Tor Frick is an artist at Machinegames, developers of the most recent Wolfenstein titles.
Wccftech talked with Neon Giant's Tor Frick to dive into the implementation of ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS in The Ascent, out today.
The developers also confirmed there's no ray tracing on Xbox Series consoles and there are no plans to add AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution.
Thats strange, on the description page for the game in gamepass, RT is listed.
Maybe cause its also on PC?
In playing it now and it looks beautiful even without RT. It's what Cyberpunk should have been.
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Weird that it lists RT in Gamepass. Also, this game really surprised me graphically. It’s pretty great looking no matter what. 2 solid releases this week for Xbox.
It's not weird because PC also has game pass and the PC version has RT available.
Wccftech interviewed Neon Giant's Arcade Berg and Tor Frick to learn more about The Ascent, one of the most exciting indie games in development.
The developers of The Ascent spoke of Microsoft's approachability. They also discussed their experience with the powerful and easy to develop for Xbox Series X console.
Series x impies straight away that there will be more in the series. Prehaps both higher and lower this time arround.
It does not imply that at all.
Big leap? Wow so big. Easy to develop their top-down game for? Made it so easy for us. Microsoft? Very approachable. Phil Spencer? Wears pants and says nice things. Greenburg? Can eat a bigmac in one bite. Next gen tech? Outstanding.
Don't think I can bring myself to read this cringe.
@sushi
Series (noun)
Definition: a number of things or events of the same class coming one after another in spatial or temporal succession
Sure implies it to those who speak English. They've come out and said the name is just "Xbox" and this one is the Series X version. You figure it out.
@echo
That was from Sony talking to investors in a Corporate Strategy meeting. You know, infomation coming directly from the source itself... Sony.
It wasn't from some no-name Dev getting forced to say something nice about their Overlord Microsoft. It's easy to stop myself getting excited for that.
@ Atom666, does that mean that the next console after that will be Xbox series Y ???
The name sucks man. They could have chosen a better one IMO.
@sushi
Take a break.
Your tone is way too aggressive about something so trivial.
@sushi
Maybe Series Y.
I suspect Series S for lower model. Series C for a streaming only version? Series D for a digital version? It allows for multiple products in the console line for the future.
After this "gen" I would look at something like BMW as their guide for the kind of naming conventions I suspect they'll go with.
It's a different naming method for consoles, but quite normal for many other products (phones, tablets, cars, etc). I'm staring at my wife's Apple Watch Series 3 right now.
If that's MS intent, it usually makes sense to announce what the series part of it all means. Otherwise, they're wasting valuable marketing time that they could be setting up that whole concept now. If they wait too long, it just makes any other offerings seem like they're not part of the master plan.
@rain
Maybe in some circumstances, but in this market they had to lead with the "most powerful" product. Any discussion of weaker-spec'd machines would take focus away from the power narrative they've been pushing for 3+ years.
They might be able to start talking about other versions soon, but for my money, I'd be telling them to keep this solely focused on X for now.
I really want to see more of Hellblade 2. I really enjoyed the game and got 100% completion on PS4 and Xbox.
Hopefully they show some gameplay soon - don't care what build it is - I'm ready to see.
Replies(2)Approachable? That's because Microsoft's desperate for whatever they can get. Does this sway me to get an XboneseX? Nope. Still getting a PS5 at launch.
At this point neither Sony or Microsoft has swayed me.
I am leaning XSX only because of The Ascent. But, that is precarious at best.
Unlike your "I am already going Sony even though I know nothing of what they are offering" approach, I am waiting to see what the real games that are going to be offered are. I have the luxury that I will end up buying both probably. It is just the when that is up for questioning.
Go back 7 years. I guess Sony was desperate for whatever they can get since they courted all those indies and AA's right? Its desperation with MS Fantastic logic....
It's like nobody remembers that launch. Sony didn't just 'have' indies back then, they had an intense interest in cultivating relationships with indie developers and getting their platform out to them. They even had some sort of heart logo dedicated to indies and their devs. So indies were and still are, big for them.
Flower, a PS3 port - that game was even touted - and they were subsequently (and rightfully) taken to the ridicule grinder. Sound Shapes, Resogun (good game) Contrast, Blacklight Retribution, Ho-mother f'n-hokum, and it goes on and on.
The thirst for Microsoft to step up their first party game is real, but using indies to malign the other brand is a double-edged sword argument if there ever was one. Also, technology is getting better and indie games are generally getting better.
They sure are desperate being number 1 company in the world while Sony competes with panpers.
*sees its game* , yeah that's a huuuugeee leap -_-
The custscenes in realtime look effing great not sure why in hell they went Isometric, damn huge opportunity lost there, guess didn't want to create an instant hit.
Maybe they wanted to create an isometric game, it's their decision, you can take it or leave it. How does the player perspective decide what is an "instant hit"?
