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[British Monsoon]

No point taking in-battle shots at the moment, as the insanely horrid DOF blur filter ruins the look of anything more than a few feet away from you. Fucking insanity. The Japanese version has a patch to fix this, so hopefully it won't take forever to arrive on UK PSN. I honestly have no idea how anyone at KOEI thought that DOF filter looked even remotely good.

In general, it seems there's quite a few more enemies on screen over the PS3 version and, barring a couple of dips during Musou attacks, the frame-rate is solid. But, goddamn, that DOF filter is seriously the worst.

 

[xenogenesis]

Also here is a .gif of the space section since a screenshot wouldn't do it justice.

 

[dr guildo]

 

[Korezo]

I've never seen a console game that looks as clean as Infamous. How? What kind of AA are they using?

I think GoW 3 ps3 look cleaner. SS has a lot of aliasing during movement.

 

[ResidentDante]

Some Forza 5

 

[Timu]

I think GoW 3 ps3 look cleaner. SS has a lot of aliasing during movement.

GOW 3 didn't look cleaner, I noticed it's jaggies often though it was the cleanest console game at the time. I should buy the complete GOW collection to take screenshots of it and play GOW 3 again.

 

[Phreakuency]

SS has a lot of aliasing during movement.

A lot meaning very little...

 

[Lrrr]

No point taking in-battle shots at the moment, as the insanely horrid DOF blur filter ruins the look of anything more than a few feet away from you. Fucking insanity.

Would you mind posting an example? Does it affect gameplay as well?

 

[Timu]

No point taking in-battle shots at the moment, as the insanely horrid DOF blur filter ruins the look of anything more than a few feet away from you. Fucking insanity. The Japanese version has a patch to fix this, so hopefully it won't take forever to arrive on UK PSN. I honestly have no idea how anyone at KOEI thought that DOF filter looked even remotely good.

In general, it seems there's quite a few more enemies on screen over the PS3 version and, barring a couple of dips during Musou attacks, the frame-rate is solid. But, goddamn, that DOF filter is seriously the worst.

More cutscene screens please!

 

[British Monsoon]

Would you mind posting an example? Does it affect gameplay as well?

Yeah, it's real noticeable and pretty distracting, to be honest - the sooner the option to turn it off is patched in, the better.

Here's a with/without DOF example (from the PS3 version, I think);

More cutscene screens please!

Here's a few more;

 

[sangreal]

 

[dr guildo]

 

[DemonCleaner]

in the recent ryse thread somebody praised it for having as good as no shader aliasing. SS is even better in this regard. really impressive.

is there a freefloat mode by now or how did you make these?

 

[Wishmaster92]

I think this is the reason why images in Ryse look so blurry! "CRYTEK's Subsurface Scattering" is what creates blur...here's a link that explains more about it!

http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/03...-without-some-of-its-advanced-visual-effects/


Subsurface Scattering Enabled

Subsurface Scattering Disabled

The reason Ryse is blurry isn't because 900p or even sub-surface, it's because of their proprietary upscaling method. Think of it like this: 900p (sharp image)-->Goes through uspcaler (Introduces some amount of blur)--> SMAA T1X (upscaled image has been applied with smaa making it even blurrier, but further reduces aliasing) that procedure creates some sort of Gaussian blur to the image. I read that on B3D.

 

[Timu]

Here's a few more;

Very nice, looks better than gameplay.

 

[Melchiah]

Managed to get some shots of the nighttime city without the character.

 

[sangreal]

 

[HueyFreeman]

Gorgeous man. How are you getting gunless shots?

 

[R8TEDM3]

 

[ScaryMovies]

 

[xenogenesis]

is there a free float mode by now or how did you make these?

Gorgeous man. How are you getting gunless shots?

No free float mode, just the weapon swap trick.

 

[ScaryMovies]

Is altering/improving the screens using Photoshop or other programs against thread rules?

 

[Caayn]

Is altering/improving the screens using Photoshop or other programs against thread rules?

Not directly, but one could interpret the first rule to not allow altered screenshots.

What's the point of using screenshots that don't reflect the actual game?

 

[i-Lo]

Those Ryse shots look fantastic. Really impressive character detail and poly count. Makes me wonder how well an open world crytek game would look on the console and by extension what is to be expected from the next fallout/ES title on xbone (& PS4)?

 

[Mihael Mello Keehl]

How would I go about grabbing screens on my ps4, Wii U, X1,360??? I have an elgato will that help me? i havent used it yet but I need it for streaming and gameplay videos.

 

[aY227]

The reason Ryse is blurry isn't because 900p or even sub-surface, it's because of their proprietary upscaling method. Think of it like this: 900p (sharp image)-->Goes through uspcaler (Introduces some amount of blur)--> SMAA T1X (upscaled image has been applied with smaa making it even blurrier, but further reduces aliasing) that procedure creates some sort of Gaussian blur to the image. I read that on B3D.

