If you think those are a lot of settings you should see Serious Sam 3.
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The Division PC Options Revealed.
- Thread starter Crossing Eden
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If you think those are a lot of settings you should see Serious Sam 3.
It's made by Ubisoft Massive, formerly Massive Entertainment, these guys are PC developers through and through, making Ground Control and World in Conflict so I have some faith in their ability to optimize this game properly. Tho Ubisoft having the final say on resource and manpower allocation when it comes to development leaves some doubt.
This should be a standard...fuck CA!!!You can even toggle it on and off on the consoles.
Lockjaw333
Member
I'm also trying to decide between PC and console. I'm going to pre order both on Amazon and get a feel for each version during the beta to help make my decision. Can always cancel.
The Dutch Slayer
Member
Lots of individual YT'ers where invited and have been recording footage.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
This is a game being made by a of exclusive developer. It's a Ubisoft game in the same sense that Dragon Age is a an EA game. Give the dev team some credit. Companies aren't one mass identity and it's strange how prevalent that mindset seems to be in gaming.
Not PC beta footage though.
There is a beta watermark on his video.
edit, sorry not a watermark, but in the bottom right corner it says Beta
"max it out" is a bad metric.
Have you seen those options? depending on what implementation they choose those can be very expensive, even if they are well optimized.
Massive is a PC dev anyway. I'm optimistic.
IcyRhythms
Member
The PC version is just going to be console assets bumped up a bit. It's not like we're getting a PC version built from the ground up.
It will be built from the ground up on a PC.
Yup, this is how the list should look like if it were an optimized game:
Vsync (on/off)
Frame Rate Limit (on/off)
Shadow Quality
Shadow Resolution
Post FX AA
Anisotropic Filtering
Depth of Field
Chromatic Aberration (on/off)
Lens Flare (on/off)
Vignette Effect (on/off)
It almost seems like we are.
The game was debuted on PC hardware with phenomenal visuals well beyond what the current consoles are capable of, and the game is being developed by a traditionally PC developer with quite an extensive options menu.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
This makes very little sense. More options is a good thing, especially for the more expensive effects like fog and SSR.
As much as I'd like to believe that it's more likely we just get a Witcher 3 situation, which is a game that looks a lot better on PC, but all three are within the same ballpark. The "downgrade" is probably a similar situation to that game too.
It's pretty much unreasonable to expect the game to look completely different on PC. It will look good no doubt, but comparable.
That's the point he's making. If "optimised" means "maxed out"/tick all boxes, we wouldn't get these options but only those he posted.
Mass_Pincup
Banned
The game wasn't even supposed to release on PC in the first place.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=589731
Do you actually believe that wasn't a marketing trick though?
CyberPunked
Member
Do you actually believe that the e3 2013 demo was running on a PS4 or Xbone one devkit?
Mass_Pincup
Banned
I mean it might be but I don't really see the point, the game was far from releasing and they announced the PC version shortly after. Want would that accomplish?
No I don't.
SirMossyBloke
Member
I think the 27% off coupon at GMG is pushing me towards the PC version. Especially here in Canada.
We could speculate for days, but they did have a deal with Sony to exclusively debut it at their conference, then later a marketing deal with Microsoft, so there were incentives at play.
I will say, they were teasing a PC version quite heavily the entire time, even encouraging people to take to social media. Honestly, it could have been an easy ploy to get more people talking about the game, and it definitely resulted in significantly more mentions on social media. Then another media push through gaming journalism and social media when the game was announced for PC, all while pushing pre-orders.
As CyberPunked said, the original demo running on PS4/XBO dev kits would have been absurd. They were not anywhere close to targeting those specs from the outset.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
So it was sarcasm?
Back in 2013 try expected to be done by 2014. Given their history a pc version was a given.
Such a mark
27%? I don't see that anywhere.
Mad Season
Banned
Thought this game was mmo lite?
qa_engineer
Member
is there a car door closing option in the settings? They must have removed it.
lowhighkang_LHK
Member
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeloIvzQg6E
Comparison of low to ultra on PC ( screens )
It's all youtube shit but with that said I don't think the Xbox One version looked anywhere near as bad as the low settings. Probably medium settings. The PS4 should be a step up from that in however way the developer chooses to use the extra overhead.
Also, it's interesting to note that on Ultra there doesn't seem to be that much greater environment density. Which is the biggest thing the initial reveal in 2013 had over footage today when people scream downgrade. Possibly indicating cutting back on environment clutter could be a gameplay decision for players not to get caught up on physical objects during movement and traversal during combat given the game's FOV.
Cpt.Underpants
Member
My 980ti is ready
Mass_Pincup
Banned
Yeah I completely forgot about the 2014 releases date, makes sense now.
Mad Season
Banned
FYI Ubisoft removes keys bought from those sites more than anyone
keltickennedy
Member
I think it still might be too early for comparisons for PC settings. This is all from the beta right? You would think that they wouldn't want make the download size that big compared to the final release. Maybe the textures and stuff are still compressed all around.
lowhighkang_LHK
Member
I don't know what settings these are on PC but I'm hoping they are at low.
https://youtu.be/_dFdST1Hz7c?t=1m18s
Look at the shadows from 1:20 to 1:25 on the right side of the screen.
And here is Xbox One footage of Mission 1. Hard to get a nice shadow shot under same conditions.
If we assume that represents medium then it's likely the above shots are from PC low.
I doubt it. Beta's today are glorified demo's. You put your best foot out when you consider how your impressions and footage will be plastered all over the place especially when you're mere months away from release. Also knowing that outlets like NXGamer and Digital Foundry are going to tear your game apart.
https://youtu.be/_dFdST1Hz7c?t=1m18s
Look at the shadows from 1:20 to 1:25 on the right side of the screen.
And here is Xbox One footage of Mission 1. Hard to get a nice shadow shot under same conditions.
If we assume that represents medium then it's likely the above shots are from PC low.
I doubt it. Beta's today are glorified demo's. You put your best foot out when you consider how your impressions and footage will be plastered all over the place especially when you're mere months away from release. Also knowing that outlets like NXGamer and Digital Foundry are going to tear your game apart.
Getting soooooo tired of the word optimized. Gets thrown around in non relevant discussion. How is more graphical options on the PC less "optimization"? Jesus.
If you watch the footage at the beginning you can see that the person goes into the video settings and has a lot of the settings on low or off. Plus the OP notes that it's on low too.
What?
Developers can develop on PC any time.
All those GPU intensive effects and stuff should get optimized to a level where they have no impact on the performance anymore, therefore not being relevant in the options menu!
I don't know man, people who got their first gaming PC at the end of last gen has some weird expectations where they think they should be able to max anything or it's a shitty port.
if I'm not getting 120fps at 1440p on my midrange gpu with max settings it's a terribly optimized game and I'm perfectly justified in going online and crying about it.
SirMossyBloke
Member
I got it in an email. Exclusive voucher that lasts until Jan 18th.
GHG
Gold Member
See folks, this is what happens when people become accustomed to bad PC ports.
Next thing you know he'll be telling us that a lack of a 30fps framerate lock or a 1080p resolution lock are bad signs as well.
If you are making a subtle point about the effects of "maxing out" fetishism on game configurability and future-proving: good job.
If you are serious: wtf.
SmoothRunningGun
Member
Menus confirm controller support so I'm good.
This has to be a joke post.