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Watch Dogs

styckx said:
Started some initial texture modding fun.. Did a quick test to make sure all takes well..

Chicago is now enforced by the LCPD

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LOL

I bet that will piss off some paper pusher at UBI.

"See they are RUIING our IP!!! LOCK IT DOWN!"
 
woot, just won this game from NCIX. One of the forums members wanted to give away a code to the funniest picture. Then the ncix mods decided to job in and offer 5 more and I got one :D

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picture that won me a copy of the game lol
 
PC is truly an amazing platform, indeed.
Ubi couldn't do this in 5+ years but the modding community figured it out in 2 weeks?
 
Would it be possible to change how the driving feels via mods someday?
I tried it in friend's house, and couldn't stand the driving.
 
Mod took about 5 seconds to install, just extracting 2 files to your watch dogs folder.
Shadows look great, he also added some new bloom effects it seems.

No impact on performance.
 
No impact on performance, really? That seems very strange.

Then again, the game performs poorly in the first place so maybe it's just artificially bad anyway. :p
 
Wow that's amazing, the headlights not changing the shadows was the biggest thing I noticed about the graphics and it did bother me a bit.
 
Just used that mod and it does indeed have an impact on performance, for me anyway. Not huge but it's noticeable.

Also, it made the shadows look like crap for some reason if you're at any distance from them...like huge amorphous blobs during the day.
 
Yeah.. He started over doing the mod to the point it's a complete mess right now. Fantastic for impressing the internet with screenshots but it's a nauseating mess to play. He should have just kept it simple. Way too much going on now.
 
TaintedSquirrel said:
It would look nice if he increased the range of the DoF and maybe turned it down a little.
It's a nice effect but it's too drastic atm.

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I can't tell what else he did besides the shadows but the game does seem... different.
It's a good start for sure.
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As I told him.. As a modder you just need to know when to stop and call your job complete.. Then branch it.
 
Aaron_ATX said:
Roofles! Awesome review. Perfect!

Sidenote, game became vastly more entertaining when I grabbed my gf's ps4 controller and used it for driving on my pc. Much much much better. Turns out the motorcycles do wheelies and donuts in cars are possible when you have an analog input.

Touching a console controller still makes me feel dirty.
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Nothing wrong with a console controller.. I recently upgraded my 360 controller (for pc gaming of course) to the Xbox One controller.. Holy bejesus.. Best controller I've ever used.. No shame in using a console controller.. KB/Mouse still have its place in many games but when a controller is needed nothing beats a console controller.
 
hajalie24 said:
I never understood depth of field, especially when it's that drastic. Your eyes automatically blue everything your not focused on, there's no reason for the blur.
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One word: Consoles.
People can't complain about textures when it's too blurry to see them. Plus, it looks realistic when done properly. Win-win.
See also: Motion blur.
 
I'm slowly but surely converting all the generic business and signs to real stuff

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Ha! Is it possible to reskin his phone so its either an oldschool brick or at least a flip phone?
 
styckx said:
Something I disable immediately on any game that has it as an option.
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Won't be long before logitech releases a monitor stand that just shakes the shit out of your monitor for REAL LIFE MOTION BLUR!!!

What a worthless effect.
 
Aaron_ATX said:
Won't be long before logitech releases a monitor stand that just shakes the shit out of your monitor for REAL LIFE MOTION BLUR!!!

What a worthless effect.
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Probably. Your eyes creates motion blur naturally.. Doesn't matter if it's real life or a video game. Anything out of your direct focus is a blur in your peripheral vision. Any added effects of it just look silly.
 
Mod just got updated with fixed DoF.
Haven't tested yet.

edit: Scratch that, he hasn't uploaded it yet. Just showing off some pics.
 
i hate seeing real life stuff referenced in video games. it completely takes me out of the experience.

styckx said:
Probably. Your eyes creates motion blur naturally.. Doesn't matter if it's real life or a video game. Anything out of your direct focus is a blur in your peripheral vision. Any added effects of it just look silly.
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uhh no. motion blur is necessary in games because it isn't a constant stream of information, there are abrupt breaks in motion (in-between frames there is zero information, this is why 30 fps looks so bad in games without motion blur and why you can notice it so easily, you're losing out on a LOT of information that motion blur helps cover up) that you would need a near infinite framerate to make look like real life. that's why motion blur in games exists. we can't achieve a near infinite framerate, at least not yet, so we have to fake it with motion blur, so that instead of seeing those abrupt breaks in motion we see something similar to real life; a constant stream of information. watch dogs has the best motion blur out of any video game. it isn't overdone, it uses a high amount of samples so there's no ugly pixellation like in other games with it, and the most important part; it takes into account the movement of every object on the screen, so that everything can be blurred individually.

i do agree, however, that depth of field has no place in video games.

edit: oh, here's something to think about: animated films without motion blur.
 
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Finished the game this past weekend, feeling like it was a 7/10 or so. I enjoyed some of the combat, though generally it was far too easy. The story was totally incoherent, and I really couldn't care less about any of the characters. I'm not dinging the game for the many plot holes, I think a lot of that comes with the territory of creating such a large game. The game engine and universe continually felt like a less polished GTA game.

I think the best way to characterize Watch Dogs is generic. If this was released by a much smaller group (a la Saints Row or Sleeping Dogs) where expectations were lower, I think it would be more positively received. As is though with the years and years of hype, it doesn't feel worthwhile. It isn't a bad game, but I would recommend waiting for the summer sale to pick it up.
 
He's trying to change too much crap at once. I told him yesterday he has Obsessive Compulsive Modding Syndrome. Changing things for the sake of changing things.
 
The first post says 0.6 which is what he was uploading this morning but it still links the old version from June 14th.
I just want the stupid DoF fixed, I don't know why he keeps delaying the release.
 
Yeah, I'm seeing the screenshots and it looks nice and all except for the blurry mess. No way I'll install that until it gets removed. I'd rather have worse graphics then pretty graphics where I can only focus on one thing at a time.
 
The headlight shadows are glitchy too. I don't even want those either. A number of vehicles light nodes are recessed back and cast shadows of body panels right in front of the car.. Also some of the shadows go weird depending on the angle and distance too where they will cast at an unrealistically long length. There was an obvious reason they were disabled by Ubisoft..
 
I really wish he had released the update before all this news exploded.
He was supposed to release it around 9 AM this morning (about 6 hours ago) which was about 2 hours before the NeoGaf, Kotaku, and Reddit posts appeared.

Now we have thousands of people downloading the outdated mod with the ridiculous DoF... AND his first-page post promises features which aren't there, and he seems to have disappeared all day today so far.
Even totalbiscuit said he's probably going to do a video about the mod.

I've been waiting to start playing again until Worse gets a proper release out...

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TheWorse said:
I'm so sorry guys, there was a blackout in my city block arround 5 hours a go and I wasn't able to release the 0.7 release, I'm working right now really fast to deliver it, so expect the download in an hour, I'll answer the comments after I'm done with this, and no, I'm not kidding about the blackout.
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I know how dumbass blackouts go... I understand where he's coming from. I'll use his mod when its stable & looks good w/o any questionable glitches.
 
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