Far Cry 6 - The Digital Foundry Tech Review - PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Ray Tracing - The Lot! 

@Bryce Czirr That still costs more than a current gen console. Not worth it yet. The consoles are more affordable right now and they handle the new games quite well.

@Bryce Czirr damn bro that's crazy but who asked

@Bryce Czirr Yeah I got a 3070 online from best buy for $500. This was back when everyone was spamming for it during Christmas too. Could sell it for 1 grand right now if I wanted too.

@@dominant2576 I asked

@Bryce Czirr what a trade

I'd like to see the sniper wear a cement suit.

Vc é louco rapaz fale algo útil...

😄😄

haha i know i was laughing at that plus they just stand there and let you slash them lol

@@KITOMERO Yeah, sniper wears a cement suit and sits in the grass :D

It would take ages but they chose to do this for a job and 1 have a team to work together and they get a head start on it by getting the code early. Not saying I don't appreciate what they do

@@mcsherlocks yeah but it still a lot of work that goes into these videos regardless, I applaud digital foundry for getting these videos out in quick succession

Imagine consuming this type of content and actually obsessing about these silly, minuscule details/pixels. DF and their entire fanbase are VIRGINS for life. Sad!

It’s especially brutal for this game as your have to get through so many starter missions before you can even really have the game open up for you…

@@fensoxx I'm sure they don't need to play those

And the worst part is that these stutter issues become an even bigger problem on lower spec machines. I am only running a Ryzen 5 3600, 3200CL16 Ram overclocked to 3600 (with mediocre timings), a cheap Sata SSD, and the stutter in games such as Far Cry 5 and Jedi: Fallen Order was unbearable, way worse than what was shown here in the video. Since most consumers have somewhat similar machines to my own, and don't all own a beastly 10900k, their experience will be somewhat similar to mine which is a serious issue.

@@denniswrede2130 a 3600, 3600Mhz cl16 and an SSD is hardly low-end

more like annoying rather than boring.

Stuttering in games is the absolute worst and is bonkers common and I’ve got a beefy rig + g-sync.

@@BlindBison Same, actually stuttering above 60 fps is like a punch in the eyes, sure everyone has a different tolerance but stutter from 144 or above to 40 completely ruin the experience and make useless building a new powerful pc. Sadly these days most games stutters to some degree, and thanks god someone big like Digital Foundry is starting to point out this problem which in my opinion is one of the biggest plague in modern gaming.

Crocodile!

He be like: yo, man, that ain't right. Where's my RT at??? gtfo with that cheapo screen space reflections or I'll bite your ass.

GUAPO*

I love how janky the animation of the alligator was. Full stop no slowing down before stopping. Typical Ubisoft level of quality.

We are Guapo!

You’re telling me a Buggysoft game is running strange at launch? I’m shocked I tell you, shocked.

Windows 11 upgrade fixed most of it for me with 3090. It's still there but more subtle and easier to ignore

I’m using 3900x with 3080 ti and no stuttering issues. Vsync locked 4k60. Haven’t noticed any thread being worked alone.

Same here i play at 4k max settings with an rtx 3090 and i9 9900k. So far only high settings with RT off runs butter smooth and free of stutter, we just have to wait for patches.

I have a 3090 and a 10980XE. Huge stutter while driving. Unacceptable in 2021. I play the game at 4K maxed out with HD textures but no RTX (I am not a fan of it in general).

yep i really hope it is on the first patch hey?

I’m sure it was going under 60s with the slider. Seems like that’s why they scrapped it.

@@FunKaYxxD1sCO I would rather have a high FOV with some minor frame drops than a small FOV with solid frame rate to be honest

@@FunKaYxxD1sCO at the end of the day tho… at least give us the option

@@mrpeanut1381 I definitely want the fov slider

AMD sponsored game so they were probably forced to cut down RT to make it actually playable on AMD gpus and removed the higher settings to make it less embarrassing.

It’s because Ray Tracing was developed from the perspective of AMD cards and not nvidia. Nvidia cards are capable of far better RT.

Just for the name sake.

