YouTube’s ‘ElAnalistaDeBits’ has shared a comparison video between the gameplay reveal and the final version of Star Wars Outlaws. And, as we can see, the final version looks almost as good as the gameplay reveal trailer. There are some slight downgrades. However, the game looks almost as good as that trailer.
So, what was downgraded you may ask. From what we can see, Ubisoft has reduced the amount of destructible objects in some scenes. To be honest, that’s not a big deal. However, the game’s explosions have taken a big hit.
I honestly don’t get it. One of the main criticisms of Watch_Dogs was the huge downgrade of its explosions. And while the downgrade here is not THAT big, it’s still noticeable. So, I don’t know why Ubisoft keeps doing it. What’s even funnier here is that it should be possible to have the “gameplay reveal” explosion in the final version. So, I don’t know why Massive has reduced its visual effect. It makes no sense.
It’s also worth noting that some other areas can look better than the reveal gameplay trailer. Take for instance a look at 7:50. That area looks better in the final version.
What’s also important to note is that the physic effects remain the same. That was one of the things a lot of gamers thought wouldn’t be possible in the final version. Well, I’m happy to report that all the physics/wind effects you saw in the gameplay reveal trailer are still present here.
Overall, Massive was able to match the quality of the gameplay reveal trailer. Yes, there are some minor changes and downgrades. However, the final product looks almost as good. In other words, we don’t have another “Watch_Dogs” on our hands. So, kudos to the devs for not dropping the ball.
As I’ve said, I’m currently on vacation. Thus, we won’t have a day-1 PC Performance Analysis. Once I get back, I’ll be sure to test the final version, so stay tuned for more.
Enjoy!
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What gave it away, the fact that beautiful real life model in the game looks like she's pushing catapults from Mordor?
Ma'am Solo
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I do not like what DEI/Wake is doing with the game and movie industry, but the main character in SW Outlaws is definitely a woman (the V-shaped jaw is clearly visible), just without the makeup.
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Makeup makes a big difference.
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For me, having a character who is universally attractive or unattractive is not the be-all and end-all of things. But it's clear why latter has become so favoured these days. For the same reasons why they're trying to normalise obesity and other unusual phenomena.
The issue some people have with her character design is that she looks nothing like the actress who I imagine she was scanned from. Why bother scanning these people if you're not gonna use their likeness at all? Which is precisely what happened in this case.
The lack of makeup is not the issue here because not all women look all that bad without it. There are many examples you can find on Google which proves my point but you decided to go with the worst possible one to justify the way the main character looks. The chick in the image you provided can still make herself look better naturally without needing makeup. Her jawline and facial structure also looks that of a woman.
This has become a new standard in Western games: to uglify female protagonists and/or make them as masculine as humanly possible. Somehow male characters aren't getting the same treatment, at least to the same degree, and a lot of us should ask why that is rather than to sweep it aside for the 9 millionth time.
i dont see it, the character model looks like a muppet from team america.
Comment of the year, right here. Damn man, you didn't have to do them so bad. Straight savage 😂🤣😭
The biggest downgrade appears to be the vastly decreased ray traced global illumination, which is also causing the explosions to look less impressive beyond the reduced debris (3:54 mark) as there's no red glow on the wall from the explosion in the final version and overall causes the game to look flatter and more video-gamey.
slightly? The only good thing i had to say about this game is how it looked good, now it looks alright. Anyway the game is like a x360 corridor stealth game and the open world stuff are tacked on and small. Its laughable how you have so many forced stealth sections and when she punches stormtroopers in the chest, they fall down, wtf is all that white armor? Is it for show? The game is also filled with bugs, its worse than the journalists are saying and they running defense for it.
I know what you mean about the take downs, it's almost like they are from a movie made in 1977 – 1980 …… Ditto with Kay's hair and clothing, definitely a late 70's feel
Wait a minute …… Wasn't the Star Wars movie made in 1977 and The Empire Strikes Back made in 1980 …… I'm sure that's all just a coincidence
I bet I'm about the only one here who actually got to see Star Wars in a theater when it originally released
you mean the one that han solo shot first?
