4/29/2023 0 Comments Gears tactics enemiesGears Tactics will run at 4K / 60fps on the Xbox Series X with a choice of 60 or 30fps for the cinematics - “not for any performance reason but more for just personal taste,” McRae says. It’s still much easier than the tons of combinations in the PC space.” It really helps when you start targeting consoles - it’s just like yeah, there’s a few of them and everything’s fixed, right? Targeting fixed hardware is always easier even if there’s two or three. “For us, because we’ve made a few PC games now and we kind of understand how to scale for all that hardware, when it comes to looking at the whole range of Xbox we can scale our game very well because we already know how to do it on PC. “We can scale our game very well because we already know how to do it on PC.” We just had a target like the rendering subsystem and I/O and other things to make it work on the new hardware.” We were already working on it for Gears 5, and even though the hardware itself is different, the tooling that we work with remained the same, so we weren’t making this huge change to how we built the game. “And then when Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S hardware came out, moving from Xbox to that hardware was not a huge effort for us. So when we started actually looking at the console, we already had an Xbox version running, which was really good because we didn’t have to spend time on the table stakes of running on the hardware.” “We didn’t specifically spend a lot of time with it, but we just maintained it to make sure that there wasn’t going to be this massive effort to go and actually make it run on Xbox at the very start. “PC was our primary focus, but we knew that we were going to ship on console eventually so we had a console version running mostly from the very start of the project,” McRae adds. “It was more like, our game’s gonna be ready to ship and there’s hardware so let’s target it and make it happen.” “It wasn’t so much someone saying like, ‘Hey, you’re gonna make sure this game is on the hardware,’” says Cam McRae, technical director at The Coalition. While a console version was always planned, it wasn’t necessarily intended to happen alongside the launch of the new Xboxes. Conversely, Bielman says that you can plug a mouse and keyboard into an Xbox console and play the game just as it would run on a PC. Gears Tactics did ship on PC with controller support, but it clearly worked better with a mouse and keyboard, so The Coalition’s efforts to refine the game for controllers will also come to the PC version along with the new content. The UX has also been streamlined in certain regards, like the convoy area where you manage your soldiers and choose missions, and there’s additional content, including a new playable character along with extra enemies and equipment. There’s a precision mode that slows the cursor down and new snapping features that help you select the right target faster and more accurately. The bones of the game haven’t changed, but there are some affordances to make it play smoother with a controller. We knew that in order to make that feel good, we couldn’t just have a simple mouse simulation on the controller - we had to add functionality.” “The game has to feel great with the sticks in your hand, and the game that we have with Tactics is very free and open - it doesn’t take place on a grid, you can move your units anywhere on the map. “We wanted to really make it authentic for the PC strategy gamer first and foremost, but we also knew eventually we would take our time and bring it to console in a way that feels really native on the console,” Bielman says, citing the game’s controls as the most important thing to get right.
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