Deep Silver and 4A Video games simply introduced a Metro Exodus PC Enhanced Version alongside an replace on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X upgrades on the horizon.
Full ray tracing is on the horizon with the revamped variations of the video games. As famous within the reveal, Metro Exodus was one of many first main titles to make the most of ray tracing nevertheless it was solely accessible for high-end PCs with the assistance of NVIDIA’s newest RTX graphic card collection. With the Xbox Sequence X/S and the PlayStation 5 each providing ray tracing assist, the studio is making “radical” adjustments to revamp what ray tracing means and bringing it over to console.
“We now have constructed an all-new absolutely ray-traced lighting pipeline that brings a lot of optimizations, upgrades, and new options to the ray-traced international illumination and emissive lighting that we pioneered with the unique launch of Metro Exodus, in addition to an upgraded implementation of our highly effective temporal reconstruction know-how to additional increase decision, visible element, and efficiency,” says Deep Silver in regards to the newest replace.
This replace will present the “final” model for PC gamers, pushing previous expectations with the vanilla ray tracing expertise. So what does this imply for console gamers? In line with the studio, “Metro Exodus will run at 4K / 60FPS with full Ray Traced lighting all through on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X. The bottom recreation and DLC expansions will characteristic each our ground-breaking ray-traced international illumination (RTGI) and the ray-traced emissive lighting strategies pioneered in The Two Colonels growth throughout all content material.”

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Gamers may also stay up for decreased loading occasions on account of each consoles providing optimized SSD storage, along with platform-specific tweaks together with spatial audio and improved latency on Xbox and haptic characteristic utilization for the PlayStation 5 expertise. For Xbox Sequence S gamers, the crew is aiming for 1080p, however the remainder of the revealed enhancements are confirmed at the moment alongside 60 FPS and ray traced lighting.
High quality of life and different extra commonplace tweaks will even be arriving for all versions, together with the extra possibility to change the FOV (which is a primary for the collection).
As for PC-specific adjustments, the brand new absolutely ray-traced lighting pipeline and the most recent GPU-capable {hardware} from NVIDIA and AMD might be utilized for the Enhanced Version. In truth, Deep Silver says that the Enchanced improve might be so “in depth” that it’ll require a ray tracing-capable GPU because the naked minimal spec and that this model might be delivered as a separate product.
The studio additionally added, “The PC Enhanced Version will supply extra ray tracing options, together with superior ray-traced reflections and assist for DLSS 2.0 on NVIDIA {hardware}, which provides sharper picture particulars and elevated framerates and show resolutions.”
“Making use of the identical philosophy as our Xbox and PlayStation upgrades, this PC Enhanced Version might be free to all current Metro Exodus house owners on the Epic Video games Retailer, Steam, and GoG. You may count on the PC Enhanced Version to launch later this spring.”
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[Source: 4A Games]