BS: Pacific Needs Beta Then Demo

[It3llig3nc3]

As far as I remember the BS:M demo came out roughly a week or so before the launch date...

I agree with those saying that the demo should be a reasonably simple single player map that builds up apetite for the full version game.

[Commander92]

The sys. requirements should be the same as BS:M for the demo and full game so that those with less powerful machines can run it.

[It3llig3nc3]

Don't dream about having the same sys requirements than for BS:M.
One point that many people made about BS:M that it's graphic was not so good. (I would argue but whatever).
If you look at the videos and screenshots from BS:P you'll notice that the graphic have been improved significantly. Even with the famous IT technology law (a PC with "as of now" decent performance always costs $2000) expect that BS:P will be hungry for resources.
(did you know that BS:M was an original XBOX/PS2 game dressed up for XBOX360 while BS:P is a full XBOX360 game and that is ported to PC...?)

Another famous and problematic consideration is: what does an individual expect as "good performance" for the game? Running it everything maxed out if FULL HD resoulution or it's good enough to have MED settings in 1280x1024. It is a HUGE difference.

Also if you read around every study shows that in these days for full 3D games the bottleneck is the videocard. Even the first versions of the 2 years old Core 2 Duo systems can provide the processing power for decent gaming experience provided that a good videocard sits in your machine.


Overall it's funny that people are going into so much contradiction: they want more units, bigger maps, nicer graphic, better sound, more flexibility, but all that with the BS:M system spec that is 2 years old by now? C'mon guys.


Last but not least: why would the DEMO version of any given game have different system spec than the full version (maybe on HDD size there can be a difference). Full 3D games' performance is primariy determined by the capacity of the graphic engine - one thing that you can rest assured is the same in DEMO&FULL unless the DEVs are out of their mind...
What you can expect that normally on the SAME config the full version would run SMOOTHER and better since all the optimization is done in full and also the videocard manufacturers are providing updates for their drivers improving the game's performance month by month...

[raston]

Originally Posted by It3llig3nc3

Overall it's funny that people are going into so much contradiction: they want more units, bigger maps, nicer graphic, better sound, more flexibility, but all that with the BS:M system spec that is 2 years old by now? C'mon guys

A point a lot have missed.
More can sometimes be less!
But it can also mean MORE MONEY on upgrades.

[M0n3y]

Originally Posted by It3llig3nc3

As far as I remember the BS:M demo came out roughly a week or so before the launch date...

well they're beta testing now so i think we have to wait some time more...

[Polarshark]

pretty sure that the developers or makers of BSP

can do the beta themselves

if they need the hlep

they'll ask for it