chickdigger802
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if im not seeing crazy rube goldberg stunt montages using all the hackings and physics and what not within a week, ill be highly disappoint.
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Watch Dogs Media Coverage [Starts April 23]
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bigboss370
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RMS Gigantic
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No, I was the guy who posted the comparison pictures. Here's the post you're thinking of.
And when one antenna covers the other, the top floor shouldn't have two "squares" visible. That was my point in that other thread: they turned the top floors of the Sears Tower into an L shape in some of those videos, when it should be a 1×2 rectangle.
Here's a picture of what you refer to, and as you can see, when there is only one antenna visible, there is also only square of the building's original 3×3 visible from that side:
By contrast, here it is happening in Watch_Dogs where only one antenna is visible, but two of those squares are visible:
Ragingbegal
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This is what I'm seeing it. But it's not like that in all of the videos, which is what I'm not getting. Maybe they've gone back and forth on it.
RMS Gigantic
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No, I think I know what's happening. It's a 2×2 L-shape, hugging a blue column as shown in the image below (that is, they added a red portion up and to the left in this image):
This means that you can see the L-shape when viewing one of these blue portions, such as here:
But you can't see it if you look at a very specific green column, such as here:
This means that Ubisoft messed up the tower, but they did it in such a way where you can't see it if you look at it from a very specific 90 degree range.
Raitosaito
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Playstation Access doesn't need clicks right?
At least it's not dependent on it.
At least it's not dependent on it.
chickdigger802
Banned
surely we can ride the robot spiders and scale sears?
did you mean the dots or the wave physics?
Those strange dots!
It's been a while since the event, so I can't recall everything about the waves but it looked cool.bigboss370
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Those strange dots!
ook, phew
Always-honest
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Yeah that would be cool. It would be cool for any game actually
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GavinUK86
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If you rewatch the trailers she has a French accent. Probably French-Canadian because Ubisoft.
Samir Sedlar
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yup, I remember it, not sure which part, but it was pretty intense and cool.There's a movie you should watch called Kill Bill
I would argue hacker chick's are equally bad.
No, I think I know what's happening. It's a 2×2 L-shape, hugging a blue column as shown in the image below (that is, they added a red portion up and to the left in this image):
This means that you can see the L-shape when viewing one of these blue portions, such as here:
But you can't see it if you look at a very specific green column, such as here:
This means that Ubisoft messed up the tower, but they did it in such a way where you can't see it if you look at it from a very specific 90 degree range.
Yeah you're right that L-shape is incorrect. Maybe they couldn't make it exact due to licensing issues. Kinda like how you can't jump off the Space Needle in inFamous Second Son.
RMS Gigantic
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If that were the case, they probably wouldn't be calling it the Willis Tower in-game. Then again, these wikis might be using tentative information, but if they indeed call it the Sears/Willis tower in-game, then there wouldn't be an issue with using the likeness of the building itself.
Edit: The first wiki I link mentions that it might be the "Barnes Building," but that still doesn't necessarily excuse the following:
Heck, Rockstar's "Rotterdam Tower" looks more like the Empire State Building than this thing does the Willis Tower (I might be the only person in the Chicago Land area who calls it that), and they most likely didn't have the licensing, either (hence the altered name)!
Yeah the wiki means pretty much nothing at this point. We'll have to wait and see.
RMS Gigantic
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From this thread on a Watch_Dogs-specific forum:
Yep, it's the Barnes Building in-game. I still think they could have modified the tower in a more subtle way, though: what they ended up doing effectively compromised the tower's look from 75% of its horizontal viewing angles, and virtually every angle when seeing the building from above.
But hey, at least they're not claiming that they recreated the Willis/Sears Tower. That's good, because that tends to tick me off in a lot of fictional media.
Ragingbegal
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Licensing issues make no sense. It'd be like forcing every street artist on Michigan Avenue to pay a fee to paint the Sears Tower.
Ready for Chicago. They should totally release a trailer with this song.
RMS Gigantic
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The extra protrusion in the top floors might actually be for story reasons: on the real thing, the closest that the 110th floor's sides come to having a straight vertical shot to street level is obscured by the entrance foyer. The game designers might have a sequence planned to have a person get knocked out of one of the uppermost floors and hit the sidewalk below, which would require either rotating the side of the building that the entrance is on, rotating the building itself, or adding this extra portion to the upper floors. If my hypothesis here is true, then they would be killing two birds with one stone with the last option also noticeably changing the aesthetics of the building.
The name and visual likeness alterations were probably primarily done for the same reason that they apparently changed all of the district names in the city, whatever that might be.
The name and visual likeness alterations were probably primarily done for the same reason that they apparently changed all of the district names in the city, whatever that might be.
Would have been cool. As long as the game has cyber punk vibes I'll be happy and with fun gameplay obviously.
rockman zx
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Miles Quaritch
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PS4 version? Can't make out the controller.
Miles Quaritch
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Thanks. Can't believe I didn't see it before.
kriskrosbbk
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Whats that event from?
That looks like the Paris event I went to 2 weeks ago.
Does that mean what I think it means?
Preview and interview tomorrow, no footage allowed from the actual event but hopefully we'll get some b-roll today.
Miles Quaritch
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That's disappointing.
I have a flight ticket to Chicago but still the possibility to cancel it. Is it worth a visit?
Always-honest
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How was the AA in this game? Was the game clean on PS4?
Or is that an answer you can't give yet?
SolidsnackooFoxhound
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I was thinking "does he not see the damn controller on the table?" Lol.
No comment until tomorrow, sorry.
Always-honest
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That's fine BlimBlim. Thanx.
Uh, no.
kriskrosbbk
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I see.What time tomorrow?
My guess 18:00CET.
rockman zx
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Yes.
Kleegamefan
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So about 3 hours from now?
rockman zx
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No, tomorrow, not today.
Tomorrow at 18:00CET.
Kleegamefan
K. LEE GAIDEN
shit
Welcome to how we felt yesterday.
Always-honest
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Well, someone is bound to break the embargo. So maybe you can hope for that the next 24 hours ;P
