DF Direct Weekly

[@GoogleMoment]

Impressive acousitics inside the Nintendo Gamecube Oliver is broadcasting from.

[@martin_the_artist_]

This is due to the nature of the Gamecube's bespoke sound co-processor. Our frame by frame analysis revealed that there is in fact, sound

[@Trebiane]

Lol how is this comment one day old?

[@nicklong27]

@@Trebiane It was such a good comment it broke the fabric of space time and travelled back in time. It's obvious really.

[@flannelsykes0]

Legit 😂

[@noobbear1119]

@@Trebiane patreon

[@RandomGaminginHD]

42:20 wow never thought I’d hear my channel mentioned here. Thank you. As funny as that video was to make , it was very painful for my eyes 😂 Would not recommend

[@TerraWare]

You do good work mate, worth the mention.

[@couchtuber7623]

I like how Alex can bring Crysis into just about any discussion and make it relevant.

[@nomercy8989]

Maybe it's because Crysis was so far ahead it's still relevant 16 years after release.

[@chrisbullock6477]

I totally understand, I'm the same way when it comes to FarCry 3! Its one of the best open world games I've ever played and some of the best NPC's And still the best Far Cry in the series.

[@lgolem09l]

Can it mention Crysis?

[@hbala24]

@@chrisbullock6477 Far cry 3 was so influential Ubisoft has rereleased it 3 times now

[@FerreiraFredes]

​@@hbala24 6 times actually. Far Cry 4, 5, Primal, New Dawn and 6, are all Far Cry 3 with another skin

[@MisterReen]

Really like the calm voice from Ollie. He’s a fantastic addition to the already great DF team. Highly enjoy his content.

[@coliander4180]

I agree. He could do with working on his backdrop, though. The solid colour is a little jarring.

[@HueyTheDoctor]

Agreed but I feel they lean on him too heavily. Seems like 70% of their content is an Ollie video now.

[@hurgcat]

​@Scott Douglas I think he was just covering the slack while the rest of the team took well earned and deserved breaks. His quality is consistent with everyone else on the team, besides maybe Alex whose recommended pc specs save my soul

[@dante19890]

​​​​@@HueyTheDoctor Ollie is doing all the dirty work of popular games snobs like John who has such refined taste ,don't wanna do😂

[@carn9507]

@@dante19890 how is john a snob exactly? I must have missed something

[@weirdcitizen]

I would absolutely love to see Alex do a retrospective on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series (and its mods, time permitting)!! Such a classic PC title, it deserves some DF love :)

[@FreyOD]

absolutely

[@kalakeitt0]

Yes!!!❤

[@MrWizardGG]

Yes please

[@Camdavis11]

Alex + John stalker DF retro time capsule would be amazing!

[@knobbymcfeck]

The STALKER "mod" is using Kajiya, a renderer made in Rust by an ex-Embark guy, now working on "Tiny Glade". Kajiya is open source so anyone can use it.

[@harrykingsley7915]

Regarding Unrecord, it's much like Kane and Lynch 2, where it's faking the format of the digital camera that already distorts reality. When we look at low quality digital camera footage in real life, our brains skim over the imperfections and accept it's real. I think the animation/motion in Unrecord is the most convincing element - if you take that away then it would just look like a regular FPS game with cool lighting and detailed environments.

[@licensetoshred]

Bang on, I agree. It's still amazing looking but it's the animation and format that kills it for the realism factor as you said, bluedrake uploaded a lil corridor you can run through that's from the same Unreal Marketplace Asset Unrecord uses, it looks bloody great, but without the other stuff, it doesn't look the same lol.

[@CamberGreber]

This.

[@devonmarr9872]

Animation, motion blur, and light balance simulation is cool.

[@coliander4180]

Unrecord initially looks highly impressive, but once you take away the CA and Fisheye lense, it looks incredibly average.

[@Dalmasen86]

That’s not really true, I mean if you just look a still image it looks completely real, a game like Cyberpunk with patch tracing looks like 2 generations behind and that’s just a still image, no animation.

