THE Metro Exodus upgrading to next generation consoles is more ambitious than you might think. 4A Games and Deep Silver have revealed that the game versions for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X will have a revamped engine with “fully streaked” visuals, including global lighting and emissive lighting that first appeared on the Two colonels expansion on PCs. They will run at 4K at 60 frames per second even with these features enabled, and you can expect optimizations for fast SSD drives, as well as specific features like DualSense support on PS5 and low latency input on Xbox.
The Xbox Series S will ‘just’ play at 1080p at an unspecified frame rate, although you can expect the full ray tracing to remain intact. And yes, PC gamers will see many of the benefits – one Metro Exodus PC Enhanced Edition will bring updated ray-traced reflections on next-generation GPUs, as well as support for DLSS 2.0 on NVIDIA graphics cards.
All updates will be free. 4A has not reduced the availability of the console update, but the PC update is for the spring.
There is even something for computer gamers who don’t like Windows. Metro Exodus for Mac is now slated to hit the App Store, Epic Games Store and Steam in March, while the Linux version comes “a little later” on Steam. These ports are not exactly new when Exodus first released in 2019, but it’s still nice to have more high-level games to play on your MacBook or Linux equipment.