inFamous Second Son releases this Friday. As you might’ve seen from the trailers, the smoke and neon powers are looking very good indeed. It almost makes you wonder exactly how much goes into them, down to the number, doesn’t it?
Well, thankfully VGLeaks has revealed some incredible stats, detailing the actual numbers behind the technology which create the gameplay mechanics.
Firstly, when Delsin does his smoke dash, he splits up into 11,000 individual particles, each of which is individually textured, even if his jacket is customised, before reforming into one humanoid shape. That’s simply astounding.
Troy Baker’s face is superimposed on Delsin, and that took 75 high-res scanned poses, which then essentially trained the performance capture system. That meant 168 tracked markers on his face, with 22,231 separate vertices without including his eyes, lashes or hat. These are all animated independently, thirty times per second. Delsin’s entire head is built out of 60,000 triangles, with a further 7,500 more for his beanie hat. Tuffcub says they wasted 7,500 triangles. There were also 168 skeleton joints on his face alone.
32 machines were used in the render farm to compute the reflected and ambient lighting, while every single rain drop was considered an individual particle, and there are over 30,000 of these. Furthermore, the Adaptive Ambient System means that each district on the map has its own atmosphere which conforms to the time of day, type of weather and control.
It’s not just the visuals either – there are tons of sounds present, with over 1,024 sound variations on the smoke bolt alone and over 50 individual sounds in a smoke orbital.
To finally show Sucker Punch’s attention to detail, the blocks in the game’s version of Seattle are 100 meters square, which is the same size as an actual Seattle block.
SLUMMO316
Lol it’s not even 60fps it must be shit
yiddo
Loving the salt from what must be an Xbox fan :)
Delicious salt it seems.
SLUMMO316
Haha it’s yiddo. You still trying to get people to join your cod clans?
yiddo
Great typical fanboyish response.
Why has he not been banned yet? Silly Xbot.
Starman
Just remember 60fps only matters on xbox games.
sam_w
No, it only matters when the game is 720p and struggles to reach 30fps (*cough* Dead Rising 3 *cough*)
Starman
Well done proving my point. And btw I’ve played DR3 and experienced none of this slowdown. Try again.
yiddo
Typical that you – an avid Xbox fanboy – wouldn’t experience the slowdown yet everybody else does.
No surprise.
Starman
Ok yiddo I’ll aak you nicely once, please stop trolling my posts & calling me fanboy. Did you see my post about move being a great device? Not exactly fanboy is it?
yiddo
Just because you put one thing where you’re ‘praising’ it, doesn’t mean you can’t be a fanboy. That’s the same mentality as people who talk aload of crap about a certain console, and then use the fallback of ‘but I own all consoles, therefore I’m not a fanboy’.
You’re still a fanboy to be honest. There’s nothing wrong if you prefer their brand and just prefer Xbox, but I’d recommend making it not so blatantly fanboyish.
Starman
Yes because you hide it so well. I guess it takes one to know one as you seem to be the authority on what constitutes a fanboy.
yiddo
Ahhh the old ‘no, you are!’ card :)
Scythegpd
In all fairness Yiddo has never claimed to be anything other than a playstation fanboy and this is a playstation centric site.
You on the other hand claim to be a “voice of reason” and vehently deny being an XBox fanboy … yet your post history says otherwise.
One of these things is not like the other tralalala
Starman
@scythe I’ll take voice of reason over fanboy. The fact is I’ve made plenty of pro Sony comments but nobody ever replies to them. Its only when I stick up for MS or critise Sony that people get arguing. If yiddo keeps up the personal insults he’ll find himself banned anyway. He has been before on his other accounts.
yiddo
This is my only account. If possible, you can get the moderators or staff to IP check my account. I know it’s possible on forums so it should be through the forum on here. I just haven’t been on this site for months.
Also, anybody with a brain can see what purpose your very rare pro Sony comments serve, and that purpose is being shown right now. It’s so you can use the old ‘but I’ve praised Sony before’ as a fallback when somebody claims you’re a fanboy. It’s the equivalent of you making a thousand posts shitting on Sony, but because you made 100 that ever so slightly praise them (false praise may I add) you then claim that you are not fanboyish at all. It’s one of the oldest tricks in the book.
