Planetside 2: High Graphics or High Frames per Second?

[Noctis]

This is a warm topic among hardcore players for all FPS genre gamers.
The most recent games absolutely have astonishing graphics, just think about BF3 or PS2 itself. Even on TOP Machines you will never get more then 90 frames, in crowded battle especially. I really doubt on PS2 during a 1500 players engagement on ultra settings anyone will be able to run the game at 80 FPS.

So what matters?

Frame Per Second is the value used to recognize how many frames of single images we have per second. Since our monitors do not stream a constant flux of image but rather millions of "frames", like the old video projectors in a certain point of view.

Has been stated, proved many times that a player playing on 60 Frames has better overall awareness and hardware response then a player playing at 30.

The other bells say that the human eye is only able to perceive 30 frames, and doesn't matter if you get 100 FPS on your shooter game.

This discussion ends up with one side stating that no matter how the game looks good, but always play on lowest settings to maximize performances, because a player with 60-100 FPS has a more fluidly screen, more awareness and best hardware response.

The other side simply wants to enjoy the game fully, and doesnt care about having more then 30 FPS.

Effects:
Samething applies for weapon effects such dust explosions flashlights and all those kinds.
A distant on-going engagement filled with high-res smoke, explosions and flames will surely burden the weight of one's eyes causing distractions and loss of focus on the current objective.
In many games such things can be turned off or lowered at least. Everything at the cost of graphic approach.


So, how does this affect a game like Planetside that despite having a big tactical approach the TTK is very short, and the ranges of engagement are long sometimes?

-Whats your opinion about Frame Per Second impact on gameplay?
-Are you going to lower your settings even if the game runs smoothly? And have you ever done this before in other games?
-Do you think certain things only apply in common FPS round based games, and it will get lost among the hundreds of players fighting?


The concept of this question goes to an Italian streamer named Azoto-
http://www.youtube(.)com/user/AzotoPwny
This thread doesn't aim to advertise the above user and his channel and its written there cause I don't want to claim thoughts who don't belong to me.
If any Moderator wants to remove the link do it.


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