Something they seem to insist on is not updating the Horse / Mount Animations. It's less obvious here as the Horse has "Armour" on it but the Horse Animations look just as janky here as they have been for years

@ryanadolfi4007

12 күн бұрын

See THIS is a complaint I agree with. I always thought the horses in the recent games have looked super odd.

@Neb_Raska

11 күн бұрын

The entire video looks choppy/stuttery

@TommyBull2

11 күн бұрын

Better than ronin

@alexdoan273

10 күн бұрын

they don't even have door opening animation, door just slides open when the player presses the interact button

@theninjamaster67

7 күн бұрын

@@alexdoan273 Personally I don't see that as an issue I'd rather be through doors as fast as possible especially in a game series like Assassin's Creed which the games are known to be pointlessly long if I'm being real honest (those games are more padded than an American football player). At most having an animation where he reaches for the door and it opening would be a good compromise cause animation short hand isn't a bad thing imo for instance the looting animation in the Last of Us 1 was just Joel reaching in the direction of an item and it automatically being put in your inventory yah it's not realistic but games need to strike a balance between realism and fun and sitting waiting for an animation to finish is not fun in a game that's hundreds of hours like an Assassin's Creed game.

Missed opportunity to add raytraced shadows to AC Shadows.

@xtr.7662

12 күн бұрын

ye at least on pc

@mruczyslaw50

12 күн бұрын

And change the name to Assassin's Creed Ray-Traced Shadows, excellent marketing plan

@deinnachname6374

12 күн бұрын

@@mruczyslaw50 We can have a Global Illumination one for once they do per pixel GI and the plot is something about the templers wanting to illuminate everyone or some shit

@gavinderulo12

12 күн бұрын

​@@xtr.7662we could still see it on pc. But imo the lack of RT shadows was also my biggest gripe with frontiers of pandora.

@yaminub

12 күн бұрын

It'll be on the PC version this time, I'm pretty sure. Won't see a PC-specific trailer until Sept/Oct, though.

It just looks so mass-produced, I don't know how else to describe it. Assassin's Creed just feels like a Mcdonalds cheeseburger, you buy one and it's exactly what you remember every time, it's fine but it's also kind of sad somehow.

@chilly6470

12 күн бұрын

That's a good description.

@gavinderulo12

12 күн бұрын

That's what AAA gaming is today. There is no other way to risk hundreds of millions worth of budget if you can't address the largest possible audience.

@uselesscommodity9634

12 күн бұрын

apt description

@gothpunkboy89

12 күн бұрын

Mass produced can describe every game.

@Pako9713

12 күн бұрын

Generic games

Whatever they did with AC Untiy, they should just take the time and try it again

@reddeadghostxx

12 күн бұрын

Literally - Unity followed by Syndicate is impeccable quality

@DrMistycal

12 күн бұрын

@@reddeadghostxx Syndicate was a step back They should take their time and make an actual good game

@DravenxEyeless

12 күн бұрын

@@reddeadghostxx Unity is full baked lightning, which is why it looks so great. Once they went with dynamic time of day, that was out of the window.

@aqilardi5266

12 күн бұрын

​@@reddeadghostxxsyndicate was boring

@augustoch.7341

12 күн бұрын

Unity looks good because its all baked.

Object motion blur: Please. Camera motion blur: Please don't.

@erisium6988

12 күн бұрын

object motion blur is horrible - especially in modern age with dlss and frame gen - there is ghosting in games already - which is so fucking dumb when every new screen now is ghosting free and most people play on oled - yet nvidia dont care to fix it

@Sneakyboson

12 күн бұрын

subtle camer motion blur if playing at 30fps makes it look less choppy to me.

@pinktuna3693

12 күн бұрын

@@erisium6988 "most people play on OLED" is a severe overstatement brother

@Soulintent95

12 күн бұрын

Camera blur is fine when you are stuck at 30fps. Especially in the 4k age. 4k makes 30fps games look like puke. But, the motion blur has to be good. I prefer a slider for that. God of war 2018 had the best.

@inscapeproextreme4017

12 күн бұрын

​@@erisium6988 imagine being this dense. Ghosting is not fully fixable in these solutions. If you could predict what is behind uncovered pixel the way it works now, that would be last of your problems, given free will wouldn't exist anymore. You trade image quality for performance. Secondly, ghosting doesn't work like object motion blur, I also don't like it, how can you compare them. And lastly, object motion blur, yes, please ;)

All the games since the London one have looked completely jank when it comes to animations for combat and parkour and whatnot.

@harvardsmithdeangelo6905

12 күн бұрын

Oh yeah that's the one that featured the heroic and blameless Karl Marx

@speedforce8970

12 күн бұрын

London one was pretty jank too especially the Parkour at times. Ubisoft is kinda always jank I feel

@Ruddy_Games

12 күн бұрын

If you look at old videos comparing the parkour animations I think it was unity that it peaked with and since then they have gone to janky animations and removed alot of the cool ones. Like wall spins

@Nigel222

12 күн бұрын

@@Ruddy_Games Yes. The London game was the game after Unity. Everything from the London game onwards was jank.

@chrislopez5301

12 күн бұрын

@@harvardsmithdeangelo6905 oh yeah, so what relevancy does that have for what he said ill wait

The animation where NPC's stop to bow to you is so janky.

