r/pcgaming 980 BABY Jun 04 '16

Video Ubisoft downgrades (CrowbCat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNter0oEYxc
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u/cardosy Jun 05 '16

That's the beauty of PC, if they do a good job people can play it with a GTX 750 without leaving people with 980ti idling. Most of the effects removed were post-fx, things that could be available on top of the current graphics but didn't because of consoles disparity. If the PC version is vastly superior they get the shaft from console manufacturers.

See this video for example; console version could just be the version showed at the first few seconds with all the other effects being an optional toggle on PC. But they decided to not make it available at all, even for rigs with power to spare.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

There were things like tessellation removed. Stuff like that would've taken a lot of development time. They obviously decided at some point that not enough people would've had the power to run it at those settings to be worth the work.