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[SneakyStephan]

it'll be 30 fps with a typical 55 degree console fov and the render distance cut down so the cpu doesn't choke

it's not that gpu reliant a game
A friend who still plays this daily told me the multicore patch finally makes the game playable on his phenom II 955BE ,which is probably the reason why we only just now hear from the game on ps4 again, if they didn't manage to make it fully multicore then it wouldn't have released at all

 

[Zemm]

I'd rather know what the field of view is going to be, as well as the resolution and target fps.

 

[pswii60]

its not that impressive unless its also at 1080P and 60FPS

i'm sure the PS4 can also run any game at ultra settings if its toned down to 720P

How many games aren't 1080p on PS4? I can only think of BF4.

 

[VariantX]

I don't like how framerate was not mentioned even once. Ive gotten too used to smoother play now that the optimizations have hit PC. I don't even have a super powerful PC and I can still stay a good bit above 30-40 fps on high settings.

 

[Aegus]

Going to be interesting in how they handle the Crown for framerate.

 

[Felsparrow]

I don't know if you have even tried the game lately, but they released a patch not too long ago that greatly optimized the game. On my powerful gaming PC it how runs on Ultra at high FPS, no longer limited by the CPU.

There's even more optimizations to do, but it's running pretty good now.

The CPU optimizations they did for the PC version probably helps with the PS4 version, especially since the PS4 and XB1 don't have high end CPUs. But since they focused mainly on CPU optimizations, there's still more room for better GPU usage in time for the PS4 release.

And again, I'm primarily a PC gamer, and you fellow PC gamers need to stop being such children. Gaming is gaming, grow up and just enjoy it all.

 

[bj00rn_]

you fellow PC gamers need to stop being such children. Gaming is gaming, grow up and just enjoy it all.

The very title has "PC" in it. We spend money on a great hobby because it is interesting to us, getting our games to run the best is sometimes a part of it. But if a developer is saying they won't bother spending time optimizing their games for their primary platform, but oh so excited for a slower platform, we can't even discuss or mention it? Smells like some political correctness bullshit.

 

[soontroll]

I don't know if you have even tried the game lately, but they released a patch not too long ago that greatly optimized the game. On my powerful gaming PC it how runs on Ultra at high FPS, no longer limited by the CPU.

There's even more optimizations to do, but it's running pretty good now.

The CPU optimizations they did for the PC version probably helps with the PS4 version, especially since the PS4 and XB1 don't have high end CPUs. But since they focused mainly on CPU optimizations, there's still more room for better GPU usage in time for the PS4 release.

And again, I'm primarily a PC gamer, and you fellow PC gamers need to stop being such children. Gaming is gaming, grow up and just enjoy it all.

Why are people who don't think the game will look as good on a PS4 as it does on PC children? I enjoy my gaming, thanks, but that doesn't mean I can't think some things are silly, such as PS2 running at 1080p, 60fps at ultra on a console.
Of course, I might end up wrong but the graphical fidelity of the games we've seen so far do not give me confidence.

 

[gundamkyoukai]

Who are you talking to? The very title is saying "PC". We spend money on a hobby that interests us, and if a developer is saying they are limiting their games around a slower platform, why can't we even discussion or mention it as a relative worry? What is going on, it smells like some condescending political correctness bullshit.

When did the developer say there are limiting anything around PS4 .
Dev says that PS4 version going to look like Ultra on PC and talk about some interface stuff for PS4 also .
A fair amount of post in this thread is just people laughing saying it can't look that way on PS4 .
The topic not even about the PC version .

Why are people who don't think the game will look as good on a PS4 as it does on PC children? I enjoy my gaming, thanks, but that doesn't mean I can't think some things are silly, such as PS2 running at 1080p, 60fps at ultra on a console.
Of course, I might end up wrong but the graphical fidelity of the games we've seen so far do not give me confidence.

I don't see any mention of frame rate just ultra setting chance are it be 1080p @30fps .

 

[Killer]

PS4 owners don't get your hopes up. It's a grind fest F2P shooter.

 

[FACE]

The very title has "PC" in it. We spend money on a great hobby because it is interesting to us, getting our games to run the best is sometimes a part of it. But if a developer is saying they won't bother spending time optimizing their games for their primary platform, but oh so excited for a slower platform, we can't even discuss or mention it? Smells like some political correctness bullshit.

I don't think it's poorly optimized on PC, Spazznid said he plays on 4k with a single(?) GTX 780.

 

[Reckless Onion]

If it's not 60fps i'm not even gonna bother..

I dont want to deal with input lag again. And now with BF,COD,Killzone,blacklight,.. running mostly at 60 i can't go back.

Competitive shooters should always be 60fps.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

it'll be 30 fps with a typical 55 degree console fov and the render distance cut down so the cpu doesn't choke

it's not that gpu reliant a game
A friend who still plays this daily told me the multicore patch finally makes the game playable on his phenom II 955BE ,which is probably the reason why we only just now hear from the game on ps4 again, if they didn't manage to make it fully multicore then it wouldn't have released at all

People assume that PS4 was the reason for optimisation but devs have hinted that performance was blocking PC release in Russia and China. Both of those are pretty big PC game markets. There are also many PC gamers in the west who couldn't play.

