@Slaughter DICE might revive Battlefront not kill it.
After ten years rigor mortis surely must have set in...
Did you feel the same when Battlefield 3 was revealed? I did!
Battlefield 4?
What have changed since?
* New consoles
* Close to metal APIs (Mantle -> Vulkan, DX12)
- Battlefield 4 was the first game to release on Mantle
- Star Wars Battlefront might be the first game that
really takes advantage of these.
* New rendering techniques (PBR, photogrametry)
- one of the first to use both
We...
The complaint about "Only four planets..." for some time I have wondered how they fit it all on medium (DVD for XBox360 and PC). What does this mean...
two DVDs is needed for the amount of data in RAM of PS4/XBoxOne...
A Blu-ray isn't that big either... only six times the amount of RAM (OK some data can be compressed on distribution medium and other data can be generated procedural)
So more planets might equal less quality for all.
Got the video from Sony
https://www.playstation.com...
There is an interesting disclaimer at the end of the video.
"FROSTBITE GAME ENGINE FOOTAGE REPRESENTATIVE OF PLAYSTATION 4. NOT ACTUAL GAMEPLAY."
My guess is that DICE is quite confident in how it will look at Playstation 4, models, texture, effects in us...
Vehicle driver in any game but especially in Star Wars...
You might even map in HMD information. (In head mounted displays of todays fighters you can see overlay symbols, these are visible trough the hull of your vehicle).
Is it really? How do you know?
@Dario BF:HL is 900p@60Hz on PS4 in multi player with 64 players, vehicles of all kinds...
An usual mistake done is to compare frostbite mp with xx sp.
And your game engine of choice is?
One more thing, EA using Frostbite has released several games this generation that still fare quite well.
- BF4
- NFS Rivals (open world, quite close to Forza Horizon 2)
- PvZ GW (1024p @ 60 Hz on PS4)
- DragonAge Inquisition (...
"Not being idle"
https://twitter.com/repi/st...
EA PGA Golf will release in June (no game play have been shown)
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.a...
I think they want to show Battlefront first, followed by EA PGA G...
Lets revisit your Frostbite comment after Star Wars Battlefront reveal... (next week!)
https://twitter.com/repi/st...
My gut feeling is that Battlefront will be DICEs next big step in rendering.
http://www.ign.com/articles...
PS
Take a...
Wasn't EA/DICE first with requiring DX10 as well?
http://www.tomshardware.co....
Dragons Age is 64 bits only.
When games go current generation only (PS4, XBoxOne) they should cut of corresponding low end systems on PC.
Worth noting is that Windows 10 and DX12 will be a free upgrade for most people with compatible hardware. Vulkan m...
EA SPORTS Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR | Frostbite Integration
- look closely at that last close up (lightning, insects)
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
I think it will be very interesting to see Battlefront before judging if we are at a stop or not...
The big difference is that earlier Mantle tests were games written to perform well on DX11 (like BF4).
This new test is written to perform well on DX12.
The difference?
With DX11 games you had a limited number of objects when they are sent the CPU can't find more work to do and have to wait for the frame to render. Result: mostly rendering limited.
This test tries to draw as much as possible within one frame time, ie keep...
And their closest(?) partner EA/DICE will soon show Star Wars Battlefront...
I bet is that it will run with this board (single or multiple!) using Vulkan alfa drivers, any takers?
Maybe even in VR setups...
EDIT just remembered this 2010 paper from DICE where Johan Andersson @repi projected that 2015 we would have 40TFLOPS...
http://ww...
"So far Frostbite has proven to be a pretty sub par engine for the PS4 & Xbox One"
Things to remember
- EA promotion videos have been done In Engine for quite some time
- sure made on PC
- short promotion videos does not require fitting onto one Bluray
(this situation will improve a lot after scrapping Xbox360)
Is there any other engine that handles
- 64+ players + spectators
- outdoors (city, jungle, ocean...
@Kleptic The middle ware is Enlighten and you are quite wrong
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
The problem is that each scene in the current engine needs hand tuning to look their best. Colour of sun / sky light... Modification of texture colour.
This gets messy if you continuously change time of day.
Future Frostbite games will probably work better as they moved to PBR (...
I still want to see it... links?
"Yet, for instance, there’s a ruined house in the barrens that you can destroy. It’s completely pointless, but thanks to next gen, it’s possible."
so you can't destroy any house, just a specific one?
and destroying it is completely pointless!?
Sorry this sounds like a check list feature
Destruction - check
"Not possible before"
Just let me remind you of BF:BC2 (2010)...
Anyone got a link showing destruction and AI?
PS
And BF:BC2 does even have multi player so you need to share state among several consoles...
"If you will get the best version on PC, followed with an easy port on the xone i dont think that devs will invest much more time to optimize a game for a other API???"
I do never think there will be such a thing as an easy port from PC to Xbox One - in reality PS4 is a lot closer to PC than Xbox One...
More than anything Xbox One was developed with Xbox 360 in mind.
- Xbox 360 used 10MB eDRAM (512 MB main memory) to great effect lets put in something bigger and faster - eSRAM 32 MB (8GB main memory)
If you look closely you might spot a potential problem
10/521 (2%) v. 32/8000 (0.4%)
At the same time (Februari 2013) PC graphics card GeForce GTX Titan released with 6GB of GDDR5 (OK extrem gaming boards were more modest at 4GB) A normal gaming ...
If only I were to believe that...
First question who to listen to?
- Those who want it to be more like Battlefield?
- Those who want it to be exactly like Battlefront II?
- Those who want playable Klingons?
Someone has to decide what should go in. It is impossible to do everything (of cause you can answer yes on every question, with the escape "later")
Of cause they could add a fight in space
- with p...