Compare the current gameplay graphics to the very first video when The Division got announced. hello?
This has zero to do with "YouTube compression". Even the inside source said how they downgraded the graphics since announcement.
The Division first official gameplay video was shown in E3 - 2013 (video published July 10th). Game was supposed to be a console only back then. After the petition on change.org won on Aug 20th 2013 Ubisoft announced that they will do a PC version as well. So I'm not sure what do you mean about the original gameplay videos being better on PC, because the original video was on console indeed.
The original video show was actually from a PC client not console. What they had running at e3 was a PC not a devkit console.
Everything else you said is true.
Yeah maybe I worded it wrong, I know there was a PC. What I meant was they show cased the game as it was supposed to be on Consoles because there was no PC version back then. They didn't actually go through the process of dumbing the graphics for consoles. As they fully explained back in 2014 all three platforms PC, X1 and PS4 will get their own attention when it comes down to graphics and they will use the capacity of all platforms to the max. You might say they are lying about it, but those were the official statements
Actually we know they have lied about that very thing in the past, remember Watchdogs and the whole graphical fidelity thing, and no, the versions demonstrated in both cases weren't representative of the graphics for Console, but for PC's and when they released, they dumbed down the graphics on PC so they wouldn't look too glaringly different from the console versions, at least until people went and modified the ini files etc. and 'upgraded' the graphics on PC's. So, yes, i think a lot of people might say they are lying about it, and those were the official statements, for what their worth.
One of the reasons they have been making so many statements about The Division's graphics is exactly what you have mentioned, the whole Watchdogs fiasco. They might pull the same thing again, but it is still a possibility that a company learns from its mistakes. They proved they did a couple of months ago if you compare Syndicate to Unity. Let's hope for the best eh?
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the footage reminds me alot of 12monkeys film.
Hoping this isnt just some code of Honor re-skin crap shootem up game. Im hoping the game has good missions and incorporates the 'infected apocoliptic' concept into the game.
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They might pull the same thing again, but it is still a possibility that a company learns from its mistakes. They proved they did a couple of months ago if you compare Syndicate to Unity.
Let's hope for the best eh?