{"id":93785,"date":"2016-06-06T14:32:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T12:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=93785"},"modified":"2016-06-06T14:34:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T12:34:24","slug":"shocking-new-video-shows-just-how-much-ubisoft-are-downgrading-their-games-visuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/93785-shocking-new-video-shows-just-how-much-ubisoft-are-downgrading-their-games-visuals","title":{"rendered":"Shocking new video shows just how much Ubisoft are downgrading their games&#8217; visuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Youtuber <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCYZtp0YIxYOipX15v_h_jnA\" target=\"_blank\">CrowbCat<\/a><\/strong> recently posted a comparison video showing the difference between Ubisoft&#8217;s stage demonstrations and their final product.<\/p>\n<p>CrowbCat encouraged viewers to focus not only on textures and lighting, but also on animation, level design, assets, physics, and sound.<\/p>\n<p>The footage was recorded in 1080p at max settings on a PC with a controller.<\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft has come under heavy criticism in recent years, as gamers (particularly those playing on PC) were disappointed in the visual fidelity of Ubsioft&#8217;s games, which appear to have been <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/66049-watch-dogs-graphics-downgrade-reversed-by-modder.html\" target=\"_blank\">purposely <\/a><\/strong>downgraded from the footage shown before release.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can check out the full video below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xNter0oEYxc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Awesome gaming and tech deals\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/93623-awesome-gaming-and-tech-deals.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Awesome gaming and tech deals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Nvidia plan to use GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 desktop cards in gaming laptops\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/93699-nvidia-plan-to-use-geforce-gtx-1080-and-gtx-1070-desktop-cards-in-gaming-laptops.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Nvidia plan to use GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 desktop cards in gaming laptops<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Meet one of South Africa\u2019s premier Hearthstone players \u2013 Francois \u201cFafa\u201d Mouton\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/90365-meet-one-of-south-africas-premier-hearthstone-players-francois-fafa-mouton.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Meet one of South Africa\u2019s premier Hearthstone players \u2013 Francois \u201cFafa\u201d Mouton<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youtuber CrowbCat recently posted a comparison video showing the difference between Ubisoft&#8217;s stage demonstrations and their final product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":93787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[31,10519,19109,733,183],"class_list":["post-93785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-comparison","tag-downgrade","tag-ubisoft","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93883,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93785\/revisions\/93883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}