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Digital Foundry: The Last of Us Part 2: PS4 vs PS4 Pro Comparison + Performance Testing + Initial Thoughts!
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Awaiting written summary. I don't want spoilers (I know DF video won't have story spoilers, but I also don't want to see environmental spoilers).
I haven't seen any footage since the B-Roll and don't intend to being so close, can anyone be so kind as to provide a summary?
Framerate is more solid on base Ps4 than Pro.
As someone who plays on a pro at 1080p, this is one of those cases where I wish the game didn't downsample natively and gave me better performance instead rendering at 1080 like many games do. I know the drops are minor but playing this on my pro at 1080p knowing that I would have better framerates playing on a normal Ps4 doesn't feel right at all.
As someone who plays on a pro at 1080p, this is one of those cases where I wish the game didn't downsample natively and gave me better performance instead rendering at 1080 like many games do. I know the drops are minor but playing this on my pro at 1080p knowing that I would have better framerates playing on a normal Ps4 doesn't feel right at all.
Solid performance but PS4 Pro sporadically drops to 27-29 fps for a few seconds when swimming. Base PS4 does not do this. Doesn't seem like a big deal.
I'm on a 4k TV, but yeah, it would be great to have some choice here.
Man, that PS5 reveal has spoiled me.
TLOU II immediately has that "current gen" look to it now that I've seen some of these next-gen titles. Looks amazing but the limitations are quite clear now.
TLOU II immediately has that "current gen" look to it now that I've seen some of these next-gen titles. Looks amazing but the limitations are quite clear now.
Yeah already looks like a a best looking game this gen and seems like there is a lot more to see that they can't talk about or show yet.
Funny how they're not allowed to show the area from the 2018 footage. At least John addressed it and confirmed the game doesn't quite look like that, animation-wise. Richard was asking some good questions tbh, I had forgotten all about the dumpsters and ladders from the original game lol.
I'm not sure much RT could help in this case since it seems to be an aesthetic choice, but I agree that the daytime locations they've shown aren't particularly impressive to behold.
Only around three minutes in, but I think is the first footage I've seen that shows how one can actively go prone in this game. Much of what was shown before almost seemed contextual by nature; tall grass, underneath cars, etc. It's just cool to see it in action as its own separate thing, and it does very much look MGSV in practice. Nice.
Ha. Same here. The PS5 reveal and the unreal engine 5 tech demo really makes you realise where cut backs are made by developers due to limitations of current gen tech.
The minor dips in framerate on the Pro is a bit disappointing.
And to clarify, lowering the resolution to 1080p on the system level wouldn't remedy this, would it?
And to clarify, lowering the resolution to 1080p on the system level wouldn't remedy this, would it?
Written article is up:
www.eurogamer.net
The Last of Us Part 2: performance tested on PlayStation 4 and PS4 Pro
It's become something of a Digital Foundry tradition to pull out all of the stops when a new first-party console exclus…
www.eurogamer.net
You can't measure how loud something is..?
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So they were working under extremely strict embargo guidelines. I hope Sony doesn't pull something hilariously stupid like give Twitch streamers 24+ hour head start and freedom to stream :D
Other than that sounds like technical achievement for current-gen.
I think so! Any enviornment with indirect lighting like the ones in this video will have a big disconnect in lighting between dynamic objects (players, movable physics objects, NPCs, moving geometry like leaves) and the static geometry. Even RT GI would help clean up a lot of the light leak that happens with static light maps when their resolution does not match the detail/thickness of the static geometry.
Oh I really hope this is true across the board and doesn't vary too much system to system 🙏gamersyde did
Agreed. The light leak is probably why I see it as bland. Sorry, not a great word for that but it explains what I mean.
I expect Sony to throw all the PS5 stuff at a patch for TLOU2.
I just finished the original yesterday and think I'm gonna be seeing dreams about those dumpsters and ladders for a long time. I didn't expect to hear about it in a DF video, but thank god they've moved on from constantly reusing those mechanics.
Even though the game appears to be well optimized for the PS4, to be frank the "wait it out until the next console generation" and "a remaster will probably be coming" dread that is prevalent now really gets to me.
Can't help but think that I'm going through FOMO by playing a game like this now when I think the game will be remastered later. I fear of missing out on a better experience on a better console.
Funnily enough the same thing happened with the first TLOU. Game still looks amazing though!
I don't want to be *that* guy, but when they flip between the E32018 trailer and the final game, it seems like lighting took a sizeable hit, like ambient occlusion coverage or GI quality has been reduced somehow.
Not saying "downgrade!!!1111" but yeah.
Not saying "downgrade!!!1111" but yeah.
A lot of things have taken hits along the way.
What they showed few years back was very ambitious and there is reason why people were blown away by it, especially animation work. Ambitious goal that at the end they had to undershoot a bit.
EDIT: Nope, guess not.
I think it would. John mentions that the base PS4 doesn't have those dips, and that if you run the PS4 Pro in 1080p mode, it's identical to the base model in presentation.
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No he said it runs the same either way on Pro because it's still downsampling from 1440p.
I'm abit confused as to why the pro drops FPS at 1440p if the base system can maintain 1080p 30, the pro should be doing better