The creators of a preferred Darkish Souls 2 lighting mod are experimenting with path tracing and, oh boy, it now not appears to be like like an Xbox 360 sport

Darkish Souls 2 is the second-best Darkish Souls sport and that is pretty uncontroversial. But it surely’s additionally famously essentially the most ugly. Chief among the many complaints individuals have about Darkish Souls 2, is that the sport’s authentic lighting engine—the one FromSoftware went to nice lengths to point out off again in 2013—was completely absent within the ultimate sport.

In pre-release footage, Darkish Souls 2’s lighting at all times appeared a tad formidable for a seventh-gen console sport. It was meant to be an essential side of gameplay, necessitating using torches in darkish areas, whose fireplace would forged dynamic shadows and reflections. When the sport really launched on consoles it appeared flat, murky, and torches had been by no means a necessity. It was kinda comparable even when it hit PC with the Scholar of the First Sin version, so for these searching for one thing extra akin to that pre-release footage, the DS2Lighting Engine Mod has been a go-to.

Now the workforce answerable for that mod is experimenting with path tracing and the outcomes are fairly phenomenal. Try this footage from the Shaded Woods:

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The Shaded Woods might be one of many ugliest areas from the unique sport (you possibly can take a look at bits of it on this video), although some would argue Earthen Peak deserves that distinction. I am not being opposite once I say that there is one thing kinda charming about Darkish Souls 2’s utilitarian ugliness, particularly in hindsight, however path traced Shaded Woods is so richly atmospheric that it is potential to say it is fairly with out kinda mendacity about it.

The trail tracing applies to every little thing, together with spells, and there are another movies doing the rounds additionally. Verify them out under:

DarkLurker – DS2LE Pathtracing – YouTube

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DS2LE-PathTracing Sinh V2. – YouTube

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