Because devs are so stressed for meeting work deadlines they don't see problems until a majority of people play the game, or don't actually have the time in general to play and fully optimize every build, which basically has normalized pubs to prioritize patching after launch. It's not the devs not caring or being lazy about their work as you suggest
They can't see the problem that happens with every Unreal Engine release these days? Can't see the problem that a cursory glance at the finished build running on any PC will tell you?
You keep bringing up "well they fixed it soon after launch" as if it's a huge revelation, but the amount of effort needed to fix something doesn't mean anything when your working on the game itself down to the wire especially on multiple platforms with many variables. there are tons of different builds in development after all
You've missed my point entirely. I literally said the publisher is the one who decides the rules and that devs are not to blame who work hard enough.
You're not giving any valid excuses at all.. The game should be tested before it is released... and not released until it WORKS properly. These issues should be very obvious to the people who sign off on this stuff...
My pics are from the 4K (youtube) feed. Like the reduced AO on PS5 I think it's probably an omission. Seems they are using the same ground textures resolution as on XSS.
Yeah. A wider penumbra is more computationally demanding, resulting in softer shadows. It's hard to tell from that screen which is the better rendering.
Of course as that's subjective. Some people prefer when it's blurrier. But there are definitely more details on the sharper shadows / textures.
If you look closer, you can see that both shadows include the same details, but the one on the Xbox got an extra pass to make them less sharp (a bit more realistic).I am quite surprised he missed the resolution difference displayed on all ground textures from 7:29 between PS5 and XSX. I could immediately notice the difference on a compressed 720p youtube video! Like the shadows those textures are quite sharper on PS5.
PS5 is on the left:
And they also did another pass on the textures to make them blurrier?
It's probably just a bug because of XSS /XSX dev we already saw plenty of times. They'll probably correct the problem if enough people complain.
Yes, that doesn't explain the terrain tetures. But there's two different points at play here. The tree shadows are far blurrier than the textures, so the shadow softness is caused by something different to the lower texture fidelity. I think it more pertinent to look at the textures than the shadows for your argument!And they also did another pass on the textures to make them blurrier?
It could be that, or maybe just that the Xbox and Playstation version use textures stored in different compressed formats. Or that the textures are slightly lower resolution. My guess would be that they are just in a more compressed format that is probably unified between the Series S and X to compensate for S's smaller memory. There doesn't seam to be more stair stepping in the fine details like the stems of leaves, but it's obviously blurrier than the PS5 textures. If you use image editing software to convert an image from one format to another one that is compressed, and there are quality options for that compression you can get results that look sort of like this. You can get 2 images with the same resolution but one will be blurrier with a smaller file size.
Why would they when the dev manager said it's nothing big just that they are at different stages of development? It certainly didn't sound like something the devs wouldn't resolve themselves.
I believe he left Unity a while back. I think he's on his own game studio now, or joined another.
