Considering they are aiming for 60FPS, I am willing to be it's going to use baked shadowmaps in MP. I don't think you can easily get dynamic shadow maps for environment and run at 1080P/60FPS on Xbox One with UE4.
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First Gears of War 4 Beta Gameplay
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Considering they are aiming for 60FPS, I am willing to be it's going to use baked shadowmaps in MP. I don't think you can easily get dynamic shadow maps for environment and run at 1080P/60FPS on Xbox One with UE4.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
I thought I read an interview where they said weather danger was gonna be in multiplayer.
They made the right choice, then.
I assume pretty visuals will be present in the single player 30fps mode. In multiplayer, a higher frame-rate is more important.
KurtSloane
Banned
Very underwhelmed, Gears 1 was first game that impressed last gen and the series was considered a graphical showpiece.
GHG
Member
Oh yess that looks like gears all right. Happy they really took a lot from gears 3 like Rod said.
Looks like there is no stopping power. Yesssss 👍👌
They should include auto ammo pickup from judgement.
As been said it does look graphically underwhelming but will chalk some of that up to the poor capture.
Looks like there is no stopping power. Yesssss 👍👌
They should include auto ammo pickup from judgement.
As been said it does look graphically underwhelming but will chalk some of that up to the poor capture.
Sodding_Gamer
Member
Looks like Gears, and I'll no doubt get it. But those graphics are underwhelming. Looks like Gears 3 but 60fps aha.
KurtSloane
Banned
It has looked better in MP in earlier titles @ 60fps.
barneystuta83
Member
It doesn't 'look' great but in it's defense this is an early leak.
Goose_Se7en
Banned
Classic Gears MP gameplay and that's good enough for me. It looks rough sure, but it's a beta and a true beta at that not some glorified demo. The game's about 4-5 months from launch, ample time for the coalition to polish it up.
Gaf posts can turn into a snowball sometimes, someone posts something then people start parroting the same ish.
Gaf posts can turn into a snowball sometimes, someone posts something then people start parroting the same ish.
Rod said 1080 but yeah just look at the characters faces, this is nowhere close to final.
Gameplay looks fine, cant wait to play it.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
On the other hand we grew adjusted to 30 fps on Gears 1-3.
Maybe they should have bumped it down to 720.
In earlier titles? The only console Gears title to run at 60fps in MP is Gears Ultimate (which I can agree looks a touch nicer than this).
I think the real problem is that the animation seems rather underwhelming and the video quality smears the texture work into oblivion.
giancarlo123x
Banned
Yikes, it is a beta but I hope they fix this up.
indeed. that map sux visually. looks like they copy pasted the gameplay too which is eh i played enuf of it. i'd try it for free on pc, i bet 60 frames feels nice to be fair as well.
chromatic9
Member
Looks like some of the graphics are switched off.
Is it? I played gears for years and never thought this sucks because it's 30fps. Gears being third person and different meant being 30 never hurt it.
Gordon0Freeman
Member
Like the first map Harbor but that 2nd map looked about as assy as the graphics do.
Like which tittles? the only 60FPS tittles were Gears 1 and UE, Gears 1 obviously doesn't look better and I don't see anything here that makes me think this looks worse than UE.
It does after you played Ultimate Edition.
sir_dany12
Member
60 fps all day, but something is off. Maybe the video, maybe because it's an early beta..
Both really.
Yep, it hurts to go back to 30. Gears really benefits from 60fps.
Which means going 60FPS would make it even better. Playing UE, you can see why 60FPS in Gears can be amazing and going back to Gears 3 just feels janky despite the fact that Gears 3 has a superior and much more refined movement system than UE.
When you have dozens and dozens hours of gameplay put into the multiplayer you wouldn't care much about the visuals, especially once the "next hot thing" is out, but you'll still be playing the game in which case 60FPS will still matter even after hundreds of hours.
Askherserenity
Member
I think the dude in the video says the game looks like it's missing textures or something.
This shit looks like straight up more gears. I'm surprised at how much they kept pretty much exactly the same. Crazy.
It does seem a bit faster to me.
This shit looks like straight up more gears. I'm surprised at how much they kept pretty much exactly the same. Crazy.
It does seem a bit faster to me.
Its not final.
RowdyReverb
Member
Wow, GAF pulling no punches judging the visuals of a 60fps early beta
Possumowner
Member
Early footage so I'll give it some space,let's hope it really improves
Solrac
Member
a joke, right ?
I Reclaim3mer 117
Neo Member
So we complain about wanting to be part of Dev process and giving feedback so developers implement them in the game. Then when they cut out a beta from a probably way earlier slice of the game to have us test it and give feedback we complain about the game not having final polish? Lol Jesus anyway looks like gears can't wait for the beta.
Gears 1 remaster didn't have any dynamic shadows either in MP just so you know.
Yup, hence it being beta. I've come not to expect much of a difference with beta to release nowadays though.
To sacrifice proper shadow maps as a trade off for full hd and 60 fps is questionable. Where is the benefit of 1080p, when the image looks flat and indistinguishable from last gen Gears? 60 fps is great but I don't mind dynamic res or even 900p to achieve it.
DagnastyEp
Member
Looks like Gears, looks great. Excited to check it out for myself.
No? Or are we only talking about graphics again and screw the gameplay? Because the gameplay looks awesome and like Gears 3.
This is a real beta tho. Like Halo 5.
people have been trained to think "beta" means demo. 6 months from release this is obviously not final.
SlipperyFishes
Banned
I'm hoping this is just a gameplay test and they're focused on testing that without the bells and whistles because it brings the stability down.
I hope...
I hope...