Alan Wake 2 [PC, PS5, XBSX|S] 17th october 2023

[Scott_Arm]

Promoting Alan Wake in Fortnite. Looks like you can play through a story recap in a special game mode.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1714296282762695022

 

[Man from Atlantis]

 

[pjbliverpool]

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Awesome amount of detail there.

 

[techuse]

So 1440p/30 FSR 2 balanced for consoles. That is not going to look good at all.

 

[Frenetic Pony]

I'd appreciate the Crysis level of "this game won't run on your PC" if it looked relative to other games how Crysis did back in the day. But, well, it doesn't. WTF Remedy?

 

[Roger Cobb]

Next week.

 

[trinibwoy]

Just realized this is a permanent Epic Store exclusive. Stupid stupid stupid.

 

[Theeoo]

Apparently this requires mesh shading support as well, so Pascal and RDNA1 won't run it. I guess they are using primitive shaders on RDNA1 based PS5?

 

[Scott_Arm]

This looks like PS5 footage from the button prompts

 

[Davros]

I guess they are using primitive shaders on RDNA1 based PS5

makes you wonder if they have a fallback to use primitive shaders why not also have that on p.c as well ?

 

[Scott_Arm]

makes you wonder if they have a fallback to use primitive shaders why not also have that on p.c as well ?

On pc I think the fallback to be the old vertex shader pipeline. You can't work with primitive shaders directly. They're a driver-level construct that AMD converts mesh shaders to that maps closely to their hardware. For RDNA1 and Pascal gpus, the fallback would be the vertex shader pipeline, which just may not be up to the task. On PS5 devs can likely work with primitive shaders directly, and do all of the things a mesh shader would do.

Edit: Also calling it a fallback is a bit deceptive. It's just a second geometry pipeline the devs would have to engineer to cover the case of gpus that don't support the mesh shader api. Not sure how many devs would ever write games this way. UE5 will use mesh shaders for nanite on gpus that support it, but I think most games will just make a switch to mesh shaders when they think the gpu market is ready. We're probably getting close. We have three gens of Nvidia gpus that support it, and two gens of AMD gpus. I think the next gen of pc gpus will definitely put us there.

 

[Phantom88]

Just realized this is a permanent Epic Store exclusive. Stupid stupid stupid.

The only reason this game exists is because Epic made it. They funded it, publish it. I can't fault them in this case, because they're not moneyhating a game, they're not paying to keep it from Steam. They literally made an entire game from scratch. That's fair game

 

[mr magoo]

This looks like PS5 footage from the button prompts

He says in the vid that he played on PC at 9 min mark

 

[GhostofWar]

nvidia overview trailer.

 

[Phantom88]

They claimed on twitter they aim to have the best looking game of 2023. Best looking ever, meaning. Looking at this more crisp trailer, not smeared with the usual youtube vaseline, they look to be on track

 

[techuse]

Do Alan Wake and Control take place in a shared universe? I noticed the janitor from Control in that trailer

 

[Reynaldo]

Do Alan Wake and Control take place in a shared universe? I noticed the janitor from Control in that trailer

Yes. There's even an Alan Wake themed expansion for Control.

 

[SmooTh]

Do Alan Wake and Control take place in a shared universe?

Yes and they're part of Remedy's "Connected Universe"

 

[davis.anthony]

Not sure if this has been posted?

 

[ZebMacahan]

Do anyone know if there will be a 40 fps mode on consoles?