Extremely anticipated: Sony is as soon as once more timing the re-release of a Final of Us sport with a season of the favored tv collection. With each arriving subsequent month, the corporate has printed a familiar-looking record of PC options and system specs. Hopefully, The Final of Us Half II Remastered will carry out extra easily at launch than its predecessor.
The PC system necessities for The Final of Us Half II intently resemble these of the primary sport’s PC conversion (and, oddly, Spider-Man 2’s, minus the ray-tracing specs). Nonetheless, the sequel’s storage requirement has elevated considerably to 150 GB from the unique’s 100 GB, possible as a consequence of its considerably longer story mode.
Graphics card necessities stay largely unchanged. To attain 60 frames per second at 1440p, Sony recommends an Nvidia RTX 3070 or an AMD Radeon RX 6800.
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Hopefully, the spec sheet signifies that The Final of Us Half II will not repeat its predecessor’s texture reminiscence points, which notably deprived the 8 GB RTX 3070 in comparison with its 16 GB AMD counterpart. This discrepancy possible explains why the primary sport advisable an RTX 2080 Ti, which performs equally to the 3070 however options 11 GB of VRAM.
The brand new sport’s system specs don’t explicitly point out upscaling, but it surely helps AMD’s FSR 4, which ought to provide considerably improved picture high quality on AMD’s new RX 9000 GPUs in comparison with FSR 3.1. Though DLSS assist formally solely extends to model 3.1, Nvidia customers can possible allow DLSS 4 by the desktop software.
Curiously, The Final of Us Half II additionally has barely decrease CPU necessities than its predecessor. Mid-range Eighth-generation Intel processors or Ryzen 3000 CPUs ought to comfortably deal with 60 fps gameplay. Whereas the sport hasn’t but obtained Steam Deck verification, the earlier entry finally did, and Sony has confirmed optimization of the sequel for handheld PCs.
Adjustable graphical settings embody textures, LOD distance, volumetrics, shadows, ambient occlusion, reflections, and extra. The sport helps ultra-wide side ratios (21:9, 32:9, and 48:9), haptic suggestions for DualSense controllers, and DirectStorage.
Each the PC and PlayStation 5 variations will concurrently obtain 4 new maps for the “No Return” survival mode and two new playable characters – Invoice and Marlene. Though the sport will not require a PlayStation Community login, connecting an account unlocks the PlayStation overlay, trophies, and factors redeemable for in-game skins.
The Final of Us Half II will launch on Steam and the Epic Video games Retailer on April 3 for $49.99. The second season of the TV collection, which covers occasions from the sequel, begins streaming on April 13.
