Far Cry 4
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First reviews from Eurogamer and Joystiq looks really promising. I'm waiting for release date.
What do you guys expect from FC4?
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What do you guys expect from FC4?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYdjb10JcxU"]101 trailer | Far Cry 4 [PSN] [UK] - YouTube[/ame]
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For me only Solo would be interesting since i don't know people to play online coop with so it's a rather wasted feature on me (and i hate playing with strangers).
Still so far it looks good...Only a bit disheartening is, that no PC review copies reached any site or magazine yet eventhough the console version is out for review for a couple of days now.
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thank you, I looked for this presentation record after ZSummit!
I can't spent more money in games, i have wasted a lot this year, but for the next year, i will buy it on sale for my pokedex of games
edit: I love the character art of this game, Tito did one of the greatest jobs i've seen on animals with his tiger. http://www.artstation.com/artist/lildragn When i watched the animal hair under ndivia gameworks i flipped out. A friend have bought it and it runs very very well.
The studio behind Farcry 4 is the only one that did their job like God dictates. Congrats for the team, the reviews are quite good.
Hope we can expect a great art dump thread in a few days
FC4 was a stand-out hit for me last year, I am welcoming this game with open arms.
EDIT : Scratch that, looks like the UK release is Tuesday. Apparently we don't count as "EU" lol.
it comes with a level editor but that's about it
Something tells me I won't ever actually be able to finish the game, but damn do I love a little in-game safari huntin'
Now if only there was a fishing mini-game my life would be complete. All openish games must have a fishing mini-game, no matter the boringness!
True dat! Check out the IGN Co op vid as well, it's classic XD
Anchang-Style : I've worked very hard on modelling and texturing the tiger so I'll take some part of the credit : ). It sure was a challenging asset to work on as cats have lots of flexibility and shape deformation depending on their pose, definitely something to keep in mind as there was no blend shape at the time.
I don't know how extensive the revision work is, but in the end, it is looking beautiful with the fur shader. Props to all that have worked on the art of the game!
Congrats to all involved in it's creation.
In the prologue mission I was getting between 30 and 20 on high, dropped the graphics settings to all low/off (textures on high), got 40-30 in the prologue mission.
In the open world I get between 50-30 on low/off with textures on high, and then in the village, i get 30-mid 20s on that setting, then there are the sudden FPS drops, and the loading pauses (I don't have an SSD - and the game locked up while it loaded.
Specs:
4770K
16gb DDR1600 ram
GTX 660ti
The game definitely isn't even using anywhere near 50% off of my resources, so it shouldn't run as it does. Farcry 3 ran 60+ on High to ultra settings, all other games I can max out.
So I'm hoping the next few updates sort this out.
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Yes.
Is there a summary for those of us who don't want to watch a 20 minute video?
he does good reviews but they take forever
According to news, some PC gamer complain about a lack of FOV option...which Hutchinson himself answered that the problem is, that the game is pirated if the FOV is missing.
Every search I've done it states to 'wait for future patches' ah lovely...
Well the settings are pretty alright just they cover a lot of stuff in POSTFX where no one seems to know what it does. Again Ubi's deal with Nvidia seems to hit AMD hard despite the AMD presence in the consoles.
The AA still is basically killing his 980GTX SLI. With TXAA2 it's at 100, TXAA4 kills it to around 40 (he says). Also towns are dipping it badly. Also very visible is a constant dip in framrate when driving around where the frames go to 50-60 and jump back to 100. He plays at 1440p and off a SSD and repoprts, that the usage of his Quadcore is very weirdly allocated.
Iam a bit weirded out about why a game that is promoted by NVIDIA is not running with all NVIDIA feratures on anything but a SLI of their high end system...or so it seems. Because cutting the FPS by half and down a peck to get the 970 level makes it seem like you have to get rid of TXAA and basically all of the fancy Nvidia features, or the engine does not properly use SLI right now.
I feel like the TXAA implementation is not 100% or TXAA is just junk to begin with right now, considering every game it's used in the promised "TXAA combines the raw power of MSAA" but so far suffered a performance impact a lot heavier than 2xMSAA or even 4xMSAA. Maybe it's just the engine that is suffering a broken window effect by just beeing partly rebuild to fit the new enviroment. I don't know.
The numbers are here (german bench but understandable)
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Far-Cry-4-PC-256888/Specials/Technik-Test-Benchmark-1143026/
1440p basically cuts your performance in half again.
"we've made a deal with nVidia, so anybody using AMD cards... sorry about your issues but maybe you should just not use AMD cards"?
i'm an nVidia card user (currently), but if a company blames any issues on either manufacturer when they've got a deal running with the competitor... that's not the fault of the manufacturer, that's the fault of the developer.
also, a funny side note:
the whole "if you don't have FOV control, you're a pirate", is bullshit.
If you don't have FOV control, you didn't download the two day patches. Not that the slider is that great, because it doesn't have any numbers associated with it?
There is no hitsound (must) there is no hitmarker, and there are only small particle effects on hit that are barely noticeable, TTK time to kill is strange and coupled with the nonexistent feedback very hard to know if you even hit - and no other form of feedback to make up for those misses, plus the weapon controls are not well adjusted on PC, making shooting not fun for me and objectively less fun than in nearly every FPS out there (still the same as in FC3 however), and unlocking new weapons is no real motivation as a cause, which is intended to be atleast mine motivation to progress throughout the game, which is sad, as it is a FPS afterall.
The rest is really enjoyable so far
1440+ is more or less 35-40% more performance required from my observations, double is not true for any game i have played, which the benchmark also confirms, but this is very subjective as i have no good sample size
However I am hoping that some hidden ones will show up on the shop inventory as they did during the second half of FC3.
Same with the vehicles (was hoping for some different vehicle classes). The gyrocopter rules, but this game is screaming for an LAV, and other military type vehicles. I think that would've helped sell the world a bit more if the Royal Army was better equipped than the guerilla fighters. Of course theres a massive amount of the world I haven't seen yet so I could be wrong.
These are minor issues I guess, I think the game is really good. Art and animation are also fantastic. I definitely prefer the characters in this one too. I think FC3 relied too much on Mando's performance, and making the player character a massive bellend didn't help, however in this one I am far more interested in the main characters and the world they inhabit.
Let the good times roll
also, a lil art dump over here