@wingedhussar1453

12 күн бұрын

Most of the animations don't even turn hto hm to bow .also you can see thus jank when Sasuke fights he does his stances etc not even facing the opponent

@pettson3816

12 күн бұрын

Yeah, also the bowing will get old really fast

@CondorCalabasas

12 күн бұрын

Yep. They've done nothing to improve the engine they use, they obviously need to switch to UE5.

@CactousMan639

12 күн бұрын

@@CondorCalabasas 🙄 i hope you're joking 🤦

@khursaadt

12 күн бұрын

​@@CondorCalabasas why every game must be made in UE5?

Snowdrop Engine is very impressive. Really overshadows their others, like Far Cry or AC. Maybe they should consider making it their main inhouse engine, it's already heavily modified thanks to Outlaws and Frontiers of Pandora anyway.

@astronotics531

11 күн бұрын

It's been 3 years since they announced they were going to centralize on two game engines: Anvil and Snowdrop. It's so exhausting to see this kind of comment when this kind of information is public.

@abbaidoin7773

9 күн бұрын

@@astronotics531 I talked about making Snowdrop their way to go. When did I ever mention Anvil? I knew about this fact, yet it still isn't really improving with time, so they should rather invest into further improving only 1 engine

It doesn't look good to me at all. Why are they still using the anvil engine when they have access to Snowdrop.

@IronTiger

12 күн бұрын

They have access to UE5, too, but they can’t release new games with the frequency they like if they have to learn a brand new engine.

@gavinderulo12

12 күн бұрын

​@@IronTigerwith the churn in the gaming industry a universally known engine like UE would make development much easier. That's the main reason why CDPR switched. Imagine having to spend months to onboard new devs only for them to leave again after a year or so. With UE you can hire experienced UE devs from the get go. There are also companies offering external devs with that knowledge and epic has great support.

@kevinbrodacki

12 күн бұрын

​@@IronTigernah UE5 already Infested way too many games, can't imagine unoptimized ubislop with stuttery UE5 on top of it

@khaled.aldajani

12 күн бұрын

@@IronTiger I am pretty sure that every game dev has to know one industry standard game engine in order to start their career

@IronTiger

12 күн бұрын

@@khaled.aldajani They’re not hiring all new staff for each game either. They can churn these games out as quickly as they do because they retain core staff and reuse the same engine.

I'll never get over how hard they ditched parkour. It's just not AC, just an RPG without the commitment to RPG storytelling to make anything meaningful.

@harvardsmithdeangelo6905

12 күн бұрын

AC felt like it never really even got off the ground since it never had real stealth. It's like a series that has been stuck in the concept sage for its entire existence.

@rangersnut

12 күн бұрын

There is parkour and climbing. What AC game doesn't include it?

@user-ky5tm5un6u

12 күн бұрын

@@rangersnut Those are nothing compare to Unity's parkour.

@rangersnut

12 күн бұрын

@@user-ky5tm5un6u Hajimemashite. I agree. Arigato and Sayanora.

@existentialselkath1264

12 күн бұрын

@@rangersnut parkour was always an integral part of the gameplay, constantly evolving until what would have been it's peak in unity if not for the broken mess the game was generally. It used to be comparable to mirrors edge. Now it's just like every other 3rd person action game.

Anvil is one of the few open world engines that actually allows for large crowds of NPCs.

I think that in 5:28 it is not actually LOD pop-in, since I can't really see any visual changes. But it is rather physics being activated on those objects, the rigidbodies must be put to sleep by default until the camera/character reaches a certain distance. They might also be activated on direct hits from NPCs as well.

At 5:27 I don't think it's LOD popping. You can see that the object is moving a little bit after. I guess it's just a physics object which was in the wall and solved the intersection and/or the physics objects are only simulated near the player camera. So the jump was where it solved the intersection in the wall and after thst you can see the physics simulation settling.

@cube2fox

11 күн бұрын

So maybe they did switch to virtual geometry...

I don't know.. Ubisoft games still have that Ubisoft jank. The animations, lighting, faces, character models, stiff combat. Maybe a hot take, but I would really want them to improve their motion blur as it's basically invisible and it would greatly improve animation and camera fluidity. Edit: after slowing down the video I don't even see any motion blur... and the game is running at 30fps! That's madness. Edit2: Oliver mentioned that. Thank God. 🙂 Damn, Ubisoft.. You be soft. 😩

@LN.2233

12 күн бұрын

The number of open world games with non-stiff combat is small. Even R* & Bethesda games are full of stiff combat.

@xtr.7662

12 күн бұрын

it will have a 60fps mode at least on series x, ps5

@WholesomePotato1

12 күн бұрын

@@xtr.7662 yeah but nice per-object blur is welcome at any frame-rate 🤷‍♂

@TobyRawal

12 күн бұрын

Valhalla has per-object motion blur, so one would hope they've simply turned it off here for demo purposes. It really goes a long way in smoothing out jank, and god knows Ubisoft games could use some help covering that up. If not then that's both a very strange and bad ommision. SW Outlaws trailers seemed to lack this as well, although sadly that might just be due to Massive using an incredibly short shutter speed (the 'motion blur' option in Avatar FOP was a joke, you get like 4 pixels worth of blur).

@Simon_Denmark

12 күн бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@LN.2233”Even Bethesda” Do you even know what Bethesda is known for? I wouldn’t expect anything else than jank.

I dont see anything here that makes me believe there is any significant amount of virtualized geometry, if at all.