He probably means the one where stormtroopers were bested by ewoks with sticks and small rocks…
Always comical to see people call out that they are a fossil, and think that gives them some type of argumentative weight.
You could have been alive to see the birth of the planet for all anyone cares, this game still looks like dogs**t, and you attempting to white knight for it, won't change that.
the takedowns dont even match their animations properly, come on.
LOL way to move the goal post. Just be honest and say if it was Han and Chewie in the exact same game then you wouldn't be b*ching. But because it stars a female that doesn't look bangable enough to you, the magnifying glasses come out and you try to find every single problem possible with the game
It's just ubislop and would be just as trash if it had a male lead, deal with it.
if han solo punched a storm trooper in the chest and he went down i would laugh, if hand solo btch slapped a storm trooper and that worked ,i would laugh.
You're really trying to play the ol' "source movie was made 50 years ago, so games made 50 years later, should be designed as if they were made back then too" argument, are ya? LMAO
its especially stupid since everything is "re-imagined for a modern audience"
no they are not, they look laughable.
I really think they might have originally designed this game for a male character and changed it during development and just kept all the same animations.
new info says its a repurposed beyond good and evil 2 with a star wars skin on it…i can see it.
I never heard that. Where is Beyond Good and Evil 2 by the way?
its star wars outlaws.
i've said it for months now.
"…seems to have been slightly downgraded"
Understatement of the gaming year right here. Congrats, John. 😆
I just wonder who the hell in Ubisoft (mis)management thought that ugly green tint looks good? They used that same crap in Valhalla especially in the Dawn of Ragnarök DLC which is why I think it was a management directive to use that crud ……
right, thats the worst part with ubisoft visuals not the character design.
i dunno but they sure passed the check on investors and gave him the go.
I wouldn't call it a downgrade. Just a few tradeoffs. And no mention of the settings he's using. Pc version has hidden hidden settings like Avatsr also.
darcy mfo give it a rest you're just downvoting everyone cause you're super biased and can't see the woods for the tree. If 30 comments say (including the author of the article) that they downgraded this crap and there's proof to that, why the fk are you even here? fkng troll
You see it, you just don't want to believe it because it hurts. You really liked this game and now you see what they've done to it to appeal to console fanbois.
I'm renting and playing it on pc, and in my opinion it looks well above average.
Ubislop most uninspired developer of the year
https://youtu.be/kkTbIO2Yg3I
Come on. It's a competition Ubisoft could never win even with their entire teams combined.
Even though I have a lot of issues with the story of Red Dead Redemption 2, it will always bother me that it lost goty to God of War 2018.
God, the day Ubisoft goes under feels so close I can smell it.
With this and the possible failure of AC: Shadows, Ubisoft is going to be wounded for sure at least.
its the only thing that will make them stop making the same game all over again and finally change and put some effort into making games. At this point i cant play ubisoft games because they are all the same.
They still must ensure it runs with decent performance on the HW that the target audience uses. Thats no excuse. Ubisoft is hit and miss when optimizing games.
Hardware Unboxed seemed to think it was pretty well optimized especially compared to other recently released games
Hey man take your time. I've gotten about 10ish hours in and have been mostly pleasntly surprised by the game. So far the only thing I hate is the speeder and how it's pretty annoying to pilot on mnk.
The horses in AC games are the same way, they work great on a controller but not very well with a M&K but that's to be expected. You can't simulate 16 bit analog control with a 1 bit key press. Also the Speeder is intentionally janky until you upgrade it. Same thing with the ship
Good to know, my friend was telling me the same about the speeder. I haven’t played a ubisoft game in years apart from siege so this style has been relatively fresh to me. I do wish I could play this on steam deck.
