Key takeaways
- YouTuber Bringus Studios has somehow managed to get Deadlock running on PS4, though it's unfortunately far from playable.
- In their latest video, Bringus ditches their PS4 and installs a bunch of software, wrestling with the system to get Deadlock running at a functional level.
- Despite their efforts, the game runs great at 360p, has an average frame rate of around 14, and is just about chugging at its best. You're probably sticking to a PC for now.
Deadlock is a pretty big hit for Valve, which is good considering it's the company's first proper foray into game development in a pretty long time. Despite still being an invite-only title, it's regularly getting 24 hour player peaks of over 100,000, and Valve is pumping out meaningful updates to try to balance gameplay and combat cheats.
It's probably going to be another great feather in Valve's cap, but the fact that it's currently only on PC means there are a lot of console gamers missing out on all the fun. It would be great if Deadlock came to consoles like the PS4, and that's what YouTuber Bringus Studios has attempted to do (thanks GamesRadar).
In a recent video from Bringus Studios, the painful process of actually running the game on PS4 is shown in full. For starters, Bringus installs a 512 GB micron SATA SSD hard drive into the PS4, and then sets up Linux so he can actually run the game. He then runs the PPPwn jailbreak server on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B computer, and finally connects to the Internet since this is an online-only title.
Deadlock Player somehow keeps the game running on PS4
After trying to get Deadlock to actually boot for quite some time, Bringus finally gets to the game's main menu, which is rendered in glorious 360p. Unfortunately, this is too high for what Bringus wants to do without potentially causing problems, so he drops the render quality down to a really disappointing 144p, which he notes is worse than the Nintendo DS.
After all that, Bringus finally goes into sandbox mode to test the gameplay, and it actually boots. Unfortunately, the quality is so atrocious that you can barely see what's going on. Horizontal lines start appearing madly all over the screen, the game is still playing outside the window, and the whole thing runs at 14fps. If he sits in a corner it reaches around 30fps.
Bringus then begins to increase the risk and render quality of all this. First he goes to 360p, which tanks the already awful frame rate a bit, but doesn't change that much, but the trouble starts when Bringus goes to 720p. Deadlock freezes in place for several seconds at a time, dynamo's bag is left behind and glitches behind him on the map, and he too begins to spin motionlessly. Yes, I'll stick with PC.
