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Summary
- Days Gone Remastered boasts improved graphical modes for PS5 and PS5 Pro, with up to 4K resolution.
- Control your gaming experience with multiple options for performance and quality.
- Even PC players without the DLC upgrade will benefit from world and gameplay enhancements.
In case you didn’t know, Bend Studio’s Days Gone is the latest PlayStation game getting the remaster treatment, and it’ll be available starting next week.
For those curious about what improvements the developers are adding to the zombie game, we’re here with some good news, as the tech specs planned have been revealed, and they seem like quite an upgrade.
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Days Gone Remastered Getting Multiple Graphical And Peformance Modes On PS5, PS5 Pro
Bend Studio has revealed the graphical modes PS5 and PS5 Pro players can expect when the game launches next week.
Base PS5:
- Performance: 1440p/Target 60FPS
- Quality: Native 4K/ Target 30FPS*
The studio mentions that the base PS5 rendering settings are equivalent to the “highest” on PC.
PS5 Pro:
- Performance: 1800p/Target 60FPS
- Quality: 2880p/Target 30FPS*
- Enhanced: 1584p/Target 60 FPS with PSSR
PS5 Pro’s Quality mode will supersample down from above 4K. All modes for both PS5 and PS5 Pro will output at 4K. Players should also expect a 40 frames-per-second patch to be released, though no timeframe has been given for that yet.
In addition to the settings mentioned above, Bend Studio also has several graphical improvements that affect the game’s world when compared to the PS4 and PC versions.
World Improvements:
- New Atmospheric/Sky simulation using ozone and spectral light simulation
- Improves overall color tone and produces more accurate light intensities for the sky and sunlight
- Significantly darker night time
- Improved screen space indirect lighting and ambient occlusion effects
- Double shadowmap resolution
- Additional improvements
For PC players, even if you don’t purchase the $10 upgrade for the Broken Road DLC, you’ll still be seeing an update ushering in improvements.
- DualSense haptic feedback support***
- Accessibility features
- World graphical improvements
- New Atmospheric/Sky simulation using ozone and spectral light simulation
- Improves overall color tone and produces more accurate light intensities for the sky and sunlight
- Significantly darker night time
- Improved screen space indirect lighting and ambient occlusion effects
- Double shadowmap resolution when Shadow Quality is set to Highest
- Additional improvements
PC players who own the base game can pony up $10 to receive the Broken Road DLC, which contains the following:
- Horde Assault – A survival arcade mode
- Permadeath mode
- Speedrun mode
- Enhanced Photo Mode
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Days Gone Remastered will be released on April 25 on PS5 and PC. While there will be graphical and performance improvements, expec thte overall gameplay experience to be the same, which isn’t a bad thing.
Read our review from 2019 to get a better idea of what you’re getting into in terms of gameplay. Interestingly enough, Days Gone is the last game release from Bend Studio, as the live service project the devs have been working on has been canned, which resulted in job cuts.
Who knows? Perhaps if this does well, we’ll see a sequel announced.
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Days Gone
- Released
- April 26, 2019
- ESRB
- M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Drug Reference, Intense Violence, Sexual Themes, Strong Language
- Developer(s)
- Bend Studio
- Publisher(s)
- Sony
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 4
