Monday, February 15th 2021
4A Games Announces Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition for PC - Free Upgrade for Existing Owners
4A Games is one of those rare developers that seemingly gives more to its fans and game-owners than it takes. The company has just announced they're readying a new, Enhanced Edition version of Metro Exodus - receiving significant graphical updates that are mostly focused on added raytracing capabilities. The new version of the game will be made available for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles - but carries additional features in the all-powerful PC version, including Ray Traced Reflections (which will not be included in the console version) as well as support for NVIDIA's DLSS 2.0, the best iteration of the technology so far.
According to the developer, the engine changes are so substantial that they couldn't push it as a simple update/game patch - the entire game has had to be recompiled to allow for the seamless integration of the new features. 4A Games announced that the new, Enhanced Edition, which will be available later this year, will be available for all Metro Exodus owners as a free, additional download. The new version makes such extensive usage of raytracing - every light source is now raytraced, per-pixel-raytraced global illumination, and a plethora of other changes you can see in the feature comparative below - that the company is now listing a raytracing-capable GPU (whether AMD or NVIDIA) as the minimum requirement. Now if only one could find decent raytracing graphics cards readily available...
Source:
4A Games
According to the developer, the engine changes are so substantial that they couldn't push it as a simple update/game patch - the entire game has had to be recompiled to allow for the seamless integration of the new features. 4A Games announced that the new, Enhanced Edition, which will be available later this year, will be available for all Metro Exodus owners as a free, additional download. The new version makes such extensive usage of raytracing - every light source is now raytraced, per-pixel-raytraced global illumination, and a plethora of other changes you can see in the feature comparative below - that the company is now listing a raytracing-capable GPU (whether AMD or NVIDIA) as the minimum requirement. Now if only one could find decent raytracing graphics cards readily available...
34 Comments on 4A Games Announces Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition for PC - Free Upgrade for Existing Owners
I'm confused.
So this is dangerous, scalpers will get the money they want.
@W1zzard will you be reviewing Metro Exodus again whenever this new edition becomes available?
It's just too bad mesh shaders didn't get introduced in time. This is a game that can use such a performance uplift.
www.techpowerup.com/review/metro-exodus-benchmark-performance-test/6.html
And the devs did say they were introducing further optimizations in the engine, so I don't expect it to be that impactful in terms of performance.
The real question is how playable will it be with all the bling maxed out @ 4K
will run worse for free
YAY
They already did that WITH REDUX
I have the game, want to play but haven't because I figured one day they would update it exactly like this, FOV alone is huge to me. What about when the Witcher 3 with RTRT comes out? Skipping that one because whoever wants to play probably played the original already?
This will kill ANY graphics card existed on the planet.......
also does anyone know if the redux version will also be upgraded