It could be. The game is trying to run at 120FPS (if you have that enabled in the system) even if the video output doesn't match, so it can throw the timing off.
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I'll hop on it in a bit and disable the 120hz in my PS5 settings to see if it fixes that aspect for the time being.
I... couldn't really say. Motion blur is the only motion blur we have. We don't have anything else like it in the post processing pipeline (except for the CRT shader, but that's only used in Quake64).
I wouldn't normally be quick the blame the TV, but I don't really have anything else to point at. This might sound silly but do you have an overdrive mode on your display, and if so is it enabled? Because it may have to be at 120Hz. Quake as a lot of motion in its pixels.
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I disabled 120hz in the PS5 settings and I haven't noticed any of the weird frame hitches in the gameplay in my brief time messing around w/ it compared to when I had it enabled.
I'll just patiently await the 120 fix.
I'll just patiently await the 120 fix.
I just messed with it some more. It's definitely not my TV. It only happens when I'm moving and looking around at the same time. If I'm just moving things are fine and if I'm just looking around things are fine but the combination of the two makes everything almost look like a 3D TV image without 3D glasses on. It also takes a few seconds of moving around for it to happen. Things are good for like the first five seconds but after that it goes bad and then it's immediate after I move and look around. Important to note that the gun is always fine and I have bobbing turned on so that's moving.
The problem is you're describing this as blurring so I'm not actually sure what you're seeing at all, because there is no kind of blurring post process that occurs if you have motion blur off. It's worth noting that Quake isn't actually running at 120hz, we can't do that without the physics breaking, but we do interpolate the game world and camera. Maybe you're seeing something that is updating at 60hz without any interpolation? But I'm not really sure what that could be or why you're seeing it as some apparent "blurring". There's only so much I can do with that description, unfortunately.
A video showing off this blur, if at all possible, might be the key. Maybe use a high speed camera (they tend to be on phones now)?
Also, do you get this if you play with a mouse and keyboard instead?
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At certain turning angles while moving I noticed some double image looking stuff when looking at items etc. Like slowly strafe circling around a corpse or whatever it looks like it's kinda shaking. But it's pretty subtle. I just turned on motion blur which looks really good at 120hz. That eliminated it.
I don't know about mouse and keyboard. Here's a video. Not the best quality but wait until it stops at the end and you can see the blur clear up.
Did you by some chance turn interpolations off in the display options? I know that sounds unrelated but go with me on this. And unfortunately no sorry, I don't notice anything in particular in that video, it's not obvious what I'm supposed to be seeing.
Edit: Okay maybe I almost see it? But I'm still not quite sure what that is. This probably needs better analysis with tools neither of us have, unfortunately. Though I still want to know if using a keyboard/mouse and the interpolation modes have any affect for you.
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Arcane Dimensions uses a lot of content from Hexen II and other games, including textures, meshes, sounds, etc. You would have to redo a huge chunk of the mod in order to remove all the content that originated from other games.
Interpolation is on. I've turned everything on and off in the settings. The only thing that fixes the issue is setting the console back to only displaying 60Hz.
I'll see if I can get a better upload on YouTube for you. I took the video at 4K60 and it's easy to see on my phone.
Downloaded the PC version via Gamepass, and surprise surprise, it looks nigh identical to the Switch release.
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Were they supposed to look different? I'm not sure why this is a surprise. :V
Nah, I'm just used to PC versions of games looking noticeably better than Switch versions, it just a bit funny for it not to be the case for a change.
It's Quake, the game was made in 1996, how much better could it look? :P
We've found an edge case with the controller where the interpolation wasn't being stored and overridden properly when gamepad inputs were sampled, only with the mouse. It's not something that can be submitted in a hotfix so it'll take a while to be deployed, but if you turn out not to be having the issue with a mouse and keyboard, that might be the problem?
Actually that can't be it because the same issue shows up in the demo which obviously has no input. Also the more I play around with it I'm noticing the models not interpolating right either. They get jerky but not like no interpolation jerky.
The demo isn't a reliable test subject, given it's just a replay of network commands from the DOS v1.09 Quake. It doesn't even know what interpolation is, and I think it wasn't even recorded at 60FPS.
