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Digital Foundry initial analysis of Battlefront beta (PS4)
- Thread starter Vashetti
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Lionheart1827
Member
Sounds awesome. Cant wait to try the beta tomorrow!
Dictator93
Member
LOD at the map fly over is pretty rough, but looks fine enough on foot.
edit: nvm, actually watching the vid in slow mo let's you see stuff disappearing and reappearing rather close to camera FOV.
edit: nvm, actually watching the vid in slow mo let's you see stuff disappearing and reappearing rather close to camera FOV.
Transistor
Banned
Seems pretty good for a beta. With how the game looks, I'm fine with 1600x900 if they can get those framerate drops dealt with.
johnnydrama
Banned
Still in two minds about whether to get this on PC or PS4. PS4 will have a good online community but I can run the PC version at more than twice that resolution.
Alcoholikaust
Member
PC is the way to go if that is your preferred method of playing.
Dictator93
Member
PC specs? Also, I am not sure why a BF game would have a relationally bad community on PC.
Specs?
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
I'm gonna go ps4 so I can play with a controller without being at a huge disadvantage.
TVexperto
Member
The game looks so beautiful, especially when flying over the map. Here some quick gameplay I uploaded from PS4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP6ow4DOWGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP6ow4DOWGE
johnnydrama
Banned
I've never played a DICE online game on PC so I'm not sure about the community, really. Only played BF4 on PS4, and the community was decent.
I've got a 980Ti and i7 3770K, by the way.
What are the AA settings here?PC benchmarks to see how well the game scales with more powerful hardware :
johnnydrama
Banned
Controller isn't a necessity, to be honest. I'm mostly concerned about the community.
Sorry, wrong quote.
Here is the thing. This game isn't on steam, it is on Origin. IIRC Titanfall died pretty quickly on PC partly because of this. On the other hand, BF maintains a healthy community, but that has more history on the PC.
For myself, I need mouse controls so it is PC or bust.
Dictator93
Member
You may be thinking of the last BF (hardline) and not BF4, which always had healthy community numbers on PC.
I had meant to say Titanfall, but somehow it disappeared. My keyboard is probably running out of batteries.
Whichever is enabled at ultra settings.
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/star_wars_battlefront_beta_vga_graphics_performance_benchmarks,5.html
family_guy
Member
Do they even try to run this engine at 1080p on PS4? It's been stuck at 900p since BF4.
Seems unlikely. If you want frame rate you have to make cuts somewhere.
johnnydrama
Banned
Yeah, this is also a real concern. But I believe BF4 still has a decent player count.
I doubt it. DICE pushing for 60FPS and top of the line visuals means the resolution has to take a hit.
Nope, I am sure they haven't tried it at all. They are just like ho-hum, this is good enough.
With better AA the overall IQ seems far better than BF4, even at 900p.
That internal Hoth base area is the only place I noticed drops while playing. Genuinely shocked at how smoothly it runs at the level of fidelity they hit. The particles are exceptional.
That internal Hoth base area is the only place I noticed drops while playing. Genuinely shocked at how smoothly it runs at the level of fidelity they hit. The particles are exceptional.
The 30fps games on Frostbite have all been 1080p and GvZ is 1080/60. This game looks way better than most 30fps games this gen.
SaganIsGOAT
Junior Member
If devs keep trying to target 60fps consistently with these larger scale games like Battlefront and Halo 5 then we are going to see resolution decreases/dynamic scaling to allow for that. It's the way it has to be given what they're working with.
you know that's not gonna happen. the game will 900p at release
DarthWalden
Banned
I'm thinking I might actually go PC with this game.
Also why do people keep saying "nice work for a beta" the game is out in a little over a month which means it goes gold in a week or two, what you see here is what you'll get.
Also why do people keep saying "nice work for a beta" the game is out in a little over a month which means it goes gold in a week or two, what you see here is what you'll get.
Let me dream... please.
Really? I find this hard to believe. I'm positively shocked.
PC will have a good online community as well. The only one that doesn't really is Hardline.
uncleniccius
Member
Excellent for a beta. Hopefully I'll get to try the beta out, strict NAT settings on university internet could be a hinderance though.
Well, BF isn't the only series using this engine anymore. In fact, more games using the engine are 1080p on PS4 than not. Need for Speed Rivals, Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare, Rory McIlroy PGA Tour and Dragon Age: Inquisition all ran at 1080p using this engine.
It's not the engine so much as the specific scope of the BF games while aiming for 60fps.
PC benchmarks to see how well the game scales with more powerful hardware :
Considering neither console versions are running the ultra preset it should actually be easy to run on a wide range of gaming grade PCs, the system requirements target max settings, which is very unusual.
Important to note they put the FOV at 55 (for this benchmark)
PeskyToaster
Member
I'm pretty awed at how this looks. Usually Battlefield betas look horrible in what I think is an attempt to keep the file size to a manageable level. The final product is generally fantastic though.
Effects that have transparency (think explosions/dust)
55 vertical or 55 horizontal ?
The game's out in a month, I'd say the resolution is a done deal at this point.