Dying Light Graphics Improved In Latest Update On The PS4

GearNuke: "Dying Light graphics seem to have been improved in latest update on the PS4."

[moegooner88]

Why don't the devs release the game optimized for any given platform in the first place, we have to wait for patches to arive one month post launch, when the majority would have finished the game.

[DarkLordMalik]

Sadly they are too busy rushing the game to fit in their fiscal year or holidays. They barely care about the quality.

[Jughead3416]

This is why I respect developers like Naughty Dog who actually does care about the quality of their games. Their name means something to them. They are widely considered to be the best in the business, not just because they make beautiful games, but also because of the quality they're known for.

[kraenk12]

I generally agree....I don't think we can blame Techland for anything on Dying Light though.

[GameNameFame]

PS4 was already a better version with higher res, better frame, no tears, better texture according to Digital Foundry.
http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

I really do not see those gaps disappearing. It seems to be only increasing. Even with those all those "power and API upgrades" on X1.

[LamerTamer]

Which is why these consoles are useless without an internet connection or a slow one. So much for not being always online. The problem is also even if you are online you can't backup these patches. So if you need to uninstall for space and then want to play again at a later date you need to re-download gigs of patches AGAIN even though you already did it at one time which is IDIOTIC (and when the patches are no longer online you are stuck with a busted game forever)!

[deadpoolio316]

Really....Cause no only was Dying light not rushed out it was delayed a couple of different times.....And launched in JAN 2015

It has more to do with Dying light was originally being developed for PS3/360/PS4/XB1/PC...So it was always going to be gimped being on last gen consoles...

Cancelling the PS3/360 versions was NEVER going to do anything for the PS4/Xb1 versions, unless they scrapped the game and started over...

Until the cross gen stuff goes away everything is going to look worse on current gen consoles...On top of the fact that this was also made by an almost less than mediocre developer, whose games already kinda look like ass Dead Island and DI: Riptide looked like crap

[Meltic]

no beacuse they delayed the game twice. They had time to rush and optimize the game.... this is just laziness of a polish Company.

[UKmilitia]

the game was awesome from day one.
dont even know why people are moaning

[dantesparda]

Why are you people complaining about them actually fixing the AF and making the LOD a tab bit better? When they are the only ones so far to actually fix the AF issue. Nobody else has. So we should be praising them not giving them sh't. The PS4 should not even be having a AF issue, yet game after game, after game has had the problem now. We need to speak up and hold these devs feet to the fire and make sure they at least use 8x AF.

Here are some pics for those that don't know
http://www.neogaf.com/forum...

And one of the worst cases I've seen is DMC.

[Crueltylizer]

Its usually not the developers, but the publishers that rushes titles out the door even if the developers don't think the game is ready.

Its become even worse since consoles went online and patches where easy to deploy.

That way the developers could, with time, get to the point they thought the game should be at.

Case in point they are still working on the graphics on the console version of Dying Light.

If you are to blame someone blame Warnerbros.

And you cannot compare Uncharted with Dying light. Uncharted is a well known exclusive franchise, which means they have a lot more wiggle room with Sony to delay the game.

[NovusTerminus]

In Dying Lights defence, it was not broken at release. They are just improving it, but it was already well functioning and pretty game.

[dRanzer]

The coop was broken on the ps4

[vishmarx]

the ps4 version was missing af.
its not exactly broken, but adding af isnt an improvement. its a fix for a problem thats been known for over a month .other than that co op crashed the game frequently and some trophies were bugged.also you couldn't level up to max.

[hello12]

vishmarx@ Whoever wrote this took those pictures from Neogaf and they were put on gaf by some random poster

How does random screenshots suddenly become confirmation the PS4 graphics have improved? Those screenshots could be images got from anywhere.

Dying light devs improved AF i have not seen confirmation of that from techland! Neogaf has a thread up for weeks now and not one person with insider knowledge has come forward to explain the lack of AF on PS4.

Until we hear something back the problem is ongoing. Neogaf are very bad at investigating they are claim Af is only missing with multiplats i went and looked at the DF tech review of the the order 1886 and they said AF was missing also.

[vishmarx]

@knws

I know it because I have the game.
and I can see the af that was missing earlier

[ziggurcat]

@KNWS

http://www.reddit.com/r/PS4...

"One of the patch notes mentions "improvements in world and character art." I'm totally unsure, but the locations feel more complete and better dressed with props. There seem to more lighting sources, or at least the existing ones have been tweaked to better showcase the environments"

there you go.

and here:

http://www.ibtimes.co.in/dy...

[N8]

Yeah I'm surprised to see what some people are saying in here. I didn't have a problem with dying light.

[GarrusVakarian]

@KNWS

Jesus Christ, your comment is just embarrassing. You have no idea what you're talking about and the denial seeping out of you is obvious from a mile away.

