Azraya Veldman
The Unholy Legion Of DarkStar
DARKSTAR ARMY
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Posted - 2013.04.17 11:58:00 -
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Tech Ohm Eaven wrote:Tech limitations??
We dont need no stincking tech limitations with PS4 8 GB of DDR 5.
Open world enviorment would require a lot of work, and it would be much more demanding server side.
On technical side:
You can probably render 150 chars in the same place even on PS3 and I think it would be ok for an open world system in most cases.
The main issue is that server has to keep track on every person on the map.
This is why most older games have >20 servers to choose from. One would just die.
Newer ones also use multiple servers, but transfer characters in the background from one to another.
Design side:
Creating open world content is just a whole different can of worms.
You have to create a lot of content for people to do when they travel across the map.
DUST is not DayZ, in dust you are not a lone wolf walking across the map and looking for food.
You have to get structured content witch is driven by developers and it's NOT what (I think) most of us want.
I strongly believe that the way CCP goes with it is the best there is.
For now we have only skirmish / ambush. BUT THIS IS BETA
We, in theory, are here to test base game mechanics.
CCP is not going for "skirmish mode play" it's giving us base mechanics to play with so they know the base idea about the game is good, which is shooting stuff :)
At May 6, still in BETA, we will get Planetary Conquest - you'll finally have something to do besides standard Battlefield mechanics.
You'll be able to have your own place in the world and defend it.
In future plans there are a lot more things: defending your territory from npc, building orbital cannons for defence, fighting on ships to take the hulls, a lot of stuff to do.
Af far as I know CCP doesn't believe in throwing a game out and working on "DUST 1028"
it's a project where you will get constant updates with new types of gameplay.
Sorry for the wall of text, wanted to keep it short, but DUST is a vision and as with EVE you can't say what it is in one sentence.
Also, any spelling errors are here because English is not my native language. |