Oof

AO has absolutely nothing to do with that. That's bloom / HDR.

Console brainlets, gross.

Ah, welp. That along with the shit-tier controls made me never want to spend more than 5 hours playing, so forgive me for forgetting.

CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES

As someone who plays online, yeah pretty much true. The higher rank players are becoming harder to see short of XP bonus events or the assholes who constantly join missions to go AFK for free XP/money. Fuck those people especially.

Hell, I'll cut back on how much I play online once I hit 100 this week.

This can't be real, they are gimping the entire game just for online?

Underrated reply

Is Ambient Occlusion even that hardware intense these days? Why remove it?

gta v did the same thing. went from looking nice to shit real quick

Who gives a shit?

Only PC lards cares about muh graphics

Does it at least boost performance? If so, I'm all for it. I could care less about graphics, I wish games ran at 60fps again.

>noticed by a fan on Twitter

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Let me guess, you're a Sonyfag? Funny how Sonyfags boasted about having the most powerful console/best graphics until the Pro got BTFO by the Xbone X, and now they all just say graphics don't matter

How's your PC version, assfaggot?

So are there actually any comparison shots or something?

Ironic shitposting has gone too far.

Lmao, thanks for beta testing snoyggers. Imagine not waiting for the real version.

>pay 60 dollars for a game
>not allowed to choose your own graphics settings

Yikes.

OH NO NO NO NO

When you're tight on FPS, it's one of the first things you can disable to get some legit extra FPS.

Has the FPS improved?

>seemingly
JESUS TAPDANCING CHRIST, JUST SAY HOW IT FUCKING IS AND STOP BEING A FUCKING "w-well, if I say 'seemingly' I give myself a little wiggle room if I'm wrong" NO, YOU FUCKING CUNT, STOP IT. FIGURE THE SHIT OUT, BALLS OUT STATE THE REALITY OF IT, AND STOP BEING A FUCKING PUSSY AND DO YOUR JOB. SICK OF THIS SHIT. S I C K OF I T.

heh

Shouldn't that at least be an option to enable

We need an answer.

AO took a hit (as usual)

twitter.com/Darealbandicoot/status/1105976174637993985/photo/1

also without ambient occlusion

Jesus, did they turn it off completely?

>again
When was 60fps ever console standard? I remember back on the N64 you were lucky to get 20fps most of the time. Try to go back and play Perfect Dark sometime. Multiplayer runs at like 15fps max.

Lot of replies saying they don't see a difference or that you won't notice while playing

PS2 era, never once did I ever feel a game was sluggish. When I bought a ps3, I was so disappointed. Ys 8 spoiled me on ps4, solid 60fps 99% of the time. Only stutters a bit in town which didn't bother me since it wasn't really during the game.

Good for them then.
twitter.com/Darealbandicoot/status/1107261191074787328

So is it only PS4 version? Is Pro affected?

AO is very obvious to notice when it disappears.

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That's because consoles are full of retards who don't know what AO is

Is this supposed to demonstrate something? literally no difference

Ironic shitposting is still shitposting

I hope people keep bitching about this. At least make it an option. Super sleazy move.

play online and buy goldbars

and thats a good thing!

ironic shitposting is still shitposting

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Same thing happened with GTA V.

its because console cucks are used to blurry 720p 30 fps

hehehe

Pretty good

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>Does it at least boost performance
Dropping Ambient Occlusion should net you 5-8 more fps. Based on a roughly equivalent PC set up and GTAV, anyway.

>still seething over ps4
C'mon ps5 is coming soon

t. never played snake eater

I feel ya.

Nope.

That's only feasible when you can do raytracing, which consoles can't even dream of.

>Joke
>Head

They could have just made it an option to have it turned on instead of taking it away for everyone, even if it’s singleplayer only. Oh but wait, consoleclaps get scared and confused when there’s too many things in the options menu.

