re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

:lol:

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

:lol:

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

For those of you who don't read the BF4 thread, I just posted this over there:

So in the past twelve hours...

DICE has confirmed: "The AO on Xbox One was one of the fixes that didn't make it into the review copy but will be in day1, same tech as PS4/PC."

For those of you who don't know what AO is, AO is Ambient Occlusion. "Or in this case Horizon Based Ambient Occlusion. Think of it as a type of shadow. Adds more depth to a scene, so textures don't appear flat. It was common before to actually bake the effect into the textures themselves. It's now preferred to have it done by the gpu as that effect can work in any lighting situation. Where as textured work wouldn't look right if a scene were to change lighting."

So expect graphical improvements on November 22nd.

Oh and Digital Foundry has already admitted to botching the footage on the XO and PS4. As they posted on NeoGAF:

"The issue here is simple; Tom had a limited amount of time to capture this stuff and was not able to do so in a normal environment. If mistakes were made normally, it would be easy to go back and correct, but with the way this worked, it wasn't really possible.

Why so different? DF uses their own hardware for capturing while DICE were handing out Elgato boxes to everyone else. The DF hardware is actually much more capable but it works differently and, without the experience of working with these new consoles, I can see a situation where settings were dialed in wrong.

JackFrags used what DICE provided and probably didn't even attempt to change any settings which, in this case, turned out to be for the best.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=706051"

In any case, NeoGAF has already started photoshopping XO images to make them appear even worse.

TL;DR: The differences are minimal. XO uses a hardware scaler, PS4 uses a software scaler. You'll be happy with either version of the game.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

How does the Xbox One connect to everything? My current set-up is like this:

Cable Box > Receiver (HDMI 1) > TV
Xbox 360 > Receiver (HDMI 2) > TV

Since the Xbox One works with Live TV, will it be something like this:

Cable Box > Xbox One > Receiver (HDMI 1) > TV

Or is it hooked up another way?

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

You'll want to plug your cable box into the HDMI IN on the XO. You're correct.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

That's good. All the HDMI inputs on my receiver are used for other stuff.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

I'm going to guess that this won't work well for those of us with a TiVo. :)

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

EA's CFO just stated that Titanfall is an exclusive to the One, 360 and PC for the lifetime of the title.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

you double posting repeating POS... Who do you think you are? Buzz?

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

i feel so lied to. i mean, unnamed people here kept saying titanfall was surely only a timed exclusive.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

it is a timed exclusive...

Game over.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

:rolleyes:

It's CoD with mechs. :shrug: I don't get adoration.

Yeah screw the creator of the game. Apparently he doesn't know shit!

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

Yep, it's going to be the new COD. That's not bad if you are Microsoft thought. If you check Major Nelson XBox Live charts COD has been the most played game this generation. I'm almost sure the same applies to PSN.

So yeah, it is that important.

Does all gamers care about the game? Of course not.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

It's not just COD with mechs. It's a COD with mechs game from the people who left Activision/Infinity Ward after creating what some people consider to be the best versions of those games. I have been waiting for this since those people left.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

Nice video of the free Kinect Sports Preseason:

http://youtu.be/7PwcHjDfo2Y

Looks pretty fun. Kinda makes me want to buy the full game, especially with the fact that you can upgrade and buy stuff in the menus. Seems deeper than just simply picking a mini game to play.

I don't see how Titanfall is Call of Duty with mechs, unless you feel every military shooter a Call of Duty clone.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

I think it has to do with it being by Respawn. And fwiw, Titanfall does look like Call of Duty with mechs.

I can't comment until I play it. Are the map sizes more Tribes/BF style or more arena-ish?

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

I don't know, the gameplay videos don't make it "feel" like regular Call of Duty at all to me, especially since people are hoping around the side of buildings and everything. :p

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

COD with Mechs sounds cool as hell to me. COD with aliens on the other hand sounds dumb (looking at you Extinction).

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

That's like the only big change. :lol: A welcome one, though, as all of these shooter clones are very stale at this point.

re: Xbox One Pre-Release Thread: Upscaled to 1080p! (11/22/2013)
 

I don't think so at all. The gameplay videos don't resemble typical CoD multiplayer to me, whether it be pace of the game, weapons, environment. :shrug:

Went to my local Best Buy and they already have an Xbox One on display, below a TV showing X1 videos, same display as the one for the PS4, except that that one doesn't have a console yet.

So yeah, excited to see the console for the first time. They the Kinect camera too but no controllers.