Game engine limitations?
Apologies in advance if this I has already been answered or is obvious but I haven’t played the game since before Xmas nor can I bring myself to boot the game back up. I’m genuinely curious as ...
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@LordVader666 That's a lot of CPU power to calculate/track all those things, and with bigger maps + higher player counts that all eat up a considerable amount of CPU bandwidth - plus the apparently super-rushed development of 2042 - it's not surprising that they'd be cut. Even if current-gen consoles have much beefier CPU's with reasonable clock speeds, there are still hard limits to build around (see: the removal of Breakthrough 128p because even consoles struggled to keep playable framerates with 120+ players/vehicles all fighting over a single flag capture) and these features were likely cut as they were viewed as non-critical.
Though who knows, the 18 months spent updating Frostbite for this might have killed some of this functionality and requires that it be rebuilt.
Though who knows, the 18 months spent updating Frostbite for this might have killed some of this functionality and requires that it be rebuilt.
DICE tried to upgrade the Frostbite engine, but they didn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again correctly.