[@madsandreassen5441]

Great show - and can I just say now after watching a couple of videos what a good addition to the crew Oliver is - the DF’ers are all great and give us good content, but something about his observations and reasonings and his manner is just really nice to watch and listen to.

[@emiami458]

I agree, a very pleasant and based fellow (:

[@RayVa0]

I think it would be cool if on console they let you turn it on in photo mode. Imagine setting up a shot and then pressing a button to render a single prestine frame with path tracing.

[@sleeplessindefatigable6385]

That would actually be a pretty neat feature for folks who want to try next-gen lighting and stuff. I could see myself driving around Night City and just taking photos to share. Hell, maybe you could even have a PS5 Cyberpunk photo competition.

[@simewies]

Pretty great idea, take some time to render a frame to get the perfect shot.

[@goncaloduarte4683]

Gran Turismo does that since the PS3 days if I'm not mistaken, it doesn't do path tracing obviously, but it uses the extra time to take the photo to render a prestine image.

[@OverJumpRally]

I thought about adding that feature in my game!

[@alfo2804]

This should be a feature in every game with a photo mode. Optional, of course, but still, there's no reason why you can't do that - it's literally how ray tracing originally worked back in the 90's.

[@Moravia90s]

"I yearn for the days when games were not released as betas" I felt that. Games nowadays seem to be in a constant state of Release Now, Fix Later.

[@Scimarad]

I have to say I'm with Alex on portables. I just don't feel the urge to play games when I'm not at home.

[@BespokeSlipp]

Agree. Only exceptions being when I’m abroad in a hotel/train/plane, where bringing a gaming PC is impossible. Though arguably a laptop could handle that role with a bigger screen. Funny thing though, I enjoy playing portables around the house/in the backyard

[@liamness]

I'm mostly using my Steam Deck when travelling, when I'm visiting folks or something like that, or when I'm in on a train. I've also been using it a fair bit connected to a larger display. It's nice not having to move my PC to the living room if I'm playing a less demanding game. I think I would actually like a handheld that I could bring to the park or something like that! But the Deck is not that machine. Screen is too dim and it's a bit too chunky to be truly practical in all situations. I'm probably going to get an ARM handheld (Ayaneo Pocket Air looks potentially promising) at some point to fill that niche.

[@MadX8]

Most people play their handheld system in bed. They don't go outside with it unless travels, pretty sure

[@Sam-K]

Regarding the question about APUs, what many people don't realize is the fact that both PS5 and Xbox SX lack L3 cache. Like there's literally none. And it makes sense considering the amount of space SRAM requires compared to logic. AMD had to not only squeeze a large iGPU, but also a CPU on the same die so it had to go to keep the die-size reasonable small. But on those consoles that's not a huge limitation because of the GDDR6. The GDDR6 is still slower than on-die cache, but it's still a lot faster than 'regular' DRAM system memory.

[@Cogglesz]

I hadn't a clue about that! I'm wondering if that perhaps effect porting to a degree? Perhaps they set up a different pipeline compared to how they would if they had the L3 cache from the get go? I'd hope not considering these games are all designed on pretty much near regular computers i hope it's not detrimental to the pc porting process (mainly thinking of Sony titles that come to PC Later Feel only GOW & DS where the only good at launch titles without bugs)

[@Loundsify]

Also I believe the PS5 doesn't support mesh shaders or something like that than the SX and RDNA2 does support but the PS5 makes up with the way it handles geometry Vs SX and traditional PC rendering.

[@PropaneWP]

The impact of this sort of bobbing camera is underestimated. It constantly shifts your perspective slightly, which significantly emphasizes your feeling of depth, much like FOV also does.

[@Oleksiy-Ziuzko]

Although Alex is mostly right about free aim being developed specifically for MKB, but I also think that free aim system should work wonderfully on controllers with gyroscope capabilities. Would love to see it implemented by the developers.

