Somewhat off-topic here as it’s not about DD2 but I was wondering about raytraced shadows the other day and what the real advantage even was to it. I have some PS5 games with raytraced shadows (no reflections unfortunately) and swapping between RT and non RT, I honestly can’t see a difference in the quality of the shadows. If the previous methods of soft shadowing is already really good looking, what’s the point of ray tracing them and losing the speed? Other lighting and reflection effects look way better than the current methods of faking it, but shadows not so much.
What’s the game?
Elden Ring, Control, Deathloop, and Rift Apart. Rift Apart is the best looking of the bunch, but also has the most ray tracing features afaik.
I did most comparisons of the shadows alone in ER because I know for sure that it only has RT shadows. The games only give you RT on or RT off or Quality vs Performance, so it was the best I could do to eliminate variables. My PC still has a 1660 super so I can’t exactly test on that lol
I can agree ER doesn’t have an interesting implementation. I always assumed they added it just to get some experience with the tech rather than anything practical. It was just randomly dropped in an update.
Can someone help me out? I saw a trailer in the past couple weeks for a new medieval game hat looks sort of like an open world third person game, not an MMORPG. But I’m looking back and I can’t find it anywhere. What are the new knight/feudal era games coming out besides Manor lords? Thanks! I’m not really a gamer, but rdr2 has changed me and I’ve been playing a lot more games these days.
Kingdom Come 2?
Fuck yes! That’s the one. That one looks cool as fuck. Thank you
Try Kingdom Come 1 first. It’s good, but not for everyone. The combat in particular takes a bit of getting used to
The first one is so good, it’s one of those games that sticks with you.
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Hopefully someone takes the time to add the other objects into the tracer and a denoiser. I’d love to play it that way!
But they gotta fix it first before I’ll buy it!
