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[Muppet of a Man]

Rushed launch releases are rushed. News at 11.

 

[shiftplusone]

When is shortly after release

I got mine last Friday from best buy

Is that release or was the Target street date of Tuesday release or was today release?


Give me my 180p you sons of bitches

 

[Sean*O]

launch games

this is nothing new

Except for the whole patching resolution part. This has now happened twice with two different studios. Something stinks...

When is this patch supposed to be available

 

[Poetic.Injustice]

Why would anyone owning the PS4 version want to play it now?

 

[dark10x]

Hmm, I wonder if this has to do with the initial push to hit parity? Perhaps now that other games have demonstrated a resolution difference they feel more comfortable implementing 1080p?

I had heard that they were having issues with the game on Xbox One and were considering dropping both to 900p for parity reasons.

With all these developers working quietly on their launch games I'm sure there was a lot of discussion on how important it was to match the two versions to eliminate any advantage.

 

[RyuHei]

Worst technical launch ever? "We couldn't finish on time so you'll have to download the rest" BS. Internet required for the Full-HD experience. Well, I'm glad Ubisoft delayed watch_dog. But if it has the same issue, people may end up killing each other...maybe lol

 

[Phades]

notto disu shitto agen. ><;

At least I won't have to worry about it, since I'd only be buying it for the wife ~1-2 years from now and watch it collect dust with the other 3 anyhow. It just sucks that folks who already laid down cash for this, especially in advance of being actually able to play it, have to put up with that kind of crap.

I suppose it could be worse. I mean Ubi could force you to remote log into their servers for authentication day 1 to get the patch and subsequent patches daily/weekly.

 

[dmr87]

This is starting to get real dumb.

 

[Guymelef]

COD: 720p without patch, 1080p with it.
AC4: 900p without patch, 1080p and better AA with it.
NFS: non retail copies without ambient occlusion, retail with it.

 

[Loudninja]

The update also introduces a “brand-new anti-aliasing technique” that will offer “an even cleaner, clearer and more brilliant moving image”.

Hmm?

 

[sajj316]

It proves companies were thinking about parity until launch

So sad

This is exactly what I thought about ...

 

[madmackem]

Thanks for beta testing north america. Love from Europe.

 

[Vidpixel]

Well, I have both Killzone and Battlefield to play in the meantime, but yeah, this is quite the funky situation, indeed.

 

[Steverulez]

Hmm, I wonder if this has to do with the initial push to hit parity? Perhaps now that other games have demonstrated a resolution difference they feel more comfortable implementing 1080p?

I had heard that they were having issues with the game on Xbox One and were considering dropping both to 900p for parity reasons.

With all these developers working quietly on their launch games I'm sure there was a lot of discussion on how important it was to match the two versions to eliminate any advantage.

Is it definitely 900p on Xbox One?

 

[Mononoke]

You have high standards coming from PS3.

More like coming from high end PC Gaming. But I see your point. A game shouldn't be skipped because of 180p resolution. Just disappointed is all.

 

[Always-honest]

COD: 720p without patch, 1080p with it.
AC4: 900p without patch, 1080p and better AA with it.
NFS: non retail copies without ambient occlusion, retail with it.

Better AA too?

 

[Muppet of a Man]

Hmm, I wonder if this has to do with the initial push to hit parity? Perhaps now that other games have demonstrated a resolution difference they feel more comfortable implementing 1080p?

I had heard that they were having issues with the game on Xbox One and were considering dropping both to 900p for parity reasons.

With all these developers working quietly on their launch games I'm sure there was a lot of discussion on how important it was to match the two versions to eliminate any advantage.

That is bullshit. Devs, do not do this.

 

[iNvid02]

wasn't expecting a smooth launch but shits been crazy

 

[dark10x]

Hmm?

Probably some sort of temporal AA designed to improve shimmering in motion.

That is bullshit. Devs, do not do this.

In this case, that appears to be exactly what happened.

 

[madmackem]

COD: 720p without patch, 1080p with it.
AC4: 900p without patch, 1080p and better AA with it.
NFS: non retail copies without ambient occlusion, retail with it.

cod mp was always 1080p.

 

[SniperHunter]

In what way does it prove that? It proves that games are rushed to meet console launch dates and didnt have the amount of time they needed to optimize the code for FPS and Res. Heres your tinfoil hat

you don't release a resolution patch at the last minute.

 

[Oppo]

I'm totally ok with this. I mean it's a Day One Patch.

If we had to wait for weeks then that would be less cool but the day the game ships? no issue.

you don't release a resolution at the last minute.

What does this mean? It's clearly a performance boost patch.

 

[coldfoot]

Is it definitely 900p on Xbox One?

I wish it's 1080P at launch for the Xbone just for the lulz.

 

[Always-honest]

Probably some sort of temporal AA designed to improve shimmering in motion.

Great if true. Will be a great looking game then

 

[Guymelef]

cod mp was always 1080p.

