Question for game dev

When a downgrade happens, why the lighting is always the first thing which gets butchered?

Because target renderers. Literally fake gameplay.
Yes consoles are also a problem, but usually the pre downgrade shit a lot of game show off either run on machines that no normal consumer would ever have or are target render that are just a few select scenes tweaked to look as good as possible, but aren't in a playable state at all aside from that

Requires way too much resources to keep it looking good consistently.

Takes many resources.
Many (((remakes))) only include volumetric lights+bloom so nerds can take the bait.

Look in the upper right. Its a different time of day.

this

>mod witcher 3
>looks way better, lighting is much more realistic
>my r290 can't handle ultra anymore and game stutters
why

that piece of shit costed like 400 euro keks back then

Weakass consoles as target demographic, which just cannot have fully global dynamic lighting and 8K shadow maps being rendered within a mile's radius.

It's one reason the good ol' bloom & blur & lensflares are so often still used; plebeians mistake them as "lighting", when they're literally just tacked on vaseline layers on the pic.

>using AMD shit
that's why.
Plus if you upgrade THE most demanding visual element, obviously it's going to stress your POS GPU more. Not to mention TW3 barely looks any different on "High".

>muh different tod

step 14 unironically looks the best

THose screens are still at different times of day...

Good lighting (shadow quality, GI, AO, post-processing, etc) is expensive and doesn't require a lot of effort to downgrade to get a huge global performance boost. Lighting is arguably the biggest factor in what makes a environment look visually appealing (ignoring art direction and such). You can have great lighting with shitty models/texture and get away with it, doesn't really work the other way around. That's why a lighting downgrade is often so noticeable.

I'm still mad at DICE's color grading in BF3. They turned such a nice looking game into a very blue shooter.

Looks like the bump mapping was what took the biggest hit

I dont see downgrade, just different time of day

Smell troll here

No. Check the shadows.

displacement mapping*
ftfy

That fucking the same, just more foggy.

what the fuck nigga. look at the fucking wall detail difference, the terrain clipping, the fucking LOD for crying out loud

the whole geometry took a hit

Again, look at the time of day in the corner. You are literally fucking retarded. Just post a screenshot taken at the same time of day. Is that hard?

OP is talking about lighting.
You can't compare the lighting quality unless you match the time of day.

Damn faggots and their intel i5 processors and mid tier gpus holding everyone back.

>DAWN CLEAR
>10 AM CLEAR

Holy shit shut your god damn mouth witchercuck.

dont bother, witcher fags are still in denial

you mean PS4s and Xbones, running low-end mobile GPUs from 2011?

Unfortunately dishonest trailers are something that hapanes with every single high profile game. I don't know why these people aren't accused of false advertising, but that's how it is. All you can do is never believe the game's first reveal. Or hell, don't believe anything at all until after it's released.

>Dawn and 10am are the same time

???