Shadow of the Tomb Raider gets 4K and 60fps update on PS5 - stewartlethemstes

Dwarf of the Tomb Raider gets 4K support and 60fps update on PS5

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Surprise! Shadow of the Grave Raider's latest update, entitled Update 2.01, which was deployed earlier this week, brings 4K resolution and 60fps connected PS5.

Though not formally proclaimed by developer Eidos nor publishing house Square Enix, the bandage introduces "support for 4K at high frame-rate on PlayStation 5 in high-resolution way".

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There's good news program on the horizon for Xbox players, too. Accordant to the eagle-sharp-eyed Lara fans on Reddit, it looks like the secret plan – which was earlier released for death generation tech back in 2018 – has been newly tagged on the constituted store as now "optimized for Xbox Series X/S".

Apparently, this is to boot to, and separate from, the Xbox "FPS boost" upgrade which had already improved the framerate on a graze of back-compat games vertebral column in May, including Shadow of the Tomb Despoiler.

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Spell it's uncertain what this may ungenerous in practice for the legal action-adventure game, OP thiccadam hypothesizes that "it seems they're prepping the patch for this hebdomad", as Microsoft "updated the Series X optimisation tag a few days earlier the patch for A Plague Tale: Sinlessness too. I redownloaded and it's currently non optimized thus far, I would assume punter lighting and maybe some shaft tracing though" (thanks, Eurogamer).

Atomic number 3 for the movies? Future Tomb Looter games will reportedly be set after the 90s classics, and leave "unify" the original story with the 2013 reboot trilogy.

In a TV at the start of the class that announced the franchise's 25th-anniversary celebrations, plot director Will Kerslake explained that "[Crystal Dynamics'] origin trilogy back in 2013 told the story of Lara's early years [...] while the standard games faced a seasoned and confident explorer, traveling the world, unlocking its secrets, often standing alone against cataclysmic forces".

"We foresee the future of Tomb Raider unfolding afterwards these established adventures, telling stories that build upon the breadth of both Core Design and Crystal Dynamics' games, working to unify these timelines," Kerslake teased.

ICYMI, back in Jan Netflix announced a Grave Raider Zanzibar copal series that'll take place after the events of Tail of the Grave Raider. There's also the sequel to the 2018 film, which late brought on Lovecraft County's Misha Green as writer and director after Ben Phillis Wheatley departed the project.

For a complete list of all the some other games that are available on Sony's next-gen console through the backbone-compat feature, capitulum over to our PS5 backward compatibility guide for more.

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