What is this "downgrade" supposed to be? Do you need an electron microscope to tell the difference in this shot? Gamers sure have become nit-picky.
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Brilliant rebuttle, bud. Cherry picking a screenshot, which "still" shows downgrades in the background.
I look forward to hearing of your vast accomplishments as the inevitable lawyer sleuth you are sure to become. Unmatchable wit.
Why on earth would you give a greedy sloppy corp the benefit of the doubt, why? You're a consumer just like us, it's your money too. Are you that biased? Think of your wallet.
So you are wasting your time on a site full of people you dislike? How is this a win over us and not a loss for you?
I am an American gamer and these crybabies don't represent all of us
and yet you surf this EU site everyday. malaka
Most of us are EU here, so your statement is utterly absurd.
I'm just letting my EU brother know that not all of us are stuck up elitist crybabies who whine and complain anytime a video game doesn't perfectly mirror their desires
But it’s not about mirroring desires is it? It’s about delivering on promises. How can you be ok with lies? They show you one thing and deliver another. Hypocrisy at best. If you’re ok with that, then you’re part of the problem “brother”.
not sure if you describe people here or in twitter and journalist sites.
you are a crybaby defending this trash. She punched a storm trooper in the chest, wtf is that gonna do? Its a animations recycled from another game where there were no armored enemies.
that clown has me blocked.
that's a bold statement there bud. Assuming that's what you believe about the rest of us, then yeah, we do hate this company because it fks up everytime, but most of all, we hate their M.O.
Sure, if you're that "anyone" you're referring to, then you just classified yourself in the majority, stpd and unwilling to change anything.
Us sophisticated folk always btch about common dmb folk that never change. Unfortunately you're the btches that work a 9 to 5 and don't ask questions. Congrats you're the supply and demand.
Ubisoft thrives on the likes of you woke-@ss liptards
What downgrade? It looks virtually the same with the exception of contrast and assets being changed. I think most of you are spewing blind hatred here simply because of the game's nature.
The downgrade here, if there is any, simply doesn't compare to their older titles like Watch_Dogs, Far Cry 3, Rainbow Six Siege, etc. At least here they didn't lie by presenting fake gameplay like they have done in the past a bunch of times.
How can we fix your eyes to see the differences?
We need to appoint him an ophthalmologist, and/or a psychiatrist. I don;t think he's all there.
Can you blame us? it's our fking cash!! wake up.
and yes, on this platform we're very very selective and our vision is 20/20.
You might want to get that checked bud, cause it's right fking there.
don't buy it there I fixed it for you
Wasn't gonna. Any downgrade deserves at least that.
there is a hidden graphics mod you have to use the same control window as on avatar and it unlocks the illegal mod in the options but even my 4090 can't follow
It's just hidden not illegal …. They hide it because every knucklehead with a 4060 or a 6800XT will turn it on and then complain that "the game isn't optimized" because they only get 15 FPS
Cool story explaining why it is OK to bait and switch.
You realize that your dumb a*s just attempted outing the developers as being inept, right? lol Just give it up, man. You already look like a massive tool.
