Inside Hunt: Showdown 1896 - The CryEngine Evolves - Crytek Developer Interview

[@andibpunkt-o8c]

Literally the only Shooter im playing for almost 3 years,now. Switched from Xbox to PC about 5 months ago. No other shooter makes me so paranoid. The sound design is just phenomenal.

[@user-ic6xf]

The best way I can describe the audio is "addicting"... It is done so well. No other game comes even close.

[@le4-677]

Recently switched to PC? I wouldn’t publicly brag about becoming an official dork 😬

[@ThouArtOfWar0724]

Play dayz

[@liquidsunshine697]

I bought DT 770s for this game I cannot wait!

[@satnav1980]

I agree. The sound is outstanding and can only be described as "alive."

[@lukusridley]

I like how at the beginning he was being a bit general and then you got him to open the nerd trapdoor and it took off

[@RandomPhail]

they didn't know what they were dealing with at first; the host could've been a laymen who knew little-ot-nothing about technical stuff, so they had to keep it general at first

[@dagnisnierlins188]

​@@RandomPhailhuh? You think they don't know who digital foundry is?

[@RandomPhail]

@@dagnisnierlins188 absolutely 100%; otherwise, why would they start off overly simple? I didn't know who this dude was until this video lul

[@richardtucker5938]

@@RandomPhail nah they know them for sure, DF have highlighted Crytek fora long time, and they also helped with QA for Crysis 2 and 3 re-releases. I believe they are credited in the credits for those. John and Alex have visited Crytek offices.

[@RandomPhail]

@@richardtucker5938 that doesn't necessarily mean these two knew who they were/how much they really knew

[@Chasm9]

Finally an HDR video after a long time. 😎 Also, the game looks gorgeous.

[@sorentappe8745]

Seeing this in HDR on my smartphone makes me want to buy an OLED monitor asap! The game is already stunning but this is on a different level!

[@AnimeUniverseDE]

​@@sorentappe8745the default hdr settings for the game are completely busted and blown out, no details in the sky are visible

[@infernaltim]

​@@AnimeUniverseDE None of the hunters or bosses fly. Keep your eyes on the bushes and shadows.

[@AnimeUniverseDE]

@@infernaltim HDR means that you have increased dynamic range, there shouldn't be any clipping in the sky. This problem has nothing to do with how shadowy areas and bosses are presented

[@infernaltim]

@@AnimeUniverseDE I get what you're saying, I'm just busting balls, I'm not being serious. 🙂

[@MetsukiR]

I appreciate the fact that this video is in HDR, wish we had more of them from DF.

[@adamkallin5160]

This looks so much better to me than some 720p FSR abomination. Who cares about better lighting or assets if it’s hidden behind blurry mess image quality.

[@iurigrang]

tbf, I think most of these games (apart from aveum) just have 60 FPS performance modes tucked on, but are really games developed from the bottom up for the 30fps visuals modes (where the better lighting/assets are not hidden behind anything)

[@BrentHannify]

"The" Hunt Showdown made me chuckle, fellas.

[@MrJemabaris]

Was looking for that comment :D

[@two_owls]

I guess it is the one and only haha!

[@MassSquad]

Yeah, he sounds like my dad

[@xyxxyx38]

Poke-e-mans

[@honk_tm]

no way, its been years since last HDR video

[@shootnblankz187]

all those without an oled "hdr isn't that big of a deal" lol

[@Gabrieleh623]

I was surprised by youtube colour change and after reading your comment I find out why it did 😂

[@Pinoisreadingabook]

i have an oled and hdr still a gimmick...

[@emike09]

@@Pinoisreadingabook Not if it's set up right and implemented correctly in-game by the devs. Alan Wake 2, RDR2 (Now has HDR10+) are great examples of proper implementation. Filmmaker mode for UHD bluray is also fantastic.

[@Pinoisreadingabook]

@@emike09 "Not if it's set up right" dude turning HDR on and configuring it in windows it's not rocket science...

[@lahma69]

I LOVE these types of videos with in-depth technical talks with developers. Plus, you can't do much better when it comes to technical aspects than talking with Crytek. Great video!

