, though, but he sucks. I want Maxwell but it's too hard and he's not even that rewarding.

[jbeetle]

I just experienced this a few minutes ago. I has on the 3rd Adventure World and I died by the damn robots. I got Wes, though, but he sucks. I want Maxwell but it's too hard and he's not even that rewarding.

just curious, what would be "that rewarding?"

[Eulogy]

just curious, what would be "that rewarding?"

 

This would be corny to say but on PS4, it should be maybe a Gold trophy, not Silver.

 

But in game, maybe Maxwell could be on good-terms with Hounds, like how Webber in RoG can ally with spiders. I'm spitballing here but Wolfgang seems slightly better than Maxwell.

 

[jbeetle]

This would be corny to say but on PS4, it should be maybe a Gold trophy, not Silver.

 

But in game, maybe Maxwell could be on good-terms with Hounds, like how Webber in RoG can ally with spiders. I'm spitballing here but Wolfgang seems slightly better than Maxwell.

 

Do you know why hounds were created?

[Eulogy]

Do you know why hounds were created?

 

Not a lore buff so I can't say that I do.

 

[oCrapaCreeper]

This would be corny to say but on PS4, it should be maybe a Gold trophy, not Silver.

 

But in game, maybe Maxwell could be on good-terms with Hounds, like how Webber in RoG can ally with spiders. I'm spitballing here but Wolfgang seems slightly better than Maxwell.

 

Maxwell can already summon his own followers out of thin air, I don't think he needs to be in good terms with anything else.

 

Also, I'm pretty sure Klei is not going to touch trophies/achievement at all at this point. Most of the trophies on the PS4 version are really meant to troll, since Klei was forced by Sony to put them in.

[Ps4DontStarveGuy1]

@oCrapaCreeper Well, excellent troll. I found Wes my first time beating adventure mode, an a game simply wouldnt BE a game on PS4 or XBOX w/o trophies. Every game on console has trophies. To troll it would also imply that we had to go out of our way to earn them, not hardly. An they would be the ones technically trolled considering Sony supposedly "made them" put trophies in. Also, do you work for Klei or are you just speaking for them to a whole audience (PS4) to say to us the ppl who paid $15 for the game that we were being screwed from the beginning by the ppl whose pockets our money went into? nobody cares if your pretty sure about something neither, if you dont know for 100% certain, why would we care of your opinion your pretty sure about. The first owners of things arent know-all GODS, so just cause you had dont starve first dont mean you can talk to anyone however you feel necessary    Rant over.

[jbeetle]

Not a lore buff so I can't say that I do.

 

It was a (in my opinion "band-aid") fix to people huddling next to their bases the whole time. to cause them to have to move away. it was also a not very strong attempt at making an ongoing, increasing threat to gameplay. of course, it wasn't perfect, but causing all hounds to be neutral would be kinda silly in that respect.

[oCrapaCreeper]

@oCrapaCreeper Well, excellent troll. I found Wes my first time beating adventure mode, an a game simply wouldnt BE a game on PS4 or XBOX w/o trophies. Every game on console has trophies. To troll it would also imply that we had to go out of our way to earn them, not hardly. An they would be the ones technically trolled considering Sony supposedly "made them" put trophies in. Also, do you work for Klei or are you just speaking for them to a whole audience (PS4) to say to us the ppl who paid $15 for the game that we were being screwed from the beginning by the ppl whose pockets our money went into? nobody cares if your pretty sure about something neither, if you dont know for 100% certain, why would we care of your opinion your pretty sure about. The first owners of things arent know-all GODS, so just cause you had dont starve first dont mean you can talk to anyone however you feel necessary    Rant over.

By trolled, I mean trophy hunters being trolled by Klei to empathise the uselessness of achievements. And I'd say they got trolled pretty damn good, judging by some of the angry yet hilarious reactions by some of those "trophy hunters" trying to rush their way through getting 100% in a game like Don't Starve where goals are player made.

 

I don't have a clue what you are trying to say in the rest of that paragraph. I'm not a developer at Klei, I'm simply making some intelligent observations based on existing facts. It's well known at this point Klei did not want to add achievements/trophies to the game, and they were required to in order to sell DS on PS4.

[ServantofCTan]

Well I know that the Klei said that they weren't planning to add any multiplayer to the PC version of Don't Starve, but I hope that seriously reconsider for the PS4 version. Local co-op would be awesome, and unlike the PC mod, we could use separate controllers instead of sharing a single keyboard.

 

Yeah I know, probably not going to happen, but a man can dream right?

[jbeetle]

Well I know that the Klei said that they weren't planning to add any multiplayer to the PC version of Don't Starve, but I hope that seriously reconsider for the PS4 version. Local co-op would be awesome, and unlike the PC mod, we could use separate controllers instead of sharing a single keyboard.

 

Yeah I know, probably not going to happen, but a man can dream right?

It's just as likely to happen for PS4 as it is PC - that is to say, not at all.