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In the video, we have in-editor scenes showing off how this works generally, by moving a solid rectangular block of light around an enclosed environment, emphasising the correct propagation of light with little or no artefacting. I'll be saying this is a lot in this piece, but check out the video to see just how realistic and nuanced the effect is.ДЄnother welcome addition to the ray tracing feature set are the ray traced emissive surfaces - so surfaces like flames or lights of various shapes and volumes give off light from their entire surface area, casting diffuse soft shadows around the environment. And it's actually a treat to see characters wielding torches lighting up such areas with such fidelity - it adds to the immersion. The truth is that those scenes are equally as atmospheric - it's just that solitary lights found in such scenes colour surrounding scenery more realistically, so shadows have colour instead of being pitch black near those light sources. More realistic light bounces generally results in scenes being more lavishly lit, so I was curious to see whether Metro Exodus had lost some atmosphere in its darkest, scariest interior moments.

In fact, the boost to quality is almost akin to seeing real-time game graphics transform into something approaching a pre-rendered photorealistic scene. As you'll see in the video, the effect is totally transformative and like I said, it's a generational increase in fidelity compared to the first game.

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Metro Exodus 2019's RT GI would see light bounce just once - still impressive, but not a patch on the infinite light bounces now found in the Enhanced Edition. Every shadow casting light in the game now contributes to global illumination, so all of those torches, flares, flash lights and glowy green mushrooms see their light bounce around the environment, radically improving the realism of the lighting. The ray traced feature set is also revamped in terms of quality and overall functionality. The tricks, fake light sources and other legacy elements are replaced with a proper, real-time RT solution that 'just works'.

For the new Metro, the standard rasterised versions of each map - including all individually, artist-placed lights - are gone. However, the new RT system was added midway through development, so 4A Games had to essentially develop the game with two lighting schemes in mind. It looked great in comparison to the default real-time GI system that was already in place for the rasterised version of the game. So, how has RT been improved? Put simply, the original Metro Exodus shipped with single bounce global illumination from the sun combined with ray traced ambient occlusion for all indoor areas.

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The smart money suggests that this is the kind of scaling technology which we're likely to see deployed on the console versions (where both PS5 and Series X target 60fps output). Further enhancements come from the additional of VRS - variable rate shading - along with Nvidia DLSS 2.1 AI upscaling, along with a temporal upscaling option best suited for AMD GPUs. Put simply, Metro Exodus was my number one title for 'best graphics 2019' and this enhanced edition takes an excellent game to the next level - and in fact, some might say it's our first look at the multi-platform game engines of tomorrow built from the ground-up with RT features in mind.ДЄt the basic level, the enhanced edition takes the original 2019 version of Metro Exodus and revamps the engine to support ray traced global illumination along with a host of additional RT-based features.

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We're looking at the PC version today but you can see the groundwork laid here for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series renditions to follow later this year. Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition takes the real-time RT global illumination of the initial PC release, improves it to an almost generational degree and hands in a game that actually runs faster than its predecessor. This is it: the first triple-A game release that will only work on ray tracing capable graphics hardware.

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