A report surfaced this weekend, suggesting that the PC version of Horizon Zero Dawn lacked the PS4 snow deformation effects. These snow deformation effects were introduced in the Frozen Wilds DLC, and are only featured in that area. Thus, we’ve decided to head over to that area, begin the DLC mission and see whether this report was accurate.
Unfortunately, we can confirm that the PC version does not feature the snow deformation effects that are present in the PS4 version. We don’t know why Virtuous and Guerrilla Games decided to leave those effects out from the PC version. And, to be honest, it’s a shame as those snow effects were really cool.
Moreover, it appears that the game has another issue that is related to its framerate. From the looks of it, Aloy’s hair does not behave/move correctly when the game is running at higher than 30fps.
Below you can find a video that shows this hair bug, as well as the lack of the snow deformation effects.
So yeah, it appears that the game has more issues than we initially thought. Another report surfaced this weekend, suggesting that the PC version was a debug build. However, and as we’ve already reported, that was inaccurate.
Guerrilla Games and Virtuos are currently looking into fixing some crash issues, the 30fps animations and the inability to enable Anisotropic Filtering in game. Sadly, we don’t know whether the teams will address these two new issues in the game’s first patch.
Stay tuned for more!
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Well i’m just gonna come out and say it, Rise Of The Tomb Raider looks way better than this game.
Yup, and back then even Assassin’s Creed 3 had pretty good snow deformation at the time too.
What a lazy mess of a port this is.
Damn i forgot about AC 3, the last AC game i played. was a gem, thanks i shall revisit
Both Rise of the Tomb Raider and Assassin’s Creed 3 were Nvidia sponsored games… And both games loved tesselation, which AMD does not really like
You just don’t stop do you. Gonna leave you in that very tiny world of yours. Good riddance man..
The only thing i like more from AMD than Nvidia is the TressFx vs Hairworks…
Go boot up ROTR, till this day my jaw drop at the opening scene, graphics was crisp. You entered the omb and you thank heavens that you are able to afford the things to play such a game.That Game left no stones unturned graphically.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider trumps graphically RotTR (and HZD). But still, comparing TR to an open vast world game like HZD is unfair.
In regards to HZD, you may not like the game and all the negative stuff about it but it is a beautiful and very impressive game graphically. There is no doubt about that.
If you ever pick it up on a sale in the future (hopefully with all issues resolved by then), you’ll see for yourself. It’s a good game too if you like that sort of open world games.
I have Shadow of the tomb Raider and never played it. But I thought people were all complaining that shadow of the TR was a downgrade?
Shadow looks (and plays) way too rushed in comparison, besides a couple of scenes (mainly the section of the jungle you start the game).
You will think that raytracing shadows will add something to the game, but it doesnt. Shadow could may aswell be an expansion of Rise, made by the B team.
it looks way inferior thant Rise. The model of Lara herself, in game and cutscenes looks better and more detailed in Rise.
Granted, making a jungle sounds way more complex than a boreal forest and mountains like in Rise.
Yeah that’s why I didn’t bother with it because it was done by the B-Team. They do this in gaming alot and I’m sick of it. The A-team builds and then pawn it off as they move onto another AAA FRANCHISE. THEY DID IT JUST CAUSE franchise and destroyed the game. But thanks for your mini review, I’ll still have to play to close off the trilogy anyways.
People were complaining about the focus shift to exploration rather than combat. Made the game a bit unbalanced. But definitely not about the graphics.
Imo Shadow is among the best technically advanced titles at the moment. It can look stunning at times.
And a good PC port too…
You guys complain about relatively NEW games not having that or that, the other lacking this and that blah blah…
Man…….haha look at Sega Rally Revo and the mud…. a game released more than a friking DECADE ago in 2007 and Im talking about physics based mud deformations in real time which impacts the car handling etc.. New games are downgrades in many aspects…. more than you think about it.
man i miss that game, sega rally revo was amazing!
but u have to keep in mind that Rise of TR is not an open world game
This is a massive open world, you’re comparing it to a linear game.
This game also doesn’t go for a 100% realistic aesthetic, still it has many visual features that are more impressive than Tomb Raider, in a huge open world.
i thought you were going to come out of closet.
edit : unlike me, i’m 100 percent straight and i’ll never do that.
Haha, nah bruh. You can’t have me, I’m keeping my A$$ in the closest. ??? You Wild’n homie. Thanks for that laugh, just woke up.
The snow in that game.. omg. It was beautiful indeed!
Is it on the same scale though? If they had a linear style of gameplay with the same size world things would probably be different.
OPEN WORLD doesn’t mean better. I’m really sick of this notion of “Scale”. You think because you have a big a$$ giant open sandbox to go fuq around in that means it’s a good game and can;t be compared to other games that’s not a FUQ around sandbox? The answer is no! Horizon Zero Dawn is not an actual GREAT game, it’s nothing we haven’t seen before. It’s the same game, same concept, it does nothing new. That doesn’t mean it can’t be a good game for some. Especially people that like to have their time wasted. Linear vs open world has nothing to do with it. There are plenty of open world games that looks and functions way better than Horizon does.
I just don’t understand why we are so quick to give mediocrity a pass as GOLD these days. ALl people need to see is shiny graphics, big fuq around sandbox, crafting and all of a sudden it’s game of the year. Also please stop judging and talking about the game as if it’s the PS4 version with no problems. This is PC and on PC it’s sh*t. It’s graphics/art style doesn’t live up to the power demands it has. Me personally, haven’t been impressed or blown away by any games since May 19, 2015. Whether or not Rise OF The Tomb Raider is an older game that looks about 3x Better whether or not it’s an Open World game or not, it’s close, it’s a HUb world.
