Doom on PC will support advanced settings, unlocked framerate at launch
id Software's CTO has taken feedback from the PC community to heart, and outlines some of the ways players will be able to customize the game.
If there's one thing PC gamers don't care for, it's being constrained by console specifications and standards. Doom, in open beta until just recently, caught flak for its lack of advance settings. id Software CTO Robert Duffy published a blog addressing capped framerates "and other PC features that weren’t emphasized in the Beta for various development reasons.
According to Duffy, the PC version will NOT be capped at launch. "Further, the PC version of DOOM will expose a comprehensive set of advanced game and rendering options that will allow players to dial the experience up or down based on their individual desires or hardware capabilities," the developer confirmed.
Duffy tailored the rest of his blog to a specific audience: players who, like id itself, has PC gaming in their DNA. Extolling the virtues of being able to tinker with settings for maximum performance, Duffy listed the features found under Doom's advanced settings menu, including an FOV slider, quality of lighting and shading, toggles for lens flare and dirt, UI opacity, reticle selections, and the quality of decals and reflections, among other settings.
Refer to Duffy's blog for the full list of advanced settings that will be available in Doom when it launches on May 13.
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replyDavid Craddock posted a new article, Doom on PC will support advanced settings, unlocked framerate at launch
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Same here. I already know to pass on multi.
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Same. That's all I want.
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hoping for shadow warrior levels of fun and mayhem.
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Wolfenstein
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So did I. It's my second favorite Doom, after the original.
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Good SP FPS games do get made. "Last decade" covers quite a lot, too! Even not counting any open-world-ish stuff like STALKER or RPG-ish stuff like Deus EX HR.
Wolfenstein, the Metro games, and the HL2 episodes are probably the benchmarks.
But also (checking the Wikipedia FPS list) we had a good showing from BioShock 1/2, a couple of the CoJ games, AvP 1/2, Crysis Warhead, the "other" Wolfenstein, Halo Reach & ODST, Bulletstorm, Shadow Warrior... actually even more than that. If by "high hopes" you mean expecting the best FPS ever and something that is as much of a watershed as the original Doom then yeah that would be dumb, but it's not silly to just hope for a good & fun game.
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It's really the only thing I give a shit about. The multiplayer is just extra bullshit to me.
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sad that we've gotten to the point where these things need to be announced or played up.
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oh, makes sense
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I thought the same thing when Gearbox was going around reassuring everyone before Borderlands 2 came out. Odd that we're still seeing this, especially from id software of all studios.
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We're seeing it because the Internet bitches and moans about everything, and writes off games before getting to spend time with the meat of their content.
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