IO Interactive has just released the second episode for HITMAN. This episode takes place in Amalfi Coast, and IO Interactive has built a really beautiful and detailed city. And thanks to 4K resolutions and Reshade, the game’s visuals are elevated to new heights.
It’s no stretch to say that HITMAN in 4K and with Reshade packs some of the best visuals we’ve ever seen. Obviously, you will need a really high-end SLI system to run the game with this kind of visuals at 60fps (our GTX980Ti was simply unable to hit that mark).
Below you can find some 4K screenshots that – for viewing purposes – were downsampled to 1080p. Now we know that some of you are interested in the uncompressed 4K images. And you can download them from here.
Enjoy!
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Yes those are very nice shots.
People said that Absolution had better graphics than this, now this episode is showing good potential of their new engine and Reshade is extra icing on the cake.
Those people are tards, Absolution had average graphics that ran like
shiz on the gpus when it came out. This game is more advanced in every
way.
they were great.
ran decent on my 6870 when it came out , user error maybe ?
Yeah that’s what I was saying from the beginning. People actually love games with a lot of bloom effects and that’s what Absolution gave.
Beautiful! Will play no doubt! And i got the reshade tool, indeed it changes the game in a much more beautiful vibrant atmosphere.
STOP this F*CKN nonsense about 4K!
WTF a ugly looking game be the best looking game ever couse it’s 4K!
4k is so F*CKN overhyped crap, a good 1440P monitor looks almost as good.
And a CGI film looks way better in even 720P then all those crappy games in 4k. You can thank the consoles for that. And you all know it. Stop this F*CKN nonsense once and for all!
Pc gaming should look like CGI these days, and not the same as the F*CKN games from 10 years ago!
Please f**k off! 4K is the future and soon everyone will sit on that resolution except for console peasants who will be still stuck in 1080p. 4K isn’t overhyped, it’s actually underhyped, people avoids it. Because most people think 4K isn’t ready yet, because they claim it’s too demanding for us still. This is false, I run most my games in 4K without any problems, can I achieve 60 fps? easily! Must it be on low settings? No, mostly high. Do I own SLI/Crossfire setup? No, I’ve got a single GPU card.
A good 1440p monitor looks almost as good? You believe that? Do you know anything about pixel density?
Let me clear some things out for you:
1080p @ 81 PPI
1440p @ 108 PPI
4K @ 186 PPI
Huge difference boy.
” and soon everyone will sit on that resolution except for console peasants ”
look you cant get amazing graphics large maps and 4k.
Ehhh what? I play several games in 4K which offers both amazing graphics and large maps, to name a few: Division, GTA 5, Witcher 3…
but but 4K upscaled on PS4 Neo. You can actually play The Division in 4K on low with some settings on medium at above 30fps on a GTX 970 though.
OH SHIIIIIII………. you gonna let him call you “boy” like that son?
clearly you have never seen 4k first hand
Clearly you have gone for the hype.
Take a look at any forum and people WILL tell you that 1440P vs 4K ain’t much big of at deal at all!
If you talking 50 inch sure, but here we talking monitors you know!
Stop falling for this crap, as a good 1440P is perfectly fine for 27 – 16:9 or 34 – 21:9!
Everything else is BS buddy!
strange my 4k tv @ 1440p looks not as good then at 4k . people used to say (well console games) you cant see a difference between 720p and 1080p you sound like one of them
WTF …LOL!
Are you for real mate. Have you ever heard ABOUT scaling ?
Of course a 4k tv would look like crap running 1440P!
NO monitor/Tv looks good at any other res the the NATIVE!
I hope you were joking, or else you have a whole lot to learn buddy 😉
Of course he hasn’t, otherwise he wouldn’t speak such nonsense.
I guess you know as much as he does..LOL!
Row 3, picture 5. Just wow…
Looks ugly as sh*t! Those graphics are dated. They can’t even do shadows and ambient occlusion correctly. And characters look plastic and lifeless. Everythings look kinda flat and held back. Not impressive, maybe impressive for a 2012 game, but not for a 2016 game.
it is the prettiest game i have seen in a long time
Check Quantum Break after patch – full 1080 or 4K without temporal reconstruction. Best graphics I’ve seen on PC
There is a game between them cut scenes :O
When someone talks about graphics in new games and “Best graphics I’ve seen on PC” I remember…
It’s funny because some people think The Division looks far worse than this. :p
lol
the game gets spoiled for fans like this, I don’t wanna know what the next lvl i’m going to play look like
F*CK you SquereEnix
it has been before the first episode was released.
I’m not falling for any hype at all, I knew exactly what I wanted when I bought my 4K monitor, and I received just what I expected. Like someone else said, you clearly haven’t seen 4K first hand, and especially not in a direct comparison to a 1080 or 1440p monitor side by side like I have. The difference is quite huge actually and it’s not just about “clarity”
4K brings not only a clearer and more detailed picture, it also makes all textures appear sharper and higher res. 4K also gets rid of nearly all aliasing including sub-pixel and shader -aliasing, which game developers are trying hard to counter using sh*tty techniques like FXAA which just adds additional blurring, since MSAA can’t touch alpha textures, subpixel or shader -aliasing and SMAA only does a decent job for hard edges for polygon-aliasing.
Going for a 4K monitor is like when we went to 120/144hz monitors up from 60, or when we finally got ourselves an SSD harddrive, you don’t really know what you’re missing until you have tried it, and once you’ve tried it you never want to go back and that’s a fact.
