Huge Darkish Footage: Switchback VR Replace Will get Launch Date

Supermassive Video games introduced the date on Twitter with a really brief trailer (one which appeared unrelated to the patch). It didn’t include official patch notes — these are additionally slated for July 21 — however Supermassive has beforehand revealed typically what they are going to be:

• Fixes for blurred/low decision visuals
• Fixes for textures and belongings popping
• Drastically diminished loading occasions
• Enhancements to visuals, VFX, and lighting
• Enhancements to textures and atmosphere belongings
• An introduction of FSR and foveated rendering

The studio had been teasing this patch for a while, and gamers have equally been anticipating it for some time now, too. Switchback VR was broadly criticized at its launch in March for having poor visible high quality and a few bugs, the previous of which these tough patch notes are targeted on addressing.

Supermassive put out a statement the day after launch concerning the troubles and promised to treatment the scenario. Gamers waited months for mentioned patch, and Supermassive requested that they be affected person. The developer aimed to drop the fixes in late June, however the studio noted that the update wouldn’t hit that window and mentioned it was planning to launch it within the subsequent two weeks.

The primary two weeks of July handed and the sport remained unchanged, which didn’t go unnoticed. When gamers pointed this out, group supervisor Georgina Howlett claimed on Reddit that the studio meant “two calendar weeks” from that final publish, despite the fact that it had been 15 days. Many have been vocally essential of Switchback VR and having to attend further lengthy for the sport to hit a baseline stage of high quality didn’t assist that sentiment.