Why Did Ubisoft Downgrade Watch Dogs? | Feature Creep
95**Since the recording of this video, Ubisoft has issued a statement relating to the "old render" effects that had been disabled for a number of subjective visual and stability reasons. Given the number of objective improvements in graphical quality and performance, I dispute their statement and maintain my arguments as presented in this episode of Feature Creep**
Watch Dogs had an amazing showing at E3 2012. Ubisoft showed off great lighting, water, steam and other effects in their demo to get gamers excited. And gamers were certainly excited by what they saw. Fast forward to the Watch Dogs release and we were presented with a good looking game, but nowhere near as good looking as it had been in the E3 demo. This caused the internet to explode slightly and accusations of pre-rendered doctored footage were heard all over.
Now, a Guru3D user named The Worse has discovered that all of those effects were still in the game assets. Not only are they in the game, but The Worse has been able to enable them through some clever scripting changes which you can download. There are minor issues relating to the Depth of Field but that's just due to how high a level Worse set it at. Even more so than that, the mod also fixes some stuttering and performance issues which lets PC gamers get basically the same performance and in some cases slightly better even with the effects turned on.
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