Mirror's Edge Catalyst on Xbox One everybody...
He looked like this for a full minute.
This is beyond the pale.
If I was petty I'd bump the beta thread and quote all the people that insisted to me how the full game would look so much better.
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Mirror's Edge Catalyst |OT| Keeping the Faith Alive
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This is beyond the pale.
If I was petty I'd bump the beta thread and quote all the people that insisted to me how the full game would look so much better.
Mirror's Edge is kind of a unique game from a technical perspective. It has all the hurdles of a first person game (texture and environment detail must be high since the player can squish their "face" right up against most stuff), but it's also about moving through the world as fast as possible so it needs to be able to stream and cull those high quality assets quickly. And my guess is that the team on ME was never that big. Battlefield and Battlefront are the 500 lb gorillas sucking up most of the resources at DICE. Mirror's Edge is the niche passion project.
Mirror's Edge Catalyst on Xbox One everybody...
He looked like this for a full minute.
I can hardly believe this is real. My god, how is this possible.
NullPointer
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JigglesBunny
Banned
Digital purchase :/
Thankfully I bought the PC version, but my PC has been acting funky lately so I'm not able to play it until Saturday when everything's fixed.
I love the game too but this was... shocking.
Barakov
Gold Member
Mirror's Edge Catalyst on Xbox One everybody...
He looked like this for a full minute.
Oof. That's rough.
swearing-circle
Member
I was a big fan of the original Mirror's Edge but this game so far hasn't grabbed me in the same way just yet. It feels almost too familiar. Also, its not technically impressive in the slightest. I've had so many weird janky moments thus far and some really odd graphically glitches.
That said, the running is still great. It doesn't feel as weighty as the original but perhaps i'm remembering things wrong. The story missions have been pretty good though so I'm thinking I may just skip over everything else until I complete the main plot.
That said, the running is still great. It doesn't feel as weighty as the original but perhaps i'm remembering things wrong. The story missions have been pretty good though so I'm thinking I may just skip over everything else until I complete the main plot.
Frostbite seems to have some serious issues with pop in and LOD on the X1. I was playing BF4 yesterday I spent about 15 seconds running around on literally PS2 level textures and no grass until the proper assets loaded in.
The weirdest thing about ME is just how inconsistent it is visually. Poor IQ aside, one moment it can look really good, the next it looks terrible...
I think this for example looks great:
The weirdest thing about ME is just how inconsistent it is visually. Poor IQ aside, one moment it can look really good, the next it looks terrible...
I think this for example looks great:
GalacticSushiman
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Mirror's Edge Catalyst on Xbox One everybody...
He looked like this for a full minute.
I had 2 neogaf tabs opened, one with the N64 'best graphics blabla' thread and this one. Your screen got me confused....
SmackAttack
Member
Yeah. As much as I'm loving this game, it has its moments. Everything was going fine for me yesterday then this happened: http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/MutantTreestump/video/18378751
Just noticed that with the exact same NPC on PS4. The ones around him were fine though.
d00d3n
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Mirror's Edge Catalyst on Xbox One everybody...
He looked like this for a full minute.
Is it at least 60 fps on Xbone?
Fancy Clown
Member
Mirror's Edge Catalyst on Xbox One everybody...
He looked like this for a full minute.
First Half-Life, 3 screenshots
Half-Life 1 is exactly where my mind went. I think they even have construction guys from the opening tram ride who look like that.
Yes, there's a few encounters like this. Most you can run from, but there's on in particular
after the server area
The more I play this game. The more I love it. Got all the movement upgrades and that has helped a lot. Locking any of them away remains a silly decision. Any sort of speedrun mission has generally been fantastic. And I really like the story missions which put you in linear levels. Same with the gridnode missions. The platforming is just superb.
DOWN
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Can someone do a thread for the digital foundry performance analysis? Looks like it's improved over beta as expected.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-mirrors-edge-catalyst-performance-analysis
Devastated at the loss of motion blur though
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-mirrors-edge-catalyst-performance-analysis
Devastated at the loss of motion blur though
Because, much like most of the dialog in the game, it sounds like an out of touch 40 year-old business executive wrote it.
Plastic is amazing and I won't hear any different.
Same here. I preferred her over Icarus talking to me.
*edit* This doesn't bother me. It DOES bother me when the KSEC dispatcher lady says "ETA momentarily". That is not how Estimated Time of Arrival works! And of course she says it all the time.
By the way, there's a third level of police alert that I only reached for the first time after like 30 hours of playing. And I was indoors so I didn't see what crazy aircraft arrived.