[@Jean-jk4zv]

In glorious HDR 😎

[@Yas_Sin]

I almost thought that Alex forgot to ask about Crysis 4, but it was very clear that he had every intention to when he mentioned that he had a question he wasn't expecting an answer to! so yeah, looking forward to a path traced Crysis 4!

[@astrea555]

Cryengine's approach to realtime lightning is so so much better than Unreal's stupid expensive Lumen. Svogi is awesome. The rendering in this game is amazing.. however there's some real low quality assets in here, surprisingly. When it come to geometric and texture details I don't see anything better here than in Crysis 3 all these years ago.

[@xtr.7662]

@@astrea555 thats because lumen is supposed to pretty easy to implement for custom engines like this you still have to bake a lot games like this, ff16 or demon souls remake have excellent lighting on par with lumen but its not as easy also this does look better than crisis 3 remastered i suggest watching some gameplay your memory might be a bit fuzzy also its not better looking than crisis 1 remastered which actually benefited the most from the upgrades and actually has SVOGI implementation unlike crisis 2 and 3 remastered

[@Wobbothe3rd]

Lumen is amazing even in software form. Both Lumen and this approach are vastly inferior to genuine path tracing like RTXDI/GI, but all are impressive in and of themselves.

[@RedPuma90]

The game was first released in 2018 and almost all assets got carried over to the new release. That's why you still see low quality stuff sometimes.

[@uhavekrabs]

Unreal did have SVOGI or a form of voxel gi back in ue4, but they dropped it pretty early. Also lumen is a more 'next gen' tech that is pretty scalable and does its job, but needs more time to cook. SVOGI is nice, but it has some pretty big limitation it self with a big one being that it doesnt work as well with dynamic objects (its best used with static geometry). It also can cause some noise and ghosting. Any form of GI is gonna be expensive and/or have some big limitations. As @Wobbothe3rd pointed out the only way to have the best implementation is through Ray Tracing/Path Tracing.

[@CactousMan]

Similar to Metro Exodus: Awesome lightning, but some low quality assets and textures =/

[@hsvfanjan17]

Alex's game dev interviews are always something else. Very interesting talks and supported together with nice visuals

[@LegoVWCrazyFan09]

Finally, HDR video!

[@maskoblackfyre]

Oh wow, Clive Gratton is in Crytek now? Good for them! He has such a calming voice and demeanor. I could listen to him speak about anything, all day🙂

[@markshootsmonsters]

Love this game. The best gameplay, atmospherics, and it looks incredible. Great job Ali.

[@realghostxd]

This game is a hidden gem that a lot of people don’t know about

[@tonyl9636]

Unfortunately, the review bombing will ultimately keep thousands of people away

[@jor840]

it deserves so much more attention - its really unique and such a thought through well designed experience, whether it be the fantastic sound design, art style or game play.

[@markgolenkov4951]

after 4,5k hours in hunt I would say it rather anal jam - zero level of attention to the technical part of the servers, mechanics and balance. Everything they say here is just beautiful words and has little common with actual picture of hunt

[@mrrandom55951]

oh there are plenty of cheaters that know about it.

[@tonyl9636]

@markgolenkov4951 so after thousands of hours have been invested, the game isn't exactly what you specifically want it to be, which makes it trash? Yeah. I've literally never known anyone who put that much time into one game and didn't come away complaining exactly the way you are now, honestly. Time to move on bro, it's never going to be designed for you specifically and it's never going to be perfect, so your standards will never be met.

[@Cadmeus]

It's really great to hear about CryEngine still pushing forwards. I hope you're able to do one of these talks with the Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 team when that comes out next year.

Great interview! Love these videos and love the move to HDR! You might want to lower the luminance level for the white UI elements and text. Currently they overpower all other elements in the frame when displayed. Lowing to just 80% of it's current value would make the rest of the footage pop a lot more and they would still look "white" on an HDR display. but again, you content is amazing as usual! Looking forward to many more of these videos :)

[@hammondztexasu]

Wow Clive Gratton worked more than 30 years at Creative Assembly. This man is legend!

