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Homefront: The Revolution's recent patch 1.06 boosts frame-rates on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One by a margin of up to 25 per cent, or 5fps in terms of in-game frame-rate. It's good news for both systems and the update promises a suite of optimisations to achieve this - including tweaks to lighting, animations, and also fixing a high draw call glitch relating to its mini-map. The end result is a smoother game, but one that's still far from ideal in either case.It's worth noting a newer patch has also landed on PS4 alone, labeled 1.07, that fixes a few bugs - but it's 1.06 that offers the key optimisations. Compared to the launch update 1.02, we're seeing a massive gain in opening gameplay, though it's worth noting some aspects are unchanged. PS4's native resolution stays set to 1080p, while also Xbox One uses its usual 900p framebuffer. Equally we see tearing to the top of PS4's output which isn't in evidence on Microsoft's machine.
Xbox One remains the better performer of the two, and from the first cut-scene shows a lead of 2-3fps for stress points. The margin has narrowed significantly since launch, in part due to both graph readings now more readily hitting their 30fps cap, meaning we can't see the extent of the divide as we once could. But where there's a gap, it's Microsoft's machine that shows a lead in identical scenes.
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