Much more improved RT. The shadowing and reflections definitely has improved. And the traffic in the third set has increased significantly.
Yes as a whole it's an improvement. Reflections and shadows are noticeably better. But in the first image I find the backgrounds of the old build more detailed. What's up with the moon in the new build? The details have being washed out.
I wouldn't put too much stock into contrast and saturation quality, or even sharpness. These builds could have been captured under different encoding settings. Then you add in other factors of being "recaptured" or "re-encoded" for other uses... then things will look obviously different in certain ways.
They moved the light source, which in the first video was the moon. In the second they made the moon less bright and move the light source to the side - check the shadows. Most likely just an artistic choice.
Toned down the colors alot? Improved reflections especially in the first shot. Also, starts don't show in the august demo? Overall, much sharper in the earlier demo, look at the second shot the objects/vegetation in the distance for example. Improved reflections (RT?) but toned down the rest, ray tracing still isn't free i see. Reminds me of BFV where RT made its debut, the reflective floors and windows everywhere.
Cool. But I'm only going by what is shown. The game is definitely a looker, though.
Sort of like a hallway. Or a tunnel. Or a SegaCD FMV game.
Visually much more exciting hallways.
Also we should wait for the whole game to release to see what all they do with it.
It's better than just having a black screen when going to any areas that's not wide open.
On a related note I've never understood the hatred for transitional moments in games. Yes they have been used cleverly to hide loading but now that you don't need to doesn't mean they will disappear.
It's a critical part of story telling.
I agree. I'm just going off what they've shown. And so far, the "loading hallway" has been replaced with a hallway that loads a new hallway every step.
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I'm going to miss jumping in my ship, zooming off into the distance, having the camera pan up as my ship pulls up into orbit, does a couple of barrels-roll passes in space, then descends into landing on a new location. We've been doing this since the PS2 and it never felt like it was longer than 20 seconds anyway.
I’ll never have time to check my phone and fall into a 4 hour YouTube spiral while playing a game anymore. Not sure if I’m happy with that.
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June vs August. The latest build has significant improved visuals.
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Counting frames is interesting, I wonder how the game will deal with this transition in the 60fps mode? Either way, very impressive tech.
Nice with the streaming.I thought exactly the same. You don't really know where exactly you should start counting frames, as by then the loading may have started already. Accuracy is questionable, but it's a good exercise nonetheless.
Oh absolutely, amazingly fast loading times even if it turns out to be double what they frame counted. I never want to experience Borderlands 3 initial game loading durations ever again. Where you measure it in wall clock minutes, or "I can take a bio break now and grab some food".
This will be a well polished game. I'm certain the devs are talented enough to pull off the fast level loading even on a PC 2021 platform where the system isn't nearly as exceptional as the PS5.
This will be a well polished game. I'm certain the devs are talented enough to pull off the fast level loading even on a PC 2021 platform where the system isn't nearly as exceptional as the PS5.
