Picture of Your Games the 16th

[Malcador]

5 hours ago, HoonDing said:

The girl should smile more.

Closest she comes to that is a smirk in the ending cutscene.

[LadyCrimson]

Why 99.5% of players still don't care about full ray tracing. At least not for the 30-50fps cost. The RT-global illumination alone is decent and even that is a performance hit, but I could see it being a standard eventually. Can't compare with non-RT GI since there is none.
Shadows/reflections etc aren't maxed and I'm sure it would all look "crisper" or something on a new $7k PC w/"supreme" settings, but you get the point.

Pathtracing Off:

Full pathtracing on: a little change in colortone of those wall plates and the pedestal is better backlit?

No pathtracing:

Full pathtracing: whiter/brighter building/foliage lighting, water is a tad less brown, the bamboo railing is more top-lit/whiter?

Does it make a difference you can see? Yes. Is it worth the performance cost (and hardware cost/upkeep) or make some giant immersion difference?
Me: Heck no.

Edited Thursday at 12:10 PM by LadyCrimson

[marelooke]

4 hours ago, LadyCrimson said:

Why 99.5% of players still don't care about full ray tracing. At least not for the 30-50fps cost. The RT-global illumination alone is decent and even that is a performance hit, but I could see it being a standard eventually. Can't compare with non-RT GI since there is none.
Shadows/reflections etc aren't maxed and I'm sure it would all look "crisper" or something on a new $7k PC w/"supreme" settings, but you get the point.

Pathtracing Off:

Full pathtracing on: a little change in colortone of those wall plates and the pedestal is better backlit?

No pathtracing:

Full pathtracing: whiter/brighter building/foliage lighting, water is a tad less brown, the bamboo railing is more top-lit/whiter?

Does it make a difference you can see? Yes. Is it worth the performance cost (and hardware cost/upkeep) or make some giant immersion difference?
Me: Heck no.

It also has an image quality impact per the folks at Hardware Unboxed:

 

[HoonDing]

It's literally that "they're the same picture" meme

[melkathi]

 

 

[melkathi]

Aaaah,

So THAT is why they labeled this a minefield.

[HoonDing]

these were some absurd setpieces