Related article:
https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfo...nreal-engine-5-hard-and-image-quality-suffers
I don't know sh1t about this game. It's the very first game for this studio. So it uses UE5.1 (and thus makes use of Nanite and Lumen), huh? It's exclusive to 9th-gen (cross-gen shouldn't even be a thing anymore at this point, but some devs are still f*cking doing it), and targets 60fps on
all consoles, including XBSS. There's no "quality mode" that targets a higher res but 30fps like a lot of modern console games. From what I gather from DF, it sounds like while the art direction is good, technically the game doesn't always hold up.
Uses FSR2 upscaling (as it seems a lot of console games do these days). PS5 and XBSX target 4K, which means that FSR2 is running in it's lowest mode Ultra Performance, which means upscaling 720p to 4K. There are clear scaling artifacts when in motion, but when standing still, the image resolves pretty nicely. XBSS is upscaling from 768x436p to 4K. As you can imagine, this doesn't work out so well (for example, check out 4:14 in the video). Of course on all 3 systems, FSR2 is adaptive, adjusting res as needed to keep the framerate up. If you are on a 1080p display instead of 4K, then FSR2 uses Quality mode instead of Ultra Performance mode.
God rays render at a low res (look even worse on XBSS), and some effects animate at 30fps which is quite jarring in a 60fps game (like the examples shown at 6:11 and 6:23). Poor XBSS. A game with one of the newest engines available and which targets 60fps XBSS has to cut out a lot of detail and hella lower settings to hit that. Looks like a blurry mess, and wow those shadows (see 8:58). More object/detail pop-in too. PS5 is exactly the same as XBSX, except for one specific place: the title screen, where it has better AO and SSR. On this title screen, XBSS is a full 60fps, XBSX is running in the mid 50s, and PS5 is running in the mid 40s.
Aaahhh, he got a "crash to deskop" on one of the Xbox consoles too.
PS5 and XBSX target 60fps, but sometimes can drop to 50fps or even lower in heavier combat and such (DF observed as low as just under 40fps). Most framerate drops are during cutscenes though. Overall XBSX can keep a 5-10fps lead over PS5 in those heavy areas. When it drops it doesn't tend to drop as far or for as long as PS5. The difference overall is negligible. Those heavy areas drop XBSS into the 30s. But then there are sections where XBSS can actually maintain a higher framerate than either PS5 or XBSX.
I assume DF will be putting out a video for the PC version, so we'll see how that version turns out. I haven't seen any reviews for the game, so I got no idea how people are feeling about it so far. The game wasn't on my radar, and I doubt I'll be trying to check it out any time soon. Still, interesting to see UE5 games starting to come out.