@mattmaas5790

12 күн бұрын

Looks like a lot of high quality meshes to me

All the technical stuff aside, it has a flat, drab look, which seems like more of an art direction issue than anything else. Maybe it was HDR capture that they inexpertly tone mapped into SDR?

@cube2fox

11 күн бұрын

Many of the shadows look very flat (no darkening gradient) which looks like a problem in their RT GI solution. Anyway, something is wrong.

Its a Ubisoft game 50% off after first month. Also, parkour should really go back to AC Unity, that was the best parkour they had in the series.

@harvardsmithdeangelo6905

12 күн бұрын

If rentals still existed this would be a rental at best.

@FSAPOJake

12 күн бұрын

@@harvardsmithdeangelo6905 Ubisoft+ will allow you to rent the ultimate edition if you dont want to pay full price day 1.

@MyndZero

12 күн бұрын

@@harvardsmithdeangelo6905 they do, it's called Ubisoft+

@Rosenrot1st

12 күн бұрын

I'm gonna wait 2-3 years until they remove the exclusivity to Steam, and then I will buy it as -70% discount + all the content and bug fixes available. That's the best strategy for buying Ubisoft title. Prove me wrong.

@harvardsmithdeangelo6905

12 күн бұрын

@@Rosenrot1st There are so many other companies to support, this isn't even worth the shelf or drive space

around 7:48 you can see other example of pop in. maybe physic object still pop

@user-re7sm2hr9b

12 күн бұрын

Physic object can't have birtualized geometry. So make perfect sense.

I would expect assassins creed shadows to have some decent looking shadows, and well, they are not bad and not amazing.

@wizardd

12 күн бұрын

so, decent?

@mruczyslaw50

12 күн бұрын

​@@wizarddI think yes, decent and nothing more.

@daysgone2997

12 күн бұрын

assassin has good shadows

@xtr.7662

12 күн бұрын

its good but rt shadows would have been better obviously

@davenyoutubesir2057

12 күн бұрын

At the top in Big White Letters “Work In Progress”

This game just looks so underwhelming considering how anticipated the Japanese setting was to Assassin's Creed.

@gavinderulo12

12 күн бұрын

What would you change?

@georgejones5019

12 күн бұрын

​@@gavinderulo12 The story and character focus. Better animations and parkour.

@harvardsmithdeangelo6905

12 күн бұрын

This isn't Japanese, it might as well be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III. Just a mockery of everything Japanese.

@gavinderulo12

12 күн бұрын

@@harvardsmithdeangelo6905 can you give some example of the mockery?

@Safetytrousers

12 күн бұрын

@@georgejones5019 What's the story in the game?

I’m hoping ac shadows comes with a balanced mode fps , used it for spiderman and avatar , perfect middle ground for me

@digitalfoundry where's the SMT V VENGEANCE analysis??

"Their biggest technical leap". Really?

@kylerclarke2689

12 күн бұрын

Yeah, I think we would have to see some dramatic changes to the engine to approach the leap from AC: Black Flag to Unity

@mruczyslaw50

12 күн бұрын

@@kylerclarke2689 The biggest leap from Black Flag to Unity was in amount of glitches

@0007JO

12 күн бұрын

game still somehow looks worse then 10 year old AC unity

@gavinderulo12

12 күн бұрын

​@@0007JOit won't. People are exaggerating AC unity or maybe just remembering it wrong. I recently played through it maxed out on pc and shadows looks a lot better even in this early demo.

@TheChromanoise

12 күн бұрын

No. He’s gaslighting you. 🙄🙄🙄

Honestly it looks like the same last 5 titles of AC

@LateNightHalo

12 күн бұрын

The Ubisoft formula -create gameplay loop based around activities in a large play space -copy paste this formula into every video game they release until consumers get tired -tweak the formula slightly and then continue to copy and paste

@mattmaas5790

12 күн бұрын

It looks several years ahead with much MUCH more stuff everywhere, like way more meshes. Creed games have always looked fantastic so that's not a bad insult you gave.

@mattmaas5790

12 күн бұрын

@@LateNightHalo assassins creed games are really good so whatever they're doing they're doing it right

@llama6394

11 күн бұрын

​@@LateNightHalo ubisoft truly are the 'ea sports' of open world games

There's nothing "NEXT/CURRENT GEN" looking about this demo.

@SwungCookie

12 күн бұрын

I think you missed the rtgi part

@BigCheeseEvie

12 күн бұрын

​@@SwungCookiecrysis has rtgi on xonex

@altaafsheik5725

12 күн бұрын

​@@SwungCookie It doesn't look that great though. It's decent

@drummer7557

12 күн бұрын

@@SwungCookie Yeah I get that they're going for more RT, Shadows etc. But this just doesn't impress (at all). I like the more photo-realism feel the other games had. And those character models whoa. eww

@erisium6988

12 күн бұрын

@@SwungCookie being amazed that game have basic RT is 2019 SOTTR era not 5 years later when we have PT and Lumen

If the game is running at sub 30fps or has frame pacing issues then motion blur is designed to hide that, otherwise leave it off.

Certainly the biggest jump since Origins, that blew me away at the time. In the series 2, 3, Unity, and Origins have been the big jumps both in gameplay and graphics terms.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this was console footage, namely ps5, since that's the dominant console. With how forward looking Ubisoft has been regarding their PC ports i would be highly surprised if this was pc footage. The console version could use a simplified version of RTGI (less bounces or a switch to probe based). It would of been cool to see both console and pc use RT shadows since stealth and taking out lights has a big gameplay implication. Either way I'm excited to try this and Star Wars Outlaws on PC this year.

