Killzone Shadow Fall can handle 24 enemy AIs before “framerate drops"

[Snickerzz]

Now first off this isn't a bad thing.. just read

With a new engine and new tech the most “obvious” improvements Boltjes highlights are, “more memory [and] more graphical power on screen”. But better looks aren’t what he considers the most important thing about the move to PS4. “For me as a game designer what I was really interested in was getting more gameplay elements on screen. More enemy types at the same time, more weapon types. Bigger areas. For me that gives us a lot more ingredients to play around with. Previously we were limited. You could have six or seven guys on screen, only two types, and it had to be at a specific range”. The ability to throw more on screen has allowed the lead designer to, “open up much more” and enabled the studio to create the more open ‘gameplay bubbles’ Killzone Shadow Fall is built around.

 

http://www.officialplaystationmagazine.co.uk/2013/10/16/killzone-shadow-fall-can-handle-24-enemy-ais-what-happens-at-25-framerate-drops-says-guerrilla/

[Vitalius]

That sounds pretty cool.

[brownninja97]

Quite interesting, still it doesnt compare to fish AI

[ivhyn]

I won't buy a PS4 anytime soon so they can put 100 Ais on screen and I wouldn't care more. 

[kuddlesworth9419]

That isn't anything to be writing home about.

[brownninja97]

I won't buy a PS4 anytime soon so they can put 100 Ais on screen and I wouldn't care more. 

Im sure a decently powerful pc would struggle a lot, think about bf3 campaign or the crysis 3 campaign, they only put up around 10 enemies on you at max, bf3 goes up to around 15 sometimes. 24 enemies at once is actually a bigger achievement then you would think. Its an even bigger achievement when the coding is advanced to make the enemies tougher. 

[EChondo]

Only 24?

 

What a huge disappointment.

 

Now I'm wondering...whatever happened to "MAG" for PS3?

[mgsstar]

24 is not much imo if it is a big map. Don't really see why you would want more than 2 different types of enemies in the game. Usually in games I just see around 2-3 types.

[ivhyn]

24 is not much imo if it is a big map. Don't really see why you would want more than 2 different types of enemies in the game. Usually in games I just see around 2-3 types.

24 on screen? That's quite a big number actually.

Afaik there's a difference between AI on Screen and AI that's not in the field of view. Halo Reach had could handle like 40 characters on the Battlefield but I doubt it did with 10+ at the screen at once.

 

 

Im sure a decently powerful pc would struggle a lot, think about bf3 campaign or the crysis 3 campaign, they only put up around 10 enemies on you at max, bf3 goes up to around 15 sometimes. 24 enemies at once is actually a bigger achievement then you would think. Its an even bigger achievement when the coding is advanced to make the enemies tougher. 

I didn't say it wasn't an achievement but there's not one game I care less about than Killzone Shadow Fall... maybe Fifa.

[theroflcopta]

Wow I didn't even know they had to limit the number of AI characters on last gen consoles that's just comical

[ACatWithThumbs]

Wow I didn't even know they had to limit the number of AI characters on last gen consoles that's just comical

Crysis 3 had the hardest mode missing on Ps3/Xbox360, because they couldn't do more and complex enemys.