[@omarsabeur9039]

Oliver has such a good vocabulary, and a nice voice.

[@libardomm.trasimaco]

I think that he reads a lot.

[@jvgoddard4296]

I love Olie on the podcast, he doesn’t waffle on, and I respect his POV. Him and Alex make a really good alternative duo to Alex and John who are also great

[@thanksbetotap]

It’s not true that the Tegra X1 CPU in Switch was different than that of the original SoC. Cache coherency was broken in the original Tegra X1, so the little core cluster was always disabled in hardware universally. It’s just dead silicon.

[@Loundsify]

But the shield TV shows 8 cores?

[@ThePowerLover]

@@Loundsify Mmmmmmmmmmm.

[@thanksbetotap]

@@Loundsify They aren’t enabled, promise. Check the AnandTech articles on Tegra X1 from that time.

[@Schizm1]

Nice to see STALKER being mentioned here. Ukrainian (STALKER/Metro etc) and Polish (Cyberpunk/Dying Light etc) devs are fantastic.

[@johnboylan3832]

No, they aren't. Dying light 2 and Cyberpunk released in an absolute state, as did The Witcher 3. They are Eurojank extraordinaire.

[@bombyo3634]

​@@johnboylan3832Cyberpunk is fun to play now.

[@johnboylan3832]

@@bombyo3634 Fantastic devs would have had it fun to play at release.

[@bombyo3634]

@@johnboylan3832 i agree with you. Im just saying that game is so much fun. Im mad im at the end for the 3rd time. I beat it up untill the end then stopped 3 times.

[@DMthefutureme]

More of Oliver please, love his energy. That's not against Jon, I'd also like to see more of Thomas too.

[@Hooliobro]

I would definitely be excited to see a tour of John's workspace! I'm always interested in the background shots he sets up and I'd love a closer look if he's willing to share. Thanks, as always, for your amazing work!

[@davillain9974]

I'm surprised Unrecord isn't getting the vibe from Hardcore Henry movie by the media as this is as close to getting an actual Hardcore Henry

[@MinosML]

@@thatvsmbro9828 skill issue lmao

[@blunts_blaz1n]

Absolutely love it when Alex and Oliver are on... and uninterrupted every 5 seconds. They both have such insightful views on the info they provide.

[@enzog1078]

Shots fired?

[@BespokeSlipp]

John tends to interrupt for sure haha, though I don’t think it’s ill-intended

[@blunts_blaz1n]

@JazzzManSwizz yea, me neither but, it does just get f*ing irritating. Especially with Alex for me, Alex consistently has interesting views/info (imo at least) and would just love if he could just... speak, when, John's on lol.

[@janehoyken]

When it comes to these photorealistic videogames like Unrecord I also feel like environments in overcast weather look most realistic. Games with typical washed out colors and indirect lighting look far more realistic imo. You can even see it in Unrecord itself. The footage where theres clear weather looks like a standard modern videogame again

[@219SilverChoc]

Unrecord gives me huge Kane and Lynch 2 Dog Days vibes too, especially with the pixelated headshots!

[@chrisbullock6477]

The biggest thing they are using in Unrecord is the photogrammetry together with Lumen and Nanite. The photogrammetry and texture resolution are from 8K textures I believe. I have some friends who work over there and were at a dev meetup here in NC and was able to talk to some of them.

[@HolidayAtHome]

That epic monument in Rich''s background with that Xbox SX and two PS5 surounding it =D

[@apictureoffunction]

As soon as I saw the gameplay for Immortals I immediately thought of Lichdom Battlemage. My friend had a used copy on PS4 that probably averaged between 8-12fps at any given time. Crazy to think it runs at a locked 60fps on PS5

[@shApYT]

Camera motion is one of the hardest things to make feel natural, even if you just take a real world camera motion track from real footage.

[@ooiiooiiooii]

For unrecord, it is less about the lighting an assets and more about how they are simulating a camera rather than human eyes.