@CactousMan639

12 күн бұрын

yes, and no RT reflections and shadows, in favor of decent GI, is also indicative of that ;)

@llama6394

11 күн бұрын

How is ubisoft with their pc ports? I was wondering if I should get this game on pc or ps5.

@allansolano5587

11 күн бұрын

​@@llama6394 well i have a good pc and i ended up buying odyssey and valhalla on my ps5 because of the extreme amount of stutters i had on those tittles on my pc i dont know why the games stutter and drop tons of fps just by watching to something random and moving the camera the other way puts the fps up and so on hahaha i actually beat valhall on ps5 at launch on the 30 fps mode because 60 fps mode was terrible at that time, but i would rather play on a stable 30 fos than a stuttery mess on pc

One thing I'm starting to resent in games in recent years is the effect of depth of field applied through post processing. How much longer will it be before depth of field can be calculated in real time?

@Scorpwind

12 күн бұрын

You're waiting for it to be calculated in real-time, and I have to look for workarounds to force it off.

@fabiozannettino

12 күн бұрын

@@Scorpwind Because the way it is impemented now, the effect is horrible and it looks like what is used on smartphones. Depth of field calculated in real time, with bokeh that varies according to the distance of out-of-focus objects would give total immersiveness. And this is coming from a photographer who absolutely loves the bokeh effect.

@AetherNoble

12 күн бұрын

It’s already possible, but no one at Ubisoft is going to give it the love it needs. (Plenty of devs want to but aren’t allowed to mess with their multi hundred million dollar engine)

@fabiozannettino

12 күн бұрын

@@AetherNoble Yes, it is certainly possible because it has been done in photography for years. However, I think it is very heavy to compute in real time, and so at the moment we aim to invest the computational resources on other things.

@rgb1996

12 күн бұрын

That's a good question, would b cool

So why is the samurai black?

@greengrugach1984

Күн бұрын

Ubisoft trying to Platinum/1000g those ESG points.

2024. The main character’s arm is blatantly clipping through his own sheathed sword. I understand that mitigating clipping in 3d games is difficult and resource intensive, but GOW was doing so well back in 2018. I thought we are onto something. Apparently not.

5:23 - That looks more like physics jank than lod transition to me. Like the whole box is moving for some kind of reason. Maybe due to an object spawning beneath or some physics calculation rounding error.

Awesome analysis!

Shadow quality aside, one might expect shadows to be more prominent in gameplay design ala Splinter Cell.

@mattmaas5790

12 күн бұрын

And you have played it already and know it doesnt??

@ralphengland8559

11 күн бұрын

@mattmaas5790 yes. Beat it 100%.

@theraiden1018

11 күн бұрын

@@mattmaas5790we’ve literally seen gameplay dummie

@mattmaas5790

11 күн бұрын

@@theraiden1018 and the gameplay showed stealth in the shadows so you're wrong

@ralphengland8559

10 күн бұрын

@@mattmaas5790 not as prominently as in splinter cell, where it was a huge part of the design of the stealth, hence my original statement. So try again.

i love the automatic doors 😅

looks very last gen, I would not be surprised if this was on ps4 as well, IMO AC Mirage looked better or at least had a more unique look

Still looks like a janky Ubi open world. All the glitchy looking pedestrians bumping and clipping into one another awkwardly, bowing facing the wrong way. General jankiness to animations across the board. A shame. Conceptually this is the first AC title to interest me in ages. Just unfortunate that Ubi rushes development on these titles. I'm sure with more time the team could get the game to a higher level of polish

@Mitch93636

12 күн бұрын

Not really.

@jokerxiii6580

12 күн бұрын

That's not jankiness. That's an artistic choice.

@randydonovan7844

12 күн бұрын

Feel like all open world games outside of rockstar have some janky animations.

@gothpunkboy89

12 күн бұрын

How do they rush the development?

@ArthurM1863

12 күн бұрын

Unfortunately all that takes the back seat nowadays. Devs prioritize graphics over everything else nowadays, and the result is style over substance. Graphics are very important but so is gameplay, and AI, and story. I would say those things are even more important than graphics, because after all you are playing and interacting with it, not watching a movie.

Yasuke is a slave, not a samurai 許さないぞubi

I personally like the look of the Anvil engine games, with their somewhat sterile, but sharp presentation. I am glad to incremental improvements though and the animation work, at least in the cutscenes shown so far, looks like a step up. In particular when we got a close up of Yasuke speaking, the muscle and other face features moved more naturally than typical Anvil engine games. Also, there's something ridiculously satisfying about seeing the blade slice through the bamboos...I love the interactivity with the game world and honestly, while it's a small detail, it's probably why I'm buying the game. More games need stuff like that.

It seems to me that ray tracing in this generation is a first stab at this new rendering tech, and that it’s adoption will be broader and more full featured in the next iteration of the hardware

5:20 I don't know how this was missed but. There IS an obvious LoD transition. Didja see it? It happens three seconds into the timestamp I just posted! How did Digital Foundry, of all channels, not spot that issue?

@selohcin

11 күн бұрын

I checked three times and did not see a LoD transition. I think you're mistaking something else for a LoD transition.

