Good looking graphics, I'm worried, should I be?

[wildcat140679]

We have seen little to nothing, but the Galaxy, Vanguard and Reaver models that have been shown and they have me some what worried.

Planetside is, how should I say it, is not very good looking game. It wasn't ugly either, but I believe that was the beauty of it, it allowed battles to take place with an unbelievable amount of players at the same time because of those graphics.

The sneak peaks we have seen so far are really good looking and they have me worried if they are not to good looking.

There is nothing wrong with good looking models, but when it comes down to having a crazy amount of good looking models to be rendered all at the same time in a battle, things often turn in to a graphical lag party.

Should I be worried?

[Hamma]

I think you have valid concern.

But Technology has come a long way over the past 7 years, so I think we will have a much better looking game with similar sized battles.

There is certainly room for graphics improvement in the game, I hope that they do improve them without sacrificing to much in terms of battle sizes or gameplay sizes.

Now on the flip side of all of this - we haven't seen any in engine shots yet only models. Once we see in engine in game shots we can really start to speculate on what we are going to see in PSN.

[Kwintus5]

Indeed! What Hammy said. The weight from the game on your pc not only depends on the amount of polygones in the models, but also on the use of enviroment-enhancing techniques like shaders and HDR-lightning and dynamic lightsources etc. so models are just models.

In any case, i'm also pretty sure that they want this game to be able to be played on as many computers as possible. So big chances that you can lower the graphics to a lvl where your granny's pc would still be able to run it.

[Bags]

They better have a good engine because in medium to large fights I get 30 fps 800 x 640 resolution, EVERYTHING minimum on a computer from 2007 (win7, 8800 GT, 2.7ghz c2duo, 2GB ram)

It's pathetic. I got 20 fps on a computer from 2002 with integrated graphics and 512mb of ram at 1200 x 1024 resolution with bigger fights!

[Furret]

I don't know why people care that much about good graphics. There are games that are designed for graphics, and there are games that are designed for gameplay. I think SOE is doing it right if they're making it so low end computers can run the game lag-free. PlanetSide is definitely not a game that needs good graphics, as long as i can tell the difference between a galaxy and a MAX, I'll play the game =D

[CutterJohn]

Polycounts and textures are generally not the bottlenecks for modern games. Modern cards can handle millions of polygons at once, and with half a gig or more of ram, tons of high quality textures. So long as they don't go crazy with post processing effects and fancy shaders and such, things will be fine.

[Daimond]

Thing is there is like in all games on PC's you can turn down setting and stuff off like shadows and dumbing down grafix. I just hope unlike in the beginning of PS when people constantly complained about lag and such people were told to turn down there setting not run them at full. People did not they think on an old computer they should beable to run anything with out upgrading. So what happened after 2 years SOE removed High end Grafix, and people stoped complaining, even though didnt acualy do anything. Games looked the same since.

SOE in the past eg EQ2 and such built the game to run on computers in the near future not now. Reason for this is when they start working on the game and build for then by the time games released computers maybe 2+ years above the game. so if they build for 6 years ahead of making the games lest they got a few years before people start say. Update grafix they out of date 2 years into release.

So anyone reading this when game is release or your in beta, before complaining about lag and FPS stuff please, please try turning your settings down first. other wise me may just lose good grafix for the rest of the games life.

[Sirisian]

I wouldn't be worried unless you have an old computer. Planetside has lasted for over 7 years and as mentioned it's hoped that PS:N will age gracefully. Meaning for people with old computers they might need to play on the lowest possible quality much like when Planetside came out in 2003 I had to play on low settings then when I upgraded my computer in 2006 I could play on the highest quality. I think PS:N will be that way for most people.

Then again there are people, like myself, who are buying new computers to play modern games who are excited and want to see this game on max settings. I do feel bad though since I used to have slow computers and it was annoying not being able to play a game when it was released.

[Bags]

I upgraded my computer in 2007 and ps plays as bad on it as it did on my old one.

[TheRagingGerbil]

Originally Posted by Bags

I upgraded my computer in 2007 and ps plays as bad on it as it did on my old one.

Then you have other issues...

My 2007 upgrade runs current PS like a dream.

[Bags]

Originally Posted by TheRagingGerbil

Then you have other issues...

My 2007 upgrade runs current PS like a dream.

Every game I throw at it runs good to great

Crysis -- good
TF2 -- great
L4D1/2 -- great
WoW -- good to great

etc

It's PS and not working on win7 or vista.

[Sifer2]

Wait until we know minimum specs before complaining IMO. Hopefully they understand its better to keep big battles rather than have more eye candy. If they don't then they have lost the battle already. So I say just wait an see.

[wolfkrone]

Originally Posted by wildcat140679

Should I be worried?

No.
SOE have learned a lot about system requirements in recent years. Compare Free realms to EQ2 and you'll see what I mean, they wont screw it up.

[Firefly]

Originally Posted by Bags

I upgraded my computer in 2007 and ps plays as bad on it as it did on my old one.

I hate to be another on the opposite side, but I upgraded mine in 2009 and it plays spectacular.

[Bags]

Do you have win7 or vista?