CDP- Does the PC EE have the new lighting seen in the 360 screens?

[Daywalker30]

Those PC pics are not from the EE version, they are from vanila (all of the PC pics in the tech analysis article are from vanila version of the game)

nope, these are from EE version, some people who pre-ordered can already play the EE on PC and confirmed that the lighting are the same as in vanilla.

some pics from EE (PC)
the last two are from the added cinematics

http://i.imgur.com/5MWIc.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/JkF1B.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/RON6R.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/y9OKb.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ZFecr.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/MqGHu.jpg

 

[amazingman]

.. And the bad news is that everything else looks like pigeon crap in comparison.

Anyway, it's not nowhere near the 'superior' (you won't have 'god rays', one of the most atmospheric stuff in the game), but different, more realistic approach. I sincerely hope that they tweaked it in the PC version, as well..

Reported for flamebaiting xbox360 users. Not the first time he has done this moderators.

 

[secondchildren]

Reported for flamebaiting xbox360 users. Not the first time he has done this moderators.

Reporting means clicking the "report" button, not threating people that moderators are alerted. Plz avoid.

 

[amazingman]

I have clicked the report button, just thought i should let him know and make him curb his behaviour.

 

[nstiver]

You've got to look past the downgrades they had to make for the 360 version and imagine the different lighting with the already great looking PC version. So no, I'm not saying the 360 screens look even nearly as good as the PC ones, but their lighting is way more interesting.

I don't see it. To me the lighting in the PC version of the tower looks 10 times better then the lighting in the X360 tower.

 

[nstiver]

Optimal would be that PC still uses its high quality lightning, but it has been fine tuned. Meaning they went through the game and looked at the lighting at all locations/scenes and changed anything that looked odd.

And yes, I hate the net shadows the PC version have

I dont think anyone want the xbox lightning tech, but the tuning they done to the scenes so characters dont look out of place in scenes etc.

I can see this. Any rationally done improvement is welcome.

 

[nstiver]

Oh I wish I had photoshop sometimes.

That was funny, it actually caught me by surprise and made me laugh.

It was very enlightening.

Or you might even say...enlightninging

 

[nstiver]

Yet if we look at the other screen comparison, it's exactly the other way around. That scene in that wooden tower construct, it looks much better and much more powerful with the new Enhanced Edition lighting that we see in the X360 screenshot.

I'm not seeing the tower thing guys. All I see are a bunch of really bright vertical lights across the tower. To me the lighting in the X360 tower just looks dumbed down a bit for the hardware. It looks great for a 360 game, but I prefer the PC tower. It is still a matter of personal taste though. I am sure the Xbox version will look great overall.

That being said, there are some advantages to the tower shot. It looks a bit more "realistic" in that it doesn't have the fantastical blue glowing light in the left corner of the tower (personal preference though). Also, the PC bloom could use a toning down in some spots. But some of us like bloom, so I sincerely hope they don't conpletely gut it for the PC version. I don't see that happening though.

EDIT--I just now realized that I should have combined my last four posts into one...Sorry!

 

[secondchildren]

I have clicked the report button, just thought i should let him know and make him curb his behaviour.

Well don't, plz. At least drop him a PM or a comment on his board. Doing in public it's quite unpolite.

 

[bcheero]

I actually like the lighting in the PC much more because it brings out the colors. Flotsam forest looks much more beautiful on the PC than it does on the 360. It still looks nice for the hardware but the PC's lighting brings out the intended colors of areas. Vergen on the 360 looks nowhere near as environmentally beautiful than on the PC version.

 

[myst129]

Wrong.
PC lighting has been redesigned in certain areas and improved, but basically they're the same.

Well that makes me right then...

 

[soldiergeralt]

the xbox360 tower screens look kind of like the gaps in the tower structure are larger, allowing more sunlight in. it's also missing the soft orange light from the lanterns. i kind of like that look, but it's probably more realistic on the pc version.

 

[prometheus34572]

Almost everything in the PC version looked better imo, except for this..

In that picture i prefer how it is on the Xbox360, just more effects going on, better atmosphere, gives the overall feeling of destruction, while in the pc version its just some tiny patches of fire and no smoke.

 

[secondchildren]

The first one it's definitely better and more realistic, the second more "catoonish". Ain't the first from PC?

 

[ksaad]

The one on the left is from the Xbox version. I really hope this Enhanced Edition enhances the visuals on the PC.

 

[luc0s]

The first one it's definitely better and more realistic, the second more "catoonish". Ain't the first from PC?

Nope, the first (left) one is from the Xbox360.

 

[secondchildren]

Ah neat! I thought so thnx

 

[Arkray_gog]

Okay, someone in another forum posted, that some retailers are already sending out Enhanced Edition PC copys and he managed to get his already. He posted screenshots and: No, the lighting hasn't changed on PC.

Thanks CDPR for that

 

[complistic]

So some people have the EE of the PC version. Have they fixed the shadow dither effect? If you don't know what im talking about you can see it in the pic in the second post of this thread.

 

[prometheus34572]

So some people have the EE of the PC version. Have they fixed the shadow dither effect? If you don't know what im talking about you can see it in the pic in the second post of this thread.

Most likely not =/. The dithering is the one thing that annoys me the most with the game, its so hard to ignore specially in Floatsam. Its on everything, even peoples face's , just annoying as hell. Only way to really get rid of it is to play with Ubersampling, but i dont really have an Uber rig to do that. I tried finding other Anti-Aliasing solutions that might lower the dithering but no luck, Nvidia's FXAA works but dithering still there, SMAA works too but again it doesn't touch the dithering like Ubersampling. Sigh..