[@itsd0nk]

Heck yeah! 360 era games with pumped up Ray tracing and remixed graphics using Restir have the potential to look totally amazing! That era had a lot of big boundary pushing games. Many games during then really *found* the boundaries for how modern raster would get standardized. So it will really let some of that hard work shine.

[@Glowbox3D]

Awesome guys. Great show thanks.

[@willis936]

Man I absolutely love how much gaming render technology can be contextualized through Alex's love of Crysis.

[@Zackasaur1917]

Burning Shores is mind-blowing. So good.

[@AstraeaOne]

Hey, digital foundry! Thx for showcasing my vid! If you want - I can connect you with developer, who ported full xray engine logics to unreal engine 5. And we are small development studio, who will need some spotlight)))

[@MKR3238]

should've sorted comments by "new" instead of first wasting 15 minutes of trying to find your vid :D

[@tricky2917]

Just saying, a lot of games on consoles support mouse and keyboard too. There are even some nice peripherals that mix mouse movement with a kind of game pad. Best of both worlds, essentially. Unrecord devs, if you read this, have a go at the Xbox and PS5 too. 👍

[@hihihi1q23]

Apparently, a bunch of weirdos on twitter are outraged because of an optional scene that the Horizon DLC has (which confirms something that has been hinted at since Zero Dawn). People are weird.

[@junde.]

most of those have never played the game

[@wiskerfall4519]

Yeah it’s pretty funny and sad at the same time that people care this much I’m hoping that they are the minority though

[@mi-kv3vm]

Someone view some of the profiles and found those people giving Microsoft games 10s and Sony games 0s. 🤷‍♀️ make of that what you will.

[@yomamasohot6411]

​@Starship thrusters you sound like the republicans who are vehemently against the lgbtq but are secrectly sleeping with one.

[@SparrowPOV]

I would like a 3 hours of these videos every week in during my car trips, 1 is just not enough.

[@orijimi]

I recommend listening to the Nextlander podcast for a similar group of guys talking semi-technically about games.

[@DonkeyRhubarb21]

​@@orijimiThanks for the recommendation!

[@williamcrms]

Overdrive in CP 2077 would be a very compromised experience on PS5/XSX as Oliver alluded to. We definitely won’t get pathtracing in complex open-world games on console until next gen. But, based off how Quake 2 RTX runs on a 6700 xt at 1080p, I think it would be in the realm of possibility for path traced retro games to come to the current gen consoles. It’ll probably be at least 3 generations before AMD has a good path tracing mid range card for modern games that can be slotted in a console, but that’s about the time a next gen console would be expected to come out (2028).

[@Loundsify]

It's tesselation all over again. It took AMD 2 gens to catch Nvidia up on tesselation when that was regarded as the next graphical big thing.

[@PantsaBear]

Rich fumbled the heck out of saying "Lichdom Battle Mage" lmaoooo

[@stephonhines6554]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mbsfaridi]

No reverb too 😔

[@aL3891_]

The actual graphics in the unrecord demo looks great but not that crazy compared to cyberpunk or matrix, but the camera animation and application of post effects is really really good, imo that's what's really sells it

[@JamieRobert_]

Lol you use cyberpunk as an example? That game looks dated

[@Fusion05]

Cyberpunk doesn’t look good imo. Matrix looks good but that’s it. Animations are jank, physics are straight out of the 2000s.

[@eddiek8179]

@@JamieRobert_ He's right to use CP as a example. And no - it does not look dated especially now. Is there narrative you have going on?

[@JamieRobert_]

@@eddiek8179 looks really cartoony

[@walter_the_wobot2349]

@@JamieRobert_ cyberpunk looks like a 360 game in a lot of ways upscaled.

[@shaecouture7480]

1:04:40 Digital Foundry Cribs Edition, and yes, Alex would be embarrassed how many rooms are dedicated to Crysis.

[@CassidyListon]

🤔 years ago, I saw a video claiming that camera settings in first-person shooters are all wrong, flattening the perspective. It then showed a proposed alternative that greatly exaggerated the change in perspective with mouselook. It was neato at the time... but it also seemed really impractical from a gameplay standpoint. I can't find the video now, but it looks like this Unrecord game is using the same technique.