I don’t get it

>This can't be real, they are gimping the entire game just for online?
have you been asleep for 6 years?

im glad i never bought this

It might have been a joke, but it's certainly possible with proper raytracing. So even if you're an idiot just parroting stupid shit for attention, you somehow managed to bring up an interesting point of discussion.

Try 12 years

Wow look at the state of this cope

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>"Wow, that's really reaching. Most gamers are not going to notice. Hell, I still am not sure what I'm supposed to be looking at."

Are these faggots fucking blind or stupid? How do they not notice anything?

how about giving people the option to decide on whether they prefer quality or performance, you know, that big feature sony advertised for the playstation, you retards?

There are no ways for you to keep paying rockstar through the singleplayer so the updates are all about fixing their money grubbing online mode regardless of what damage it does to singleplayer. Very similar things happened with GTA 5 on console, as time went on I kept running into weird bugs that were completely absent until well into the online only updates.

>twitter.com/Darealbandicoot/status/1105976174637993985/photo/1
to be fair the pictures are taken at different times of day and under different lighting conditions besides AO. AO only adds the soft shadows in corners and other places where edges meet.

I've seen some dumb shit in this industry, but I can simply not rap my head around this level of stupid.

thats ambient lighting. ambient occlusion is the darkening that occurs where two edges meet, like how the corners of a room are slightly darker than the center of a wall.

I'm fucking choking.

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sony meant that games were supposed to come with an binary option that was either set to "prioritize quality" or "prioritize framerate". they don't trust console players to handle anything more complicated.

Which consoles are affected?
I know the X was damn near perfect already, so they had no reason to downgrade it.

>9,275 retweets
>42,106 likes
Banning video games gets more attractive everyday.

you can remove bloom from that sentence too, unless you mean the bloom effect from looking at a window or through an open door was literally blinding and covered up most of the screen. in which case what the fuck were they thinking turning up bloom so much that you cant see?

no one cares sperg

literally who and why should I care

Plenty do, about computer graphics. Nobody cares about you, though.

wrong thread?

>When was 60fps ever console standard? I remember back on the N64
pretty much every thing before the N64

how hard would it be to have rockstar penalize the people that join missions or showdown series events and then rubber band their controller so they get free xp/money? seems as if you do a bunch of missions/events and don't have a single kill in 50% of more you should be booted.

i remember there was one person i would constantly see in showdown series events that was like level 180 and they never actually played. they just rubber banded their controller for hours and didn't do anything the entire time. sucks when you're on a small team with them.

They downgraded AO since day one patch, the X version might have had a bad framerate with it at 4K, who knows.

Why though?

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This is why physical fags get the edge, if devs fuck up you still can go back to the original version

different time of town

lmao

unironically based
Veterans are just retards that went to kill brown people for no reason other than helping jews get rich

>2 completely different areas of the game
What the fuck why do they look different? I hate RDR2 now.

because retard console plebs can't into logic and reason and can't understand that you are supposed to provide two screenshots under identical conditions except for ambient occlusion being enabled or disabled.

>Rockstar are tech wizards!
>Disables SSAO

Kek, funny how Digital Foundry missed this, cashing those Rockstar cheques huh

Is this for all versions or just the standard consoles?

They stopped playing the game months ago, like everybody else.

What the hell, Yea Forums always said they turn off AO on their game
Turn Off
>AO
>Bloom
>Depth of Field
>Motion Blur

>Yea Forums always said they turn off AO on their game
said no one ever

AO off these days is only if your PC is an absolute
toaster.

We taught you as a joke. HAHAHAH

>AO
Simulates environment lighting
>Bloom
>Depth of Field
>Motion Blur
Simulates your player's eyeballs

On the last generation AO was crap, and did weird halos.
Now its fine.

Not him, I don't support NVidia so I only use SSAO

>bloom
>dof
>motion blur
These are mostly QoL improvements, as these ruin the games more than improve them.

