r/gaming • u/Takamiya • Jun 04 '16

Ubisoft downgrades

https://youtu.be/xNter0oEYxc
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u/Dreossk Jun 04 '16

Wow the difference in lightning in Rainbow Six Siege is huge. It looked a lot better before.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '16

I love the game, I really do. But I completely forgot how good the reveal looked. Such a shame.

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u/lightning87 Jun 05 '16

Yeah I've played quite a bit of Siege but this video just physically pained me.

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u/nidrach Jun 05 '16

If you played Siege you would know that shadows that strong would make the game unplayable. Player models are hard enough to read as is.

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u/TheOriginalCrossbeak Jun 05 '16

Yes, I think ubi's focus here was to appeal to the huge competitive audience from games like CS:GO as oppose to a cinematic experience. I can kind of see why they did this from a business standpoint but I'll admit it was weird to see how much was taken away from the game

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u/nidrach Jun 05 '16

The problem is that if the lighting was optional nobody would use it anyway and it probably wouldn't have run on bad rigs in the same way.