We test and optimize our games for each platform on which they’re released, striving for the best possible quality. The dev team is completely dedicated to getting the most out of each platform, so the notion that we would actively downgrade quality is contrary to everything we’ve set out to achieve.
In a statement posted by "The Watch Dogs Team" today, though, the publisher denied these claims, saying that the graphical effects were removed for performance and gameplay issues. One comment unearthed from the code lends some credence to this idea, by derisively suggesting that a color setting "is PC only, who cares." Advertisement Some have suggested that Ubisoft purposely scaled back the performance of the PC version of the game so it wouldn't outclass the console versions too handily. Those comparisons took on new weight when modders found references in the PC code to settings and animations explicitly meant for "E3" mode. Much has already been made about how the final shipped version of Watch Dogs looks considerably worse than the version shown in presentations at the last two E3 shows. What's more, re-enabling them though the mod doesn't seem to make the game crash. Graphical features like fog, bokeh depth of field, and bloom lighting effects were apparently written into the PC version of the game, only to be removed before it shipped.
What made the Watch Dogs mod interesting is that many of its "new" graphical effects were apparently already in the game's shipped code and were simply disabled for players who didn't tinker with the game files. Normally this wouldn't be a huge deal-similar graphical effects mods for games like Grand Theft Auto IV and Skyrim are incredibly popular among PC gamers with high-end rigs. That's because of a modder going by handle TheWorse at the Guru3D forums, who late last week released a beta version of a mod that enabled many high-end graphical effects that were not available in the shipped version of the game. It's been an interesting week for PC players dedicated to getting the best graphical experience from their copy of Ubisoft's Watch Dogs. A shot from the modded version of Watch Dogs shows the impact of "unlocked" effects like fog and variable depth of field.
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