One of the benefits of Metro Exodus escaping the dark underground tunnels of its predecessors was seeing how lovely a freeze can look. 4A Games is planning to improve its apocalyptic FPS even more this spring. The enhanced PC edition will fool Exodus’ visuals and lighting even further with expanded ray-tracing and higher-resolution textures and other benefits. So much the better to see those villains approaching and frigid and reflective puddles with.
4A Games explains that the enhanced PC edition will require a GPU with lightning tracking capability as the minimum system specifications. The enhanced edition is a revision, they explain, that will be released as its own product, rather than a patch for Exodus. You can get it for free if you already have a copy of Exodus on your PC.
Here’s a little bit of the tech talk for you, in the words of 4A.
“We have built a new Fully Ray Traced Lighting Pipeline that brings a number of optimizations, updates and new features to the Ray Traced Global Lighting and Emissive Lighting that we created with the original launch of Metro Exodus, as well as an upgrade implementation of our powerful technology Time Reconstruction to further increase resolution, visual details and performance, and we push these improvements to the limit to take advantage of the latest Ray Tracing capable GPU hardware from NVIDIA and AMD to create the final version for our fans PC enthusiasts. ”
The enhanced PC edition eliminates Exodus lighting by making all light sources in the game tracked, say 4A. There is a long list of other updates, such as support for DLSS 2.0 and 4K resolution textures. You can find the full list of features in the ad posting.
4A say that the enhanced edition of Metro Exodus for PC will be released on Steam, GOG and the Epic Games Store sometime this spring, free of charge for current Exodus owners.
If you’re looking at the future of Metro, 4A mentioned earlier that they’re working on the next Metro game and experimenting with multiplayer components that they’ve always wanted to use with the series.