{"id":82042,"date":"2015-10-07T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=82042"},"modified":"2015-10-07T16:21:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T14:21:03","slug":"star-wars-battlefront-looks-remarkable-regardless-of-your-graphics-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/82042-star-wars-battlefront-looks-remarkable-regardless-of-your-graphics-settings","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Battlefront looks remarkable regardless of your graphics settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graphics comparison YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CandylandGS\" target=\"_blank\">CandyLand<\/a> has just recently released a graphical comparison between Ultra and Low settings for the PC version of <em>Star Wars Battlefront<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the first thing you\u2019ll notice is how similar, comparatively speaking, Low and Ultra settings for the game look.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, what you\u2019ll first notice is just how good the game looks, a lot of which comes down to a new rendering technique, <a href=\"http:\/\/starwars.ea.com\/starwars\/battlefront\/news\/creating-the-graphics-of-star-wars-battlefront\" target=\"_blank\">Physical Based Rendering<\/a> (PBR).<\/p>\n<p>From a technical standpoint, PBR \u201crefers to a way of rendering that takes into account certain physical properties and laws.\u201d It considers things like \u201cenergy conservation of a material, how we handle reflection, and how we render lighting\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But once you get past its grandiose visuals, you\u2019ll see that DICE has done a remarkable job of optimising the game for a variety of PCs.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-aliasing is all but absent and textures contain decidedly less detail at Low settings, but lighting is fairly similar across the board, and has resulted in one of the better looking Low settings of late.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out for yourself:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RPcTqVTmZNg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Battlefield 4<\/em>, graphically at least, was a much more ambitious title than <em>Star Wars Battlefront <\/em>is; that\u2019s according to a comprehensive, hands-on analysis of the game by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/digitalfoundry-2015-hands-on-with-star-wars-battlefront\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Foundry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say that <em>Star Wars Battlefront<\/em> isn\u2019t the best looking game produced by DICE or powered by the Frostbite 3 engine, it is, but lighting isn\u2019t calculated and rendered in real time but, for the most part, baked into the level.<\/p>\n<p>By hard-coding the lighting directly into each level, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DICE_FireWall\/status\/631168345610579968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">adjusting it for each mode through the level editor<\/a>, there is much less compromise between the Low and Ultra settings for PC, and even less of a difference between consoles and PC.<\/p>\n<p>For those PC elitists out who sport godly PC rigs, worry not; <em>Star Wars Battlefront <\/em>will happily cater to you, especially for those of you with PCs to handle the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/77994-star-wars-battlefront-at-4k-looks-well-unbelievable.html\" target=\"_blank\">game\u2019s magnificent 4k resolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It had better look superb given its recommended hardware requirements.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>In other news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/81866-dota-2-reborn-is-broken-and-losing-tons-of-players-as-a-result.html\">Dota 2 Reborn is broken and losing tons of players as a result<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/81774-funniest-shower-with-your-dad-simulator-2015-steam-user-reviews.html\">Funniest Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015 Steam User Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/81073-dragons-dogma-dark-arisen-arrives-on-pcs-in-2016-brings-4k-textures-with-it.html\">Dragon\u2019s Dogma: Dark Arisen arrives on PCs in 2016 \u2013 brings 4K textures with it<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or your preferred platform for that matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":82044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[709,175,9477,9082,16052,15397,16054,10285,183],"class_list":["post-82042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-dice","tag-ea","tag-frostbite-3","tag-graphics-comparison","tag-pbr","tag-pc","tag-physical-based-rendering","tag-star-wars-battlefront","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82046,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82042\/revisions\/82046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}