absolutely crazy they dropped a huge chunk of HZD's map just for the credit sequence.

Now this is the episode of Boundary Break we've been waiting for!

You're such the pioneer! Grateful for your videos! When I first realized that cutscenes were rendered live, it blew my mind. But it does make sense. When I was at Pixar in the 1990's, surface shaders were almost entirely procedural. The issue was the communication pipeline - algorothms are cheaper to move from memory to the processor than bitmaps. Today, games face the same issue, but instead of 12 hours per frame rendered in a massive room full of SGI's, we're rendering 120fps on a home PC. (Ah Moore's Law - in 15 years, computers are 1000x better. In 30 that's 1000x1000, or a million.) (I'm pivoting careers now because...the problems are all the same and I have something to contribute!)

very cool... would be fun to have alternate camera angles for the shots they used.

Great work! It still seems weird that there's so much empty land between Sunfall and The Daunt. Hopefully the 3rd game knits everything together.

It makes sense that a zd remaster is coming. The map has already been largely revised with FW assets. is mostly just copy and paste. Not that the game needs it. but it would be interesting to see what the entire game looks like. I mean... why not? They did something similar with Last of us 1

We are getting close to the matrix, this big map with all its details is loaded quickly with the loading speed of the SSD, and everything is rendered for a long distance from the player. For a long distance, those npc are active.

I really want a remaster or remake of the first game, with the improvements to the gameplay of the second game in addition to the improvements in the graphics, with all story scenes in real time with the game engine, some story scenes like the ending, are pre-recorded sequences in the first game, showing Aloy in the default suit 😑

Your videos are amazing!! Where are these intro locations (the ones that take place after she leaves the zero dawn map and before she reaches the Daunt) filmed on the map, in relation to where forbidden west’s map is? Are these places all in correct order, in between the 2 maps? thanks for sharing! Can’t wait to see what’s next 😊👍🏼

This is so cool. Do you know if the version of the Zero Dawn map that the opening credits take place is the same one that you go to the spire in and you explore in a previous video?

Man, when I heard the PC version would be released I was already looking forward to your videos exploring FW, especially the opening credits. Thank so much for doing it so quickly. It's just so interesting how much they used of the ZD map. I'm in the midst of replaying it and it is still amazing how good this game looks on PS4. But here it's even better. I wish I could walk/ride the whole way from Meridian to the Daunt myself. But it looks like that's not really realistic, at least not with the map as it is now. Seems like they still created some "islands" to shoot the scenes with Aloy and the connections in between don't look really walkable/ridable. Your video is also the first time I was able to make out where exactly Aloy leaves the ZD map. It's a place where you can fight a Thunderjaw and it's usually a dead end. I guess they "blasted" through the wall to give Aloy a way out.

Nice!

Wow what a mans...Video! Awesome!

Wow! Thank you very much for the exploration! 😊 I got so many new questions! 😁 • Just when Aloy is on the bridge of Meridian City, is the city more detailed? • Where's the pass and the land around at 1:46 relative to the known lands. I can't recognise it. • At 1:55, is it a newly constructed Cauldron entrance? It looks like our first Cauldron in Nora Lands, but it's not. OR if I'm wrong then is the Cauldron there under the ground? • At 2:24, is there the underground complex under the FAS Tower imported? • Whether at 2:59, did they imported the Zero Dawn Facility under the Ring? • At 3:03 (okay, it's rather a Zero Dawn relevance), there's another exit from the building below the Ballustrade, Helis came from there, monologueing for Aloy in the cage. Whether is there an internal structure designer but never seen? • At 3:35, no water. What about Daybrink, the lake? • Where's the new land at 4:48 relative to the previous known map region? • Whether the place at 9:30, is it truly near the Daunt map part? Where these are all on the map, btw.? I don't expect you, bro, to go back and check them, but if you also got curious then it could be cool. 🤘🏼 Oh-oh-oh, and what about the intro sequence? Is that an in-game animation, too, to be explored this way? The city ruin where above which the stormbird flies by? How detailed it is in that moment? The waterfall in the background when Aloy climbs up to her camp to dream about Lis? MYSTERIES!! 😁

What camera tools are you using?

So if the map is there, with the correct mods, could you go explore it? like travel there and walk around?

are the tools you use available to use?

😲😲😲

Why they just not record that to not odd huge memory to game

Awesome! Even though I could tell the opening credits were rendered live, it would have taken me a while to think of using the free camera during them 🤣 It's so cool to see how they set up the shots! I'm having a lot of fun finding these places out of bounds, although I get sad when I run into the infinite "waiting for shader compliation" screen 🥲