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Rockstar Downgrades Red Dead Redemption 2 Graphics In patch 1.03
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Damn... Hope that's just a mistake. Looks a lot flatter.
I'm glad I finished the game already and probably won't ever play it again unless it gets a PC release.
I'm glad I finished the game already and probably won't ever play it again unless it gets a PC release.
Nothing short of the control responsiveness being massively improved could justify the hit that this game's visuals take when AO is removed
I feel like they've been doing little cuts with at least one other patch already. I remember shadow pop-in looking way more aggressive after going back to it a month ago.
ETA: I see people complained after 1.03 too.
ETA: I see people complained after 1.03 too.
Yep!
It's exactly what I was afraid would happen to RDR2 as a result of the constant iterations of the online portion.
Fucking rockstar man... I have yet to continue the game because of this shit. I waited for months for a patch to fix the previous downgrades in singleplayer and they keep making it worse. At this point, I'm kinda over it. One of my most anticipated games in years and I don't even care anymore. I'll probably get back to it eventually but this shit is just...
Could be a mistake that they'll fix in the next patch (similar stuff happened with GTA5). The game runs great on the X so it would be odd to strip something out.
Yet the same thing happened for GTA5.
If you don't believe me try it yourself. It shows it perfectly on the PS3 version.
I don't know about the PS3 version, but the PS4 version downgrade was a mistake and was fixed.
https://wccftech.com/gta-110-update-graphics-comparison-reveals-graphical-issues-fixed-downgrades/
I see videogames news site still don't care about having any credibility if they can have a few more more clicks for a couple of days. This might very well be a mistake but they didn't even bother to check with Rockstar and ran with a sensationalist title like that.
I remember it looking worse on the PS4 too even after the patch but I will take your word for it.
You're asking for a lot. Outrage first, then when they fix it dont say anything later.
I believe this was removed with the 1.02 update at launch, meaning most of us played it without ambient occlussion. So I'm thinking this is rather intentional and won't be reversed.
They did it by mistake and then fixed it
"Rockstar has just rolled out patch 1.10 for Grand Theft Auto 5, which it says fixes "graphical issues across GTA Online and Story Mode". After downloading the 4.7GB update on PS4, we can confirm that parallax occlusion mapping is back in the game, and based on initial observations, the performance improvements seen in patch 1.09 remain in effect on the Sony platform."
I wish gamers would stop defending companies.
If they already did it with GTA and now here what makes you think its bug?
Maybe it is and they havent fixed it in GTA yet either, true!
What about the PS3?
It was downgraded in the graphics department and the framerate. Yet, they never fixed that.
I'm not blindly defending anything, just saying that a game is a big, complicated piece of software and it's possible for unintended things to happen when patching and updating it. I find that more likely than Rockstar making their product look wors for no reason.
Hopefully they fix it soon. My SO just started a playthrough and I know our copy of the game is fully updated to the latest patch. Didn't notice anything off while watching today, but its pretty obviously messed up in those screens.
If you look at the comparisons between the counter it lacks shadows in the corners, deep bits or where parts intersect with eachother which AO emulates.
this gif is making me wonder whether the only actually real difference is time of day
what a wonderful callback to old-school era and gaf graphics threads that would be
The worlds lighting is in a different position between each shot. There could be other differences relating to cloud cover. Density. Volume , position coverage area. All these different factors effect how the scene will look. The comparison is not one exact apple to another exact apple.
