IO Interactive has announced that Hitman 3 will receive Ray Tracing support via a post-launch update in 2021. In addition, the team has announced a partnership with Intel in order to further optimize the game on the PC.
According to the team, Hitman 3 will receive updates, tweaks and improvements that will improve the experience of playing on a high-end PC and multi-core CPUs.
“These optimizations include enhancing HITMAN 3 for PC players with 8+ core CPUs. For example, you’ll be able to spot more crowds in Dubai or experience more complex destructibility in Dartmoor. We’re also introducing Variable Rate Shading (VRS); a technique that allows us to prioritize GPU resources where they have the biggest impact. On top of that, we will also implement Ray Tracing after the launch of the game, later in 2021.”
Hitman 3 is coming to the PC in January 2021, and will be timed-exclusive on Epic Games Store. You can also find its full PC system requirements here.
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That’s bizarre considering the new consoles also support it. I expected it to become standard on most new games now and not a tacked on feature. I have to admit Miles Morales looks absolutely stunning on PS5 even though it’s only 30 hz with RT.
This game is dead to me.
hitman died with blood money.
Didnt hitman release last year like is it a yearly franchise now ?
November 2018 actually, doesn’t time fly.
It does indeed. I’m quite surprised. I skipped hitman 2 and MIGHT get the third one but it’ll have to be 50% off for me.
Hitman 2 released in 2018
I don’t remember Hitman 2 improving over Hitman 1 at all, it even cutted some alternate missions for Hitman 1.
“i cant be bothered keeping up with measningless side acttivites, or were they good?”
Some of them where good, basically another assassination target in a different location, sometimes with a different time period (night/day).
See you all in 2022 then.
DXR, VRS and properly leveraging of multithreaded CPUs.
If only all games could be like this.
Oy vey intel.
It will be interesting to see their rt implementation Hitman 2 had some impressive full screen refection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC5OAWqKF70
their whole season/episodes/sequel thing is soooo dumb. Sure I understand it but they fail to realize average joe is a dumb a$$ and yeah it still is confusing their whole structure/pricing model. It’s made to be more complicated then it needs to be
Just get the crack edition and buy the game when its on sale. That’s what i did i actually won’t pay $60 for a 4 hour game lol. Waited RE3 to go on sale before i got that too.
I read it as mafia 3 and was like, what? lol
EGS time exclusive = will wait a massive Steam discount in 2022 OR pirate it…
“the team has announced a partnership with Intel in order to further optimize the game on the PC.”
it’s not, but more like:
“optimize the game on the PC that use intel cpu.”
lol