Our reader ‘Juan Manuel Brizuela’ has informed us about the latest version of TheWorse’s mod for Watch_Dogs. According to its changelog, this new version of this popular mod comes with performance improvements, adjustments to both DOF and Normal Camera, increased rain and splashes intensity.
In addition, this new version fixes the previously problematic/bugged Headlight shadows, changes the shadow bias in order to fix flickering, further strengths SSAO visibility, and Sun light and Sky intensity.
Those interested can download the mod from here.
Here is the changelog for TheWorse 0.97 Mod:
-Trees has been fully fixed.
-Performance has been increased.
-FOG has been decreased.
-DOF has been decreased
-Reflections resolution has been decreased with no noticiable differenceHeadlight Changes
-Headlight shadows are now working properly.
-Changed the distance of the actual texture in order to make the overall look more realistic
-Changed the intensity of the light reflection and the overall texture.
-Headlight colors are now properly applied to new and older cars.
-Made a new texture for the lensflares.
-Changed the shadow bias so flickering should be fixed, still read the big disclaimer.Lighting Changes
-Sun light color has been changed for every tod in order to clean up the horrible washed up colors that ubisoft put into the final game.
-SSAO Visibility and strength has been increased for every tod.
-Exposure has been adjusted aswell for every tod. To ensure better colors and visibility.
-White point has been reduced for better white balance.
-Sun light intensity has been adjusted for every tod.
-Sky intensity has been adjusted for every tod.
-Shadows has been adjusted.
-Overall light intensity has been adjusted and/or increased for every tod.
-Headlights and streetlights are now enabled for every tod in storm weather. Due to being now really dark like it should be.
-Increased light probes intensity in order to make night not that dark.
-Other minor changes.Rain Changes
-Intensity has been changed.
-Splashes intensity and size increased.
-Cascades intensity and distance changed.
-Rain streak intensity increased.
-Now it should rain more frequently
-Other changes.Various Changes
-Fog has been changed and increased for storm weather.
-Fog has been increased for clear day weather.
-New bloom adapted and changed for every tod and every weather.
-New colorgrading settings to adapt and change the new lighting.
-Added new sky settings for every tod and every weather.
-Civilian density increased to maximum values to ensure its not a ghost town.
-Helicopter and Police volumetric lights intensity increased.
-Aiden’s coat movement and wave speed reduced so it doesn’t wave like crazy.
-Normal Camera slighly changed.
-DOF intensity and distance slighly changed.
Have fun!
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Had enough of the game to be honest, really predictable and repetitive the more I played it. Seem to turn more into a kill fest, the random crimes offer no real point to do them any more, nothing more to find and like most Ubisoft games everything is on the map, see enemies through walls. I think I actually prefer Sleeping Dogs after the time I’ve tried Watch Dogs.
Aiden Pearce is such a boring character, the hacking has nothing to it and easy, hacking conversations and places results in nothing interesting, missing person crimes are terrible, XP system lets you get too many points to spend, too much money as well as it’s so easy to hack rich bank accounts.
I’ve Come to realise it’s just Assassins Creed, exactly like it, all the mechanics are the same, combat areas marked as red, camera are like the sense in AC to tag enemies and see them through walls, towers open up places on the map just like AC4 and FC3. What annoys me a lot as well is Aiden can’t even get an armour or vests against shooting, yet you’re able to own guns nothing short of soldier, when really you’re forced to use hacking and stealth. The more I played this game, the more I just started seeing things wrong with it that annoyed the hell out of me, with lack of attention to detail being another which even last-gen games had more of.
I know this is about TheWorse mod but ugh, using it only got me so far in this game before I had enough of the actual game.
I didn’t buy it and it can wait till it’s $10. But it’s interesting and hilarious to see how this saga evolved from a purposeful downgrade to not embarrass the console versions (In particular the PS4 version which had all the advertising dollars thrown at it by Sony), to Ubi-Soft as a whole being accused of downgrading games to finding more instances of console downgrading in The Division and Far Cry 4 (Also the comedy when Far Cry 4 wasn’t even running Full 1080P on the PS4 stage demo). It’s provided more of it’s fair share in entertainment, proven Ubi is as bad as EA to PC consumers and the hilarious mewlings of console peasants as the E3 settings were found as always brought comedy (Especially Derp’s ridiculous attempts at damage control when the settings were found to be locked to the PS4 version in the PC Files)
My local game store is absolutely stuffed to the gills with second hand copies of the console versions already. The Sony section utterly bursting with Knack, Killzone, Infamous and Watch Dogs. It’s funny how much Sony pushed “No DRM” and the consumers took full advantage with the crapola on offer.
