New id Tech 5 Rage Screenshots

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[citation][nom]Honis[/nom]Oh wait this is iD, Yay for another generic shooter!!![/citation]

Seriously? I won't say D3 didn't have it downside but Rage is a whole new beast from the sound of it. Fallout with racing and vehicular combat would be my best guess. That to me = Mad Max which in turn = Cool.

From Tech Report http://techreport.com/discussions.x/17264
"Reportedly, Rage will feature regenerating health, racing, vehicular combat, and stealth elements.
Rage will also borrow ideas from older PC role-playing games: weapon upgrades, vehicle upgrades, blueprints for bombs and turrets (which players can then build), and alternate ammo types will all be on the menu."

 
[citation][nom]telim[/nom]Wow! Great screen shots! I really hope Rage will be another Doom3 or Crysis style release where the game is barely playable with current hardware; this kind of pressure to upgrade is needed to force PC Gaming ahead of the console curve![/citation]

I'd prefer games with efficient engines. Like Source. It looks great but runs on nearly everything now.

Sending time to make a game look awesome but neglecting how it will run leads to games like Oblivion.
 
Eh, as others have mentioned the sky looks very nice, but who knows how much of that isn't just a hi-res texture. Everything else looks rather low-poly as someone else mentioned. The greenery is mostly just a blur, and the rocky parts have little detail.

The previews for the Doom 3 engine made it look like it was going to be a lot better than it really was. When the game was actually released, even on the highest settings there was a significant lack of detail. id seems to be following the same pattern with it's new engine, except the shortcomings are quite obvious in the screenshots this time around.
 
knowing ID software and their ability to build game engines, this game won't be as resource intensive as it could be. They know what they're doing and know how to utilize hardware. Take a look at the pdf attached to the article and you'll note the implications, that latency on existing hardware is the "challenge". And i have confidence they will, or already have, overcome these issues. They do it with every other game engine they build. 😛
This won't probably won't be a graphics card killer. Well, that is if you're not still on the first release of nvidia's 8xxx series or ati's hd 2xxx series.
 
[citation][nom]kami3k[/nom]BS, I run Crysis on Max at 1680x1050 on a core i7 and a single 9800 GTX. And the only time It gets to below 25 FPS is on the dam alien and ice levels, and that's only half the time in them. Those the sky may look great everything else is meh, at least Crysis make everything look great. Sad that 2 years later it still has the best graphics.[/citation]

So you run DX10 on very high settings at 1680x1050 with AA/AF and it is smooth on a 9800GTX? Now I must call BS, every one of the cards in this review are better than yours and they are unable to achieve smooth gameplay at that resolution when using Very High DX10 settings with AA/AF.

On page 7 it states the test system with an i7 965 extreme and plenty of nice parts, you must have a super system or not know the difference between running DX9 vs. DX10.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd4890_8.html#sect2
 
Hopefully a Linux version will be out the same time. More importantly however, once Id Tech 5 games are released they will probably release the source code for Id Tech 4 (Doom3, Quake4, Prey) so there will be lot of modding going on.
 
Not sure how the Tech 5 compares to Turbin's G3 but LOTRO has some of these skyline visuals already, especially in Evendim.
 
I dunno Cryengine 2 seems over done. The graphics are too sharp looking on some of the models, much like some older FPS games from Europe. Also it seems like Crysis Warhead runs better than the original Crysis so that shows room for improvement. iD software has in the past made games that pushed the limits of hardware too so that's where my concern is. I don't really want to buy a 295 because it is going to be outdated super fast. Total waste of money. Everyone keeps talking about 300s coming out soon, but when? I figured they'd be here by now because this talk was going on clear back when I got my 9800 GTX+ right before they rebadged it to GTS 250. Now I'm running 260 GTX and it is a good card but I'm not super impressed with the 285 or the 295. And 275 might be allright too. Ah well no matter what you do you end up having to upgrade after about 2 years or so unless in my case with my Pentium 4...that thing didn't seem to hold its ground even when the system was newly built (P4 HT, that is..800 bus, not the older 533 ones).
 
hope it's not another one of those awesome looking games with shitty gameplay....99% of all fps games suck donkeyballs nowadays, and look great
 
@warezme "looks Fallout 3ish, which is not entirely bad. I am kind of getting tired of the whole post apocalyptic scene and am ready for a more "green" natural looking world."
May I suggest downloading the free Fallout 3 MOD "Greenworld". It is one tiny file that you place in the data dir of Fallout and select the file to load during the start screen of the game and presto there is leaves on the trees and grass too. I love it, works great.

@telim "I really hope Rage will be another Doom3 or Crysis style release" It will be kinda like Fallout 3 with RPG aspects but have driving too. Not sure if it is for me. But there is hope, id Software has stated there will be a Doom 4

As for the people who are saying the Tech 5 engine will be lame because of consoles they are wrong. The Tech 5 will be highly scalable, meaning if it is running on a PC it will have the options to crank it up, so to say and look great. I have faith in John Carmack, one of the few programers who has not forgotten the PC. Tech 5 will be Open GL based not M$ Direct X, hell yeah, then there is Linux, thanks John.
 
[citation][nom]griffed88[/nom]aaaaaaannnd there goes my tax refund.[/citation]


HAHAHAH too true, too true! Looks freaking awesome though!
 
[citation][nom]pirateboy[/nom]hope it's not another one of those awesome looking games with shitty gameplay....99% of all fps games suck donkeyballs nowadays, and look great[/citation]

Yeah.... like Crysis (being a bit on the short side) or UT3, good game play, but UI issues, horrible designed maps (but look great), very few maps (about 32) and bad vehicle controls when the controls from UT2004 were far better.. the ability to zoom and see where you're going.
 
If these screens are from consoles, then id is doing amazing jobs on maximizing hardware. As page 22 in the pdf says:"Challenge: one engine to efficiently harness them all".

I know many PC gamers think consoles are holding back PC because a lot of developers are thinking consoles first now, but on the other hand because of this, developers are forcing to create ever efficient and innovative game engine if they want to keep improving on same hardware, which in the end will benefit both. And id seems to have done that.

Often in PC gaming, developers are relying on improvement in PC hardware rather than programming. An engine can be bloated and not maximize PC hardware. The result is we have to keeping upgrading just to get a few more fps or moderate improvement in visuals.

 
is tech 5 a brand new game or is this supposed to be a quake 5?

i must say i loved quake 4, and am hoping this has a comparable single player, when will id finally get both a great single player and a great multi player fps. . . . its been one way or the other with them it seems.
 
interesting, the shot of the dude in the town actually looks quite stylized. open scenes look awesome tho, getting goose bumps just imagining hl3 with gfx like this.
 
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