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Horizon: Forbidden West |OT| Red Head Redemption - II -

Stuart360

Member
Watching CohhCarnage play the game and i like what i see. I think there are a bit too many cutscenes, compared to the first game, it seems you cant play more than 5mins without some kind of cutscene or convo.
Still there have been some pretty epic story cutscenes so far.
Its actually made me install the first game again lol, my third playthrough.
 
Kryptonite anyone?
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Performance mode turns the game into the switch game, DF said it's 1800p but more like 1080p. Pretty poor job on performance mode IMHO, Spider-man remastered/MM, GoT look a lot better on performance modes. The game is a looker on resolution mode though.
I just refunded the game and will either wait for it to improve or release on PC.

Performance mode is a joke in my opinion. Playing UC4 on PS5 next to it is night and day difference.
 
Why is it that every HUD option has an Always Off option except weapons and potions. The description it has on the right in the menu even says Always Off is an option.

Any help? I want no HUD at all.
 
i was going to wait before buying as i am trying to get through a backlog but shit, i literally cant stop thinking about this game! i legit cant concentrate on anything im playing. coming to this thread doesnt help.
 

Gamerguy84

Member
I may just need to switch back and forth a bit more once I get to the open world parts

Im still in tutorial area

But 60 fps is perfectly fine - I don’t get the complaints of it being extremely muddy or anything
I've tried both extensively and going with performance.

Biggest difference is clarity in further away objects/grass/rocks. 60 is just too smooth to ignore. Either way no one can go wrong.
 

SLB1904

Banned
I onestly spended 10 euros more to avoid that problem entirely, also i fucking hate when the ps5 try to download the ps4 version of the game every damn time i turn on the console.

For the sequel of my gotg, money well spent.
Didn't even crossed my mind to double check. Also the ps5 upgrade you have to go through checkout again lol
 
I watched my friend who is a reviewer play for a few hours last week. The graphics are great, but everything else is so shit, especially the characters. But I must say that I rarely like western games. My February games are KoF 15 and Elden Ring.
 

G-Bus

Banned
Fuck I hate adulting sometimes. Too busy with kids and other things. Hopefully have energy at the end of the day to play a bit.

Her hair is very distracting during cutscenes.

Getting some serious naughty dog vibes during the intro section. Between the cinematics and climbing, environments. Just screams Uncharted. Not a complaint.

Looks great on my C1. Don't think I have any of these graphical issues some are experiencing.

Hoping the wife gives me some time to sit down and play this weekend.
 

Lokaum D+

Member
Fuck I hate adulting sometimes. Too busy with kids and other things. Hopefully have energy at the end of the day to play a bit.

Her hair is very distracting during cutscenes.

Getting some serious naughty dog vibes during the intro section. Between the cinematics and climbing, environments. Just screams Uncharted. Not a complaint.

Looks great on my C1. Don't think I have any of these graphical issues some are experiencing.

Hoping the wife gives me some time to sit down and play this weekend.
Just wake at middle of the night yelling like u have been shot in the knee, then tell her u have kidney stone and need to lay low for the weekend, docs recomendation.
 
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saintjules

Gold Member
About this, did i have to do this even if i finished installing the game like 5 min ago? like do you think it's already on for people who installed the game after their stealth change?

Not sure. I'd assume you'd be fine, but maybe power cycle everything again to be sure.
 

saintjules

Gold Member
Looks great on my C1. Don't think I have any of these graphical issues some are experiencing.

It's hard to say when people aren't saying what display they're using. On the C9, it looks amazing in perf mode. Resolution is great too but I can't do 30 after tasting 60 on this. So fluid.
 

Dr Bass

Member
So I am not sure if you are supposed to see something download (I did see the patch download last night, but I don't know if that was related to the graphical fixes), but I did just start and quit the game twice and then went back in. I feel like it DID fix what I was seeing last night though. I specifically moved the camera around and looked at the grass/foliage looking for the edge sharpening with the brightening/darkening as you stop and move. It looked significantly lower than what I remembered from last night, and I thought overall it was making the actual game come across much nicer.

So, so far much happier with the visuals. Still don't think it looks "better" than Demons or Ratchet, and I still think performance mode is a blurry mess (there is no way it even looks close to what a native 1800p would look like, 1440p on demons souls trounces the overall look), but resolution mode is razor freakin' sharp and looking good currently. I would totally buy a PS5 Pro. I wish we could get these games with resolution mode at 60fps. I don't care if the thing was a thousand dollars. I know that would be extremely niche but I think these games are sort of getting a disservice done to them.

Looking forward to playing more now.
 

saintjules

Gold Member
Behind the Scenes. In Dutch, but hopefully they'll add captions. Gameplay spoilers when it comes to designs of enemies.

 
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Dr Bass

Member
Oh I'm pretty sure you'll be able to play it at 4K 60FPS with maxxed settings on one platform in a few months.
Haha, absolutely but I just don't bother with that stuff. Maybe at some point I would if things were close to day and date. I know the MS side operates that way of course ... If PS did too, I honestly would consider just doing PC and Switch.
 
Oh I'm pretty sure you'll be able to play it at 4K 60FPS with maxxed settings on one platform in a few months.
Months? No chance. But I’m waiting, unless a significant update arrives for perf mode. Not sure wtf is going on, AA solution seems borked. On my CX, perf mode seemed off even after restarts. The grass/blight is incredibly noisy and off. The previous game felt better to me. Just my opinion.
 

JeloSWE

Member
Months? No chance. But I’m waiting, unless a significant update arrives for perf mode. Not sure wtf is going on, AA solution seems borked. On my CX, perf mode seemed off even after restarts. The grass/blight is incredibly noisy and off. The previous game felt better to me. Just my opinion.
Yes, the blight is really poorly implemented. The reason is that all the sprite animations, like fire, smoke, water splashes and red blight is at least half in resolution in perf mode, this make the red blight flicker like crazy. To me it feels like they've prioritized 30fps 4K and the 60 fps is just riding on the PS4 implementation with double fps. I'm sure they could have given the important sprite animations a bit more love on the PS5.

The checkerboard implementation is not working well for distant foliage or details and edges in general, the image is very unstable and shimmer a lot to other checkerboard games. Maybe a 1440p with good TAA and then just upscaled would have looked better.
 

JeloSWE

Member
It's hard to say when people aren't saying what display they're using. On the C9, it looks amazing in perf mode. Resolution is great too but I can't do 30 after tasting 60 on this. So fluid.
How large is your screen and how far away are you sitting. I'm sitting 2m from my 75" and the shimmering and blurrier image in performance mode is as obvious as night and day to me.

It's really annoying, the unstable image of perf mode makes me switch over to res mode to check things out and compare but 30 fps is nigh unplayable and I'll end up back playing it at 60.
 

Represent.

Represent(ative) of bad opinions
This game looks way, way better in resolution. The gap will only wider as the gen gets older - its begun.

Also how long is this intro :messenger_astonished: Hopefully Horizon 3 adds Ray Tracing to all the robots
 
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James Sawyer Ford

Gold Member
Oh I'm pretty sure you'll be able to play it at 4K 60FPS with maxxed settings on one platform in a few months.

Oh I'm pretty sure I'll already have completed the game by then and at the end of the day and the differences won't be a big deal. Certainly not to justify waiting or the added cost of the hardware
 
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