They aren't input recordings like Doom had, they are actually a recording of what a client receives from the server, the true client state isn't known.
Testing the game with a mouse and keyboard would be a better approach.
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The new XSX patch with 120fps is great. The interpolation is occasionally a little noticeable when moving quickly (thought it was motion blur at first) but it still looks miles and miles better than 60fps. And feels way better to play.
Well it obviously can run at a higher resolution than Switch and supports 120fps. Not sure what else the differences would be on a remaster of such an old game.
It is still Quake 1, the only difference would be the added resolution and framerate on the Series X and PC, compared to the Switch.
Every single other thing would look the same, and since it already runs at a high enough resolution and framerate on the Switch, of course the contrast isn't as big as other games.
What were you expecting?
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I played with 8 bots for a while yesterday, put them on Hard, then immediately dropped them down to Normal.
They are fun, but they all behave like they are on crack with jerky motions (constant left-right straffing in the same place, etc.) It was funny though.
Jesus I forgot about those insanely stupid 'wildly bouncing explosive blob' enemies in the last episode. They finally introduce a new enemy and it's this thing.
The enemy itself isn't bad enough, the name they gave it is… more than problematic.
Can't you just mute the pad? There's a dedicated button to that.
Just tried it, nothing. I'm pretty sure that's just for voice chat.
Downloaded the PS5 version - didn't really get far in the PS4 version as the controller aim felt so off.
My god is it so much better now. Default settings feel perfect to me - a complete night & day feeling when I booted it up for the first time.
My god is it so much better now. Default settings feel perfect to me - a complete night & day feeling when I booted it up for the first time.
Press PS button->Sound->Controller Speaker. Sorry we don't have an ingame option for it, the feature was kinda hacked into the vibration functions so we didn't really have any easy ways to add customization to it in a cross-platform friendly way.
Ok, good to know it's 4K120Hz, because the release notes mentioned those parts separately. Naturally in this era of compromises, I assumed it'd be one or the other.
I had some stutter in the starter hub area, but at least in the first few levels, it's been a perfect 120. PS5, LG CX here as well.
I gotta say 120 fps on the CX is amazing. That OLED pixel response time makes it look near perfect in motion. Even better than my PC monitor at 180hz.
- Plug Xbox into a 120hz TV.
- Set video output to 120hz in the system video settings.
- There is no step 3. You don't even need to relaunch the game if it's already running (the game watches for display change events and sets the framerate accordingly).
Does anyone know what the default controls are/were? With the controller improvements I'd like to start from there and make tweaks and can't remember what they were originally set to on Switch
Holy shit is Dimension Of The Past difficult compared to the base game. I just beat the game on Hard on PS5 and went into Dimension Of The Past and I'm getting crushed. I hate to be that person too but...I really don't like the type of difficulty I think? Feels like way less ammo and weapons vs. larger amount of bullet-sponge enemies. It's something I'm not particularly a fan of in the base game compared to Doom to begin with, the fact that even the basic chainsaw/grenade monsters take so much damage, but damn, it's ramped up to 10 here.
That being said, the level design so far is really damn good so I'll get used to it!
On a sidenote, it's cool just how much the Reznor soundtrack creates Quake's massive sense of dread. I tried playing the first two expansions (I think?) and the soundtrack being so different made the game feel just kind of goofy in comparison. The claustrophobic and evil atmosphere is one of my favorite things about Quake.
That being said, the level design so far is really damn good so I'll get used to it!
On a sidenote, it's cool just how much the Reznor soundtrack creates Quake's massive sense of dread. I tried playing the first two expansions (I think?) and the soundtrack being so different made the game feel just kind of goofy in comparison. The claustrophobic and evil atmosphere is one of my favorite things about Quake.
Yeah, Dimensions of the Past is definitely stingier.
With the base game, they seemed to shower you with health packs so there was a pretty constant ebb and flow when it came to your health. With DotP, there seemed to be longer stretches where my health would just go down and down with no chance to boost it.
I also found that with the base game I tended to have a surplus of rockets if worse came to worse, while in DotP I had a couple instances where I actually went down to just the axe.
It's definitely a different experience. Less Doom and more Dark Souls, kinda.