[@michaelt5459]

So glad to hear Alex’s take on Unrecord. Sure, it doesn’t look bad, but I don’t think it’s the graphical showcase people were freaking out over. Reminded me of P.T. A bit, how the texture choices and lighting made it look real, but on close look it was pretty clear what was going on.

[@coliander4180]

I initially saw the Unrecord footage on my crappy network QoS limited workstation and no frills 1080p TN LCD monitor. KZbin had seen fit to reduce the streaming quality to 480p and it actually looked significantly *more* convincing than the 4K 60fps footage I'm seeing at home. The low fidelity of the 480p/30 stream really enhanced the almost found-footage sense of realism. Looking at it now, it's still impressive but it's very very clearly not photoreal.

[@michaelt5459]

@@coliander4180 yep, great way to put it. It’s to the point where when the image quality isn’t perfect it looks like something real being recorded on a shit camera/compression, which is certainly cool, but different. TBH I couldn’t shake the idea out of my head of those 80’s/90’s FMV games like nighttrap, that’s what watching it felt like to me. The ‘realistic’ gun is horrible from a gameplay perspective IMO, makes it feel like I’m watching a video rather than playing.

[@cpt.tombstone]

I loved to see Stalker modding being mentioned here, I'm looking forward to Anomaly getting Path Tracing (as it has a dedicated engine team, and the game still has a DX8 renderer that is compatible with remix, just like Portal. But in the realm of Modding, I'd like Digital Foundry to cover the DLSS 3 mod for Skyrim, that adds DLSS and Frame Generation with Reshade and ENB support, made by PureDark. It's still in alpha, with Reflex not working (has a bug with DX11 that Nvidia is working on) but it's such a good with for the game as with 800+ mods, it's easy to hit engine and API limitations, and Frame Generation completely solves that with just a little more latency.

[@Mene0]

Very confident and organic response from the Unrecord folks. I despise corporate speak so it not being there is great

[@omarsabeur9039]

Lol

[@piotr78]

Did you miss point 2 about police?

[@corey_massey]

If the conversation is about a first person shooter.....Alex will find a way to mention Crysis!

[@GuiFoxJus]

Nothing impresses Alex. The whole Internet: "Wow amazing this looks so real, graphics and animations are incredible". Alex: "Not great, not terrible. Seen that before 12 years ago, too, look at this Crysis mod". It sure does help keep my expectations in check. Never change, man.

[@TRONiX404]

It's like nobody seen a CG movie before, not like Unrecord was pushing boundaries. In the early 2000s in the military training sim we played looked much better with full battlefield heli's tanks explosions. Just look at the mandalorian made in UE5 or if Lion King Movie lvl CG in a game I'd be impressed.

[@Gatitasecsii]

Idk I have my own eyes and I think it looks incredible.

[@enzog1078]

It looks incredible. It just does. The combination of modern graphics and the tricks they use make it look genuinely lifelike.

[@sergeleon1163]

Immortals of Aveum, not only gave Lichdom: Battlemage vibes but also older like Hexen and Heretic and more recent the trailers/teaser of the magic in the upcoming title Avowed.

[@fensoxx]

I am totally with Alex on portable. I’ve been gaming since 1983 and when I PC game it’s an immersive session at the computer. When I’m out and about I’m exploring the world. Props to you PC gamers who can hunch over a portable screen and game, you’re better gamers than I. I’ve always been into it for the high fidelity and the portable space just doesn’t do it for me. Of course, at 10, the Gameboy did indeed do it for me. So 🤷‍♂️

[@CitizenScott]

Gamers: "Wow the camera movement in Unrecord looks AMAZING!!! How do you turn it off?"

[@xyoxus]

57:40 Really hoping to see another video about Returnal when they released some more patches, because it seems like the stuttering is still there in the PC release even after 2-3 patches

[@carn9507]

pc version?

