Hello Granite, we have spoken a few times before. Great new video by the way.....
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As you may recall, I have been in the games/graphics business for nearly 20 years now so have a rough idea about how these things go together.........there is a very important two words that need to be understood on this topic.......I forget who said them, it was a Higher Up at FD......but they mentioned "visual consistency" across the platforms.....and that, is it.....game over.
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The translation of which is, they don't want the PC version looking too different to the Xbox version, so If the Xbox can't do it, I'm afraid that gets passed on to the PC. People might think I am suggesting conspiracy between FD and Microsoft to make the brick look good.....but it is more simple than that, I believe........It is a nightmare for a developer to maintain multiple versions of the same assets. If you want the "best" out of all platforms then the graphics need to be set up to the strengths of those systems. And the abilities of the XBone vs a modern high end graphics card, are large.........so it is a lot easier to knock everything back to a more basic level so that you can practically send the same assets to both systems...........
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When I saw the phrase "visual consistency" mentioned by one of the lead developers, I knew this wasn't going to get better any time soon......maybe when the Xbtwo comes out.
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I am still a touch baffled as to why we don't have detail sliders that can load in higher LOD models for high end PCs. As we have seen before, there is no major graphical difference between low and ultra settings.....(not played for a while maybe that has changed).......so the reason why they have not added this feature maybe does lend weight to a "not make the Xbone look bad" argument.......A clear statement from the Devs would soon clear this up.
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Maybe we should all be thankful they didn't cut it to the core so that Horizons would run on the Mac.