[@MrSnaztastic]

Yeah, I thought I recognized him from Alien Isolation's behind the scenes videos.

[@JevansUK]

Worked with so many great people at CA but I have to say Clive was a great guy to work with

[@BRAVosZ]

The graphics are mindblowing and the setting so cinematic.Wait when they add story mode.epic!

[@aggies11]

OMG another DF HDR video. These are a rare treat. (HDR is great it's a shame the content isn't more available. I know the production pipelines are a nightmare, so it's understandable). I do not get to use the HDR benefits of my monitor as often as I'd like.

[@ioijiopjkiopjkp]

We've been grinding this game for the last couple of years it's honestly so fun. A simple game that has infinite replay-ability.

[@burneracc9929]

Thank you for finally uploading a video in HDR again.. need more content like this!

[@chillnspace777]

Oooo HDR boys!!!

[@charlyjohn9472]

This for me actually the best looking game with the most immersive gameplay and sounddesign. I i play this game with the max settings on my 7900xtx with a uwqhd monitor always above 140 fps without fsr scaling and it has no single framedrop and it also runs perfectly fine with the perfect frametime. No shader stutters, no glitches and crashes. My friend with a 2060 super can run as well in full hd with 80 fps in medium and 60 on high without a problem, the engine scales with the systems really well.

[@xanderlinhares]

Had my first wow HDR moment for KZbin. Please do this more in the future!

[@Gitaroo236]

Hi Creytek folks, can you please update the PC version to use the newer version of DLSS and also include a sharpness slider

[@BlindBison]

Agreed, Reflex support would be nice too. I’d also like them to take a hard look at their VRAM usage - on my 5800X / 3070 rig if I dare use more than Medium textures I start getting very nasty stuttering. Feelsbadman

[@bagdaduk]

​@@BlindBisonwhat size monitor and rez you playing at? I've got a ryzen 3600 and 2060 on a ultra wide 4k monitor at medium setting getting between 60-100 frames but drops to 30 inside some compounds. But I'm not playing in native 4K I'm upscaling using Nvidia NIS

[@PixelShade]

I would love if CryEngine became more of an industry standard. The low performance requirement, amazing visuals and the incredible scalability (Steam Deck running Hunt attractively at Low, 50fps/Hz and FSR Performance at only 9W), well it just makes UE5 feel so slow, noisy, stuttery, and unattractive in comparison. I really wish Crytek the best, your technology is gold standard!

[@Blaze92NL]

We need an optimized settings video for this game Alex!

[@sebastiantkaczyk3353]

We need more interviews / technical discussions like this one! Keep going!

[@astrea555]

man I love Crytek and I was just using my C1 in HDR mode, fantastic timing. Interesting to see a Crytek video showcasing HDR too considering I was just replaying the Crysis Remastered trilogy and was really disapointed to see absolutely no HDR support on PC..

[@MrHamof]

Huh, I could have sworn they supported HDR. Checking it looks like only the first game did, I remember when LTT was looking at it they were really disappointed in the HDR presentation (Like it was actively terrible) but that could also be that they were using the original Samsung G9 with the fakeDR panel. I guess they decided it wasn't worth it and ditched it for 2 and 3?

[@killaballa568]

If you have a RTX card, you could use RTX HDR I tried it on crysis 3 and to me it looked really good on my oled but I also agree it kinda sucks that there’s no native HDR support on these games.

[@doctorWHO_ey]

hdr is overall a letdown....

[@MylesDaye]

One of my favorite games right now. I love it

[@jjforcebreaker]

Great interview, Alex!

[@kephrentv]

DLSS is the 2.3.1 version btw. Just why?

[@JFinns]

By far the most bizarre thing in the entire update. Devs, where is DLSS 3.7?!

[@Swisshost]

The older DLSS version supports more GPU cards.

[@roklaca3138]

Because rtx 2000 and 3000 still exist without dlss3 support (thnx scumbag nvidia)

[@LucasOe]

I love Hunt: Showdown, but unfortunately the performance hasn't been great for me after the latest upgrade. With a Ryzen 5600x and a RTX 3070 I get about 120 FPS with everything on lowest, but in some compounds it can dip into the 20s. I assume it's the VRam. A proper DF analasys would be much appreachiated!

