Season 4: Chapter 46. Trap Card (1)
Meanwhile, the model designers logged into the company server. Since it was late, they continued their meeting through chat.
[Newtype: Alright, everyone. Don’t panic. Just check the polygon count, then report back here.]
Newtype, the nickname of the most senior member of the department, coordinated the team. It didn’t take long to check. All they had to do was right-click on the character, and basic specs like polygon count would pop up instantly.
‘It’s probably nothing again.’
Newtype knew how prone CEO Jung was to overreacting. This whole issue seemed ridiculous to him.
‘We definitely unified everything properly last time.’
They had rendered key characters that weren’t meant to stand out at the same quality level as all the background extras.
[Broe: Hmm... It really does look like there are more polygons.]
Someone spoke up.
[Newtype: What? That doesn’t make sense. We applied the same standards across the board.]
[Broe: Yeah, but remember that time we adjusted everything for optimization at the very end?]
Optimization was the eternal nemesis of every game developer. No matter how uniform the specs were, performance would vary depending on how well they optimized the game. Optimization issues often caused launch delays, and rushed patches only made things worse.