*The ramblings of a mad man!*
Console damage control. Right on cue. Amazing.
Guess that rumor Sony has an alert system that notices keywords in comments section and social media that lets them send in marketers instantly is completely true
http://boards.deniableplausibility.net/v/thread/252181145
Not really I didn’t read most of it(I don’t need to because you post the same rants on most articles) Just wondering why you feel the need to ruin people’s articles by going off topic like that? (I game on PC and Xbox too by the way)
Because most PC “gamers” are lonely and attention starved. They only live to boast about how much they spent on prebuilt systems from tigerdirect or newegg, just so they can post on forums to brag about how much more powerful their toy box is than yours.
Also, not only do they shitpost console specific threads/topics into oblivion, but look how they act in *their own* threads. Shitposting is just in their nature.
Oh look. The Salesforce ExactTarget™ marketing cloud has blessed us with more paid Sony damage control. So what triggered the keyword. Was it 900P? Downgrade? POS4? When are you going to let Derp out of the basement?
>get told
>must be a shill!
every time. PC fags are so predictable.
also,
>accuses me of being salesforce/damage control
>has an avatar of gabe newell
>doing his own damage control
fucking epic.
Ah, the usual “Sony fanboy wanders onto PC gaming site and gets buttmad when people aren’t worshiping the PS4” backpedalling.
This site is not for you. Later Sony fanboy. Drone on at Cinemablend or some other Sony shill site.
>no argument left
>better check Grey Elf’s post history to see if there is something to make fun of.
What a gigantic retard.
Certain people just come across like scorned exes ranting or something! HaHaha
funny i thought the sony fanboys are the one who cant stop daamge controling for their company online and maintain their delussions of greatness.
“NO you are wrong sony is the best.”
“NO sony won this e3 and kicked ms arse.”
“Sony has greatness you are just xbot losers and no one cares about pcs.”
“live to boast about how much they spent on prebuilt systems”
Yes we use prebuilt systems, FACEPALM,i bet you are the typical consoeltard that thinks hacks are the same as mods.
“Shitposting is just in their nature.”
Oh am sorry last time i checked every xbox article si infested with sony fanboys trashing xbox about how much better their console is than xbox which is irrelevant to discussion.
Long story short YOU KNOW NOTHING so please STFU!
Oh Shut UP! All you do is hate hate hate. What a sad sad life you must have to bash a piece of plastic all the time.
GO suck sonys dck dumbass derp, i hate sony and i got reaons you on the other hand, lick pictures of yoshida at night and damage control for them.
that post was borderline nonsense. I can see the shitposting is strong on this site, so it’ll be yet another I avoid.
Actually the post that was borderline nonsense was yours and as for shitposting the only thing someone has to do is to click on your name and he will see an entire wiki of shitposting and desperate attempts at flaming, then again you visit ign, so nonsense and flaming are like a second nature to you.
Feel free to kill yourself wherver you got tired getting pwned arsewipe.
You seem to avoid arguments so i make gonna trhow them at your face
Pc gamers DONT spend moeny on PREBUILTS they build their pcs themslfs and attacking pc gamers calling them lonely and attention starved on a pc site is beyond pathetic.
Not only you are clueless and wrong but you are also a pathetic troll.
But hey go ahead and keep talking i am taking pictures of your nonsense so i can give em to pc gamers in other sites such ign so they can see what kinda jerkoff you are.
” I didn’t read most of it(”
Sony f2gs never do.
thanks.
the post of a irrelevant c3nt
You, Dakan45, Amir, are the same person. Not gamers at all, but comment trolls who have no life but to hate on a piece of plastic.
The other day, someone posted Sony has a keyword logger that sends damage control viral marketers to
anyone talking anti-Sony or about their competitors on /v/ and Sony fanboys denied it. You are just proving it,
derp.
Like anyone gives 2 cents about what trolls like you think. Get out of the basement and play in the sun.
Out of arguments. Resorting to ad hominem. Typical.
PC is still the master race :^)
I’m a PC gamer and love PC gaming. Stop with the master race crap, you’re just making a big fool of yourself.