Just deal with it buddy, you’ll follow into the lead sooner or later, just as you bought your first flat-screen monitor after years on a CRT.
Well good for you buddy, im glad you like it!
But I dont know how many times I have read that the difference is so small between 1440P and 4k that it’s almost nothing.
The jump from 1080P to 1440P was a world of difference tho. I had the first Rog Swift 1440P and it was awesome compared to my 1080P Asus PG278Q!
And now there’s 4K Asus ROG monitors, both 24 and 27 inches, and if you would get one of them, you’d be surprised on how big clarity difference there is.
In a moment or two, 4K will take over PC gaming as we know it. Thank HBM2 for that 🙂
#15 and 18 are very nice
Indeed.
Except you didn’t show anything, you only made empty claims based on your personal opinion, that, or trolling. I don’t see how anything else could be more pathetic than that.
You know I’d crush you any day a week when it comes down to it. But persons like you, are only a waste of time really, there’s plenty of persons like you here with quite a few things in common.
Good day.
Nice cherry picking of lower quality ENB presets with bullshot pics.
“You know I’d crush you any day a week when it comes down to it”
Again, this is video game graphics. And you are crying this much? I can’t believe how pathetic you are. What a dork LMAO
Actually, it wasn’t cherry picking at all 🙂 It was a still from the video you linked yourself along with comments on how it looked better than Division, it was back in the article John posted about his 4K Division screenshots.
Secondly, that Division screenshot is in no way a bullshot, it’s actually a picture from my own Division gallery on flickr 🙂 www .flickr. com/photos/138012712@N02/
The screenshot itself is taken at ultra settings in 4K running smooth on my system.
It still looks like garbage on your fisher price system.
I trust you!
This looks like garbage:
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1537/25183257216_dab755d650_o.jpg
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1611/25021273560_54bf592595_o.jpg
I’m sorry but this just isn’t true. As PcRules said, a LCD monitor needs to run at its native resolution, Lower the resolution below native and the clarity and sharpening will drop significantly.
@PcRules
Hell, if I was butthurt and couldn’t afford a 4K monitor and a beast system, I too would run around saying that 4K is a gimmick and the difference between 1440p and 4K is minimal. 😀
But as I own a 4K monitor and the fastest available single GPU card in the world, I can safely say 4K gaming is a BLAAAAAST. Ethan carter redux, 60 fps maxed out in 4K, that’s Unreal Engine 4 and photogrammetry boys, then games like AC: Unity runs at below 30 fps maxed out in 4K. So it isn’t always fun with 4K, sometimes you need to lower graphics settings quite substantially, not tomorrow though as I’ll pack my system with Broadwell E and Pascal 🙂
Good day
my tv handles going down to 1080 better then my 1080 monitors do going down to 720
Of course they will handle it. But you will still loose picture quality and sharpening nonetheless.
of course you are going to a lower resolution
It’s not about that. It’s about not running native resolution. On a CRT monitor you could do that, because it doesn’t really have a native resolution in the ways a LCD has.
That modded GTA 4 video looked good 4 years ago yeah, it doesn’t now.
Gets your eyes and brain checked.
When you say the images are downsampled to 1080p you mean that you used 4k DSR for it? If yes then will the game look so goot on my 1080p monitor with 4k DSR?
Well there you have it: 1440p on a 4K monitor will look better than 1080p native in terms of pixel density, it will look somewhat smoother, but will look worse because you will get a blurry looking game, the 1080p native will be full sharp.
I refuse to run 1440p on my 4K monitor, which is a 24 inch one. Simply because I get a blurry mess I can’t stand to look at. I’d rather switch to a native 1080p or 1440p.
1440p on a 24″ screen how close is your face to it to see the bury mess?
I sit about 40 centimeters or 15 inches from it as I usually do. And I clearly see the difference, it’s quite big.
Here are pictures taken with my digital camera for comparison:
4K – abload. de/img/3840jwuct.jpg
1440p – abload. de/img/2560idb2k.jpg
Furthermore, here’s a comparison of 4K vs 1080p native:
abload. de/img/4_klarxbp2a.jpg
abload. de/img/5_klarpiqja.jpg
Difference is grand indeed.
links dont work, of course it looks better 4k vs 1080p … derp derp .. maybe your monitor just dont scale as well as my cheep 4k tv
Links works perfectly, you just have to remove the space between abload. and de. I had to post the links like that to circumvent the link-posting-approval system that DSOG are using.
Derp Derp? I just posted that as I think it’s interesting to see the real difference of 1080p native and 4K native while both on 24″. I didn’t want to prove anything with those links. The first set of pictures though, with which I wanted to prove the real difference in blurring going down from 4K to 1440p. Try the links again, and remove the space I threw in there.
Good day 🙂
i dont need to lol i have a 4k tv in my living room running the steam link, 1080p looks fine on it. Its not blurry, but if i am sitting a foot away from it anything is going to look blurry
just realized you sit under 2 ft away seems way to close to me
Of course I sit closer to the screen than you, I’m on a 24″ computer monitor, you’re on a godd*mn TV.
And you’re not gonna notice the quality loss and increased blur so well when you sit so far away from the screen.
for my monitors i sit more then a foot away from it. , even when i was running eyefinity with a 24 in the middle and 23’s on the side i sat more then a foot away (on a 34″ ultra wide)