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NVIDIA GameWorks - Watch Dogs 2: PC Trailer

Nice, ANSEL support! Solid feature list but I don't trust Ubi with anything PC.
I'm sure the performance thread will be fun.
 
HBAO+ is good.

Volumetric smoke in this scene looks pretty bad though.

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Nice, ANSEL support! Solid feature list but I don't trust Ubi with anything PC.
I'm sure the performance thread will be fun.

PC ubisoft games actually aren't half bad nowadays. Far cry primal, assassins creed syndicate, for honor beta, far cry 4, rainbow six siege and the division have been ok running games. It seems like they are starting to care a little bit.
 
PC ubisoft games actually aren't half bad nowadays. Far cry primal, assassins creed syndicate, for honor beta, far cry 4, rainbow six siege and the division have been ok running games. It seems like they are starting to care a little bit.

far cry 4 and syndicate have a bunch of broken gameworks effects. probably broken in rainbow six too just based off of ubis history but i havent played it myself to confirm. division however was very good technically.
 
the volumetric clouds looked stunning tho.
Aye.
It ain't volumetric and I do not think that is PC exclusive in any sense. Rather just some poorly shaded and animated billboard particles that all versions of the game have.
Maybe. It does look like billboard but at the same time it still looks a bit like the volumetric smoke as seen in Arkham Knight. The way the smoke seems to interact with the red car on the left made me think it might be volumetric. Maybe it's a hybrid of both to save perf?
 
Looks amazing, but will have to see how it performs before trading in the PS4 version.

wish this came out this week, would have been a nice holiday game.

isn't ff15 next week?

Yes, which is why I broke down and got the PS4 version.. I want to focus on FF15.
 
FOV slider, rejoice.

Loving the trend of putting one in every game these days, especially these 3rd person games. Gears 4 with a wider FOV was awesome.
 
Maybe. It does look like billboard but at the same time it still looks a bit like the volumetric smoke as seen in Arkham Knight. The way the smoke seems to interact with the red car on the left made me think it might be volumetric. Maybe it's a hybrid of both to save perf?

I did not see any physicalisation at all really or interaction at that point in the trailer. But even then, interactive movable particles does not mean they are volumetrically rendered. Crysis 1 for example has billboard particles effected by wind forces, grenade explosions, or helicopter down draft... and those are definitely not "volumetric".

Also, this is very impressive fog rendering:
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Is that valley fog in the console versions?
 
Oh no they put their smoke effects. It will be the first thing I disable, it cripples performance even on high end machines (example: Batman Arkham Knight and Mafia 2). Looks great but it's not worth it imo.
 
looking goood!! excited for this. fov slider/ansel support is great. my pc is well above recommended specs (6700k/16/1070) but i just hope it doesn't run like crap.
 
on the plus side, I'm glad nvidia is doing these game promos again. was a period where they just gave ingame currency for stupid f2p games.


(Now time to search ebay for some WD2 nvidia codes)
 
I did not see any physicalisation at all really or interaction at that point in the trailer. But even then, interactive movable particles does not mean they are volumetrically rendered. Crysis 1 for example has billboard particles effected by wind forces, grenade explosions, or helicopter down draft... and those are definitely not "volumetric".

Also, this is very impressive fog rendering:
clouds_valley_fog_by_dictator93-dapca3c.gif


Is that valley fog in the console versions?

Not that I can remember, and I've completed it on PS4 Pro. Plenty of fog, but not like that.

This might call for a double-dip.
 
I did not see any physicalisation at all really or interaction at that point in the trailer. But even then, interactive movable particles does not mean they are volumetrically rendered. Crysis 1 for example has billboard particles effected by wind forces, grenade explosions, or helicopter down draft... and those are definitely not "volumetric".

Also, this is very impressive fog rendering:
clouds_valley_fog_by_dictator93-dapca3c.gif


Is that valley fog in the console versions?

The degree of density contrasting with the city looks a bit weird here.
 
The degree of density contrasting with the city looks a bit weird here.

Blame mother nature for having a terrible eye for contrast and other asethetic properties. Photo:
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Not that I can remember, and I've completed it on PS4 Pro. Plenty of fog, but not like that.

This might call for a double-dip.
Interesting.
Yeah, now that I watched the trailer again... the way they juxtapose the speech and the images "exclusive ray marched volumetric fog"... I can presume it is PC exclusive.
 
Well, holy balls.

Only important thing on my wishlist they didn't mention was greater NPC density. Apparently the console versions get pretty sparse at times, even if the NPC AI is great.
 
I believe it did but not to that extent

I wonder if the Ansel support will be in at launch or if it'll be added later like it has in other games

Ansel support is day 1 for any game since they released it few months ago. Dishonored 2 got it day 1 too. Also UE4 now has Ansel integrated.
 
Emailed Amazon, I ordered on Wednesday, they said I couldnt get the Promo as the deal started today. They then recommended I return the laptop and re-buy it to get the Promo, sounds like a lot of hoops to jump through to get my free code :(
 
Emailed Amazon, I ordered on Wednesday, they said I couldnt get the Promo as the deal started today. They then recommended I return the laptop and re-buy it to get the Promo, sounds like a lot of hoops to jump through to get my free code :(

I'd just try again later. Most sites are only just barely putting up the promo (like, even Newegg only has WD2 listed for a couple GPUs).
 
Emailed Amazon, I ordered on Wednesday, they said I couldnt get the Promo as the deal started today. They then recommended I return the laptop and re-buy it to get the Promo, sounds like a lot of hoops to jump through to get my free code :(

Try again, push them a little harder and you should get it :D
 
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