Rockstar’s GTA V is sort of the outdated sport now at almost a decade outdated, however that hasn’t stopped the studio from beefing up visuals for PS5 and Xbox Collection X|S with a brand new ray-tracing replace. The patch, noticed by Eurogamer (by way of The Verge), appears to have been pushed out to consoles on December 13.
The help web page for the sport lists a ton of modifications. Together with new content material obtainable in GTA On-line. These venturing round Los Santos within the on-line mode will now have entry to new story missions, freemode missions, and a brand new enterprise that they will handle. There’s additionally new 8 new automobiles, the Acid Lab, and a brand new social house known as The Freakshop.
In the event you’re most excited in regards to the visible updates, you then’re in for a deal with. The ray-traced reflections present a reasonably important enhance to the visible expertise.
GTA V ray-tracing for PS5 and Xbox Collection X|S actually amp up the visuals
If you’d like a superb show of what ray-tracing is basically doing for the sport, watch the video above. Whereas it doesn’t incorporate the ray-traced reflections for the Xbox, they shouldn’t be a lot completely different from the PS5. With ray-tracing on, you’ll get enhanced reflections of your character in home windows and extremely reflective surfaces like automobiles with a chrome paint job.
Water additionally appears to be like extra pure. It’s a loopy show of how a lot of an affect one thing like ray-tracing can have on a sport this outdated. Respiration new life into it prefer it simply got here out a few years in the past. For the GTA V diehards, that is undoubtedly an replace you’ll need to set up and benefit from.
Along with the ray-traced reflections, there’s fairly a prolonged listing of enhancements. The economic system has been up to date to reward gamers with triple the sum of money on Smuggler’s Run Promote missions, for instance. You possibly can learn the huge listing of patch notes over at Rockstar’s GTA V help web page if you happen to really feel like diving into the nitty gritty.