Jump to content


Photo

FAST Racing Neo - A Chance to Pick Their Brain!

FAST Racing Neo

  • Please log in to reply
6 replies to this topic

#1 ZyroXZ2

ZyroXZ2

    Blooper

  • Members
  • 198 posts

Posted 19 June 2015 - 11:54 AM

*
POPULAR

I had a chance to pick Manfred's brain on FAST Racing Neo!
 
Here you go, copy-and-pasted!
 
-
 

Jason (ZyroXZ2): FAST Racing Neo, of course by its name, is all about speed.  You also emphasize that the Subsonic League is the slowest speed during the Treehouse gameplay.  Yet, I saw a lot of running into walls and other situations where speed and response time were coming into play.  Will the Hypersonic League speed render some vehicles virtually inadvisable, lacking the handling characteristics necessary to navigate more complex courses, or have all vehicles been relatively well-balanced for all modes of play?

 

Manfred (Shin'en): We made sure FAST Racing Neo is very accessible right from the start. After playing just a few rounds you really get a feeling for your vehicle. We think it's pretty easy to pick up and get much fun of it.

When you finished the Subsonic league and entering the Supersonic league you will need to adjust but this is where another layer of fun comes in. You will need to learn new tricks to master the courses.
Also you will get access to new vehicles with different stats. It's up to the player to develop his own driving style and which vehicle to use. Each cars has it's very own behavior and even the developers at Shin'en have each their favorite.

 

Jason (ZyroXZ2): Speaking of speed, the game runs at 60 fps to ensure that a fluid sense of rapid movement is maintained.  However, the game also supports local 4-player splitscreen.  What compromises have been made to ensure that 4-player splitscreen maintains that sense of speed?  For example, are there no CPU racers in 4-player splitscreen matches?

 

Manfred (Shin'en): We are still working on local multiplayer. We currently try multiple techniques and find the perfect balance for performance and sense of speed.

 

Jason (ZyroXZ2): Since I'm talking frames-per-second, let's go ahead and talk graphics for a moment.  The Wii U is established as being the weakest console of the 3 current generation systems.  Regardless, I've always maintained that maxing out the hardware would result in a good-looking game. Unfortunately, there are only a handful of examples.  Fortunately, you've come to the rescue!  Was coding the graphics engine and optimizing it difficult?  Can you confidently say you've maxed out the hardware, and that every available drop of power is being used in FAST Racing Neo?

 

Manfred (Shin'en): When starting with the game we had a vision. We wanted to develop the most exciting futuristic racing game on the market. We decided from the beginning it will be 60fps, anything else was not an option for a game that fast. So we knew all GPU and CPU stuff must fit into 16 milliseconds, which isn't a lot, especially when most games you get compared with are running on consoles with higher specs and with 30fps. We knew from the beginning we can't develop this vision with techniques everyone else does use. We would need to find different ways to achieve our vision. This was a big motivation because we like working on limits and pushing boundaries.

We started experimenting for a year. After a short time we had a working prototype but it ran only at around 15 fps when we enabled all the cool stuff and effects you now see in the game. We had 8k Softshadows, a complete HDR pipeline, physical based rendering, SSAO, more than 10,000 drawcalls, High Quality Motionblur, High Quality Godrays, Cinematic Color Grading, Volumetric lighting and so on. It looked really pretty but was near unplayable.

We then needed the rest of the year to find fast enough solutions to handle all these effects or to find new solutions that give the same results. Often we used tricks from the past that are pretty complicated to implement but that deliver the same effect with a fraction of the costs. To make long story short: In the end we were pretty happy seeing finally the game reaching 60fps. When finally playing at 60fps with all bells and whistles for the first time we knew we did the best work in our career. I don't say anyone else can't go even further on Wii U, but personally we reached our limits.

 

Jason (ZyroXZ2): Online multiplayer is practically the lifeblood of a majority of today's games.  FAST Racing Neo supports online multiplayer, but not much details on it have surfaced.  Will there be CPU racers to fill in the slots if not enough players can be found?  Will it support two-player splitscreen online multiplayer like Mario Kart 8?

 

Manfred (Shin'en): We still implement online multiplayer. We haven't fully finalized the design yet.

