Unity wasn't in the OP video and from what I've heard and seen it's probably one of if not the best looking games out there. I will pick it up one day when it's on a heavy sale. Would pay full price but it looks like a huge downgrade gameplay wise vs Black Flag which was amazing.
That just supports the point that the video creator is biased towards Ubisoft to generate a lot of clicks.
The Division even has a better graphics in gameplay. Much more details/geometry, higher quality effects, much greater draw distance, less pop ups, POM, dynamic time of day, better AA, motion blur etc.
I think you're the only person I've ever seen say this. I haven't bothered with AC: Unity as the performance was utter crap at anything higher than low/medium at the time I bothered to check it out (few weeks after launch).
But the Division is still missing a lot of stuff from the original E3 unveiling. So no, it in no way looks better than the original unveiling. It looks really nice. And they managed to get most of stuff in. More than a lot of people give them credit for, but it's still missing stuff. Like the progressive and persistent accumulation and decumulation of snow as time passes for instance. As well as the persistent effects of player actions on snow in the area. They have temporary effects on snow but they are not only less complex, they also aren't persistent. And that's just one example.
While I along with most people wanted to believe that what they showed was possible. If anyone took a minute to actually examine what they showed and what was promised, they would have realized that it just wasn't possible to do what they were promising on the hardware that was going to be released at any point by the time the game was launched.
I still think it's one of the better looking games out there, but it's still not anywhere near what the E3 unveiling had.
Regards,
SB
AC: Unity had problems to maintain 60fps because of CPU limit. With a target of 30fps1620p, the highest settings were no problem in AC: Unity on a GTX 980. Even with all nVidia effects enebled. Only a lot of the non interactive cutscenes would run below 30fps.
Define a lot of stuff. Despite the godrays which are shining trough the bullet caused holes. There are all effects from the 2013 showcase in the actual game. Then the PC version has more and higher quality effects just look at HBAO+, PCSS etc.
"the progressive and persistent accumulation and decumulation of snow as time passes for instance"
The video doesn't show this in the 2013 trailer either. 2D snow can melt in the final game too. No deformation of 3D snow.
And when you compare the assets. Just look at the police car. It has a much lower texture resolution than the final game offers.
The most people can not tell which is a technical downgrade and what is caused due values as time of day etc.
It's on max settings available at 1080p on PC
Why does it look much worse compared to the actual maxed out settings? He even used a worse AA in Watch Dogs.
Why is this graphically much better than his crappy video? (Beta video)
