Nothing we've seen from the visuals justify any reason for it to need upscaling at all resolutions. Meaning, it runs like *** for no discernable reason.
That's ****ing awful.
I hope the community refuses to accept it and this game tanks as a result.
Developers of all types have been doing this for decades.
We used to have talented programmers that sent people to the moon with 4k of RAM, but now they all use high level programming languages and poor coding practices justifying that by saying bullshit like RAM and CPU cycles are cheap. Let me remind everyone that THEY aren't the ones paying for that RAM and those CPU cycles.
There are conflicts between good coding practices and hyper-optimization, and I am not suggesting they hyper-optimize the crap out of everything like back int he 80's, as that would make the code an unmanageable mess, but there has to be a balance.
It was really only a matter of time before this happened to GPU cycles as well.
I have for a long time said that we didn't need RT. It doesn't look much better than a competently made raster title with good shadow maps and reflections, and it is like 3x heavier on the GPU. The only reason for RT is that it is way easier/cheaper to model a game like it is freaking 3DStudio MAX and place a camera and light sources than it is to actually do the hard work of layering various maps for bumps, textures, shadows and reflections.
Lets make no mistake. RTX was 100% for developers, not for end users.
Same with upscaling and frame gen.
It lets developers push shovel ware with minimal effort and cost, and makes the end user pay for it with ****ty performance and the need to buy increasingly more exotic hardware to play games that look the same.
...and at the same time the games keep getting more and more expensive, despite all of these cost savings.
We need to bring the game industry back to where it was in the 90's, with programmers and game enthusiasts in charge. Kill the **** studios and investors looking for profit margins. We need enthusiasts and aspergers kids like John Carmack who care about doing it right at
any cost and timeline in charge.
Get rid of the **** business and marketing people.
