Confirmation is great. Thanks!
Bethesda's dirge of support for HDR has been making me so sad.
Doom Eternals is perfectly suited for HDR, so hopefully they haven't bungled support in some way.
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Digital Foundry: Doom Eternal First Look: id Tech 7 Doesn't Disappoint!
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Bethesda's dirge of support for HDR has been making me so sad.
Doom Eternals is perfectly suited for HDR, so hopefully they haven't bungled support in some way.
You're on the right side of this fight. Motion blur for life, yo.
I'm a big fan when John goes beyond graphical analysis.
He had a unique voice and approach to games.
From all the coverage it's the only one I've seen with the centred gun, references and clips of the other games and who called out the Doom II music.
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He had a unique voice and approach to games.
From all the coverage it's the only one I've seen with the centred gun, references and clips of the other games and who called out the Doom II music.
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Megatextures was one of the first versions of virtual texturing. The general idea of indirect texturing is solid and being used a lot in games nowadays. It's the idea of unique textures that wasn't practical. Having unique texturing just forces a generic compression over all surfaces and does not scale very well. There are cases where you can for example use procedural methods or repeating textures with procedural splatting for a great result. And you can still have the option to use fine detailed unique images where needed.
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Also do not forget this was a software, cpu bound process (ok IO really, but it was driven from CPU bound algorithms)
The original was surprisingly Metroid Prime like for what's a pure FPS. Stuff like looking for the collectibles was like looking for missile expansions, getting the double jump to progress is an obvious parallel, and just the feeling of jumping around the platforms was very Metroid Prime. The only thing it's really missing is an interconnected world instead of a series of stages.
Not that I want it to be Metroid Prime. I'm happy for it to be Doom.
Yeah I thought someone might take issue with that, particularly since it's DOOM! But yeah someone who has played some FPS games and decided it's not their favourite genre should know that 2016 and Eternal are different enough that they're worth trying
At 7:10 in the reviewer's vid in the op, he says he selected the "centre weapon" option in the settings. It's a throw-back to original Doom.
It's the only way I play Doom 2016, honestly. I think it just feels right and also offers something that feels very different from other shooters.
...and yeah, it's a throwback to classic Doom. It's how I also prefer to play the original Unreal since it was an option there. :D
I liked the texturing in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. It was much less repetitive than some similar games released at that time.
It's still being worked on and hasn't been determined but it's definitely not related to what was done in Wolf II.
I hope The Doom Eternal RT will be so optimised and covers most of the features so it can be included to next-gen consoels via an update.
I had to laugh when someone asked Carmack shortly after the release of Rage if there'd be a high-res texture pack and he said it "[wouldn't] help much because most source textures [don't] actually have any more detail."
The new lead renderer programmer at iD Tiago Sousa has really been putting in amazing work. He took John Carmack's existing work and made it more efficient, more robust and even helped make the geometry 5 times that of DOOM 2016. Being an ex CryEngine dev, I can see how.
So I saw people referencing some guy named Dark1x earlier and was immediately reminded of some old poster that had been around GAF/NeoGAF since maybe 20 years ago that I used to occasionally argue with since he'd relentlessly go off about how certain games, some that I loved, didn't have a stable enough framerate and were therefore either unworthy or unplayable
But no that guy was..... dark10x.... this is.... dark1x....
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Holy shit the guy has made a career out of this, he realizes....
That's honestly amazing. Digital Foundry does good shit. :)
But no that guy was..... dark10x.... this is.... dark1x....
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Holy shit the guy has made a career out of this, he realizes....
That's honestly amazing. Digital Foundry does good shit. :)
They made bold claims about doing it "better than anybody". Curious to see what they come up with.
It's a specific upgrade but I can't recall the details - but yes, you can freeze enemies then shatter them.Is that a bug or enemies can really just froze in mid-air lol? Its 2020 you know (and Hexen handle this better in '95)
Indeed, I supposed I'm so used to the gun being offset in most modern shooters.
I mean why frozen enemies do not fall on the ground (and then shatter like in Hexen).
I assume it's just a design decision they made. Falling to the ground would have been cool.
Is there any reason to believe this game will preform better on next gen consoles? The lines have been so blurry lately.
I hope they optimize for the Pro because I'd rather not get an X this close to next gen
I hope they optimize for the Pro because I'd rather not get an X this close to next gen
Ray tracing support has been confirmed, but there's still a question mark over whether it'll make the cut for launch.
That's interesting. Did they say that its not related to Wolfenstein or is it just your guess? I would imagine that they could port some of the work they did on Wolf RTX already and transfer it to Doom Eternal.
I hope RT is more optimized this time. 50% performance hit for just RT reflections is a bit on the heavy side (Control only has a 25% hit with reflections for example)
Does the game have the feature to turn OFF those object highlighters (Green/Red), they break the grim aesthetic immersion.
Oh boy if they stay in the air I'm going to try to use them as platforms like Super Metroid.
I believe so. You can disable a ton of things. I didn't try it, but I suspect you can.
Eh. The rip and tear kind of makes it its own thing, imo, but for sure it's still DOOM
Now I can wait in peace ;)
But it is probably not coming on launch, as always.
Nice to know the delay won't be that long. I'm slightly concerned about performance though given how much more Eternal seems to push the engine.
Dark1x
Great video as usual. You really shine when you do these sort of preview / review videos when it's mixed with the tech side. I imagine you must be sick of console head to heads by now lol but it looks like Tom handles them now leaving Richard to shine on his PC hardware / 'what if' videos and Alex his PC software comparisons.
I'd love to see someone else added to concentrate on Switch, especially as the platform evolves over the coming console generation with improved hardware of it's own leading to many more patches of older first party content and down ports of newer games.
The team is great. Be sure and let Richard know how much we all appreciate his work as he isn't on social media that I know of.
Great video as usual. You really shine when you do these sort of preview / review videos when it's mixed with the tech side. I imagine you must be sick of console head to heads by now lol but it looks like Tom handles them now leaving Richard to shine on his PC hardware / 'what if' videos and Alex his PC software comparisons.
I'd love to see someone else added to concentrate on Switch, especially as the platform evolves over the coming console generation with improved hardware of it's own leading to many more patches of older first party content and down ports of newer games.
The team is great. Be sure and let Richard know how much we all appreciate his work as he isn't on social media that I know of.