Incredible shitpost. I bet a lot of angry boomers fell for it

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Based

>buying physical

no bloom at all is bad too though. a little bit of bloom helps create the illusion of something being really bright. its just the trend of overdoing bloom that has given it a bad name. you have to use bloom to simulate your eyeballs in this case because a computer monitor just can't simulate that difference in brightness.

This looks so fucking bad, I mean REALLY bad.

youtube.com/watch?v=grf5r8-Nev4

What do you think QoL stands for?

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>oof
Since when is speaking like a redditor allowed in here?

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That makes me sick to look at that image, no joke I got dizzy as fuck.

AAAAAAAAAYYOOOOOO

but user theres no lighting in that picture at all

No difference

SEE

lol what
AO is an absolute must
Bloom is up to personal taste, it's fine as long as it's understated
DoF is mostly shit, if there's an option to use in cinematics only, it's fine
object motion blur is fine as long as you're playing with decent framerates. full screen motion blur is cancer but hardly anyone uses that anymore

this twitter thread has a few good comparisons. the first image sucks because of the different conditions but later images are pretty good. Look for the places where two surfaces are close to eachother, like corners and edges.
>twitter.com/Darealbandicoot/status/1105976174637993985/photo/1

DoF and bloom both get bad reps from just being misused. Bloom is supposed to create the illusion of brightness because a computer monitor just can't produce that difference in brightness truthfully, but it gets overused. DoF shouldn't also just be applied to an entire game to simulate your eyes. Blurring is only good if its selectively done to intentionally deemphasize certain elements and emphasize the elements of focus. it just gets way overused and applied to general gameplay where both near and far objects can be of interest to the player at any time. this is why its usually ok in cutscenes because there are only a few elements of focus at a time in a cutscene.

What AO do you use? SSAO or HBAO/HDAO?

this is now a debatable issue with different sides

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HBAO+

LMAO

if I have never downloaded a patch on rdr2 since launch, is it possible to still play with the same old graphics if I don't connect my ps4 to the internet?

bh

>he still buys rockstars shit after the disaster that was gta online

And your answer is?

ignore him, hes a tech illiterate underage newfag whose never seen these terms before. probably the same guy who made this post

yes

HBAO+, VXAO when available.

Honestly overuse of bloom hasn't really been a problem since like the beginning of the last console gen.

No seriously, on every graphic thread Yea Forums said they turn off AO so I turned off AO on all my games. Fuck, you all lied to me. I hate you!

Kinda depends on the game. Some have really wonky fucking looking HBAO.

I remember when Far Cry 3 came out. The AO in that game was a fucking mess

There are always apologists, no matter what. They're like human fleas.

lmao imagine being so low IQ you can't look at the results and form your own opinion.

nah, ultra casuals legitimately have a hard time noticing the difference. its hard to understand as someone who knows what to look for when looking for AO, but to someone who has no idea what the term means it can be hard to discern the difference. It just so happens that RDR2 is made for the ultra casuals, so the vast majority of its players will never even know anything changed.

I forgot how awful that looked, wow

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is this even AO? it looks like the just outlined every object except in HDAO.

Remember when kusonyfags tried saying this game was good?

AKA the last console sony will ever make.

human revolution did the same garbage
>buildings have shadow outlines against the sky

>remove Ambient occlusion
Good. AO fucking sucks.

>>"critically acclaimed open world western"

stopped reading there

based bob ross poster

Doom 3 did it you dipshit.

you say that, but I got college paid for, my future kids college paid for, and a down payment on my house all the while fucking hot brown sandpussy on deployment and all over the world.

stay. mad.

>Dumb Xniggie

No it didn't, you obese retard. Kill yourself.

$20 says it's just a bug and will be hotfixed. Stop shitting the bed.

>fat sonibrony

Boomers btfo

Seethe harder, bitch tits.

if people like this didn't exist, the world would benefit

why would they do it though, the online for red dead is dead as fuck

>gamergate (never forget)
O I'M LAAAAAAAFFFINNN`

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fucking nerds I swear, who gives a shit? I just want to be able to suck Karen's fat tits