Trails Past the Horizon is packing some fairly nifty PC options, and a few of these options won’t be appropriate together with your machine, however engineering studio PH3 says it intentionally lets you screw these settings up if you wish to.
In a information submit on Steam to mark the sport’s launch, PH3 CTO Peter Thoman says he is discovered throughout his time engaged on PC ports for video games that “some gamers do not learn”, and that even when together with “shiny pink warning textual content”, gamers will push settings to Extremely after which complain about efficiency.
As such, Thoman says it is higher to let gamers “shoot themselves within the foot” as a substitute of “arbitrarily capping the high-end scalability of a recreation”; he believes that “a very good PC model can profit from future {hardware} with out re-buying some remaster”, which is a really refreshing perspective.
Amusingly, Thoman factors to 1 occasion in Trails Past the Horizon wherein in-game settings are hard-capped at “excessive”; the scene is a grain discipline, and with out this cover, “completely absurd quantities of particular person, absolutely modeled stalks of grain being rendered” would turn out to be a problem at Extremely.
If, nonetheless, you do need to crank this hard-capped organising for some purpose, you will discover a parameter within the settings file marked “allow_silly_grain_levels”, and switching this to “true” will allow you to render these stalks. As Thoman says, although, there’s “completely no purpose to do that”.
In addition to discussing the pitfalls of porting video games to PC, Thoman additionally says Trails Past the Horizon is being optimized to work with as many {hardware} configurations as doable.
He factors to the instance of one of many recreation’s testers, who nonetheless makes use of an Nvidia GTX Titan, a GPU that was present about 13 years in the past however which has since begun to lag behind. Shock shock, Trails Past the Horizon will assist that GPU.
Trails Past the Horizon is the most recent recreation in The Legend of Heroes’ ongoing Trails sub-series, persevering with story arcs from numerous different Trails video games together with Chilly Metal and Dawn.
The sport is on the market now for PC, PlayStation, and Nintendo Change. Keep tuned for extra.
