Swamp water, puddle reflections and blood on water
Hello everyone. I don't want to be that guy starting a downgrade whining thread. I'm sure TW3 is brilliant and looks great and whatnot. Reviews are shining from what I can see. I'm not here to bash the game or the devs for anything. I'm sure when I play it I'll love it and everything.
Just want to know if anyone with the game, or dev can confirm what I'm seeing here.
Watching PC ultra footage from the final version, it seems like swamp waters no longer have full realtime reflections, like they did in the 2014 35 minute demo.
In that demo, it reflected everything, including characters. Now, there's plenty of footage with swamp water, but I've never seen any realtime reflections like that.
Not to mention blood on water. There was a thread discussing blood splatter, but can someone tell me if the blood on water has been taken out ? It isn't there in recent footage. I really did like it in the 35 minute demo, added to the visceral feel of combat.
Also, something that I'm pretty sure about. No more puddle reflections ? The 2014 35 minute demo had screenspace realtime reflections everywhere - on puddles and wet ground in Novigrad. All recent PC ultra footage doesn't. That feature looks to be removed entirely.
That recent insider leak came out after I noticed and provided an explanation. I am inclined to believe the insider is legit, but you never know about those.
There's been a ton of PC footage released on ultra by now. The absence of these features is something I noticed consistently. Just wondering if anyone can provide a conclusive answer.
If said features have been removed, I really don't see why PC users can't have the options to turn them back on. Surely that's something CDPR should do for the PC version ?
If this specific feature has already been discussed, please redirect me to that thread. Can't seem to find anything about it.
Hello everyone. I don't want to be that guy starting a downgrade whining thread. I'm sure TW3 is brilliant and looks great and whatnot. Reviews are shining from what I can see. I'm not here to bash the game or the devs for anything. I'm sure when I play it I'll love it and everything.
Just want to know if anyone with the game, or dev can confirm what I'm seeing here.
Watching PC ultra footage from the final version, it seems like swamp waters no longer have full realtime reflections, like they did in the 2014 35 minute demo.
In that demo, it reflected everything, including characters. Now, there's plenty of footage with swamp water, but I've never seen any realtime reflections like that.
Not to mention blood on water. There was a thread discussing blood splatter, but can someone tell me if the blood on water has been taken out ? It isn't there in recent footage. I really did like it in the 35 minute demo, added to the visceral feel of combat.
Also, something that I'm pretty sure about. No more puddle reflections ? The 2014 35 minute demo had screenspace realtime reflections everywhere - on puddles and wet ground in Novigrad. All recent PC ultra footage doesn't. That feature looks to be removed entirely.
That recent insider leak came out after I noticed and provided an explanation. I am inclined to believe the insider is legit, but you never know about those.
There's been a ton of PC footage released on ultra by now. The absence of these features is something I noticed consistently. Just wondering if anyone can provide a conclusive answer.
If said features have been removed, I really don't see why PC users can't have the options to turn them back on. Surely that's something CDPR should do for the PC version ?
If this specific feature has already been discussed, please redirect me to that thread. Can't seem to find anything about it.
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