Derp we know it’s you. It’s getting embarrassing now.
Like your multiple accounts. The pot calling the kettle black.
Derp you are copying my multiple accounts and my sayings. I’m flattered. But in the end, you are still derp.
And the PS4 still sucks.
exactly. i finished the game at 60% but i can not play it anymore, even these amazing mods are not enough for me to get back at the game again. at least on GTA4 (the worst GTA) i could fly two types of choppers,it has way better ragdoll physics than AC or WD games,better side mission,less repetitive more fun. it’s in Ubisoft’s DNA, you star the game (AC/WD/FC – Ubisoft the game), they give you 2 to 3 missions in tutorial and the rest of the game is repeating the same 2 or 3 missions in other parts of the world till it’s finished.
Wow. So it’s not as great as it was hyped up to be. I have also waited to purchase until they patched (or it was modded) to respectable PC standards, but you guys are saying the core game itself is just not that interesting, regardless of the bells and whistles unlocked by mods?
I was excited to explore the streets of Chicago, at least. Is that even worth it?
It was fun till I finished the story but if you sit and look back all I ever really did was shoot and press Q to do everything and the occasional connect the pipes minigame , Still confused on what Kaspaersky consulted with them over, because all I ever saw was press Q never anything in depth, also kinda proves there Jonathan’s statement about people going too deep with the hacking.
In a nutshell Press Q is bascially all you ever do.
well the same can be said with everything you do on a smartphone, you just tap the screen, but i agree with you
The environment is nice, well worth exploring, lots of nice locations and places to go, that part I did like, it’s probably one of the biggest highlights of the game.
it depends, as sean said the world is beautiful and exploring it is fun and as Corrie Botha said it’s fun for the first few hours in story, after that you just repeat the same thing over and over again. i guess it worth it if you can buy it on a sale, it’s not worth 60$. wait for GTAV, at least you can fly 😀
Buy Divinity: Original Sin if you like rpgs, specually the classic ones. to me it’s not just this year’s GOTY but more
oh shit i have been knee deep in original sin for about 4 days, ever since i finished dragon age origins + awakening + dlc. Game is great
yeah like i said you get a phonecal when you load the game about the next mission just like fc3, al ubi games are the same i find it hard to be excited for their “new” games.
You know, I agreed with everything you just said, but I liked the game. It’s not my favorite game ever, but it kept me thoroughly engaged throughout.
I guess the thing that tipped it over the edge for me are those moments where the environment and the graphics come together and for a moment it all just seems so real. It’s a strange, albeit thin, illusion that often impressed me. Of course, the illusion completely breaks as soon as I start traveling at more than a walk and the stuttering starts, but for the brief moments here and there it really gave me a strong sense of nostalgia for my past lives.
Another thing I liked (I feel I should talk about some good things after all the hate posts) was just how damn cool they made hacking. One of my guilty pleasures is that movie Hackers (1995) – It’s a very unrealistic view of hacking and hackers, but they made computers more than just a Facebook machine. Movies like Hackers and games like Watch_Dogs express the idea of computers as a cool and interesting lifestyle, and the people that use computers as hip and stylish and fashionable. One of the reasons I became a digital artist is because of the exact feeling and belief that people who are able to express themselves through computers are pretty damn cool people.
Somewhere in W_D there is that game – that game that makes computer culture cool again. They sort of failed to deliver on that, though. A big problem is that we’re stuck with the character of Aiden. Imagine how much cooler the game would have been had we been that tattooed chick, or Jordi, or really anyone else. I mean, since when are trenchcoats cool? The irony is that, for a game that glorifies computers as lifestyle choice, Ubisoft locked it down so that we can’t use the game to express ourselves. We’re stuck in the Aiden Pierce body/ life and it can’t be escaped!
My suggestion to Ubisoft for Watch_Dogs 2 is ditch Aiden Pierce. I think they have to – part of hacking is not being caught and Pierce is all over the news by the end of the game. Anonymity is what makes a hacker, and in this sense Pierce is finished.