I have no idea how well optimised this game could be for PS4. The devs are pretty open about PC development but not console development.

If this game has a really low field of view on console then I think that would be pretty bad. Tunnel vision would be annoying in this game.

 

[soontroll]

I don't see any mention of frame rate just ultra setting chance are it be 1080p @30fps .

I thought good performance was a given...

 

[bj00rn_]

When did the developer say there are limiting anything around PS4 .
Dev says that PS4 version going to look like Ultra on PC and talk about some interface stuff for PS4 also .
A fair amount of post in this thread is just people laughing saying it can't look that way on PS4 .

If the developer just turns on "Ultra" on the PS4, it could mean their game is limited by their ability / need to utilize / exploit faster hardware, or it lacks some of the vital things that some of us would call "Ultra", like adjustable settings, higher framerate/resolution etc. That's not an unfair opinion at all. It's a fair part of a discussion because we know that some PC developers are using faster PC hardware as an excuse for not optimizing their games properly.

 

[IncandescentPrecept]

I don't see why it wouldn't be possible.

KZ:SF and BF4 looks better and maintain good framerate.

The gun looks great but everything else look ok so it's not impossible that the dev isn't exaggerating.

 

[kudoboi]

How many games aren't 1080p on PS4? I can only think of BF4.

yeah but the settings are usually lower than ultra. most of them are on medium or high. i even read from somewhere that BF4 on PS4 is only running on medium settings.

 

[Ciastek3214]

It has 2000 players on the map at one time.

2000

Yes, but you don't see all of them, meaning they're not rendered at the same time.

 

[MutonCommander]

And again, I'm primarily a PC gamer, and you fellow PC gamers need to stop being such children. Gaming is gaming, grow up and just enjoy it all.

Yeah, your attitude is certainly mature enough that you should feel qualified in judging the maturity of others.

 

[gundamkyoukai]

If the developer just turns on "Ultra" on the PS4, it could mean their game is limited by their ability / need to utilize / exploit faster hardware, or it lacks some of the vital things that some of us would call "Ultra", like adjustable settings, higher framerate/resolution etc. That's not an unfair opinion at all. It's a fair part of a discussion.

The game could be limited by budget , player base they want , it being F2P etc etc .
Not every dev is going to try and max out PC hardware \ plus Ultra is not the same for every game .

 

[jediyoshi]

I don't see why it wouldn't be possible.

KZ:SF and BF4 looks better and maintain good framerate.

Not having as much stuff going on helps.

And again, I'm primarily a PC gamer, and you fellow PC gamers need to stop being such children. Gaming is gaming, grow up and just enjoy it all.

Is it more or less childish than continuing to call people out and conflating this discussion with a tribe mentality?

 

[TheD]

Yes, but you don't see all of them, meaning they're not rendered at the same time.

Yeah, you will never get even close to that number in one battle.
At most you would be looking at something like 200.

 

[samman6]

Will it be cross platform online, I just don't see that big of a community forming on PS4 to support this game.

 

[Ntsouls]

Wish this had some kind of SP.

 

[bj00rn_]

The game could be limited by budget , player base they want , it being F2P etc etc .
Not every dev is going to try and max out PC hardware \ plus Ultra is not the same for every game .

Exactly. And in addition to resolution, framerate and adjustable settings not normally found on consoles. "Ultra" is meaningless, especially in this context. So what they said doesn't really mean much to or from. It's a straight port, and it's not negative per se.

 

[nOoblet16]

yeah but the settings are usually lower than ultra. most of them are on medium or high. i even read from somewhere that BF4 on PS4 is only running on medium settings.

Nope. It runs on ultra like all other games.

 

[kudoboi]

Nope. It runs on ultra like all other games.

http://wccftech.com/battlefield-4-nextgen-consoles-comparable-medium-settings-pc-upscaled-720p/

there was also a video on youtube that showed the xbox one and PS4 graphic settings were lower than high on PC

 

[TheD]

Nope. It runs on ultra like all other games.

No, BF4 on the PS4 runs lower than max settings.

 

[Skeff]

http://wccftech.com/battlefield-4-nextgen-consoles-comparable-medium-settings-pc-upscaled-720p/

there was also a video on youtube that showed the xbox one and PS4 graphic settings were lower than high on PC

Yes, because we all know BF runs at native 720p on PS4, at least check it for accuracy.

EDIT: not to mention BF was nowhere near ready to be released.

 

[Alex]

Even post patch it's a pretty taxing game, especially when there's a lot of crazy going down, I'll be really impressed if it really is straight up the PCs ultra setting without something else giving (ie; the framerate and how low and/or steady it is)

 

[cripterion]

Just logged in the game to verify the claimed optimization thing, game hovers around 56fps when spawning, and still tanks to 40's during fights with 1 or 2 ennemies.

I'm running on Ultra (recommended setting for me) SLI 670, i5 3570K @4.2ghz, 16GB ram and game is installed on an SSD, so having a hard time believing it will run buttery smooth on PS4 with all the eye candy, or they're just screwing pc gamers.

