There is no doubt that Far Cry 4 is looking really interesting. And while the DX11 version of Far Cry 3 was plagued with various issues, its DX9 version was one of the best versions of 2012. In fact, Far Cry 3 DX9 won our 'Best Optimized Game Of 2012′ award, suggesting that Ubisoft can deliver an amazing PC games.
What really surprised us, however, was the fact that Far Cry 3 had the PC as the lead platform (something that may explain why it performed so good on it, as well as why there were so many options to tweak). Major Nelson interviewed Far Cry 4′s creative director, Alex Hutchinson, who admitted that Ubisoft developed Far Cry 3 on PC, primarily.
In addition, Hutchinson claimed that the PC is also the lead platform for Far Cry 4, though the current-gen console version is reported to look as good as the PC one.
Yeah so a few things, we really wanted the gameplay experience to be the same on all the platforms, obviously, so we're leaning on bigger technical things. But if you imagine that, everything you see, whether it's the fur on the animals, whether it's the grass on the ground or the leaves on the trees, all these things are bumped up a huge amount in the next-gen versions. Previously, we developed on PC, primarily, which is actually unusual, like, Assassin's we develop on console, so we can push the boundary of the console as hard as we can. But because we develop on PC… you've never really seen on console the ultra high PC version before. So even out of the box, even day one when we just stuck the code on the new consoles, we're able to dial it all the way up, so as a console player you're already getting by far the best version we can ship.
It will be the lead platform until they forget to actually ship the PC version (that we'll only see in demos) and instead port the xbone version for PC release.
Isn't Ubisoft the one that releases a statement every year saying "PC Gaming is dying" or something similar? If they are, then they are contradicting themselves by claiming to make PC a lead platform for FC4.
I think someone should have a sit down with Yves and make sure he understands the situation with the PC community. I volunteer myself because you can't trust the media to ask the hard questions and demand an actual answer. And depending on answers, various wrestling moves should be liberally applied finishing with the stunner.
Won't ever buy an UglySoft game again if 1) they downgrade it from the E3 demo and 2) if it's not optimized properly. The only way to not get burned is to NOT pre-order and wait until it gets released and see.
Makes me wondering if FC3 was a bigger seller on PC that it was on consoles. I know I personally picked it up on PC over Xbox 360 and had a blast, even with a sub par computer I could play it 1080P low settings with decent FPS.
I'll wait till Far cry 4 and the division before I just completely. didn't they say when AC4 was released that we should all get better pc's? yeah no I like ubisoft but only to the same point as EA.
Graphics wise judging by the videos (compressed) the game doesn't look too different from FC3. But it apparently adds a lot of new goodies to the gameplay mechanics. Looking forward to it.
It's pretty ironic, if they'd get rid of UPlay they would actually increase sales. And it doesn't slow down the pirating of their games at all. Watch Dogs was out on pirate sites on the day of release so all they are doing is punishing paying customers by forcing them to use their terrible DRM. Completely out of touch. Might have something to do with having an 80 year old CEO.
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