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Rroff · 16 Oct 2011 at 18:47

^^ You have to be careful tho that you don't read in his words what you want to see, could be easy to interpret that as him implying that the PC was second place after consoles in development focus when its not what hes saying at all.

Merlin5 · 16 Oct 2011 at 18:52

I'm on the second mission 'Head Northeast to the Radio Tower'. I must be stupid but how do I get to the radio tower? I can see it in the distance in the north east direction, but can't find a way to get to it. :confused:

Nerusy · 16 Oct 2011 at 18:54

Merlin5 said:
I'm on the second mission 'Head Northeast to the Radio Tower'. I must be stupid but how do I get to the radio tower? I can see it in the distance in the north east direction, but can't find a way to get to it.

Follow the dots on the minimap they tell you where to enter the level which at the end leads to the radio tower.

As for textures Mr.B sums it up nicely. Repeating high res or unique low res. Which on is better.

It comes down to preference, and I, personally, prefer high res. Textures were so poor in rage up close that my eyes were in pain they tried to focus on something that did not exist

hahaha

And since it take so much time and hard work to create those unique levels id had to reuse them and for me that cut the game in half maybe 3 times even as you'd have to do the same level many times. That's a dreadful idea to repeat the same level dreadful. Took me what was it 11 hours and half of it was doing same levels. So...not good.

Merlin5 · 16 Oct 2011 at 18:58

Nerusy said:
Follow the dots on the minimap they tell you where to enter the level which at the end leads to the radio tower.

Ah! I didn't realise about the dots. Told you I was being stupid.

Thanks.

Angst · 16 Oct 2011 at 19:32

Ok so ive disabled xfire and my fps are about the same maybe slightly higher but now theres more texture pop up.

RavenXXX2 · 16 Oct 2011 at 19:50

Another benefit of tech 5 is the environment is non interactive, that and the lowest environmental texture quality seen this side of a PS2 makes Dtech 5 look a bit embarrassing. 21GB in size ......you what.

CaptainRAVE · 16 Oct 2011 at 19:56

So much for the excellent engine we were expecting

Don't know why people are shocked about this game though, it never looked all that good in any of the pre-release videos.

arknor · 16 Oct 2011 at 19:57

do they start off with a good texture and then apply a blur filter to get it looking that bad?

Rroff · 16 Oct 2011 at 20:28

Granted the game does look pretty low res up close - but those images you've posted Raven look even lower res than what I'm getting.

RavenXXX2 · 16 Oct 2011 at 20:33

Rroff said:
Granted the game does look pretty low res up close - but those images you've posted Raven look even lower res than what I'm getting.

Post the same ones then, I would like to see some decent rage textures.

Oberon · 16 Oct 2011 at 20:42

ID_AA_Carmack John Carmack
We have a bicubic-upsample+detail texture option for the next PC patch that will help alleviate the blurry textures in Rage.

I just knew the textures were bugged to some extent. This should really help out. Watch out for the second patch.

EDIT: Taken from John Carmacks Twitter.

Gerard · 16 Oct 2011 at 20:44

RavenXXX2 said:
Post the same ones then, I would like to see some decent rage textures.

Id like to see a tenner winging itself my way as well

Rroff · 16 Oct 2011 at 20:46

Oberon said:
I just knew the textures were bugged to some extent. This should really help out. Watch out for the second patch.

EDIT: Taken from John Carmacks Twitter.

^^ As I mentioned before all this does is make the blocky pixels sharper not more detailed and adds what is effectively pixel noise to try and hide the low detail in the diffuse map stage.

RavenXXX2 · 16 Oct 2011 at 20:48

Gerard said:
Id like to see a tenner winging itself my way as well

Fire me your PP mail and I'll make sure you get it by the end of the month.

Oberon · 16 Oct 2011 at 20:49

Well, I guess it's a start?

The potential of this engine is to be truly unlocked yet I feel. Hopefully if they got any licensees for it we can expect some really good games.

Scougar · 16 Oct 2011 at 20:56

Those textures look truly awful. Are they meant to be in some usually not accessible places? (Obviously not the bathroom one however).

Gerard · 16 Oct 2011 at 21:00

Its really suprising the lack of interactivity in this game and the abundance of invisible walls all over the place. For something trying to simulate an open environment it makes these things all the more obvious and suprising.

I think carmack gets too focused on trying to pull off one thing and other things suffer because of it, in this it was megatexture, but at the same time it really makes me scratch my head if that was possibly the main focus of this engine hwo did they think they would get away with all the low res crap? :confused:

RavenXXX2 · 16 Oct 2011 at 21:00

Scougar said:
Those textures look truly awful. Are they meant to be in some usually not accessible places? (Obviously not the bathroom one however).

Every environmental texture is low quality, anyway you go if you look close it's a mess.

Deezo_M1 · 16 Oct 2011 at 21:21

I love this game and yeah up close to stuff it's not the sharpest but stand back and get into a fight its looks amazing to me .. however i have just built a new system and im a bit loved up at the mo lol

Rroff · 16 Oct 2011 at 21:25

RavenXXX2 said:
Post the same ones then, I would like to see some decent rage textures.

Can't get back into dead city where I am in the game, heres another instance of those tiles from the entrance to dead city tho, while low res nothing like as low res as your image:

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/578936979371413436/15A32F4ABD3E0725502D89D504D28F2F25D9CD47/

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