How much does the video quality setting pact battery life? I'm playing on a Pixel 4 XL and keep wondering if it's worth lowering for more battery. Also I have no idea what each setting actually changes...
Hi! I am one of the LoR engineers working on quality / performance / battery life. Thank you for playing LoR.
Battery life is pretty device and usage dependent. One of the biggest factors is screen brightness, but video quality does impact it quite a bit, too. Let me explain what the settings currently do, and try some rough estimates for play time on your Pixel 4 XL; sorry if it gets a bit long :)
- Starting from the top, "Ultra" is the highest quality setting: Native resolution, MSAA, and cinematic bloom on certain animations. This looks great, especially on tablets with larger screens, but is rather expensive. Luckily tablets tend to have big batteries to compensate for the battery draw to some extent.
- On "High" there is no MSAA, slightly less post processing effects, and the resolution is capped at 1080p. This tends to look pretty crisp on most phones, but especially text can feel a bit blurry on larger tablet screens. Battery consumption scales closely with the number of pixel...