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[MauroNL]

Seemed new thread worthy, because it shows the game and how the engine uses the cloud to create the mind blowing destruction.

Pre-Alpha Crackdown 3 demo

Sidenote

- Weapon damage is upped significantly for the demo, so you can't shoot a building down in the actual game with a machine gun

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Some really impressive stuff here. I love how they are using different servers for each part of the city.

 

[Courage]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFWIpAPvF-Q&feature=youtu.be

Some gifs from the other thread:

 

[gamechanger87]

I believe IGN is doing a feature on it tomorrow as well.

 

[Torment]

This needs way more attention, thanks for making a thread. I am blown away that this is possible on a current gen console.

 

[BigDug13]

Nevermind. Answered.

 

[JumPeRJumPzZ]

This needs way more attention, thanks for making a thread. I am blown away that this is possible on a current gen console.

Its just cloud computing. This couldnt be done with the Xbox alone.

 

[Goldfishking]

Damn impressive. Still can't tell whether crackdown 3 looks good or not but the tech is certainly impressive and i hope we see more of it in the future.

Seems like overkill to be able to bring down entire buildings with an assault rifle. Hopefully that's just for demo purposes with a more realistic destructability at release.

At about 3:50 he says that he is using 'overpowered bullets'

 

[gamechanger87]

Seems like overkill to be able to bring down entire buildings with an assault rifle. Hopefully that's just for demo purposes with a more realistic destructability at release.

He said like 5 times that they upped the damage for weapons in this demo. Otherwise it would take all day to make a dent.

 

[rrc1594]

Lies all lies

 

[dragonelite]

Dam so much footage from all the gamescom games and im here stuck at work..

 

[x-Lundz-x]

Did they explain how destruction would work if you are offline? Sorry I did not see this part of the conference yesterday.

 

[Torment]

Its just cloud computing. This couldnt be done with the Xbox alone.

I complete understand that and I get how the off-loading works, it is just amazing to actually see it in action working in real-time on this scale.

 

[Alx]

I guess we'll be able to reproduce that sequence in the concept trailer where someone is driving a truck on a collapsing building, using it as a launch pad. I can't wait to see all the crazy videos that people will make of their well-planned building destructions.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Seems like overkill to be able to bring down entire buildings with an assault rifle. Hopefully that's just for demo purposes with a more realistic destructability at release.

We answered this in the other thread you posted this in.

 

[wwm0nkey]

Seems like overkill to be able to bring down entire buildings with an assault rifle. Hopefully that's just for demo purposes with a more realistic destructability at release.

It is for demo purposes

 

[Rembrandt]

Did they explain how destruction would work if you are offline? Sorry I did not see this part of the conference yesterday.

it's limited.

 

[kenmid]

Lies all lies

What?

 

[BigDug13]

Ok cool. Looks awesome otherwise. Destructability is so rare these days. I miss Mercenaries 1.

 

[JumPeRJumPzZ]

I complete understand that and I get how the off-loading works, it is just amazing to actually see it in action working in real-time on this scale.

Yep its amazing and impressive. Cant wait to destroy everything

 

[Courage]

Its just cloud computing. This couldnt be done with the Xbox alone.

It makes me wanna see how offline play looks (assuming there isn't an always-online requirement in the first place).

 

[gamechanger87]

Did they explain how destruction would work if you are offline? Sorry I did not see this part of the conference yesterday.

Based on snippets of what they are saying the single player campaign will have this on a much more limited scale. If you can destroy the entire city it would make the concept of going for orbs moot.

This looks to be more on the co-op campaign side.

 

[FelipeMGM]

So

The whole city is made of drywall?


EDIT:

It is for demo purposes

Makes sense

 

[Bloodrage]

Destruction looks good. Graphics look bad.

So

The whole city is made of drywall?

That's my problem with this level of destruction. Seems silly that you could basically destroy an entire city using a little gun.

 

[Giriath_89]

I think this is really cool. Now when you have a suitably powerful weapon you blow away the structure separating you and an enemy player.

I'm glad they're using Azure like this. Hopefully it works out in the final product.

 

[JumPeRJumPzZ]

It makes me wanna see how offline play looks (assuming there isn't an always-online requirement in the first place).

Maybe offline will be like the old Crackdown games. No destruction at all.^^

 

[jet1911]

Destruction looks good. Graphics look bad.