@artemisDev

11 күн бұрын

That is the AO, not LOD

@allansolano5587

11 күн бұрын

Thats AO poping in not LOD

The motion blur missing really stands out. It just doesn’t look right without it. Rest of the game looks pretty nice and dense, especially those forest areas!

@Scorpwind

12 күн бұрын

I'm glad that it's not there. It looks crisp and actually like a video game without it.

@WholesomePotato1

12 күн бұрын

Yeah, it's too choppy and stuttery... I have no idea what they've been thinking. Presenting their most anticipated game in 1080p with poor bitrate at 30 fps without any motion blur is just insanity. 😳

@Scorpwind

12 күн бұрын

@@WholesomePotato1 It's choppy and stuttery cuz of improper frame pacing. Plus, it's a 4K feed, not a 1080p one. It looks great without motion blur. I'm glad that it's absent. Finally a game that actually looks like a game.

@DragonOfTheMortalKombat

12 күн бұрын

​​@@Scorpwind It'd look crisp if it had a decent frame rate. Not the same old crappy 30FPS.

@Scorpwind

12 күн бұрын

@@DragonOfTheMortalKombat What does the frame-rate have to do with crispness?

It's also a Work in Progress, you mind want to mention that, not that everything will be improved tremendously, but hey....

@cube2fox

11 күн бұрын

I like how it says WORK IN PROGRESS in the top right. Based.

@Navierstokes256

11 күн бұрын

@@cube2fox Oh shit you're right.

I’d say that’s PS5 capture, based on the button inputs. As far as I’m aware, only PlayStation uses Circle and Triangle as button inputs.

did they use the same Avatar FOP engine ? because AFOP was so beautiful

@AdnanAhmed

12 күн бұрын

No, this is Anvil, Avatar uses Snowdrop.

@SamZero3

12 күн бұрын

@@AdnanAhmed too bad Snowdrop was way better than this !

AC valhalla initial gameplay graphics was not that impressive, when ubisoft released deep drive trailer the game looked beautiful. I bet ac shadows will improve over time.

@sturmgewehr4444

12 күн бұрын

Ubisoft is also sort of infamous for downgrading games even further than seen in trailers, so I doubt that. Remember Watch Dogs? It will probably look even worse, not better.

@kaushikkv8423

12 күн бұрын

@@sturmgewehr4444 they improved valhalla in terms of visuals

@FirstName69

12 күн бұрын

@@sturmgewehr4444You live in 2014 my guy. You might want to check a calendar. Ubisoft hasn't downgraded games in a very long time.

@user-re7sm2hr9b

12 күн бұрын

​@@sturmgewehr4444watch dog was 10 year ago. Maybe get over it? In the last 8 years games have looked better at launch than gameplay preview.

@jaloniwilson

12 күн бұрын

​@@sturmgewehr444410 year old joke

The masses won't care about the flaws in this video.

We finally get an Assassins Creed set in Japan, and this is what we get. Sigh.. Ubisoft needs a massive restructuring. Things felt so out of touch for awhile now. I knew something was up when we finally got a new Watchdogs game and they couldnt be bothered to write for a new protagonist. The whole "play as anyone" got stale fast for me. These intellectual properties deserve better.

Also I've still never seen better looking cutscenes than what Naughty Dog can do. Their games age VERY well.

@davenyoutubesir2057

12 күн бұрын

Would absolutely love a remake of Jak & Daxter Precursor’s Legacy and the rest of the series💯❤️

@shippuden1322

12 күн бұрын

Try Hell Blade

@Gr13fM4ch1n3

11 күн бұрын

A lot of that has to do with very careful cinematic lighting, shot composition, and insanely good acting/capture performances. Years later and I'm still catching myself saying "wow, that's a great shot" when I see a cutscene in TLOU2.

@abeidiot

11 күн бұрын

Corridor games are significantly easier to make more detailed than dynamic open worlds

@ErenTheWarcriminal

11 күн бұрын

@@shippuden1322or don’t

I just hope my laptop can run this even if without ray tracing I just want it to run at 60 fps with very high graphics preset. Hope they add dlss 3.5 option

I feel this is an early ps5 build it has a lot of things that valhalla had on the 30 fps mode like the low shadow cascade and the AO pop on buildings those things pop a lot further on valhalla pc version and i also think the pc version will probably include RTGI and RT reflections to be honest and ubisoft with the RPG games have use console footage for must of the press coverage

Combat animations are weird af. The frame rate and lake of per object motion blur is so jarring to look at especially at such a low fps.

It's crazy that they didn't continue using the graphics they used in avatar frontiers of pandora due to how good it looks

What is virtual geometry ?

@Mittzys

12 күн бұрын

Virtual Geometry is a somewhat new way that video games can render 3D Models. With traditional video game models, each object in the world actually has multiple models of different detail levels that swap in and out depending on how far from the camera they are. That way, the game can draw lower quality models for farther away things and not waste time adding detail that won't be seen. The downsides of this approach are that creation of lower level of detail models can be time consuming, and the computer has to process the entire model at once, even if most of it can't be seen. That means if you could see 1% of a character, the entire character has to be processed. A bit of a waste. With Virtual Geometry, developers only have to create one model. The computer can automatically add and remove parts of the model, creating a version of the model that looks the best from each angle. Additionally, It only has to process the parts of the model that are actually on screen.

