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Old 2012-07-24, 10:17 AM   [Ignore Me] #16
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Re: Let's play Planetside 2 on low-end systems !


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Playing games for the graphics is just like watching porn for the story.
true that
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Old 2012-07-24, 10:24 AM   [Ignore Me] #17
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Well actually there are plenty that watch porn for the story.
Or they tend to fantasize it. If it's only for the action, you're plenty with just 2-3 movies.

Now I agree preferably lower graphics for better gameplay. But that's not something that's mutually exclusive. You can have both together
All that's needed is the option to tone them graphics down enough to be :
A) Playable for low ends
B) Not your typical : turn down graphics for competitive edge (same for contrast/alpha abusing)
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Old 2012-07-24, 10:25 AM   [Ignore Me] #18
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I hope my computer runs it. I have a core 2 quad @ 2.4ghz running the radeon hd 5850 and 4g ram.
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Old 2012-07-24, 10:31 AM   [Ignore Me] #19
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I'm going to try lowest possible settings with i5 480m 2.67ghz, GT 540m and 8g of RAM.

Maybe I'll break the interweb!
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Old 2012-07-24, 10:39 AM   [Ignore Me] #20
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I'm gonna get kinda angry if I can't:

-Turn off all reflections
-Get rid of the shadows, at least the ones from moving objects
-Turn off smoke, dust, clouds, etc. If that would be "unfair", let me replace them with the minecraft clouds :P
-Just disable the grass. All those little models add nothing to the gameplay, and hit my performance very hard. (Just seeing a green textured floor s enough.)
-Reduce texture quality
-Reduce the details from all models.
-If there is water, let me make it one flat blue surface, waves kill my fps.
-Etc.

Those things aren't needed, for nobody. So please let me do all those things.

BTW, they should also do this, because only hardcore gamers, or people with too much money buy computers that will run the game with all these effects. 90% don't have such machines, and they simply won't play PS2 if their machine can't handle it. You can get A LOT more players (=more money) if you let people disable a lot of effects, and thus lower the system requirements.

Think about that, SOE!
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Old 2012-07-24, 11:09 AM   [Ignore Me] #21
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Got some "answer" on their twitter :

Me: Hey, could we have some details about graphic options and the possibility to play on very low details and resolutions ? Thanks

PS2: We'll have more info for you once the tech test is completed! ^Lancer
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Old 2012-07-24, 11:20 AM   [Ignore Me] #22
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Got some "answer" on their twitter :

Me: Hey, could we have some details about graphic options and the possibility to play on very low details and resolutions ? Thanks

PS2: We'll have more info for you once the tech test is completed! ^Lancer
That's not an answer, that's called a "stall".
It's a justified stall, though. They're still making major optimization changes.
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Old 2012-07-24, 11:27 AM   [Ignore Me] #23
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Thanks for the advice Snaffe, I will try to do that.

Mepper comment is interesting, graphics are secondary. I think it will be enjoyable netheirtheless. And, due to the game genre (exp, progression, skill increase), I'm sure that once in front of a real computer, all the skill gained piloting and all will still be there.

Furthermore, It will add some kind of Planetside 1 vibe...

yeah, not so great actually... but not so bad hey!
I almost died hahaha.

I'll be playing mine on a fairly new Asus gaming laptop. I do have some friends playing on weaker systems though. My friend Dumpy is playing it on a phenom 2, but he just bought a 560 ti. My dick friend Rob just built a PC with a high-end GTX 680 and a bunch of other high end shit - put him in the financial crapper, lol. Still jealous though.

I plan on buying a desktop withing a year and a half, toward the end of school. But for now, my laptop runs BF3 on Ultra (with a couple tiny tweaks), so its all good. Just a bit worried about my processor, since that will potentially be my big bottleneck in this game (2670qm quad i7 up to 3.1), as my 560m 2gbDDR5 and 12 gigs of ram will do fine. Not to mention this thing has a BA cooling system.

Just wanna get into beta so I know how my mobile i7 handles .

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Old 2012-07-24, 11:28 AM   [Ignore Me] #24
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Phenom II X3 710, 3 GBs of ram, 6670. Can't upgrade anymore, ready for bloody action. I may not have a super computer like yours, but I have a jetpack.
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Old 2012-07-24, 11:35 AM   [Ignore Me] #25
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Playing games for the graphics is just like watching porn for the story.
Do you use the same logic to rationalize watching SD over HD video content? Higher visual quality is a wonderful thing.
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Old 2012-07-24, 11:44 AM   [Ignore Me] #26
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Goku, I'm using my original Dell PC from 2003: P4 2.4g single core, 4g 400mhtz ram, and a ATI Radeon w/ 1gig of SDRAM3. My 250 watt power supply might fry my 4th graphics card though. What do you think PS2 will be like on that?

Thankfully, I'm being blessed with a new system next week: i5-3450 Ivy-Bridge quad, nVidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti w/ 1g of GDDR5, 8g DDR3 ram
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Old 2012-07-24, 11:45 AM   [Ignore Me] #27
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-Get rid of the shadows, at least the ones from moving objects
Why the hell would you do that, since player/vehicle shadows allow you to see them approach from behind/above and behind objects. In many cases, they can be your first warning.
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Old 2012-07-24, 11:48 AM   [Ignore Me] #28
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If you graphics, and don't care for gameplay, why don't you just go to the cinema and watch a movie?

:P

Of course some people like nice graphics, there is nothing wrong with that. I personally don't really care about them but that's just my opinion.

There are just two things I wanted to point out:
-Gameplay should be more importabt than graphics.
-A lot of people don't have very powerfull machines. By not allowing them to turn down their graphics you basically deny them from playing the game.

Edit: I want to remove shadows because they hurt my performance badly. And since I'm planning on being a pilot for the most time, I won't really get a disadvantage. I might sometimes get a disadvantage because of that, but my performance is just more important.

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Old 2012-07-24, 12:06 PM   [Ignore Me] #29
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If you graphics, and don't care for gameplay, why don't you just go to the cinema and watch a movie?

:P

Of course some people like nice graphics, there is nothing wrong with that. I personally don't really care about them but that's just my opinion.

There are just two things I wanted to point out:
-Gameplay should be more importabt than graphics.
-A lot of people don't have very powerfull machines. By not allowing them to turn down their graphics you basically deny them from playing the game.

Edit: I want to remove shadows because they hurt my performance badly. And since I'm planning on being a pilot for the most time, I won't really get a disadvantage. I might sometimes get a disadvantage because of that, but my performance is just more important.
If PS2 had PS1 graphics, I wouldn't have joined this forum, and you'd have about 14 players, tops. Just saying.
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Old 2012-07-24, 12:07 PM   [Ignore Me] #30
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I have two 3.0 ghz Xeon processors, 3 gigs of RAM, and a single Radeon HD 6850. I don't expect to run this game very well, but I'm going to wait and see how it plays before spending the money on expensive upgrades.
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