You're a little behind on the news, but you didn't miss much. But yes it does impact on buildings, dark rides, paths and sceneries. It really limits alot to what you want to build in the first place
The Oswald-Eugene Counter
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You're a little behind on the news, but you didn't miss much. But yes it does impact on buildings, dark rides, paths and sceneries. It really limits alot to what you want to build in the first place
Ah crap, that’s not great news
But why release it if it’s going to severely restrict what we want to do?, some people love to be creative and build immersive dark rides etc, seems like that is a massive no no on the console version
Maybe there'll be some kind of announcement in response, eventually.
The hope is that they can somehow increase the limit and hopefully implement a way of us being able to find out how much a particular attraction/item will affect the overall percentage.
In the meantime, if anyone has any notes from playing on a regular PS4, please share
WingardiumLevicoaster
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Notes I made on ps4 pro : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/my-findings-on-the-oswald-eugene-counter.558221/
It's not as bad as I thought it would be and many things don't have much of an affect.
It's not as bad as I thought it would be and many things don't have much of an affect.
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Probably because a demand for a console port was high. Whenever I see someone on twitter ask when Planet Zoo will come to console, I am like why would you even want to play a game with such advanced building mechanism on console? Tbh it is beyond me, but people asked, so they delivered and as we see, there had to be made some compromises. I am not that surprised by that, consoles are great for racing games, or party games, but beyond that I will always prefer PC, for obvious reasons.
But I applaud Frontier for even figuring how to make a port for a building game like this, even if it has limitations.
Error messages and crashes go direct to PlayStation.. Maybe it's Sony and Microsoft that has made them implement this to stop thousands of players crashing and reporting their hardware as brokened. LOL
So Cityville and Jurassic World Evo works well.. Older consoles handled JP Operation Genesis and theme park where you could place lots of stuff. I'd compromise on quality if it meant more space. More items and being actually able to create a park.
Sorry Disney World.. you can't place anymore items.. you've reached 100% ROFL.4K is needed for action games.. not sim games.
I also believe the cap was put on with how much the PC community whines about the lag in the game.. stating it maybe a bug. If they had told everyone about this from the start.. then lots wouldn't have bought this game, they told people under the 2 day pre order refund time.. and allowedXbox users to purchase it knowing that those with Game pass would get it cheaper... It's all about the money.. and now they have it with about 98% of people unhappy and cheated. IT WAS HIDDEN.. end of.
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Like I said, their marketing move was perfect to execute the day before the official release. They had some sort of miscommunication in trying to reach out to consumers like us, but we aren't sure if this was done intentionally or the information was actually supposed to be released a day before the official release.
I get why they implemented it and understand the reasoning for it. I just wish they told us earlier and explained it better. They did however address it on the last livestream they had. They did not go into a lot of details, but at least they talked about it. Not sure if this is something they can "improve". I hope they can because these next gen consoles should be able to push things pretty far.
I too hope they give us the option, as example I have a bunch of big parks on the pc and they run fine they just only run at 20 fps max 1 even goes as low as 15 fps but the park still runs fine. I thi k if they just give us the option to turn the oswald eugene counter off and make like a second option to limit fps to what we choose like say 20 fps min and then it stops you from building or something. I would be perfectly fine just running the park at that like i did on pc.
They didn’t mention the limitations and allowed the assumption the console version could do what’s possible on the pc version. After all, they spoke so much about the hard work and the optimisations that went into the console version. Then to mention the limit not even 24 hours before release, probably because a streamer got the game early and people were shocked to discover the limitations, it’s a disappointing decision from Frontier and I am surprised they haven’t issued an apology.
For this mistake and also keeping Xbox players in the dark about gamepass availability.
Is Frontier above being humble enough to admit mistakes and say sorry?
EDIT: I just wanna throw in, like with other posts that I’ve put out in the past, that I’m not having a go at the community managers and there’s no lack of love for the Planet games. It’s just the decisions and culture at Frontier that sometimes baffle and disappoint.
For this mistake and also keeping Xbox players in the dark about gamepass availability.
Is Frontier above being humble enough to admit mistakes and say sorry?
EDIT: I just wanna throw in, like with other posts that I’ve put out in the past, that I’m not having a go at the community managers and there’s no lack of love for the Planet games. It’s just the decisions and culture at Frontier that sometimes baffle and disappoint.
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I am not sure if they will or will not. The issue is the CPU/GPU in the PS4 Pro. There is a lot of physics and game logic running the game. You have all the rides, then you have the scenery and then you have all the AI running for the pedestrians and the staff in the park. It is a lot for those consoles that have a very old Jaguar CPU.I have a question..
Will be the Eugene system updated in the future so you can build more on the ps4 pro. Is there an option to play planet coaster with more memory option or tips.
I build 20 actractions and then he say it's 100 procent. That's verry fast.
On the next gen I believe they should be able too. You get about 25% more building on Next Gen. I think they should be able to push that a bit being the CPU in the next gen consoles are modern CPU's.
Hi there thank you for posting this information. Would you be able to confirm the below.
Would the xbox series s be the same building limit as the xbox series X. This will determine which xbox for me to buy and many others. Would you be able to confirm this please. Thank you
Well it's the stupidest thing you could thing off. I played free console edition game pass xbox x but Jezus I got 20 attractions and that's it almost no scenery's nothing. This sucks very very much when you buy DLC packs you won't be able to use them all so it's just garbage now this game you cant build full map just a small part very small...... I am soo happy I did not buy it damn saved me a lot of money I found it luckily in time that this thing oswald is crap. Please people don't buy it if you want to build big stay with steam!!! This is not a console game it could use way more data as consoles have at least 1TB hard drive.
Jep 20 attractions and is done can build just very small park found out with free version so it saved me a lot of money not gonna buy this crap !!
WingardiumLevicoaster
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It's not a clear cut thing. Scenary doesn't have as big an impact as coasters or other trackrides. Flatrides do not have much impact either. Paths and coasters have the biggest impact. Each console has a different limit based on the specs of that console. The hard drive doesn't really have much to do with it. Planet coaster is heavy on ram, CPU and GPU.