I think you misunderstood my point. I don’t care whether the game is openworld or not. I’m trying to suggest that doing the level of detail that tomb raider has, in an openworld game, would probably take a sh*t load of man hours. Probably not a feasible solution and would probably tank most gaming pc’s. That is all I was trying to get through.
this is a disgrace. sony and Guerrilla really dropped the ball. this was supposed to be the complete edition, not the incomplete edition. this needs to be presented to Guerrilla and addressed. otherwise they won’t get nothing from me till it’s fixed.
they won’t get anything from me even if they fix it.
cause you’re poor
pathetic low iq simpleton.
Your comment reminds me of the late Stephen Hawking. He was once asked what his IQ was.
SH: “I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.”
Hawking also went to Epstein island and who knows if there was anything even going on in his vegetable brain. He could’ve been a remote controlled invalid for all we know.
stephen hawking had a lower iq than me, you should start quoting me instead.
garbage human
Thots are at twitch and onlyFans?
What you doing around here mister SIMP.
Neither Sony nor Guerrilla handled this port.
They both handled who is handling this port.
It was Virtuous.
I have noticed the sound is broken in the game too. You can’t tell what direction any enemies/fire/water is. If you move the camera around there is no positional audio. It’s pretty much just playing basic 1D sound out every speaker. It’s not even stereo. Aside from that… I haven’t had a single crash and im still enjoying the game. But the sound is completely broken. They announced this port so long ago. It really shouldn’t be hard to port this to pc. Pretty disappointing!
It feels like playing a rom on an early build of a ps4 emulator..
I wish ps4 emulators were that good lol
wouldn’t even pirate this boring robot fighting trash
This game has jank written all over it.
man f this game
To be honest the hair simulation on 60+fps looks more realistic, on 30 it is like Aloy is underwater, very exaggerated. The snow effect suck for sure
All it is is a shader that tells the game to paint on a height-map wherever the player or object are. This is a really sloppy port job.
Great finding, John.
I have noticed the sound is broken in the game too. You can’t tell what direction any enemies/fire/water is. If you move the camera around there is no positional audio. It’s pretty much just playing basic 1D sound out every speaker. It’s not even stereo. There isn’t even basic Left/Right. It’s just like there is a microphone on top of the character and that one sound plays on all your speakers. Aside from that… I haven’t had a single crash and im still enjoying the game. But the sound is completely broken. They announced this port so long ago. It really shouldn’t be hard to port this to pc. Not like the ps4 had some insane architecture like the ps3.
You know I was playing earlier today (with headphones) and I had some NPC calling me for help, yet I couldn’t actually grasp where the sound was coming from and I just blamed myself in that moment, now, reading your comment hit me, positional audio is broken
Just like the old PS360 days where devs did this sht just so they can prove the power of the consoles lmao. PC cannot run such a feature!
These devs are pathetic.
I remember the force unleashed 2 missing wet clothes effects on the pc version,which was restored by a modder
But i wonder if it was on purpose or just plain incompetence
incompetency.
Arkham knight missing rain effects all over again
Mediocre to trash performance across the board. Missing effects. Locked 30fps animations. AA not even working. Fullscreen/resolution bug. No ADS sensitivity options.
Yet they want to charge $50. Stop buying these incomplete editions. They treat us like 2nd class citizens and release a trash port. Pick a struggle.
I will wait until they have ironed out these glaring issues before starting my playthrough.
People really can’t tell that they deliberatelly made the PC version worse to make the PS version look better by comparison??? come on pimpims…
Original game don’t have snow diformation
It is DLC feature. Probably you need to go to special location to find deformable snow
That’s exactly what we did 😛 . There are no snow deformation effects on the PC version in that DLC area.
As much as Kojima is called hack director,at least that guy is know how to please PC master race with good pc port…
developers seriously f*ked up here and and yet john called this next gen compared to another crap in one of his comments.dsogaming needs to improve it’s standards.
Even with all its problems, Horizon Zero Dawn still looks and runs better than that atrocious Fast & Furious Crossroads game. So yeah, compared to THAT game, HZD is a next next-gen game 😛
Kkkkkkkkk Pc Bug Race, not even power to deform Snow
This is just as bad as Warcraf 3 Reforged. Like wtf? Missing effects, bad FPS, overpriced old game.. frame time problems.. options dont save up sometimes… and a ton of other issues.
The list is kind of huge.
I’ve seen Xbox games from 2001 that could get snow deformation right. Not that I care much about Generic Open World Game #3067 either way but this is embarassing.
Lets hate on Sony, PCMR revenge!
And now a downgrade, Timmy Tencent was smart to NOT take this “exclusive”.
What a trainwreck, at least it does not have DENUVO.
They really didn’t give a damn with this one, huh?
Usual ploy from Cony to make PC looks bad by outsourcing porting process to crap company. I knew it from miles away, “1st party studio is porting their game to PC?” sounds too good to be true.
looks like another Batman Arkham knight game, outsourced the port and the result is disappointing, well to be fair, its alot better than Batman but still need some work to perfect it.
Snow deformation? I think you must play MHW Iceborne.
It’s looking like the snow deformation is just bugged in certain areas. I see snow deformation while walking/running in certain areas, and then it disappears. Not sure why yet. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/55439f760a36149b34cee525658d0580342f2393c148582c62e32a0de1b799ed.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0159dd88d2989e500f3ea7320b0293aab6adf5286f67888b19eab8b10caefc3d.jpg