[@xyoxus]

@@carn9507 Yes, I'm taking about the PC release

[@Segundachanceemgames]

The Draw Distance on Forbidden West is also Insane.

[@MisterReen]

It’s so beautiful this game. The base game was already fantastic but the dlc makes it even better. If they could decrease the pop-ins during flying a little bit more it would be nearly perfect.

[@Eddycut]

​@@MisterReen tbh I would rather deal with pop in rather than fps dips any day

[@MisterReen]

@@Eddycut I absolutely agree

[@CapyTapy]

I would expect that integrating RTX remix onto emulators would be possible because those old consoles use lots of fixed function stuff. Of course it would require extra work, but some of the software is already open source.

[@CamberGreber]

My thoughts exactly.

[@thingsiplay]

To Alex: About releasing the games source code to the public is not simple as you think. There are contracts and copyrights of code and assets. Maybe some trademarks are involved or other complicated stuff. Or the company does not exist anymore. That's why preserving these stuff by the community is important, even if some things are illegal.

[@Loundsify]

Although I wish Valve would let Dr Beef just port Half Life 2 VR to Meta Quest 2, I definitely think it would run it.

[@thingsiplay]

@@Loundsify I am not sure how relevant that is to what I was talking about.

[@carn9507]

Burning Shores looks fantastic. Absolutely great to see it using PS5 power rather than to "pull it's punches" for PS4. I know some PS4 folk complain that it should be on PS4 too but that's missing the entire point of this DLC. It's been long overdue time to move on fully to PS5. PS4 got Forbidden West and God of War Ragnarok! Those should be a fantastic send off and be grateful those were made to run on PS4 too. But PS4 is old tech now and PS5 needs to see more games justifying the purchase of the newer hardware else what was the point upgrading? :)

[@BrecklynFast]

Wow I never thought I would hear someone bring up the extreme quality mod for Crysis.

[@dabblerblue]

So much reverb, I love it.

[@Daniel-yz3zf]

Just in time for my lunch break workout! Cheers as always chaps for saving me from the monotony of Mondays

[@satyasyasatyasya5746]

lunch break workout?! yikes i wish i had your energy/motivation! :D Good for you! but don't forget to eat and rest :P

[@MurCurieux]

Burning Shores is amazing.

[@lolmao500]

Damn Horizon Burning Shores looks epic. I hope they do a PC port that kicks ass.

[@lowmagnet]

Cribs: DF edition

[@TempleofShaolin]

The burning shores DLC was phenomenal, very next gen on an OLED C2

[@antivanti]

The color grading and post process that emulates the ranges of a digital video kamera is absolutely what sells it as "real" There are multiple videos on KZbin of Assetto Corsa with ENBs and ReShade that does the same thing to make it look just like onboard cam on a TV broadcast

[@ggali09]

An aiming system like that can be done on console with some work. The first Pikmin on GameCube had movement and aiming tied to the same stick.

[@steel5897]

The Unrecord discussion reminded me of the discussion around "sense of speed" in racing games. Things like motion blur, camera swaying and lens distortion can make people think something is going faster than it actually is, and older Gran Turismo games were criticized for not having any of it and presenting a "clean" image.

[@Reydriel]

Newer Gran Turismo games too. The reason Gran Turismo does none of that is the same reason why sim racing game also don't do it; it distracts your vision lol. Same logic with competitive FPS games Also why Gran Turismo sticks with the very stiff chase cam, it's just simply better if you actually want to be fast lol

[@thed3m0n0id9]

Gotta actually agree with Alex about Unrecord not "blowing my mind" - I was *very* impressed, but after The Matrix Reawakens, I have been *waiting* for this sort of thing to come out. I'm super interesting to see if these guys make good on their hints of possible console ports. Would love to see this running on Series X/PS5.

[@maynotsam7690]

Much love and respect! Am I the only one that noticed Rich's headphones were in the wrong ears? 😂 See 1:05:37

[@chrisbullock6477]

I'm ready for new Snow Drop Engine tech/titles

[@mbsfaridi]

Wonder when we’ll see the Avatar game.