 

[cheezcake]

http://wccftech.com/battlefield-4-nextgen-consoles-comparable-medium-settings-pc-upscaled-720p/

there was also a video on youtube that showed the xbox one and PS4 graphic settings were lower than high on PC

I too like to use speculative prerelease articles based on hearsay as a source, especially when they get currently known facts like resolution wrong.

 

[FACE]

Nope. It runs on ultra like all other games.

I think it's a mix of high/ultra settings and no MSAA.

 

[RibbedHero]

It's a CPU intensive game. I'm not sure how good their multithread support is now, but can it really run on Ultra on a juiced up netbook CPU?

 

[pswii60]

yeah but the settings are usually lower than ultra. most of them are on medium or high. i even read from somewhere that BF4 on PS4 is only running on medium settings.

Launch titles though.

 

[soontroll]

Launch titles though.

How is that relevant?

 

[Finaika]

It's a CPU intensive game. I'm not sure how good their multithread support is now, but can it really run on Ultra on a juiced up netbook CPU?

This.

I thought the PS4 CPU is shit?

 

[iamshadowlark]

This.

I thought the PS4 CPU is shit?

It doesn't have great arithmetic power and the clock is pretty low. It should be serviceable though...

 

[Finaika]

It doesn't have great arithmetic power and the clock is pretty low. It should be serviceable though...

So it most probably wouldn't be able to run the game at ultra.

 

[Nzyme32]

it'll be 30 fps with a typical 55 degree console fov and the render distance cut down so the cpu doesn't choke

it's not that gpu reliant a game
A friend who still plays this daily told me the multicore patch finally makes the game playable on his phenom II 955BE ,which is probably the reason why we only just now hear from the game on ps4 again, if they didn't manage to make it fully multicore then it wouldn't have released at all

This does seem probable. The new optimisations for the PC version should make hitting ultra all well and good, maybe even at 1080p, a steady 60fps is a stretch though

 

[rafbanaan]

The very title has "PC" in it. We spend money on a great hobby because it is interesting to us, getting our games to run the best is sometimes a part of it. But if a developer is saying they won't bother spending time optimizing their games for their primary platform, but oh so excited for a slower platform, we can't even discuss or mention it? Smells like some political correctness bullshit.

The developer already said that pc users with an AMD CPU will get a nice performance boost since they had to overhaul their engine for the PS4.

 

[Marauder Shields]

Am fascinated to see how PS2 is received by the console audience. Quality game, hope it does well.

 

[iamshadowlark]

So it most probably wouldn't be able to run the game at ultra.

No, thats not necessarily the case. There's no real way for us laymen to observe how much floating point work this game requires, among other things like their thread structures.

 

[nOoblet16]

http://wccftech.com/battlefield-4-nextgen-consoles-comparable-medium-settings-pc-upscaled-720p/

there was also a video on youtube that showed the xbox one and PS4 graphic settings were lower than high on PC

That article is pre release.
Seems like it's a mix of ultra and high, it's the only game that does so and the only game that runs at sub 1080p on PS4. This goes against your claim of this game and every other 1080p game are running on medium.

 

[c0de]

So a Sony game on a Sony PS4 will look like the PC version on ultra settings.

 

[Ivan]

FOV in console games will never be comparable with pc versions, but that's kinda expected.

But I do think fov on console FPSes is too narrow very often. A slider in display settings would be nice, just like that screen size option.

 

[nelsonroyale]

So it most probably wouldn't be able to run the game at ultra.

Wasnt this game notoriously unoptimised? Apparently they said they were going to optimize on PC in parallel with the console release. Fingers crossed

 

[RulkezX]

Am fascinated to see how PS2 is received by the console audience. Quality game, hope it does well.

It's going to flop for reasons anyone who has played it on PC for more than a couple of days will know.

PS2 is amazing when you are 10-20+ people sitting in TS playing the game properly , working together with the other outfits on your faction etc. it's horrible if it's played lone wolf like CoD or BF.

The game is built from the ground up to be played on an epic scale with large organised outfits/factions , the PS4 lacks the 3rd party tools that make this possible.

The game is also a horrible grind with little no no progression unless your pumping money into guns (that are largely side grades ) or boosters to alleviate the terrible cert grind.

PS2 is an amazing game that's I'll suited for consoles.

 

[MutonCommander]

I think it's a mix of high/ultra settings and no MSAA.

It's medium with a couple of settings on high, I've seen both versions running side by side.

 

[Setsuna]

After seeing screenshots, makes sense. Not exactly a beast of a game.

the game is more about explosions physx lighting and view distance

The game is built from the ground up to be played on an epic scale with large organised outfits/factions , the PS4 lacks the 3rd party tools that make this possible.

The game is also a horrible grind with little no no progression unless your pumping money into guns (that are largely side grades ) or boosters to alleviate the terrible cert grind.

PS2 is an amazing game that's I'll suited for consoles.

i hate comments like these

Generalizing a platforms player base based on the fact that a certain set of games is built around it being more efficient to work alone than to be in a group in situations