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10 Minutes of Gears Tactics & Gears 5 Xbox Series X footage 4k60.
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Cross-posting this bit from arstechnica.com:
I thought it was weird that Microsoft handed me that compromise-filled preview (Dirt 5) as my first example of a Series X 120fps game. Didn't seem very show-of-force of them. A few days later, an updated build of 2019's Gears 5 landed on my Series X. This should've been my first taste of 120fps on Series X, I immediately thought.
The versus matchmaking suite can go all the way to the system's 120fps maximum all while running at 4K resolution. I immediately booted my PC version of the game and created dummy lobbies in order to create like-for-like comparisons to show you how a $500 console's 120fps mode compares to the same thing on a $1,500+ PC:
If you're struggling to notice any differences, you're not alone. What's crazier is, these crisp, detailed images full of handsome touches are appearing in isolation, as opposed to the dazzlingly smooth flipbook effect of running, somersaulting, and shotgunning at 120fps. Yet Xbox Series X doesn't sweat in rendering these frames at a blistering 8.33 millisecond threshold with barely any noticeable lurches in my hours of testing (and, again, with zero noticeable noise spewing out of the console at peak load). There's no getting around it: Series X is a fundamental game-changer in terms of console power, and Gears 5's buttery smooth 120fps toggle has me instantly excited at the prospect of other console-game developers following suit.
arstechnica.com
I thought it was weird that Microsoft handed me that compromise-filled preview (Dirt 5) as my first example of a Series X 120fps game. Didn't seem very show-of-force of them. A few days later, an updated build of 2019's Gears 5 landed on my Series X. This should've been my first taste of 120fps on Series X, I immediately thought.
The versus matchmaking suite can go all the way to the system's 120fps maximum all while running at 4K resolution. I immediately booted my PC version of the game and created dummy lobbies in order to create like-for-like comparisons to show you how a $500 console's 120fps mode compares to the same thing on a $1,500+ PC:
If you're struggling to notice any differences, you're not alone. What's crazier is, these crisp, detailed images full of handsome touches are appearing in isolation, as opposed to the dazzlingly smooth flipbook effect of running, somersaulting, and shotgunning at 120fps. Yet Xbox Series X doesn't sweat in rendering these frames at a blistering 8.33 millisecond threshold with barely any noticeable lurches in my hours of testing (and, again, with zero noticeable noise spewing out of the console at peak load). There's no getting around it: Series X is a fundamental game-changer in terms of console power, and Gears 5's buttery smooth 120fps toggle has me instantly excited at the prospect of other console-game developers following suit.
Xbox Series X unleashed: Our unrestricted preview
In good news, we finally have a stunning 120fps game. But not much else, games-wise.
arstechnica.com
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Thanks!Cross-posting this bit from arstechnica.com:
I thought it was weird that Microsoft handed me that compromise-filled preview (Dirt 5) as my first example of a Series X 120fps game. Didn't seem very show-of-force of them. A few days later, an updated build of 2019's Gears 5 landed on my Series X. This should've been my first taste of 120fps on Series X, I immediately thought.
The versus matchmaking suite can go all the way to the system's 120fps maximum all while running at 4K resolution. I immediately booted my PC version of the game and created dummy lobbies in order to create like-for-like comparisons to show you how a $500 console's 120fps mode compares to the same thing on a $1,500+ PC:
If you're struggling to notice any differences, you're not alone. What's crazier is, these crisp, detailed images full of handsome touches are appearing in isolation, as opposed to the dazzlingly smooth flipbook effect of running, somersaulting, and shotgunning at 120fps. Yet Xbox Series X doesn't sweat in rendering these frames at a blistering 8.33 millisecond threshold with barely any noticeable lurches in my hours of testing (and, again, with zero noticeable noise spewing out of the console at peak load). There's no getting around it: Series X is a fundamental game-changer in terms of console power, and Gears 5's buttery smooth 120fps toggle has me instantly excited at the prospect of other console-game developers following suit.
Xbox Series X unleashed: Our unrestricted preview
In good news, we finally have a stunning 120fps game. But not much else, games-wise.
is there any major difference with gears 5 SXS verion and pc maxxed out? looks phenomenal, as always, regardless
WIth the Gears Ultimate 4k replay I think I'll have played that first campaign almost a dozen times now.