[@SmuggoSmuggins]

I'm running a 3070 with i5 13600k and I am getting between 100-120fps constantly with a mix of high and ultra settings.

[@dannyryan3192]

Turn fog down to low and then boost everything else. The fog stuff changes basically nothing visible while taking up a ton of performance, and also maybe try the dlss and see how you feel about it

[@noobiangr2635]

you card is fine..it's just that the developers are incompetent to optimize their broken game

[@Arx07]

Put VRAM usage ingame to 70%, helps with most people that have 8gb VRAM. For me game runs pretty well on 3440x1440 resolution with 7900XT, on high preset(some things on medium) i get stable 144fps, with low 1% around 130.

[@Greez1337]

How slow is your memory?

[@Bobcation]

I'm happy that the engine is being further developed and you're always bringing new things. But it's also very important that you work on this netcode and the servers. Rubber banding is a big problem, as are these trades. I don't understand why this isn't being worked on, especially since this is extremely important for a shooter.

[@_C.J.]

How do you know they aren't?

[@Bobcation]

@@_C.J. Because it has only gotten worse so far. :)

[@paulanthony8214]

Thanks for uploading in hdr!

[@Doodleschmit]

I was literally thinking about asking you guys to investigate the changes in Hunt after the engine upgrade! super happy to see this video come across my feed!

[@6ch6ris6]

me too :D

[@MikiBruh]

That was a really fun and insightful interview! I love when developers talk about their games.

[@kohlmannj]

Love the 3-D audio tech shoutouts!

[@aggies11]

Dear god, PBR techniques are pretty crazy. Specifying the melanin content of the hair, to determine ultimate color is at both incredible, and terrifying. It definitely increases the realism of the imagine, but I wonder how it effects the design process of the artists.

[@EJ_Crough]

it's always nice to see the higher bitrate youtube allows for HDR videos... I wonder when youtube's gonna make the move to more av1 encodes

[@MelvinGundlach]

It often depends on how popular the video is.

[@kendokaaa]

They'll just drop the bitrate to save on bandwidth like everyone does. Despite using AV1, Netflix's quality at anything but 4K HDR is pretty bad because they just reduced the bitrate to keep the quality as low as people will accept and I'm sure KZbin does the same

[@imperfect_smile]

Crytek showing EPIC how its done.

[@x32i77]

Doom eternal engine , hold my beer 🍻

[@SepticFalcon]

I really enjoyed this deep dive, thank you guys! 🥰

[@Kirtahl]

I am able to play this game still with a gtx 1080. That's a nine year old card. 1440p low settings 55-80 frames and still quite pretty.

[@124thDragoon]

I'd absolutely love an "optimized settings" video, Alex. I've been playing Hunt pretty consistently since late 2018; The game's fidelity on PC definitely took a hit when they released it on the now-previous-gen consoles. And this latest update has felt like a return to form for Crytek. I'd also love a single player (or co-op? eh?!) campaign in the world of Hunt. It'd be a sort of "yup, we're still here" move from Crytek. Though I guess that's what Crysis 4 is shaping up to be.

[@alirezajolodar6450]

thanks to ali salehi for an amazing explanation , love from iran

[@sGamer-ld4cl]

Best pvp game on the planet, no other game gives you this much adrenaline rush. Also, it has the best sound effects I've ever heard in a game, pure masterclass of a game. Play it, dont just take my word.

[@razamadaz3417]

Great interview, beautiful game,, awesome tech.

[@christonit6895]

Man, I always loved the lightning and the shading in CryEngine, too bad not enough games use that engine. Nowadays most of games just have that UE look :/

[@soulofcinder2007]

Yea I’m starting to hate the UE look

[@kukuricapica]

There might be issue with some aspect of cryengine that makes it not appealing to developers.

[@Swyse]

@@kukuricapica their UI framework still relies on Adobe Animate and ActionScript. They said 2 years ago though that the next commercial iteration of cryengine will have its own UI implementation. I'm very hopeful.

