Please keep the crappy alpha graphics in the game
Kneifer
Member
Hello,
To clarify: Many people want to play a game with top knox graphics and AoC should provide this as good as possible. But good graphics come with a cost - it requires players to have relatively strong computers.
What I really wish for is an option to downscale the graphics to meet the limited capabilities of my PC, when the game is released.
If players with mediocre PCs are still able to play the game with decent fps, the potential customer base is much bigger - especially in poorer societies. So please, make the game as visually apealing as you are capable, but do not enforce this by limiting the bars in the graphic settings.
Sincerly,
a jobless math/economy student
To clarify: Many people want to play a game with top knox graphics and AoC should provide this as good as possible. But good graphics come with a cost - it requires players to have relatively strong computers.
What I really wish for is an option to downscale the graphics to meet the limited capabilities of my PC, when the game is released.
If players with mediocre PCs are still able to play the game with decent fps, the potential customer base is much bigger - especially in poorer societies. So please, make the game as visually apealing as you are capable, but do not enforce this by limiting the bars in the graphic settings.
Sincerly,
a jobless math/economy student
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But they are looking at graphic adjust-ability.
My guess is things like naval combat, parlor games and other fluff stuff. They might even skip on having metropolises available at launch since the amount of node exp required for a metropolis will take over a month anyway from my understanding
It's my hope that in the future nearly all games will have 'performance' modes where you can switch to a more stylised rendering that's easier on your PC and eyes. Like a potato mode, but still pretty...
Potato mode would also be acceptable for laggy events and low-end PCs.
I reject the idea that I must have terrible graphics in my game because your computer can't handle good graphics. If you want low to mid level graphics that is what console games are for.
But seriously games have graphics settings unless your computer is older than most peoples kids you should be able to play on low settings.
Just kidding. Sort of. PC is the best, but it's more consumer friendly to have both high performance options and low performance options.
Not only is it great for players to have these options, but it's great for developers, testing and all sorts of things including accessibility to the game, at no cost to the PC gamer community.
The problem between PC gamers and console gamers comes from games being designed FOR console and being ported to PC, limiting us PC gamers to poor performance, 30fps, low graphics and all that despite being able to handle it and more.
But don't worry. This is 1000% not the case with AoC. This game is a PC game, and not a port. We will get 60fps and great graphics.
Probably just a slight misunderstanding, I think some people just want the option of lower end graphics just in case.
And generally speaking, no one plays an MMO for graphics. MMOs will never have good graphics compared to non-MMO titles. StarCitizen is breath-taking and amazing graphics for an MMO, but I can boot up an old game like Skyrim with mods and make that look even better easily.
I like to run 1440P@120hz I hope the game supports this. I find it to be cleaner motion than 4K@60hz but I would also be happy with that. As for the OP I have no problem with the game supporting much lower, just don't take away my good graphics option
Earlier in 2019, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared that Moore's Law is no longer possible.
Ya were plateauing in terms of transistor size so were not getting the advancement that we used to. The next major step in computer architecture is moving to quantum computing.
A 10 year old machine might maybe be good enough to run the game on lowest settings.
Up side is you have 18-24 months to get work done and build a new one.