 

Jason (ZyroXZ2): Finally, it's undoubtedly true that there are many of us, me included, that want to play this game.  It's got a 2015 release year, but the Treehouse footage was clearly labeled "alpha version".  We are midway into the year, and I am a little concerned that FAST Racing Neo isn't in the beta stage, let alone that bug-squashing stage just before release.  How confidently can you tell me we'll see FAST Racing Neo before the close of 2015?

 

Manfred (Shin'en): It's a very ambitious goal, thats right. Anyway our Treehouse session and especially THE MIX session at E3 showed that the game is already working like a charm. There was no crash or other bugs for the complete day. We are very hard at work to finish all things up with perfect polish.

 

Jason (ZyroXZ2): Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions, Manfred!  May FAST Racing Neo be your best-selling game yet and I look forward to reviewing it myself! :)

 

Manfred: (Shin'en): Thanks a lot.

 

 


Check out my entertainment gaming channel!

Sig_Banner.jpg

www.youtube.com/zyroxz2

 

Enjoy!  :laugh:


#2 Kardibask

Kardibask

    Ninj

  • Members
  • 314 posts
  • NNID:Kardibask
  • Fandom:
    Marvel, DC Comics

Posted 19 June 2015 - 12:11 PM

Cool interview! I really like how thorough your questions are


e674231265.jpg


#3 ZyroXZ2

ZyroXZ2

    Blooper

  • Members
  • 198 posts

Posted 19 June 2015 - 12:34 PM

Cool interview! I really like how thorough your questions are

 

What can I say, I'm a detailed guy (usually), haha!  :laugh:


Check out my entertainment gaming channel!

Sig_Banner.jpg

www.youtube.com/zyroxz2

 

Enjoy!  :laugh:


#4 GAMER1984

GAMER1984

    Lakitu

  • Members
  • 2,036 posts
  • NNID:gamer1984
  • Fandom:
    Nintendo

Posted 19 June 2015 - 12:43 PM

So yeah looks like this is it for them on Wii U... wonder if they know of or already have dev kits for NX.... they did well with what they had.

#5 Lupaie

Lupaie

    Pokey

  • Members
  • 1,045 posts
  • NNID:Lupaie
  • Fandom:
    Banjo, F-Zero, Gears, Bioshock and Zelda

Posted 19 June 2015 - 01:09 PM

This game reminds me to ExtremeG

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left


#6 Mewbot

Mewbot

    I'm batman

  • Members
  • 2,027 posts
  • NNID:R00bot
  • Fandom:
    Legend of Zelda and Super Smash Bros.

Posted 19 June 2015 - 04:18 PM

I would like to see them make a 30fps game just to see what they can do with double the time to render things. I don't care what type of game it would be.


Y U READ THIS?...WHY IS THERE TEXT HERE? LOL WTF
       bi5tzqg.gif
 

                                 Wii U ID : R00bot


#7 ZyroXZ2

ZyroXZ2

    Blooper

  • Members
  • 198 posts

Posted 19 June 2015 - 06:42 PM

This game reminds me to ExtremeG

 

Interesting, I find it to not even be close, lol (other than speed and winding tracks).  I liked Extreme G a LOT, but it had weapons, which is a major factor in how these kinds of games play.  Though, breaking the sound barrier was EASILY one of the coolest things in Extreme G, and I used to get goosebumps when everything went quiet!  :D

 

I would like to see them make a 30fps game just to see what they can do with double the time to render things. I don't care what type of game it would be.

 

Framerate isn't always directly correlated to graphical capabilities.  Meaning, 30 fps doesn't mean they can suddenly pull off, say, 900p and/or global illumination, etc.  30 fps would probably only allow, say, more CPU racers, or perhaps more realistic handling physics calculations.  The sheer power of the Wii U's GPU may not allow for more intense rendering techniques at playable speeds, which seems to have been what they described when they tried it all and only got 15 fps, lol


Check out my entertainment gaming channel!

Sig_Banner.jpg

www.youtube.com/zyroxz2

 

Enjoy!  :laugh:


#8 Socalmuscle

Socalmuscle

    Hammer Bro.

  • Members
  • 1,677 posts

Posted 09 July 2015 - 01:27 PM

Fast racing Neo X?




0 user(s) are reading this topic

0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users

Anti-Spam Bots!