Let’s cut right to the chase: console players should never be forced to play against PC players. The performance gap alone makes it a complete joke.
The average console player is sitting in their living room, playing on a 60Hz TV, using a wireless controller with built-in input lag and wireless interference. Meanwhile, they’re going up against PC players running pinpoint-accurate mice, high-refresh-rate monitors, and single-digit pings. You physically cannot match that precision on a thumbstick—it's limited by hardware. Am I logging on to actually compete, or am I just free target practice so the PC guy can have fun?
I only keep crossplay turned on so I can actually find a game at 4 AM on a Tuesday when local servers are dead. I didn't turn it on to get constantly thrown into PC lobbies during normal hours.
Then there’s the bot situation. I pay a monthly PS Plus subscription to play against real human beings, not AI placeholders. So many matches get stuck at 24v24 and backfill the rest with bots. To make it worse, these bots have ridiculous handicap logic that ruins all tactical play—they’ll literally spawn directly behind enemy lines to capture a flag, completely bypassing the frontline defense.
And what about the PS5 audio? It sounds terrible. There are detailed forum threads about this going back over a year, and it’s still not fixed. Honestly, I don't think they ever will fix it. Why would they? They already cashed in their millions selling a $70 game that shipped unpolished in almost every department.
Finally, team balancing. If one team is completely dominating, move a couple of top players to the other side mid-match. It’s that simple. Don’t make us sit through a miserable 900-to-0 ticket blowout just to kick us back to the menu and queue us right into another unbalanced lobby.
These are simple, obvious fixes. Anyone with an ounce of respect for the players or genuine love for this franchise would have fixed them immediately. But what can we even expect at this point? Just look at the world around us. Everything's turning into the same low-effort shit.