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2016 PC Screenshot Thread of No Compromises

OtisInf

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sertopico

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They actually do, but because they're screen space, they're quite limited in visibility. Planar reflections would be great, but the hit to performance would be insane without the removal of many buffers and layers (like particles, grass, etc), and then it would just look odd. Credit where credit's due - it's honestly the best I was expecting from Skyrim's ancient technology.

Oh really? Wasn't aware of that, good to know... At a first glance, it looked like they kept using those approximate and ugly reflections the original Skyrim had. As you said it's because of the LOD which makes SSR disappear from a certain distance, at least in that specific screenshot.

Couple of screen from Mafia 3 (is there any way to remove the HUD?):

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OtisInf

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Oh really? Wasn't aware of that, good to know... At a first glance, it looked like they kept using those approximate and ugly reflections the original Skyrim had. As you said it's because of the LOD which makes SSR disappear from a certain distance, at least in that specific screenshot.
I think you compare close camera to surface situations with this one where there's a lot of distance between camera and reflective surface. The former will result in more reflections due to the smaller surface area so less refraction, the latter will result in less reflections due to the larger surface area so more refraction. SSR only really suffers from edge bleed where it has to reflect stuff that's not on screen, so things have to be faked (e.g. pull fragments from the skybox). With distances like this, planar reflections (which simply renders the scene again opposite of the reflecting plane) wouldn't make much difference.

On with the show, here's Lara in one of her less favorite situations.

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Vampire nice shots but you got them stats showing in the top left!

Quantum Break is pretty sweet. This game does character models, hair and lip movement so well.

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I'm genuinely really, really impressed with this. It looks and play amazingly at 1440p with everything but tesselation and shadows maxed. Drops to 53FPS-ish during the crazy stuff otherwise it's a solid 60 and gorgeous.

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