Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice [PS4, 4Pro, XO, OneX, XBSX|S]

I heard the audio was good, but it's true binaural. Mind blowing really. Nothing else that I've played comes close. It's a bar raising moment for games. I will be very disappointed if this challenge isn't met by other developers.

 

Now optimized for Series X|S with enriched visuals, DircectX raytracing, resolution mode & more...



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Now optimized for Xbox Series X|S, free patch.

 

Beat you lol

 

is there an article with exact changes?

 

Tried looking on Ninja Theory's website & Xbox Wire & couldn't find anything. They may not have updated yet.

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More info...

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More info...

https://hellblade.com/optimised

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nice, gonna try it via gamepass.

 

Updated textures etc also. Really nice update.

Only thing it's lacking is a balanced mode 40fps(or VRR). Hopefully that will become a thing for games from now.

This would have been worthy to be announced in the xbox event that is coming up.

 

Ninja Theory also announced 6.3 million players across all platforms...



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Had a play on our S. Did have a go on PC a while ago, found it interesting but didn't finish it. It sync'd my file from my last playthough (which is a lovely feature) but I decided to started again.

Playing it in ray traced mode. It's seems like the S is doing a nice job on those scenes that feature it. The beach after the opening is a nice showcase. After that, there's not been much that really warrant it being on, so far.

Shadows can be a little ropy.

 

There are strange artifacts on Senua in photo mode though. Wonder what's causing it. May do a video about it tomorrow.

 

I got the game on Steam some time ago, because I wanted to play it in VR.
I wonder if the next-gen update can be applied to VR mode. Unless I'm missing something, it would be the first VR game with raytracing effects.

 

PC patch is supposedly coming in the future.

 

Looks very nice, though they missed a trick by walking in the water and turning the eyes downward & seeing how the raytraced water handles it

 

DLSS was promised for the PC, but afaik was never delivered. Given the amount of cash nVidia has, and that they listed the game as part of their promotion of DLSS, they should foot the bill for implementing it, even if the developers are willing to walk away from it.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/414340/discussions/0/1752358461543062387/

 

DLSS is built into UE now. I'd have thought there's a good chance it'll land with the next gen Hellblade patch.

 

I'm excited about the Chapter select. For some reason I didn't get credit for defeating Valravn on my first playthrough and I'm glad to be able to go back and correct that as well as pickup Lorestones here and there.

 

Ugh. Unfortunately it won't enable chapter select from my previous save after I completed the game. Disappointing.