There’s a storm-in-a-teacup right now about The Division’s visual downgrade from people who get angry about target renders not living up to games when they’re out. The very same thing happened with the Witcher 3 – but everyone forgot about that. That Watch_Dogs thing though? That’s going to haunt Ubisoft forever.
Despite grievances, The Division, I think, looks pretty damned good (especially on PC, apparently) and it’s all down to that Snowdrop Engine. The engine, says Ubisoft Massive, is stretching all platforms to their respective limits.
“With the SnowDrop Engine, we are able to get the max out of any platform,” Ubisoft Massive’s creative director Magnus Jansen said in an interview with EPNdotTV (via Gamingbolt). “The PC is a super diverse platform, there are so many configurations and so many things you can have. You can have two or three monitors for instance so getting the most out of the platform means we have to support three monitors on the PC. We have to support bigger rendering settings, unlocked frame rate, we have to support multiple GPUs because that is the thing that platform.”
He says that the consoles are also being pushed to breaking point – something that’s a matter of pride for the team.
“And for us, it’s a matter of pride, to be able to support everyone who invests money and they buy the game and allow them to make most out of their hardware. We are utilizing every tiny little cycles of all the platforms to its maximum. That’s the sense of pride about not wasting people’s hardware,” he added.
While those are nice claims, I don’t generally go in for that sort of rhetoric. While it’s possible for any app to use up all a CPU or GPU’s cycles, there are always tweaks and optimisations that allow skilled developers to pull of things that seem impossible.
Last Updated: January 20, 2016
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
January 20, 2016 at 13:00
lol, I’m still waiting for the inevitable (and customary) Ubisoft graphical downgrade! Muahahha!
Hammersteyn
January 20, 2016 at 13:08
😛
HairyEwok
January 21, 2016 at 08:37
When a gopher speaks, you listen. But that was a good chuckle. “The explosions are amazing in the game, in the book they just write Boom…
VampyreSquirrel
January 20, 2016 at 13:09
It has happened already… so you want another one? 😛
RinceThis
January 20, 2016 at 13:31
Ohhh fighting words!
Ottokie
January 20, 2016 at 13:51
http://cdn.meme.am/instances/55073244.jpg
Captain JJ 'saurus
January 20, 2016 at 13:17
Probably doesn’t take much to push the consoles to the max
Trololooo!
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 20, 2016 at 13:19
Have you tried pushing an Xbone?
RinceThis
January 20, 2016 at 13:32
Impossible. If they are used to stop doors from closing, how could one push it?
Hammersteyn
January 20, 2016 at 13:32
I heard the Trump plans on using them as the foundation for the all he’s gonna build
RinceThis
January 20, 2016 at 13:45
Then we are all in trouble!
Hammersteyn
January 20, 2016 at 13:22
I honestly think it’s nice that you guys also get to play along for once not like with Destiny
RinceThis
January 20, 2016 at 13:32
Why? They have literally been saved of 400 hours of boring gaming *run
Hammersteyn
January 20, 2016 at 13:33
Because then we don’t have to read about DoorFrame in the comments
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 20, 2016 at 13:34
Fair’s fair. We did have to listen to months of Destiny comments.
Hammersteyn
January 20, 2016 at 13:35
Mostly on Destiny articles… but then again, to be fair. WarFrame doesn’t have any articles….. just shows how boring it is 😛
Ottokie
January 20, 2016 at 13:38
But the LG community of Warframe is active and social 😛
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 20, 2016 at 13:39
THEY HATE US BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT US!
Hammersteyn
January 20, 2016 at 13:40
They’re peanut butter and jealous!
Ottokie
January 20, 2016 at 13:42
xD
RinceThis
January 20, 2016 at 13:44
He says to himself!
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 20, 2016 at 13:46
Well that calls for the obvious gif…
Hammersteyn
January 20, 2016 at 13:39
All three of you?
Ottokie
January 20, 2016 at 13:40
2 more than Destiny community 😀
Hammersteyn
January 20, 2016 at 13:40
Rofl!
Ottokie
January 20, 2016 at 13:41
I see DragonSpirit was online a couple of days back and Vamps will be back soon… the Void beckons…it hungers for loot!
