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4 months agoAround a day and a half without any source of food, limited water and building my own shelter in the middle of nowhere. Would not recommend on the thirst and hunger side, but it was quite peaceful. I ended up eating a little bit of my flavoured chapstick, I was quite hungry and thirsty. Thankfully weather was mild so no heat or cold related issues shelter wise. I’ve been camping in tents when it’s gotten so cold that frost formed inside the tent, that’s not fun either. Once I made it back to civilisation, I had a long shower, drank lots of water, and ate two full plates of food. Almost threw up afterwards from overeating.
Ray tracing looks great when done right, especially when combined with properly calibrated HDR. Gran Turismo 7s replays, photos and out of gameplay scences (and gameplay if you have a PS5 Pro) look incredible thanks to the ray tracing and HDR implementation. On a normal PS5 when you transition to gameplay, you can definitely notice the graphical hit with Ray tracing off, even though it still looks great without it.
Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart is another great ray tracing implementation.
You can’t really do a “ray tracing mod”, true ray traced global illumination requires a whole change in the rendering pipeline. The mods are not really going to be able to do this well, so reflections het turned up to the max to compensate. I also dislike the overdone reflections and everything being super shiny with tonnes of visual effects everywhere, I think it’s a poor/cheap stylistic choice, but ray tracing is a lot more than that when implemented properly. I’m waiting for a naughty dog game to utilise the technology, I think that will look amazing.