Let's Talk : GRAPHICS

[Tiggy]

Hold on a minute, *if* the PS3 is genuinely holding back the PC client, how can the PC client run at anything beyond 720p? How can it have additional physics, better textures and effects than the PS3 - *if* the Ps3 version is holding it back? Clearly the PC client can run higher than 720p, it has additional physics, more effects and more detailed textures than the PS3 version. Sure the engine can also handle low end PCs, and funnily enough that is a positive effect since it allows more people to play, the efforts ti include lower end PCs and PS3 results in far more players being able to play, but for people with a high end PC, the graphical experience is much better than the low end or PS3 - because the engine scales with the hardware. Claiming that the PS3 held it back ignores the fact that the game OBVIOUSLY looks better on a high end PC at 1080p or greater, than it does on a PS3.

You act like running in a higher resolution means anything to this discussion. Obviously the pc version has higher settings than a locked down ps3, but you ignore that the engine was made in directx 9 explicitly to help make the ps3 version run better. Regardless of 1.0 the entire engine is different and likely performs better than the original engine would have on the ps3. So to everyone saying "omg the 1.0 engine was supposed to be launched on ps3" I respond that you all have no idea how effectively it would have actually achieved that. Consider for a moment how monumentally bad the 1.0 launch was in so many ways and you have such faith that 1.0 was all ready to go for the ps3? Even after it required blisteringly fast pc's just to run the game?. I say that is very doubtful indeed. Also, I never said pc's couldn't exceed the ps3, but to suggest the development of the engine didn't take into account ps3 limitations for the launch is lol-worthy. It absolutely did, and with time and release of the directx 11 version we will exceed the ps3 handily. Everyone is just fretting over this like it won't come in time. It will. They already talked about it before. However, right now it isn't a priority compared to getting the game stabilized.