Will There Be A Watch Dogs 4

Sentry Dogs: Legion - essentially identical on PS5 and Xbox Series X

While Series S sees hardware ray tracing effects for the first time.

Featuring a beautifully rendered open world recreating one of the globe'southward almost iconic cities, while leaning heavily into hardware accelerated ray tracing, Watch Dogs: Legion is 1 of the most technically ambitious games for the current cantankerous generation period. The cross-platform comparison between the next generation machines isn't the about interesting head-to-head nosotros've seen and so far - PS5 and Xbox Serial X are very, very close - just it's keen to come across ray traced reflections announced on Xbox Series South. Yes, we're getting hardware RT on a £250/$250 console.

But to address the near burning question, I can confirm right away that Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 do indeed run with practically identical visual settings - an nigh consummate lucifer for the details locked away in the PC version's configuration files (which don't just include PC settings, but every single version). This is most readily evident in side-past-side ray tracing comparisons - the RT effect is identical, but crucially, the cut-off for objects not in the reflection is also the same, significant matched fidelity in the upshot itself, but also identical compromises and optimisations.

Series S also has the same settings for its ray traced reflections, but with i crucial departure. The premium consoles target a dynamic 4K rendering resolution for the majority of the presentation, but reflections run at checkerboarded 1080p instead. For Series South with its much lower 1080p target pixel-count, RT reflection resolution drops in step - reflections here are rendered internally at 720p instead, with the aforementioned reconstruction technique.

The complete lowdown on Sentinel Dogs: Legion, running on PS5, Xbox Series Ten and Series Southward consoles.

In terms of the rest of the game's visual brand-up, Series X and PlayStation 5 are the same: texture quality is a match, shadow map resolution is the same. A matching geometry LOD set up-up is used, significant that 'pop-in' - such as it is - is abiding betwixt the 2 systems. The same can't be said for Series S, however, with lower resolution shadows, pulled in LOD range and lower quality fallback reflections. In practice, Series Due south has similar resolution textures, but its lower caching of texture data combines with a by and large low level of anisotropic filtering - which hurts texture fidelity when viewed at an oblique bending. Generally, it does not look too great and I am confused as to why anisotropic filtering is reduced at all here.

There seems to be a bug on Xbox Series platforms here as for some reason. Series Ten delivers a slightly lower level of texture filtering than its PS5 equivalent. Again, checking the 'reference' config files stashed within the PC version, Series X and PS5 should be using the same ultra quality setting, while Series S explicitly gets a cut-back rendition of the effect. Beyond that, any differences between the premium consoles are thin on the basis - literally. I noticed that puddles are missing in RT reflections on PS5, but not on Xbox consoles, likely some other inconsistency rather than intended behaviour.

Interestingly, dynamic resolution scaling is as well a close match betwixt PS5 and Series X, despite a wide gulf in terms of overall compute power and retentivity bandwidth between the two consoles. Ubisoft has a very fine grain DRS organization here, seemingly capable of adjusting resolution on the fly quickly and with tiny adjustment steps. Minimum resolution is shut to 1440p (confirmed over again by the PC config files) and I noted that general gameplay shifts between lxxx to 100 per cent of full 4K, with nearly-on identical shifts in resolution on both consoles in the same situations. It's simply actually at night, or in areas heavy in leafage, that the game drops closer to the lower bounds.

Moving over to Series S where its lowest bound resolution should be 900p - I found myself actually surprised how often I was getting straight 1080p counts in areas where I would see resolution dips on Series X and PS5, with the most dips to 900p occurring in those most troublesome nighttime-time or foliage-heavy areas. The level of surprise here is because while total 1080p is often rendered, Series Southward looks visibly lower to the eye - and I suspect that'southward the impact of much lower resolution RT furnishings.

Performance? That's elementary to tick off. Everything runs at 30fps on all 3 systems, with none of the varying levels of slowdown found on the final-gen machines - uninteresting for frame-rate graphs merely great for the players. I suspect we were limited on both CPU and GPU sides on the last-gen platforms, simply the new hardware but powers through, with the DRS organisation taking care of whatever potential graphics clogging. Given this, I exercise wonder if an optional operation mode could deliver 60fps gameplay besides: co-ordinate to the config files on PC, at that place was a 60fps style in the works for PS5 and Xbox Series Ten at some point, just that is not the case in the terminal version of the game. Mayhap that will arrive at a later indicate.

Here's how ray tracing on consoles stacks upward against the PC version of the game.

All iii of these new consoles are based on solid-state storage, but we exercise see some level of differentiation in loading times. To test this, I progressed the game to the aforementioned area on all platforms, quit the activity and reloaded the salve so it loads the same location data. The issue? PlayStation v gets you lot back into the game in merely over 18 seconds, requiring 26 seconds to practice the same job on both of the Xbox Series consoles. It'south a nice petty win for the PS5 in that location, but honestly, it'due south even so far from the nigh-on instant loading we were expecting from the next generation machines.

All told so, honours are distributed evenly between PlayStation five and Xbox Series X - bar one or 2 pocket-size bugs and inconsistencies. Essentially, they expect the same and run identically. If you're looking to level up the experience, you'll need to head across to the PC version. Ray traced reflections - even on the lowest 'medium setting - offer a significant upgrade over consoles, while DLSS is available for PC users to mitigate much of the operation hit. In my tests, Xbox Serial X's output could exist matched and even bettered by an RTX 2060 Super, while my optimised settings for the PC version evangelize more goodies including college resolution shadows, a full resolution pass of global illumination and other smaller enhancements. What does it take to run that at DLSS 4K60? An RTX 2080 Ti or RTX 3070 should do the fox - only let'southward but say that once you become shut to 60fps, the CPU becomes far more than of a limiting factor in this demanding game...

Will There Be A Watch Dogs 4,

Source: https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2020-watch-dogs-legion-ps5-vs-xbox-series-x-series-s

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