NFS C: Q&A with Steve Anthony, Part 2

NFS C: Q&A with Steve Anthony, Part 2

Monday, 30.10.2006

Today the second part of the Q&A with Line Producer Steve Anthony has been published. This time he talks about the game and its optimizations of Need for Speed Carbon:

Community Team: In the demo, the frame rate felt slow and the game lacked a sense of speed. Will this change when the game is released?

Steve Anthony: The framerate issues that some users have commented on have been addressed for the final product. Typically our optimization only takes place once all the content is in place and locked. At that point we target both the code and the environments for optimizations. The tricky part about demos is that we are usually about half way through the optimizations by the time we release them. Early reports from all the review code that has gone out to the press is that there are no framerate concerns to report.

Certainly for sense of speed the same holds true. We tuned the visuals right up until the final moment we could before we stopped.

CT: Autosculpt is cool, but feels slow and unresponsive. Will this be improved upon in the full version of the game?

SA: Again the optimizations that were done to both the autosculpt system and the vector vinyl system didn't take place until after the demo had shipped. We felt that it was more important to get the feature into the hands of the fans so that they could experience the power of autosculpt, than to hold it back by several weeks until the optimizations had taken place.

CT: Why can't we race in the day, or better yet, both day and night?

We made the choice early on based on the premise of the game that a night environment better suited what we were going after. Certainly daytime racing between crews does take place but the majority of it happens after the city goes to sleep. And with Canyon racing there is nothing more dangerous than tearing down these winding mountain roads when you can only see 10 feet in front of the car.

CT: Will Carbon have content available after the game is released?

SA: Need for Speed Carbon will have a selection of premium unlockable and exclusively unlockable content available at launch and more content will be made available in the weeks and months following launch.

Tomorrow (Tuesday) the third part will be available.

Official Need for Speed Carbon Website

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#7: von DarkSpeed (01.11.2006 00:08)

CARBON today

TODAY IS the realesed Date
i hope that don;t take to long to be in the internet
for us to download

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Tuning Boy

#6: von DarkSpeed (31.10.2006 21:12)

von Demi

ei von Demi

the game its great
but in the night
neon give some good loking to the carr

muscles with neon r great
man
peace

go to my fotolog...
www.fotolog.com/dark_speed
about the Carbon

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Tuning Boy

#5: von kavit (31.10.2006 17:49)

Day & Night

they could have changed day and nights as they said that canyon drift goes at night
but they could ahev made the game the where we can race through the day and night but when we play the boss in the conyon drift it could have automaticly changed into night time

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@Patel212

#4: von lujja (31.10.2006 10:47)

"exclusively unlockable content" = so i'll have to pay for it.. lol.

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#3: von Demi (30.10.2006 21:32)

Thank's EA........

it's grate EA many thanck's from me and my friends its grate work . But stil are some bugyes in the demo i hope there are gonna dissepear in the full version

thank's EA...

#2: von Demi (30.10.2006 21:32)

DarkSpeed

i licke the game how it's like
in the first place i licke muscles
in the second muscle cars don't ned neons

#1: von DarkSpeed (30.10.2006 21:13)

About the GAME

hum if it was in day and night
damit
no words it can be insane

ei pll help me
in demo there r no babes on the start line
a have seen on some videos ladys and stuff
i hope the full version of pC .. will be avaliable

and MAN no NEON
hahaha come on
race at night without neon
it sucks

EA Gives us neon plzzzz

im out

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Tuning Boy

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