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Assassins's Creed PS4 is now 1080p with AA.
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Krisprolls
Banned
Yeah sure... It happens strangely only on PS4 and on every game. Every dev magically finds out he can up the resolution on PS4 one day after reviews and release. How convenient. It's completely unlikely that it happened both on CoD and on AC4, and that they somehow both "forgot" to tell the reviewers. Give me a break.
We'll see if the same happens on Xbox One. I highly suspect it won't.
Begaria
Member
Man, so many conflicting feelings. On one hand, I feel that a game should ship as advertised, the back of the box says it's 1080p, but it's not unless you get a patch. On the other hand, it's nice to see a developer being forthcoming on actually telling us this kind of information.
The fact that cod ran at 1080p in ps4 multi while 720p xb1 multi blows a hole through any parity argument. If they wanted parity, they would have made the whole game 720p. The fact that the most played mode + the mode that almost every review focuses on and cares about is running at 1080p shows it was an optimization issue.
Also, Ubisoft is to Sony what Activision is to MS. Every piece of ac4 marketing doesn't even mention the xb1 or 360. They also only show games at sony press conferences and release a side campaign on sony platforms that will never get released on the xbox. Ubisoft would be the last publisher to force parity. To a casual observer, ac4 isn't even coming out on xbox. They never show that version, they don't advertise that version, and they barely talk about that version.
Instead of creating some parity conspiracy, I'm just going to go with not enough time to optimize the code for the final hardware before they had to go gold.
Also, Ubisoft is to Sony what Activision is to MS. Every piece of ac4 marketing doesn't even mention the xb1 or 360. They also only show games at sony press conferences and release a side campaign on sony platforms that will never get released on the xbox. Ubisoft would be the last publisher to force parity. To a casual observer, ac4 isn't even coming out on xbox. They never show that version, they don't advertise that version, and they barely talk about that version.
Instead of creating some parity conspiracy, I'm just going to go with not enough time to optimize the code for the final hardware before they had to go gold.
RugbyPlayer
Banned
So what your saying is, youd rather they leave the res at 900p on both consoles instead of increasing it if theyre able to on the more powerful one? that makes sense
Ryoohki360
Neo Member
They propably use FXAA, witch Blur everything.. ;( Hope there's SMAA witch is way better
Resolutiongate??
Seems like devs are going to want to hit those hard numbers now. We may see sacrifices in graphical features like AO or AA instead of lowering resolutions. People seem to understand 900p vs 1080p better than if a game uses ssao vs hbao or fxaa vs msaa.
Game boxes from last generation have never indicated native resolution. They only display the supported output resolution (which means upscaling).
Exactly, that is the issue. How all of a sudden did they just discover that much extra horsepower when this sort of resolution and AA patching has never happened before on consoles? At least not to my knowledge.
At least they are fixing it, that is most welcome.
FXAA and SMAA aren't "new" forms of anti aliasing, but it may just be a custom-designed variation of one of those. Someone else mentioned a temporal aliasing solution, which would make sense.
Or maybe they're just full of shit and trying to make it sound better than it really is, which wouldn't surprise me either.
Huh, I would've just chalked it up to lollaunchgaems, but I guess with this there may have been more to the whole parity scare after all. At least if it is true, it's getting squashed quickly out the gate.
In a decade from now, you'll have Assassin's Creed 4K HD Collections to choose from anyway.
When did the development of the game start? And when did Ubisoft know what the final hardware specs of each machine was going to be? Then consider the fact that the game is coming out on 6 different platforms and you might see why the game is 900p at launch
TangoAlphaLima
Member
I really want to see a side-by-side comparison between ACIV on PS3 and PS4 when that title update is available. It already looked like a pretty impressive upgrade, but an extra 180p and AA should be just some more icing on that cake.
I think Kris is approaching it from a conspiracy angle or some weirdass shenanigans going on behind the scene rather than saying upping the res on the more powerful one is bad.
You know, like all that MS demands parity stuff that goes around every now and then.
I personally think, unless this keeps on happening even a year after launch, this can probably just be chalked up to these being launch games and devs still getting used to the hardware.
