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It could be either or a bit or both. Skeletons adapting to geometry is probably vector heavy so it may be a good fit for the GPU
Digital Foundry Article Technical Discussion Archive [2015]
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I don't think it's only the hardware in this case, you can see the rocks in the background looking more uniform and smooth. So maybe the rendering budget was misplaced?
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Personally I think the game looks pretty nice, regardless of the low resolution textures and 30fps animations. I appreciate the whole (and the hz).
Possibly yes. I guess the assumption is that you'll always see standing rocks, but you may not notice the snow floor. I think other games may create smoother meshes as you get closer to 'it' which is why it may be visible here, but not visible in other newer games.
Oh me too, i think it looks great overall. It's just a very easy game to nitpick because it doesn't do a good job of hiding it's shortcomings imo. I also wanna see how it ends up after the day one patch.
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Digital Foundry: Hands-on with Dark Souls 3
Early PS4 impressions, and how From Software's next epic compares to Bloodborne.
Early PS4 impressions, and how From Software's next epic compares to Bloodborne.
Pixels. Shaders. Polygons! 
Is it an issue in the first Blue Team mission? I had wondered if it was tied to a certain performance metric like the dynamic res is to render/pixel load or if it was just a hard-coded thing (distance).
Well, they are blending animations and such, and including rudimentary "physics." There are often various animations that get blended based on speed and direction with hysteresis, games usually detect where the ground is and use funky methods for determining how the contact points should roll naturally on them depending on the slopes and stuff, etc. Even for just walking.
It's not like Halo 1 anymore where they're just looping a keyframed animation at a constant speed on a character made up of half a bone or so.
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It's not that the animation is taxing per se, its that they can treat the background as static and reproject it ever other frame. That's where the saving is.
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Well, my opinion is that this might be the busiest Halo game yet; LOTS of enemies and even friendly characters (mission 3 has some human soldiers) on top of the 3 AI squad members, sometimes with vehicles and / or background events - and it's all at 60fps. Obviously the real test would be to play the game in front of a TV, but I'd risk it and say that 343i made the right trade-offs. The overall look of the game is pretty damn nice, Sparth's art direction shines through it and IMHO he's one of the best artists in the entire game dev industry.
And the cutscenes are a whole another thing. It's spectacular, some of the scenes I've seen like the Infinity hangar bay would be quite hard to do even in offline CG; and the characters and their animation are quite amazing as well. Nathan Fillion is a well known actor for most geeks, and his character is spot on.
This might easily become the most technically accomplished Halo game ever.
And the cutscenes are a whole another thing. It's spectacular, some of the scenes I've seen like the Infinity hangar bay would be quite hard to do even in offline CG; and the characters and their animation are quite amazing as well. Nathan Fillion is a well known actor for most geeks, and his character is spot on.
This might easily become the most technically accomplished Halo game ever.
Also, one more thing about the animation stuff - skinning is handled by the GPU as far as I know, so that might be another thing that they can conserve by updating at half the frame rate. It shouldn't be that expensive as far as I know but then again every % should count at 60fps. The game certainly has more stuff happening than many other titles at 30fps!
This is an incredibly lenient article towards the XB1 version, which has an unstable framerate compared to the stable and apparently very solid 30fps on PS4 (based on their own gameplay video).
While I counted 3 drops during the whole video on the PS4 including 2 during fast traversal and only one during usual gameplay (all 3 drops happening also on XB1), the XB1 version regularly hovers at sub-30fps or even mid-20s during gameplay when the game is usually locked at 30fps on PS4.
Sustained ~25fps with lowest at 23fps on XB1, locked 30fps on PS4:
Sustained ~27fps on XB1 during simple walking, locked 30fps on PS4:
Regularly hovers at ~27fps during fast traversal, PS4 mostly locked at 30fps (except 2 cases):
Random drop at 24fps on XB1 during gameplay, PS4 locked at 30fps:
Now the article explains very clearly and elaborately the sustained and constant drops on XB1 during gameplay...
:'Dipping beneath the 30fps threshold.'
'dips into the high 20s'? more like hovers at mid 20s.
So those drops are still good enough on XB1?
No "PS4 trumps XB1" or "PS4 is faster and more stable than XB1 (and there is no catch)" or "PS4 performs better than XB1" in the subtites in this article? Very lenient I must say.
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An unexpected turnaround given Unity generally ran better on Xbox One.
edit: oops. should have been unexpected.
edit: oops. should have been unexpected.
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AnvilNext 2.0 the engine that just keeps on giving, i am wondering if they figure out how to run @ 1080p on Ps4 for AC games by the end of this generation.
IIRC, the cut-scenes still showed a higher framerate for PS4 (still a GPU advantage there I think?).
IIRC in Unity some gameplay scenes always showed higher framerate on PS4 as well, notably during some sword fights.
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