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But can you play PUBG at max settings? It's not just snark: PUBG is a new kind of game, with a level of realism, open-worldness and massive player numbers tha

But can you play PUBG at max settings? It's not just snark: PUBG is a new kind of game, with a level of realism, open-worldness and massive player numbers that hasn't been a hit before. Though it's said to be "not optimized", I think many of its performance issues won't be easily optimized away, because they are intrinsic to this new type of game. (Fortnite runs smoother, but has far less realism, amd its netcode has comparable latency),

megaman22 9y ago
That genre's not my particular cup of tea, so I don't have any idea, but I'm running Warhammer Total War 2 maxed out.
VHRanger 9y ago
The Battlefield series are heavily optimized and have much much better graphics than PUBG. They are in the same domain space (huge maps, 50+ players concurrently, etc.) Battlefield does use hardware very much, but that PUBG is not well optimized is fact.
- hyperpallium 9y ago
  Agree that battlefield games look amazing and play smooth. And I'll allow 50 as close enough to 100. But the maps are not only smaller (largest I found was 1.5x1.5km), but very different in nature: they are designed for traditional fps gameplay, and incorporate techniques to enable fast rendering (e.g. limited visibility so submaps can be streamed in as you move between regions; mountain ranges seem impassable, again forming a gameplay element and aiding rendering). The PUBG map is less "designed", and more like a real place. All areas are accessible, and although terrain undulations do eventually close-off areas, they are far larger areas, and they don't seem designed for rendering but for realism and a different kind of gameplay. Finally, a single figure to dramatize the map contrast: Battlefield 1 shipped with 9 maps. PUBG shipped with 1.
lousken 9y ago
massive player numbers? what about wow? and not the currect wow which has zones but old one from vanilla to wotlk I think there were a lot more players than 100

megaman22 9y ago

That genre's not my particular cup of tea, so I don't have any idea, but I'm running Warhammer Total War 2 maxed out.

VHRanger 9y ago

The Battlefield series are heavily optimized and have much much better graphics than PUBG. They are in the same domain space (huge maps, 50+ players concurrently, etc.) Battlefield does use hardware very much, but that PUBG is not well optimized is fact.

hyperpallium 9y ago
Agree that battlefield games look amazing and play smooth. And I'll allow 50 as close enough to 100. But the maps are not only smaller (largest I found was 1.5x1.5km), but very different in nature: they are designed for traditional fps gameplay, and incorporate techniques to enable fast rendering (e.g. limited visibility so submaps can be streamed in as you move between regions; mountain ranges seem impassable, again forming a gameplay element and aiding rendering). The PUBG map is less "designed", and more like a real place. All areas are accessible, and although terrain undulations do eventually close-off areas, they are far larger areas, and they don't seem designed for rendering but for realism and a different kind of gameplay. Finally, a single figure to dramatize the map contrast: Battlefield 1 shipped with 9 maps. PUBG shipped with 1.

lousken 9y ago

massive player numbers? what about wow? and not the currect wow which has zones but old one from vanilla to wotlk I think there were a lot more players than 100