Right, sorry for not to be specific.

 

[Seanspeed]

so im paying 400 dollars for a console that give me an extra 180p

Just a little bit over $2 per p. Not too bad.

 

[BloodMoney]

Well that's one way to ensure the extra horsepower of the PS4 is nullified in reviews. Seems fishy.

 

[otapnam]

So... are they going to update the demo units at stores?

Or is this some bs to make the ps4 version look the same as xb1 res to the normal customer at best buy?

Balance anyone?

 

[ElTorro]

If they can patch such a quite substantial change shortly after release, they apparently have stretched their development resources. No wonder given that they had to develop the game for two generations of consoles, including two brand-new consoles, and PC. But since they are patching it, the news isn't really bad.

 

[hawk2025]

I feel somewhat vindicated

My very firdt impressions from booting up the game were "ehh... this doesn't look 1080p, and I see lots of jaggies". And that's with launch goggles in full effect.

Imperceptible my ass.

 

[Sotha_Sil]

It proves companies were thinking about parity until launch

So sad

No, it proves companies like Ubisoft were rushing to get a game released on six platforms, two of which were brand new to them.

 

[bombshell]

you don't release a resolution at the last minute.

These are rushed launch titles. If this is still the practice in a year, then you might have a point.

 

[reddmyst]

Ok... maybe I'm reading it wrong, but does that mean when it does get patched to 1080p the framerate will drop below 30?

 

[halfbeast]

yeah, all those patches they'll be adding sometime "later".

it's the "later" part, that worries me.

 

[Canis lupus]

I wont be buying it until the 1080p patch comes out. :S

 

[RugbyPlayer]

you don't release a resolution patch at the last minute.

Who says it was last minute? All it means is they began the disc production before the 1080p code was optimized. Do people forget they have to produce physical discs still which will contain whatever release version of the code is available at the time? I mean seriously

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

I have no problem with this. We have a $400 PC gaming console. It will have updates, patches, upgrades, etc. It's a brave new world.

 

[Alienous]

Never drops below 30fps?

Why don't I believe this?

 

[cebri.one]

My guess, nobody expected PS4 launching in 2013.

 

[Nerix]

So the XOne won´t get the 1080p patch?

Sounds like that:

"“The team then used the time between the ship date and the release to focus on a title update that could deliver native 1080p resolution on the PS4.”

 

[Chobel]

Hmm, I wonder if this has to do with the initial push to hit parity? Perhaps now that other games have demonstrated a resolution difference they feel more comfortable implementing 1080p?

I had heard that they were having issues with the game on Xbox One and were considering dropping both to 900p for parity reasons.

With all these developers working quietly on their launch games I'm sure there was a lot of discussion on how important it was to match the two versions to eliminate any advantage.

Jesus fucking Christ! With the deal between Ubisoft and Sony, you would think that they wont' gimp PS4 version intentionally.

 

[Ace001]

I really don't understand why people are so annoyed by this. They needed to get it out by launch so there was a deadline out of their control.

They did what they could do with the time they had.

You think ubi were stuffing around like a slack Uni student and then crammed at the last minute? Unlikely... Cut em some slack, you're getting your 1080p!

 

[Racer1977]

Way I'm reading it, isn't this a good thing. They went for 900p as a safety first measure, but had extra time to bump it upto 1080p.

Must say, it does make many of the early comparisons, pretty irrelevant though.

 

[Impeccable]

Ok... maybe I'm reading it wrong, but does that mean when it does get patched to 1080p the framerate will drop below 30?

Maybe they will make it 60 locked, bam!

 

[plagiarize]

COD: 720p without patch, 1080p with it.
AC4: 900p without patch, 1080p and better AA with it.
NFS: non retail copies without ambient occlusion, retail with it.

correction on that last part. Eurogamer just missed that the HDAO was there, because it's subtle, (and it should be). Ghost games provided them with comparisons between HDAO on and no AO at all and they updated the article. PS4 version wasn't missing anything. it had HDAO instead of SSAO.

 

[Sean*O]

Give me my 180p you sons of bitches

Funny how that works. That "extra 180p" is actually about 30% more pixels being used to render the image. 1,440,000 vs 2,073,600.

 

[flippedb]

We're downloading resolution now, soon we'll be downloading more ram or extra cores.

 

[antitrop]

My guess, nobody expected PS4 launching in 2013.

UbiSoft's CEO has been the one demanding the next-generation come sooner rather than later more than anyone.

 

[DieH@rd]

What the FUCK is even the reason for doing this?

Deadlines. Creating game with unknown hardware. Creating a game for 6 systems at once. Deadlines.

 

[Tulerian]

Hmm. Anyone else beginning to think CoD and this being dropped to same resolution as XB1 was to give the appearance of equality while the media was reviewing and comparing versions?

Can someone think why these companies are sending out incomplete versions for final review, and in controlled circumstances when immediately afterwards there are updates to improve resolution/features?