Both LoD and AF have been improved on the PS4 version of Dying Light. Deal with it. There have been numerous before and after shots from people on GAF who own the PS4 version proving it. But it's not surprising that you're on here doubting the source of those pictures when everyone else knows they were just posted by regular people who own the game. I think if these graphical improvements were coming to the X1 version you'd accept them no questions asked. Lol.

And no, The Order is not "missing" AF, it has AF, it's just not 16x. It has 4x AF at least. Get your facts straight before commenting.

And I think it's pretty sad how you lurk GAF. You don't own a PS4, you don't like Sony, you don't like Sony fans, you don't like Sony games...yet you lurk one of the most Sony-friendly sites on the internet, in Sony/PS4 threads, spend so much time researching and and looking into PS4 games and their issues, and comment in almost every Sony/PS4 articles that are posted here on N4G. You have serious issues, man. What the hell is wrong with you? You must be pretty damn disappointed in your X1. You may as well just buy a PS4, at least then all of your PS4-centric internet habits will make sense. Lmao.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

"We've made a great number of improvements to the game's performance, the gameplay balance, online functions, VISUAL FIDELITY, and more"

But yeah...you stay in denial about the PS4 version being improved even further over the X1 version. Almost a year and a half after launch and you're still the most delusional guy on this site. You must be having a great generation. Lol.

[Revolver_X_]

Online crashes are new to me. While my friend dropped occasionally, he does have shotty internet. I didn't notice any crashes or bugs in the online during my 50 logged hours. Although the trophy bugs are very annoying.

[samchez77]

The PC version was horrendously broken. especially for those with an AMD CPU. Still not fully fixed yet.....and linux users had to wait weeks to even be able to play it about 15fps. It was the biggest mess in a long time for PC.

[WitWolfy]

Too bad the campaign is next to non existent.

[PygmelionHunter]

Because we keep buying those incomplete games. The only mistake I made last year was getting Dragon Age Inquisition at launch. Had to wait for a couple of patches to be able to get past a bug in the game, and still the game has plenty of bugs.

This is why I usually wait around a year to buy multiplatform games. First party games is "usually" where it's at. Retro Studios and Naughty Dog are good examples of what a developer should aim to be. Atlus is also well known for quality games.

[TardcoreGamer]

You mentioned ND. I remember Uncharted 3 had a major issue with aiming which wasn't fixed til a little while after launch. By then most people who played at launch had completed the story.

[PygmelionHunter]

@TardcoreGamer

I don't remember that. Don't remember much about U3 as it was my least favorite of the franchise.

Were the aiming problems related to the online mode? I always despised how they spent development time on a tacked on multiplayer mode that wasn't even that good to begin with.

[Palitera]

@TardcoreGamer
There was a different mechanic for aiming in the beginning. One I hated, but definitely not a bug. It was a choice and soon they added the option to use "classic" aiming speeds and accelerations.

[x_RadicalAura_x]

Driveclub and Halo MCC would beg to differ, genius.

[UltraNova]

Uncharted's MP tacked on?

Hahahaha thanks for the laugh! Look dude, I almost hate MP games but Unch's MP was a blast and a tad different than your run of the mill shooter MP modes.

Even then the words 'Naughty Dog' and 'tacked on' dont go together and you should have know as much by now.

[RocketScienceLvlStuf]

This is awesome. It was already much better than the xbone version.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Well its because optimization happens over time. It something that is difficutly to just do day 1, as to way any OS you install will keep getting patched to be better and better.

Imagine if the game is as good as they can make it, then released.

It can ALWAYS be better, fixes can always happen and I for one actually feel its not really worth the wait.

Consider we got a patch last year for Red Dead Redemption...

I feel its wrong if the game is unplayable, but this is really not the case.

Anything can always become better and fixes can always happen even years after release.

Look at TF2, HL, portal etc. On PC, Valve has fixed and updated sooooo many things.

Doesn't mean its broken at launch, doesn't mean its perfect either.

No game can actually launch "perfect" as fixes happen over the course of years.

This patch I don't feel is a bad thing as they might have not known they can get a little more out of the PS4 without sacrificing quality.

[MEGANE]

At least they care! Some othe developers wont even bother

[Haru]

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[Bill_Willson_CIA]

"Why don't the devs release the game optimized for any given platform in the first place..."

Because portability and efficiency are kind of opposite poles.

If you make your code too efficient for a specific machine,it will run better but it will be a hell to port for different machines.

If you make your code too portable,it is easy to port for different machines,but it runs like shit everywhere.

Third parties usually release multiplatforms games,which means portability is king.

Of course,in the ideal world,where devs do care about doing a good job,they would find a soft spot between portability and efficiency.That is not the case of most of them though...

[Sirlancealot]

I said this is what's killing gaming; this post patch/dlc. It makes better business sense for devs to release patches and get their games out early as possible. it lessens the dev cost and patching a game after its release is a cheaper for them. But for us gamers we end up with these horrible performing games which are not complete so devs wait for our feedback. Then make tweeks to remove or add features. I hate it.