SneakyStephan
Banned
Been harping on this for years, the moment the consoles went online one of the main advantages of console gaming was thrown out of the window.
'we'll finish it later'
'we'll finish it later'
Explain cod multi being 1080p on ps4 and bf4 then.
VibratingDonkey
Member
Surely if it's actually shortly after release they'd have a more specific date than "shortly"? What are we talking about here? Weeks? Decades?
PC not getting this supposedly more efficient AA technique?
Krisprolls
Banned
No, absolutely not. I say they conveniently decided they had to achieve parity for reviews even if it meant slaughtering PS4 version. Publishers want to make both console makers happy, that I can certainly understand.
See, everybody is happy. PS4 users get the real resolution with a patch, and MS is happy too since they get a (false) partity and reviewers don't mention the difference.
Still, it's shitty, because you lie to the gamers. Don't tell me both CoD devs and AC4 devs "forgot" to mention there would a day 1 patch to the reviewers. It just doesn't make sense.
Telephoto999
Member
THIS x1000. I think we are going to be seeing this a lot from the third parties.
how is that any different? its not like there's 2 kinds of patches. one for resolution and one for everythign else
they're patching the game, probably with a bunch of performance increases, so theyre bumping the resolution because they can now
He's saying that it is odd that the games are reviewed and then the stronger console has it's resolution increased, The implication is that he thinks the resolutions had parity when shipped to avoid rustling MS's jimmies.
It sounds really far fetched, but...this is the only game it's happening on.
Shaunboy97
Member
Xbox does have an extra week!! A lot can get done in a week... So I skimmed through the thread, is Xbox One confirmed to be 1080p as well?
Killing_Joke
Member
At least they were honest about it. Now i'll just wait for the patch. =)
No. Unless we find out that Battlefield 4 requires a patch to bump from 720p to 900p on PS4 or something.
I don't think anyone in the media has played a review copy of AC4 on Xbone.
All the reviews were of the PS4 version.
No way. But the internet would melt down if true.
Chobel
Member
Do you have source for this? or you're just speculating?
dark_prinny
Banned
USA Awaits. Europe gets.
Teta bested in da future.
Teta bested in da future.
Source?
BF4 and CoD (multiplayer) both shipped at higher resolutions on PS4. I doubt there is any mandate like this.
They could make it run at 30fps and 10808p on Xbox One if they wanted. It's running at 720p on current gen consoles, the gap isn't too huge.
The most likely explanation for all this weird situation can be inferred from all those rumours floating around and is kind of obvious, if you think about it.
Development teams quickly had a running PS4 version which they were more than happy with.
They then started the Xbone port, discovering a ton of problems with architecture and tools, and for the last few months they have been been struggling to get a playable Xbone version of their games.
When they succeeded in this task or gave up because it was becoming clear that the Xbone version could not reach parity, they got back to optimize the PS4 build: problem is game was already went gold, hence those day 1 patches.
googleplex
Member
My Money is on a bug in the latest firmware the screwed up the internal rendering of some games. Assassins Creed probably can render at 720p, 900p and 1080p but a last minute bug set the rendering to 900p.that why it can be patched to its highest setting.
just a theory.
WordsintheWater
Member
Not gonna play it till the update is out.
Wow that's terrible.
DryvBy
Member
Which launch was the best? I can't really think of an amazing one.
Mr Moose
Member
“If it’s running at 720p vs 1080p, you’re going to notice the difference, by far,”
And I was told 720p was the new 1080p!
Edit: Also "Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag on the PlayStation 4 is the first Assassin’s Creed game to be rendered in true native 1080p" Confirmed not 1080p on Xbox One?
And I was told 720p was the new 1080p!
Edit: Also "Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag on the PlayStation 4 is the first Assassin’s Creed game to be rendered in true native 1080p" Confirmed not 1080p on Xbox One?
Krisprolls
Banned
It already happened twice and it's the only explanation when you think about it.
Devs don't "suddenly find out" they can up the resolution of their game just one day after reviews, they had to know it before. But hey, they forgot to tell the reviewers. Seriously...
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
Meeting launch is hard. Hilarious though some of those comparison videos were pre this patch. Wonder if they will redo them?