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[SlimySnake]

Hows the game tho? I want to play an rpg during the holidays

i literally quit after entering the first area. my opinion on the gameplay shouldnt count lol

It's around the border of the Cloud forest and Upper plains, west side of this RDA whatever fort thing , you will find lots of these huge rock pillars scattering in this area

awesome. thanks i will check it out.

 

[SlimySnake]

Did ubisoft break just about everything with the dlc?

Never seen a game degrade this much with updates. If i didnt know better id assume this was their prior game, this is a helluva achievement.

Yep. they fucked it up. Just tried it and the LOD pop-in even at max settings on a 16GB card is atrocious. It literally loads the lowest LOD models and then switches abruptly to the highest LOD model as you get closer. It was a lot more graceful just last week when i was playing the third person camera and got hooked into the game for a few days.

Combine with the fact that those northern areas never looked good even when the LOD system wasnt completely broken, and its arguably the worst looking game out there right now. Just atrocious.

 

[Buggy Loop]

The Expanse is from Owlcat, idk if they have ex-Bioware devs on the crew, but Exodus is supposedly the ex-Bioware one, targeting 2027 at the earliest.

Gonna be a good few years for sci-fi rpg fans and i am gonna have a lot of trouble telling these 2 apart.

Shit, I don't know why I thought Exodus was 2026

 

[Jack Howitzer]

Yep. they fucked it up. Just tried it and the LOD pop-in even at max settings on a 16GB card is atrocious.

Well from my experience 24gb and 32gb card are literally the same deal here so...it's just incompetences being incompetences as usual

It literally loads the lowest LOD models and then switches abruptly to the highest LOD model as you get closer.

Yeah it's like their devs have lost the ability to do the basic lod work when it coming to handle terrain assets. AC games are still suffering from the same problem , Shadows handled it better to some extent but still far from perfect like you can still notice many instances when terrains barely 300m away (or even closer )are completely lacking basic detail while those buidlings and trees staying pretty fine, and noticing distant shadows becoming pixelated low quality as well when the fogs failed to cover them up. Hey at least none of them are reaching Avatar level of hopeless...

 

[SlimySnake]

Well from my experience 24gb and 32gb card are literally the same deal here so...it's just incompetences being incompetences as usual

Yeah it's like their devs have lost the ability to do the basic lod work when it coming to handle terrain assets. AC games are still suffering from the same problem , Shadows handled it better to some extent but still far from perfect like you can still notice many instances when the terrains are completely lacking of any detail while those buidlings and trees staying pretty fine, hey at least none of them are reaching Avatar level of hopeless...

its a bug. the game was not like this at launch.

 

[Jack Howitzer]

its a bug. the game was not like this at launch.

Too bad there is no way to find it out now unless someone actually have the 1.0 unpatched console version would bother with this. I only stays in the Kinglor forest area dring launch period before gave it up till late March,only got these treatments since then

 

[SlimySnake]

Too bad there is no way to find it out now unless someone actually have the 1.0 unpatched console version would bother with this. I only stays in the Kinglor forest area dring launch period before gave it up till late March,only got these treatments since then

no i played the game for a good 30-40 hours. i know exactly whats bugged. the textures on those massive tree logs are missing until you get close. the grass in your last screenshot is also completely missing. that was not the case.

now the overall look of these levels which are basically in the third area of the game always looked like this. i have no idea why but it always looked very bad compared to the first two areas in the game. so aside from those missing textures, the game always looked like that in those areas.

 

[SlimySnake]

This is the KZSF moment for me this gen. Just an incredible amount of detail. The opening to Avatar also gave me that holy shit next gen is here feeling, but this urban city has more in like with that amazing KZSF reveal.

 

[analog_future]

demo on steam , extremely demanding based on UE5

Damn! I'm going to have to try this.

 

[SlimySnake]

Been playing some gamepass games and man I feel for Phil Spencer. He's given his devs 5 years to make sequels. Given them a great engine to push the visuals. and they have to a certain extent. But his developers have let him down in one way or another by making boring, tedious, mid tier garbage.

South of Midnight - 7 year dev time. Good looking art style. But the actual gameplay? literally from the ps2 era. its mostly walking with some tedious combat thrown in but overall its just so boring i feel zero urge to play it.

