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Proof that the FF7 Remake texture issues are a technical problem after all (
- Thread starter Ignis
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There is, but there's some other modifications to make the game really hard (no items and no MP recovery on benches) so I guess that's why it wasn't available from the start. Also, the game on normal picks up on difficulty after more options are given to the player.
This game was announced in 2015. They had all the time to produce a quality product before the pandemic even started to affect office jobs.
Wish they had dedicated time to fix these issues instead of a demo or bloating the game with unnecessary content to stretch playtime for example. The direction chose to accept them.
With that said, it is not a big deal of a bug.
Haha, this kinda looks like you threw a high quality character model into a pre-rendered background from the original game.
Not that hard mode is really THAT hard since it's basically a new game plus, so you'll easily compensate the difficulty change.
I wish it was more like a DMC hard with more enemies instead of the same game.
Too bad about the texture bug btw, the whole sectors looks just dreadful, especially Aerith garden near her house, it looks bad even for early PS3 standard...
The situation hit Japan in January. I know for a fact that certain devs started WFH in late January/ early February. Do you know there is a little problem with networking from home in Japan for some people due to not actually having proper equipment nor a proper internet connection since WFH isn't very big here and Japan is woefully ill equipped for it.
I suspect that such bugs would of been ironed out in a patch or two but given the situation I can understand why there may be a delay.
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Texture streaming certainly has seem problematic in past.
In new UE4 versions we have virtual texture support, so we may see better streaming with less memory used in future.
What other Unreal Engine games NEVER load the higher quality versions of assets?
That's how the texture streaming is supposed to work. I'm guessing for the infamous examples like Cloud's apartment door there's a particular execution error where a higher quality texture is never loaded for it, or it can't be in time and it just gives up and sticks with the low quality one. There could be any number of reasons for this happening.
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You're right
let's just close this thread and the entire gaming section of this forum. We should all get our priorities straight and honker down to the pandemic thread and not talk about any gaming related stuff
Having a AAA game without a single patch since launch definitely seems unusual nowadays
Yep. It's the same issue again and again.
Unreal Engine has well known texture streaming issues. Happens all the time. Hidden Agenda, Days Gone, Man of Medan, etc. etc.
Slow texture streaming is one thing. Consistently never loading a particular texture, no matter the circumstances is something different entirely.
It kinda is. Still, streaming texutres is a well known problem with Unreal. Therefore my post.
Even assuming it's the same thing (and I disagree it is), it could have still been fixed and it sucks that it hasn't.
Article that Tetsuya Nomura had with Famitsu, talking about the engine switch due to rendering issues: https://www.polygon.com/2014/10/7/6938125/kingdoms-hearts-3-unreal-engine-4
I actually expected a day 1 patch.... and it never came. Should be fixable and I think it will be fixed. Long overdue.
Damn if only Square had hired some of the people in this thread to bug fix their game from home... sounds like the game would've been even better than what Square Enix could put out at 100% of their capacity...
Hope there is an official patch to bug fix this. It's noticeable. But didn't take the shine of the game from me.
Hope there is an official patch to bug fix this. It's noticeable. But didn't take the shine of the game from me.
I dunno, I feel like we can recognize making games is hard while still wanting the game to look properly but who knows
Given that all the other SE teams have figured out how to work remotely in less time than the month and a half since this game released, and are able to push out updates and content despite that, is not an excuse to handwave away the complete silence and lack of acknowledgement of the issues from SE's side on this, nor the time spent before the game came out (before pandemic warnings and stuff even were treated seriously in japan) after it went gold when they're usually working on such things as day 1 patches, yet here we are almost 2 months later and nothing. This is not getting fixed, they have no reason to.
Edit: This isn't even their first try with UE4. They had devs also working on KH3, a game with none of the texture issues seen in this game.
Right.
I understand there's a pandemic going on but this was a known issue to them long before the game was released and they chose not to acknowledge the issue in anyway. Square Enix like most developers ship games when they still have visual issues/imbalances however, with their track record of bad choices handling engines or whatever the issue is I doubt they'll go back and fix it like other developers would. Atleast not for this version of the game. Obviously this is an important game for a lot of people and wouldn't stop people's enjoyment because the game is amazing but on that same note I think it's totally reasonable for people to be just as annoyed as the finished product could have/should have been represented better, especially one of this magnitude.
Yeah this is definitely a strange bug, it's so inconsistent, it's most apparent in sector 7, sector 5 looks better.
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Ehhhh, you'd be surprised how much fucky stuff UE4 does, especially with texture streaming and compression. A lot of which you cannot identify until everything is assembled and working together near end of production, which then causes a lot of issues in trying to fix said issues once identified too late.
Literally one character adjustment or texture scale can cause UE4 to down-sample even important textures. They could have just added another trinket on Clouds belt that then fucked with all the environments, but then the directors prioritize character streaming so its ignored or too tricky to fix.
Unreal is not as friendly as a lot of people like to think it is.
The whole conversation around this issue is so asinine. The level of perfection people expect from developers combined with the absolute lack of empathy (note the race in this thread and elsewhere to point fingers, call devs inept, blame UE4, etc) is very frustrating to see. It's puddlegate all over again.
But tweeting that can potentially lead to fans asking everyday when the patch's going to drop or demanding they hurry up with the patch, when probably the current situation has fucked up all internal schedules they had.
I think they're probably working on a patch, but far slower than they would in normal times, and with no ETA in sight.
Hard mode was brutal especially the optional bosses. I clocked 22 hours on normal and finished hard mode at around 80 with plat.
Havent followed this game at all but just watching the DF footage Back at release it seemed like an obvious bug where textures werent properly loading.
These. They should've delayed the game.
I kinda wish this was a visual mode you could unlock for everything.
are the really bad backgrounds also a bug? You know the extremely noticeable ones when your climbing the wall..........that shit is very bad looking
Hard mode wasn't too bad, i think my save was clocked 60 hours to plat. The optional arena bosses were super easy......because you didn't have to manage MP as much.............outside of the bosses actually hard mode was extremely dumb. They killed half the game basically......save mana and boss rush as much as you can. I wasn't very impressed and was happy when the platinum hunt was over so i could go back to actually enjoying the game on normal.
Hard mode wasn't too bad, i think my save was clocked 60 hours to plat. The optional arena bosses were super easy......because you didn't have to manage MP as much.............outside of the bosses actually hard mode was extremely dumb. They killed half the game basically......save mana and boss rush as much as you can. I wasn't very impressed and was happy when the platinum hunt was over so i could go back to actually enjoying the game on normal.
Unfortunate that this bug is here, but it definitely won't be an issue for the PC release of the game. So excited for that
*Fixed an issue where converstations takes several seconds to start by having the player install an SSD in their PS4.
Jokes aside, I think this is another streaming issue due to the low speeds of the HDD.
This whole issue is really blown out of proportion. Yeah, it's an issue, but it's a minor one. The game still looks gorgeous the majority of the time, and it's a top tier game for this gen. Hopefully it gets addressed, but I can't help but roll my eyes at everyone acting like it's game ruining. This isn't Bethesda shipped level of issues.
This has never been a problem before in their previous games. It all sounds too conviniently if that's the case.
Hopefully a patch is coming in the near future. It's hard to believe this game didn't launch with a day one patch.