AMD the company that every tech tuber bootlicks pushed for this

"far better RT" doubt It's far from being much better, it only performs a bit better because nvidia is at its second generation of RT while AMD is at his first. RT performance of current AMD cards are equivalent of Turing, which is not bad at all. Other AMD sponsored titles have great RT, stop sharing misinformation.

His Mom doesn't want him to get cold.

lmfao I noticed that

@@Splathew Now if she would just give him a toothbrush so he wouldn't be angry.

@@SlyNine as long as no one steals his gold tooth

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ya... xbox series s got less than a minute of testing...

@@erokson9412 Maybe that means that there is no problem with FC6 on XSS?

@@meeloks.1013 This is a tech review. It barely talked about it..

It’s about time we can say that!

ubisoft needs to retire this generic, repetitive, mediocre of a franchise. Ai is atrocious 🤣

@@draco2xx then dont play it lol regardless its going to be played and whether or not you buy it and play it you are still talking about it

Vg tech > Digital foundry

@@draco2xx that's the main thing. The AI, even on hardest difficulty, is some of the worst I've seen lately.

I was waiting for Hot Wheels running on xs

This ^ I am truly unsure which version to get and was waiting for this

@@TheAero36 looks great on xs but be careful don't buy the disk that says both because it isn't fucking stupid Microsoft. i loaded it and was wondering why it didn't say xs had to go return disc just ignorant

And the Series X destroys the PS5 version again and don’t forget which is something DF need to start factoring in and it’s a big mistake they currently don’t Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos

And just like all other channels, Xbox series X won, again.

Ubisoft titles have had amazing water since at least AC3.

I remember thinking back with the n64 that extremely realistic water physics was just a matter of time. Things haven’t advanced the way I expected.

@@andyward8430 Super Mario Sunshine blew my mind on GameCube with the water. Haven't really seen huge jumps since then...

Hahaha 😂 We are of one mind.

Dunia is just a modded CryEngine

I think it looks amazing for game play it's the 30 fps cutscenes that's bugging me. Idk why they didn't just make it consistent across the board for next Gen consoles

Crusty?

@@FounderX9 The world is, but the characters look terrible, in the end it all works out because it gives it this cartoony/ celshaded look almost with the bright colour palette beeing used. but the engine needs a revamp and more realism.

Lol wtf game are you playing? It's fn beautiful!

Thank you. I’m playing this now and was wondering what was causing it because I can play for long stretches with excellent performance and then all of a sudden bad and persistent tearing

This guy cn count pixels!!!

so its not something wrong on my ps5 if it fps drops in far cry 6 and miles morales and cyberpunk 2077 it stutters too

@Geo M Er, why? At PS5 settings I get much, much higher FPS. I mainly play games I mod anyway, so PS5 doesn't really do anything I'd need. Edit: Oh, never mind. I see you're one of those "PS5 wins" people. Enjoy your platform.

seriously? i thought it was only an issue at 4k? fk this game dude, time to pirate this trash, no way im buying it for ps5

That's very disappointing about the textures, it needs to be fixed. Also, Ubisoft's VRAM estimate meter needs to be tweaked to reflect reality.

@Geo M To the first part...OMG, why though. And to the second part, if that's where you prefer/can play it now, enjoy!

Makes every one of those shots more handsome. ;)

This game begs to be played with Spanish VA, much more immersive. Wonder if the English and Spanish main characters voice actor is the same 🤔

That's awesome I'm also enjoying the game

@@Jirizo1 I might play it in Spanish with English subtitles, if the voice acting is better in Spanish (which it probably is since it's set in 'Cuba').

Might play this way as well.

It’s the Castilian version of Spanish tho. Not the Latin America version which you should learn

Yes, any wasd movement had some sort of animation stutter if it wasn’t locked at 30 or 60. Absolute pain in the ***. Primal and 5 fixed that but the driving stutter remained

It was most likely the VRAM buffer being maxed out and the game engine having to pull data files from your SSD to memory.

I started noticing the stutter in FC4. FC5 has it, and now FC6 is even worse in my opinion. 3090 and 10980XE.

I didn't have that issue on Dunia with my old I7 930 lol.

