Digital Foundry: Hands-on with the PlanetSide 2 beta on PS4

Eurogamer: "Overall, while there are still bugs that need eliminating, at this stage our main sticking point with the PS4 version of Planetside 2 is performance. The level of tearing is at times unsightly, while its variable frame-rates result in an experience that lacks consistency, jumping from near 60fps in desolate areas to below 30fps during combat."

[RJ92009]

I want to play this so bad!!!! I keep trying to get in the beta and no luck

[MysticStrummer]

Good luck! It's lots of fun. I got rid of Battlefield 4 shortly after I got in this beta, and I don't have an urge to buy another online shooter. Battlefront 3 will probably get my money since I love old school Star Wars, but often when I'm playing Planetside 2 I'm reminded of Star Wars because of the multicolored tracers flying back and forth, so I wonder how much I'll even play Battlefront 3.

Check this video out to see what I mean about the tracers, especially starting around 2:50. It's a battle just before dawn to get across a bridge between bases.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[RJ92009]

I just want it more ahhh why would you show me that said face..

[MysticStrummer]

Sorry. I know how you feel, but watching videos and streams got me through my time of no code so I thought it might help you. Endeavor to persevere.

[RJ92009]

Hopefully it just comes out soon

[Damrock]

Hope they just lock this at 30fps.

[windblowsagain]

I'd prefer 60fps on this game.

Still only beta mode, so performance should improve a lot.

[freshslicepizza]

why not allow the option to go down to 900p or 720p if it means higher frame rates? oh that's right, console makers think they know what's best for us.

[Spotie]

You are perfectly free to grab/build a capable PC and play it there. Nobody's forcing you to play on a console.

[Bansai]

not really, nowadays beta is just another fancy word for demo, you'll see.

[MysticStrummer]

Ha Well if you played this beta you'd see it's a true beta. I doubt it will end up 60fps though.

[Kavorklestein]

I remember Sony was advertising this game as "Coming soon" to PS4 back in summer of 2013. Considering this was already out in November of 2012 on PC- what the hell, if I may ask, is taking it so long?
Almost 3 years to port over a F2P game?
Isn't this the 3rd "beta" ???
More like the Epsilon.
If this game was actually a new Ip, I could understand them sayin things like: "We want it to be perfect"

But at this rate, it's just pathetic.
It's a cool enough game, just totally stupid how they haven't released it even though they used it to hype up the PS4 practically two years ago, as of this summer.

[DDOS-DelDaemonicOSes]

I think part of the delay may be that this game was originally DirectX.

I'm glad you mentioned about it being promoted as "Coming soon" in 2013... I would have never known that unless it was a Microsoft product that then would have resulted in many articles about how they "lie".

[MysticStrummer]

As if we never see articles saying Sony lied about something…

smh

[ironmonkey]

60fps or not even the pc version drops that low in heavy combat

[Tundra]

The final release is looking to cap it at 30fps with v-sync (oh god that screen tearing). I'll say, it looks exactly the same as the PC version and they did a really good port.

It runs on the ultra preset nicely... until player characters start populating the scene. Everyone and their mother knows this game is CPU bound and that's pretty much the issue here. That said, at a 30fps cap it should be largely consistent and it'll look great in the process.