Interesting that you pick EA as an example. When have they been caught doing visual downgrades?
Ah, you mean Star Wars Battlefront?
"It can't be done" is not confirmation that it won't be...
@the_dark_one made an interesting point about waiting to show anything until very close to release to avoid showing more than you can pull off. Battlefront is close to release. I would not be surprised if they announce a Beta at E3, like they did for BF:H...
@hay "We have this, we made this in order to make the game feel less lacking than it really is. Gaming journalists come from different direction, they see this as Battlefront and speak relatively to what the series has offered and what won't."
A lot of gaming journalists have not cared to find out facts before ranting. (You got to publish first!)
"This game has no single player campaign, it won't be playable when not on line."
https://twitter.com/repi/st...
"let me just say we haven't been idle since we shipped BF4 and Dragon Age ;)"
EA has shipped a lot of Frostbite games this generation.
- BF4
- NFS Rivals
These were release games, visual features would be less important than releasing in time... But they still look great!
[3pp added, split scre...
FYI DICE/EA is building a perfect circle!
DICE DLC are usually
- skins
- weapons
- vehicles
- maps
and sometimes
- game modes
Expansion? Should cost money!
Yes, clicks generate their income...
The customer is always right...
After BF3 and BF4 gamers were complaining that it included SP campaign - don't waste resources on SP put everything on MP and let us battle bots...
OK, customers are right!
DICE: Lets release our restart of Battlefront without SP campain but with bots and call that missions. Wait lets make that split screen or cooperative two player.
Now pre-customers complain that there is only MP...
It is also very interesting that Microsoft confirms that their DX12 development STARTED two years ago...
"... it is exactly what we were hoping for when we started DX12 two years ago"
http://channel9.msdn.com/Ev...
Star Wars Battlefront (2015) uses Frostbite.
Frostbite will be DX12 (and Vulkan)
https://twitter.com/repi/st...
If Frostbite version that ships with Battlefront has DX12 remains to be seen. But considering BF4 was the first game to get Mantle (now Vulkan) I would really be surprised if not.
Keep one thing in mind...
DICE has been a PC developer a long time. The new consoles are PC like. A first party developer no longer have that much head start.
PS4 features looks like they are taken from a DICE feature hardware request sheet written 2010.
http://www.frostbite.com/20...
page 34 and 35.
What is PS...
this is probably also why the touch pad on DS4 have seen so little use...
Edit: The tester keeps repeating that the best way to play should be by connecting a controller to your phone, wow...
Showing your own photos & films from the phone could actually be useful!
So 12 people did not get the mathematical joke even with the final ;)
Well, anyway... wonder if you could actually stream your PS4 to your mobile that streams it to your XBox One that shows it on your TV...
Trying to understand...
Mobile (game) > XBox One > TV
PS4 > TV
PS4 > Mobile
This could also be expressed as
PS4 > Mobile > XBox One > TV
;)
What about the paid mods of Minecraft?
https://twitter.com/notch/s...
Because they want to release before next generation of consoles...
Add everything someone asks for and they will NEVER be finished.
A two year development cycle is healthy, or would you have preferred waiting to 2017 for release? You might get clone wars 2017 anyway... buy it den!
(fighting bots will be in)
EA Sports PGA Tour will only release for current consoles.
XBox One and PS4 and since this shows a XBox controller my guess is that this is XBox One - really nice (1080p?)
http://n4g.com/news/1714435...
"AMD used Mantle in some games, the performance increase was mediocre."
Should be read as
"AMD used Mantle in some games, the performance increase IN GAMES WRITTEN FOR DX11 was mediocre."
But a game written specifically for Mantle/Vulkan/DX12-API would run really bad on DX11-API. Too many objects and draw calls would choke it!
But the gain was not really mediocre. Lower and more consistent CPU load.
Have you noticed the wildlife @ 0:37 ? :)
How will it look like?
How does another current generation only Frostbite game look like?
http://n4g.com/news/1714435...
EA - the most hated company...
did that for Dragons Age Inquisition (2014).
Reviews were out ten days before release date.
Actually I wonder how the Witcher really compares with DA:I
- Gamespot gave higher score than IGN: 9 v 8.8
- Both are huge but which one is bigger? Both > Skyrim
- Graphics are not that far off any more...