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[fozzy]

Driving at top speed through the city is nearly stutter free for me now. Looks incredible too. The DOF is set too high for my liking when on foot though.

 

[Setsuna]

Why would they do this? 0_o

Because anytime that 80 percent of your screen is blurred just so a car can be in focus is a bad idea from a gameplay perspective

 

[red731]

UbiGods.

Yeah, but the bad ones - the bluffing and decepting ones.
Can't wait to get home! Good doing, The Worse. Keep it up!

 

[SolidChamp]

This makes the PS4 version even more depressing. I'm lamenting my decision to purchase this day one.

 

[Seanspeed]

Driving at top speed through the city is nearly stutter free for me now.

What a travesty.

 

[FuKuy]

The power of MODing.

 

[Bleep]

So they removed Aiden Pearce's myopia in the final release? It could have been an interesting character trait.

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

So now that the game will actually look next gen, I guess GTA V PC is actually going to have some competition graphically.

 

[fozzy]

What a travesty.

No, I'm not saying I'm unhappy with it. Quite the opposite in fact!

 

[Phreakuency]

Interesting.

Only got this (gift from a mate who bought a new card) the other day and have been hugely disappointed with how bland it looks even on max.

Will try this out...

 

[Canis lupus]

According to Digital Foundry it already does.

It doesn't https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_A6Z3gkXlk

At what settings? Because that seems weird. I have a pretty similar rig and while it struggles with 60 FPS sometimes, 30 is no problem.

1440p, high/ultra didn't matter it will hover around 30-40fps.

 

[V_Ben]

Hmm, i'll be interested to see what the response is from Ubi. Do they patch these effects out of the PC build?

 

[Timurse]

Post rain daylight

 

[Queen of Hunting]

people expected the same thing when dark souls 2 came out aswell (to find hidden effects stuck in game files to be unlocked)

 

[Frodo]

It doesn't https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_A6Z3gkXlk



1440p, high/ultra didn't matter it will hover around 30-40fps.

I was talking about this:

Does Watch Dogs truly deliver on the promise of its initial E3 2012 reveal? The short answer is yes. Cutting away the obviously pre-rendered CG inserts at E3 2012 leaves a slice of gameplay that is indeed a close match for the final game. In fact, the finished game comes out of the comparison very favourably, because that original demo only represented a tiny fraction of the overall offering;

Edit: Funny thing about it is that now that they've found this we can really say that the right answer is NO.

 

[Sparrowhawk]

people expected the same thing when dark souls 2 came out aswell (to find hidden effects stuck in game files to be unlocked)

If only. Would've preferred that to this.
Still quite impressive, though.

 

[BY2K]

I need to try it out tonight, holy shit.

 

[Pooya]

now find old Aiden model in there! lol

 

[JaseC]

Hmm, i'll be interested to see what the response is from Ubi. Do they patch these effects out of the PC build?

Ubi started working on a patch about a week-and-a-half ago, so we'll see. I wouldn't be surprised if it breaks compatibility with this "mod", but I doubt that's the intention.

 

[TheVampire]

Awesome work

 

[ZeroX03]

Waiting for it to turn to night/rain before I can see the full effect, but I'm on high locked at 30fps and it looks great. Not noticing the stutter anymore either.

EDIT: I'm at night and boy do those headlights pop.

 

[scitek]

So they removed Aiden Pearce's myopia in the final release? It could have been an interesting character trait.

Since it's not a first-person game, I tend to view it as a camera following him around, anyway, so it doesn't seem too out of place. Certainly much less so than the dynamic DOF mod in Crysis 2 did.

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

Even if the new patch does break compatibility, I'm sure people would rather play this than whatever Ubisoft plans on crapping out.

 

[Vashetti]

Dennis post if you are OK

 

[ozfunghi]

Hopefully they'll activate these in the Wii U version, right?

Spoiler

Ahahahaha

 

[Faith]

Will we get a 2012-mod then?

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

:O interesting

 

[Nzyme32]

Hmm, i'll be interested to see what the response is from Ubi. Do they patch these effects out of the PC build?

If they did that it would just make people illegally obtain the original game files or pirate. There would be no point. You might as well ask the question, why did they ship it in the first place.

 

[BBboy20]

According to Digital Foundry it already does.

Has anybody tried doing that mission and attempt to recreate it shot for shot?

 

[blastprocessor]

So any comparison shots available of before and after mods?

 

[Tookay]

dennis post if ur ok

 

[Kayant]

Stability is my guess. Things like this might not be 'complete', and with deadlines what they are, features get cut.

They probably could have added this to another tier in the graphical settings. It's possible they locked it out so they could say that the new consoles could run it on the highest settings or something.

Makes sense probably a bit of both given the current performance and that it was really just a demo in the end but good to see people can at least get to experience what they sold originally.

 

[Cygnus]

What a mess.

 

[Kocolino67]

Dennis will have an orgasm.

 

[JAVK]

.

 

[mrklaw]

I'm expecting a response along the lines of, "cut for stability... performance issues... deadlines..." etc.

I doubt they'd say anything was 'cut'. Implies too much that they had it in the first place.

More like 'we carefully selected the optimum balance of graphical effects to get the most out of each platform'

 

[Recall]

Why would they do this? 0_o

Some devs just simply don't know how to optimise a game. Too many hands doesn't help either.

 

[dreamfall]

Very interesting! Unlocking all the visual flair hidden away!

I want to see more screens !

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

I want to see this in motion.

Someone posted a link to the post the modder made that includes a video I believe.

 

[Ramenman]

Stability is my guess. Things like this might not be 'complete', and with deadlines what they are, features get cut.

Yeah that would be my guess.

Because otherwise we would see a too large gap between ps4 & pc

And that would be the bullshit conspiracy theory guess. I predict it will be very popular

 

[Pooya]

Has anybody tried doing that mission and attempt to recreate it shot for shot?

That mission is quite different in the final game.

 

[DSN2K]

Ubi and their fucking parity, would not put it past them to hold the pc version back

 

[Qassim]

They probably could have added this to another tier in the graphical settings. It's possible they locked it out so they could say that the new consoles could run it on the highest settings or something.

Ubisoft already said that the console settings are equivalent to high on PC, not Ultra.

 

[Amir0x]

Driving at top speed through the city is nearly stutter free for me now. Looks incredible too. The DOF is set too high for my liking when on foot though.

oh man I can't wait to try this when i get home

 

[Spineker]

This is just incomprehensible levels of stupidity and laziness.

 

[Fried Food]

the DOF is nice but a little extreme. The next update to the mod should be nice.

 

[Mechazawa]

I love DOF as much as the next person, but jesus christ.

 

[Atraveller]

Why downgrade the PC port?

 

[KORNdoggy]

bokeh is a bit strong tbh. i do like DOF in games, but not if it makes you feel short sighted.

 

[Newline]

Ubisoft already said that the console settings are equivalent to high on PC, not Ultra.

Now imagine if PC had one more setting and they had to say that the PS4 was running it on the third best setting rather than the second... Console gamers could possibly go from 'i'm ok with that, PC's are hella expensive anyway' to 'unoptimised crap, we get last gen settings on our new gen consoles'.

Why downgrade the PC port?

So the console versions (that clearly couldn't handle those effects and will sell way more copies) don't look as bad.