Beta before Benchmark?

[DoctorMog]

Kind of agree and kind of don't. From a technical stand point, any time you change tech specs of a program (especially if it's lower than the previous version), you always want to put out a benchmark as a small program for people to see what machines will run fine without the install time (which does take a long time).

On, the other hand, as you said, the benchmark can be used as a valuable teaser and would have been better for everyone and not just those selected. I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt though and say that they probably can't release an accurate benchmark until they accurately know how the current game plays. I have no evidence to back this up, it's just me giving them the benefit of the doubt.

THe benchmark will probably be released closer to the final build after tuning is done. They will probably have options for different settings as well.

Isn't that the purpose of delivering us 2 benchmarks?

One now, teaser, general specs example, graphics showcase, for those not in beta,

One later, finely tuned, closely matching the game requirements for actual benchmarking purposes.