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Death Stranding Tech Review: The Digital Foundry Verdict
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- Btw, in one of SIGGRAPH talks Kojima Productions tech artists talked about the height fog, some kind of dynamic volumetric fog that snaps up the whole scene gradually and covers it. How is it effective in the game?
- Many doubted the dynamic fluid physics of the game but we saw in TSG gameplay that that black goo is physically interactive and floods the whole building and scene.
- I talked to Guerilla after the release of Horizon and why there are no refelctions and foliage interactions in Horizon and they said they need to chnage the fundamental system in the engine to enable them, From what i saw in DS, foliage is fully interactive and there are reflections on water and eveyrhwere in DS. How much Kojima productions evolved the engine after Horizon?
- Kojima always talked about 4D time elemnet in his games and that he wanted time to affect things like tress growing in the game and gettign older and dying then sprouting seeds to give bith to new tress: he created an entire element called timefall to cause such time reactions we saw plants growing, withering and dying in real time, this affects people, cargo metals that get corroded etc... How far this feature is advanced? Does it affect only those elemnts or there are more?
is it heavy on spoilers or safe to watch? (I watched previous kojima trailers.. and the gameplay a little)
there is a text at around the 10:00 mark that is a big spoiler i think.
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Same. Even though my PC is six years old. I'm sure it's going to look super banging.
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Very nice video. The environments and the distances impress me the most. In particular the micro details up close with minimal pop in. Very nice to see the improvements made to fluids as well which was something I found quite disappointing in Horizon. Particular that section shown with the down river which actually looks pretty realistic. There are times where footage looks like one of those pre-rendered futuristic showcases of tech which is amazing.
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I think it looks beautiful and can't wait to play but best looking game ever was being thrown around.
Dude.. I was addressing the hyperbole. As stated. I'm getting it for Pro and then PC I'm sure. My statement still stands ... For me.
Read my post bove. I think KP upgraded the engine and added more fundamental systems to the engine that guerilla couldn't add in time before Horizon's release.
Nothing wrong with that, as it is just an opinion. I have played a lot of the best looking games this gen, and think this easily has a shout in that direction. I come from a place where the environments have a lot in common with what is shown here, and this is easily the best representation of said environments I have seen. Even the lighting and use of mist is a pretty darn good representation. I don't think it is a controversial opinion, but of course in now way definitive, nor can it ever be.
This engine keeps evolving these two studios are amazing seeing what they have done together in both of their latest games.
Thanks John. A seal approval directly from you saves me from the spoilers in the vid. That said I'll definitely download the source file for consumption at a later date.
Yup, there are huge restrictions on what you can show in video form (written too). I finished the game a couple of days ago and I am also a game developer (scripting, game design, lighting artist, sound designer, etc.) - from my point of view this is the most polished AAA open-world product in "day one form". It is amazing how fewer are the bugs in the game and how polished everything feels. Controlling Sam is a dream - it feels like old-school arcade SEGA/Treasure game in 3D.
In addition, as John said, not everything is tech stuff. Most of the big modern engines are very similar of what you can achieve with them. The artists are playing huge roles when it comes to the overall visual styles and asset details.
I find the character models in RE 7, Halo V (cut scenes) Detroit Too Human also to be superb and for Detroit to have the edge
Yeah detroit has great character models across the board really. I do think they animate better here, and look more natural. Hair is also rendered better.
I say "Tem pOhr Ull" for temporal - we all have our own ways :)
Is that a first person view available @ 12.29 - 12.40?
I've found the character looks a bit too far away sometimes in third person in this game so having an optional first person would convince me to go in day 1.
Any confirmations?
I've found the character looks a bit too far away sometimes in third person in this game so having an optional first person would convince me to go in day 1.
Any confirmations?
You can walk around in first-person by holding L1 but that's it.
Maybe. I know it sounds incredible sad but Detroid marks the first time I've ever sort of been attracted to a computer game model/character. I find the character of North (played by Minka Kelly) to be quite attractive LOL
Then you have a bias and can't be impartial!
But seriously that's the least saddest admission ever, especially if you compare to someone who grew up as a teenager in the 90's with Lara Croft and found her attractive.
I've been gaming since my ZX Spectrum 128+ in 1985 and I loved the TR games but never found Lara to be remotely attractive because she never looked real (even in the intro's) Too Human was the 1st time I ever started to feel attracted to a computer game character.
This video made me like 10x more excited for the game. Seriously impressive, looks like it oozes atmosphere.
We can't get your base ps4 footage until launch? Oh man, that sucks because right now it's a factor on buying or not. Can you at least, please, write down some impressions/stats about it? If there's already an article about it I'll be happy to check it out!
Yeah my guess is that just like Horizon, base console looks the same, with similar performance, but running at 1080p instead.
Us Brits roll our eyes at the American pronunciation of Aluminium :)
It's not that different from the way John says Volumetric.
Cool, thank you. I've seen the full video now and it's truly incredible, even on a 1080p set on YouTube! Without hdr! I can understand how you wanted to do this video this way. If anything, it only sells me on waiting to play this when I have a 4kHDR set plus a pro or ps5 (or capable pc).
After seeing this and playing the last week on an XboxX for the first time, I feel supersampling is more and more relevant and now I'm worried not about performance (thanks to your post) but about image quality indeed. There's just no way base ps4 looks that crisp. The ludens keychain thingy hanging from the BB pod in that resting scene and the grass and the far away detail can't possibly be comparable I guess. If that's more or less high quality in base ps4 I may keep my preorder but otherwise it may be doing a disservice to a game kinda more based on these details than on pure gameplay.
how is that sad, lot of characters are designed to be attractive