Ajumọṣe ti Ajumọṣe Awọn ere Awọn ere Riot ti tumọ agbara rẹ pẹlu ọpọlọpọ awọn ere ori ayelujara ni aṣeyọri si oriṣi FPS pada ni ọdun 2020, n ṣafihan ifẹ fun awọn igun lile ti Counter-Strike ninu ilana naa. Titi di oni, Valorant jẹ olokiki kan - ti o ba jẹ imọ-ẹrọ giga – ayanbon.
The making of Valorant sounds like one long technical nightmare, however, with Riot prioritizing polish and coding smarts in order to make a shooter that rewards pinpoint accuracy while remaining scalable across wide range of drastically different machines.
Mo sọ fun ẹlẹrọ agba Riot fun ere naa, Marcus Reid, lati ṣajọ oye siwaju si imọ-ẹrọ labẹ hood ti o gba laaye FPS ọfẹ-lati mu ṣiṣẹ lati ṣetọju aṣeyọri rẹ ni ọdun meji siwaju.
Nitorina o dara hertz
Ere kan ti o nbeere iru ọgbọn giga ati deede kii yoo ṣiṣẹ laisi awọn olupin oṣuwọn ami giga. Reid sọ pe “A ṣe gbogbo awọn adanwo pẹlu awọn oṣere ti o ni oye giga gaan lati mọ bi ere naa ṣe dun julọ,” Reid sọ.
“We found we really needed 128 tick rate servers to hit our targets. We also want the vast majority of our players to be under 35 millisecond ping. That's kind of the optimal conditions.”
Oṣuwọn ami kekere tabi ping ti o ga julọ ṣafihan awọn idaduro, eyiti o buru si awọn iṣoro bii anfani peeker - “ohun-ara ti imuṣere ori kọmputa”, ni awọn ọrọ Riot, eyiti o yori si anfani pipin-keji pataki fun oṣere kan ti n wo igun kan lori alatako ti nkọju si wọn. . Ọrọ naa ni igbagbogbo jiroro laarin awọn ẹgbẹ ifigagbaga, o si ti yori si ga profaili àríyànjiyàn lori ẹrọ orin Pingi.
(Kirẹditi aworan: Awọn ere Riot)
That said, making Valorant a highly scalable game was still a priority. Riot continues to make the game accessible to players using a wide variety of setups. Additionally, it doesn’t shy away from display solutions like Nvidia Reflex – which bypasses the render queue to enhance communication between your machine’s CPU and GPU.
“We support some pretty low-end machines,” Reid says, “and we want those machines to play great and be able to play the game competitively. I think Reflex supports GPUs all the way back to the 900 series, which came out in 2014. That hardware is broadly accessible and improves the experience for enough of our players that we think it's worthwhile to support. But we also want to make sure that we have the best possible experience on that high-end hardware.”
Awọn oṣere ti o ni orire to lati ni awọn PC giga-opin ko gba eti ti ko tọ. Valorant ni aaye wiwo ti o wa titi, awọn ipin abala atilẹyin nikan ti 16:9 tabi 16:10 - ati paapaa awọn ti nlo awọn diigi ultrawide ni a fi agbara mu sinu apoti lẹta ki wọn ko le ni anfani lati iran agbeegbe afikun.
Pinpoint konge
(Kirẹditi aworan: Awọn ere Riot)
Iṣoro giga ti Valorant le jẹ iyalẹnu si awọn oṣere lasan diẹ sii, nitori igbagbogbo o jiya ere suboptimal. Pẹlu akoko kekere-si-pa - aaye laarin ẹrọ orin ti n ṣii ina ati sisọ ibi-afẹde wọn - gbogbo awọn ọrọ ibọn. Eyi ti o tumọ si pe iforukọsilẹ lu ni lati jẹ deede bi o ti ṣee.
Reid sọ pe “Ni awọn ofin ti bii a ṣe jẹ ki iyẹn ṣẹlẹ, awọn idahun gidi jẹ data pupọ ati ayewo ti o wuyi nigbakugba ti a ba royin ọran kan,” Reid sọ.
Awọn olupilẹṣẹ Valorant ko bẹru ti itupalẹ awọn idun tabi “ohun kan ti o wa ni pipa” labẹ maikirosikopu, lẹhinna. O jẹ ilana ti ẹgbẹ naa n dojukọ ni gbangba. Fun apẹẹrẹ, Riot ti ṣe atẹjade idaran kan bulọọgi tekinoloji lori netcode Valorant (ṣii ni taabu tuntun) , ati pe o tọju awọn oṣere ni lupu lori awọn idahun ati awọn imudojuiwọn ti o da lori awọn esi wọn.
