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Ubisoft’s massive new Watch Dogs Legion game will hit 4K 30FPS on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X with ray tracing enabled, developers confirm.
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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla runs at 4K 60FPS on next-gen consoles with no ray tracing effects, but Watch Dogs Legion is going a separate route. Legion is opting for more eye-catching graphics performance and will instead max out 4K 30FPS with ray tracing on. The game may not hit 60FPS in the next generation outside of 1080p resolution. The developers have been a bit coy about the exact modes we can expect in Legion.
“Ray tracing, 4K, 30 fps on PS5 and Xbox Series X”Watch Dogs Legion Live Producer Lathieeshe Thillainathan said in a Reddit AmA session.
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The FPS bump makes sense. Ray tracing is quite demanding and generally reduces frame rates, except if you use NVIDIA’s powerful DLSS technology, which canenable 8K 60FPS gaming with an RTX 3090.
It’s also likely that Legion’s overall approach has emphasized ray tracing. Ubisoft wants to showcase its new advanced next-gen NPC and engine technology, and Watch Dogs Legion is probably the most ambitious NPC-driven game in the industry. In fact, it doesn’t even have NPCs because you can literally play as everyone you see in the game.
London’s high-tech dystopian setting is brilliantly lit and brings in some serious Cyberpunk and Blade Runner vibes, and the dynamic weather, reflections, and other systematic graphic effects could be a good showcase for ray-traced content. Legion is also smaller than Valhalla, so keep that in mind.
I hope Ubisoft will give us more details on the game’s performance in the future, but for now this is what we have. Watch Dogs Legion will be released on October 29, 2020 on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
