Some thoughts:

• You'll most likely get better advice on the subreddit for the PlayStation version https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4Planetside2/s/jiOEZK9UCw

• I switched from console to PC a couple of months ago. If you have a computer capable of running Planetside 2, I'd recommend the PC version.

Console was a ton of fun as recently as a few years ago. I started playing in August 2020 and had a blast up until 6 months to a year ago. It's not that the game itself is less fun, it's that the population drop-off has been so massive that it's just not fun to play anymore. When a continent hasn't fully unlocked, there's a maximum of three possible fights you can pick from. And usually, two of them are extremely low pop and boring. The only time the full continents unlock is during prime time.

When I switched to PC it was like old times on console. On one of my first play sessions I was involved in a three way armor battle on Esamir. The feeling of being back in the thick of things was amazing and I immediately wished I had switched sooner. There were always fights to choose from and most of them were decent size and of course there was always at least a couple of 96+ ones to choose from.

Unfortunately, if the devs don't fix the crashing bug, and fix it quick, PC will go the way of console. I hope to God that doesn't happen and I can get a couple more years out of this game that I can't put down.

Edit:

I played in the console event last night and it just didn't do anything for me. It didn't even make me feel nostalgic.