Hitman 3 Graphics vs Hitman 2016

CartelGameStudios · February 8, 2021, 5:24pm

Looked like crap, now looks like liquid crap.

Generickillz · February 8, 2021, 5:29pm

That’s the most foul simile ever.

StingingVelvet · February 8, 2021, 5:55pm

People complained so much about the file size (despite SSDs being cheap now) that I’m sure IOI thought a “minor” graphics downgrade was worth the file size savings. I doubt they go back on that decision unless they see a huge uproar about it, which I doubt they do. Instead I’ve mostly seen praise for the smaller file size.

The LOD though, that’s weird. Even if they reduced it to help console reach 60fps, I see no reason for that to impact PC ultra settings. I mostly notice it with vegetation, and I’m hoping it’s a glitch they fix where the setting doesn’t apply right to it, but we shall see.

Also I will point out that anisotropic filtering works much better in this game compared to H2, which is a pretty big boon and mostly makes up for the rest for me. Take the bus out of Santa Fortuna for example, and the side of the bus is no longer a blurry mess. Use some super-sampling (I use 1.2) and it looks even better.

Jason_Portman · February 8, 2021, 6:18pm

Jason_Portman:

So they already added in some of the detail, or the youtuber played some old version pre-release, or unpatched version. Who knows.

But things like the trees, reduced LOD and texture resolution NEED to be addressed. The trees actually mess up content, the LOD looks terrible, and the texture resolution, well, even while not that bad, it makes especially old content look worse than it could be.

All these things have to do with the GB of the game. The tress for example are probably the best example, and vegetation overall. They have been probably reduced to a few unique trees over the whole game, meaning now its for example not 10 gb of 100 trees but 2 gb of maybe 20, placed by this algorythm. They even said “things they have twice in the game”. I know that things like DLC had been split up, if you had all sapienza missions installed, you basically had Sapienza installed FOUR times on your pc. They said they reduced that by, for example, make the base map be on your pc and the rest of the additional gb are the actual differences, not the whole map all over again.

But it did create a bad looking result if you compare them 1:1.

Here, thats what I assume after their interviews and past DLC business.

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timothymark · February 9, 2021, 2:10am

I think less fake npcs is actually a good decision, because you can’t run in a crowd, it’s easier to find paths through the crowd in hitman 3 than it is hitman 1.

Shrodax · February 9, 2021, 2:14am

Oh, the Internet. I hadn’t actually been paying enough attention to notice the graphical downgrade, but now that it’s been pointed out, I’m mad about it.

Generickillz · February 9, 2021, 2:27am

Maybe there should be an option to download more of the game in exchange for better graphics.

SomeNobody · February 9, 2021, 5:05am

Hokkaido in Hitman 3 is also missing the lanterns hovering around. A shame as I thought it was a very cool detail in Hitman 2016. Water reflection and firework detail in the distance also looks somewhat tuned down from 2016. Not sure if this is from a lower LOD or if it’s details they just took out.

JJoa74 · February 9, 2021, 5:51am

I think they took out the lanterns in Hitman 2.

SomeNobody · February 9, 2021, 5:52am

I wonder why? I don’t see how that would provide a performance boost or anything

Mars71128 · February 9, 2021, 5:56am

Yeah, this isn’t cool. So many little details that bring atmosphere and verisimilitude to the game are gone. C’mon, IO.

SomeNobody · February 9, 2021, 7:10am

I’ll keep looking for more of these to post. In summary I think it’s mostly dumbed down physics and level of detail. I hope IOI sees this and applies a fix. Downgrades like these should never happen, especially on pc.
If anybody finds more stuff like this do not hesitate to throw it up on here

StingingVelvet · February 9, 2021, 7:20am

When Hitman 2 launched the lanterns were there but looked glitched in DX12. Not sure if they ever fixed it or if they removed them, I didn’t play much for a while, but that was the issue. Since H3 is DX12 only maybe they removed them rather than try and fix it? I dunno.

Anyway in theory it looks better with them gone than it did in DX12 in Hitman 2.

Pdz · February 9, 2021, 7:40am

Lanterns are still present in the game. They fly much higher than in Hitman 2016

timothymark · February 9, 2021, 11:00am

It looks like they’re flying in a perfect grid lmao

Pdz · February 9, 2021, 11:17am

Lol. Really, I didn’t even notice that. Thanks to Ansel for 16 pictures in one

SomeNobody · February 9, 2021, 4:06pm

I didnt even notice lol. I miss how they would rise up from the city though.

SomeNobody · February 9, 2021, 5:43pm

I’m surprised this hasn’t been fixed yet.

cake941 · February 9, 2021, 5:44pm

why are you surprised? it would need a patch, and thats not coming til the 23rd

SomeNobody · February 9, 2021, 5:58pm

That’s true, it’s only been 20 days. I keep forgetting IOI is not as big as it was when it was with Square Enix. Sorry if I sound a little ignorant. Seeing unfinished games like Cyberpunk, Madden, etc. being released and seeing bugs like this can be a bit disappointing.