I swear some of you have been playing video games so much you've forgotten what the real world looks like. Furniture indoors simply doesn't cast neat, crisp, directional shadows unless there's a bright source of light directly on it. Doubly so with reflective floors that will even tend to keep the darker areas more lit.
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Assassin's Creed Unity PS4 version leaked and footage (Spoilers)
- Thread starter Crossing Eden
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Kssio_Aug
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Unfortunately the last gameplay I saw also had some frame rate issues. Maybe its not the video encoding then! :/
Crossing Eden
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I'm having trouble coming up with a response to this much passive aggression. ._.
nelsonroyale
Member
This reminds me of the release of the original AC, except this time around the Xbone will likely get the worst performance. Well...I managed to complete the original on PS3 which was pretty rough in parts...
artsi
Member
Pretty much so. Getting lighting absolutely realistic is hard, I think Ubisoft has done a good job from what I've seen.
VFX_Veteran
Banned
The lighting is static and baked. Any game can do that.
I don't think so. Its the 18th century, the sun is THE light source during the day unless there are lamps or fires lit somewhere. I suppose the mirrors and glass could also reflect the sun, but that would be pretty damn intensive.
dripdripsplash
Member
Yeah I found the englich VA being so unrealistic and out of character. French all the way.
If I get the game... Inquisition, GTA V, Unity.... Jesus..
If I get the game... Inquisition, GTA V, Unity.... Jesus..
VFX_Veteran
Banned
There are shadows from bounced light. The shadows won't be neat and crisp, and they will be uniform, but you will see some. TLOU has much better indirect shadows than any game out currently (including AC:Unity).
In this video, even the books and papers on the floor seem "pasted" onto the objects. There is no sense of depth or shadow. I'm simply not seeing the graphical beauty that people are mentioning here. It looks more of the same to me.
Crossing Eden
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You have to wonder how baked the lighting is considering that weather is dynamic. There's also GI so interiors aren't just as bright as it is outside. For an open world game the lighting is great.
Seriously? Come on now, m8.
Crossing Eden
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Yea I got nothing.
VFX_Veteran
Banned
The GI is static in the interiors too. That's old old tech. Even FC3 had some semi-dynamic GI on the outside -- meaning your jeep or hand would pick up the bounced light. You see none of that in this video.
For an open world game, it would take more than static lighting to make me say it has 'great lighting'.
Again, reflective floors and walls will get rid of the indirect shadowing too. Until we see a 'normal' interior I think you can conclude jack squat about the accuracy of their GI solution in general.
plasmawave
Banned
But you can clearly see hid body blocking the light in the beginning of the video, but there are no shadows in 0:44 where you can clearly see the light coming in from the windows.
Or at 0:56 and 0:59.
How many reflective floors and walls do you expect there were in old Paris?
The closer the release date creeps, the more I want to see the modern day bits of the new game.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Hey peeps, found an album that contains screenshots of the ps4 version. Seems to be of the first two sequences. No major spoilers but it is a bit spoilery if you don't wanna know what happens at the beginning. And all the subtitles are in French.
http://imgur.com/a/Kfagt
Those faces O.O
Just for comparison, this is what AC4 looked like
http://imgur.com/a/Kfagt
Those faces O.O
Just for comparison, this is what AC4 looked like
Which, again, you would expect from diffuse lighting, and you can clearly see that th lighting conditions are different between the beginning and 0:44.
Not sure what your point is. This is a video of the Palace of Versailles.
Darryl M R
Member
So is there any benefits of playing it on ps4 vs x1?
Those shots are awful, its impossible to assess graphics based on them.
Crossing Eden
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At the very least slightly better effects and textures and better performance.
Looks great. Thanks for the link.
Have there been any impressions of the framerate yet?
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Not from what I can see.
plasmawave
Banned
Hey peeps, found an album that contains screenshots of the ps4 version. Seems to be of the first two sequences. No major spoilers but it is a bit spoilery if you don't wanna know what happens at the beginning. And all the subtitles are in French.
http://imgur.com/a/Kfagt
Those faces O.O
Just for comparison, this is what AC4 looked like
We have confirmation for shadows!
Crossing Eden
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We can confirm that Elise looks great.
SketchTheArtist
Member
Hey peeps, found an album that contains screenshots of the ps4 version. Seems to be of the first two sequences. No major spoilers but it is a bit spoilery if you don't wanna know what happens at the beginning. And all the subtitles are in French.
http://imgur.com/a/Kfagt
Thanks for the link
Man, those shots look great! Can't wait to get my hands on it!
DOWN
Banned
Her model is definitely the best showcase of how the characters look in the new lighting.We can confirm that Elise looks great.
Well...I guess the PC version will look better. I usually don't care much about 900peepees but that sure looks blurry as fuck.
Succinct Verbosity
Member
Please tell me I can play this in French with English subtitles.
nelsonroyale
Member
Game needs a photo mode. I have no doubt the game looks impressive, but a quality photo mode does a much better job of representing fine visuals.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
I can't tell if it's because of imgur or because the screens are upscaled, maybe a combination of both.
Yes.
Platinum_D
Member
The game looks gorgeous despite the whole 900p scandal i'm glad i kepted my pre-order
Chobel
Member
They look blurry as hell.
copelandmaster
Member
He's got a stalkerish assassin posture + running animation even at as a child. That's hilarious, and kinda lazy. Kids don't run like that, Ubi.
dark_inferno
Member
I must have something on my eyes then. Because this game doesnt even look nearly as good as promised.
It looks like a PS3 game and not like a PS4 game.
Hey peeps, found an album that contains screenshots of the ps4 version. Seems to be of the first two sequences. No major spoilers but it is a bit spoilery if you don't wanna know what happens at the beginning. And all the subtitles are in French.
http://imgur.com/a/Kfagt
Those faces O.O
Just for comparison, this is what AC4 looked like
I'm sorry but those shots just don't amaze me, the way they have been talking about how their game looks better than ever... instead I see that Ubisoft managed to mark all the checkboxes of crap with this new "gen" engine:
-framerate problems... check
-lowered resolution, blurry as hell... check
-mediocre looking... check
They really fucked it up this gen.
Hey peeps, found an album that contains screenshots of the ps4 version. Seems to be of the first two sequences. No major spoilers but it is a bit spoilery if you don't wanna know what happens at the beginning. And all the subtitles are in French.
http://imgur.com/a/Kfagt
Those faces O.O
Just for comparison, this is what AC4 looked like
Blurry blurry.
I have a hard time taking these criticisms seriously. Resolution, yeah I'm pretty miffed. But 'mediocre looking'? Has everyone's standards really shifted that quickly? The exterior shots of Paris look amazing. And judging from the improvement we saw from AC1 to AC4 on last-gen hardware (in fact the jump from 1 to 2 was amazing), this is just the beginning.
VFX_Veteran
Banned
No. They have already stated that all their lighting is mostly baked. Why is that hard to believe. No game out currently does 'dynamic' bounced light except Alien:Isolation.
VFX_Veteran
Banned
You do realize that AC4 and Unity have the same graphics engine right? If anything they put more art direction into Unity. Doesn't mean the tech will be superior.
SketchTheArtist
Member
It's the Ubisoft Shit Squad rearing its ugly head again. Don't give them attention.
I'm all for debating but calling these mediocre is a red flag for people to not take seriously in a discussion.
Those faces O.O
I know it's not a fair comparaison, but damn when you look at Uncharted 4 and then this... Naughty Dog is so far away.