Digital Foundry: No Man's Sky framerate and performance test (PS4)

[Nuvendil]

curl-6 said:

Nuvendil said:

To be fair, it is not "when flying over a planet" it is "when flying max speed down to a new planet and boosting as fast as possible without slowing down over the surface."  That's a specific, intentional circumstance you aren't going to have happen accidentally very much.  As he pointed out, as soon as you slow down and the engine generation can catch its breath, the game runs as before. 

It's still a scenario I can see happening quite a bit when one is trying to scout out a planet's surface or get to a certain location on the surface. And 14fps is a pretty rough ride for a high profile game releasing on current gen hardware.

I disagree with the first half of that, you aren't "scouting" anything moving at max speed so there really is no use for that scenario.  That's why DF refers to it as a very rare occurrence and pretty minor, and I think I will rather defer to them.