I guess I should actually make an effort to play Arkham Asylum sometime soon...
Shun the non-believer!
Seriously good game. Arkham City has been my most-looked-forward-to game since it was announced.
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Shun the non-believer!
Seriously good game. Arkham City has been my most-looked-forward-to game since it was announced.
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They'll release before Christmas, that's the only certainty.
http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,...e-PC-version-DX11-tessellation-and-more/News/
Thankfully Rocksteady sound like they are really making the PC version well worth waiting for so many DX11 features as well
Here is an extract well worth reading all of it.
"Ben Wyatt: DX11 brings quite significant improvements to the game visuals and performance:
1. DX11 tessellation. Smoothing and/or displacement mapping have been manually added by artists to a number of game assets throughout the game. This provides higher visual quality and richer environments to the game.
2. Texture arrays (available since DX10) are used to simplify and accelerate the rendering of the Multi-View Soft Shadows cast by the player-controlled character (Batman or Catwoman). This algorithm could have been implemented using DX9 with a texture atlas, but that would have been complicated and slower.
3. DX11 Compute shaders. The original built-in SSAO algorithm has been enhanced in DX11 by performing some additional rendering work. DX11 compute shaders are used to accelerate the AO-generation and blur passes by caching the samples in group-shared memory to reduce the number of texture fetches, significantly improving the speed and final quality.
PCGH: Do you focus on using DX11 for speeding up the rendering or will there be special visual improvements resulting in applying DX11 rendering techniques (Tessellation, HQSSAO, better performance post processing effects)? If there are special DX11 features what visuals will gamers with older DX9 video cards miss?
Ben Wyatt: Batman Arkham City uses Shader Model 5 to improve the looks while maintaining high performance. Gamers will see significant visual differences compared to DX9 and consoles. These differences are centered around tessellated environments and objects, higher quality shadows and better ambient occlusion. "
Thankfully Rocksteady sound like they are really making the PC version well worth waiting for so many DX11 features as well
Here is an extract well worth reading all of it.
"Ben Wyatt: DX11 brings quite significant improvements to the game visuals and performance:
1. DX11 tessellation. Smoothing and/or displacement mapping have been manually added by artists to a number of game assets throughout the game. This provides higher visual quality and richer environments to the game.
2. Texture arrays (available since DX10) are used to simplify and accelerate the rendering of the Multi-View Soft Shadows cast by the player-controlled character (Batman or Catwoman). This algorithm could have been implemented using DX9 with a texture atlas, but that would have been complicated and slower.
3. DX11 Compute shaders. The original built-in SSAO algorithm has been enhanced in DX11 by performing some additional rendering work. DX11 compute shaders are used to accelerate the AO-generation and blur passes by caching the samples in group-shared memory to reduce the number of texture fetches, significantly improving the speed and final quality.
PCGH: Do you focus on using DX11 for speeding up the rendering or will there be special visual improvements resulting in applying DX11 rendering techniques (Tessellation, HQSSAO, better performance post processing effects)? If there are special DX11 features what visuals will gamers with older DX9 video cards miss?
Ben Wyatt: Batman Arkham City uses Shader Model 5 to improve the looks while maintaining high performance. Gamers will see significant visual differences compared to DX9 and consoles. These differences are centered around tessellated environments and objects, higher quality shadows and better ambient occlusion. "
I finished Arkham Asylum earlier today after aborting a playthrough about a year ago. I greatly enjoyed it.
Gameplay was excellent and importantly i thought it was just the right length as well. Any more and it probably would have seemed a bit repetitive tbh. The only downside was the lack of freedom in terms of choice. Maybe i have been spoiled by playing Deus Ex HR first but the thing that i noticed and slightly got me were things like vents which in Deus Ex are one of many ways to do a mission, in AA they are the only way to get to certain areas. a bit more tactical play and choice in gameplay would have elevated this game to instant classic for me i think.
Overall i loved it though and have Arkham City Preordered form GMG with vouchers and credit for £17. Looking forward to it.
Gameplay was excellent and importantly i thought it was just the right length as well. Any more and it probably would have seemed a bit repetitive tbh. The only downside was the lack of freedom in terms of choice. Maybe i have been spoiled by playing Deus Ex HR first but the thing that i noticed and slightly got me were things like vents which in Deus Ex are one of many ways to do a mission, in AA they are the only way to get to certain areas. a bit more tactical play and choice in gameplay would have elevated this game to instant classic for me i think.
Overall i loved it though and have Arkham City Preordered form GMG with vouchers and credit for £17. Looking forward to it.
8th Nov in the states, 12th nov eu/uk for PC.
Only here Batman Arkham City • Home , not 100% sure if true?.good news
do you have a source?
thanks
NO WAY!!
They wouldn't release it on the same day as Skyrim surely?
If they do i won't be happy. Was looking forward to playing this, but if it is a toss up between this and Skyrim....
Soldato
I already own this on Steam, but if it comes out when Skyrim does it will have to wait.
i read news that AC has been delayed. Typical Ubisoft
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That site is the unnoficial mouthpiece for Rocksteady so its true.
You can pre-order a steelbook edition with a 1970's batman skin but for £35 just find the std edition which is around £25-26 if you look around. PC is not getting the console collectors edition which is £60 or something.
The extra levels and skins will probably be available as downloadable content anyway?. I'll be picking up the BAC Robin edition, and aquire skins from gfwl at a later date maybe?. The collectors edition has no decent case to put the game disc in, the console disc is shoved in a sleeve inside the art book. Challenge maps will be unlockable through gameplay i would presume?.
PC steelbook is nice but not £35 nice! All DLC will be buyable at a later stage so no-one is missing anything anyway.
http://www.shopto.net/PC/VIDEO GAMES/PCBA24-Batman Arkham City Two Face Steelbook Edition.html