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RAGE PC Texture Fix Coming

[Oct 15, 2011, 2:37 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

John Carmack tweets about plans for a new texture option in the upcoming patch for the Windows PC edition" of RAGE, id's new first person shooter: "We have a bicubic-upsample+detail texture option for the next PC patch that will help alleviate the blurry textures in Rage." A follow up tweet offers more on this: "@DesignerDon our first test of a higher res page file didn't help much, because most source textures didn't actually have any more detail."

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86. Re: RAGE PC Texture Fix Coming Oct 16, 2011, 09:18 theyarecomingforyou
 
I was accused of cherry-picking and of picking an area with poor lighting in RAGE. So, here's comparison number two:

Crysis 2 close-up 2
RAGE close-up 2 / close-up 3 / close-up 4 / close-up 5

Far Cry 2 up-close / up-close 2 / up-close 3
RAGE close-up 6 / close-up 7 / close-up 8

As you can see, it's not just one or two areas in RAGE that look bad. It's everywhere. It's as backwards step for the genre. That's NOT to say that RAGE does look good in places. But when playing RAGE I found the incredibly lowly quality textures grabbed my attention. Dead City being particularly bad. It's not just that I'm trying to find the worst aspects of the game - I just simply bashed the F12 (Steam's screenshot tool) when I noticed it.

It would have made more sense to use tiling for the majority of textures and use MegaTextures to enhance certain scenes, like in the towns or any area you spend more time. By applying it to the entire game they have compromised the general texture quality and dramatically increased the size of the game. It was not an improvement, like the PR suggested.

PS - The poor textures are only a fraction of the games issues. Terrible auto-saves, invisible walls, doors that close behind you every other room to keep you moving forward, tedious fetch missions, whack-a-mole AI (despite doing some new things that are pretty cool), etc. The game is still pretty enjoyable, the combat is especially satisfying, but it could have been a much, much better game. 		 
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