Frame rate issue with Battlefield 3 is blown out of proportion says DICE
Lower frame rate and resoultion allows more players and destructible terrain
Karl Magnus Troedsson, the GM of DICE, has dismissed the frame-rate debate over their choice to go with 30 frames per second on the console versions of Battlefield 3.
The DICE boss tried to alleviate any worries that console gamers may have over the games visuals and said that the frame-rate issue has been blown out of all proportion.
Troedsson explained: "Console gamers shouldn't worry about this, this topic is discussed out of proportions. For those tech-savvy enough to have looked into the actual resolution of their console games it won't come as a surprise that a lot of console games today do not run at 1080p but rather 720p."
On what gamers will be getting instead of a frame rate of 60fps and a resolution of 1080p he added: "When people ask for 1080p they don't see the compromises that would be needed to get there. As for the frame-rate we've made a conscious decision to stick with 30fps on console. It's not a technical problem with getting our game to run in 60fps but we do this in favor of the large amount of players, large scale maps, huge amount of vehicles, full on destruction and so on. One key element of the destruction which will take a big step forward in Battlefield 3 comes from the denser, more urban environments we introduce. In these you can take down the facades of huge buildings and expose or take out the enemies entrenched on the different floors."
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