Overkill emphasizes gameplay over framerate

Feb 26, 2015 14:15 GMT  ·  By

After having confirmed that Payday 2: Crimewave Edition would be coming to the PS4 and Xbox One platforms in June, developer Overkill Software mentions that the title won't hit a stable 60fps framerate, although the native resolution is locked at 1080p on both consoles.

Payday 2 launched back in 2013 for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 platforms, delivering an intense cooperative first-person shooter experience that tasked players with robbing banks and pulling off all sorts of crazy heists.

The game has since received a vast number of downloadable add-ons and now Overkill Software is packaging them into a single experience that's soon going to appear for the PS4 and Xbox One in the form of Payday 2: Crimewave Edition in June.

Overkill won't sacrifice gameplay over framerate

While the studio mentioned that the title would run in a native 1080p resolution, it now clarifies on the target framerate, saying that it will probably hover around the 35 to 40fps mark, instead of trying to hit milestones like 60fps.

According to Overkill Producer Almir Listo, the main goal of the studio with Payday 2: Crimewave Edition is to deliver the classic Payday experience to fans, instead of trying to hit certain framerate numbers. He emphasizes that, if Overkill had chased after 60fps, it would have needed to limit the number of enemies on the screen and other such things.

"What people have to realize is that, hypothetically saying, if we weren't able to go 60fps, we could do that, but that would mean we could only show four enemies at a time on-screen," he continued. "And that isn't what Payday is about. Payday is about the onslaught of police officers coming at you at the same time, 20-30 rushing you. And that's something people have to take note of when they do those comparisons," he explains to Videogamer.

As such, with Payday 2: Crimewave Edition, Overkill focused on great gameplay and not great framerates.

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