Also I’m pretty sure all I’ve done is call you a fanboy, which you most certainly are. It’s hardly a personal insult. Stop being so precious.
Starman
@yiddo You also told me to fuck off and said I should be banned.
I’ve owned every Playstation & have a ps3, vita and have bought over 500 games for them. But obviously being such a fanboy that can’t be true.
Now please pack it in with your stupid comments to me and I’ll ignore your posts, deal?
Starman
And lastly to claim all my complimentary Sony posts are just so I can try to not look like a fanboy on the internet to a few people I’ll never meet is beyond ludicrous. I just like posting my opinions here if you don’t like it I suggest you go elsewhere because I won’t be.
yiddo
I’ll comment on whatever I damn well please. If that happens to be your comment, so be it.
I also heavily doubt that you’ve owned every single PlayStation console as you so claim. Just seems like a counter move from a fanboy by pulling numbers out of his arse ‘I have 500+ games for them!’ in an effort to not appear as a fanboy. Your comments sum you up enough as it is.
Also, yes, I do think you should be banned, along with Slummo. Also, if I should be banned for telling you to fuck off, you should be banned for calling that guy a fucking idiot. Seems only fair eh?
So yes, as long as you keep posting nonsense – which you do quite alot – I’ll be there commenting. Can’t let people get away with spreading fud everywhere.
Starman
Grow up yeah? Everything I’ve said us true my psn is superunknown79 if you want to look up my trophies to verify. Check out warhawks stats and you’ll see I played over 500 hours on it. Just admit you were wrong and show some maturity for once. I will no longer reply to you because you are just a classic troll.
Scythegpd
Didn’t you call someone a “fucking idiot” not too long ago and, when questioned, replied with “The deserved it”? That puts you on very uneven footing when you claim someone else should be banned for personal insults …
Starman
@scythe I never said anyone should be banned, its yiddo who’s throwing that about. I said he would probably get banned if he carried on as he was. Tbh that guy did deserve it, its probably yiddo’s alt account. I’ve encountered him on forums before and he has a history of making multiple accounts to wind people up.
As for my little sweary moment I’m man enough to apologize if it offended.
Tuffcub
Children! Stop squabbling else you will be sent to bed without any tea.
*tut*
Starman
Sorry TC but I had to respond to all the accusations I was receiving. I’ll try to ignore him in future.
yiddo
Now that’s the accusation of the day.
Give me proof that I have multiple accounts. As I’ve said, get somebody like Tuffcub to ip check my forum account if you want a definite answer. I actually laughed out loud at you putting ‘he’s known to have multiple accounts’ bahahahahahaha. How’s that?
It’s more so the fact that there are ALOT of people who view your posts as utter nonsense, hence why you get so much flack.
Regardless, this is my last comment on this particular article.
NotSmartEnough
Excited for this! Got Friday booked off ready for some non-cross-gen AAA gaming. It feels like November’s a long time ago now and I’m hyped for the first PS4 big hitter.
Broonba
Those numbers sure are impressive.
Kennykazey
There’s a YouTube video on Playstations account about the audio (and some advertising for the new headset) for the game. Pretty cool stuff.
Shady0808
Awesome can’t wait! I loved the previous Infamous games and platinum them so I’m looking forward to this one! I also met Troy Baker!
Eldaveo
And yet the game will probably be £20 by the end of June…
Really impressive stuff obviously and a real showcase of the PS4’s grunt, but its no wonder these AAA companies continue to lose money if they spend so much money on stuff outside of the core gameplay.
Scythegpd
When are the reviews for this due? I’m always concerned when so close to release not a single review is available. Always makes me think “what are they hiding?”
Starman
Maybe they are having trouble getting the frame rate stable, ha ha, had to go there sorry!
Kennykazey
It’s likely to keep spoilers at a minimum, notice how all the trailers show similar stuff? We know practically nothing that goes on in the story of this game, and Sucker Punch has done a formidable job at keeping the lid sealed.
bunimomike
I think it’ll be an 8 out of 10 from many sites. It’s more of the same (but definitely not meant in a bad way). It’ll look lovely, play very well and tick most boxes for a title on the new-gen consoles. Sure, it might not set the gaming world alight but 8 out of 10 feels about right.
However, if it’s above that then great news! :-)