Alan Wake 2, the 2023 survival horror sequel from Remedy Entertainment, will be celebrating its first anniversary on October 22 with a free update that introduces several new features, including player invulnerability, infinite ammo, and improved DualSense haptics support for PlayStation players, Remedy has announced. Remedy also shared a deep dive today that can confirm how the Quality and Performance Modes of Alan Wake 2 have been improved for PS5 Pro, with the former enabling a 30 FPS experience that includes ray tracing at 4K. Two comparison videos that show off what the game will look like on PS5 Pro can be found below.
Alan Wake 2 did not feature ray tracing on PlayStation 5, but with the Pro’s improved ray tracing features and additional power, we could bring ray tracing to Alan Wake 2’s Quality Mode on the Pro enabling ray traced reflections on opaque and transparent surfaces. Visually, Alan Wake 2 contains beautifully crafted scenes and lighting setups that can benefit from ray tracing. Ray traced reflections allow dynamic indirect lighting to be brought in from the surrounding scene. They are not limited to using information only from the main camera view shading or coarse and static signed distance fields like our screen space techniques.