Garrett Hawke
Member
So fucking hard to put down. It's so gorgeous, the running feels so fluid, it's so tempting just to go after one more collectible, one more delivery etc.
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
Mirror's Edge Catalyst on Xbox One everybody...
He looked like this for a full minute.
And I thought in the PS4 version they looked a bit last gen. lol
I knew I wasn't imaging it looked better, didn't think it was 60fps though.
swearing-circle
Member
Been playing the game all day since I got it and it's grown on me. I was a big fan of the original game but first impressions with this felt so off. There's a lot to love when you've unlocked all the free running stuff.
Game is janky as hell though in some areas. Every now and then Faith will get stuck on stuff and i've encountered an invisible wall right next to an actual wall. It made no sense and it was really immersion breaking.
The game runs pretty inconsistently as well. I've had a fair few framedips and a lot of pop in on PS4.
I'm not sold on the combat. It feels off having to take your hand off the directional stick to actually attack. It doesn't feel anywhere near as fluid as the running. I personally preferred combat in the first game but that's just me. The free running attacks are good though.
Another big gripe I have is that I feel like the game sometimes asks you to stop a bit too much in a game about fluid speed and momentum.
I hate the open world collectibles but that's probably because im easily distracted by them. I like the open world though. Although, the art design can cause confusion sometimes though and disorientates me. I never had this issue with the original though, not sure why this is.
Overall, I'm really enjoying the game though. I was ready to put it down in the first few hours but i'm glad I hung on because the story missions are becoming more interesting and the parkour is as great as ever. The story is entirely uninteresting so far though. It sucks that this might be the end of the series. Hope it sells well and I hope DICE can get it perfect in a third game. This series really deserves a title that is an instant classic.
Game is janky as hell though in some areas. Every now and then Faith will get stuck on stuff and i've encountered an invisible wall right next to an actual wall. It made no sense and it was really immersion breaking.
The game runs pretty inconsistently as well. I've had a fair few framedips and a lot of pop in on PS4.
I'm not sold on the combat. It feels off having to take your hand off the directional stick to actually attack. It doesn't feel anywhere near as fluid as the running. I personally preferred combat in the first game but that's just me. The free running attacks are good though.
Another big gripe I have is that I feel like the game sometimes asks you to stop a bit too much in a game about fluid speed and momentum.
I hate the open world collectibles but that's probably because im easily distracted by them. I like the open world though. Although, the art design can cause confusion sometimes though and disorientates me. I never had this issue with the original though, not sure why this is.
Overall, I'm really enjoying the game though. I was ready to put it down in the first few hours but i'm glad I hung on because the story missions are becoming more interesting and the parkour is as great as ever. The story is entirely uninteresting so far though. It sucks that this might be the end of the series. Hope it sells well and I hope DICE can get it perfect in a third game. This series really deserves a title that is an instant classic.
Uh...what? You don't. And many of the moves are directional stick + face button. Edit: Oh, unless you mean the right stick, but that never much bothered me.
Real talk, I'm really loving this game, but that ending *was* a pretty big "fuck you". Really, just...genuinely awful narrative throughout the game.
swearing-circle
Member
Haha yeah I meant the right stick, sorry. It's not awful or anything. It just makes things feel a little less fluid to me personally. I may get used to it though.
Yes.
Warnen
Don't pass gaas, it is your Destiny!
Dam you EA!!!
The times for this run are so compact. I was top 25% with a 21 second run. And three stars is sub 22. Video link.
Wowfunhappy
Member
On the whole, it DOES look way better than the Beta.
The Xbox is just having asset streaming issues.
There's fast travel in this game?
Falchion
Member
Yes once you complete a GridNode challenge in each area. Those are some of the coolest missions in the game because they are huge traversal puzzles but you don't have to use the fast travel any.
indigo-cyclops
Member
My major issue with this is the open world just doesn't seem necessary or interesting, yet. I'm early on though. I would have preferred to have all movement skills too. Maybe an XP system is necessary in these open world games but really, traversing the world is key here and to schlep all over getting XP is not really that fun at the moment.
The game really shines on a mission or dash, you could say. I think what was so great about ME1 was the systems combined with tight level design made for an exceptional experience.
Also, the AI is a joke in this game. Combat is hilarious.
The game really shines on a mission or dash, you could say. I think what was so great about ME1 was the systems combined with tight level design made for an exceptional experience.
Also, the AI is a joke in this game. Combat is hilarious.
Maybe you are getting old D:
Visuals are amazing maxed out on PC, which is no doubt what they've been showing off the past few years at events and marketing campaigns.
Can't really blame them. It's how the whole industry works. Best foot forward.
At least it's not an obvious massive downgrade like Ubisoft games.