Thanks for the screens showing the comparisons. I think you're missing the label for 12 chunks? On 10 chunks and below (and even 12, to a lesser degree), you cannot even see the island which is only a short distance away. When exploring, not being able to see things until you are on the same major landmass is a bit of a buzzkill.
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Minecraft Switch details: 60fps, 13x bigger worlds than WiiU, WiiU world transfers
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Thanks for the screens showing the comparisons. I think you're missing the label for 12 chunks? On 10 chunks and below (and even 12, to a lesser degree), you cannot even see the island which is only a short distance away. When exploring, not being able to see things until you are on the same major landmass is a bit of a buzzkill.
Then why isn't Wii U twice as big as PS3 360?
He's wrong. Its a OS security issue and just a save file size limitation by the OS. Moblie has unlimited world size so its not a hardware thing. If you go out too far in the world its easier to encounter floating point errors which can be used as security exploits. Nintendo are just stricter in that regard.
Also 12 is good enough, but 7 is kinda bad...
JoshuaJSlone
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So the more I experiment with Pocket Edition, the more the Switch limits seem pretty lame. On my phone, the max chunk limit is 8. The phone handles it at 720p decently, though definitely not steady 60fps. The max chunk distance does scale with the device, because on my tablet it allows it to go up to 14. And even at that max, displaying at 1920x1200 it isn't bad, though even farther from 60fps. And these are not high class models of phone and tablet; Switch specs eat either of them for breakfast.
JoshuaJSlone
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How can it be a GPU limitation when PS360 and Wii U have 10?
It's more likely that they cut the draw distance compared to docked mode because it brought immediate gains without having to optimize. Maybe they feel it's not that big of a deal on the small screen.
Because the primary (only?) difference between docked and undocked is the GPU performance I think?
Render distance is immediately obvious - on lower end laptops like my kids I'll reduce almost everything else before I'll drop render distance too much
Kyle8497
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For those of you who have never played Minecraft before and look to try it out on the Switch:
Ignore the bad wrap the game gets.
Ignore the hate it gets because of stereotypical fans.
Just play it and formulate your own opinion of the game.
Enjoy.
Oh, and I wouldn't recommend using the internet to figure things out. The game is much more fun with exploration and experimentation.
Ignore the bad wrap the game gets.
Ignore the hate it gets because of stereotypical fans.
Just play it and formulate your own opinion of the game.
Enjoy.
Oh, and I wouldn't recommend using the internet to figure things out. The game is much more fun with exploration and experimentation.
Smiles and Cries
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consoles don't have Realms yet
molnizzle
Member
wtf wasn't that years ago? lol
An easier way to think of it is Minecraft console is a completely separate codebase invented by 4J that was made to run Minecraft's assets. They even have codenames for the separate branches but i forget them off the top of my head.
Either way the crossplay would probably require unification of 4J's C++ engine with the Java engine of mainline. Also I do believe an actual large, LARGE swath of Minecraft console is played offline, splitscreen, so most it's users wouldn't have an use for Realms.
molnizzle
Member
I think that's largely because that's all console players can do without proper server support. P2P online doesn't work that well for a game like Minecraft. I honestly don't even care if it's crossplayI just want to have persistent worlds that my friends and I can fuck around in without having to coordinate and make sure we're all online at the same time. For a while I was using Realms in the W10 version but hardly anyone plays that version (in my age bracket, at least).
Would unification with Java be necessary? I thought that version didn't even use Realms.
I can't wrap my head around the fact that the pocket edition runs 1080p/60fps on my Shield Tablet, 14 chunks render distance and has infinite worlds... Ok, for the world size actually I can understand but for anything else, I'm not ok with. Heck, there are online worlds for the pocket edition that are pretty OP with mini-games and scripts and bla bla bla... A part of me feels like the developers rushed this title to take advantage of the Switch game thirst.
I have decided I'll wait for actual patches to improve this title and then maybe I'll reconsider.
Just thinking that my Shield Portable (yes, the bulky spaceship one, not the tablet) runs MCPE in 720p/60fps just fine at about 10 chunks... Something just doesn't add up.
I have decided I'll wait for actual patches to improve this title and then maybe I'll reconsider.
Just thinking that my Shield Portable (yes, the bulky spaceship one, not the tablet) runs MCPE in 720p/60fps just fine at about 10 chunks... Something just doesn't add up.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Looking around a bit, it seems PS4, Wii U, and Xbone versions are respectively about 200, 500, 700 megabytes? I thought all console versions would be pretty much the same so not sure why the variance, but well under a gig anyway.
Arkam
Member
Yea thats all I could find too. I hope it is about the same. Thanks for trying to help out!