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[analog_future]

About an hour into Silent Hill f. Maxed out, 4k, and have forced DLSS 4 / forced DLAA / forced hardware Lumen.

It looks good, but nothing amazing. Performance-wise, it runs well outside of the occasional stutter.

A few shots so far:

 

[Bojji]

Silent Hill f is quite basic for UE5 game, it looks worse than Cronos for sure. Still decent and better than most games without real time GI.

 

[ChiefDada]

Ghost of Yotei pushes the limits of draw distance far beyond its predecessor thanks to the PS5’s capabilities. We talk to the devs about what’s changed - AUTOMATON WEST

Interview with Joanna Wang, art director at Sucker Punch Productions, about Ghost of Yotei's technical advancements.

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"For Yotei, we realized very quickly that we needed to improve draw distance. To portray the vastness of the Hokkaido map, we needed to be able to render distant views with high fidelity and accurate depth of space. We can now load millions of assets, with tens of thousands visible on-screen at once. Real-time particles like leaves, snow, ash and fog number in the hundreds of thousands across both near and far distances."

Interesting...more info in the link.

Epic fail. What good is throwing in "millions of assets" on screen if they're wrapped in poor texture quality and improperly lit? That just makes things a million times uglier in my opinion. For their own sake they better not show up tomorrow. Or at least have the damn game running on Pro. It needs all the brute force from hardware it can get because resolution doesn't look great in most of those garbage marketing trailers.

 

[adamsapple]

About an hour into Silent Hill f. Maxed out, 4k, and have forced DLSS 4 / forced DLAA / forced hardware Lumen.

It looks good, but nothing amazing. Performance-wise, it runs well outside of the occasional stutter.

A few shots so far:

It feels like making a stable console version was their first priority. The base PS5 version being a flawless 60fps with very little difference between its Quality and Performance modes, other than IQ, is pretty telling which version they focused on.

 

[SlimySnake]

This may explain why their textures look extra shitty. That's not a great way to make things look painterly.

Sounds like they read this thread and are doing damage control.

Sorry SP, game still looks like shit. maybe you shouldve worked harder.

 

[SlimySnake]

About an hour into Silent Hill f. Maxed out, 4k, and have forced DLSS 4 / forced DLAA / forced hardware Lumen.

It looks good, but nothing amazing. Performance-wise, it runs well outside of the occasional stutter.

A few shots so far:

I like the fog in SH2 better. Feels a lot more volumetric and thick instead of just a haze filter that we are seeing here.

 

[metareferential]

SH F looks like a low-budget UE5 game. SH2 is still one of the best looking games of the gen (so it's one of the best looking games ever).

 

[analog_future]

I like the fog in SH2 better. Feels a lot more volumetric and thick instead of just a haze filter that we are seeing here.

Yeah, it's early on but so far SH2 looks better in pretty much every way.

 

[Flabagast]

Both games can be compared here



I'd say they seem pretty even

 

[lastmessiah]

SH2 looks pretty awesome at times, but at other times the textures are low rez, particularly toward the end in the hotel.

SH:f seems like a more balanced/optimized product overall.

 

[SlimySnake]

Epic fail. What good is throwing in "millions of assets" on screen if they're wrapped in poor texture quality and improperly lit? That just makes things a million times uglier in my opinion. For their own sake they better not show up tomorrow. Or at least have the damn game running on Pro. It needs all the brute force from hardware it can get because resolution doesn't look great in most of those garbage marketing trailers.

the draw distance will be noticeable though. i mean it was the first thing we all noticed in the reveal trailer. it will show up on screen for sure.

the problem like you said is the lighting and since most of the game will take place in cloudy conditions, the extra draw distance wont really get a chance to shine. But you wont have to worry about them being improperly lit during day time.

 

[Audiophile]

I really hope they can get the hair rendering that good in the final PHYSINT game, hair is a major weakness for so many devs (incl. KojiPro) that undermines otherwise solid visuals. The low res alpha/DoF and that ugly bloom/glow are so distracting with hair in games as is the aliasing and flicker, not to mention hard edges, pointy corners and a lack of natural movement. I would've thought by now that ML techniques would've been developed to target and clean up problem areas of the frame like that.

 

[analog_future]

About an hour into Silent Hill f. Maxed out, 4k, and have forced DLSS 4 / forced DLAA / forced hardware Lumen.

It looks good, but nothing amazing. Performance-wise, it runs well outside of the occasional stutter.

A few shots so far:

I like the fog in SH2 better. Feels a lot more volumetric and thick instead of just a haze filter that we are seeing here.

May have spoken too soon. Game is impressing more and more as I dive into it further:

Proper volumetric fog has arrived as well:

 

[Feel Like I'm On 42]

Yeah I forgot to say that. True.

2033? If ps6 comes out in 27 or 28 you guys think it will be 5-6 years before Sony exclusives?

 

[BlownUpRich]

I really hope they can get the hair rendering that good in the final PHYSINT game, hair is a major weakness for so many devs (incl. KojiPro) that undermines otherwise solid visuals. The low res alpha/DoF and that ugly bloom/glow are so distracting with hair in games as is the aliasing and flicker, not to mention hard edges, pointy corners and a lack of natural movement. I would've thought by now that ML techniques would've been developed to target and clean up problem areas of the frame like that.

Well you're in luck I'd say, Nvidia, Sony & AMD are going all in with AI Neural Rendering and this is one of the 1st things you'll see getting major attention & enhancements, look at RTX Hair, RTX Subsurface Scattering (even RTX faces but that's early stuff) and what the 60-series will provide in terms of quality enhancements through AI Rendering. I bet we'll see most of that coming to PS6 since they want to standardize the usage of AI throughout the next-generation.

It's why I come back to this video from Digital Foundry from time to time when they had hands-on with many Nvidia AI demos running in real-time on 50-series hardware at CES 2025, early stuff, but they are a precursor for what's to come in the next generation for sure & I bet The Witcher 4 will utilize most of those AI techniques for the PC version.

 

[Gonzito]

Some textures in Silent Hill f are very low res. I dont like either how in UE5 games lately, depth of field is very aliased and low resolution even at max settings. Almost as if DLSS is not applied before DOF and it hurts inage quality a lot during cutscenes.

The game doesn't look bad mind you, but like someone said here, it feels like a low budget UE5 game in terms of graphics and technology

 

[GymWolf]

The yotei apologist in that other topic are always hilarious af

 

[Toots]

"After 8 years of gooning for this actress she finally accepted i pay her to spend time with me"

There is only one kojima (thank god)

 

[GymWolf]

"After 8 years of gooning for this actress she finally accepted i pay her to spend time with me"

There is only one kojima (thank god)

Dude has always been kinda of a creep, ngl

 

[geary]

"After 8 years of gooning for this actress she finally accepted i pay her to spend time with me"

There is only one kojima (thank god)

Kojima right now...

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