Outer Worlds 2 - starts off with an incredible looking CG video. Very funny. Great characters. im like lets fucking go. But then its just the same WRPG shit we've been playing for the last 30 years. mute protagonist. characters that dont emote. zero cutscenes. let alone the caliber of the cutscenes we saw in the intro. Again, where is the agency? Why not put your best foot forward. Show us some incredible setpiece or level. Hook us in from the beginning?

Keeper - After 20 minutes of pressing up, i gave up and quit the game. I really dont understand this. If you want to make an indie game, go be indie. Dont waste Microsoft's time and money on this dumb shit. Hellbalde 2 was the same. Like they got the visuals right, but there is no game there.

Keeper is clearly trying to go for something like Ico. Ico had gameplay within the first few minutes. You werent just pressing up. You were constantly solving problems. The last Guardian's first scene has you do more stuff than i did in the first 30 minutes of keeper and South of midnight. indie doesnt mean you get to get away with gameplay.

I shit on DS2 for feeling like DLC and it does, but the intro is absolutely sublime despite you literally walking for like five to ten minutes. There is danger of you falling, you are pressing all kinds of different buttons. The soundtrack by Woodkid makes you think you are playing the greatest movie of all time. And again, this is a walking simulator with no action like say Uncharted or GOW.

These MS studios just take the easy way out. Obsidian making the same shit they've been making for two decades. Clearly they want to make great looking cutscenes or they wouldnt have hired a CG studio to make that intro. Well, you had six fucking years to make outer worlds 2. Expedition 33 devs made insane looking cutscenes using iphones in their hallway. I highly doubt Phil wanted these boring, mid tier, fake games when he acquired these studios. And I am extremely sad that none of these studios are even close to what Team Ico did in 2001 with Ico, let alone SOTC or TLG. Or what Sony was doing in the PS3 era. or What kojima was doing in the PS2 era.

P.S tried going back to Indiana Jones. My god, so boring. Someone fucking put me out of my misery. this is not how you make an action adventure game. they actually did have a couple of cool setpieces but the game crawls to a half after that. Is it really hard to get something like Tomb Raider or Uncharted from an indy game?

 

[rsouzadk]

This is the KZSF moment for me this gen. Just an incredible amount of detail. The opening to Avatar also gave me that holy shit next gen is here feeling, but this urban city has more in like with that amazing KZSF reveal.

What game is this?

 

[SlimySnake]

What game is this?

No law.

 

[SlimySnake]

Went back to Ascent and wow, the ray tracing update adds so much. The game already looked great in 2021 with some great SSR reflections, but ray tracing just makes them pop so much more. i feel like reflections are everywhere now.

 

[analog_future]

demo on steam , extremely demanding based on UE5

Damn! I'm going to have to try this.

Played it. One of the best looking games I've ever played, holy shit. The actual game is quite interesting and eerie as well.

 

[SlimySnake]

Played it. One of the best looking games I've ever played, holy shit. The actual game is quite interesting and eerie as well.

holy fucking shit.

 

[archangelmorph]

Played it. One of the best looking games I've ever played, holy shit. The actual game is quite interesting and eerie as well.

Pretty but is your character supposed to be like 4' tall?

The perspective view in-game makes the character out to be either a child or midget.

Lore reason or dev fuck up?

 

[analog_future]

Pretty but is your character supposed to be like 4' tall?

The perspective view in-game makes the character out to be either a child or midget.

Lore reason or dev fuck up?

Lore reason

 

[roosnam1980]

Played it. One of the best looking games I've ever played, holy shit. The actual game is quite interesting and eerie as well.

 

[Radical_3d]

Played it. One of the best looking games I've ever played, holy shit. The actual game is quite interesting and eerie as well.

 

[Senua]

Played it. One of the best looking games I've ever played, holy shit. The actual game is quite interesting and eerie as well.

The worst engine delivers again! How can this be!?

 

[mrMUR_96]

In terms of npcs animations, sure, in term of chaos you can provoke, watch dogs 2 is the king.

You can literally call criminals or police on anyone and see the chaos unfold, or hack cars and make them do what you want,you can do some pretty funny shit in that game with the hacking

Too bad their animations systems suck compared to rockstar euphoria so every gunfight, car run over or shooting doesn't look or feel as good even if gta5 has the worst rendition of euphoria out of any rockstar game.

