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Ubisoft Explains Why Watch Dogs On PC Had Hidden Graphic Options


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#1 Zinix

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Posted 19 June 2014 - 08:02 PM

 

The dev team is completely dedicated to getting the most out of each platform, so the notion that we would actively downgrade quality is contrary to everything we've set out to achieve. We test and optimize our games for each platform on which they're released, striving for the best possible quality. The PC version does indeed contain some old, unused render settings that were deactivated for a variety of reasons, including possible impacts on visual fidelity, stability, performance and overall gameplay quality. Modders are usually creative and passionate players, and while we appreciate their enthusiasm, the mod in question (which uses those old settings) subjectively enhances the game's visual fidelity in certain situations but also can have various negative impacts. Those could range from performance issues, to difficulty in reading the environment in order to appreciate the gameplay, to potentially making the game less enjoyable or even unstable.

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Posted 19 June 2014 - 08:12 PM

people found performance optimizations in the game files. 

 

people found stuff that makes the game run BETTER turned off.



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Posted 19 June 2014 - 11:05 PM

Lol


Damage control in effect.

Whoever was responsible for letting that get to gold master is probably fired.

"E3" specific settings too.

Was a lie from the beginning.

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Posted 20 June 2014 - 08:55 AM

While they are probably right that just enabling them may have adverse effects in some circumstances depending on your set-up… it is still clear that they could have made an effort and brought the E3 levels to the PC as a supported setting. Sure you may need a really nice machine to get the full effect but it's hard to avoid the fallout from this. The fact they delayed the release for so long just makes it worse. And they had fair warning given all the complaining about the graphics downgrade.. 

 

It's just strange that in all these cases (I'm thinking of Rayman as well) it doesn't even appear to make financial sense.. Ubisoft have crashed in my estimations with such poor management.



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Posted 20 June 2014 - 09:39 AM

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what a canned, generalized PR response. Expected


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Posted 20 June 2014 - 01:17 PM

I didn't see any noticeable impact on the performance after enabling those settings.


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Posted 20 June 2014 - 03:00 PM

That's probably the most generalized response I've ever seen.






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