Ray-Tracing? Physics? Open Zones?

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There will not be any ray tracing in the game until it gets updated to support either DX12 or Vulkan as DX11 can not do RT anything.

They are putting FSR1 in the game and not FSR2 and leaving out any frame gen tech so I'm pretty sure they didn't do a lot in terms of PC optimizations. Maybe they pulled a Warframe and rewrote their lightning engine which will go a long way in how the game looks and possibly even optimized it to be able to run on older consoles to a degree. Big picture though, I assume most people will be disappointed with how same-y the game will look besides the lighting. That said they could knock it out of the park with the texture of all the gear and make it really pop but they haven't showed any of that stuff off yet. Also the anti aliasing implementation better be good otherwise it will look like a temporal mess like other games that just throw TAA in and hope it works out.

Long story short, don't get your hopes up. Better grass, lighting, textures (maybe) and AA, that is pretty much all you are getting in the update.

That's a shame, thanks for your reply :\... I do like to try and remain an optimistic person though, setting the new base requirements for PS5/XSX level come 8.0 if/when they most likely drop support for PS4/XOne(which will be 13 years old by the time of 8.0 in 2026 earliest) I would imagine there's more improvements they can make for the game hopefully with increased hardware baselines. But based on what you're saying, they COULD potentially if they wanted upgrade to DX12 or Vulkan and this would allow them to develop/implement ray-tracing options? Do you think this is plausible? If they are at least finally updating AA in the game from the ancient FXAA and implementing FSR1 and DLSS 2, isn't it possible come 8.0 they could upgrade to even newer FSR/DLSS and maybe finally upgrade to DX12?