@@DEVILTAZ35 i had 3560k and 780ti 8gb ddr3

And it uses only 4 out of 8 cores available on consoles. 8 cores on PC bring no increase in fps over 4 core CPUs like 12100F or 3300X.

@@Kynareth6 which causes funny things at 1080p, like a 2070S being barely slower than a 3090

pffft

They don't care about last gen consoles, since all they want is clicks for there videos.

Xbox one x/ ps4 pro: 25-35fps, no raytracing, settings all turned way down (still counted as 4k somehow).

@@smittyvanjagermanjenson182 isn't there a 30 FPS cap?

@@kaidenkobani4190 probably, but a cap doesn't mean it won't dip lower occasionally.

A horde of roosters? Wait, whaaat? Like in Days Gone that you had the horde of freakers and whatnot?

Me who used a double barrel shotgun: What fps drop

I played that mission on the series S version and I didn't notice any framerate issues in that cave.

I honestly can't tell the difference. Not worth it.

@@dnegel9546 PC mostly had good shadows anyway. Consoles shadows need to improve.

@@DEVILTAZ35 I dkn.. not sure it's worth it. Unless it's side by side most ppl won't tell the difference.

@@dnegel9546 That makes me sad for most people

Couldn't care less about console wars

And these particular results are yet another example of why "world's greatest console!!!!!!" designation can turn on a dime. Because it's software that makes the fundamental difference, and you can bring a powerhouse of any kind to a crawl with an optimised or buggy software. So every time the Console Wars drones proclaims superiority because of a single data point, it is absolutely ludicrous. And also PC master race drones are just as bad. Coming into wave their virtual privates about to say "hahaha we have more powerful hardware!" is similarly ludicrous, because when you have no upper limit on how much you may spend, of course you will have higher hardware potential.

Thanks. I see they were way too lazy to put time stamps like virtually every other big channel does.

@@fatalmokrane and yet you are adding your input that no one asked for.

@@nervusbreakdown I asked for it

Yea...to bad everything else about the game was bad and bland

@@2genders-tk2ue typical Farcry. Nothing new. As expected.

Yes it does and this is the best they can do for there triple a game the best of the best looks like they should be demoted from the triple A list until they start to fix there engine or update it to a more newer and less buggier. Also you should only get the triple A status if you meet the standard of excellent that covers every thing down to optimization pushing the visuals to the limits with hardly no bugs and gameplay for me that's the gold standard but unfortunately game dev just get away with it all the time. Buy demoting company that fail to deliver what should be a triple A game should mean they cant charge triple A money for the title . If we do our job poorly we get completes,warnings, or even sacked or demoted these game devs are no different.

@@bioshock6935 Remember they are using an old ass engine that's had new features bolted on was never designed for most of the features that have been added.

@@TheSynrgy1987 So why put new feature in the old game engine in the first place if it wasn't designed to work properly you would of thought new features for a new and better engine would be the first and upmost thing to do and for the future for the far cry franchise and start to produce realistic looking graphics instead of this over the top cartoon style graphics with bright colours don't they know what natural colours and environment should look like. All i see in this game is another shadow of the tomb raider graphics boring and nothing new for a 2021 game that is not next gen even the trees and grass looks bad. Crytek is the only dev that knows what natural realistic environment should look like just take a look at hunt show down and that's an old game now least they update there engine for the time as well as the unreal engine.

So is this comment! Just enjoy the game!

@@bittyboogaming1653 I would enjoy the game if it was made right and fixed lol

It’s seriously not that noticeable. The bulk of gameplay is a flawless 60fps. To have slight loading stutters doesn’t break the game and hasn’t hardly impacted my experience with the PS5 version at all

@@thenoobperspective7588 I'd say its rather noticable and more horrible the higher your fps is

Really?

Placebo

No it does not. I have an XSX and I don't see that difference.

Looks like a game from 2010

Its not, it feels great to play and +shadow booster, no its not just a reskin, almost everything has been changed/upgraded from 5

@@Shadowed007 literally what game from 2010 looks like this

@@Shadowed007 The game doesn't look like anything from 2010. Just the animation of the characters.