@glowinTHX

12 күн бұрын

@@Mittzys great explanation

@Mittzys

11 күн бұрын

@@glowinTHX Thanks, glad to help

@cube2fox

11 күн бұрын

It's the successor of LOD. Instead of having a few precomputed LOD levels, the engine continuously adapts the rendered geometric (and texture) detail on the fly. This way you don't get any LOD pop-in and the artists can add extremely highly detailed assets to the game, because only visible details will be rendered.

@oceanedetotes

10 күн бұрын

@@Mittzys Very clear, thank you !

And then theres me who turns off shadows

6:31 still doing this crap where the characters jump 10 feet in the air before strikes 🙄 come onnnnnnn.

Perfect timing for this! I have just been getting into AC: Mirage for the first time, and have been pleasantly surprised by the visual and gameplay improvements compared to Odyssey and Valhalla. I have high (but strongly cautious) hopes for Shadows.

After Bethesda studios, Ubisoft is my current most hated company. My biggest problem with Ubisoft games is they dont focus on gameplay mechanics and physics and animations. Just the visual look alone.They need to add back weight in movements or something. I don't even know how to express it but Ubisoft needs to stop focusing on the lowest common denominator audience so much. Cod is accessible to casuals too but its not Ubisoft level braindead!

@harvardsmithdeangelo6905

12 күн бұрын

Everything in UBI titles is designed to suck up your time, it's bloated corpse design

@infinitysynthesis

12 күн бұрын

If you actually "hate" these devs who only make video games then you really need to get out more.

@Rafael-km9mx

12 күн бұрын

Get a life, it's not that deep lol

@deadshot9946

12 күн бұрын

It’s not a big deal dude, no need to hate 😂. Just move on and stop complaining.

@wretchedslippage3255

12 күн бұрын

It's not that bad. Instead of making your mind up about something before it's even released, as a gamer why not have a little optimism and hope that a new game will be good? Play it and make up your own mind.

Animations?

Why not releasing a 4k60 video it's beyond me

*ESG's Creed: Black*

Not gonna lie, I didn't even know that AC Mirage had already came out..... I was kinda done with the franchise after Ezio's story was completed.. So idk was that AC Revelations, the one after Brotherhood? Black Flag was okay, there was just too much to do..

@harvardsmithdeangelo6905

12 күн бұрын

AC is now a shovelware series, the general public is only just realizing it. Something like the "Army Men" series back in the day.

@Safetytrousers

12 күн бұрын

@@harvardsmithdeangelo6905 I really liked Origins and Odyssey and Mirage was a return to more traditional AC. What I realise is that Ubisoft actually manage to release games every year, unlike some other studios.

@CactousMan639

12 күн бұрын

do you generally lie? 🤔

This really the first NEXT GEN only AC?

I liked Ac mirage even though it was back to basics. I dont have a problem with the newer AC games but they need to be more focused with less cluttered maps and hundreds of useless sidequests. I wish games would look more at Witcher 3 for how to make great open world games

I think its gonna be on the Origins level of fun. Ubi would be really really stupid to release another Valhalla. I think this looks good not great and im excited to play.

@mattmaas5790

12 күн бұрын

To me this looks really good, probably the most entertaining Creed yet. It's made by the Odyssey team and to me seems like odyssey

Just me or at 5:45 does AC Mirage look more lifelike, realistic overall? I say yes. Thoughts?

@altaafsheik5725

12 күн бұрын

AC shadows looks a bit flat

@drummer7557

12 күн бұрын

@@altaafsheik5725 Yeah good word for it

@matajuegosoriginal

12 күн бұрын

Definitely, looks prettier. Shadows doesn't impress me, doesn't look next gen

@frankjaeger882

12 күн бұрын

Is it the frame rate?

@erisium6988

12 күн бұрын

game doesnt have/have very weak volumetric fog that make that depth and show lighting and add detail to flat textures. Sadly we still need that, sadly we dont use it in games that need that but we add useless fog in fucking city like in cyberpunk that u cant turn off without removing it indoors (f.e. pubs) that benefit from it

I think you're being overly generous when commenting on the visual differences between AC Mirage and Shadows. They look virtually the same in geometry complexity, LOD and NPC density. Even the lighting seem to suffer from diminishing returns. Overall a disapointment when considering the jump to current gen only. But we will only know for certain when we get the game on PC. I'd describe the games visuals as "serviceable" thus far.

Maybe you guys should take a look at payday 3 post-patches. It has a good few modes too

I'm sceptical of anything ubisoft now since they've demonstrated that despite you having paid full price for a game, they can just take it away from you when they get bored of it.

@iyaramonk

12 күн бұрын

You're safe as long as it's not a live service game.

@selohcin

11 күн бұрын

@@iyaramonk Any game that requires a login to a proprietary service (such as Ubisoft Connect) will always be in danger of being taken away from the people who bought it. Thus, all Ubisoft games, all EA games, all Rockstar Games, and all Activision/Blizzard games are at risk.

The ambient occlusion is like not working, textures look flat atleast they're detailed, face models are upgrade over previous but not that great Overall Graphics looks remastered version of ghost of Tsushima annd are great im sure ubisoft is going for better optimization Anyone thinks graphics are not good should see video in 4k yt compression is heavy in this one

The quality of the stream was so bad.

