Interesting. Capcom mention framegen in their pc requirements.
Here the footage on the show floor with people playing it. Look extremely choppy in some parts and nowhere close to the dev footage we talk about here. With this, I think it's more likely the dev showing is the new build with framegen implemented. What so you think?
The version from the video you posted is the
Story Trial demo. I believe this is what is available on the show floor for guests to play. In this demo, it's my understanding that you can make a character, experience the very beginning of the game's story up to hunting a Chatacabra. Of course the map is open to you, but I believe there is a timer that will just kick you back out once it expires. I don't know how long the timer is; I don't think its displayed. This version appears to be based on the Gamescom demo, target 30FPS, and does
not contain the Quematrice or Scarlet Forest sections.
The
STAGE DEMO that we have seen featuring Quematrice and Scarlet Forest are from a NEWER build of the game, is an unlocked target 60FPS. I believe this is done without any frame generation - I am pretty familiar with frame generation artifacts and I haven't seen any. If it is indeed using frame gen, it looks really fuckin good to fool me - and pretty much everyone else because no one seems to be able to tell.
Yeah, like it's absolutely intuitive that they will show two very different builds at the same place.
Developmentally, there are a lot of potential reasons for this. The older version might be more stable, more limited access - they don't want people digging around too much in the new areas when they haven't revealed that much about the area yet. It's my understanding that the new stage demo is the
current development build.
Generally speaking, you don't want the average joe messing with your current build - for a ton of reasons. Security, reliability, etc. Let's go extreme and say someone stole a demo unit, and the devkit running the Story Trial demo. That would bad, of course, but that trial is meant for public consumption; probably doesn't have debug enabled or access to dev tools. If someone stole their most current build - if it wasn't meant to be played by the public and got out, since debug is enabled (they demonstrated this by changing the time of day instantly) it could be pandemonium. It wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility for someone to leak the code and recompile it and we have a Spiderman 2 situation on our hands all over again. That would be a
disaster.