After many months of ready, the extremely anticipated Darkish Footage: Switchback VR replace aimed toward addressing its visuals has lastly gotten a launch date. This patch for the PSVR2 unique is dropping on July 21.
The Switchback VR replace will embrace a slew of visible fixes
Supermassive Video games introduced the date on Twitter with a really quick 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 usually what they are going to be:
- Fixes for blurred/low decision visuals
- Fixes for textures and belongings popping
- Vastly diminished loading instances
- Enhancements to visuals, VFX, and lighting
- Enhancements to textures and setting 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 centered 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, although it had been 15 days. Many have been vocally vital of Switchback VR and having to attend additional lengthy for the sport to hit a baseline degree of high quality didn’t assist that sentiment.