I have been very very very patiently waiting since the first Ezio game for an Asian ac with ninjas and samurai and have pretty much ignored every ac game since ac3 (played like half of black flag and lost interest) and i couldn't be more happy it's current gen only. This is the perfect timing for this game as most game visuals are barely taking advantage of the 2020 current gen hardware still and we're at the very cusp of truly photo-realistic games post tlou2 and even though it's not visually mind blowing like hell blade i be it's fun and it's good looking enough to enjoy watching gameplay. I am still waiting for reviews before buying it but i might but my first ac game here since Xbox 360

I preorder their Ultimate Edition. Shadows should look much better than GoT? GoT look good but was still a PS4 game while Shadows is current Gen only. The idea of a giant African juggernaut Samurai destroying everyone in sight is fun to me haha. 😎

@harvardsmithdeangelo6905

12 күн бұрын

But he is attacking Asians, that is very problematic

@yc_030

11 күн бұрын

You could just wait a month and get it 70% off

@pixeljauntvr7774

11 күн бұрын

​@@harvardsmithdeangelo6905 Everyone is attacking Asians during that period.

Hopefully the game gets a 60fps mode or it would be no buy on ps5 for me.

@frankjaeger882

12 күн бұрын

Valhalla had 60. It would be a shame to move backwards

@mikew1080

12 күн бұрын

​@frankjaeger882, eventually, 60fps stops being an option when you add high levels of destruction, physics simulation, expansive draw distances, cutting edge graphics rendering(even if the art direction is lacking, no tech is good without clear art direction.) No amount of optimization and work is going to bring back 60fps if you push other areas too far. This may be one of those titles.

@rangersnut

12 күн бұрын

@@mikew1080 nah, it's an AC game.

@rangersnut

12 күн бұрын

@frankjaeger882 well it would be a no buy for if it is 30fps only.

Keep in mind people that this is an early PS5 build, put together several months before the presentation recently. All the spotted issues or at least the majority, will most likely get fixed and polished before release. What I am however curious about is the PC version, as these always looked much better for AC titles than the console counterpart. Shadows, reflections, light rendering in general and pop-ins (LoDs) in particular. I wouldn't even be surprised, if the game features full RT, may even PT on PC.

@marcomeccia

11 күн бұрын

How do you know it's running on ps5?

@ttwinsturbo

11 күн бұрын

This can be PC version of game, with connected PS5 controller!

@allansolano5587

11 күн бұрын

​​@@ttwinsturbo i feel its ps5 because it has the same popping distances of shadows and AO that the 30 fps mode had on valhalla also those glitchy shadows on cutscenes was something that happened on ps5 on valhalla but not on pc, and ubisoft 90% of the time shows the game running on consoles on the highest fidelity mode on the press coverage since the RPG games started to pop probably because the stupid amount of stutters their games have on pc

I'm excited for it, but I hated the NPC animation, that looks unchanged. They can't possibly think that it's good. The NPCs need to be smarter.

So the RTGI is not RTGI, gotcha 👍

The game looks so bad. It’s a no from me cheers.

Waiting for the PS2 on PS4&PS5 analysis

They should use snowdrop engine...

Lighting looks worse than Tsushima which didn’t have RT at all. Once again, another aaa game using ray tracing in a way that barely matters but still has a greater impact on performance, those resources could be allocated to any number of other features that would be far more impactful to the presentation.

AC Shadows looks amazing and The Flight's soundtrack sounds great. It might be the best Assassin's Creed game yet! It's like The Last Ninja 1, 2 and 3 x 110. Hope it comes to the Switch successor. A dream come true for Assassin's Creed fans. Can't wait to play it on PS5 Pro or Xbox Series X soon.

The lack of extensive Physics in nearly EVERY modern game is such a disappointment... Seems gamers are more easily impressed by higher texture resolutions, and are happy just to see the environments LOOK sharper and more detailed, even though nothing moves. I just hoped that INTERACTION with the environments would have been more advanced by now, but even this game only bothers with limited 'physics' with things like the oranges, that doesn't even persist once they land on the ground. Don't gamers want to really FEEL like they're part of the world, and not just get a pretty mostly static backgrounds? Are accurate materials and lighting models really that impressive when a character's body parts still CLIP through world geometry?

11 күн бұрын

Yeah, tons of modern games have lot worse interactivity than Duke Nukem 3D, Half-Life 1 and 2 and many older games. Lots of games have small props as details around the world and they are just static, zero interaction. I know, these games' focus aren't on that, but that's always a neat little extra detail making the world more believable and realistic.

@dividedstatesofamerica2520

10 күн бұрын

Most gamers now are just lemmings.

@StreetPreacherr

10 күн бұрын

@@dividedstatesofamerica2520 Maybe I've just been at it too long. I'll start playing the latest FPS, but after a few minutes it just starts to feel basically the same as Call of Duty 2 that launched with the Xbox 360... Just been hoping for more innovation than just higher resolutions and more accurate lighting & shadows. It's definitely sad when HL2 featured more robust physics than anything in the past decade. VR was good for a while, but it seems things peaked with ALYX, and that was 4 years ago.

It is on par with Hitman 3 at a graphics level.

@harvardsmithdeangelo6905

12 күн бұрын

Hitman looks better for sure, better art direction, lots of subtlety in the environments. This AC has nice foliage but that's it.

@mattmaas5790

12 күн бұрын

Um this AC had tons of objects everywhere and better lighting In addition to foilage

This looks really good, of course people will be going to hate on it because it's "hip" to hate on Ubisoft

@Dante-1321

11 күн бұрын

Imagine thinking Ubisoft is unironically good past the 10's.

