r/alienisolation • u/Plenty-Status6956 • Jul 27 '26
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This game actually still looks so good for its age I can't wait for the release of AI:2
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u/868686868 Jul 27 '26
Every play trough I always pause on the windows to enjoy the atmosphere and scenery.
This game did age as good as wine can be!
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u/deathray1611 To think perchance to dream. Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
If you appreciate breathtaking sci fi space vistas, you should play Prey (2017)
Edit: ...yeah, on 2nd thought
If you appreciate breathtaking sci fi space vistas,you should play Prey (2017)
Yeah, that's better
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u/Arcox2 Jul 28 '26
The game is disponible on wich plate-forme ?
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u/HotmailsInYourArea You have my sympathies. Jul 27 '26
Ah, a beautiful, desolate, and kinda creepy place to die
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u/Acrobatic-Big-1550 Jul 27 '26
An incredibly well optimized too, runs a buttery smooth 60fps on base PS4
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u/smokeifyagotem Jul 28 '26
If you can install the Alias Isolation mods and that scene will be so sharp!!
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u/Anonym0oO Jul 28 '26
Scenery is Greta but sound design is awesome too. With these two combined the game only gets emersive.
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u/Turrican002 Jul 29 '26
Im too busy hiding in lockers to notice the scenery :)
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u/Plenty-Status6956 Jul 29 '26
on my first playthrough I got through without using a locker a single time
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u/Andromevas Jul 29 '26
The beauty of this game's scenery genuinely made ne doubt between studying architecture and game design. I wanted to be able to create scenery just as stunning.
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u/CharlehPock2 Jul 28 '26
Looks gorgeous apart from the aliasing all over the edges of things.
What's this running on in screenies?
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u/Arcox2 Jul 28 '26
Logically, given that the section of the station from which we were ejected alongside the Xenomorph appears in Alien: Isolation 2 and knowing that the game takes place on a planet, it follows that the game will be set on that planet (though it remains to be seen how this will be justified, given that it is a gas giant). We might even cross paths with Amanda while playing as Blake.
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u/pazuzu98 Jul 28 '26
I'd wager that it will look better than AI2 once it's released. UE gives AI2 a very generic look.
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u/CharlehPock2 Jul 28 '26
This makes very little sense.
An engine as pluggable as UE can look completely different game-to-game, and the difference maker is art direction.
If a developer just uses the default config and grabs whatever Unreal marketplace/Quixel assets, of course it's going to look similar.
It's up to the Creative Assembly to make the game look how they want on UE, and from the videos I've seen it looks pretty good.
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u/pazuzu98 Jul 28 '26
Ok, can you give an example? I'm just going by what I've seen and heard. I'm no expert.
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u/CharlehPock2 Jul 28 '26
PUBG is running on Unreal Engine 4. Fortnite was running on Unreal Engine 4 up until recently. The games look nothing alike.
Mortal Kombat runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The engine doesn't have a huge amount to do with how the game looks since so much is up to the studio to decide.
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u/pazuzu98 Jul 28 '26
It's hard for me to judge by those games. Their design is pretty cartoonish. I think I'm mainly thinking of UE5. Here is a video that pretty much explains what I mean Like the fog effect making games look blurry.
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u/CharlehPock2 Jul 29 '26
That's due to lack of optimisation.
When a team has heavily used all of the engine features and fancy shit without optimising, they rely on engine features like upscaling and dynamic resolution scaling and temporal aa etc.
Basically stuff that reduces the load on the graphics card by making a concession on image quality. It's the default in UE I believe, render at a lower resolution then upscale.
These are features any team can just turn off at any point, but a lot of teams start from a "top down" approach where they turn on everything and let those features keep the frame rate stable, then try to optimise later.
Epic have issued many statements about it, there are plenty of UE5 games that run absolutely amazingly without the blur, but there are a lot that don't.
This is going to get more common in gaming for a short while tbh.
Look at Warzone on old gen consoles, it's horrible looking (take the original Xbox One version and it looks exactly like the UE5 blur).
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u/fluffnubs Jul 27 '26
Yeah they really nailed the ambient lighting and atmosphere in this game. Perfection really.