Ni otitọ, botilẹjẹpe, ọpọlọpọ Riot le ṣe ni opin rẹ lati rii daju iriri ori ayelujara ti ko ni ailopin. Reid jẹwọ pe awọn ilọkuro bii ififunni asọtẹlẹ, eyiti o ngbiyanju lati dan awọn asopọ ti ko duro, le kun awọn dojuijako nikan si iye kan.
“If network conditions are truly degraded, if the game client and the game server can't communicate the information they need to in a timely manner, the player experience does degrade,” he says.
(Kirẹditi aworan: Awọn ere apọju)
Riot dabi ẹni pe o ni iwọn ti Valorant, didara asopọ ati idahun gbogbogbo si imọ-jinlẹ kan. Ṣugbọn bawo ni nipa iṣẹ ṣiṣe?
“So pre-launch, we were really talking about three categories of problems,” Reid explains. “What are the targets we need to hit for our server performance? And that's the one delivering the 128 tick rate experience.
"Ẹka keji jẹ awọn oju iṣẹlẹ ti o ni asopọ GPU," o tẹsiwaju. “Iyẹn duro lati wa lori ohun elo opin-kekere, bii Sipiyu kan ti o ni awọn aworan ti a ṣepọ dipo GPU igbẹhin. Ati lẹhinna awọn oju iṣẹlẹ ti o ni asopọ Sipiyu, eyiti o duro lati jẹ diẹ sii fun awọn PC alabara aarin-ti-ibiti o ati awọn ẹrọ iṣẹ ṣiṣe ti o ga julọ. Iyẹn tun ni diẹ ninu ipele ti ni lqkan pẹlu awọn idiyele iṣẹ ṣiṣe olupin. ”
Riot rarely cuts a feature outright over performance concerns. But those concerns do impact the development process. Valorant’s art style, for instance, was designed from scratch to look good across a wide range of hardware. “That's not the only consideration, obviously, but it does take some things off the table,” Reid says. “We're not going to be using real time ray tracing if we're running on a laptop from 2012.
“Bi a ṣe n ṣe agbekalẹ nkan tuntun fun awọn oṣere ni bayi, a ṣe idanwo iṣẹ ṣiṣe lile,” o tẹsiwaju. “Ti a ba ṣafikun agbara ipilẹ tuntun ti o fa ki ere naa ni lati ṣe iṣẹ diẹ sii, iyẹn le ni ipa lori iṣẹ. Nitorinaa, a gbiyanju ati tọju awọn agbara tuntun bi titẹ ati daradara bi o ti ṣee ṣe, ati pe a tun ṣe idoko-owo ẹgbẹpọ ti akitiyan imọ-ẹrọ nigbagbogbo ni iṣapeye iṣẹ ṣiṣe gbogbogbo. ”
Awọsanma ati ki o kọja
(Kirẹditi aworan: Awọn ere Riot)
Leaning into the topic of performance, you may wonder if Valorant could one day grace a cloud gaming service such as Nvidia GeForce Now, allowing players to get around hardware limitations entirely. But Reid was quick to express that such an eventuality simply isn’t on the cards for the game at present.
“With a cloud gaming service specifically, the challenge would be the increased latency of going through a cloud game server, and then talking to that server,” he says. “I think it'd be pretty difficult to provide the type of responsiveness you need in a game like Valorant over a cloud gaming service. I don't want to say never; technology will continue to improve. But that's not something we're looking at right now.”
More promisingly, Reid confirmed that Valorant console ports on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S are “something we’re definitely exploring”. However, he wasn’t able to give us any more info than that.
Lakoko ti a yoo nifẹ Valorant lati wa si awọn iru ẹrọ diẹ sii, a loye pe o jẹ apẹrẹ fun PC ni akọkọ, ni pataki nitori idojukọ wiwa rẹ lori deede. Awọn igi afọwọṣe lori awọn oludari ko le baamu deede ti Asin kan, ṣugbọn a nireti pe Riot le wa ojutu kan fun eyi ki o mu Valorant ni aṣeyọri si awọn olugbo ti o gbooro. Lẹhin gbogbo ẹ: gbogbo eniyan ni o yẹ lati ṣe adaṣe FPS kan fun pipe.