[mochachino]

I'm not complaining about patches that improve graphics.

[samchez77]

Pressure from publisher's to meet deadlines also has a lot to do with it. Day One patches also annoys the sh*t out of pirates too.

Good game.........but teh real horror story is the PC version.

[starchild]

Can't disagree with that. Still, better graphics is always nice.

[holin4]

i think pre-ordering has a lot to do, when there are a lot of people that already bought the game... they have to give them what they "promised" (they dont cause they give us an unfinished game)

[ZombieKiller]

@Moegooner:

Why don't the devs release the game optimized for any given platform in the first place?

Because everyone has to have it right now.

The birth of the Shark Card....

[Christopher]

Whoa whoa whoa whoa! Whoa!

Where do you get off telling a major group of developers that they should do their job? Huh? Are you a developer? Do you know how hard it is to push out an unfinished game?

I didn't think so!

Until you develop a game yourself, don't try acting like you know how a game should be released.

/s <--- if you didn't know this, I worry for you

[GUTZnPAPERCUTZ]

Same on X1 as well after "Hard Mode" update. It looks like the Texture detail/draw distance is better when playing after the update.

[MRMagoo123]

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

[Volkama]

Why is that so hard to believe? Why would Techland work on improving the PC and PS4 versions, but just leave the Xbox version untouched?

I don't have the Xbox version, but it seems reasonable to think it probably received similar efforts to optimise the game after it launched.

[MRMagoo123]

@volkama

Even if there was a slight rumour that it may have upgraded graphics wise there would be 40 articles by now claiming the "tides had changed" so I have no reason to believe it, along with the fact the manager at my local EB games that I know very well has told me he cant see any difference in the game besides the documented changes to the xbone version, his colleague who I might add is a hardcore xbox fan has also confirmed he cant see any changes.

[curtis92]

@Volkama, comparison shots between ps4 & xb1 with dying light were too identical if you ask me. This tells me they went back in and made the ps4 version perform more in line with what it's capable of, which would naturally leave the xb1 version inferior. I realize that sounds very fanboyish to say, but but we saw it last gen with how 360 games 99.9% of the time ran and looked better than ps3. Same this gen, just flipped.

[theXtReMe1]

Any developer that would go back months after release and make these adjustments, knowing that 90% of the people playing probably won't even notice, is a developer that actually cares about the quality of their game. Totally amazing in this day and age, given that most developers would just move on to the next project and not give a second thought to making adjustments, especially visually, on the game they released months before.

We need more developers like Techland.

[FullmetalRoyale]

Well said. I took a break when my friend and I got to the second area, having already sunk in about thirty hours.
I'm sure we will notice the difference as soon as we go back to playing it.

[Randostar]

Bubble for you sir.
People are comparing techland to naughty dog for some strange reason. Naughty Dog games run perfectly on PS because thats all they are on. The fact of the matter is that the devs actually spent time making this game better after it was released, How many multi plat games get better graphics with updates? Techland is a great dev, and it really shows in Dying light.

[ironmonkey]

no such thing as perfect guys.

[angelsx]

Too late.I already sold the game.It was to boring for me.

[deaddragonz]

Awesome! I do like the game, but it gets me dizzy and feeling sick.

[sparta76]

Me too I need too take long breaks.

[purp13m0nk3y]

Gives me a headache after a long play session. I put it down to the eye fatigue. It's only a problem with some games.

For example I can play TLOUR for 4-5hrs straight and still feel fresh. More than 90mins of Dying Light and I have a massive migraine.

[deaddragonz]

I think the tilting camera angles is what gets me. I got about half way through the story though.

[S2Killinit]

well i guess thats good news for those of us who haven't played it yet. Luckily I'm one of them (: Maybe this summer I'll have the time.

[purp13m0nk3y]

The LOD draw in was pretty poor tbh. But the game was for the most part well polished and more importantly heaps of fun.

I applaud the devs for going that extra yard. EA and Ubisoft take note. This is how you support your install base. Makes me want to support Techlands next project too.

[BinaryMind]

Tighten up the graphics on level 4.

[JamesBondage]

looks more like the pc version.. already got bored with it though, the gunplay is lacking and theres only so many times i can chop a zombie in half

[Maxor]

I can't see the difference from tiny ass screens.

[Volkama]

Somebody provide this man some screenshots of some big asses, stat!

[Simco876]

I can't wait to play this game when it goes 9.99 in like three years. Looks fun!

[Ken85]

More like 3 months

[Simco876]

Is it that bad?

[Ken85]

No it's not bad, but kind of mid tier AAA games run out of steam quickly. No ones going to be thinking about dying light 3 months from now so it'll probably go on $10 or so sale to sell a couple of copies.

[LuckyChamCham]

Good to know