Ubisoft officially revealed today the third part in the Watch_Dogs series, Watch_Dogs Legion. Watch_Dogs Legion will feature an open-world environment and NVIDIA has just announced that Ubisoft’s latest title will support Ray Tracing.
https://twitter.com/NVIDIAGeForce/status/1138197946758041601
Unfortunately, the teams did not reveal any additional details (like the effects for which Ray Tracing will be used. Will it be just for the reflections like in Battlefield 5 or will we see truly amazing RT effects for Global Illumination like in Metro Exodus).
Still, what is really great here is that the inclusion of Ray Tracing basically confirms the presence of lower-level API. Our guess is that Ubisoft will be using DirectX 12, though the French team may surprise us and include the Vulkan API.
Watch_Dogs 2 had increased CPU requirements so it is definitely great witnessing the next part using a better API that will help for both the CPU calculations and the driver overhead that had a negative performance impact on its predecessor.
Watch_Dogs Legion releases on March 6th, 2020!
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That’s cool! But what I really want to know is if it is always online?
I wonder why they still do those. Like what’s the point. Who the f cares about a single player driven experience being always online. Pisses me off that they’re always trying to include dumb stuff like challenges from others, scoreboardsand whatnot. I’m no mathematician but i feel like people who play single player games just want to lay back, relax and enjoy a good story with memorable gameplay.
It seems those are rare nowadays. Fingers crossed.
No idea, it honestly makes no sense.
I am massive SP gamer & this “people who play single player games just want to lay back, relax and enjoy a good story with memorable gameplay.” is 100% one of the reasons I do it. My other reason is I can go back at any time open a save file continue or replay my experiences on my own terms for years to come.
When you have arguably the most anticipated video game ever made Cyberpunk 2077 on GOG right now for pre-order, DRM free, a mega SP game and with out any online constraints it just makes any always online SP game look freaking crazy. I don’t know what else 2 say, it’s insane.
[ Update ] so it has been confirmed it is an offline title!
Keep dreaming.
How do you know it’s online only?
Let’s hope the 3080Ti launches with this release.
Yeah and most importantly for Cyberpunk 2077 as well, next year is going to be insane!
Ubisofts open world optimization levels, combined with the slide show that already is raytracing? Oooooh man, this thing is going to chug.
Maybe that DX12 will help? But being Ubi, I doubt it.
God save my 2080 Ti/9900K gaming system… I’m going to feel this one DEEP in the backdoor.
They where supposed to switch everything to their new DX12 builds, so fingers crossed it actually happens and it helps.
The thing is if it is always online for my self it won’t matter how good it looks.
[ Update ] so it has been confirmed it is an offline title!
Your corporate overlord Tencent owns 5% of Ubisoft so they won’t be happy with you!
The silver lining though is that you can probably disable raytracing if you cant run it well and then reap the benefits of the newer API’s.
In theory yes. My experience has been most games are actually running worse with DX12, and given Ubis track record with this kind of thing I’m not sure I’m confident in their abilities to implement it properly. But, we’ll see.
As of right now, yeah most games run worse with DX12 because the devs half a** the implementation.
Once engines and devs starts supporting Vulkan/DX12 from the get go, you’ll see large gains.
Some games (Wolfenstein: The New Collosus, DOOM) have already shown dramatic improvements in performance
Wolfenstein is a rare good example of modern API usage. Sad that most devs seem to be struggling with it.
Either it is really difficult, or they just can’t be bothered. I’m really not sure which it is as no one really talks that transparently about it.
Ray tracing+quad drm=the most amazing thing happen in gaming history..
tweet was deleted, so I guess it doesn’t matter anymore?.
At the end of the day, I couldn’t care less, because I’m not buying from ubishit anymore.
Post-brexit dystopia looks like an interesting setting.
I just verified that Watch Dogs Legion is not always online for the PC! This is epic news, I am so happy right now!
https://twitter.com/watchdogsgame/status/1138383525244219392