Makes Me Happy in Pants

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Teuthida

I saw this video right before I posted so was quite jaded.

The narrator said there were "hundreds" of goblins on the screen at the same time. I paused several times and at most I counted 30-40 on screen (and thats being generous) with a miniscule draw distance showing goblins continuing to reappear out of the blackness. Also, even though they said that each goblin was unique, I couldn't tell any of them apart except for maybe clothing colors.

There might be hundreds of goblins around you, but what counts to your hardware is the humbers in your viewing area. Everything outside of your viewing area is simply code that your PC does not have to render until is comes into your view. Also the draw distance in Total War games is about 15-20 times that of that test, at least. Look at the background of the test. Were there any moving set pieces? Anything else to help gum up the works?

I don't think thats a valid comparison.