New RAGE Dead City Footage
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Probably console footage...
consoles always have autoaim
He was talking about possibly redoing one of the levels with far larger textures. Doubt it would end up being much more than that.
The game probably is what they envisioned considering it was made with the consoles as the basis for it, something that Carmack already admitted was a mistake considering how far pc's have advanced in the 6 year dev time.
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He mentioned 2 things (well actually 3) - redoing one area with very high detail atlases, releasing an unsupported build of the game closer to his original vision (tho I'd imagine that would be a prohibitively large download) and research projects for playing with specific advanced features (some of which will likely make it into other games developed on the engine).
How can there be an "original vision" though, the game was planned with console specs in mind, they knew the downfalls of working with the memory limitations with the consoles. If anything the original vision should be the final console product.
He did mention maybe redoing a single level with higher res assets, theres no way they would redo the whole game just for it to be a free download.
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He said in the keynote that they originally started development with PC in mind and only part way through development realised that they needed to focus on consoles.
I didn't hear that anywhere, there was a video a while back where he stated that making the game have a focus on console specs at the time was a mistake as the pc just leaped and bounded over the consoles in terms of power since they started development.
He start to talk about it around the 1:35 mark.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/306236/id-softwares-john-carmack-20-minute-video-interview/
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I can't be bothered sitting through the video again but he definitely mentions it at some point during his recent keynote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zgYG-_ha28&feature=player_embedded
Well the quote from the vid i linked is as follows:
I watched the keynote and never heard anything about pc being the basis for rage, everything ive read or seen its always been the consoles were the basis for it.
Theres an editor you just have to bring down the console and type a command in to use, same as doom 3.
It wouldn't be a free stand alone download - you'd need a retail version of the game.
RAGE (well idtech5) very definitely started with a PC focus, console focus only came in about mid-way through the development cycle - I can tell you this for a "fact" I have fairly good ties with idsoftware.
RAGE (well idtech5) very definitely started with a PC focus, console focus only came in about mid-way through the development cycle - I can tell you this for a "fact" I have fairly good ties with idsoftware.
Obviously you'd need the game but i very much doubt they would upgrade the whole game with higher res textures and more data throughput for free. It would be a massive download to say the least, and bandwidth ain't free. They'd probably have to shift people off Doom 4 development to do this as well.
Thats not what carmack said in the video, he took the console specs as a basis, (much like what he did with the geforce 256 and doom 3) and later regretted it as the pc just ran away with tons more power over the development cycle.
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