@@Shadowed007 I know it's cute to be hyperbolic. But the best looking console games of 2010 feature a list that includes God of War 3 and the original Alan Wake. Go Google photos of those games and come back and tell me this looks like that with a straight face. Even going with the PC Version of original Alan Wake back then running at max spec, this game looks better on consoles. Why do comments like this exist?

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@@asaviklund9414 ??????!

@@Snarfles_ ?

The cut scenes were terrible,on my Series X as well.I gave this game a 7/10,and that was being generous.

@@jakoidtonge yeah it can be fun to play but the overall package leaves some things to be desired, not to mention the at times super cringy characters and writing that can be veeery lame. Female dani was pretty good though I thought and Juan. Unfortunately way too little cutscene appearances overall of Giancarlo. I remember playing for hours and hours in between seeing him even though the marketing would make you think he is much more directly present in the game.

And soon they will be better optimized

yeah, the breakpoint optimization and watch dogs legion ports are horrible, valhalla port was good tho

It does look good. It struggles a bit at times where perhaps they should just lower the amount of particle effects a bit so it hits the target 60 more when things get busy.

@@Will-pm6fq Yeah, i think its because Dunia engine is superior. Watch dogs, Valhalla and other Ubisoft titles use different game engine. I don't understand, why they keep using engines like anvil, when they have made Dunia Engine long time ago, and it has been clear that Far Cry's are allways best performers and has best graphics aswell.

@@Will-pm6fq Breakpoint runs great since they brought Vulkan API there.

only at launch they said

@@ragnar3187 Didn't know that. Thanks

lol except they don't fix major issues

loved the nvidia optimized articles and missed them. Now Alex took over the hole

Dude come tf on how were u able to check the vid in just 1 min

@@secondthought2 His comment is from a day ago so he's probably a Patreon member or whatever their membership is called and they get to watch videos earlier than non members.

@@bobbygibson6267 my bad then. I was rude there

how's your comment a day ago

@@TotalGAMIX Did you just ignore bobby's reply?

Dude ive been playing on the ps5 but there is so much screen tearing man

Btw the ps5 version doesnt have a hd texture pack its only for the ps4 version

@@Untrus You don't know what you are talking about. HD texture pack for ps4 but not ps5? Seriously?.....

@@kostasbousbouras2654 yes the PS5 version of the game already has HD textures it is part of he ps5 Version of the game there is nothing to download it comes as a seperate download for the PS4 version of the game so ps4 pro users can download an upscaled version of textures and are not stuck with the 1080p version textures of the regular PS4 version of the game I have a PS5 so I would know Unlike You...

@@Untrus The HD textures are not available for use on the PS4 PRO.

Yes. PS5 and PC getting the worst versions.

I haven’t experienced hardly any of the issues with stutter or frame rate issues that they speak of on this video, my series x runs this game damn near flawless, because of VRR I’d imagine.

Watch out, someone poor is coming to say that we don't have VRR screens

@@kiisseli1337 lol I definitely have one, and I’m very glad I do. Wouldn’t want to game without it these days.

@@glenmcl What are you talking about? PC has had VRR for much longer than the consoles. PC's can take advantage of G-sync or Free Sync to get rid of screen tearing. That's what my PC has and its great

Yeah, it's horrible, you can't even disable it on PC. Well, at least not the main cause of blurring which is the chromatic aberration. Terrible design choice. Chromatic aberration should always be a choice in video games, A plague tale also suffered from this too. The option had to be disabled in the config file but here you can't even do that. 😠

@@brewski535 I am sure there will be enough outrage they will add a toggle in a patch . I hope they add a FOV slider to Series X and PS5 in next update.

Runs really well and looks really good. there's is no fov slider tho

@@RawWrath Great to have it somewhere else called $ of view.

If you are picky on resolution go for xsx over ps5 any day

@@williamcaesar4503 well if resolution the problem we can just play on PC i have a 3080 build but i bought it on PS5 to get the trophies lol

@@RawWrath lol my buddies tried too go PC but they miss the trophy's and achievements and I don't blame them you get rewarded on Xbox for them

You playing on ps5? Cause it’s noticeable there

Yeah same here, can't play more than a hour at a time, the begining going to the sewer, not a pleasant experiece, pun intended

Wow I played it 5 hours straight last night and didn't feel one thing haha

It's not terrible on foot, but driving and horses seem pretty bad.

