Back in 2015, Crackdown 3 was advertised as the game that would show the power of the Cloud and that it would offer incredible destruction never before seen in any game. However, that was in 2015. The game will release in a couple of days and as we can see, the destruction system has been severely downgraded.
Back in 2015, the developers claimed that each and every bullet would have an affect on the surfaces. Contrary to other games, Crackdown 3 was meant to have “physical” bullets, however its 2019 build seems to be the exact opposite of what the developers were promising. Developers also claimed that players would be able to carve their own shapes with their bullets and those shapes would have proper physics, something that is not possible.
What’s even more disappointing is that the developers were claiming that players would be able to completely destroy whole buildings in the multiplayer mode, something that is not possible as there are indestructible pillars supporting the buildings.
The developers were also claiming that the falling buildings would have proper physics and would affect all the other buildings, something that – again – is not possible in the game’s multiplayer mode that is powered by the Cloud.
Furthermore, the debris is disappearing after a while, something that was not happening in the 2015 build (which obviously made the whole destruction system look more impressive than what we’ll be getting in 2019).
Now don’t get me wrong, it’s pretty amazing that the Cloud actually works, however, this is a far cry from what Microsoft was promising back in 2015. Perhaps the publisher shouldn’t had overhyped the Cloud and how impressive the destruction system of Crackdown 3 would have been thanks to it!
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this game never looked impressive at all, its just that now it looks more lame than ever.
well, the downgrade was obviously done for the pc version because it doesnt have the power of da cloud. 😀
I agree.
Cant tell if serious.
Good bait mate. I legitimately cant tell if you are serious, i guess this is what we call pokerfacetroll.
Remember that bizzysgs is a Sony fanboy so he’s not that smart.
I’m going to take a stab in the dark and guess this is the same situation as Sim City 2013 where the ‘cloud’ was just thinly-veiled DRM. The destruction physics are about the same as what we had in Red Faction: Guerrilla a decade ago.
Yes, No Schitt… These people never gets tired of lying.
“Da cloud processing!”
It is in fact Vapor Processing,
as in vaporware.
Maybe they calculated that cloud electricity bill will cost more than game on longer terms!
To all these Phil worshipping apologist…is this still true?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bd94649ed82fc70ca10701f50529009dda1059a29157936f478482ffca5a9ac2.png
Even our ‘beloved’ Sp4ctr0 Spencer appears to have lost the faith!
And you haven’t?
lol
What I wouldn’t give for a Red Faction reboot…
The way game companies lie to us (gamers) should be sanctioned by law. This is fake advertising in extremis, plain and simple.
wont happen. too many jew publishers would lobby for it not to happen.
Congratulations! You sir win the re**rd of the day award.
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no way there’s any “cloud power” in that game. shizzz looks like it can be done with native xbox hardware.
devs probably thought… well, farcry 5 didn’t give a hoot about physics, screw it!
And were they saying that back in 2016 long before Far Cry 5 was even a thing lol?
Final version 50$
PreAlpha version 80$
Offt-topic Metroid Prime 2 Echoes GC got a AI Enhanced pack and it is gorgeous!
https://www.resetera.com/threads/ai-neural-networks-being-used-to-generate-hq-textures-for-older-games-you-can-do-it-yourself.88272/post-17772369
Metroid Prime 3 Corruption is also been worked by the modder.
After having used and been impressed with the packs for Viewtiful Joe, Metroid Prime and F-Zero GX I’m now downloading this already! Thanks for the heads-up.
Hopefully Eternal Darkness get this AI Enhanced soon too!
Yup. Between the AI Enhanced packs for Dolphin and the graphics packs for CEMU I’ve been having great fun playing GameCube and Wii U games recently.
Also, there’s reportedly a major improvement imminent for Yuzu:
www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=yK7k__5Hb0Y
Possiblethe worst game ever created recently and fear the power of the cloud!
This is the gaming industry nowdays… just lies.
MS barely started back up again so of course their quality is going to be exactly like that. Pampered execs and shareholders thought they were going to get filthy rich by avoiding the hard work, investments, and time and get a nice fat handout by scamming consumers using EA-like GaaS scams (hell even Halo and Forza had loot gambling and empty promises for a bit), but after people moved on MS had to “re-pivot” from their mobile model scam pivot back to the hard work of making regular games again; lets hope they woke up.
The proof will be in consistency in high quality over the long term, like other strong, pro-consumer, respected, on the level companies have earned with hard work and have proven as such – not with flashy PR, influencers, and marketing trash.
The power of the xbox and sh.t… ….
https://i2.wp.com/www.forevergeek.com/wp-content/media/2014/05/xbox_done.jpg?w=665&ssl=1
No integrity whatsoever.
Pretty sure they’re not using any clouds at all. Otogi on the ORIGINAL Xbox had similar destruction.
Microsoft even had to delay the review the embargo to mere hours from launch. That shows great promise lol.
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simply it was too ambition, downgrade and rescriction was inevitable.
Christ, I’ve been playing Red Faction Guerrilla on Steam and the destruction is more detailed than in the last clip. That’s just pathetic, since that game was developed for consoles in the 360 era, 10 YEARS AGO. Why is one of the richest software companies on earth routinely outdone by small developers both on the software and hardware front? MS is an embarrassment.
cartoonish animations I have no problem with it’s everything else.
And the “as long as its FUUUUUUUUNNNNN and I can play with friends then it doesn’t matter if it gets mediocre reviews” excuse doesn’t even work now either because you CAN’T play with your friends, at launch anyway lol.
Teh puwa of de clouaud