Dead Rising 2 has multiplayer, up to 6000 zombies on screen

[Ascended_Saiyan3]

NJ5 said:

Ascended_Saiyan3 said:

kowenicki said:
6000 on one screen? one question... how?

Are they the size of a grain of rice? Are they a long long way away? makes no sense to me.

It's really not that big of a deal.  Having different AI for them would be a big deal.  There was a simulation with over 15,000 objects (chickens) with their own A.I. on the Cell (page 5).  Without individual A.I. (i.e. minimal crowd A.I.), MLB 09:The Show has around 50,000 people in the stadium stands moving around.

 

But did you read the whole sentence?

"In fact, when the number of chickens was increased to a total of 15,000 birds the Cell B./E. processor was still able to perform the simulation with interactive speed, but the graphics rendering was not able to keep pace, even on a state-of-the-art NVidia GPU and started dropping 2 out of 3 frames, resulting in 10fps "sluggish" video output."

 

Yes, I did read the whole sentence (the whole PDF for that matter...more than once).  Did you read my sentence about MLB 09: The Show?  Those chickens each had individual A.I. routines.  The zombies in Dead Rising didn't have their own routines in mass.  Only the closest zombies to you would have individual A.I. routines.  It's no different from the 20,000+ soldiers on the ground in Lair.  I don't see any reason to think the 6,000 zombies in part two would be that different, do you?