Yeah, like all the Survivor games, the cringe stuff comes from the characters in no small part, man I hated the whiny Lara of this trilogy with a passion.
Couldn't agree more, I think we're in a minority with thinking Shadow was the best of them.
IDK, I'm keeping my hype in check, no expectations, from these recent interviews, I think CD is still pretty involved. I get the feeling this is just the Survivor TR dressed in classic clothes, hope I'm very wrong.
Game had a framegen bug where it ran at 6x no matter the settings and i didnt even noticed lol. I was playing at 300 fps and didnt had any input lag or horrible artifacting. Game is really greatI'm impressed with Mortal Shell 2.
Hardware Lumen, high settings (with vh textures), DLSS 4.5 (Performance) and game runs ~100+FPS without frame gen.
UE5 got really optimized at this point, and DLSS 4.5 doesn't cause any issues in this game.
They never attempted to fix the horrific pop in or the fucked up gamma issue going from shade to bright areas and they've had plenty of time.
Yes I know that, I mean they implmented it even in snow
Hehe. I believe it is on leather too for Ragnarok, but I couldn't find an extreme example to prove it. Here's one in Laufey. Notice how you can see the underside of the leather towards the edge, the moment light hits the top. The rest is in shadow, so that's neither direct light nor indirect light underneath. It's SSS from direct light hitting the top side.
gow ragnorok they have also hardware raytraced cube maps reflections , work alongside regular ssrHehe. I believe it is on leather too for Ragnarok, but I couldn't find an extreme example to prove it. Here's one in Laufey. Notice how you can see the underside of the leather towards the edge, the moment light hits the top. The rest is in shadow, so that's neither direct light nor indirect light underneath. It's SSS from direct light hitting the top side.
And hair/fur:
And pretty sure cloth didn't have it in Ragnarok. Cloth response always seemed very flat in that game regardless of light conditions. Just a lot of heavy texture work (AI upscaled for PS5 on top of that), but no actual reactivity to light. It seems to be on most cloth now:
It shines right through to the inside in the next few frames:
And here as well:
It all changes in real time in line with their brand new cloth physics too:
I'm seeing this on all wood too. And may be even bones (not sure yet). Wood has atrocious light response in Ragnarok, so that's a solid upgrade.
And on RTGI, it seems they are doing RTGI specular as well. Not just diffuse. Any light hitting metal on the ground precisely changes lighting on one side of her armor. It changes based on how much direct light is hitting the metal too, if any. Only the first 2 frames even get any direct light on the ground, so how they are pulling this off with a single bounce for the remaining frames is beyond me. And if it hits rock, you can see how that affects lighting on the same part of her leg
Also did a quick capture of how the environment affects the character's indirect lighting as a whole when she moves around. You can see the armor's hues matching the environment, starting with purple and ending with more greens. Again, you can see how any spot where she is above metal, the armor lights up a lot more. That's specular GI and the rest is diffuse GI. Unless they doctored the entire trailer and baked her GI every couple of feet before rendering out frames, this is not possible in real time rendering. It has to be ray traced. I'm not convinced this is multibounce yet, so I'm still sticking to the guess of a probe-based system simulating multibounce for the "macro" detail and per-pixel RT to those probes for micro detail.
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Yeah that hasn't changed. They still seem to use RT cube maps and/or SSR.gow ragnorok they have also hardware raytraced cube maps reflections , work alongside regular ssr
Rendering 'God of War Ragnarok'
How do you approach rendering a cross-generation, first-party title? This session not only describes some of the major technical features of God of War Ragnark, but also discusses the leadership and decision-making required along the way. The talk...
Please have cockpit cam, please have cockpit cam, please have cockpit camBest looking racer ever.
This looks awesome.Best looking racer ever.
Headlights seem a bit too bright for this time of day, but damn this looks goodBest looking racer ever.
It looks best in HDR.
Just downloaded the demo of this. Pretty neat looking "game"I don't like film grain, CA or lens distorsion in general but POOLS, a game relying on those effects, catched my eye a couple of years ago. The particular aesthetic I belive is called liminal space.
Yes. Along with 2 other studios, plus more likely to come
Looks incredible overall, but does the game lack sharpness/looks a little soft to anyone else or is it just the gif/my eyes?Best looking racer ever.
Looks stunning.I don't like film grain, CA or lens distorsion in general but POOLS, a game relying on those effects, catched my eye a couple of years ago. The particular aesthetic I belive is called liminal space.
News - Breaking: Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory
https://www.theverge.com/games/950204/xbox-ninja-theory-shutdown-hellblade-senua Xbox is closing down Ninja Theory, the studio behind the Hellblade series, a source tells The Verge. Staffers were told on a call on Monday about the closure, but they are hoping the studio will find a buyer. The...www.neogaf.com
Good God. Why the hell did MS let them show off their new game on their show last week?
Yes
Lmao the contrast between cutscenes and gameplay is like a gen apart...More Death Stranding 2 in 4K Ultrawide with DLDSR, max Settings and Reshade:
Nice fake, everyone knows that all ue5 games look exactly the same.Just finished Keeper. Was on sale on Steam and thought yea, an easy adventure game after Mina is fine
Holy shit it looks good. Never seen UE5 or UE4 for that matter being used in that way where everything looks like a painting. Really nice use of shaders and texture work to make it gel together.
It gets really fucking psychedelic towards the end, I didn't include any major spoilers but to say the least, if you have epilepsy, that's a no
I really like the devs using UE5 in unusual ways, I mean it's just an engine and it all depends on artists, but still to see it all come together also with Lumen and they did a lot of exploratory effects I think.
even ninja theory knew before e3. they were said to be shopping around for a new publisher at summer gamefest.
i see you and raise you with this post:
What gameBest looking racer ever.
Clutch , new racing game by ex Forza Devs
lol
Any chance we get some news of Witcher 4 ?
We should be getting gameplay but that info is from a gdc talk 3 months ago and plans change. They haven't officially announced anything yet.
Perhaps another tech demo.
Probably have nothing to show. All these devs are still using UE5. The ones on UE6 are in early ass development
They made it clear that this year we shouldn't expect massive live tech demos and I think there's a chance that The Witcher 4 won't be there or at least nothing major.
This. I'm so intrigued by Neural Rendering in general, it's supposed to bring massive graphical leaps at relatively low costs, and bodes very well for PS6 & its promising AI capabilities.
Are we expecting an UE6 exposé?
They made it clear that this year we shouldn't expect massive live tech demos and I think there's a chance that The Witcher 4 won't be there or at least nothing major.