@allansolano5587

11 күн бұрын

​@@Dante-1321its not saying ubisoft is good or bad is just that even when something looks good people hate ubisoft is just not a company to buy games at launch but on a sale their games are really good not amazing or 10/10 but they a salid 7 and thats a good game on my book

@happygofishing

11 күн бұрын

Unisoft are only relevant because of r6siege

@SheikAshii

9 күн бұрын

Chinese houses, Yaskue was never a samurai, the seasons aren't right because they have the trees in bloom while farming rice at the same time isn't a thing iirc. It's quite clear that they don't really care with this one

If the game does not ship with 60fps on consoles, then I'll pass. There is nothing next-gen about 30fps. I don't care if the game needs to run at 1080p for 60fps, just please offer the players the option. We have seen so many great titles over the years, on the new consoles, offer incredible 60fps performance modes. Targeting 30fps is just moving backwards in terms of innovation, and it is not what gamers want. Gamers will always pick better fps over resolution, and that will never change. 60fps should be the new standard for every single game moving forward. In my opinion, to even show 30fps footage is just terrible marketing. It is not what gamers want to see.

@CactousMan639

12 күн бұрын

I agree. 60fps should be the required standard, to then adapt graphics to it.

Why did earlier games look different while today's games look exactly the same? In earlier games was all about individuality

@gothpunkboy89

11 күн бұрын

That is the neat thing. They didn't look different.

@pixeljauntvr7774

11 күн бұрын

Not really. Brotherhood looked like AC2. AC Rogue looked like AC3. Syndicate looked like Unity. Odyssey looked like Origins.

Whats with all the dislikes on this video? Game is bland but this seems like a very standard DF analysis.

are people downvoting this video because they don't like the game or because they don't like the coverage from DF? genuinely think gamers might be the stupidest people to ever exist lmao

@harvardsmithdeangelo6905

12 күн бұрын

Why would they upvote marketing content for a videogame they dislike?

@BrochachoTheBro

8 күн бұрын

probs disliking because of Yasuke being Yasuke

This looks super janky. Avatar impressed me more from a graphical standpoint.

@mrmeme2917

12 күн бұрын

This is a wrok in progress remember

@stuckintheinbetween

12 күн бұрын

@@mrmeme2917 You're right, Ubisoft games generally look worse when they actually come out.

@mrmeme2917

12 күн бұрын

@@stuckintheinbetween nope , nice try tho 🤡

@stuckintheinbetween

12 күн бұрын

@@mrmeme2917 Watch Dogs is just one example. You're wrong, bud. I have proof on my side, you do not. Enjoy your $70 slop. You're easily entertained, clearly. 🤡

11 күн бұрын

@@mrmeme2917 We also remember Ubisoft loves their downgrades. But yeah, work in progress, I wonder if they'll improve the janky, stiff animations and the overall combat. It lacks of fluidity. Not a fan so far.

Honestly, the game looked a bit disappointing to me visually. I was expecting something that looked as good as Avatar or their new Star Wars game, but (at least on youtube) this doesn't really look noticeably better than Valhalla.

@mrmeme2917

12 күн бұрын

Bro this is and old build and the stream was very compressed! I'm sure the game will look fine by release

I love AC, but this just looks like a Japanese version of it. And actually Mirage, and Origins look a lot better IMO. Anyone else agree?

@mattmaas5790

12 күн бұрын

No I do not agree lol. Feels like you're being paid to talk crap about the new one for some reason?

@pixeljauntvr7774

11 күн бұрын

I think deserts and arid climates translate very well into video games. Especially with a HDR set up.

I think the leap is pretty big compared to Valhalla

@mattmaas5790

12 күн бұрын

Same. Looks like it has way more meshes everywhere, more objects, npcs, better lighting, everything.

@EarthIsFlat456

10 күн бұрын

Unfortunately still the same janky animations.

@mattmaas5790

10 күн бұрын

@@EarthIsFlat456 ? Lmao cope

@EarthIsFlat456

10 күн бұрын

@@mattmaas5790 Keep lying to yourself, fanboy.

Can’t believe they don’t have at least per-object motion flow. Badly needed…

Look like a Dynasty Warriors walking sim

Doesn't look super duper next gen but at least its not a downgrade. I feel like Valhalla and Mirage looks worse then Odyssey and Origins

This should be 60fps. This doesnt look better in any meaningful way comparing to valhalla.

@Fafnir2000

12 күн бұрын

There's no 60 fps mode?

@mruczyslaw50

12 күн бұрын

It probably will be 60fps and this could be a showcase of quality mode. It's work in progress so many things can change and there is no info about available modes on consoles yet.

@murattyngo

12 күн бұрын

I was going to puke when playing Valhalla. Too much muddy dark age England :/ I wish they could use that graphics in Odyssey. At least it it wasn't depressing.

@gavinderulo12

12 күн бұрын

There is way more detail and the amount of clutter and foliage is way more impressive than valhalla.

@johnperry8081

12 күн бұрын

What??? This looks miles better than Valhalla

Ubisoft's dated looking games still look 15 years more recent than Bethesda games, what a time to be alive

I'm struggling to care about the things Digital Foundry cares about if the game has all the same issue as the last two release had & gains a few more on top too..

I just need ghost of tsushima 2 😢