As far as instant improvement, wouldn't the framerate be smoother? Like, a lot smoother?

Everything that Dust releases has to work within the confines of the PS3 architecture. This limits map sizes, textures, models, and so on. So, assuming they optimize it to be smooth on the PS3, it wouldn't be better in most ways you can think of on the PS4 if ported as-is.

But it does give the dev's a lot more room and power to work with. Because Dust already pushes the PS3 to its limits.

So if it goes to PS4 they will have an easier time working on it.

CCP had to have known that the PS4 would be coming soon. This game should've been a beta on PS3 and finally fully released on PS4.

So there are people on this forum who can see the future? Awesome! No wait..

You seem disillusioned today IWS, welcome to the club, we have cookies and punch.

These issues with the PS3 holding back gameplay improvements and (I assume) player count in matches are another reason why CCP has to give more connectivity and dare I use the term metagame because if people are to be believed (which they probably shouldn't) the gameplay fixes aren't going to be able to happen in sufficient quantity or time to fix Uprising. Thus if they want to keep us, the pitchfork toting and torch waving masses, interested in this game they have to give reasons to play that are less gameplay intensive.

Open a player market, turn on ISK transfer from Eve-Dust (and vice versa I suppose, but I hear the eggers make easy cash fast), and remove MCC orbitals from PC battles are what I suggest short term. I'm no developer so I don't know how much programming is involved in these things, but if they don't have the first couple done or close to at this point they are complete liars anyhow because these are the basics or a "connected universe".

They are not going to compete with actual AAA shooters in gameplay or graphics anytime soon at this point, but they don't have to if they give other reasons to keep playing especially being free-to-play.

I don't know why they would have to sing the same tune. Lets get realistic here. If they want Dust in 10 years, then it will be a PS4 game. Why should they waste their time and effort developing the same game PS3/PS4 when they could just segregate. its already known that Planetside 2 PS4 players will not be able to play with PC players. All CCP has to do is divide up the game for PS3 and PS4 players and its the same thing. PS3 can have factional warfare while CCP works on PC for PS4. Then when its time to phase the PS3 out you already have working code and advanced based for the PS4 and not a bunch of old junk code.

We see this all the time in EVE, they talk about old junk code that no one wants to touch, why are they doing the same thing now?

That's not a true statement at all. EVE uses the Trinity Engine and Dust uses the Unreal engine, two totally different games and engines, same universe. We are already segregated, EVE in Space, Dust on the ground, Why not Dust PS3 in High Sec and Dust PS4 in Low sec and Null Sec. Since they can already get 2 seperate engines to interact, I don't see why there should be some amazing problem at getting 3 engines to interact.

LOL

All I gotta say to you... and you're a CPM?

This game has major technical limitations that keep it from realizing it's true potential. Upgrade the hardware and the rest will fall into place in time.

Trolling from a CPM... wonderful.

This game has major, major FPS issues and problems with aiming stem from this partially.

Better hardware and social networks will allow CCP to accomplish a hell of a lot more than what they have right now.

I cannot aim with my mouse half the time right now because FPS drops are constant on bigger maps. That can be solved with better hardware backbones.

Don't tell me gameplay won't be helped from that. If you don't understand that better framerates are essential for any good FPS, I fear for the future of Dust.

Ahhh, looks like you have made it past some of your fanboi road blocks and are coming out of that CCP fantasy world of yours a little.

So now that we have you this far lets keep this train rolling and how bout you let CCP know this ^.

8 gigs of ram and a monster GFX card.....

Yeah i don't know about saving DUST but with the kinds of frame fates one could achieve even with CCPs cruddy attempt at fps would be pretty damn awesome.

Quake 3 would be epically better on PS4 why wouldn't Dust be as well?

So wait....

One bug which is now fixed will keep dust from preforming better on a machine that has at least 10 times the power of a PS3?

Anyway good job moving the goal post of your argument.

You "Dust would be a the same game on a PS4"

Me "the PS4 is super friggin fast and would give the game a higher frame rate. A higher frame rate on the same FPS is a better FPS"

you "eve had a bug"

brilliant.

Unreal 3 becomes unreal 4, and the INCREDIBLY CAVERNOUS 6gb ram (2gb dedicated to os) becomes a vast unexplored wasteland of possible rendering buffers and opportunity.

the gpu power also makes an enormous upgrade so rendering a **** ton of little things on screen is now a breeze and can be kept at 120+ fps stable at least (probably more like 60fps with some dips)

now; artists are able to create models and spend far less time reducing their polycount so they make it to our screens far faster.

now; level designers can make way more interesting outposts and place them much closer together without risk to causing GPU fires.

Wow iron wolf really showed his strioes in this one. Planetside 2 even poped up in all that drama.

PS4 dust would actually be playable.

yes

CCP currently does nothing to fix the backend of an abortion that it calls dust anyway
so I say, go for port to ps4 now rather then later