Watch Dogs 2 is very underrated for world systems, very impressive.

 

[Feel Like I'm On 42]

Yep. they fucked it up. Just tried it and the LOD pop-in even at max settings on a 16GB card is atrocious. It literally loads the lowest LOD models and then switches abruptly to the highest LOD model as you get closer. It was a lot more graceful just last week when i was playing the third person camera and got hooked into the game for a few days.

Combine with the fact that those northern areas never looked good even when the LOD system wasnt completely broken, and its arguably the worst looking game out there right now. Just atrocious.

Bro Ubisoft did this with AC Mirage too ....it looks abd feels awful after latest update now. They have the most fragile code andbI think those might be two different engines.

 

[GymWolf]

Forbidden west maxed out on pc with a PROPER tv\hdr still looks fucking incredible most of the times, people are fucking crazy if they think yotei looks better, absolutely fucking crazy.

Everytime i'm mad that sony doesn't upgrade the textures in his pc ports and everytime i'm flabbergasted at how much sharp and detailed the same game is on pc, it was the same with days gone, textures are fucking sharp on pc even if they are virtually the same as the console version.

Replaying some shit in the new oled and wow when hdr hit, it fucking hit...

 

[GymWolf]

Watch Dogs 2 is very underrated for world systems, very impressive.

They have the initial idea right but the execution is not perfect, 9 out of 10 times the npcs reaction to the chaos are absolutely random.

The fact that with the hacking smartphone you are basically a god, is way too much to handle for simple ncps scripts.

And of course their animation system lack the precision and weight of a rockstar game so everything from npcs punching or shooting each others to running people over with a car is nowhere near as satysfing to watch, like light years away...



Hopefully gta6 is gonna be a jump in npcs reactions and ai because causing chaos and npcs not reacting properly, erase half of the fun.
But i would love if gta6 had the hacking mechanics of wd2, some of them are beyond funny to use.

 

[Von Hugh]

 

[SlimySnake]

Apparently im gay for gymwolf and Msamy is gay for me.

And I need to rethink my life choices because i spend way too much time in this thread.

 

[Balducci30]

Played it. One of the best looking games I've ever played, holy shit. The actual game is quite interesting and eerie as well.

Wow this looks like a skinamarink game

 

[Senua]

Apparently im gay for gymwolf and Msamy is gay for me.

And I need to rethink my life choices because i spend way too much time in this thread.

Holy shit 2K posts haha

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Outer world 2 art style is not for everyone. Some people are triggered by colours. It questions their hetero sexuality and or masculinity.

 

[Gonzito]

Apparently im gay for gymwolf and Msamy is gay for me.

And I need to rethink my life choices because i spend way too much time in this thread.

We know GymWolf is gay but I didn't know SlimySnake was gay too although that explain their unusual relationship.

There are so many homosexuals in GAF man

Spoiler

/s

 

[GymWolf]

We know GymWolf is gay but I didn't know SlimySnake was gay too although that explain their unusual relationship.

There are so many homosexuals in GAF man

Spoiler

/s

Me and slimy are the golden couple of gaf.

We are like the brangelina

 

[geary]

Me and slimy are the golden couple of gaf.

We are like the brangelina

Slimywolf or Gymsnake?

 

[GymWolf]

Slimywolf or Gymsnake?

Ask to our fanbase.

 

[Sept Terrion Of Nothing]

Went back to Ascent and wow, the ray tracing update adds so much. The game already looked great in 2021 with some great SSR reflections, but ray tracing just makes them pop so much more. i feel like reflections are everywhere now.

Spoiler

What the?! I didn't know The Ascent got RT update. I bought it and added my backlog long time ago but maybe I should play it. Then again I had already planned my next game.

I'm curious now and I'll try to play it as soon as I got time.

 

[SlimySnake]

What the?! I didn't know The Ascent got RT update. I bought it and added my backlog long time ago but maybe I should play it. Then again I had already planned my next game.

I'm curious now and I'll try to play it as soon as I got time.

Its rt shadows, rt reflections and rt AO. But reflections make the biggest difference. They are everywhere.