DOOM: The Dark Ages

[Dankster Morgan]

I have been playing with the custom settings a bit and found an awesome way to play..... basically turn down the projectile speed as slow as possible, but make the player damage super high.... what this dose is really make the "bullet hell" thing front and centre. I think the monster fire rates are not effected, so often you have waves of bullets slowly coming at you... dodging and reflecting.. it is super fun.

Dang sounds like a blast. The replay value is gonna be insane.

 

[PrinceGoro]

If you watch Digital Foundry's review of id Tech 8, you'll see one of the big benefits to ray tracing from a development standpoint is that while building an area of the game, the lighting can be done in real time; it doesn't need to render out for the artists and designers to see how it'll look. This saves massive amounts of time during development.

Thus, since all the consoles are now ray tracing capable and with RTX cards being the common PC graphics cards according to Steam surveys, we're seeing mandatory ray tracing more and more, and that won't change.

Certainly on console, I personally think the cost of ray tracing (lower resolution and frame rates needed) typically outweighs the benefit, but it is what it is.

For frame rate and DOOM: The Dark Ages, on console, only the Xbox Series X has a solid 60 FPS. All 3 other consoles can not hold the frame rate, with the PlayStation 5 having the worst performance. This happens in hectic battles apparently, the so the game is solid and quite playable on all consoles, but it explains the lack of an unlocked frame rate.

Thats all nice with the new engine and technology and stuff but i think they shot themeselves in the foot with mandstory RT, sales wise.

I didnt even know its gonna be RT only so i got the game, it activates on the 15th and then i see i cant run it cause my card doesnt have RT lol.

I have a rx 5700 xt 50th ann edition and i run all these newer games pretty good, like stalker 2 or kcd2 which are super demanding(60 fps on both on near max settings at 1440p with some dips on certain sections)
Im suprised myself how much milage im getting out of this card and i was planning on replacing if it dies or i see major decrease in performance.

Its kinda dumb i have to look into replacing my card when the old one is serving pretty damn good. And for 1 game hahah, this forced rt is so strange and it doesnt seem like an industry standard yet.

 

[Jynks]

Its kinda dumb i have to look into replacing my card when the old one is serving pretty damn good. And for 1 game hahah, this forced rt is so strange and it doesn't seem like an industry standard yet.

not really... that is how all games work. Eventually a game comes out that requires new hardware. Also, if it isn't industry standard, it will be soon. I would bet GTA will be for example.