Far Cry is definitely the last game I'm preordering... Fingers crossed....

It is definitely safer to wait for reviews and play three days later, than to have faith and get crap...

Lol the thread on GAF is hilarious

It's definitely not a simple case of many npcs cripple the cpu. Many sections where ps4 fps is lower than xb1 there isn't even a single npc in sight. And at the end during a couple of chases through a crowd the xb1 falters while the ps4 stays locked at 30.
With the ps4 dropping as low as 18 and XB1 23fps, truly cinematic! Game looks same old too :/

i almost wanna get it lol

^ I didn't know they had these in Paris anno 1790

Can you unlock them for yoirself too :p

They are not using every ounce.  The real issue, was they kept focusing on adding more, more, more, and they didn't stop adding content in time to focus on optimization.  Also, a dev said that the game is CPU bound, so if they unload some of their AI code onto the GPU, you will see a pretty decent improvement.  Also, that system has 8 cores, and 8gb ram.  If they are utilizing that to it's fullest extent, then this game would easily get 30fps.

I'm not too concerned with the resoultion and fps, as long as it is consistent.  Normally, the physics within a game are based around an elapsed time, so you wouldn't see a difference from frame to frame, so I don't know what the hell is going on with this game.  I saw some of the fps issues, and it looked like their were massive stalls within some of the update loop.  Maybe from their streaming code (to load and unload assets).   Moving memory is expensive.  Hell, they might also have an issue with cache misses.

Long story short, they need to unload what they can from the CPU to the GPU, work on their threading, and do some profiling on how their memory is being handled.

If they have to move some of the AI onto the GPU, then a patch isn't going to come anytime soon.  GPU shaders can be a bitch, because a lot of times you have to change how the algorithm is working, in order to utilize the parallelism of the GPU.

They could patch some other issues, and work on memory issues to limit cache misses, and have more efficient streaming.  These could be quicker patches, that could buy some time to get some stuff onto the GPU.  But, they probably are just gonna put some band-aids on it and not really bother on totally fixing it, and instead, they will work on the DLC, and reap in some more money.

In the meantime, they will have another team, reworking the engine for the next version so that these problems wont appear, and that it will be more optimized.

They wont have this system maxed out for years.

The XBOX One has worse framerates in cutscenes.
The PS4 has worse framerates ingname

I can see parity here.

That is an exclusive item for Season Pass holders, after you buy the $99.99 Helix Credits pack*

*Sold seperately from the "Framerate Booster Pack" Bundle on Uplay, which increases the framerate significantly to 30fps.