@humanity: I know, right? I have never seen such a massive backlash to such a mediocre game. I'm having a good time with, but it's not the best game of all time. Shocker.

I just want better code enhancement so the game can run properly.

Most are claiming the game runs smoother with these files enabled. Not everyone, but quite a few people none the less.

Why must you be such a corporate apologist. It's an interesting topic, and one that should be discussed.

@thehumandove: corporate apologist? I mean c'mon man..

OK, corporate apologist apologist...

Wow, yeah, it adds lighting to the game. Great!

Wow, this game was supposed to look good. I had forgotten. Wonder what happened?

@thehumandove: I am not apologising for Ubisoft. What they showed at E3 when it was first announced is clearly not what we got. But the graphics are the least important thing when it comes to gaming for me, and by far the least interesting thing to discuss about a game - especially for a fucking year. I just wish people would be happy with a slightly better than average looking and playing open world game, and get over it.

I like it when things are pretty I hope this mod gets finalized I would love to run this already good looking game as a better looking game.

I understand some of the complaints about the graphics but I really don't get the heavy hate for the game, tons of varied side missions and pretty cool recreation of Chicago AND the hacking is 100% useful and a huge part of the play experience which is what I saw and wanted now the stuttering problem is ridiculous don't let anyone tell you its your computer it isn't even the Best systems do it, I guess the moral is don't set your expectations to NEXTGEN BLARGHAHGH.

@shortbreadtom: I see where you're coming form and don't let this ruin your enjoyment of the game. The problem is more with why a developer would do something like this and how Ubisoft handles it. Hampering your own product is a really bizarre thing to do. Less about the game itself and more about the developer/publisher in this situation.

Doesn't affect performance much for me positively or negatively. It also made the rain a whole lot somewhat more intense to the point of being a bit trickier to drive in. Kinda awesome.

I don't think sony or MS had anything to do with this, its like that bombcast from the last couple months where jeff was talking about how incorrect people are to always assume that sony and microsoft are always in on these BS conspiracies to bribe the publishers to do shit like this. Ubisoft probably wanted to drive sales for the ps4 version, by not having the pc version blowing it out of the water. In their eyes they didn't technically downgrade the PC version, because it still looks a small percentage better than the console versions, but really considering how it could've looked it still pretty much is a downgrade.

The Depth of Field shader hasn't got a distance/focus check enabled on it which results in the near sighted issue. It's the sort of thing that would have been implemented had they not dropped development on the more robust effects to squeeze it down onto the less powerful machines.

This seems like a huge amount of drama. I wonder what the GB dudes will say. Put your tinfoil cap on. Don't listen to the sheeple!

E3 version

Mod 0.7b version

I'd rather play super mario with a much more iconic cap.

@hammondoftexas: I didn't make either of those gifs myself, I'm afraid! Nor do I have a copy of Watch Dogs...however...

http://www.giantbomb.com/steam/3015-718/forums/steam-summer-sale-2014-master-thread-starts-thurs--1486059/?page=3#js-message-132

Oh, and here's a newer Video Thing showing the Fancy New Stuff...

Yeah the modded version doesn't look good at all. Certainly nothing like the E3 reveal. It kind of looks like good graphics underneath a load of white fuzz. If that is the state they got it to I can see why they didn't turn on that section of code.

Goddamn the game they were showing then sure looked pretty.

I just tried this and yes there are some improvements, especially at night time, but it's also buggy and does nothing for the performance for me, as in it still runs like shit if I turn anything up to Ultra.

4770k, 760, 8gb

I'm running a i7-920 @3.2, 12gb, 780 OC'ed and the mod causes a performance hit and is for sure buggy. The only thing about it that I really like is the dynamic car headlights, it does look really nice.

What are the known bugs? I've been holding out on watchdogs to get patched before I continue, and I can hold out a little longer to play with this tweak.

It's a shame the city still doesn't look as good as the one from the E3 demo.

You can resurrect the shaders, but you can't bring back asset's that were busted down ;)