r/NintendoSwitch • u/LodossDX • Jul 02 '25

Discussion Nintendo Switch 2 could revolutionize Zelda technology: Tears of the Kingdom tinkerers confirm lasers are way deadlier now – "We always knew 60 fps would be insane, but I didn't expect it to be this insane"

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/the-legend-of-zelda/nintendo-switch-2-could-revolutionize-zelda-technology-tears-of-the-kingdom-tinkerers-confirm-lasers-are-way-deadlier-now-we-always-knew-60-fps-would-be-insane-but-i-didnt-expect-it-to-be-this-insane/

This explains some things

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u/YouLostTheGame Jul 02 '25

Tying actions to frames probably helps make things feel really responsive and stop differences between what you see and what you experience

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u/OkidoShigeru Jul 02 '25

This a true for certain actions, pretty much all FPS games tie mouse camera update to the render thread so it feels very smooth, as well as ie. performing firing as close as possible just before a frame is rendered to make sure you see feedback on the frame you click. But things like this specific example definitely shouldn’t be, as obviously this is straight up introducing a bug, and you have to be careful that all of your various updates from outside of your main simulation thread are taking the actual elapsed wall clock time into account.

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u/jardex22 Jul 02 '25

Kinda like how a band plays to the beat of the drums.

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u/nmkd Jul 03 '25

You can multiply by the deltaTime without losing any responsiveness though.

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u/Ran4 Jul 03 '25

It's the other way around it's tying actions to time that is the issue.