No Man’s Sky Beyond update gets a release date of August 14th! Check out the video here
I am excited for this seventh major release since launch (following on from Foundation, Path Finder, Atlas Rises, Next, The Abyss, and Visions).
Quote from the developer is that this is the “most ambitious chapter so far”. The last few updates have really brought the game into it’s own. I had returned the game when it first came out, and then when the Next release came out I purchased it again. So great to see this company turn this story around and really make something great!
This is a game that I joined early in the development when they had their own engine (they have since moved to Unity a year or so ago). It has come a long way. When it was their own engine, it was really clunky and weird. Now, it’s really starting to make strides in how the game plays.
Every few weeks, they review what they have been working on and what’s coming up. Check it out below!
Just saw this posted on a friends Twitter, this game looks pretty damn sweet! Definitely worth a check if you want something that is graphically gorgeous.
XBox One version of Ark came out today, and will in early 2016 have split screen co-op!! This is great news as not many games have been able to capture the old Halo split screen experience, hopefully these guys will be the one to pull it off!!
I did a tutorial on Youtube that I showed how to setup your graphics settings, and which ones are important. I am going kick this blog off as a supplement to the video tutorials I make for some static graphics to make it easy to see differences, etc.
Please see end of blog post for a critical part that might help you with graphics / FPS problems on lower end equipment.
For my tutorial and this blog, I have a high end system, so everything about what I said could be a bigger hit on your FPS than myself depending on your hardware.
My System: Processor – Intel Core i7-3770S 3.10ghz Ram – 16 gb OS – Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate Video Card – NVidia GeForce GTX 670 Factory Superclocked 4gb
Now a link to the video:
Below you will see the differences between two settings and what kind of framerate hit we are talking about for each of them. I am not going to do them all, but the ones I think matter the most.
Please note that some people have said vsync has a hit on older equipment, but I show on my rig that it doesn’t seem to matter either way I set it. So try it disabled and enabled to try the FPS hit of each setting. In fact I would say try all the settings this way, you should load up the single player editor in Chernarus and put yourself in various places in the map and try different settings as you will get a worse FPS out looking across a mountain with a ton of trees than you will looking at the city.
Distance: You can see below that with Distance it’s the single worst hit by far on your FPS. The longer the visible distance, the worse your framerate. I go from 73 FPS down to 35 going out to 10,000 distance!!! If you don’t have your distance long enough though, the snipers will get you and you won’t see them coming so try to find a happy medium for your hardware.
