The Final of Us’ debut on PC didn’t essentially go the best way Naughty Canine or Sony would have wished, with an incredibly disastrous launch for The Final of Us Half 1 on the platform, although pleasure is nonetheless excessive for The Final of Us Half 2 Remastered to make its means over to PC. It helps, in fact, that the sport itself is an unabashed masterpiece of stealth, horror, and storytelling, whereas the upcoming Season 2 premiere for the acclaimed HBO adaptation can also be including to the hype.
Forward of the sport’s imminent PC launch, Naughty Canine, together with Iron Galaxy Studios and Nixxes Software program – each of whom are offering improvement help for the upcoming port – just lately launched new particulars on what gamers can anticipate from the sport’s latest launch. Particulars have as such emerged on The Final of Us Half 2 Remastered’s PC-specific options, the tech it’s going to boast underneath the hood, the brand new content material it’s going to convey to the desk, and extra. Right here, we’re going to go over all of that and extra.
TECH AND VISUAL ENHANCEMENTS
Naughty Canine is promising loads of enhancements and platform particular technical options with The Final of Us Half 2 Remastered’s PC launch. For starters, upscaling and body era shall be obtainable via help for DLSS 4 and AMD’s FSR 3.1 and 4. And that received’t be the top of technical and visible enhancements, in fact. Along with native 4K and 3D audio help, the sport may also enable gamers to play with 21:9 extremely large decision and 32:9 tremendous extremely large decision. Assist for 48:9 decision and triple monitor setups can also be confirmed, for many who need to actually go all out. Gamers can moreover additionally anticipate uncapped body charges, body price cap choices, and VSync help.
MORE PC FEATURES
We’re not executed but with The Final of Us Half 2 Remastered’s PC enhancements and tech upgrades, with lots nonetheless left to speak about. As you’d anticipate, graphics choices will enable loads of customizability, and gamers will have the ability to regulate ambient occlusion, texture high quality, reflections high quality, LOD distance vary, shadow high quality, and volumetric high quality, and different issues. Naughty Canine has explicitly mentioned the port has “been developed with options designed particularly for PC,” so that you wouldn’t be blamed for having excessive expectations on this division.
CONTROLS
On PC, The Final of Us Half 2 Remastered will clearly be playable with a DualSense controller, which implies you possibly can anticipate help for the controller’s adaptive triggers, haptic suggestions, and different options, identical to final 12 months’s PS5 launch. On prime of that, as you’d anticipate, full help can also be confirmed for keyboard and mouse controls. Gamers can anticipate totally remappable controls, in addition to main and secondary binding choices. Better of all, the sport may also tout an adaptive mode that may allow you to mix controller and keyboard inputs.
FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS
Past the most important tech options and enhancements that we’ve mentioned to date, The Final of Us Half 2’a PC port may have different, smaller (but nonetheless welcome) enhancements to talk of as effectively. Naughty Canine is promising a bunch of bug fixe, a handful of different high quality of life enhancements, and “numerous enhancements to supply as clean a play expertise as potential”. In the meantime, the developer additionally says the sport may also be suitable with handheld gaming PCs, although Steam Deck verification hasn’t but been formally confirmed. That mentioned, the port’s surprisingly modest PC necessities (which we are going to get to in a bit) will surely counsel that optimization for Valve’s machine shouldn’t be a problem.
NEW NO RETURN CHARACTERS
When The Final of Us Half 2 Remastered, launched final 12 months, it added a significant new mode within the type of the roguelike No Return, which has grow to be one thing of a fan favorite. It’s no shock, then, that with the sport’s upcoming PC launch, Naughty Canine is taking the chance so as to add new No Return content material as effectively. The place its roster of characters is worried, that may imply two new characters to play as, within the type of Invoice and Marlene, each from the primary sport. Invoice can use his smuggling expertise by nabbing shotguns from useless drops and getting double rewards from common drops, and he’ll even be stronger towards melee assaults, although he received’t have dodging skills. Marlene, alternatively, can use a customized assault rifle, new gambits, and extra.
NEW NO RETURN MAPS
Along with new characters, with its PC port, The Final of Us Half 2 Remastered can also be including 4 new maps for gamers to take a look at, every a location from the one participant marketing campaign. There’s Overlook, which, effectively, overlooks town of Seattle, and may have loads of verticality. There’s the fan favorite location Hillcrest, a neighbourhood with a number of dilapidated buildings, overgrown streets, considerable hiding locations, and loads of room for carnage. There’s additionally an deserted elementary faculty, in addition to Neat, a very harmful spot that Abby braves within the marketing campaign.
MINIMUM AND RECOMMENDED REQUIREMENTS
The complete system necessities for The Final of Us Half 2’s PC model have additionally been revealed, and a minimum of on the decrease settings, they’re fairly modest, all issues thought-about. On minimal settings, for example, to run the sport at 720p and 30 FPS, you’ll need both an i3-8100 or a Ryzen 3 1300X, together with both a GeForce GTX 1650 or a Radeon RX 5500XT. In the meantime, on really useful settings, for 1080p and 60 FPS gameplay, you’ll want both an i5-8600 or a Ryzen 5 3600, alongside both a GeForce RTX 3060 or a Radeon RX 5700.
HIGH AND VERY HIGH REQUIREMENTS
For individuals who need to play The Final of Us Half 2 on the upper settings on PC, greater setups may also be obtainable. Excessive necessities will run the sport at 1440p and 60 frames, you’ll require both an i7-9700K or a Ryzen 7 3700X, together with both a GeForce RTX 3070 or a Radeon RX 6800. In the meantime, Very Excessive settings may also be obtainable, working the sport at 4K and 60 FPS, and can want both an i7-11700 or a Ryzen 7 5700X, together with both a GeForce RTX 4080 or a Radeon RX 7900XT. Throughout all settings, you’ll additionally want an SSD and a whopping 150 GB of free storage. Minimal, really useful, and excessive settings may also require 16 GB of RAM, whereas Very Excessive settings will want 32 GB.
PSN NOT REQUIRED
Sony has sadly axed itself within the foot with its final a number of PC releases by making PlayStation Community account linking necessary, however fortunately, the corporate has began strolling again on that controversial name. The Final of Us Half 2 Remastered will nonetheless help the PlayStation overlay and Trophies on PC, however PSN account linking shall be purely non-compulsory this time. Those that do hyperlink their accounts will get some in-game bonuses though- talking of which…
BONUS SKIN
Gamers who hyperlink their PSN accounts whereas enjoying the motion journey remaster on PC will get an unique pores and skin primarily based on Jordan A. Mun, the protagonist of Naughty Canine’s upcoming sci-fi motion journey title, Intergalactic, which was revealed final December. Moreover, account linking may also internet you with 50 bonus in-game factors, which you’ll be able to spend on No Return purchases.
