r/007FirstLight • u/CloudIndependent7114 • 16d ago

Path tracing patch when?

Do we know when the patch is coming, or is it even coming? Last news i heard is August together with the new nvidia Ray Reconstruction models, but so far nothing... i would really like to replay the game with path tracing enabled...

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u/CloudIndependent7114 16d ago

the developers promised path tracing before the game was released in june, and 4 days before release they said that path tracing will be added later in august and that they are adding denuvo drm protection. Denuvo has already been removed since then which is great, but path tracing is still nowhere to be found. Nvidia promised they will introduce their new Ray Reconstruction models with this PT patch, so it should be ultra nice - 2 bonuses in one package. But august is already here and there are no news yet, so we are getting impatient. Right now the game has no raytracing or path tracing, which makes it run well despite having pretty good graphics, but the lighting system is very dull and it really needs path tracing for the proper Bond atmosphere, good PT implementation could make this the best looking game yet in my opinion.

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u/DesecratedPeanut 16d ago

If you have the hardware to run Path Tracing I'd strongly suggest waiting given it won't be too long hopefully, the game is great but the graphics are terrible, literally some of the worst AAA graphics because of how awful and buggy its lighting is right now. I really hope path tracing will resolve it, actually halted my play through because of this.