[@christonit6895]

@@kukuricapica i think it just have to do the same with any type of tech: resource pool such as a market place and how many people know how to use it and its performance. UE is being used even on architecture.

[@christonit6895]

@@Swyse AS and Abode... Yisus!!! this brings me to 2010 hahaa

[@ParsianTV]

good call on HDR Alyx, this game looks nuts in HDR. I opened this on my Iphone 15 and the minute it said HDR, i said i need to watch this on bigger HDR screen.

[@MrJblazini]

It's criminal this game isn't bigger. I've been having so much fun with it.

[@rundown132]

Because its super repetitive, this is ocming from someone with 300 hours in it too

[@MrJblazini]

@rundown132 Most games are repetitive.

[@HowPettyful]

​@@rundown132Not that repetitive, I have almost 500 lol

[@nicolasgonzalez629]

The game literally can't get bigger, if player numbers approach what they did when they launched the new update the servers simply explode.

[@santyagobustamante7369]

Always love this developer interviews, they are great.

[@jenesuispasbavard]

Yes, more HDR videos please!

[@leander7872]

Love the game but devs PLEASE add an render scale option that allows setting the render resolution higher than 100%. A lot of modern monitors do not allow technologies like Nvidia DSR. Resolution is super important in hunt because of the shimmering of foliage and ability to spot players. DLSS if fine but even quality at native is not nearly sharp enough.

[@AllyBigGunsSpanish-he6rn]

Oh I'm ready for this, hoping there is some talk about the wacky VRAM usage under certain conditions at Grizzly Lodge and Graystone Pit.

[@BlindBison]

Yeah, this game annihilates 8 gigabyte GPUs. If you lower the vram usage target and use medium textures with balanced image reconstruction it blows past the 8 gigs fast. I get nasty nasty stuttering now on my 3070 unless I majorly then down the texture quality / quality presets - but then the game winds up looking a lot worse of course than it does here in these DF videos.

[@STANDIEMCSTILLE]

Man, im excited you gave little old hunt some attention. This is thee best fps game around. And deserves praise for its efforts and achievements. Love to guys. Also ty for the lantino skins, i love um. Give me more lol

[@shootnblankz187]

Am I more impressed with hunts update or the decision and recognition that this video should be in HDR!

[@okaybutwhythough7456]

Explishit is my go to word now.

[@sosnihuica2k10]

Dear developers, why are you using the outdated version of DLSS in your updated engine? Do you think that players are satisfied with the blurry mess instead of the steady image that the current DLSS 3.7+ can provide?

[@someusername1872]

Does injecting an updated DLSS .dll trigger the anti cheat or something?

[@sosnihuica2k10]

​@@someusername1872 According to comments on reddit, after replacing nvngx_dlss.dll, DLSS option in the game becomes unavailable. EAC probably considers the file replacement as a violation of the integrity of the game files and simply blocks it. But the game looks just awful with DLSS 2.3.1

[@alinguist9793]

I tried and it doesn't work with DLSS Tweaks (github), but it let's me force DLAA, which has a lot more performance than the ingame Antialiasing and looks even better. EAC did nothing, doing this since the update. ​@@someusername1872

[@sosnihuica2k10]

@@someusername1872 According to comments on reddit, after replacing nvngx_dlss.dll, DLSS option in the game becomes unavailable. EAC probably considers the file replacement as a violation of the integrity of the game files and simply blocks it. But the game looks just awful with DLSS 2.3.1

[@joinkusbelinkiusthethird]

I'm not sure but if the player could do it the devs could do it so there's no excuse. I think this is more what he's getting at?

[@hockeylad2727]

YES for HDR finally!

[@kleinkurti]

Such a good game with an amazing team behind it. I would love to see a "Digital Foundry Optimization Guide" for Hunt ;)

[@Fryepod3628]

Crytek 🔥 Good job DF for context

[@Monostat7]

This update is amazing. Not perfect but I’ve been playing every day since launch and Im still blown away by how much better the game looks and feels now

[@jabalajabolindest4852]

Amazing game and this new update blew my mind

[@TooNi313G]

Finally I’ve been waiting for this

[@mrnelsonius5631]

I wish I had better internet at my current apartment. Hunt Showdown is brilliant. I played it for years before moving. It’s the only online competitive game I’ve really enjoyed in the last decade. I highly recommend it to anyone curious. Steep learning curve, a bit like Souls that way, but once it hooks you it really hooks you.