[@ninjashrimpgaming2657]

Enjoyed burning shores but they need to fix the pop in

[@phrozac]

The Horizon series is awesome but they just can't catch a break with their release timing, lol. I feel like this series is criminally underrated. Still, Forbidden West is easily one of the most impressive looking games I've ever seen and I'm super happy to see Guerrilla unshackled by last gen for this DLC. I love anything STALKER related. This path tracing update for SoC looks like a game-changer, though I can't find anything on it on the webz. Anyone have a link?

[@Eddycut]

Wdym? Burning shores had nothing standing in its way for it's release

[@MrWizardGG]

(Except their terribly boring storylines)

[@ThunderingRoar]

@@MrWizardGG i think the first game had pretty good storyline, haven't played the 2nd one tho

[@Eddycut]

​@@MrWizardGG sounds like a you problem bud

[@MrWizardGG]

@Eddycut nah its pretty well known to be really boring

[@isanvicente1974]

i think that FSR· 3 if it arrives to consoles, they can run RT quite well... i think FSR 3.0 can fit very well in a console...

[@CharcharoExplorer]

Gigachad, love that STALKER is getting love from Digital Foundry!

[@chrisbullock6477]

That chip from AMD going into the ASUS handheld doesn't need to be 256-bit because of the resolution being pushed and the improved cache amounts and speed coupled with the OPEN GPU software they will be using like SAM and FSR 2.0

[@Youtube-Censorship-Police]

lichdom battlemage will stay forever in my heart, it sucked so much pre-patch, you have to love it❤️

[@WickedRibbon]

Honest question: Why has RTX 4070's unprecedentedly bad launch not been covered on recent DF Directs? 🤔 The card has been a historic flop for a 70-class product, with plenty of stock available on day one and prices already falling below MSRP, just two weeks after launch. The 4070 has sold so badly, that retailers are already resorting to desperation tactics like offering $100 steam gift cards and entire Intel GPUs as sweeteners. Consumers have rejected $600 as the new "mid-range", leaving Nvidia with another failed launch. It's a big story that I've seen covered across many large websites and YT channels, but Digital Foundry are weirdly silent on the matter. What gives?

[@Doggo-frencton]

Who cares? I’m sure Nvidia is crying into their mountains of cash.

[@jonpro9637]

They are Nvidia apologists so no

[@malaki7123]

Because that kind of discussion isn't what DF is about. They're interested in the state of the art and how gaming benefits from it, not pricing and value discussions

[@WickedRibbon]

@@malaki7123 They literally review graphics cards and CPUs, with price forming a part of their evaluation. Also, they've talked about the price and value of GPUs many times on the podcast, covering recent launches from both AMD and Nvidia. The lack of 4070 launch coverage is a weird omission.

[@malaki7123]

@@WickedRibbon They absolutely do, and if a review period lines up with a DF Direct, they'll sometimes address it there as well, but again, DF has evidenced themselves as very much interested in the state of the art and the visual artistry achievable with new hardware. They leave pricing discussions to literally every other tech outlet and the internet populi at large because they don't really have anything to add to the discussion that hasn't already been said outside of whatever they said in their reviews.

[@Rithysak101]

The only game i remember that went gold and didn't have a single patch is Final Fantasy 7 remake.

[@caiomarastoni1031]

Probably 16 will be the same

[@Rithysak101]

​@@caiomarastoni1031 hopefully

[@AlternativExXxHonK]

Horizon in 40fps with vrr is the most stunning Game i have ever seen.

[@Taijifufu]

Oliver's streaming setup looks amazing now.

[@asheleydavies]

Sony needs to throw some cash at the unrecord dev and make them put it on psvr2

[@Spoopy_man]

8:40 Richard staring at my soul.

[@Berengal]

Just a heads up, the Steam Deck only has a memory bandwidth of 128 bits too, like every other AMD APU.

