Masterofchapter
Banned
This is my fear. It is Ubisoft.
I mean it still got a big downgrade. So most of the criticism is still warranted.
While the object density is the same. The downgrade was in the lighting and shadowing, object quality and material quality.
As you can see, each of the actual plants/object had very thick and very rich triangle count. They look fuller. The material quality was also very high.
Heck I would take the lighting and shadowing downgrade (as what its downgraded to is still really really good) if they kept the same triangle counts and material quality on the objects. Or maybe its the other way around, idk.
I used to think that no one would catch up to epic, now I actually believe that most SOTA studios have/will.
Because when you look at performance (atleast for right now) it blows UE5 away.
In regards to object density, I would put UE5 at 10 and Snowdrops' Avatar at 9.
In regards to lighting/shadowing, UE5 has a upper hand at 9 while Avatar is at 7.
Then finally at Object Quality, I would put Avatar at 8 while UE5 is at 11 (yes breaking the scale!)
But here is where snowdrop destroys UE5 and that's when it comes to performance, UE5 is like at a 3-4 while Avatar is at a 9.
Snowdrop wins honestly
So others like Massive, Rockstar and Remedy have some what caught up to UE5.
But in the reveal AVATER trailer they showcased something that was:
Lighting & Shadowing - 10
Object Quality - 10
in the SOW trailer they showcased something even better with better character rendering, vfx and material rendering including 10 lighting/shadow and 10 object quality. So you are telling me that there will be minor downgrades (1 point?) Because 2 or more points is a major downgrade..
But yeah if SOW gets a minor/small downgrade across the board then i'm all for it.
Avatar started development in 2016 after division 1, star wars outlaws started development in 2020 of course star wars has better tech than unreal engine, and avatar got upgraded too in both character models, upper plains area, explosion avatar looks better in final product