r/PS4 cristi1990anRO Sep 01 '18

[Video] [Video] BioWare Makes Fun of Marvel's Spider-Man's "PuddleGate" Controversy

https://youtu.be/yQph-_imtDY
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u/DudeLongcouch subsy Sep 02 '18

This is also conjecture. You have nothing to base that statement on.

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u/Gadafro Sep 02 '18

There isn't really a workable solution to major realtime reflections. The reason why they're so taxing on the hardware is because it effectively requires a game to rendered twice over. This is true for any major realtime reflections, which is also the reason we pretty much never see them in a final game. Every so often we might find a game where there is some reflection done in a bathroom mirror (such as Uncharted 4), but that's really the extent of it, especially on a console.

I remember a while back, someone on this sub put up a screenshot of Aloy's eyes claiming that they were utilising realtime reflections on the iris, but it was quickly debunked as a generic snapshot layered over them in order to add a sense of realism - there was no way it would be a realtime reflection.

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u/McCHitman McCHitman Sep 02 '18

Just break every bathroom mirror. Problem solved.

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u/DudeLongcouch subsy Sep 02 '18

This is also conjecture. You have nothing to base that statement on.