4A Games is one of those rare developers that seemingly gives more to its fans and game-owners than it takes. The company has just announced they’re readying a new, Enhanced Edition version of Metro Exodus – receiving significant graphical updates that are mostly focused on added raytracing capabilities. The new version of the game will be made available for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles – but carries additional features in the all-powerful PC version, including Ray Traced Reflections (which will not be included in the console version) as well as support for NVIDIA’s DLSS 2.0, the best iteration of the technology so far.

According to the developer, the engine changes are so substantial that they couldn’t push it as a simple update/game patch – the entire game has had to be recompiled to allow for the seamless integration of the new features. 4A Games announced that the new, Enhanced Edition, which will be available later this year, will be available for all Metro Exodus owners as a free, additional download. The new version makes such extensive usage of raytracing – every light source is now raytraced, per-pixel-raytraced global illumination, and a plethora of other changes you can see in the feature comparative below – that the company is now listing a raytracing-capable GPU (whether AMD or NVIDIA) as the minimum requirement. Now if only one could find decent raytracing graphics cards readily available…

Source: 4A Games , Techpowerup