Wait a minute. Ps4 footage was 1080p at E3. Another downgrade? Gowd love this engine.
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Assasins Creed Syndicate
- Thread starter eddievanclaylen
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According to this the embargo lifts in 22 hours:
http://opencritic.com/#!game/1660/assassin-s-creed-syndicate
I follow this series extremely closely, and I never saw a confirmation of resolution at any point.
It was exactly the same in Unity and worked very well imo. Although if it's anything like Unity you'll be OP and killing all enemies in all districts within 5 hours gameplay anyway.
I can confirm this too, the framerate seems to be pretty decent. But the graphics have suffered for it.
From what I remember an eurogamer redactor notorious user of neogaf confirmed it was 1080p at e3 on ps4.
Do you have a source for the 1080p footage ? The PNG shots don't look like 1080p to me, but it's easy to be mistaken when some very aggressive AA solutions are employed.
Double post sorry
Any source just Dark something. I don't remember his user name. Damn. His quite notorious here and hardly is wrong but my memory suck with name.
icecold1983
Member
i dont remember them(ubi) ever claiming it was 1080p on ps4.
Green Yoshi
Member
The patches will (hopefully) fix the bugs, but not his complaints with the graphics and gameplay.
Considered how much downgrade I seen, I'm definitely surprise can't handle 1080p on ps4. I don't get it what was wrong in Ubisoft engine to be such demanding to require sub 1080p. Not seems particular advanced tech wise to my eyes. I found The Witcher 3 quite more expensive of this strange graphic hybrid of tech.
icecold1983
Member
sub optimal engine design
SJRB
Gold Member
You have no idea what you're talking about, do you?
Call me lamer but yes. Don't like their engine. They are incredibly inefficient compared the other companies results.
You can delight me indeed. Lower AF, massive pop in in the character and pre baked light. And fps still suffer. What's the tech miracle I'm missing?
Windom Earle
Member
I guess they are using some advanced tech (PBR...) but the results on consoles are just messy. Unity looked bad outside of PC.
What a waste of resources. Really opinable choice. They should give priorities to other tech stuff. That's barely perceptible
I will read really strange things on this forum.
Perhaps the final build is technologically more advanced hence the drop in resolution.
Unity's assets were authored with PBR across all platforms (you don't do that only for one sku).
Low resolution + little AF didn't help the IQ at all I agree, but it was a very good next-gen showcase nonetheless.
This.
Windom Earle
Member
I know, my point was just that the game looked (and ran) messy albeit having PBR.
Hasphat'sAnts
Member
you forgot the kappa at the end.
It definitely has and it needs a big break. That said, even after feeling burned out and not ready for a new one, watching all of the gameplay footage reminded me that I nearly always have fun playing these games. I heard the great music, saw some neat new gadgets at play in a pretty old London setting and it just made me want the game. What can I say?
Chû Totoro
Member
At least if they graphics are downgraded a little from Unity but in favour of less bugs and better framerate then it's the way to go.
They should focus on this instead of pretty shots.
Don't care for the most beautiful screens for a game that can only go to 20 fps with crazy bugs. Less effects, less characters at the same time, even smaller resolution if it's a justified compromise. Make good games ! You're not here to make pretty but unplayable games devs !
Sorry for the off topic /kinda/ but would GAF recommend digital AC Unity or retail version... with the big patches and mandatory install on PS4 I guess it may be better to go digital? Of course I can't sell the game after but nobody will buy my used game for more than 15 anyway.
They should focus on this instead of pretty shots.
Don't care for the most beautiful screens for a game that can only go to 20 fps with crazy bugs. Less effects, less characters at the same time, even smaller resolution if it's a justified compromise. Make good games ! You're not here to make pretty but unplayable games devs !
Sorry for the off topic /kinda/ but would GAF recommend digital AC Unity or retail version... with the big patches and mandatory install on PS4 I guess it may be better to go digital? Of course I can't sell the game after but nobody will buy my used game for more than 15 anyway.
The main issue for me is the timing of this release. I already have a little bit of open world fatigue, and this comes out right before Fallout 4 and close to Just Cause 3. There just simply isn't enough time for me to play all of them, nor do I want 3 open world games in my rotation. JC 3 is a sure thing, and F4 probably is, too.
Impulsor
Member
Does this have a dynamic night and day cicle then.
Other than this, I think they should probably ditch the engine and just use Unreal 4 or something like that,.
Yeah it does
SaganIsGOAT
Junior Member
Assasins... Lol
That's a really good point. A ton more work for the GPU every click.
The scale and size of the cities in this and Unity completely dwarf anything else out there. My guess is that they are running into a memory bottleneck. Increasing the resolution is going to require more RAM, and if they have hit the RAM limit of the consoles at 900p then it is going to take some considerable engine optimization or scaling back to get the PS4 to 1080p. I don't really see them reducing the size or scale of the cities in order to get just one platform to a higher resolution.
Of course this is just my speculation and I could be completely wrong.
Gunslinger
Member
What time the reviews come out?
Is it confirmed at 900p on PS4? A couple of previews I saw this week both said 1080p
The Jackdog
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digoutyoursoul
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Thursday 3pm
12pm BST tomorrow. So I guess that's like 7am ET in the US
EDIT: or maybe not going by the 2 posts above me
Uh why? I found more beauty for example Batman AK and it's even less tech advanced. What's the point to use such expensive features if you have to sacrifice IQ, AF, fps stability and res? I really don't understand the graphic priorities of some developers. Most of the common people can't even appreciate such stuff because it's not even that candy eye.
rockman zx
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cats in a human suit Verified account ‏@aegies Oct 16
*clears throat* The review embargo for Assassin's Creed Syndicate is Thursday, October 22nd at 4:00 am PDT.
I love that they are back to the dynamic day/night cycle. Now I just need more dynamic weather like in previous entries with thunderstorms with lightning and stuff like that.
I've played Unity for almost 60 hours and I think I've only seen some light rain for a few times. I need rain and puddles!
The Jackdog
Member
NOPE you were right by bad
Yeah, dynamic time of day is way more important to me than looking as good as Unity. Free roaming is just more fun when time passes while you're doing it. I would even find myself artificially bumping time forward to the next window after a certain number of side missions in Unity to try and emulate the feeling.
I've seen some heavy rain appearing in the streams that I've watched but don't think I've seen any lightning storms yet.
CopperPuppy
Member
The bolded is disappointing but I'm a little surprised. Most of what I've heard so far indicates that there is plenty of ambient music while free-roaming. I dug up this AC subreddit post for a quick source (it's one of the bottom comments).
Music definitely kicks in at times in some of the footage I have seen. Some beautiful stuff as well. Though, I can't remember which video it was that I watched.