Nice!Cross-posting this bit from arstechnica.com:
I thought it was weird that Microsoft handed me that compromise-filled preview (Dirt 5) as my first example of a Series X 120fps game. Didn't seem very show-of-force of them. A few days later, an updated build of 2019's Gears 5 landed on my Series X. This should've been my first taste of 120fps on Series X, I immediately thought.
The versus matchmaking suite can go all the way to the system's 120fps maximum all while running at 4K resolution. I immediately booted my PC version of the game and created dummy lobbies in order to create like-for-like comparisons to show you how a $500 console's 120fps mode compares to the same thing on a $1,500+ PC:
If you're struggling to notice any differences, you're not alone. What's crazier is, these crisp, detailed images full of handsome touches are appearing in isolation, as opposed to the dazzlingly smooth flipbook effect of running, somersaulting, and shotgunning at 120fps. Yet Xbox Series X doesn't sweat in rendering these frames at a blistering 8.33 millisecond threshold with barely any noticeable lurches in my hours of testing (and, again, with zero noticeable noise spewing out of the console at peak load). There's no getting around it: Series X is a fundamental game-changer in terms of console power, and Gears 5's buttery smooth 120fps toggle has me instantly excited at the prospect of other console-game developers following suit.
Xbox Series X unleashed: Our unrestricted preview
In good news, we finally have a stunning 120fps game. But not much else, games-wise.
Should be similar to Gears 5. I beat the whole thing on PC and there's nothing all that impressive going on graphically compared to a regular Gears 5 campaign.
I have over a hundred hours in the game, have 'prestiged' (or whatever it's called) six times and still haven't finished act one of the campaign 👀
Head to Ars to see versus mode comparisons between Ultra settings on PC and 120fps settings on Series X. Resolution is very close to 4K, while certain settings are scaled down, though some of the differences in the images boil down to tone-map corrections from HDR to SDR.
Direct link to that page in the four-page feature:
Xbox Series X unleashed: Our unrestricted preview
In good news, we finally have a stunning 120fps game. But not much else, games-wise.
arstechnica.com
Sounds like I need to add you to my friends list lol. Carry me in MP. Have they added execution yet?
Gears Tactics came out at the end of April this year lol. Was definitely a game that was aimed at the PC crowd due to being a tactical game rather than anything to push PC specs for sure tho.
When it comes to load times, the Series X version of Gears 5 handily beat out even a high-end PC equipped with an NVMe 3.0 drive (which stored both the Windows OS and the game). After testing a variety of Gears 5 campaign save files, I found a 75 percent improvement for the console version; 53-second loads on my PC were as short as 12 seconds on my Xbox Series X for identical content.
In case you skimmed over that paragraph: That's not comparing Series X load times to older consoles. That's comparing Series X load times to a top-of-the-line PC.
In case you skimmed over that paragraph: That's not comparing Series X load times to older consoles. That's comparing Series X load times to a top-of-the-line PC.
Gears 5 honestly still looks incredible. Everything from the particle effects, the reflections and the character expressions is insane to me. So much great detail to everything...
Really excited to see what more next-gen optimized game engines will be able to pull off. The Coalition and Sony Santa Monica are two I'm really looking forward to seeing with regards to next gen gaming
Really excited to see what more next-gen optimized game engines will be able to pull off. The Coalition and Sony Santa Monica are two I'm really looking forward to seeing with regards to next gen gaming
Looks awesome but I don't really want to play Gears 5 again (I did really enjoy it though).
I wish they went the Spiderman route and added some Gears 5 DLC that we could playthrough for launch.
Then we'd get to enjoy these shiny new GFX well playing something new(ish)
I wish they went the Spiderman route and added some Gears 5 DLC that we could playthrough for launch.
Then we'd get to enjoy these shiny new GFX well playing something new(ish)
Its in Quickplay now! Also a new ranked mode called Gridiron that is Execution adjacent.
The ars write up os great. Can someone post the breakdown of what this includes? I saw a slide somewhere.
Been looking forward to Gears Tactics. Seems quite interesting. Never played tactical style games on pc before so I'm sure there will be a learning curve.
Yes, it was Dynamic 4k/60fps on 1X, except 30fps for cutscenes.
Digital Foundry went through an early build for the XSX which added 60fps cutscenes, higher quality textures, longer draw distances and better LOD settings, global illumination lighting.
This has been in the works a lot longer now and probably has other things.
