The insane console pop in (PS4)

Gameplay
#21

Where Cry Engine really shines is with rendering scenes of nature. The Crysis games feature incredibly detailed vegetation and weather effects and it’s the Cry Engine that enables that. The engine has many features to create a cohesive realistic looking world. Dynamic water effects allow users to have beautiful oceans, fog and cloud effects allow for realistic weather, and a plethora of lighting effects optimized for natural looking scenes make Cry Engine one of the best engines for creating vast beautiful landscapes.
By having all these features built together from the ground up, Cry Engine is capable of doing more complex effects more efficiently, than other engines that didn’t have these effects planned from their inception.

Taken from pro discussion comparing varyious engines (from all the big ones)

Not my words.
Dont shoot the messenger.

Crysis when it launched; what made it special was the vegetation.
That has not changed.
For a game from 2007, show me something better… (vegetation kinda matters.)

Dont get me wrong… I love unreal. What they did with software rendering vs quake in the early days of gaming engines was phenominal.

I hosed thousands of hours to Unreal Tournament.

Stil always dreamed of getting a medieval/roleplaying game that made use of Cryengine.

I don’t buy new release games. KCD was an insta buy.

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#22

Pop in is an issue. Don’t get me wrong, I love this game. And I’m totally supportive of the devs. Some problems are to be expected on large scale rpg’s at launch. I still remember that animals were falling from the sky regularly in Skyrim. So stuff happens.

But, regarding KCD, they do need to improve the situation regarding pop in. I have started to play this game a week ago, on a standard PS4. Fresh install. Clean update to version 1.6. New game. No fast travel - I avoid fast travel as much as I can in an RPG, and I haven’t fast traveled once in 10 hours of gameplay (which is sort of where I’m at). And pop in happens, to a noticeable extent. It’s particularly observable inside towns, and especially in Rattay. I’ve heard people talking about similar problems in Sasau, but I haven’t been there yet, so I can’t tell.

So, here’s the conclusion. Playing on a standard console, nobody expects mad resolutions, or absence of pop in. But there’s a level where it isn’t bothersome, and there’s a level where you can’t avoid being distracted by it. KCD, version 1.6 (the only one I’ve played) has enough pop in to be a distraction, and break immersion. It’s not that it bothers me to the point of being unplayable. The positives in this game overcome the (minor) negatives by such a large extent, that I’m totally comprehensive. But I would appreciate if Warhorse would make some improvements regarding this specific issue.

Peace!

Edit: just to ad, I do love the graphics, and I really enjoy the sprawling landscapes, or exploring dense forests. Curiously, the game works fine inside forests, surrounded by trees, even when things heat up like combat situations. So there are definitely some cool things to say about the graphics engine.

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#23

Want some evidence

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I trust you know who this man is

Enough evidence to prove the issue?

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#24

Fake news!!!

#25

It is good evidence. Vavra is the man. :ok_hand:

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#26

@Kirksty In Vavra we trust! :smile:

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#27

@DrFusselpulli

‘Trade off’ implies that popins were known to be a consequence of 1.5. Perfectly fine with WH making such decisions. Just expect WH to tell us of this possibility upon release of the patch. if in fact the trade off evaluation was a conscious one, it doesn’t feel like WH is being candid with users. That can undermine trust.

https://forum.kingdomcomerpg.com/uploads/default/original/3X/6/6/66f1956f6f404e27e0f28166878d81671727ae8d.png

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#28

Video evidence posted to reddit. Shows the comparison in asset pop in from patch 1.2 and the most recent 1.6

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#29

Lol but it seems if you want answers, it better to tweet the devs. I don’t think they pay much attention to these forums. Reddit also seems to get more interactions aswell.

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#30

Kind of sad and unfortunate.

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#31

well in all fairness these forums are pretty sketchy

#32

These forums can get out of hand and off topic but that doesn’t mean that WH forum users don’t have merit in that which they discuss.

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#33

That is true, I’m just saying. Like it or not it’s kind of always been common knowledge, to me anyway, that twitter seems to be the best bet for an answer to something and also for current posting. :smirk:

#34

If it is free why is WHS LEASING IT? leasing implies paid use.

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#35

Cry engine 5 might be free.

Usually these things happen in an effort to get a community to create free documentation.

#36

It is free look it up anyone can download it.

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