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[hlm666]

This time next year everyone is gonna hate this. Wonder who will be the first to turn it into a BR.

“We’re giving away that city without Neo and Trinity,” Libreri said. “It’s a full, living, playable city. If anybody wants to do a racing game in that city, they will be able to use all the blueprints, all the gameplay logic, all the AI, all the destructible cars. When you see the cars exploring, that’s not us adding explosions, where we animate it by hand. It’s all procedurally exploding because when a car gets impacted, it gets deformed, it will shatter its glass."

"“It’s purely a technology demo just to show what our customers can expect to be able to do when they’re using Unreal Engine 5. And in fact, when we ship the engine, for real next year, this entire city with all the AI for the traffic, all the building blocks, every air conditioning unit, every little piece of that will be made available.”

Epic Games shows off Unreal Engine 5 with stunning simulated city in The Matrix Awakens demo

Epic Games showed off the realism of Unreal Engine 5 realism with The Matrix Awakens demo amid a huge computer-generated city.

venturebeat.com

 

[Lukaku's First Touch]

This time next year everyone is gonna hate this. Wonder who will be the first to turn it into a BR.

“We’re giving away that city without Neo and Trinity,” Libreri said. “It’s a full, living, playable city. If anybody wants to do a racing game in that city, they will be able to use all the blueprints, all the gameplay logic, all the AI, all the destructible cars. When you see the cars exploring, that’s not us adding explosions, where we animate it by hand. It’s all procedurally exploding because when a car gets impacted, it gets deformed, it will shatter its glass."

"“It’s purely a technology demo just to show what our customers can expect to be able to do when they’re using Unreal Engine 5. And in fact, when we ship the engine, for real next year, this entire city with all the AI for the traffic, all the building blocks, every air conditioning unit, every little piece of that will be made available.”

Epic Games shows off Unreal Engine 5 with stunning simulated city in The Matrix Awakens demo

Epic Games showed off the realism of Unreal Engine 5 realism with The Matrix Awakens demo amid a huge computer-generated city.

venturebeat.com

Something doesn't add up here. It's all procedurally exploding? During the chase scene I saw about 10 cars flip and explode exactly the same way.

 

[Mahnmut]

Now this is next gen. Super impressive !

 

[hlm666]

Something doesn't add up here. It's all procedurally exploding? During the chase scene I saw about 10 cars flip and explode exactly the same way.

The line preceding that might imply when your in free roam at the end. You can drive around and smash stuff up in free roam at the end.

 

[BigBooper]

This time next year everyone is gonna hate this. Wonder who will be the first to turn it into a BR.

“We’re giving away that city without Neo and Trinity,” Libreri said. “It’s a full, living, playable city. If anybody wants to do a racing game in that city, they will be able to use all the blueprints, all the gameplay logic, all the AI, all the destructible cars. When you see the cars exploring, that’s not us adding explosions, where we animate it by hand. It’s all procedurally exploding because when a car gets impacted, it gets deformed, it will shatter its glass."

"“It’s purely a technology demo just to show what our customers can expect to be able to do when they’re using Unreal Engine 5. And in fact, when we ship the engine, for real next year, this entire city with all the AI for the traffic, all the building blocks, every air conditioning unit, every little piece of that will be made available.”

Epic Games shows off Unreal Engine 5 with stunning simulated city in The Matrix Awakens demo

Epic Games showed off the realism of Unreal Engine 5 realism with The Matrix Awakens demo amid a huge computer-generated city.

venturebeat.com

Looks like Ubisoft's set for their next few games.

 

[Zathalus]

According to Alex on Resetera, PS5 and XSX are basically the same FPS wise.

Which corresponds to my experience as well.

 

[reksveks]

According to Alex on Resetera, PS5 and XSX are basically the same FPS wise.

Which corresponds to my experience as well.

Poor Alex is commenting on Twitter with some xbox fan about the ram usage of UE5 again cause the demo isn't on pc at the moment

 

[ShadowNate]

I usually don't care for the realism that high profile games go for these days, because it brings along so many unnecessary issues in design and development, and then still ends up looking weird or wrong in many ways.

This, though, and considering that it is a tech demo, is indeed impressive to me, and while there's still room for improvement (reflections, physics, NPCs, AI etc), it's mind blowing to see this level of convincing world detail.

 

[Tschumi]

On second reflection, you have to say that this is pretty well done by unreal, first that fantasy setting that was pretty great, now dialed up into an approximation of an open world game.. dying to see what DF think of their answer to RT

 

[DenchDeckard]

Some junky framerate and a bit weird with cuts but looks great. Wouldn't want a real game outside of some quantic dream thing with that fps tho.

