the game has very impressive visuals, the first mission of the campaign in real time is jaw dropping on a well calibrated monitor or TV, it looked like real life to me. Only issue I've seen in the consoles version is some residual shimmering during the campaign, which I didn't notice when I played, but I guess that's because of XeSS.
The color grading is fantastic. Everything else is not so impressive IMO.
it could well be the lack on tessellation. 4K xess quality -image is tonemapped from hdr to sdr so colour is totally off but that's besides the point-
Huh, that looks much better. Was DF not showing max settings with tessellation in their video?it could well be the lack on tessellation. 4K xess quality -image is tonemapped from hdr to sdr so colour is totally off but that's besides the point-
Not much effort in terms of optimization. Series S should be capable of handling 1440p without a hitch. The Steam Deck just shows poor utilization throughout and drops to the 40's for no reason. I've seen this issue happen on my 2080 Ti at 3440x1440 where the game remains locked to 120fps but in some areas, it drops to the 70's with a low GPU utilization.
the DF video features the console version. The city of Amsterdam is not very demanding but the docks stage is one the most stressful parts of the campaign. At least on my pc judging by how it behaves. They wanted rock solid 60fps so tesselation might have gone.
Can you enter any coffee shops for some R&R?
Really? The attention to detail very much warrants praise, and the graphics themselves are sufficiently good to do the scene justice.
A Plague Tale should be number one. I think the trees in that level are kinda fake looking to be honest. When i first saw the level the trees stood out to me as not really fitting in the scenes and the general look seems a bit washed out. But it's a good looking level nonetheless, as long as you dont aproach anything to look at the textures.
he might have a point though. I am playing the campaign and the Amsterdam stage is good, but the quality level of the campaign is so amazing overall that maybe that's not the pinacle of it.
which is unfair, and couldn't be that bad taking into account current consoles are PCs, but still unfair.How? Developers increasingly focusing on console as the primary dev. platform. Thus new programmers entering the field have their primary experience being developing for consoles and then porting to PC while more experienced programmers who started development on PC (and thus have far more experience with having to program for a huge variation in hardware) are leaving the field (retirement or switching to more lucrative programming opportunities) over time.
Thus we increasingly have programmers who only know how to develop for one ... maybe two different sets of hardware at any given time with little to no knowledge how to optimize for a large number of hardware targets.
Combine that with increasing development costs making new programmers more attractive to have than experienced (and thus more expensive) programmers and we have the perfect storm for something that was solved over a decade ago on PC to reappear as a problem on PC.
Same goes for horrible game UI, bad control response, bad custom keybinds, lack of resolution options, etc. etc.
I shouldn't only mention console here as being a deleterious factor WRT game programmers not having a varied and flexible programming skillset, but mobile gaming platforms also atrophy game programmer skills.
If you take a look at markets where PC still dominates versus console, like S. Korea, it's relatively rare in my experience to run into issues WRT shader stutter. Granted, I haven't seriously gamed in recent S. Korean released games (games released in S. Korea and not games which have been localized to Western markets which tend to be years older) in the past couple of years so maybe it's changed there as well. Hope not.
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which is unfair, and couldn't be that bad taking into account current consoles are PCs, but still unfair.
50% of Capcom's game sales now come from PC
Capcom management has confirmed that PC is a very important platform for the Japanese publisher with 50% of total video game sales coming from the PC.
