There are players playing at different refresh rates. there could be ps5/xbx players with monitors at 120fps with next to no latency. This game is far more rewarding with high frames you get. The higher the frames, the more responsive your controller gets. So if you are playing against someone on a 1ms response time monitor on a console running 120fps with maxed out controller sensitivity… you would notice the difference of let’s say someone on a tv at 60fps and 30ms of input delay.

Crossplay desync. About 3 years ago Microsoft upgraded their network & inturn it made everything gane coded before then, have desync between PSN & Xbox. It was addressed by Devs from cod & halo, they fixed it or released new games on new code, other games rewrote the netcode, bungie ignored it which I kinda understand as rewriting the whole game would take years. Both platforms see issues Vs the other, trust me on this, what you see we see too but with PSN players. It's actually far worse on Xbox because outside the US (US is pretty much 50/50 split) the split is around 85/15 in favour of PSN so every instance, lobby, tower, patrol zone, is almost always heavily PSN, so were you (if you're outside the us) see 1-2, maybe 3, Xbox players, we see 10-11 psn players nonstop. Also the way the coding works your own team desyncs too so your own team can be teleporting, blinking, invisible etc. It's the prime reason I all but stopped playing PvP, don't raid & leave heavy psn instances. I've learned to live with it i guess but the insufferable thing I can't get past is tower travel, if I fly to a pc tower I land in 20 secs, if it's PSN heavy I'm looking at 3-4 mins, if there's PSN fireteams there I can wait 10 mins so these days once I get to 1 min not landing I don't even look I just change character & re-queue & I 99% land in a brand new tower with like 2 players there in 15 seconds. I'm told the biggest issue causing this is that 50% of PSN players are on old gen, & this causes severe issues for everyone matching them, but I don't know how much it affects things.

[quote]Is their connection faster? Are their controllers better? It's really to the point where it feels like every single one of them are cheating. How can the difference be SO bad. Are they cheating? Please explain like i'm 5[/quote] Some of them might be cheating, but majority are probably just a lot better than you. It's easy to call someone out for cheating just because they are much better than you, I don't think a lot of players realize how hard it is to tell when someone is actually cheating on console. (Unless they do obvious KBM things). Saying they don't miss isn't a metric to determine if someone is cheating, especially not on a platform that doesn't have Hackers. I am well above average and I can still barely tell the difference between an obvious cheater and someone who is just much better than me. Ask anyone with a little bit of common sense and they will agree with what I just said.

It doesn't matter (the game prediction). If Combat Rating meant anything, I'd be winning 65% of my matches. My combat rating is 126. It says I'm top 35% in the crucible. Let me just tell you right now... I'm not. 🤣 I can go 5/7 days one week with a 1.5 - 2.0 daily KD, then the next two weeks in a row I'll have a <1.0 KD, and I'm getting just absolutely slayed, in last place, Every. Single. Match. And the people slaying me are people with a combat rating of like 70. I always catch crap for saying this, but I'm absolutely positive that Bungie uses DDA (Dynamic Difficulty Adjustments) in the crucible - Where if you're playing terrible and dying a lot for a while, you'll get boosted, until the algorithm says, "Welp, this person got to have their fun. Time to stop boosting them." And then you have a few days in a row again, where it goes back to feeling terrible for a while. I can definitely feel it when I'm "boosted". My radar is so crisp, and seems to detect people from further away, and my aim assist will feel so sticky that I don't even have to use the aim stick, I just have to use my move stick to strafe, and my reticle will stay perfectly on target, and every shot is a crit. But then once I've done well for a while, the game says, "Time to take his boost away." And then I play horribly for a while again.

As someone on PC where its a pretty even split, I find it hard to tell. There are some blatant tells of someone being on Mnk like backsliding, snap skating, and hitting shots in the air, but just a regular good player not doing any flashy movement tech could be on any input. Some of the best players I know are on controller with 16+ sens with max sprint turn speed and just use low ADS sensitivity so they can move around quick and still have control over aim. There are third party controllers that are better due to lower latency etc but its marginal. You can say controllers with paddles/extra buttons (dualsense edge, xbox elite, scuf etc) are better but I would argue that they are kind of a gimmick, I had a paddle controller for years and they dont really let you do anything you cant do with a stock controller. The default button layout in this game is really bad imo and if you can get used to bumper jumper and/or puppeteer it is worlds better for pvp and lets you do everything with a stock controller. Id argue that bumper jumper is bare minimum.

How often do you play against pc player's compared to console players?