[@fafnirymd]

I think the new map need some optimization..there are some area that drop my fps from 100 to almost 60 fps..

[@feenux09]

love this game! the update was great, DLSS was really needed to smooth all the vegetation aliasing we had before

[@devvvinparker1203]

I love these developer deep dives. Wish they got more views; both for the channels sake and cause I think it may help lessen some player/dev hostility if players were more informed.

[@volioze4205]

Thank you

[@somedude1324]

The game is beautiful

[@Coffee_by_Tomo]

VRAM change from 90 to 70 is making game so much smooth for 8Gb budget gpu... And allmost none stutters and weird 20% fps drops for half a minute.

[@BlindBison]

I tried that and it does not fully resolve the issue for me. Even if you tone the texture quality way down and move that down to 70 I still get lots of visible “jitter” / stuttering camera motion after the update. I have a 5800x / 3070 rig with a high refresh Gsync panel.

[@BMW-sd6nn]

​@BlindBison same here the game jutters offen, I mean I have a dated card but the orignal game ran like a dream on my 5700xt and now in select areas of the map ot drops to 45 no matter the settings or fsr.

[@BlindBison]

@@BMW-sd6nn I hear you man, the microstutter is the worst part about the update imo

[@lauchkillah]

@@BlindBison some ppl have reported that disabling the geforce experience highlight recording or the geforce overlay (completely) helped stabilize their fps. and I agree, something in the game currently feeld like it's leaking VRAM or something, I get these weird slowdowns too (3080 10gb)

[@lauchkillah]

@@BMW-sd6nn grizzly lodge and gray stone pit in particular seem to be having performance issues. oddly enough, one time I spawned ing ray stone my fps there was completely fine. maybe something related to streaming in the compound assets upon entering it (via traversal instead of spawning) is broken, idk

[@onehitsword6800]

My eyes Saw The Order 1886 upgrade

[@Mrs_Puffington]

Opening old wounds :(

[@nitemantube]

Same. My life had purpose for a few seconds there

[@azazeln]

Wishful thinking

[@AJDOLDCHANNELARCHIVE]

Should've gone to Specsavers.

[@willuigi64]

That studio is dead sadly

[@rdalcroft3934]

I like the HDR, but you still need to do some colour correction, Alex looking overly bright, and blacks are lifted too much. you can't just record in HDR and expect it to look good. Just my constructive criticism, I mean use something like DaVinci resolve, they have a good Auto Colour correction for HDR.

[@nicknickname353]

the HDR is for the gameplay parts which look great, you are not here to watch Alex in HDR. it takes a lot of time to do such pointless thing.

[@rdalcroft3934]

@@nicknickname353 true. True.

[@MelvinGundlach]

@@nicknickname353You only have to color grade for your camera once. And since we see a lot of him, it makes sense to spend that little amount of time.

[@Dmitryaga]

I expected to see criticism and praise, but this is just an interview... Flickering textures? Horrible FPS drops? DLSS 2.1 without the ability to replace DLL file?! Online Hunt is now at the level or lower than it was before due to greatly increased requirements, worse sound positioning and terrible UI.

[@V-Lenzr]

08:07 is a very interesting explanation why sometimes weapons do not display after swapping around and just appear out of thin air after a bit.

[@mattymoyouknow202]

Nicely done video

[@horatimetalero]

We need an optimized settings video for this game!!! looks awesome

[@aterikasedi]

We are waiting Crysis 4 with latest Cry Engine.

[@xtr.7662]

Should look about the same as this

[@aterikasedi]

@@xtr.7662 Should look better.

[@astrea555]

@@xtr.7662 That would be disappointing considering C3R looks better..

