TL;DR: Metro Exodus is getting a free visual upgrade for people who have been able to get their hands on the latest gaming hardware. You may recall that Metro Exodus was amongst the first titles to feature ray tracing, even if the hardware available at the time was somewhat underpowered and couldn't exercise it complete justice.

Screenshot above showcases Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition's new visual effects

When nosotros tested Metro Exodus at launch, fifty-fifty the RTX 2080 Ti struggled to maintain a locked threescore frames per 2d at 1440p with ray tracing effects. Enabling DLSS helped, but just at the cost of visual quality, since Nvidia's first implementation of the engineering was a fleck underwhelming. However, 4A Games did hope that Metro Exodus would receive a free, side by side-gen upgrade for PC gamers besides as adjacent-gen consoles.

Today, the studio announced the Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, which brings a "fully ray traced experience" that takes advantage of the newest hardware (which is notoriously hard to acquire thanks to scalpers, miners, and other supply issues). Mac and Linux gamers are too getting the game this spring.

Metro'due south dev studio says it has built an all-new, fully ray-traced lighting pipeline that allows a host of new optimizations and visual upgrades to ray-traced global illumination, emissive lighting, and temporal reconstruction engineering introduced with the original release.

For Nvidia card owners, there'due south as well support for the much-improved DLSS 2.0, but there'south no word if the game will support AMD's upcoming equivalent that is based on DirectML.

It'south worth noting that Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition will exist a split up download, as this isn't simply a patch for the base game. The spec requirement to run the new game is to ain either an Nvidia RTX graphics carte du jour or an AMD Radeon 6000 series graphics menu, otherwise it simply won't launch.

For panel owners, the Enhanced Edition won't include advanced ray tracing reflections, but volition sport the rest of the visual upgrades including 4K textures. Load times should be faster thank you to optimizations added specifically to take advantage of the storage architecture on the new consoles. And in that location'south also added back up for some platform-specific features such as spatial audio on Xbox Serial X/S and haptic feedback on PlayStation v's DualSense controller.

4A is aiming for the Enhanced Edition to run at 4K lx FPS on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X with ray tracing enabled, while the Xbox Series Due south will only be able to run at 1080p 60 FPS. Even so, almost of yous volition no doubt appreciate the power to alter the FOV, which will be possible on all consoles.

In that location is no set release appointment for consoles yet, 4A Games has planned to launch Mac and Linux versions of the game, starting with the macOS version in March. The PC release will be unleashed this April or May.