I agree with you that the shooting scene was pointless. But there are scenes besides it that can change the meaning of the game. For example, the scene in the jacuzzi, in it we are shown that MC is not impotent, and this changes the whole meaning of the story.
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yeah i remember that nami told nika that she felt him get kinda hard from her grinding her ass on his dick. oh and hold up and the scene with nika and bella at the store nika got naked and showed bella his dick and bella got on her knees and seen it up close wasn't that also removed ?
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It was only removed if you're dumb enough to not use the wonderful Uncut Mod
As far as I remember, everything would have been different there. After MC got an erection, he got scared and pushed Nami away.
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He can't because they're siblings. The "race with impossible odds" has been officially canceled because incest is a no-no.
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Thats really a shame I would like to see this continue as a full sex scene between the MC and Nami.
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Don’t worry, Nami is now from a hostile mafia clan, the Cheetos Eaters, and Nika is from the Doritos Munchers.
So they still can’t be together.
I can't understand you. How can they be brother and sister if they have different parents?
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what? really?
This is become super confusing. First, it's quite clear that Nika and Nami introduced as Childhood Friend that have been raised by Noji (since the surname Cyrus only applied to Nika). So its not incest at first place.
Although i'm confused by the "race with impossible odds" things and the dialog that happen between Nika and Nami by the pool that sounds like they're "actual" siblings.
Well, if its canceled, and Ocean return the intention for Nika and Nami as siblings, its kinda shame thou, since Cheeto is one of hella attractive LI compared other girls (REDHEAD POWER!!!!).
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Don’t worry, Nami is now from a hostile mafia clan, the Cheetos Eaters, and Nika is from the Doritos Munchers.
So they still can’t be together.
All credit goes to Darkdevil66 for this amazing image!
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Hmmm...different timelines?
The fact that you're confused is the problem
The way the game is written makes it at odds with itself. Therefore we, as players, have to decide which of the polar opposite directions the game goes in, makes more sense.
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Not offended, but I don't really understand what doubts do you have. I know that downscaling noisy 4K renders improves their quality and some of the game devs are rendering in 4K with low iteration count and then downscale resulting noisy images to FHD. "Compression" here is not the correct term, compression never improves quality. It's the downscaling with interpolation and denoise filters that helps to smooth out the noise.
But I was simply stating what Ocean has said himself. He has been rendering in 4K for several years and for the season 1 he downscaled 4K to FHD. Maybe he did it to denoise images initially, I don't really know. But with the new rendering rig he renders images in HQ 4K and is going to release the season 2 in original 4K. I'm not quoting him here word for word, but it's what he said and we have no reason to doubt that he will.
What exactly are you having doubts about here?
This is definitely not the case. On the contrary, he has made good progress creating this kind of low lighting ambience for many scenes intentionally. This has been his signature for this game from the very beginning if you haven't noticed it yet.
Originally this kind of architectural assets are filled with flood lights that creates little or no shadows to make every detail visible.
Would Ocean stop setting up scene lighting, this is what it would look like, as it looks in the works of many beginners.
Ocean, however, is creating artistic, photographic, cinematic scenes and quite a lot of them are dark with minimal and carefully set lighting, helping the music to set the mood of these scenes.
As a photographer, I find his work mostly good and often excellent. Especially the lighting, selecting depth of focus and composition, the mood it creates as a whole.
This is not some sloppy work. On the contrary, this is something that isn't easy to achieve and for photographers and 3D artists it takes time and effort to learn how to get this kind of results. Setting up this kind of lighting takes several test shots for a photographer and several test renders for a 3D artist with small changes in the scene lighting before you get what you want.
The easiest would be to simply switch on the cam light and flood lights everywhere, the way most beginners tend to do. They do this because they don't know any better and it takes minimal effort.
Did you actually open these season 2 sample images and zoomed in in an image viewer or are you talking about the parts of these images that are simply out of focus and therefore blurred?
What you can see there while zooming into pixels are some compression artifacts that F95 avif compressor or a jpg compressor somewhere else made there, but what I don't seem to be able to find there is digital noise from noisy rendering.
You should know that unfortunately, we can not see any of the original 4K png renders on F95, since the site compresses everything to low quality avif that cuts off shades of dark colors in dark areas (this is probably what you mentioned about the dark areas) and lowers the overall quality of images.
And artifacts that you can see in these images are likely created after downloading them from here, converting them to jpg and then uploading back to F95 again, re-compressing them into avif again and losing even more quality and likely creating some additional jpg compression artifacts.
The only way to post original renders here would be to zip them and post as attachments or host them somewhere else and link them. These images were not posted this way and we haven't seen them in original quality.
PS. Season 1 in-game renders are also heavily compressed jpg images, cutting FHD image sizes down to about 200 kilobytes. This is very low and visible everywhere in dark areas where instead of smooth gradients you can see blobs of different levels of dark colors. This is what any kind of lossy compression typically creates. Didn't see much, if any digital noise there, either. I just now checked them out again to be sure.
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That's right. But most people write... "I compressed 4k to FHD to improve quality." Almost no one writes... "I interpolated 4k renders to FHD"
Don't ask me why this happens, I don't know, maybe people don't like the word "interpolation". I'm already used to saying it myself.
You are wrong, Ocean did not do low lighting from the start. You can see for yourself if you watch chapters 3 and 3.5, Ocean did not remake them and there is no low lighting there. It was in chapter 5 and in the remake for Steam (chapters 1 and 2) that many renders with low lighting appeared.
By the way, the author of The Grey Dream started doing low lighting renders earlier than Ocean, so this is probably his calling card.
What a coincidence, you and I are colleagues, I am also into photography. I completely agree with you, Ocean has a lot of good and excellent renders, he is a master at this. Unfortunately, Ocean absolutely does not know how to make renders with low light. When I look at such renders, I do not understand what Ocean wants to show us by making the image barely distinguishable. I heard that he is so veiledly protesting about the power outages in Germany.(old joke)
You guessed wrong, I didn’t download them from this site.
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No, the protagonist here is not a woman, and it doesn't take the whole season for him to kiss the girls.
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well i think because of massive remake by removing the dark path from game, since its first intention have dark path and light path (?), that makes the story become confusing at the moment. Gotta admit, that SG was more interesting when we must choose become "normal" or psychopath.Hmmm...different timelines?
The fact that you're confused is the problem
The way the game is written makes it at odds with itself. Therefore we, as players, have to decide which of the polar opposite directions the game goes in, makes more sense.
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I miss that. I know a fair amount of people hated Nika trying to shoot Darla, and how dark and edgy he could be, but that shit was the stuff that caught my interest in the first place.
I do wish he still gave Nika moments of that. Not all the time, but just let him crack a stupid edgy comment here and there. The "we've come to finish the job" bit at Vic's hospital room still cracks me up.
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Really? This is probably why other well-known developers turn to Ocean for help in organizing lighting.