[@ThunderingRoar]

think you meant to say bus width of 128bits

[@NickBaysingar]

Unrecord is definitely impressive as a full package. The developers have done a really good job with putting together all of the different elements to create a pretty unique looking game that will likely provide a similarly unique experience. Hopefully the gameplay will have more depth by the time it's finished, but so far they have an extremely solid foundation. The thing that I actually found most impressive about Unrecord is the first person animations for the player arms, hands and the gun. Like, it's actually pretty wild just how life-like the animations appear to be. When I was watching the demo, I was positive at first that it was a VR demo since that would explain the realistic movements of the hands and the gun. But then I realized that it was actually a mouse and keyboard game with a finely tuned decoupled camera setup, which really blew me away. If you ask me, it's the camera solution and the first person animations that are doing all the heavy lifting to make the game look as realistic as it does.

[@Jean-jk4zv]

@3:20 yes this mod ! Thanks Alex

[@starmanhov]

Notifications have stopped for me as well but steangely not for this channel.

[@chrisbullock6477]

Question did Digital Foundry ever cover Quantic Dreams PS4 tech demo "The Dark Sorcerer"? Its still amazing and makes me miss those types of demos. I guess now days the games are the demos.

[@okaybutwhythough7456]

Really think DF should look at the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. SoC: Update project at some point. The sweeping engine, asset, and system overhauls to me make it almost a similar in scope to Black Mesa.

[@Darkdiver28]

Aside from the graphics of Unrecord. The animations are slot on. The way he checks mags and the unjam animations are really top notch! Animation+graphics really sell the immersion.

[@thepunisherxxx6804]

Unrecord impressed because rarely do game developers try to make REALISTIC lighting. Combination with the movement, animations, and high assets impress. Game devs always have some dumb color grading or contrasting dark shadows or something that immediately shows it as a video game. Its also a static demo we cant play yet. Its very possible they jacked up ray tracing and the budget to show off this slice as a video. Time will tell if the actual game holds up to this standard and can actually run well and look like this.

[@bilditup1]

The cone of respectability is absolutely real lol, have an enhanced respect for filmmakers now

[@julio1148]

1:50 they also nailed the exposure level of a low quality camera

[@libardomm.trasimaco]

What a great show. Regards from Colombia

[@rabbitenjoyer6320]

*L I C H D O M B A T T L E M A G E* Thanks again for the interesting discussion.

[@mbsfaridi]

9:57 Timestamp

[@staticsignal3985]

Would you believe DF Direct is the highlight of my media week? Thank you for coining the term “Cone of Respectability”, LOL

[@christiansimon9182]

11:33 Missed opportunity to call it Lichdoom: Battlemage :D By the way, I love your show :>

[@monstercameron]

AMD APUs are apart of their semi custom solution, they already make low volume semi custom APUs.

[@DreBourbeau]

those immortals of aveum specs mean a sizeable majority of the PC market won't meet the minimum requirements. and if those specs are going to be the norm for current-gen only games, imagine if you bought a regular 3060 on launch in 2021 - your card may already be well below the minimum threshold for new releases.

[@gavinderulo12]

I share Alex's opinion on hand helds. I'd rather play my games in peace either on my monitor or TV to fully get immersed.

[@Eddycut]

Same

[@nlikeflynn8837]

If it’s 30fps like Zelda and most Switch games it’s handheld for me. The 30fps on the smaller screen doesn’t really bother me.

[@gavinderulo12]

@@nlikeflynn8837 it's not just the visual fidelity, but the setting. I can't get immersed into a game while in public or on the go.

[@jimjamsam3482]

random gaming, now in HD . i love that guy

[@lolmao500]

The Forbidden West engine is really kicking ass, I wished the company would make it open source or something or give it to some other developpers... like Epic does.... The Unreal Engine 5 needs competition and this is a great one.

[@Andi187187]

Why would free aim not work with a controller? Set the deadzone to zero and the increase the sensitivity.