GM writes: Three years later, its sequel Crysis 2 is about to be released in a month, but – there is a huge crisis the publisher EA and the developer Crytek have to face before that; an early BETA build of the game has been leaked for PC.
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YouTube’s members ‘Digital Dreams’ and ‘Jose cangrejo’ have shared some videos, showcasing Pascal Gilcher’s Reshade mod – which adds Ray Tracing/Path Tracing effects – in some really old games such as Star Wars The Force Unleashed, Crysis 2, RAGE and Resident Evil 6.
I'm still learning how to look for the differences. At first I was focusing on shadows for some reason but I don't think that changes much, is it reflections that change?
It is supposed to be simulating how light actually works- so yes if light is reflecting off a surface accurately it should show reflection or an effect that matches what you are looking at in the environment. Next time you play a game look at a puddle of water there may be just a "baked" in texture that if you aren't paying attention seems like it is reflecting but it isn't. I would say though if the light is reflecting more accurately I would think that would give more accurate shadows as well.
I am still not 100% sold on it- it looks okay but I can't get over the hardware price jump for better reflections..
While games won't look immensely better, it opens up more possibilities overall. Understandably, the price jump is huge. But, that can be said for being at the forefront for any new technology. I'm currently using a 2080ti and while I've played a few games that enable it, the gpu also plays everything else incredibly well so it's not like you're buying this tech for ONLY that option. Enthusiasts will pay top dollar to check out the newest things, but this will eventually become an everyday consumer and by then they'll have optimized and become a lot cheaper.
Ray/path tracing can be used how the developer wants it to be. Tracing can be used to calculate shadows/lighting, reflection and even audio, where audio waves are calculated on the bounce off material types to simulate enviroment and echos accuratly.
Should also keep in mind that this ray/path tracing system is different and less accurate option from Nvidias RTX branded type. McFly's is a reshade that layers over the top of the game and therefor the quality will vary drastically. For example you can see nice reflection in the Star Wars demo here but it then introduces colour clipping with the light saber. On a video of GTA 5 for example it was incorrectly projecting a reflection of a red car onto the road which caused a very faint red glow on the ground around the car.
If you want to see a good example of a game developed with ray tracing reflection and lighting in mind then you could look up the youtube video of "Control - Exclusive E3 RTX GAMEPLAY Trailer".
It supposed to add more realistic light Not actually more light effects and explosions
I hate to say it but I’m fine with fake lights, shadows, reflections. I just kind of like the effect, it’s also great it saves resources for other things.
I’ve been checking out some original Xbox games on x360/x1x and the engine has fake light streaming in through a stained glass window, and I love it even though I know it’s not real time lighting. Heck it even shifts as I move about.
I’ve about convinced my self rt and hdr just doesn’t work for me. Before hdr I would even complain damn why are the headlights killing me they are so bright.
I notice most frame rate, then jaggies, then resolution; with the last two interchangeable depending.
Other day watched an enthusiast rave over 4k and the poor guy was in 1080p. I played the same game the night before and thought wow this is clean, I wonder if it’s 4k, but knew differently and I thought wow even resolution is not always important. The next day he apologized and was surprised he could be fooled.
How come the lightsabers don't give off any light? Even in the EA star wars game the guy uses it to light up a dark cave. I guess if it is using frostbite it will support rtx cards.
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Crytek deserves your money, the fate of PC gaming depends upon your choice.
People are still going to buy this game. Sounds like a bunch of white knight elitist losers trying to rally the troops. What people fail to realise is that Crytek leaked this - not 'hackers' or 'pirates', Crytek did it.
And employee actively released the files. It was an internal build - fuck even the cut scenes label it that - and their networks are top of the line to prevent shit like this. Before you go pointing the finger, look at Crytek/EA and their involvement in the situation.
If anything its helped the game in some ways, I cancelled my pre-order after seeing the gameplay vids on youtube and i instead pre-ordered the Nano edition because I want something physical to represent the crysis universe in my room because when I seen that footage it blew me away and I had to have the best version of the game possible!
Also the guy who uploaded the vids and has the pirated version still said hes going to buy the full game upon release.
in a way we gamers needed to see some raw uncut gameplay which isnt come scripted stage demo. it makes the gameplay look 100 times better when its somebody just playing the game having fun.
IMO it will only boost sales for the game on consoles especially because people are checking these videos out and the comments are all saying it looks amazing.
I feel like a beta tester when I play the beta, even though I know all of these problems will (probably) be fixed. There are obvious ones like f**ked up animations, enemy AI weirdness and frozen ragdolls, but there are stuff that I fear could accidently make it to the final game, like the fact that in one cutscene you can press 'A' to essentially restart it over and over because of the way the scene is structured (the 'A' button is a quicktime event which initiates a little scene, but during the scene you can press 'A' and re-initiate the scene).
Fun stuff.
The problem is that since the game got leaked, it is going to be delayed 2-4 more weeks. This is to re-make a masterkey and to redo disk pressing(which is probably 1-2 weeks in already) so that there wont be any hackers on the PC multiplayer. Without that process, the multiplayer will be full of hackers day 1.
So lets all say thank you to the douche who leaked the info...