Shortly after revealing Red Dead Redemption 2’s PC requirements final evening, Rockstar went into extra element concerning the particular PC enhancements that shall be yee-hawing their manner into the game come November fifth. HDR, “faster frame rates” and assist for 4K resolutions and past have been arguably the most important headlines from Rockstar’s announcement post (nonetheless no phrase on ray tracing, sadly), however let’s face it, all we actually need to know is how good our horses are going to look.
Indeed, with discuss of improved draw distances and better high quality world illumination and ambient occlusion for superior day and evening lighting, Red Dead Redemption 2 is ready to be fairly the looker on PC – and I say that as somebody who watched RPS video bud Matthew play numerous hours of it on Xbox One X on the finish of final yr, which is usually regarded by our buddies at Digital Foundry to be the best-looking version of the game. Honestly, I don’t assume I’ve seen some other game with such delicate god rays or beautiful, ethereal fog as I’ve in RDR2. It’s simply lovely, and I’m tremendous trying ahead to seeing how the PC model improves on it.
There’s additionally going to be, and I quote, “higher quality snow trails” – a small however essential addition given a lot of the early game is ready on a cold mountain vary within the lifeless of winter – and “improved reflections and deeper, higher resolution shadows at all distances.”
To be sincere, I used to be half anticipating Rockstar to begin speaking about ray tracing after they received to the shadows and reflections a part of their PC enhancements publish, however alas, it doesn’t appear to be Red Dead Redemption 2 shall be getting assist for Nvidia RTX playing cards in any case. It’s a disgrace, actually, as a result of if there was ever going to be a game to persuade individuals to spend money on an RTX card, RDR2 would definitely make a reasonably good case for it (very similar to how we ultimately caved and acquired an Xbox One X for RDR2 final yr). Still, no less than it means everybody can theoretically benefit from the game in the identical manner, supplied they meet the beneficial PC necessities for it.
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- Rockstar additionally launched new 4K screenshots.
There are additionally going to be smaller upgrades to its copious quantities of natural world – issues like “tessellated tree textures and improved grass and fur textures” – however in reality, it’s these lighting results I’m trying ahead to most.
In addition to all these visible enhancements, Rockstar have additionally confirmed that RDR2 will (lastly) assist HDR, in addition to widescreen resolutions and multi-monitor setups. I’m fairly enthusiastic about each of those bulletins, notably because the “HDR” it had on consoles at launch ended up being a little bit of a disappointment. It received patched earlier this yr round May time, which Digital Foundry said was an enchancment on the unique state of it, nevertheless it nonetheless wasn’t fairly excellent. Fingers crossed, then, that the PC model could have ironed out these kinks even additional, as a result of boy howdy do I need to see this game’s lighting results in all their full excessive dynamic vary glory.
Finally, Rockstar additionally point out “faster frame rates” for Red Dead Redemption 2, nevertheless it’s at present unclear whether or not which means 60fps, utterly uncapped or restricted to a most of, say, 144fps to deliver it in step with most excessive refresh fee screens. Still, when even the Xbox One X model of the game solely runs at a locked 30fps in line with our buddies at Digital Foundry, even with the ability to play the game at 60fps shall be a proper deal with in comparison with what’s potential proper now.
Phew, in any case that I’m getting all a fluster. I believed I used to be over Red Dead Redemption 2 after all of the hype and watching Matthew play via nearly each final story mission final yr, however now I’m truly fairly jazzed for it. Roll on November fifth, cowpokes, as a result of I’m gonna be taking part in the heck out of this till the tip of the yr.