[@xtr.7662]

@@astrea555 it doesnt the texture and lighting quality is not as good at all

[@xtr.7662]

@@aterikasedi then it will be 30fps only

[@spellskreenful]

Thanks for the video)

[@doyouthinkitsdead]

happy Alex! im all for it

[@tomkirbygreen]

Thank you so much Alex, for putting this awesome interview together and for the long term faith in non-Unreal engine tech.

[@Yoshimatsu414]

Call of Duty has been doing that VRAM percentage thing for a while now in their engine. But the difference is that they control texture quality with that setting in this game which is cool. This game is looking phenomenal though. I picked it up for my Series X a while back but I think I might be wanting to try this game out on my 7900XTX lol.

[@princepeachfuzz]

wait, Ali Salehi? an Iranian CryEngine developer??? congrats my guy!

[@borisdg]

So Clive Gratton went in Crytek... (he was in Creative Assembly "Console" team and was lead programmer on Alien Isolation)

[@liquidsunshine697]

I spent the last day re optimizing my cpu to better run this game. And not ONE channel has any guide for settings. I hope this helps give me insight instead of guessing! Thank you DF! I am brand new to Hunt with this update and its my favorite game!!

[@MrAlienw]

Re Optimizing your CPU? Are you an Intel engineer capable of changing your physical CPU or code? It doesn't make any sense.

[@jonathand827]

@@MrAlienwdude rebuildt his cpu in his bedroom. 😂

[@liquidsunshine697]

@@MrAlienw nerd 🤓

[@Tube_Chaser]

@@MrAlienw Don't be ridiculous. He's an AMD engineer

[@liquidsunshine697]

@@jonathand827 how is optimizing the values my cpu runs at rebuilding my pc???

[@DarkReturns1]

HDR, yes!!

[@1lichfield]

Ali...wow he knows his stuff, Clive is just chilling.

[@SuperFunkphenomenon]

yup. with so much tech upgrades, yet the engine stutters.

[@TheJms1977]

This looks insane on my alienware oled love this game and the upgrades are brilliant

[@zaq_d]

thanks, Alex for bringing us the goods!

[@InnerFury1886]

everything is great except the UI. its the most unintuitive, designed by a madman, netflix/hulu call of doody garbage ive ever seen. redesign the UI crytek. PLEASE. redditors made better menu UI design.

[@BLCKVD]

Everything is not great, performance sucks ass and then they don’t give us latest dlss AND dlss frame generation to cope with that??

[@kc-me6wl]

"netflix/hulu call of doody garbage"...looooool

[@ErenTheWarcriminal]

I was with you until you said redditors did something better

[@Fallens218]

​@@BLCKVD Performance does not suck ass it's acceptable not perfect but it is also a better looking and more demanding.

[@Shieftain]

​@@ErenTheWarcriminal Look at it this way. The game's UI is so bad that even redditors were able to design a better one.

[@stevebrown7877]

One of the best multiplayer games out there

[@Glowbox3D]

What a beautiful game.

[@thepunisherxxx6804]

No updated version of DLSS or frame gen? To most, gameplay is king, then performance, then graphics. Graphics are nice to get you in the door but gameplay and performance keep you around. Crytek never took performance seriously and I think its always hurt them in sales and reputation.

[@trickshotgamingtrickshotgaming]

I agree

[@MelvinGundlach]

They took performance seriously with Crisis 2 and were shunned for it because it didn’t overstress the latest graphics cards for a change.

[@thepunisherxxx6804]

@@MelvinGundlach No they didn't it was just optimized for console, they were FORCED to make it run well for that reason alone, as we saw with the more linear levels and closed off map design. When they added tessellation and other PC only features they bungled that too. Users found out that everything (including the ocean below the map) was rendering at FULL tessellation despite being out of view.

[@missfortune9269]

You are very bright Alex

[@simonisenberg4516]

I love hearing professionals talking to professionals.

[@DoctorCyrax]

Crytek & Optimisation? Where?

[@TheGameGuruTv]

a classic df tech review would be great as well!

[@dri_him]

I love me some HDR but the highlights are blown out (Galaxy S24 Ultra)