I've been following this thread for quite some time without participating in it. I play on a console but I am one of those who gives a lot of importance to the technical section, graphical fidelity, although always considering the context of each game and where it is going to be played. I am one of those people who say "Give me all the graphics you can even if they are at 30 fps stable" although as I said without asking for impossible things and knowing the limitations of each platform.
It has been many years since I left the PC behind to play, basically since when I bought the X360 at the outset, my step in the next generation was the PS4 and in the current generation I am with a Series S. If that console is so "hated" on the one hand of the community in which it is little less than a mixture between shit and antichrist. But the TV where I use the console is not 4k and really with the Series S I have plenty. I ask for quality but so little I ask for the most to play.
Having given an idea of what I am looking for today with respect to graphics, I wanted to ask a few things because people with much more knowledge than me write around here.
I don't know if you are aware of the disaster that Ark Ascended is being, at least in regards to its console version. I have always had the impression that the game's developer studio is quite incompetent. I played the original Ark quite a bit on PS4 and the performance and resolution were pitiful. With the inclusion of Ark Ascended in the Gamepass I decided to download it to see how it looked with Unreal Enginge 5.
I tried it the same day it was available on the service and the truth is that I was quite surprised because there was undoubtedly a leap in quality with its original version. And above all for lighting, blessed Lumen. Above all the new techniques that are used today, without a doubt, my favorite in a global illumination system to notice those contrasts between well-lit sites and sites in the shade.
Well, just the next day they released an update to include a new map. With this update they have broken the game. There is no lighting per Lumen, worse quality of leftovers, no reflections in the water per Lumen, worse resolution in Series S. Worse quality in general.
I'm going to leave some screenshots before the patch and after the patch. Please do not criticize for the sake of criticizing, as I said at the beginning, understand the context and keep in mind that it is in a Series. Obviously the game looks much better on other platforms but what I want to show here is not that but the exaggerated downgrade that has been done in general because it also affects Series X and PS5
Before
After
The images after the patch even look a little better than they originally were because the game allows you to modify various graphic settings through the console, but there are things that are hidden and it is the best I could do.
I also wanted to comment on an f2p called Deceit 2 and that uses UE 5, in principle according to its developers it uses Lumen:
And finally, what do you think about kingdom come deliverance 2 and what version of Cryengine could it be using? I still have the first one to play but reviewing videos of the game, the landscapes still look really good today. And in general the game I think could look worse for the years that have passed.
