…In its 60fps performance mode, the game's complex foliage, dense geometry and demanding lighting are paired with an internal 864p resolution, upscaled to 4K. It's a challenge that the original…
…Moving on, Xbox Series S works quite well in First Light. According to the developer, Series S gets three key downgrades - LOD, volumetric effects, and texture quality should all be downgraded compared…
007 First Light is one of the biggest releases of the year thus far, but it took more than two weeks for developers IO Interactive to fix a major bug with the…
…Sky lighting and emissive lighting are key upgrades for the dense cityscape, so underpasses, walkways and overhangs no longer look over-lit, with indirect light from the sky and appropriate light sources…
…For local lights, we build a tree structure of light hierarchy and sample the lights from it when we are calculating local lighting, which we call Many Lights Sampling. There is no…
…Shadows and lighting effects have also seen predictable cutbacks to meet Switch 2's power constraints. Shadow maps are rendered at a lower resolution and come with a softer appearance, and many…
…density and effects quality to take advantage of the increased GPU headroom. Conversely, the Xbox Series S build disables hardware Lumen in favour of Unreal Engine 5's lightmass probes, a pragmatic…
…In effect, it has created a video-to-video generative AI solution unlike any other. It doesn't have access to original game assets, geometry, depth or per-material metadata, yet it…
…On On On On On On Lighting Quality Medium High Medium High High Ultra Reflection Quality High High High Ultra High Ultra Advanced Weather Effect Off Off Off Off Off Off Water…
…native rendering resolution to full 4K, with the oppressive chromatic aberration effect removed and with tweaks to the game's lightgrid global illumination system. This allows for the same 30fps gameplay as…