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[SmokedMeat]

CoD’s graphics are fantastic, especially considering the performance you’re getting with it.

 

[DaciaJC]

Game needs a modern engine and it's beyond overdue.

They overhauled the IW engine for Modern Warfare 2019 and have been using it for every game since except Treyarch's Black Ops: Cold War in 2020. What in particular do you think needs an update?

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

They overhauled the IW engine for Modern Warfare 2019 and have been using it for every game since except Treyarch's Black Ops: Cold War in 2020. What in particular do you think needs an update?

It's still Q3 engine at heart.
What's to upgrade? Play a multiplayer game and see for yourself.

The single player looks good but different than the mp.

Multiplayer is the most played mode so it matters.

 

[Red5]

Graphics are unimportant here. There's my answer.

Graphics are unimportant in a thread about graphics?

 

[DaciaJC]

It's still Q3 engine at heart.
What's to upgrade? Play a multiplayer game and see for yourself.

The single player looks good but different than the mp.

Multiplayer is the most played mode so it matters.

The multiplayer looks fine, though? Sure, it's not going to have the same emphasis on carefully directed setpieces and eye candy as the campaign, but that's fine, it's aiming for a different experience. We can quibble about the art direction, but the lighting, textures, visual effects, etc. look great in my opinion. This is on PC with maxed-out settings, though, I'm not sure how the console versions compare.

MW19

Cold War uses an older version of the engine, but it can still be a looker

MWII

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

The multiplayer looks fine, though? Sure, it's not going to have the same emphasis on carefully directed setpieces and eye candy as the campaign, but that's fine, it's aiming for a different experience. We can quibble about the art direction, but the lighting, textures, visual effects, etc. seem fine in my opinion.

MW19

Cold War uses an older version of the engine, but it can still be a looker

MWII

No it doesn't
Looks the same but higher resolution throughout the years.
Objects in the environment feel like cardboard cut outs or statues....not sure how to explain it.

Explosions and other special effects are comparable to the Xbox Wolfenstein game which also uses this engine.

Single player that I mentioned is on another level and I'm not sure how?

 

[MMaRsu]

Graphics are good but interactivity is 0 so...

 

[MAX PAYMENT]

I do enjoy how good the COD games look nowadays, not just for the visuals but also because of the drama a few years ago when DICE (Battlefield) employees were shitting on COD's graphics.

Very unprofessional stuff and I'm happy COD had the last laugh as Battlefield hurtled into irrelevance.

I dont think I ever saw that. Funny if true though lol.

 

[SkyHighTrees]

Eh it looks good. 8/10 imo

If you play the multiplayer and campaign game id say 85/100, but Warzone looks worse.

Warzone mode is full of draw distance limitations, plenty of LOD transitions, buggy distant graphics, stuff popping in and out.

Also, the coloring in the MW engine is off, the green vegetation is too light green and looks distracting in some maps.

BF2042 looks much better in distance, but worse for interiors. All in all BF still looks better.

 

[twilo99]

Graphics don’t not justify 200Gb install size that is for sure. Not jaw dropping by any means.

MWIII takes 64gb on my NVME without the campaign which I don't care about

 

[twilo99]

Eh it looks good. 8/10 imo

If you play the multiplayer and campaign game id say 85/100, but Warzone looks worse.

Warzone mode is full of draw distance limitations, plenty of LOD transitions, buggy distant graphics, stuff popping in and out.

Also, the coloring in the MW engine is off, the green vegetation is too light green and looks distracting in some maps.

BF2042 looks much better in distance, but worse for interiors. All in all BF still looks better.

Isn't the warzone map much bigger than anything in BF2042 and they have to account for a bigger player count on the map? Warzone looks fine considering the scale.

 

[twilo99]

Yes.

To be honest, CoD is flat out underrated across the board. The game has been milked to oblivion but the mechanics are polished to perfection.

I don't know about perfection.. I'd give that to Quake 3, but there are pretty good, especially in MWIII.

 

[SkyHighTrees]

Isn't the warzone map much bigger than anything in BF2042 and they have to account for a bigger player count on the map? Warzone looks fine considering the scale.

Yes, I don't know if it's much bigger, but player wise it 150 vs 128

But for distance I don't really like how they manage their LODs, they use that InstaLOD software some other games use, stuff insta pops in, some other games have smoother animations.

Multiplayer looks amazing though on smaller scale maps

 

[Ozriel]

Looks really good. And that’s on a Series S.

 

[Little Chicken]

I thought it was real at first lol

 

[Killer8]

I dont think I ever saw that. Funny if true though lol.

Roland Smedberg, DICE video director at the time:

Randy Evans, creative director of the DICE media team (ie. he makes the trailers):

They seemed to not be able to decide if it looked ancient or so good it was CG. Julian Manolov, engineer who is now at Ripple Effect aka DICE LA:

(kinda funny given how much "in-engine" bullshit DICE used in their trailers)


Anyway...


RIP bozos

 

[MAX PAYMENT]

Roland Smedberg, DICE video director at the time:

Randy Evans, creative director of the DICE media team (ie. he makes the trailers):

They seemed to not be able to decide if it looked ancient or so good it was CG. Julian Manolov, engineer who is now at Ripple Effect aka DICE LA:

(kinda funny given how much "in-engine" bullshit DICE used in their trailers)


Anyway...


RIP bozos

Yikes. Lol

 

[adamsapple]

Damn that's tight.

 

[rhodesianshepard]

Microsoft has said they going to develop COD for Nintendo. Whatever the Switch 2 is, I don't see how that wouldn't hamper graphics for Xbox/PS5/PC

 

[Elginer]

Ininite Warfare was a looker and a damn fine game too.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Up until Battlefield 1 battlefield games would shit all over COD's graphics, nowadays they quit even trying and yeah last COD games look pretty good but nothing crazy.

BF 2042 looks a generation better than MW3's multiplayer.

 

[proandrad]

CODMW2/3 are a grainy mess since it started using FSR.

 

[EverydayBeast]

We saw cod have good graphics with cod4 it’s like shooters exploded in 08’

 

[Synless]

It has been years since I’ve played one, but I recall them being canned as fuck and almost sterile in design.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Roland Smedberg, DICE video director at the time:

Randy Evans, creative director of the DICE media team (ie. he makes the trailers):

They seemed to not be able to decide if it looked ancient or so good it was CG. Julian Manolov, engineer who is now at Ripple Effect aka DICE LA:

(kinda funny given how much "in-engine" bullshit DICE used in their trailers)


Anyway...


RIP bozos

Game is much better since that review.
What's MW3 review

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

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Love the manga and Top Tier WAIFU