Witcher 3

[emjay]

Looks like I won't be playing Fortnite.  Only the pvp version is available.  You have to pay to play pve.  And I don't pvp.

That's sad if that's the case I know that you're right... that Battle Royale, the free one, is pvp and the paid ones are pve, but I don't know what that means in any technical sense, or why you'd object to pvp? Looking it up, the difference seems to be something like pve is cooperative play against the computer in quests etc? and pvp is against other players? Anyway, Battle Royale is basically you and/or a partner and/or a small team against other single/double/small team players, with a total of one hundred players, all narrowed down to last man/team standing. Anyway, from what I'm reading, it says that the pve 'Save The World' version of Fortnite is due to become free to play sometime this year (2018), so you could look forward to that, but as I said, I don't really know what the difference is between pvp and pve in any technical sense, and why you'd prefer one over the other?

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What I am curious about though is whether the judderiness I saw earlier was caused by the graphics capabilities of my laptop or by the Internet connection, because if it's the latter then getting a PS4 might not make any difference to the smoothness of the gameplay. So I basically need to find out how dependent that game is on a fast Internet connection; ie it took me about two hours to download and the fastest download speed I reached was 1.8MB/s, which is not great. So whether I stick with it... and/or get a playstation will depend a lot on that... but if I do then thanks, I'll look forward to playing with you

Anyhoo, gotta go to bed now so goodnight

I have high speed internet and even I experience lag in multiplayer mode on the PS4.  Not so much on the laptop, though.  *shrugs*

Have a good night.    Sleep well.

That would be another option to aim for; higher speed internet... but thus far I haven't needed it cos it's been just about adequate for streaming etc. So I guess it depends how much I get into all of this, or whether this Fortnite is just a passing whim. What I'm going to do today is just play around with the settings in Fortnite and see if it's possible to reduce the lag by reducing the quality of the graphics or something like that... and my benchmark will basically be whether I can get the crosshairs to stabilise enough to actually be able to aim and take a shot. If I can get that, then I can maybe stick with playing it on my laptop after all (rather than getting a PS4 etc)... but I don't know for sure yet whether that's the only problem in the judderiness.

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Yep, that's helped a lot by changing the settings to low quality; it immediately made it much more responsive both in and out of game, so I think I can play it on my laptop after all It's still not perfect but it's much much smoother and more responsive than before.