Ilya answers regarding CoD scaleability

[TheSwede]

I just logged in to Facebook and threw away a comment/question regarding how the new game engine will respond to future hardware configurations.

For those registered on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/il2sturmovik...5?notif_t=like


For those without:
" Simon, the game is indeed extremely scalable. For the past six months all we've been doing is scaling it back. Basically we had built a 2013 game and had to pull it back into the present. Growth in the next couple of years will be very easy. We'll just flick a bunch of switches back on."


I find this answer positive and I think the hard part is done for the team of 1C. Future expansions will support both more planes, new terrains and some exotic graphical features.


//Simon

[David198502]

sounds really good for all of us!those who have high end pcs and those who dont.

[=PF=Coastie]

Well yeah they had to turn stuff off. They can't even take a single pic at high res with AA. But then again, they may only have a 2006 machine they are testing it on....LOL!

[Baron]

Originally Posted by =PF=Coastie

Well yeah they had to turn stuff off. They can't even take a single pic at high res with AA. But then again, they may only have a 2006 machine they are testing it on....LOL!

They do have high end machines, reserved for programmers and "important, have to stuff". And before u say: "well, borrow one such machine for an hour and snap some screenshots", they allredy said that the "gameversions" on the high end machines are not fit for "human consumption" ...Iliyas words i belive. (correct me if im wrong).

[Blackdog_kt]

Just like i was suspecting, they went about it the same way as with IL2.

We didn't have perfect landscape mode or detailed water in the early versions of IL2 either

I like the way they are doing it to be honest.

hopefully they don't scale back too much. When new kepler is out, which is meant to be 3 times faster than fermi, there's again plenty of room for better graphics and physics.

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Just like i was suspecting, they went about it the same way as with IL2.

We didn't have perfect landscape mode or detailed water in the early versions of IL2 either

Exactly

[mr71mb0]

Originally Posted by TheSwede

" Simon, the game is indeed extremely scalable. For the past six months all we've been doing is scaling it back. Basically we had built a 2013 game and had to pull it back into the present. Growth in the next couple of years will be very easy. We'll just flick a bunch of switches back on."

//Simon

Ahhhhhhh, my face is melting with excitement.

Sounds like the devs have been very sensible with targeting features and allowing enough scalability for the future. I also take this to mean that they will scale all features this way and not just eye candy.

Perhaps weather, AI, FM, DM, online environment updates as more cores / CPU power becomes available.

[Azimech]

Originally Posted by mr71mb0

Perhaps weather, AI, FM, DM, online environment updates as more cores / CPU power becomes available.

I sure hope AI, FM and DM are at 100%.