3 simple shots of BF4. Click for full size:
Building about to collapse:
These shots might not show it but the skybox is horrible. In some places you can see really, really, really bad banding and compression. It really is a JPG in the sky. Probably being delivered via the cloud. Hosted by IMGUR.
I was hoping for a somewhat more realistic sky. Or at least some kind of an improvement from BF3. I guess nobody cares about these things. But I do. I hate skies in video games.
As for the skyscraper collapse, I hope it's just a placeholder animation. The building model basically falls down straight through the floor while generating a lot of dust which I guess they hope obscures the ridiculousness of the animation. Otherwise it's a pretty cool effect and I like how it completely changes the atmosphere of the level. They need to work on the "dusty" textures afterwards. It looks like a lot of the game is just untextured at that point. I doubt that's what they were going for.
Buildings also look really bad when viewed from above. Apparently it's impossible to texture the top of a building in such a way that it doesn't look like complete BUTT when viewed from a distance.
I'm having a great deal of fun though. It's Battlefield and I love Battlefield games. The vertical gameplay in this map is nuts. Jumping from one building and parachuting to another to get the jump on snipers has never felt more satisfying.
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