No FOV slider, no buy.

That’s a you problem the FOV is perfect

I almost don't notice when a game does environmental audio so well, I'm just immersed. When it's bad is when it really stands out.

It indeed is very good, especially in surround.

Does it support Atmos?

Have they fixed the atrocious npc speech quality? I had that in Far Cry 3, 4 and 5. I guess they are just low bitrate but I don't get the compromises the devs are making. The games all look blurry and the npc's sound horrible.

Glad I didn't buy it. I don't want to wait for 'patches' to fix things in a last-gen-game. I just don't buy it anymore. Solved.

No, they just have to fix the PS5 version. No change to resolution or everything else. PS5 is way more powerful than PS4 pro and if they can make things work on ps4 pro they definitely must do things better on PS5. Camera stutter or screen tearing is not PS5's or XSX's problem, it's Ubisoft's.

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No you don’t.

@@S197_GT_Gotti I did

My download was 68 GB on Xbox series X, I downloaded the HD texture pack and there was no difference at all.

Same here. I purchased the X/S version and yet still had to download the HD pack separately as an add on. Odd way of doing it.

@@ejs3589 the game looks pretty good without it still, but I noticed I pretty big step up with the texture pack. Especially when using photo mode. The character models look noticably better

Just enjoy , these guys in df are crazy , I have series s and I have zero problem with resolution but these guys earn money this way

It seems to hold to 30 most of the time on Xbox one X. It is the poor old Xbox One that truly suffers. I think it needs to be put out to pasture now lol.

lmao you love to see series s coping all over the internet.

@@spikepsych and why not .I got the series X in my living room and the S in my room... Like to find out more details for what I paid for.

@@erokson9412 ok well thats a special case then still I would probably never ever play the Series S if I had the same setup as you cause I would constantly think to myself "yo this would look better if I just got my ass into another room wtf am I doing?"

@@spikepsych haha I do use my x more cause I got the nicer tv out. But sometimes after a long ass day at work .I like to lay down and play. But still. It's an impressive machine for the price and I only use a monitor in my room instead of my 4k . And believe me it looks very identical to the X but in 1440. And many people might not be able to afford the X or can't get it from the shortage. And that is ok. People may feel like second class and that's not nice .

If your TV has VRR, you won't see these stutters. At all. I'm actually thinking about buying a far cry 6 but I struggle with first person games. 😂

@@jayevans20 you should go for it ! its a pretty decent game. Not one of the best , but im just having fun with it.

so wait for battledield 2042 after it releases as well. because it will also be filled with bugs and optimisation issues. but we all know everyone will still buy those games even if it releases in an unfinished state.

I'm sure they know about every one of the issues, however, they have deadlines and a release date to meet.

@@StrangerHappened I do not disagree with you at all. It is a strange thing that in these days Game companies will ship a game that is incomplete, such as Cyberpunk 2077, then just expect buyers to pay full price for a half finished game.

Which console you playing ?

@@GeniusEliteZ im on PC with a 3080 :)

@@JustAaronJoshua wait 3080s exist? I thought they where myth....

@@_Chad_ThunderCock i just 3d printed one.. jk

Yeah this is a common issue happening to a lot of people, it seems to happen on both AMD and NVidia cards and turning off HD textures doesn't always fix it. For me I get consistent textures that don't load in, like the speedometers on some vehicles are always so low res the numbers are just blurs. The player character textures are also consistently low for the clothing and body (yet not the face, that's always high res). Camila Montero is the same, low res clothes/body but high res face. Looks like we'll have to wait for a patch. This definitely shouldn't be happening.

Could you timestamp the optimised settings list? Feel like an idiot but i can find that section skipping through lol

@@TheGamingAddict2000 11:42

@@Danieldialga thats such a lame comparison of still shots no way 2060 or 2070 can run as smooth as ps5 or xsx at console optimised settings

@@Danieldialga Thanks friend

Thats not the point of this settings. In almost every game, there are settings which tank performance but dont offer any visual upgrades. So you can either try to find out what settings these are ... or wait for the list and save time.