From T-ray's twitter

[Xyntech]

Originally Posted by EVILoHOMER

It wont look like that when playing Planetside 2, so don't get too excited. Even if the developers came on here and said I'm wrong, I'd bet my left arm (right handed) that when the game comes out it'll be a lot lower detailed than that.

Know any civil war doctors who could perform an amputation for you?

Detail like that is cool and impressive, but not really that impractical. The trick is that the game doesn't have to show that much detail when you aren't close enough to see it.

But time will tell exactly what makes it into the final game. I'm certain that some things will look a bit different in the final version, but nothing I've seen so far looks that impossible for a high end machine.

Of course rendering one soldier versus rendering 100 is an entirely different matter. It may be that when there are a certain number of other players close by, you won't see that kind of detail even when you are close up. Really hard to make predictions without seeing more of the engine in action. The game ran damn smooth when Higby showed it off the other week though, accelerated time of day included.