Thats not correct. AA is applied before upscaling.
Slide 42 here:
http://crytek.com/download/2014_03_25_CRYENGINE_GDC_Schultz.pdf

 

[JPeeples83]

More Second Son -

 

[Mr Moose]

How would I go about grabbing screens on my ps4, Wii U, X1,360??? I have an elgato will that help me? i havent used it yet but I need it for streaming and gameplay videos.

There's a screenshot thing at the bottom of the Elgato GCHD app next to the big red button, it'll take a screenshot and save it to your desktop.

 

[R8TEDM3]

Finally my HDMI splitter arrived! Few of the pic's you probably have seen many times by now, but i couldn't resist!

Also how do some of you post them SS photos without HUD? I think i read something about pressing options before taking a pic, but it doesn't work for me?

If someone could give me step by step i'd be very grateful!

Cropped to hide HUD!

 

[perineumlick]

I think GoW 3 ps3 look cleaner. SS has a lot of aliasing during movement.

Unbelievable.

 

[Nicktendo86]

That second shot looks terrible!

 

[Lord Error]

Thats not correct. AA is applied before upscaling.
Slide 42 here:
http://crytek.com/download/2014_03_25_CRYENGINE_GDC_Schultz.pdf

From what I was able to gather reading some stuff linked at B3D, T1X creates more picture blurriness but eliminates temporal ghosting better compared to T2X. T1X actually sounds like a less demanding AA method, and uses less render targets (3 vs 4 on T2X) to do its thing.

 

[xenogenesis]

Two leftover shots.

 

[aY227]

From what I was able to gather reading some stuff linked at B3D, T1X creates more picture blurriness but eliminates temporal ghosting better compared to T2X. T1X actually sounds like a less demanding AA method, and uses less render targets (3 vs 4 on T2X) to do its thing.

It was all speculation based on the fact that it uses TXAA frame accumulation method for TAA and TXAA is blurry. We dont have any proof that 1Tx gives blurrier image than 2Tx.
1Tx requires less memory, but it doesnt mean that it needs less processing power. It accumulates more than two frames for reprojection, so it can calculate more data overall.
It can however use less bandwidth.

 

[shinnn]

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

Second Son:

 

[GhostWriter24]

Second Son:

Holy SHIT =O

 

[Albo]

Pikmin 3

Second Son:

Is this real life?

 

[Melchiah]

Is altering/improving the screens using Photoshop or other programs against thread rules?

You might want to check out the 2014 Screenshot Art Thread of Artificial Concept Art

 

[Figboy79]

Awesomenauts on PS4! Which looks way better than inFAMOUS: Second Son!

Spoiler

sarcasm, of course, but did that really need to be said?

 

[Phreakuency]

That second shot looks terrible!

Maybe quote so we know which one you are referring to. If it was the post from Peeples, that's because it's a Facebook/Twitter, compressed shot. Looks much better than that.

 

[RoboPlato]

My favorite shot I took. This alleyway looks like a detailed section of a linear game but it was just a random spot with no relevance to the story.

 

[Figboy79]

Yeah, the attention to detail in the city in Second Son is amazing. It's funny, because people nitpick the fuck out of the game's visuals, but ultimately, this is a first generation PS4 title. We are in for a really impressive generation.

 

[Phreakuency]

Simply amazing visuals.

 

[Dre_G_Writer]

Man, those infamous shots are unreal. Its crazy how detailed everything looks……..man…….can you imagine what Rockstar is going to do with their next red dead and grand theft auto on these new consoles???

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[ScaryMovies]

You might want to check out the 2014 Screenshot Art Thread of Artificial Concept Art

I don't have PS so I have no ambition of enhancing my screens in any way. It's just that some of the screens in this thread are amazingly clean. That doesn't necessarily mean they have been photoshopped or enhanced in any way, but it just made me curious as to whether it was against thread rules or not to do so.

Anyway, a few more inFamous SS screens:

 

[Auto-Reply]

I'm don't have PS so, I have no ambition of enhancing my screens in any way. It's just that some of the screens in this thread are amazingly clean and give off some weird results in photoforensics. That doesn't necessarily mean they have been photoshopped or enhanced in any way, but it just made me curious as to whether it was against thread rules or not to do so.

What are these results?
And in general, games use postprocess filters for some time now, that isn't really far off compared to photoshop. It's not the same as clone stamp jagged edges away but if you look at sweetfx on pc, there isn't really much of a difference anymore. Game looks to sharp to be gameplay? Enhanced in PS or just sweetfx? etc.

 

[idonteven]

Infamous

 

[Bishop89]

The ability to transfer to a USB, is that possible yet? I wanna wait till then to post some screens.

Also, I have realized that the majority of the screens I have taken are not going to be good because of the 'screenshot taken' icon is in a lot of them

 

[flipswitch]

The ability to transfer to a USB, is that possible yet? I wanna wait till then to post some screens.

Also, I have realized that the majority of the screens I have taken are not going to be good because of the 'screenshot taken' icon is in a lot of them

I think that function will come in the next firmware update. I have about 130 images of infamous waiting to be uploaded too .