For the next game, make a character creation tool in the beginning and let us create the character we want! Would Aiden’s journey through the game have been any different had he worn a biker jacket and blue mohawk? Make an option to play as a woman, too. Why not? Would the story have been any different had the main protagonist been female? I don’t think so. Just imagine all those scenes where Aiden is talking to or comforting his sister – that would have worked just as well had they been two sisters! It may have worked better, actually – if the main character were female it would really contrast between the lifestyles of the other characters – the sister has kids and a suburban life, the tattooed chick would present the ‘deep end’ of the hacking spectrum, and stuck in the middle is the young lady that is stuck between both worlds. It works.
Another thing they should do for Watch_Dogs is make the character a Jason Brody-type character (Far Cry 3), where they start from nothing and learn a new skill. In Brody’s case it was how to be a badass assassin sharp-shooting warrior, in the case of W_D_2, have the character know nothing much about computers, then get caught up in a bigger espionage plot that forces the player to learn the hacking tricks-of-the-trade. In Watch_Dogs Aiden already knew how to hack, but there was a time when he was learning it – THAT time would have presented a far more interesting journey of self-discovery.
ubisoft keep saying that the AI was advanced..but what i see nothing special there compared to other game AI…
fc3 had a phonecall of the next mission every time you load the game, same with watchdogs, going to a camp and meeling the target is a activity that is in both games as well.
Wtf ubi? all your games are the same.
Same with AC4 as well.
yes, ubi games are all basically the same game presented differently 🙂
Poor $0N¥ paupers not able to run this with their inferior PoS4 hardware.
Article has nothing to do with Sony or the PS4 yet you bring the subject up like a fanboy. You’re the reason why people hate pc gamers.
Well, not to get too involved in this, but his post has everything to do with PS4. No modding on consoles, hence this (meaning TheWorse 0.97b Mod) is not available to console players.
The post does not mention consoles at all. So what if consoles don’t have modding, the post isn’t about modding on console so why bring the subject up? Because of being a fanboy
The game was downgraded because of consoles, all because of “parity”. It’s why we need this mod in the first place.
With no proof at all. Nothing but a rumor, end of story.
The mod is proof, unlocked, disabled settings for the PC version.
Please. These come nowhere near the E3 build. It’s just bloom and DOF heavy. So just add a bunch of effects and its the same as E3 build, yeah right.
Also, why would Ubisoft leave the settings to be discovered. They know people will find about it and expose it. They have nothing to gain by leaving those options for people to discover.
The mod doesn’t “add” anything, it’s just disabled effects and if you read the article about it you wouldn’t need to ask.
The mod improves performance, enables headlight shadows, bloom, bokeh DoF during gameplay, properly lit particles near light sources when it rains, better lighting, colourgrading. Ubisoft admitted gimped the PC version in favour of “parity” because they didn’t want the PC version to look so much better.
Again the modder didn’t add anything, just enabled features from the E3 2012 demo that were disabled.
I have used the mod if question extensively and compared it to the E3 build. It comes nowhere close. The E3 build has proper cloth physics, wind physics, better lightning that doesn’t exist it any mod.
Also, Ubisoft never admitted to gimping anything. I follow gaming news, and never read anywhere about Ubisoft admitting they fucked the PC version’s visuals.
“What made the Watch Dogs mod interesting is that many of its “new” graphical effects were apparently already in the game’s shipped code and were simply disabled for players who didn’t tinker with the game files. Graphical features like fog, bokeh depth of field, and bloom lighting effects were apparently written into the PC version of the game, only to be removed before it shipped. What’s more, re-enabling them though the mod doesn’t seem to make the game crash.
Much has already been made about how the final shipped version of Watch Dogs looks considerably worse than the version shown in presentations at the last two E3 shows. Those comparisons took on new weight when modders found references in the PC code to settings and animations explicitly meant for “E3” mode. Some have suggested that Ubisoft purposely scaled back the performance of the PC version of the game so it wouldn’t outclass the console versions too handily. One commentunearthed from the code lends some credence to this idea, by derisively suggesting that a color setting “is PC only, who cares.””
Part of the statement from Ubisoft in response:
“The PC version does indeed contain some old, unused render settings that were deactivated for a variety of reasons, including possible impacts on visual fidelity, stability, performance and overall gameplay quality”
No shit. Did you just discover gaming right now or something???
She doesn’t represent PC gamers, she represents internet trolls(just like half of the so called gamers on here! She hasn’t even got the nerve to stand by her comment so deletes it so her name doesn’t show on the comment)
These graphics mods are fascinating, but the game itself is so lame I can’t be bothered to play it any more.