 

[Stooky]

To toggle day and night go to yellow poi marker on the map ( my player green maker is covering it up but that is the location) Damn now i gotta check all the poi

edit- i think all the yellow poi lets you toggle day and night

 

[Rea]

Nanite is amazing, to think that it's not using hardware rasterization with this level of performance is impressive.

 

[BootsLoader]

That’s was really impressive.

 

[=GabrielKnight=]

Sorry if I ask something already discussed, but Keanu talking at the beginning of the demo is all real time?

 

[UnNamed]

And some people thought we already have next gen titles on PS5/Series X.

This demo is truly amazing.

 

[Tschumi]

Sorry if I ask something already discussed, but Keanu talking at the beginning of the demo is all real time?

i think (this is just me) he's real when he's his current age and seen reflected in the mirror, but everything else is graphics.

the graphics really become obvious with the car movement, imo, but yeah god damn... u gotta pay respects to unreal 5, RT disciples are happy to poo-poo it, but they're being willful.

 

[M1chl]

Looks like Watch_Dogs we were once promised.

Also night does not look nearly as good.

 

[Md Ray]

those physics, particles. The amount destruction happening on screen... This is what I was eagerly waiting to see on these next-gen (current-gen) machines!

 

[Lethal01]

it's software ray tracing replacement but this looks fantastic and operates at an awesome scale and fidelity on current hardware

the raytracing is hardware accelerated now actually

 

[vkbest]

I love 60fps but if requires the devs/creators to stray away from their vision, then 30 fps is fine to me.

Also looked really good, was so excited with the free-roam. Excited to go back, might become my "chill" game.

Also, the city skyline in the distance was pretty ugly and so was the water... Like really bad water (PS3 era)

Playing this demo felt as crap, if you want 30fps again go to watch movies, you will get cinematic experience.

 

[Md Ray]

Welp, with these visuals you can kiss 60fps goodbye. I'm not complaining though, I've been wanting to see these systems pushed to their limits since launch.

 

[Stuart360]

So is this going to turn into a game, or is it just a tech demo to promote the movie?
I just find it surprising that they would put all this time and effort into a demo.
It looks great by he way, although the resolution and framerate is a bit shocking at times.

 

[Black_Stride]

How much of a fuck you is it that Warner Bros, went with Epic and Unreal Engine while still working with WetaFX.....the company NOT really that Unity Technologies just bought.

 

[Lethal01]

Yes, Lumen is really power hungry. Maybe in the future it will be helped somehow by the ray tracing hardware in the new consoles to accelerate the global illumination, UE5 is not even finished yet. We'll see what Epic comes up with.

They said it's already hardware accelerated. doesn't mean performance can't improve.

 

[Bogeyman]

Hats off to the creators, that is truly impressive.

I'm not sure I'm in love with such an almost realistic art style, its sort of approaching uncanny valley territory for me - but either way, from a technical point of view its incredible.

 

[M1chl]

How much of a fuck you is it that Warner Bros, went with Epic and Unreal Engine while still working with WetaFX.....the company NOT really that Unity Technologies just bought.

Unity is in C#, I doubt that they will be able to do this in their engine. Garbage Collection and all that stuff.

 

[darrylgorn]

Looks good.

I'll probably watch someone play it on twitch.

 

[Jim Ryan other Clone]

Reminds me of The Getaway for some reason

On point, was giving me a strange filling of familiarity but could not remember where I played something similar.

 

[Bluntman]

The Matrix is Unreal

A Tech look behind the incredible Matrix UE5 Experience

www.fxguide.com

Many interesting stuff here. Lots of 4D scanning. 60-100 artists worked on this tech demo for over a year.

Also this is interesting:

"The final experience however is indicative of what is possible for a game, running on a PS5 or XBox Series X/S there is still a lot of CPU headroom that would allow a game designer to run the normal mechanics of a game. The team did not want to build a demo that was unrealistic for what a new AAA game would be able to achieve."

 

[scalman]

Trailer means nothing. Remember keanu on cb2077 trailer looked amazing as well

Even in game he was good so its nothing special

 

[Md Ray]

This demo combined with DLSS instead of Unreal's TAAU will do wonders.

 

[Black_Stride]

So is this going to turn into a game, or is it just a tech demo to promote the movie?
I just find it surprising that they would put all this time and effort into a demo.
It looks great by he way, although the resolution and freamerate is a bit shocking at times.

Imagine all the expertise The Coalition gained from working on this demo.
Tech demos are generally not actually for the public but for developers themselves to learn new techniques and workflow pipelines.

UE5 is still in Early Access devs getting a chance to work on projects that they dont have to "sell" is a godsend.
They can basically figure out how to integrate all these technologies for when they need to make a full game that the public will be able to buy and scrutineer.

Granted they would probably have done so internally anyway, having this murderers row of visual effects companies and outsource studios working with them effectively for free is like having the cake and eating it too.

