Map sizes on consoles
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The larger the buildable/playable areas the more stuff you will place down so that means your consoles hardware has more stuff to render.
So yes, it is true. This is probably why that big mountain exists in the middle of the Isla Sorna build space. Cause it really makes no sense for it to be there except to act as a rendering buffer. It is said that the Sorna map is the largest in the game. Which means hardware would be taxed more. But with the mountain blocking out objects that would have to be rendered this stops it.
If you want better games than ditch the consoles and get a gaming PC. Consoles are holding games back. JWE is just another example of this. If you own a console you shouldn't be complaining cause you are part of the problem. Things won't change or get better till PC's are back on the top as far as gaming goes. It is what it is. It's either accept the game in it's console form or have no game at all. It's terrible that things are like that. If the game had been a PC exclusive it probably would been everything that people wanted it to be. Even with the development time of 18 months or so. They can still work on it after release and add more stuff.
I am personally glad that we have the game.
So yes, it is true. This is probably why that big mountain exists in the middle of the Isla Sorna build space. Cause it really makes no sense for it to be there except to act as a rendering buffer. It is said that the Sorna map is the largest in the game. Which means hardware would be taxed more. But with the mountain blocking out objects that would have to be rendered this stops it.
If you want better games than ditch the consoles and get a gaming PC. Consoles are holding games back. JWE is just another example of this. If you own a console you shouldn't be complaining cause you are part of the problem. Things won't change or get better till PC's are back on the top as far as gaming goes. It is what it is. It's either accept the game in it's console form or have no game at all. It's terrible that things are like that. If the game had been a PC exclusive it probably would been everything that people wanted it to be. Even with the development time of 18 months or so. They can still work on it after release and add more stuff.
I am personally glad that we have the game.
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I think he just wanted to express his view on console. He didn’t mean to point to anyone in particular. Please don’t take it personally.
I was speaking generally. No I won't apologize cause I said nothing offensive. Unless you find the truth offensive.
He does that all the time, so taking it personally at this point is ridiculous.
Ironically, he is a dinosaur clinging to his outdated ideas.
Discuss the topic, not each other.
Well, I think he had quite a point. The fact that console hardware is limited and un-upgradeable is totally true, as well as them being cheaper than PCs.
Still, even considering that some people can't afford a gaming PC (I couldn't during many years, but I can now; lucky I've been collecting PC games on Steam) trying to fit the very same game for all platforms is always a very bad development design. No game which ever have tried that ended up being a good game.
Edit: Forgot to mention that it isn't necessary a gaming PC for games like this one; I own one, but usually play on my laptop and I can assure you it was not much more expensive than some of the consoles supported. It serves much more than then, if anything.
Still, even considering that some people can't afford a gaming PC (I couldn't during many years, but I can now; lucky I've been collecting PC games on Steam) trying to fit the very same game for all platforms is always a very bad development design. No game which ever have tried that ended up being a good game.
Edit: Forgot to mention that it isn't necessary a gaming PC for games like this one; I own one, but usually play on my laptop and I can assure you it was not much more expensive than some of the consoles supported. It serves much more than then, if anything.
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I was really thinking about this problem and i do believe pcrm has a point but it would be nice if we could have a statement from one of the devs about that so if any dev is reading this can u clarify if we will ever get a bigger map than nublar or ist it really not possible cause many many people want to see bigger maps this would clear this point once and for all
At one time it was accepted that consoles would get the inferior version of a game. Just look at Wolf 3D and Doom on consoles. Most of them are inferior to the PC version. This is no longer the case. Now the PC gets an inferior console ports despite being more capable.
Really the PC should get larger maps. But they won't do that cause it will upset the console players. Cause they don't want to hear that their consoles are inferior. So we get a port of the game with all the inferior aspects of the console version. One of the things PC players can generally brag about is that the game looks better on our PC's and that we have mods. We don't have mods though.
Really the PC should get larger maps. But they won't do that cause it will upset the console players. Cause they don't want to hear that their consoles are inferior. So we get a port of the game with all the inferior aspects of the console version. One of the things PC players can generally brag about is that the game looks better on our PC's and that we have mods. We don't have mods though.
Wow u really seem to have a problem with console owners are u in a war or something? Iam a grown man and i know that consoles are inferior but cheaper most of those people who u talking about are kids cause no real adult would care about such a trivial thing and u say ure not offending anyone? Iam pretty offended by ur constant crying about console owners i never did such thing and u should have better things to do then ranting about ur so called bad console players...my god i just asked a question to the devs.
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My opinion, there won’t be bigger maps for this game because FD doesn’t want to design them. Plenty of games on console have much bigger world spaces and run just fine. That’s not a shot at FD, I think the map sizes are an intentional design choice. Not a statement of console/PC parity.
If console capacity is really the map size limiter, then why not just make some PC exclusive Sandbox maps? They don't have to include anything else in the package, just new maps... the kind that are too big for consoles but PCs can handle just fine.
I play on console exclusively and personally, that’d be fine with me. I’m confident to say that most players on consoles accept that they aren’t as powerful as the high end PCs. But from a business standpoint that’s a waste of resources putting out a product that can’t or won’t reach a wide portion of your target audience.
Yeah i think that too there are really some games that needs way more ressources and consoles can handle them but iam no specialist on this would be really cool if the devs could give a statement it would really clear things up like i said many people asked for bigger maps and am answer if its possible or not from frontier would be appreciated for everyone who wants to have them not just by me