Microsoft releases Crackdown 3's PC System Requirements

I wonder if it will have that cloud powered destruction or if they scrapped it for a more basic physics engine.
 
I wonder if it will have that cloud powered destruction or if they scrapped it for a more basic physics engine.

I don't think any game has used the cloud for physics calculations? The latency would be to high. Doing it for lightning has been done before afaik. Though I could be wrong but I would assume latency would be to high.
 
I don't think any game has used the cloud for physics calculations? The latency would be to high. Doing it for lightning has been done before afaik. Though I could be wrong but I would assume latency would be to high.


MS touted it as one of the big features of the game a few years back when destroying whole sky scrapers.
 
Server-side physics in itself is nothing new or unheard of, many large multiplayer games that use a client-server model will use a combination of client side and server side calculations to a degree. Latency can be an issue, but this approach generally solves more issues than it causes(It's the basis of a lot of basic anti-cheat measures) and those it does cause can be mostly hidden with client side tricks. Crackdown 3 is set to take that up a notch by having the multiplayer servers have large amounts of additional processing power dedicated to physics calculations.
 
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Huh, higher Dx feature level for lower specs.

I guess it has to do with the lower overhead.
 
MS touted it as one of the big features of the game a few years back when destroying whole sky scrapers.

Oh interesting. I don't remember seeing that.

I know EA uses it for there sport games. To speed up loading times and whatnot as it can offload the random generators to the servers.
 
lmao some one was holding the shift key...

"Crackdown £'s storage requirements"

Did make me laugh though, as it's correct either way :D
 
Been waiting for this game for YEARS now. The first two games are masterpieces. IT BETTER NOT GET DELAYED AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!
 
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