After analyzing the console versions of The Outer Worlds 2, experts from Digital Foundry tested the game on PC.
As the research showed, the Lumen system in Unreal Engine 5 still causes serious problems for Obsidian. The game exhibits significant noise in shadows when hardware ray tracing is enabled, which is reminiscent of the situation with Avowed. This effect is especially noticeable at the 1:47 mark in the published video.
With "very high" settings and active hardware ray tracing, the image sometimes looks worse than on "high" settings, which experts called absurd and requiring an urgent patch to fix the shadows.
Digital Foundry also warns that the game is extremely demanding on hardware at maximum graphics settings. Specialists advise using medium-high settings to maintain a stable frame rate. Their optimal settings are shown at 8:20 in the video.
The editors also remind that a previous comparison of console versions revealed similar graphics issues on PS5 and PS5 Pro.
