The movie “Avatar” launches the game “Avatar: Pandora’s Frontier”, which combines the beautiful ecological environment of the planet Pandora with the “Far Cry” series of gameplay. You can ride spiritual birds and animals, and you can also cooperate with two people to hunt and attack resources. At the Development Bureau stronghold, feel free to grab a bow and arrow or a rocket launcher, and don’t forget to hunt, cook, and heal your belly.
The story background of the game version of “Avatar: Pandora’s Frontier” is set in the middle of the two episodes of the movie. The player plays the role of a native Na’vi who is kidnapped by the human military enterprise of the Bureau of Resources Development and subjected to military training. Fifteen years later, players regain their freedom and must reconnect with the tribe’s lost traditional culture and join other tribes to protect Pandora and resist the Bureau of Resource Development. To describe it more simply, it is an open-world first-person action-adventure game that combines Ubisoft’s signature “Far Cry” series with the “Avatar” worldview and materials.
Players need to explore the western border area of Pandora, find out the connections between different tribes and defeat the Resource Development Bureau. They need to go to different places according to the plot to complete the main tasks. The side tasks are to obtain upgrade resources and improve tribal connections. Players can obtain skill points by connecting with flowers to strengthen various abilities, making their skills more flexible and attacks more effective. They can also choose to develop different skill trees to help survive in battle. The game also supports 2-player cooperative play and cross-platform connection, so you can fight against the Resource Development Bureau or hunt together.
Facing the invading humans, tooth for tooth, gun for gun
In particular, players need to collect, hunt and cook food to restore energy and convert it into health points. Collect ingredients and then cook them to enhance the buffing effect. Players can use hot and cold weapons at the same time. Na’vi bows and arrows and human heavy-fire firearms can be obtained, each with its own advantages and disadvantages and supply needs. After obtaining animal mounts and spiritual birds, your flexibility will be greater. Players attack Resource Development Bureau strongholds of different sizes. At first, they mainly conduct stealth operations. Later, they have more resources to buy human weapons and ammunition, and unlock advanced skills to suppress heavy firepower. Veteran players of the “Far Cry” series are not interested in will be unfamiliar. If players have a DualSense controller to play the PC version or PS5 version, it supports adaptive triggers for a better feel when picking and drawing bows.
AMD Title Optimization
The game engine of “Avatar: Pandora’s Frontier” is “Snowdrop”, which supports the latest technologies, including ray tracing, Direct Storage technology, etc. The upscaling technology supports Intel XeSS, AMD FSR 3 and NVIDIA DLSS. The environment art is quite detailed and creative. The ecological feeling of traveling to another planet, the 4K HDR effect is vivid. The PC version provides advanced image quality settings, with 4 levels of image quality options and customizable items, as well as a built-in benchmarking function. The game was previously included in AMD’s promotion plan, and you can get it for free if you purchase a designated processor or RX 7000 series graphics card. Therefore, the game can also enable the FSR 3 frame generation function to further improve smoothness.
Running 1080p on the RX 7600 with native “medium” image quality has a basic smoothness of 60fps. Enabling FSR balancing can increase it to 90fps level, which can also meet the basic requirements of 1440p resolution. Enabling frame generation can take advantage of the high refresh rate of gaming monitors to feel smoother. The mid-to-high-end RX 7800 XT can use “High” or “Ultra High” image quality, coupled with FSR3 “Balance” and frame generation, it has satisfactory results in 1440p and 4K environments.
RX 7600TAA native FSR3 balanced FSR3 balanced FSR3 balanced basic image quality medium medium high frame generation OFFOFFONON1080p67921631441440p4573126123 Test platform: i9-14900K / 32GB DDR5-6000 RX 7800 XTTAA native FSR3 balanced FSR3 balanced FSR3 Balance FSR3 Balance basic image quality high high high high high frame Generate OFFOFFONOFFON1440p69105190861602160p36631105091 Test platform: i9-14900K/32GB DDR5-6000
As for the NVIDIA graphics card, although the game uses the DLSS 3.5.10.0 library, it does not support the frame generation function. Under the same “medium” image quality and no frame generation settings, the RTX 4060 8GB is slightly faster than the RX 7600 on average. The performance trend of RTX 4070 12GB and RX 7800 XT is also the same, and it is better than RX 7800 XT in 1440p “ultra high” image quality.
RTX 4060 8GBTAA Native DLSS Balanced DLSS Balanced basic image quality Medium, medium and high frame generation None None 1080p77108891440p498675 Test platform: i9-14900K / 32GB DDR5-6000 RTX 4070TAA Native DLSS Balanced DLSS Balanced basic image quality High, Ultra High frame generation None None 1440p751 271022160p407557 test Platform: i9-14900K / 32GB DDR5-6000 Platform: PS5, Xbox Series MessageNext articlePokémon Center TAIPEI, Taipei’s trendy new hotspot, officially opens
After entering the brain world through games and witnessing the mutual progress of 3D rendering technology and game engines, I am convinced that the PC platform may become the biggest winner.
