DICE had to tone down the ray tracing effects in Battlefield V for “more realistic visuals as well as better performance”. Christian Holmquist, technical director of DICE in an interview talked about the team’s plans for Battlefield V along with the technical aspects, more importantly- the ray tracing engine.
A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.
Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.
Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.
"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."
If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.
Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.
I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.
The new Escape from Tarkov Unheard Edition has the community in an outrage after promising exclusive access to the new PvE mode for $250 USD.
$250? Do they not know all the other games that already exist or will be made in the future that can do similar?
This is for the hardcore people that have 2500 h in the game. They basically play that one game the whole year.
Oh and those same people are mad as hell at this... what a way to reward fans of your game and annihilate newcomers.
Read a comment earlier calling it a "special monetization operation." I had to chuckle at that.
Ray tracing is an experiment
I hope next gen has more emphasis on better framerate. Don't really care how amazing the light passes through the freaking trees or how great my shadow looks.
I need better framerate.
Wait so they were hyping ray tracing in this game and now they almost removing it? For all we know it has been removed completely. More EA lies and fraud
So they've toned it down and are still only targeting 1080p? 0_o