Too much stealth missions. Theyre long. They're hard. And with the devs not liking maps or waypoints or quest helping explanations – but the guards can see you from 5,000 yards away and kick you out immediately… so its just frustrating. It's to where you'll either bang your face against your television for an afternoon or pause the game to go watch 45 minutes of youtube tutorials on what you're supposed to do. I can't speak for other gamers but I don't enjoy needing to pause my Xbox every 5 minutes to go watch YouTube for a half hour to see how other people complete a mission or where I'm supposed to go / what I'm supposed to do
Everyone complains about Ubisoft's maps and too many waypoints and question marks and messy UI …… But then someone else complains when they take all that away and clean up the UI and make exploration more immersive rather than checking off question marks on a map
The stealth missions are a throw back to the pre-Origins Assassin's Creed games which everyone keeps claiming they want back but then complain about it when they do come back. I don't care for the "fail until you memorize the correct path" stealth missions but I understand why they went back to them because of all the complaints that the new open world model stealth wasn't like the old style and they wanted the old style back and that is exactly what we got with Mirage and Outlaws
I took part in a couple of Ubisoft consumer research panels back in 2019 and 2020 and warned them back then that going back to this stealth model was a mistake and really only a handful of hardcore AC fans wanted this brought back and most weren't going to like it. It was no surprise to me that Mirage is one of the lowest rated AC games. The combat sucked and the stealth was almost as boring as the lead protagonist Basim. And it's no surprise to me most people don't like the stealth in Outlaws either …. Gamers are so …. fickle
It's because massive decided to not use raytraced gi and just di. Cus as seen in cyberpunk it blows the console versions out of the water when this is done. Instead it uses the garbage made for console sw lumen like crap to try and keep visual parity there is literally no other reason for this
Why does Ubisoft always do this? Do they think they are going to get more preorders by deceiving people before reviews show what they game actually looks like when it releases?
The main character is still ugly in both versions.
It's slightly downgraded but person who actually did the comparison did a terrible job of comparing. First of all he is clearly playing with mouse and keyboard which in my opinion a third person game always have the best experience using a controller. I don't own this game yet so I'm not sure about the FOV but it does seem quiet different from the final version so if there is an option he could've just set it right to make the comparison a little better. Of course, it's an Ubisoft title so you all must be familiar with the term "Vertical Slice". You will never get the exact product what is shown in publicity ads, commercials, trailers, etc. Lastly, it still looks great to me and is far from anything that was done with Watchdogs (1) trailer.
You can change the fov in the pc version.
It defaults at 70 but looks a lot better if you bump it up to 90 or 100 especially on an ultrawide monitor.
It's no where near as bad as the Witcher 3 downgrade was but everyone conveniently forgets about that and how buggy it was at release especially on consoles
It defaults at 70 but looks a lot better if you bump it up to 90 or 100 especially on an ultrawide monitor.
It's no where near as bad as the Witcher 3 downgrade was but everyone conveniently forgets about that and how buggy it was at release especially on consoles
It has the scro walk in these awful cover photos oof nastyaf
Explosions? Most probably political invasion of DEI/ jewish leftism. Everyone knows explosions are cool. They dont want you think they are cool https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9c2242a713f36e50ecc78b04fed85203df2af4e4177716e246fbec65d4957fc2.png
Sheesh …. If you are going to make up bullsh*t Conspiracy Theories at least put some effort into making them somewhat believable …. or at least entertaining
I dont feel like explaining why grass is green, I told you who paints it blue https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2b467b1f56146464404328967b5f1414b05cdeeb6bd36fb44a717923b33da9af.jpg
the jewish question is proven beyond a doubt at this point, from assasin creed shadows based on fiction written by guy who made it up because his father was jewish and a refugee, he said that in a interview with the japanesse migration agency in 2020, to japan not having a feminist movement until some jewish woman moved there and started it, society did not became open and woke on its own, it was jewish invaders who wanted to change culture to make it rootless and cosmopolitan.
its always apple…and jews.
UbiShit doing a downgrade ? i would never guess that , what a surprise , i'm confused , i'm gonna kill my self …
Apparently you have to add “-unlockmaxsettings” when launching the game to unlock "Outlaw" graphics settings, which is likely what they used in their trailers but sounds this tanks performance for even a 4090 and explains why the framerate is so choppy in their pre-released footage.
So they were too lazy to optimize the game further and instead just made people think they were playing at max settings so they wouldn't b*tch about performance..
Pig ignorant moron posts more clickbait for his incel trash audience. Well done pr*ck
you sound like c#ck
Put together the toxicity of the video game world and the toxicity of the Star Wars world and what do you get? Prime comment reading…
notice how they never say you are wrong though, "omg stop being so toxic, eat the slop and ask for more"
Why even bother with a beautiful model when they turn it into Urkel's sister.