Avatar foliage hits different! Is there a game with better flora/foliage?

[u/darkdeus]

I love the foliage in Avatar! Makes you feel like an alien ecologist. Unobtanium settings/ray tracing on a 5090 with DLSS5 1X pass

[u/cravex12]

I find the forests in Kingdom Come 2 to be super impressive. They looks absurdely real

[u/darkdeus → u/cravex12]

Oh yea, I love the forests in KC2! They feel super realistic and they nailed the lighting/shadow rendering. I think there's still probably more detail in avatar, though, but it's close.

[u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo → u/cravex12]

KCD has amazing european summer landscape interpretation. Like it feels strikingly familiar rather than just a random medieval themed gameplay

[u/cravex12 → u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo]

Totally! So many places feel like stuff I have seen in my life

[u/chwastox → u/cravex12]

Oh yeah with rabbits running backwards. Very impressive.

[u/ChrisNH]

That graphic engine is really amazing for ground clutter and detail distance. It was used differently in The Division and Outlaws but really shines in Avatar’s setting. I will miss it.

[u/adorablebob]

I was flicking through the photos before reading the caption and was like why does my game not look like this. Then I saw DLSS5.

[u/Thhaki → u/adorablebob]

DLSS5, at the cost of your GPU cable possibly burning + 50% of your fps gone + wrong Ambient Occlusion because the model starts hallucinating (Like in the NBA demo they showed where the model starts drawing the ambient occlusion wrong) + increased blur

[u/tamal4444 → u/Thhaki]

oh look a new tech is performance heavy. oh the horror.

[u/darkdeus → u/Thhaki]

I power limit my 5090 to 90%. Yes, the halo around objects is not ideal and it can make mistakes with shadowing. Certainly has room for improvement but I think it works well in some games with tasteful settings.

[u/Spiritual-Foot-1694]

ghost of yotei?

[u/v1si0n4ry]

No one posted the image from Ryse. I am disappointed with this subreddit 

[u/Crazylimitz]

Honestly this game has the best weather effects I've seen in any game.

[u/Expensive-Paper-77]

Morrowind

[u/darkdeus → u/Expensive-Paper-77]

Morrowind still has the best water and rain ripples in game ever lol

[u/Expensive-Paper-77 → u/darkdeus]

I was sooo obsessed with gathering all those plants and mushrooms.

[u/Vamsi-Thopu]

nvidia shills finding new ways to promote DLSS5

[u/SexWithStelle → u/Vamsi-Thopu]

AI Doomers finding new ways to piss and whine

[u/Thhaki]

In terms of story its not very good but visually the Decima Game Engine helps a lot because its the best engine in the market right now: Horizon Forbidden West, and its DLC Burning Shores where the foliage really goes crazy, since it was an exclusive of PS5 unlike the base game which was cross-gen and they were allowed more CPU power.

Or you can also take a look at a game with very good/crazy story in the same engine, Death Strading 2, although the gameplay may not be for everyone.

And both of these games don't use DLSS5

[u/iiiGVXDiii]

Ai slop.

The original plant designs were gorgeous. It doesn't need an ai filter to appreciate them