Battlefield 4 official discussion/thread. [PS4,XO,PS3,X360]
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RenegadeRocks
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Frankly, playing it right now, except for Floodzone where the map changes completely, the levolution is just a fun event int he match, nothing much changes and I think thats why no one cares to trigger it. You can call it a gimmick. If it had impact on all maps like in Floodzone,then it would have mattered. Right now everyone is busy capturing objectives, no one cares to waste ammo on levolution.
Sounds like precious compute resources wasted, should've just make the map more detailed, I mean sure it has the scale but it's looking very sparse.
Megadrive1988
Veteran
Battlefield 4 graphics review by some rendering engineer guy
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So... This ain't gonna buy me any friends I guess. On the other hand I have to say I would be thrilled to see people tell me even the harshest things about my work, I've learned from a great artist who once told me to seek for people that would tear my drawings to pieces. Not that there is anything to tear in DICE's excellent game, just to say, please do dissect my work
Also, these are just some things that I've noticed in a few hours of single-player campaign, on my PC at Ultra. It's not comprehensive. It's biased by whatever happens in the first few hours of SP, by my mood the day I played in many other ways.
Texture detail
Now on some of the truly great stuff. On PC, details are amazing, especially textures and particles. Aliasing aside, materials are impressive, even more than Crysis 3 where everything had detail but mostly due to tiled detail textures used everywhere, especially I think to modify specular and give materials an unique microdetail. Here, I couldn't really see tiling, which means either they use very big textures or they do tiled details with some sort of distortion/blending tricks to hide it, or I'm not good at thisAlso material variation on the surfaces is great, you can't really see decals or layers, if they are doing them (which I'm sure they are) everything blends very, very well.
Geometric detail
Geometric detail is mostly due to having a lot of objects
Debris is everywhere, both authored in the level and due to destruction and particles. It's really great, things fly around all the time and it doesn't look unnatural. Also, no shimmer, no aliasing, small particles seem to be pre-blurred when depth of field is on (I think). It's actually easier (even if might not matter in a deferred, non baked renderer) to light correctly small instanced objects that large ones.
I couldn't see any particular shading trick applied to the vegetation (but I didn't look very hard, the levels I've played weren't very lush) but one thing it does great is that grass always bends out of the way and it's really hard to "clip" into it.
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RenegadeRocks
Legend
The new explosion FX are very cool ! That ball of orange with stuff streaming out is just beautiful !
!RenegadeRocks
Legend
Dice talks BF4 on the pS4 :
If I understand it correctly, I think that's the game streaming mode. We will have to spectate from Twitch, Ustream, or NicoNico (?).
It should work for every game unless the developer turns it off somehow.
RenegadeRocks
Legend
U do have spectator mode in the game. Each game can have 4 spectators and the u can have free cam, fixed cam,follow cam, first person cam n third person. Its actually quite fleshed out. Will be fun to watch the match as a war
RenegadeRocks
Legend
1)There are 4 spectator slots in each game and 2 commander slots. Whether you have to rejoin a game to switch to playing is not kown to me as the slots are separate so there's chance that the game u r watching is already full.
2) should be, but right now all I have seen are official DICE servers,so there were no whimsical admins to kick anyone out.
3) I don't know about talking back , Maybe PC players can tell us about this one.
4)Yes, yes, thats the fun part
, u can switch to anyone's POV in first person or follow anyone or any vehicle in third person, place fixed cameras which will remain there for you to check out again n agani and also have a flying cam to move around watching the whole war scene !RenegadeRocks
Legend
Looking good. May be I should heed RenegadeRocks's recommendation.
you won't regret it ! This is da MP game, true next gen gameplay , 64 players , all vehicles, jets, choppers and destruction with super fun game modes ! Conquest rules everything, RUsh for people who have plans to execute! Battlefield moments keep happening all the time and this time we will actually be able to easily record them and share instead of just telling stories to friends and mates ! The game is a sight to behold when all hell breaks loose in MP!
