luca_29_bg
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Someone knows how to enable night mode, i can't find that thing that let you do this! 
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The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience is up for PS5 and Xbox X/S
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01011001
Banned
if you turn on the nanite vision, the upsampling is turned off it seems.
maybe someone can pixelcount this
and here the Xbox version, lined up as good as I could
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When you go close to the water it moves but when you're far away it just look like a large texture
kadab
Member
Its the yellow marker on the right side of the mapSomeone knows how to enable night mode, i can't find that thing that let you do this!
ultrazilla
Gold Member
THIS. This was JAW DROPPING. It actually made me question my reality a little bit. Seriously. Unreal Engine 5 is a game changer(kinda pun intended).
At first I thought "yeah, this is just an on the rails shooter/experience like Dragon's Lair where you follow the prompts" but then that part ends and drops you into the city in a third person
view and well..............................play and experience it for yourself. WHAT. IN. THE. FUCK!!!!!!
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SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
The traffic on highways is very realistic. This demo isn’t just graphics, there is a lot going on under the hood. I managed to crash my car going full speed and it rolled over like the cars in the chase sequence. Completely Tanked the framerate.
Is the ps5 running this at 1080p. It doesn’t feel crisp. Not much shimmering that’s usually with 1080p images so they might be reconstructing it somehow.
I’m blown away tbh., the city is massive. The chase sequence was fake though right? My mind was struggling to keep up. I couldn’t tell what’s real anymore. It felt like a fmv like those PS1 games. How did they do it? I want to know.
Is the ps5 running this at 1080p. It doesn’t feel crisp. Not much shimmering that’s usually with 1080p images so they might be reconstructing it somehow.
I’m blown away tbh., the city is massive. The chase sequence was fake though right? My mind was struggling to keep up. I couldn’t tell what’s real anymore. It felt like a fmv like those PS1 games. How did they do it? I want to know.
luca_29_bg
Member
thank you!!!
James Sawyer Ford
Gold Member
This is the greatest fucking thing i have ever seen. I thought this was a bs interactive cutscene until they dropped you into a fully living breathing open world. I am done. I told you all photorealism was possible this gen!
James Sawyer Ford
yeah this is nuts looking with the right lighting conditions
looks like a next gen GTA
there’s still some LOD but it’s greatly minimized
next gen is gonna be lit when devs take advantage of it fully
01011001
Banned
if you turn on the nanite vision, the upsampling is turned off it seems.
maybe someone can pixelcount this
and here the Xbox version, lined up as good as I could
ok so I pixelcounted (using that old Digital Foundry tutorial) and both consoles render at 1440p in this particular scene
this makes me believe that no dynamic res is used here as that would be a weird coincidence to perfectly land on 1440p. Alternatively it could also be that 1440p is the highest res it can run at and I simply hit a scene here that pushes that max resolution
I would love for someone on a Series S to upload a nanite shot on that console in PNG format, just to see how it runs. (try to have a slightly slanted line in view, like the edge of the highway bridge in my screenshots)
I expect 720p given the resolution in these versions
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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)
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MaulerX
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Just tried it.
The shooting gallery section looked great but wasn't really impressed beyond that since it's all on rails and you don't really control anything. Just where you want the shots to go.
The second part where you walk/drive around was obviously more impressive. Just wished you could do more considering The Matrix tie in.
Overall really nice tech demo.
The shooting gallery section looked great but wasn't really impressed beyond that since it's all on rails and you don't really control anything. Just where you want the shots to go.
The second part where you walk/drive around was obviously more impressive. Just wished you could do more considering The Matrix tie in.
Overall really nice tech demo.
Arioco
Member
if you turn on the nanite vision, the upsampling is turned off it seems.
maybe someone can pixelcount this
Apparently is 1440p (ish). At least the on PS5.
I can't believe it, you're optimistic about something. Somebody update the Doomsday ClockThis is the greatest fucking thing i have ever seen. I thought this was a bs interactive cutscene until they dropped you into a fully living breathing open world. I am done. I told you all photorealism was possible this gen!
Still though, don't want to get my hopes up too much and be disappointed, so I'm expecting only 1 or 2 games to come close to this level of fidelity - Rockstar and/or ND
01011001
Banned
yeah look a few posts up, I pixelcounted it myself real quick on both systems. I found native 1440p on both in my screenshots. it could be that it is dynamic and simply pushed full 1440p whenever you use the nanite view, so it's hard to tell... and pixelcounting that highly post processed image without nanaite view is a nightmare I bet
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01011001
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This is the greatest fucking thing i have ever seen. I thought this was a bs interactive cutscene until they dropped you into a fully living breathing open world. I am done. I told you all photorealism was possible this gen!
it is possible, but the framerate is unstable and it's 1440p30fps. so this is pushing the consoles really hard. in smaller scope games on the other hand, this could actually run really well, although I expect Lumen to be pretty fucking power hungry no matter the scope of the level
Arioco
Member
Thenethomaz was right, we'll only get real "next-gen" gwaphics at 1440p/30
Well, the first UE5 demo was arguably the most next gen thing we had seen till this new demo and ran at dynamic 1440 and 30 fps on PS5, so no surprises here.
Yes, guys, we'll have to choose. PS4 graphics at 4K and 60 fps or nexr gen graphics at lower rez and fps.
Come On Tars
Member
I wasn't really into it with the car stuff at first. Felt like smoke and mirrors. Then it turned into GTA and blew me away. I wish this was revealed when the consoles were announced. This looks better than those hyper real GTA mods but with playable frame on normal hardware. Crazy.
Arioco
Member
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.
01011001
Banned
Well, the first UE5 demo was arguably the most next gen thing we had seen till this new demo and ran at dynamic 1440 and 30 fps on PS5, so no surprises here.