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 20, 2016 at 13:43
Saryn P coming soon.
Ottokie
January 20, 2016 at 13:44
https://castlesineurope.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/adventure-college-times.gif
Hammersteyn
January 20, 2016 at 13:45
You’ve been on that adventure longer than Smeagols been in a cave
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 20, 2016 at 13:46
At least we get more than one cave.
Ottokie
January 20, 2016 at 13:47
Our caves are gold, with lazors!
Hammersteyn
January 20, 2016 at 13:49
Stop taking LSD when playing
Ottokie
January 20, 2016 at 13:50
No no, I play on LED
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 20, 2016 at 13:50
Don’t be ridiculous.
Although… that does explain why my mod capacity didn’t double when I stuck a potato on my frame.
Ottokie
January 20, 2016 at 13:52
O.o
Have fun explaining that to the medics
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 20, 2016 at 13:55
REVIVE ME
Ottokie
January 20, 2016 at 13:56
Yea….no
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 20, 2016 at 14:00
And you call yourself a Trinity.
Ottokie
January 20, 2016 at 14:03
Nova MF P!
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 20, 2016 at 13:42
Don’t be mean, Destiny has more players than Evolve and Titanfall.
The Grand Admiral Chief Prime
January 20, 2016 at 14:16
LOOOOOOOOL
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 20, 2016 at 13:38
And Destiny still has one every second day which just goes to show how desperate it is for attention. “Hey look, a new gun” “Hey look, a patch” “Hey look, numbers” “Hey look, an emote”. 😀
Ottokie
January 20, 2016 at 13:39
Emotes…
xD
Hammersteyn
January 20, 2016 at 13:39
“Hey look, a new microtransaction” XD
Ottokie
January 20, 2016 at 13:39
WHERE!!!!!
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 20, 2016 at 13:40
Are we talking about Warframe or Destiny now? They’re both F2P games with MTs. 😉
Hammersteyn
January 20, 2016 at 13:41
Both of them and The Division
Ottokie
January 20, 2016 at 13:55
But Destiny is not FTP, didn’t it go for $60 as a AAA title?
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 20, 2016 at 14:01
Warframe is Free 2 Play, Destiny is Jim Sterling’s Fee 2 Play – exactly the same as Free 2 Play except you pay upfront as well.
Ottokie
January 20, 2016 at 14:04
http://i.imgur.com/NwKXNav.gif
RinceThis
January 20, 2016 at 13:44
hahahahaha
RinceThis
January 20, 2016 at 13:43
lol
Captain JJ 'saurus
January 20, 2016 at 15:06
You have one about three games to tease us with that we don’t have. We don’t even mention the 100s we have 😉 That’s being modest 😀
Hammersteyn
January 20, 2016 at 15:29
Like Finesweeper? Ooooooo that’s a good one
Ottokie
January 20, 2016 at 13:34
If this game was not partnered with Ubisoft, it would have double the hype
GooseZA
January 20, 2016 at 13:37
Alpha looked pretty good to me.
*shrugs
Spy Master Tokashi
January 20, 2016 at 14:17
So you are telling me that Destiny for PC that was ported over from console to PC that was demoed on a high end PC at E3 last year that had awesome GRAFIX now because it does not enough FAPS per second on console they will downgrade it for everyone but later release better grafix packs for PC.. agg I mean The Division will have less faps per second than other games like Watch Dogs that they also said it looks amazing etc.
I will hold back on that pre-order and wait for the dust to settle down after all the hype trains passed and crashed into the river
Ottokie
January 20, 2016 at 14:20
http://cdn4.gurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/barney-what.gif
Spy Master Tokashi
January 20, 2016 at 14:43
lol
Mossel
January 20, 2016 at 14:57
I remember when I pushed my PC to its max…95deg Celsius later I decided that perhaps this isn’t a good idea.
CypherGate
January 20, 2016 at 15:06
I dont believe this sort of thing cause seriously how bad is that graphics downgrade for the consoles mainly. That can never be at its absolute limit or breaking point, but then again it could be and that they just never made full use of optimisation and special techniques to make the game look better cause there are quite a couple games that looks breathtaking on console like uhmmmm The Witcher 3?