It looks like Crackdown, so that's good.

 

[Torment]

Maybe offline will be like the old Crackdown games. No destruction at all.^^

Surface destruction only is what they were saying. I would take online only for this game if we could get this destruction in all modes seriously.

 

[derFeef]

I guess we'll be able to reproduce that sequence in the concept trailer where someone is driving a truck on a collapsing building, using it as a launch pad. I can't wait to see all the crazy videos that people will make of their well-planned building destructions.

Or the get the orb on top of it, heh.

 

[Torment]

Destruction looks good. Graphics look bad.


That's my problem with this level of destruction. Seems silly that you could basically destroy an entire city using a little gun.

They up the damage 5 times on all guns for the demo.

 

[OneUh8]

I had no excitement for another Crackdown game. But I gotta say, I am looking forward to it now.

 

[GavinGT]

It makes me wanna see how offline play looks (assuming there isn't an always-online requirement in the first place).

There's probably no destruction in offline mode (assuming there even is one). This level of destruction only makes sense if it gets reset at the end of a round.

I forget, how did Red Faction Guerilla do it? Was destruction persistent in single player?

 

[gamechanger87]

Destruction looks good. Graphics look bad.


That's my problem with this level of destruction. Seems silly that you could basically destroy an entire city using a little gun.

Did you listen to anything he said on how they upped the damage on weapons so the could show stuff?

 

[eso76]

impressive.
Wonder how much of that will make it into the retail game, though.

 

[wapplew]

This is the most next gen tech i saw!
Can they use cloud to simulate fluid?

 

[MauroNL]

Its funny near the end he says "our record is 13 Xbox One's worth of computing power using the cloud" and in the demo he barely reaches 10 in the end. Amazing tech, interested to see how it turns out in the game though.

 

[PhatSaqs]

Looking good here. So much concern for the level of destructibility lol.

 

[AllIsOneIsNone]

100 incoming posts about how it's way too easy to destroy things.

 

[gamechanger87]

There's probably no destruction in offline mode (assuming there even is one). This level of destruction only makes sense if it gets reset at the end of a round.

I expect that walls and etc come down and you can destroy some buildings but it will be very limited. Destroying an entire city would render a lot of the story moot in Crackdown.

It's not a tech thing, beyond making the game online only. It more a design decision. Whats the point of orbs if you can't reach them because you destroyed all the buildings.

 

[Castef]

So, that's what they needed Screamride for! °_°

 

[Sydle]

It's clear that it works, and it's impressive. I think most people have come around to the ideas of what could be done, but what happens when the servers aren't available? We've seen Xbox Live go whole weekends with difficulties.

 

[x-Lundz-x]

Based on snippets of what they are saying the single player campaign will have this on a much more limited scale. If you can destroy the entire city it would make the concept of going for orbs moot.

This looks to be more on the co-op campaign side.

it's limited.

Ok thanks for the info.

 

[SimpleCRIPPLE]

While it looks amazing, it also seems incredibly wasteful. I don't know that any other game company besides MS could waste so many dedicated servers to simply calculate physics for a console game.

The amount of datacenter juice this game is going to take up at launch is going to be crazy.

 

[derFeef]

It's clear that it works, and it's impressive. I think most people have come around to the ideas of what could be done, but what happens when the servers aren't available? We've seen Xbox Live go whole weekends with difficulties.

Then you can't play multi in the first place, no? Plus I would assume those are different servers (if you can call them servers, for Azure) than the XBL account stuff etc.

 

[nib95]

Impressive. Really intrigued to see how this all works out in the final game, and how people take advantage of it in a gameplay sense.

 

[mgarnica89]

Imagine a gamemode similar to Splatoon except it's not how how much paint is splattered, but how much destruction is done.

 

[GavinGT]

While it looks amazing, it also seems incredibly wasteful. I don't know that any other game company besides MS could waste so many dedicated servers to simply calculate physics for a console game.

The amount of datacenter juice this game is going to take up at launch is going to be crazy.

Yeah, it's fucking cool. They're totally going for it.

 

[Falchion]

Just Cause 3 will satisfy my physics based destruction cravings until this comes out. Looks great though.

 

[KieranD]

MS redeemed lot of people said this was not possible on xbox one.

 

[Ricky_R]

The second gif looks nuts.

Btw, if the cloud fails for some reason at any given moment, will the game disable destruction temporarily or what?