One of the biggest things that I would get told about when I was first getting started was that the lighting sucked on PS4 compared to PC. Even though we had the same lighting system for PC and PS4, PS4 looked noticeably worse. This was because the lighting was just incredibly dim on the PS4.
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Pinball Arcade: Adding Friends Leaderboards
The fans wanted a lot of stuff to be done on the PS4. They wanted it to closer resemble the PC and mobile release of Pinball Arcade. I got it really close with the previous patch by adding the missing tables, trophies, and challenges. But there was still a ways to go.
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Trying for Monthly Tables
So now that I was done fixing the biggest bugs and catching Pinball Arcade up to where it should’ve been on PS4, I was going to start trying to release tables on a monthly basis like all the other platforms. That’s easier said than done with PS4 though.
Getting to Work on Pinball Arcade
At the end of my last post, I hinted that I had a huge task ahead of me. That task was getting PS3, PS Vita, and PS4 up to date with all of Farsight’s other platforms. For you to understand this though, you’ll have to understand Pinball Arcade.
Starting at Farsight Studios
Starting a new job is all types of feelings. I’d done some little jobs before but nothing this legitimate. I was nervous and excited. I was going to meet a lot of people who I thought would be intimidating given their experience. I would be going into a completely new work environment, that I hoped I would succeed in. There was a lot there.