Fortnite (?) Is Now One Of The Greatest-Wanting Video games On Earth (?!)

One of many huge causes Fortnite grew to become one of many greatest video games on the planet is as a result of it might run on something, from telephones to drained laptops to hand-me-down desktops. That’s created an expectation that the sport is graphically primary, however as we head into 2023 the shooter—first launched in 2017—simply acquired one hell of a facelift.

Epic have introduced that, not less than on a choose few platforms, the sport has simply been the recipient of a few of their fanciest methods from Unreal Engine 5.1, together with Nanite (which “gives highly-detailed architectural geometry”), Lumen (the place “reflections present high-quality ray traced reflections on shiny supplies and water”), Digital Shadow Maps (which “enable for extremely detailed shadowing”) and Temporal Tremendous Decision, or TSR (which “permits for high-quality visuals at a excessive framerate”).

That could be a lot of jargon, so what may be extra useful is seeing what that every one means in motion. Right here’s a gameplay demonstration on PC:

If that also seems to be…like Fortnite, possibly a comparability video will assist, exhibiting how the brand new options—Lumen particularly—remodel the video games visuals:

Whereas there might be some weirdos who assume “good graphics” and “photo-realism” must be the identical factor, for regular folks it’s wild seeing these type of lighting results flip up in a recreation as accessible as Fortnite. And likewise the extent of enhancements they make! I do know that’s the level, that that is Epic flexing and promoting their work on engines inside their work on video games, however no matter, it seems to be nice.

So what’s the catch? The catch is that, understandably, these options gained’t be showing on all variations of the sport. Anybody with a PS5 can get pleasure from them, and it’s the identical story for people with an Xbox Sequence X|S. PC gamers also can make use of the brand new options, however they’ll want to show them on within the recreation’s settings, and Epic additionally suggest that solely these with RTX 2080 or Radeon 5700 playing cards (or higher) ought to actually be bothering.