YouTube’s ‘Cycu1’ has released a new comparison video between the Original and the Enhanced Edition of Metro Exodus. Cycu1 enabled Ray Tracing in both of these versions, so this side-by-side comparison video will give you an idea of the graphical improvements and enhancements that 4A Games added to it.
Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition offers additional Ray Tracing features including Advanced Ray Traced Reflections and support for DLSS 2.0. Additionally, this update improves its existing Ray Traced Global Illumination tech to make every light source fully Ray Traced. It also implements the Ray Traced Emissive Lighting tech from The Two Colonels throughout the game.
Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition will be available for free to all existing owners of Metro Exodus on GOG, Microsoft Store, Steam and Epic Games Store later today. This special version will require a GPU that can support Ray Tracing otherwise it won’t run. You can find its official PC system requirements here. NVIDIA owners can also download a Game-Ready driver for it.
Our PC Performance Analysis for Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition will go live later this week, so stay tuned for more!
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Is exodus better than 2033 Redux ?
Why does it look like they only increased the brightness up to 80? It definetly doesn’t look any better.
There are scenes where the enhanced edition does look way better but yes in a lot of areas the RTX ON is just a brightness increase.
They re-lit the entire game through ray traced GI, every light source is ray traced, meaning that you’re getting realistic lighting, in some areas that translates into more light.
Exactly this. It looks like sh*t and completely kills the immersion with all that extra brightness. Original version is way better.
well digital foundry says that this is the most impressive lightning in a video game today. well on 15:00 UTC we can see for our self. i personally can’t wait to give this a try.
Kingdom Come and Crysis Remastered have fairly sophisticated GI but there’s no competition for Metro Enhanced, it’s on another level. Metro’s GI is precise enough to give you indirect shadows (shadows of indirect lighting) and it updates much faster. In Crysis Remastered you can see a big lag when, let’s say, a roof is removed and light comes into a hut. And Kingdom Come’s lighting is rather “flat” for some reason. They must have messed up something with the parameters.
As for TLOU2, that game’s lighting is completely canned, the sun doesn’t move. It’s not a fair comparison to any of the others.
In the next generation, maybe…………….
I don’t have a card to run this, therefore, I don’t like it.
I think he’s being sarcastic. also to be real, most people can’t get their hands on new cards.
You can play it via GeForce Now if you really wanted it to.
No you can’t. Nvidia have said they need to upgrade there version of Windows Server (WTF?) to run this version.
Game use DX12 Ultimate (DXR 1.1) which is available only on Windows 10 2020. It is not supported on older Windows 10 versions (2015-2019)
Yes. It’s just crazy to me that Nvidia didn’t realise that on their own before now.
In future game developers can upgrade game from older DX12 Ultimate (2020) to newer DX12 Agile (2021). Newer DX is no longer connected to Windows 10 2020 because it is distributed as package installed with game.
Maybe Nvidia can pay for such game patch? It should be much easier than upgrade thousands of servers for new Windows. DirectX is backward compatible so new DX12 Agile should run older DX 12 Ultimate without any problems. With new DX12 game could also use advanced new features like Direct Storage on PC. This will give instant loading on NVM drives (SATA is not supported)
Good luck getting one, the 3080 is awesome. Wondering how my 3770k will cope though :p
If only they could improve on this sh**ty combat, because it sucks.
The whole point is to not engage in combat…outside of the awful sections when the game turns into a janky COD.
That’s exactly how I tried to play, going for stealth, but unfortunately there are many moments in this game where you just can’t avoid “the awful” combat.
Having said that, the game is pretty good, imho.
Can’t wait to get off work and try this on my RTX 3080. I actually haven’t played the game much at all yet, I bought for next to nothing during an Epic games store sell, with all DLC and everything and $10 off coupon. I just started playing it when I heard about the enhanced edition and I figured I would just wait. Hope the stock issues resolve soon for everyone else. I got super lucky and snagged my card off Amazon back in November at MSRP.
This is a separate free upgrade for the original release on PC.
And the only reason this was done, was due to the PS5/Series X, they will be selling it there.
Gotta love PC gaming for that get free “gen” upgrades more times than not
This is a separate free upgrade for the original release on PC.
And the only reason this was done, was due to the PS5/Series X, they will be selling it there.
I think what you are saying is that you prefer a more fantasy look over realistic.
Some people thought the water in The Witcher 3 was more realistic than that found in CP2077, until I posted a pic of New York harbor.
Need to see how it feels to play, if it adds to the immersion.
I havent played metro exodus (I’m waiting for my RTX 3080, so I will play it soon), but on YT videos 2019 RTX version was jarring to me, because every room was totally dark even when big window was nearbly. Black crush is never a good thing (doom 3, I’m looking at you?).
However I think they have overdone RT GI, because now in certain dark scenes everything is too bright. They went from one extreme into another. It looks like playing with increassed gamma settings now, but maybe that’s something reshade can fix.
If only they could improve on combat, because it sucks.
This game is a visual spectacle!
I don’t know, the “Enhanced” version to some might look more realistic and all but I prefer the more moody original version. Enhanced version looks washed out for no reason at all. All faces are lit up evenly with no shadows in that scene where the protagonist is being welcomed by the rest of the gang.
With all that said I myself played Exodus on my RTX2070S with RTX off and in comparisons with RTX ON the rasterized version always looked brighter while 2019 RTX implementation added more shadows and made the overall picture look darker. So maybe the better RTX implementation of the enhanced edition actually retains the ability of the player to see more stuff in the scene while making the overall lighting more accurate.
Well I stand corrected. It seems that in some areas the rasterized non-RTX version was the darkest of them all. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c329d645e7d734ee653c293d9fbcafcfbde65787d97c4f40c2e8553ab3d6f3ab.png
On your image enhanced version looks a lot more realistic. It no longer looks like game but instead looks like picture from movie. Lets hope more future games drop old hardware and start using real light
Yep, I quite like how it looks now. Digital Foundry video really goes goes in-depth in terms of differences.
On your image enhanced version looks a lot more realistic. It no longer looks like game but instead looks like picture from movie. Lets hope more future games drop old hardware and start using real light. This will be true “next-gen”
we need exodus remake after RTX 5080, RX 7090 XT, XBOX series Z, or PS6 have been released.