keltickennedy
Member
It's hard to get through to a lot of people man. Ubisoft is on a lot of peoples shit list. lol.
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Assassin's Creed Unity PS4 version leaked and footage (Spoilers)
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It's hard to get through to a lot of people man. Ubisoft is on a lot of peoples shit list. lol.
Gaffercake
Member
Ahhhh.... Am I doing it right? Everything might not cast a shadow, but there are definitely shadows in the game.
https://flic.kr/p/pQiako
Exactly, I can see a few under the furniture to the right as well
I think the shadows are only present when the sunlight is hitting the object. They may have removed the lightning indoors.
False Witness
Member
Face it, there is no such thing as a positive AC or Ubisoft thread on GAF and there never will be. There are too many people who only care about shitstorms.
No,hardware permitting the game already looks better on PC thanks to tessellation, PCSS and HBAO+.
I'm 100% fine with everything else being identical.
graphics aside, this game is really gonna have to work to impress me after Shadows of Mordor, which was a far better "assassin" game than most of the stale AC material. If the sneaking and combat is better and there's a lot to do in the overworld with missions, I might actually pick it up. But it's still Ubisoft and they are still full of pre-release DLC low-fi horseshit so I'll wait til reviews are out.
As far as i see no. They could make AO a bit stronger but shadows are there.
OsirisBlack
Banned
The music is absolutely beautiful all of it is well beyond their usual effort.
Strong backed indirect lighting can fool the eye and comparing with other games you could miss a few shadows, but maybe is only your character is actually into the "shadows" while those shadows are not as darker as they used to be. The faked and wrong reflection under the window does not help.
PLASTICA-MAN
Member
So video BYE BYE? I didn't see it!
KainXVIII
Member
I remember Ryse has similar shadow controversy (also on shiny floor)
They just use a single shadow-casting light source - as do most games in recent history (including every AC to date).Lax1085 said:
The exceptions are few - and fewer yet attempt to do anything resembling real global shadowing (where GI contributes more than just colored light-bounces).
clutch.as.it.gets.
Member
No day/night cycle is a good thing for me. Most game with such a cycle have horribly shimmering shadows and switch lods multiple times when getting closer to them. AC2 had a really unpolished look because of all the shadow shimmering going on. I like the inFamous second son approach with fixed times of day much better.
DOWN
Banned
Yeah, fixed is not a negative imo. As long as we are shown different times of day, I couldn't care less about seeing a constant slow transition for this game.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
RespectThySole
Member
I didn't think I would be getting this day 1 with Halo coming out the same day, but it looks like I am now with that Target deal. Game looks great!
matrixman92
Member
Ive just been rewatching this over and over for the music. Apparently someone streamed the first hour(?) of the game this morning, is there an archive or capture of that anywhere?
VFX_Veteran
Banned
I don't understand the GAFers saying this looks good. Huh? Am I missing something here? It looks average at best.
Circle Jerk
Member
Sometimes people have different opinions.
matrixman92
Member
do you like assassins creed games to begin with?
VFX_Veteran
Banned
Played them all.. this one looks like them.
I guess I'm of the opinion that if something looks "good" -- it stands out among it's competition. This game doesn't really stand out as being something superior to other games, but I digress.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
It's certainly a big improvement over AC4, and it's definitely the best looking Ubi title. Especially the facial animation.
KillerMan91
Member
Game feels so much more natural when everyone is speaking french. Can't wait to play.
Yes?
I thought they could block Share streaming.
Why couldn't they block Share playing?
VFX_Veteran
Banned
I don't get that in this demo. How is it the best looking Ubi title? What makes it look better than AC4? We only see a house and a boy walking around. How is it better looking than say, Watch Dogs?
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
i thought that kid was a leprechaun at first and ubi was pulling a shangri-la or whatever it was in fc4 with the magic tigers and shit
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
It's a 720p compressed video. However from the video, the interiors already look better than Watch Dogs interiors. Especially the lighting. Character animation and cloth simulation also look better.
Damerman
Member
lmao, exactly what i'm thinking... funnily enough, its the French VOs that made me want to get it. I'm gonna play it in french
akachan ningen
Member
Ftfy
I think this is the best looking open world game so far. Textures could be more detailed but it's easily forgiven when you think about the scale.
Donno why they didn't just use SSR for this, it's very cheap to implement anyway.
Sodding_Gamer
Member
Looking at that room it seems there isn't any lights on in that room. So only source of light is in fact the direct sunlight through the windows. Looks fine to me.
dampflokfreund
Banned
AC Black Flag looks better
Salz01
Member
What's up with this weird fog, haze that's here all the time? Hope it's not that bad during actual gameplay.
Yeah, same for me. Really weird, hope they fix it soon.
There's a background story thread than runs through all of them but it's non essential in my opinion.
Brerlappin
Member
I always play the Metro games with Russian voices and eng subs. I plan on playing this with French voices and Eng subs too. Like others have said, even if the French VS's were horrible, i dont know cause im not a French speaker, and it makes it feel more authentic, so im definitely going with that. I hated the faux Italian accents in AC2, its a real immersion breaker to hear people shouting out english lines in the middle of 16th century Florence
Things that matter in an open world game, in order of importance, for Ubisoft®:
- facial animations
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- real-time shadows/ reflections
And yes Crossing Eden, yes, I know the reasoning behind these decisions, I know that the best part of the Ubisoft® open world games are the cutscenes. No need to tell me about it.
Ubisoft®, lads.
DOWN
Banned
Oddly, I've found that while occasionally you'll catch the AC games without the intense fog (suggesting it doesn't need to really be there much so it's likely not that important for hiding draw distance), they seem to keep the haze turned on for the majority of the scenes anyway.