 

[Black_Stride]

Trailer means nothing. Remember keanu on cb2077 trailer looked amazing as well

YOu do know this is fully playable on your console right now?
Its not a trailer its a playable real time experience.

 

[cormack12]

Astounding until I went to a store window lol. Was worse than Forza Horizon 4 in tha respect. But holy shit at how real just walking round the streets feels and looks. Felt like a VR experience until then with the shooting.

 

[Arun1910]

Those visuals were insane.

Crazy to think they built such a big world for a Tech demo.

Only thing I hated was the "Fly" button... got me all excited, should have said "Drone"

 

[Rhazer Fusion]

This game looks extremely good especially considering we are barely into the generation. Not to mention there is a lot of stuff going on, beautiful lighting and detail on the screen. Even the framer rate is smooth. I’m really impressed. Imagine UE5 games in 4 to 6 years. Now this looks like a generational leap over anything from last generation imo.

 

[RJMacready73]

fucking hell i just skipped through it at work and whilst some looked gamey as fuck some also looked like a deleted scene from the bloody movie, cannot wait to get home and play this later

 

[Black_Stride]

This demo combined with DLSS instead of Unreal's TAAU will do wonders.

The PC edition will be compiled with DLSS for sure.
Just hope it doesnt produce any weird artifacts with DLSS active.

 

[Md Ray]

The PC edition will be compiled with DLSS for sure.
Just hope it doesnt produce any weird artifacts with DLSS active.

Is there any word on when the PC edition is coming?

 

[Darsxx82]

As much as the level shown by both the demo of Matrix and Hellblade 2 ..... I was happy to know, confirmed by Epic today, that in one year the performance improvement of UE5 on consoles has seen a very substantial improvement and will still improve more.
Fabulous

 

[stranno]

To be honest, Path of Neo looked way more impressive back in the day.

This is not nearly as "photo-realistic" as I expected.

 

[Gloomnivore]

It’s impressive but if I lived in that city I’d walk to work to avoid those traffic lights every five seconds.

 

[GymWolf]

Gta6 need to look on par with this thing or better.

 

[skit_data]

Gonna check this out on PS5 when I get home tonight.

Sounds like Sweeney has delivered.

 

[sertopico]

Trailer means nothing. Remember keanu on cb2077 trailer looked amazing as well

Even in game he was good so its nothing special

There is a difference between pre-rendered CG and real time you know?

Impressive tech demo btw. I hope it'll come on PC as well.

 

[Black_Stride]

Is there any word on when the PC edition is coming?

I have to find the link but Epic said they will be releasing the assets (im guessing openworld section) on the Storefront and we will likely be able to compile it to run like we could the last demo.
The DLSS plugin is pretty much err...plug and play so when compiling it will certainly include the DLL.

 

[ripeavocado]

Very surprising.

the tech demo it’s fully open world playable and runs alright.

We have to consider that this is a year 1/2 tech demo that HAD TO BE RELEASED BEFORE THE MOVIE, no 1 month delay to try that new thing improving the framerate or making lighting better was ever possible, the project had super tight deadlines.

It’s also a low budget tech demo, not a full game, as we have seen with Unreal Engine 4, the technology can be used much more efficiently on games (Days Gone first one to come to mind)

Now the bad: the image quality is quite bad even after removing the Matrix filter, sadly these consoles have weak ray tracing capabilities and aggressive reconstruction is necessary.

 

[SlimySnake]

Eurogamer article says that lumen is now hardware accelerated aswell.

"The Matrix Awakens sees Lumen taken to the next level, with extra performance and fidelity in indirect and diffuse lighting delivered by the hardware-accelerated ray tracing hardware in the new consoles, which can also offer up ray-traced reflections and area light shadows. These systems are exceptionally heavy on performance, meaning that Epic leans in heavily on its TSR (temporal super resolution) solution that injects data from prior frames into the one currently being rendered in order to improve quality."

This was confirmed when they revealed the PC demo. Software accelerated lumens is targeting 1440p 30 fps on next Gen consoles, while hardware accelerated lumens is only 1080p 30 fps.

Neo and Trinity are 3d face scans, your avatar is probably meta human, im guessing

That would be my guess as well. Really sticks out though.

It is. Created from scratch by Epic according to DF. Its really impressive TBH. Naughty dog licensees face talent so they won’t have to design from scratch and their characters would look closer to Neo and Trinity models.

 

[SpokkX]

Old keanu talking in the White room. That is not realtime? Right? Surely that is a filmed sequence?

 

[8BiTw0LF]

Yes, guys, we'll have to choose. PS4 graphics at 4K and 60 fps or nexr gen graphics at lower rez and fps.

I haven't played 30fps games for 5 years now - and I'm not gonna start. 60fps and lower res all day!