Digital Foundry: Crysis Remastered! Crytek Studio Tour, also known as the pilgrimage of Alex Battaglia

[Nerun]

Related article: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-crysis-remastered-crytek-studio-tour

First of all, on Xbox One X at least, the game ships with three display modes. The default is a dynamic 4K presentation with enhanced settings at 30fps (yes, with properly implemented frame-pacing) but there's also a 1080p performance mode which essentially drops settings to the base console equivalents and unlocks the frame-rate, running at up to 60fps.

But there's more. Crytek has announced that its software-based ray tracing solution is coming to the enhanced consoles - PS4 Pro and Xbox One X - and while we've been sceptical about its chances based on the performance of the same tech in the firm's Neon Noir demo, we've seen it and it does work to often spectacular effect in the new Crysis game. Not only that, the performance is good. We'll have more to share on that very soon, but the big takeaway from our visit is that Crysis Remastered is shaping up to be something that's well worth the wait. The game's abrupt delay and the last minute pull of its reveal trailer left us with concerns, but the final product is shaping up very nicely and we're really looking forward to going deeper with launch code on all systems.

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More videos and articles to follow!

 

[Theorry]

Rumour has it. That Alex is still there and hid himself with a special copy of Crysis.

 

[TheWooniestWoona]

 

[chandoog]

software based ray tracing on the Pro and X ?

holy shit ..

 

[Deleted member 14089]

LOL, pilgrimage. This will be an interesting watch :).
Curious if that 1080p performance mode can maintain 60fps.

 

[Turkoop]

Hey, I've been there, too!

 

[AegonSnake]

watching it now. never seen Alex this happy.

the game looks pretty rough. i expected it to look current gen.

 

[Crossing Eden]

There's ecstatic and then there's whatever word we need to invent for Dictator 's reaction to a modern remaster of crysis

 

[RoboPlato]

Seeing Alex and John so excited put a huge smile on my face. Their enthusiasm is so infectious.

Still want to know if this is going to support HDR and next-gen, just really take this over the top.

 

[shark97]

i'm sure i'll buy this on one x for like 40th time, even though i dont even really like the game. just the technical aspects. would also consider buying a switch just to buy switch version and be amazed at crysis on a handheld.

but yeah the game itself is ok at best.

 

[shinobi602]

Looks kind of rough in those few Xbox One X snippets...

 

[Linus815]

it all sounds very exciting but...

Looks kind of rough in those few Xbox One X snippets...

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..yeah this

 

[Deleted member 55807]

Watching this for the season spanning story arc of Alex being rewarded for his faith.

 

[Dennis8K]

Shrine soon to be updated.

 

[Isee]

I wonder if it will come with DLSS 2.1 on PC.
(still watching the video)

 

[Bulby]

Still not looking that hot in those videos. Kinda flat and blurry.

 

[Dictator]

<3

Still not looking that hot in those videos. Kinda flat and blurry.

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To be clear just so people get an understanding of the footage - debug build. That means it runs slower.

software based ray tracing on the Pro and X ?

holy shit ..

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Yeah and all the footage in this video from the debug build should be the xbox one x in ray tracing mode. So I recommend keeping your expectations in check there regarding resolution or performance of that specific mode. It is... ray tracing on xbox one x after all.

 

[Bulby]

<3

To be clear just so people get an understanding of the footage - debug build. That means it runs slower.

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Ah nice, thanks for the info.

 

[chandoog]

Surely they won't be putting this much effort into the remaster if there wasn't a PS5/XBSX version coming along soon as well.

 

[Mass Effect]

lmao

EDIT: saw Fear Inoculum playing as well :D

 

[RCSI]

Based on personal experience myself, it's always a thrill to visit the studio of your shrines, glad you got to experience such a thing yourself.

For the Crysis Remaster, I may need to make an exemption with EGS when it does release. The comment of doing right is why I'm considering a change.

 

[platocplx]

Such a great video. Seeing how legit happy Alex was is awesome. Really nice video I love their passion about games.

 

[Gitaroo]

Does it support hdr and dolby atmos?

 

[Team_Feisar]

Anybody know how crytek is doing as a company right now?
I remember them going though some hard times a few years back.

 

[Deleted member 16136]

Jealous.

Please confirm manual suit mode switching is on PC .........

 

[TheKeyPit]

Yeah and all the footage in this video from the debug build should be the xbox one x in ray tracing mode. So I recommend keeping your expectations in check there regarding resolution or performance of that specific mode. It is... ray tracing on xbox one x after all.

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How many modes will there be?

Resolution, Performance, Raytracing?

 

[space_nut]

I'm definitely buying this for my X. That ray tracing mode sounds good :)

 

[Deleted member 20297]

Dictator did you talk English or German when doing the interview? Did you say "bye" or your "auf Wiedersehen"? 🤔😉
Also that was a cool video, that was great to watch.

 

[Fredrik]

This was one of the best videos they've ever done! I love the excitement! =)

 

[PcPlasticFuzz]

By far one of the best!!

 

[TitanicFall]

Wear your masks.

 

[KainXVIII]

Crazy that pc footage still not shown.

 

[copelandmaster]

Super cool video, looks like you guys had a lot of fun. Looking forward to coverage of the remaster!

 

[Chettlar]

Hearing that Crytek sort of interviewed them for things to look into making sure are included is really cool.

 

[ss_lemonade]

Someone pointed this out in the previous comparison video, but the foliage again seems to be static in those xbox previews. Really weird

 

[Deleted member 21709]

Great video, but I have to ask.. no masks? Sharing an elevator with no mask, regardless of distancing, is futile.
And despite social distancing being mentioned, none of that shows on the video.

 

[Gitaroo]

Surprised nvidia don't get some sort of bundle with rtx.

 

[Deleted member 21709]

DF should just start taking on consulting projects for game developers.

 

[jelly]

This is excellent.

 

[∀∃:ETURNA]

Would this be the first console game with raytracing?

 

[Overflow]

Lovely conclusion to the Crysis arc. I look forward to the serialised TV sequel to Digital Foundry: Road Trip (2020), where Dictator has leased the building adjacent to Crytek and shenanigans ensue.

 

[Deleted member 50232]

Awesome video, had a smile on my face for most of it.

Digital Foundry seem to be knocking it out the park at the moment, every video is great.

 

[Last_colossi]

Such a great video, it's awesome to see a bit of the inner workings of Crytek. Also raytracing on current gen?!?!?! wether or not that makes it to the final release it's still really interesting regardless.

 

[Cow Mengde]

Great video. I can appreciate Alex being hyped.

I don't know about the game though. I guess it looks better, but also looks about the same.

 

[eso76]

I'm picturing John driving with his head tilted like that the whole trip for the GoPro on his head to fit under the car's roof