Yes, guys, we'll have to choose. PS4 graphics at 4K and 60 fps or nexr gen graphics at lower rez and fps.
I bet other engines can reach this kind of fidelity with way better performance. Lumen's RT lighting seems to be the culprit of the really low performance. when you turned that on on PC using UE5 it completely tanked the framerate (although in the preview build of UE5 it has no hardware acceleration for Lument yet, so this might change)
Larxia
Member
I'm really surprised and confused by the fact that there is such a huge open world, with this amount of detail, for just a tech demo. They must have some great procedural tech to build cities because otherwise I don't understand why they would spend so much time building a world like this just for a demo. But it's really impressive.
I don't have a console so I can't try it myself, too bad it's not on PC, which is weird since that's usually the main place for unreal tech demos.
I don't have a console so I can't try it myself, too bad it's not on PC, which is weird since that's usually the main place for unreal tech demos.
DerivedDataCache
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This is a quote from Digital Foundry article:
And also impressive is what Epic plans to do with this demo. The entire open world project with all of its assets will be distributed to Unreal Engine 5 users to experiment with as they wish.
Also they used Houdini to procedurally make the city. As explained on the Unreal site. I would love to take a look at those.
01011001
Banned
these days you can get film quality assets like buildings in packs, unreal itself has an asset store for that for example, meaning Epic Games will most likely make assets like these to sell in their store as well, so it's not only for this demo.
and after getting the assets it's just a matter of making a street layout and then placing premade assets down accordingly.
it's also not perfect. while driving through the city I saw multiple small and 1 pretty big misplaced asset. there are hovering lamps and one building has a glitched smaller building inside itself.
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It's not just for the demo they will be releasing the assets for everyone who use UE5 so they can use the city in their projects.
Larxia
Member
Oh that's amazing. Do we know if this will be free or a premium asset pack? Would really be something fun to play around with.
Yes I know assets packs are a thing, but it's still impressive to see a open huge city like this in a tech demo, because even with premade assets it still needs a lot of work to design a city in a believable way.
Dr Bass
Member
Very cool stuff, and shows what a difference software design/skill makes in all of these big game projects. UE5 is incredibly impressive, and I imagine as games continue to pick it up for development we are going to see more stuff looking like this.
Some of that footage towards the beginning is the real Keanu Reeves though right? There are times where he looks 100% real (shot where he touches the chair while wearing a t shirt, his little statement in the reflected mirror) and then the rest of the time he looks like an obvious 3D character, albeit an extremely impressive one. So ... a mix of real and in game or no?
Some of that footage towards the beginning is the real Keanu Reeves though right? There are times where he looks 100% real (shot where he touches the chair while wearing a t shirt, his little statement in the reflected mirror) and then the rest of the time he looks like an obvious 3D character, albeit an extremely impressive one. So ... a mix of real and in game or no?
Kenpachii
Member
Would be nice if GTA VI featured this level of density with its cities.
I was very hopeful after my time with RDR2, but after that shit show with the GTA trilogy, I'm not holding my breath that current R* are this ambitious :/
That looks sick.
Waiting for the df video on the comparisons, I am just interested to see how it would play on a series s although it's my indie machine
onesvenus
Member
Can you post a screenshot of Nanite mode to pixel count? Would be interesting to see how it compares with the big ones
DarkMage619
$MSFT
This was mind blowing! So so so impressive. I can't wait to see more games using this technology. I can only imagine how Gears 6 is going to look.
Stooky
Member
Neo and Trinity are 3d face scans, your avatar is probably meta human, im guessing
bender
What time is it?
That would be my guess as well. Really sticks out though.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Of course The Coalition helped with an Unreal Engine project.
They are arguably the best UE developer out there.
Heck features they develop for their branch of Unreal end up being in Epics main branch of Unreal.
Represent.
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NOW THIS IS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT WHEN I SAY FUCK FRAMERATE AND GIVE ME THIS SHIT AT 20 FPS I DONT GIVE A FUCK.
WOWOWOWOWOW
VISUAL FIDELITY FUCKERS
WOWOWOWOWOW
VISUAL FIDELITY FUCKERS
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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."
"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."
Lukaku's First Touch
Member
we're all thinking it right? We need a GTA in this city with less dark colours.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
Fucking Coalition bringing it. They are the absolute best with Unreal Engine.
Cant wait to see there next game using this engine. Installing now.
Cant wait to see there next game using this engine. Installing now.
Coolwhhip
Neophyte
This is true next gen graphics. It looks amazing!!! Only thing that worries me is the 30fps, are we going back after we got used to 60
Back to the 30 fps ghetto!
Represent.
Represent(ative) of bad opinions
Please stop. Visuals like this are going to do things for the medium that 60fps could only ever dream of. Stick to 30 and get visuals like this.This is true next gen graphics. It looks amazing!!! Only thing that worries me is the 30fps, are we going back after we got used to 60
This is absolutely mindblowing.
The chase scene was visually amazing!
The open world segment... shows it's current limitations.
You can do more than just explore the open world, so that cool.
The engine itself seems to look it's best when there's minimal dynamics and play control involved.
Impressive and shows room for improvement.
The open world segment... shows it's current limitations.
You can do more than just explore the open world, so that cool.
The engine itself seems to look it's best when there's minimal dynamics and play control involved.
Impressive and shows room for improvement.
Stooky
Member
In a real game I think it could be optimized to run smoothly. This is tech demo so they are pushing everything to the max.The chase scene was visually amazing!
The open world segment... shows it's current limitations.
You can do more than just explore the open world, so that cool.
The engine itself seems to look it's best when there's minimal dynamics and play control involved.
Impressive and shows room for improvement.