5/8/2023 0 Comments Days gone pc![]() ![]() ![]() If light hits a red surface, for example, some measure of that 'redness' will illuminate the surroundings where appropriate. Essentially, the appearance of light bouncing around a game scene is emulated in screen-space, delivering a richer presentation with more realistic lighting and better, more realistic shadows. The game is based on Epic's Unreal Engine 4 and I was happy to see that Bend Studio had updated the PC version to include a more recent UE4 innovation - software-based screen-space ray traced global illumination - available as an upgrade over the standard ambient occlusion tech deployed on the console versions. While we're not getting the ultimate package here - there's no ray tracing and disappointingly, no DLSS - there's no doubt that this is a solid, impressive port.īooting up the PC version of Days Gone, it's immediately apparent that this isn't just a basic PS4 Pro conversion. In fact, there are one or two touches here and there included in this game that really hope to see other developers bring to their own titles, especially when it comes to configurability. ![]() The upgrades are strategically chosen but effective - and performance is solid on both Nvidia and AMD hardware. I imagine something like a Bloodborne PC port would do much better than both of those games.Sony promised us more PC conversions of their stellar first party development output and while Horizon Zero Dawn illustrated that this is far from a simple process, Days Gone is on another level. Indeed, we'll get a clearer picture of PC players' interest in Sony exclusives as more of those games arrive. It would make sense for that negative reception to have also had an effect on the game's PC sales. With that said, it's also worth keeping in mind that Days Gone was much worse received critically when it launched on PS4, and that sentiment affected sales there, eventually causing Sony to reportedly kill off plans for a sequel. This is especially surprising because the PC port of Days Gone is better optimised, and more feature-rich compared to Horizon Zero Dawn, which launched in a terrible state and took developer Guerrilla Games the better part of a year to get it into a better state. Steam reviews for the two games stand at Mostly Positive as of this writing, though Horizon Zero Dawn has significantly more reviews because it's been available for over nine months. This is less than half of Horizon Zero Dawn's debut last year, which amounted to 56,557 at its peak.īoth games launched across Steam and the Epic Games Store, of course, so while the comparison stands, there's a chance Days Gone is doing better outside of Steam. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.ĭays Gone's highest ever figure for concurrent players on Steam is 27,450, which it achieved over the weekend following a nice gradual ramp-up. Days Gone, which launched on PC a week ago, charted on Steam's top sellers list repeatedly, but ended up attracting a smaller audience compared to Horizon Zero Dawn. Sony's second big PlayStation exclusive to come to PC hasn't quite had the same success as the first. Days Gone's PC port maybe be better than Horizon Zero Dawn's, but the latter had way more players. ![]()
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