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Early Access to DF Direct Weekly #201 Now Available (Patreon)

Published:
2025-02-15 21:21:53
Edited:
2025-02-16 11:33:18
Imported:
2026-06

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It's a gigantor-scale DF Direct Weekly as Oliver, Alex and Tom deliver a 155-minute show kicking off with the verdict to Sony's latest State of Play, followed up by the sad news of layoffs at Crytek and a highly uncertain future for Crysis 4. Beyond that, Alex shares his thoughts on Assassin's Creed Shadows PC specs, while Oliver tests out the PS5 Pro patch for Astro Bot. And in the background, a flu-stricken Rich does nothing much except to write this description. Now then, if you're expecting a paragraph here about the actual link for the DF Supporter Exclusive podcast feed, I'm not going to disappoint you. Please ignore any Patreon links elsewhere and head over here for instant delight: https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/593963Downloads: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/df-direct-weekly-201-state-of-play-verdict-crysis-4-on-hold-astro-bot-ps5-pro-tested

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DF Direct Weekly #201: State of Play Verdict, Crysis 4 "On Hold", Astro Bot PS5 Pro Tested!

It's a gigantor-scale DF Direct Weekly as Oliver, Alex and Tom deliver a 155-minute show kicking off with the verdict to Sony's latest State of Play, followed up by the sad news of layoffs at Crytek and a highly uncertain future for Crysis 4. Beyond that, Alex shares his thoughts on Assassin's Creed Shadows PC specs, while Oliver tests out the PS5 Pro patch for Astro Bot. And in the background, a flu-stricken Rich does nothing much except to write this description. Join the DF Supporter Program for pristine video downloads, behind the scenes content, early access to new videos, early access to DF Direct Weekly and much, much more: https://bit.ly/3jEGjvx Subscribe for more Digital Foundry: http://bit.ly/DFSubscribe Find DF Direct Weekly as a podcast on your favourite podcast streaming service. 0:00:00 Introduction 0:01:11 News 1: State of Play: Tides of Annihilation 0:09:37 MindsEye 0:16:38 Days Gone Remastered 0:22:28 Saros 0:29:12 Dreams of Another 0:36:59 Lost Soul Aside 0:41:39 Other games: Borderlands 4, Sonic Racing Crossworlds, Onimusha, Midnight Walk 0:59:34 State of Play - The Verdict 1:06:43 News 2: Crysis 4 put "on hold" as Crytek lays off employees 1:16:24 News 3: Assassin’s Creed Shadows PC specs revealed 1:36:32 News 4: Astro Bot gets PS5 Pro upgrade 1:42:59 Supporter Q1: After three months, what do you think of the PS5 Pro and PSSR? 1:52:53 Supporter Q2: Why don’t more developers use CryEngine? 1:59:40 Supporter Q3: Will Nvidia "gate" new AI features to their most recent hardware? 2:09:17 Supporter Q4: Does RTX Mega Geometry eliminate the need for proxy geometry for RT? 2:15:17 Supporter Q5: Could Oliver address some of the recent state of the art AI tech? 2:26:52 Supporter Q6: How much do you need to spend on a GPU to have a good experience?

Comments

Someguyperson

For DF Direct episodes that go longer than 90 minutes, can you title them, "DF Direct: The Movie - " and then whatever else you want to put in there? I just feel it's clearer advertising. Get better soon Rich! The flu is no joke this year.

Container7

lol Rich, "instant delight"!!! hahahahh

BespokeEP

Oliver, it was actually revealed a while back that Bend didn’t like the story and direction John Garvin wanted to take the sequel and the studio shot the game down internally, so it was never even pitched to Sony. I mean if Sony didn’t like the ip, they wouldn’t have bothered with a PC port and movie that is rumoured to be in the works. I imagine if they get the right story, they would love to do a sequel.

Wotans Cry

So what is the issue with Kingdom Come 2 Pc Video? Where is it?

BespokeEP

Now for Alex, I think FSR4 and PSSR are the same, but the difference is the GPU that was running FSR4, not only has more and faster RAM, caches..etc, but also a lot more TOPS. It’s also RDNA4, as opposed to RDNA 2.x. In the Mark Cerny interview and talk he specifically mentioned that you need to throw a lot of memory at ML.. and that simply wasn’t feasible for a mid gen console upgrade. What would the point of a collaboration be if they worked on their own bespoke tech? I’m glad you at least mentioned how awful every upscaling solution was during their first iteration. I just wish you would remember that when ripping PSSR apart with zooms into flickering that nobody would have noticed if you didn’t zoom in and point it out.

digitalfoundry

Alex course-corrected to get the PC analysis for Avowed done. KCD2 PC is coming soon.

Wotans Cry

Okay looking forward to that. But strange decision the backline the Kingdom come 2 video for awoved. The latter has not accumulated as much interest in people , i think. Anyways - cheers and thx for the reply.

Ali Antiasing

Exactly my thoughts. KCD2 may be the last truly great Cryengine game and instead we get a look into a disappointment of a game. I'm hoping KCD PC tech review is going to be sufficiently in-depth though.