Sony has confirmed The Last of Us Half II Remastered PC specs forward of its April 3 launch date, PSN sign-in incentives, and introduced new content material coming to No Return Mode throughout PC and PlayStation 5.
In a submit on the PlayStation Blog, developer Naughty Canine listed the options that assist studios Nixxes Software program and Iron Galaxy helped deliver to the PC model of The Last of Us Half II Remastered, which arrives a yr after the PlayStation 5 model.
The Last of Us Half II Remastered PC options:
- Nvidia DLSS 3 Tremendous Decision assist
- AMD FSR 3.1 and AMD FSR 4 assist with upscaling and body era
- VSync and framerate cap choices, together with an uncapped framerate possibility
- DirectStorage assist
- Adjustable Texture High quality
- LOD Distance Vary
- Volumetric High quality
- Shadow High quality
- Ambient Occlusion
- Reflections High quality
There’s additionally assist for Ultrawide screens, so you possibly can play in 21:9 ultra-wide, 32:9 tremendous ultra-wide, and even 48:9 resolutions with compatibility for triple-monitor setups.
As you’d anticipate, you possibly can play in 4K decision, with varied supported controllers as effectively as keyboard and mouse controls. There’s 3D audio, too.
Keyboard and mouse management assist consists of new management customization choices, together with full management remapping, major and secondary bindings for keyboard and mouse management, and an adaptive mode that permits gamers to mix keyboard and controller inputs. There’s full gamepad assist, whereas DualSense controllers characteristic full haptic suggestions.
“The Last of Us Half II Remastered on PC presents a variety of graphics settings and presets, to guarantee the very best expertise on {hardware} starting from high-end PCs to handheld gaming units,” Sony stated.
The Last of Us Half 2 PC specs:
Shifting on to No Return mode, two new characters are being added: The Last of Us Half I’s Invoice and Marlene.
Right here’s the official blurb from Sony:
Like with every No Return combatant, these characters provide their very own distinctive playstyles, and may provide each new and returning followers an thrilling new alternative to check their mettle. Invoice is a “Smuggler” playstyle who can entry a customized pump shotgun from useless drops, and receives double rewards from drops as effectively. He’s stronger in opposition to melee assaults however can’t dodge. Marlene, in the meantime, incorporates a “Danger Taker” playstyle that features a Customized Assault Rifle, “All or Nothing” gambits, can reroute her No Return path as soon as per run, and extra.
4 new maps are coming to No Return, too.
Overlook, which is about excessive above the town of Seattle and options a lot of verticality, is the memorable website of a Seraphites encounter within the marketing campaign. College is, through the marketing campaign, the deserted elementary faculty wherein Ellie and Dina face off in opposition to the W.L.F. Streets is about within the overgrown Seattle neighborhood of Hillcrest, whereas Nest will likely be acquainted to gamers who’ve performed as Abby by way of an Contaminated-infested constructing. We’ve been so overjoyed in regards to the response to this mode since Half II Remastered debuted on PS5 final yr, and we hope these new maps additional provide extra variability and thrills as gamers deal with new runs.
All the brand new No Return content material, plus accompanying new Trophies and extra bug fixes, will likely be out there on PS5 day-and-date with the PC launch through a free downloadable 2.0.0 patch, Sony added.
Consistent with Sony’s latest PlayStation Community requirement U-turn, The Last of Us 2 Remastered on PC has an non-obligatory PSN log-in. However should you do log in to PSN, you get PlayStation overlay and PSN Trophies. As an additional incentive, Sony stated those that check in with their PSN account additionally get entry to 50 in-game factors to activate bonus options, as effectively as a brand new pores and skin for Ellie that includes Jordan A. Mun’s jacket from Naughty Canine’s new PS5 sport, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.
PS5 gamers may also give you the option to unlock the Jordan’s jacket pores and skin, Sony clarified. It’s included within the 2.0 patch and unlockable through in-game bonus factors.
Earlier this month, The Last of Us director Neil Druckmann shared extra particulars about Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. In an interview with Alex Garland, the author of zombie film 28 Days Later, Druckmann talked candidly in regards to the improvement course of, confirming Intergalactic has been within the works for 4 years.
“I joke about this with the workforce. We made a sport, The Last of Us 2, we made sure inventive selections that received us so much of hate. Lots of individuals adore it, however so much of individuals hate that sport,” Druckmann stated, to which Garland joked: “Who provides a shit?”
“Precisely,” Druckmann added. “However the joke is like, you understand what, let’s do one thing that folks will not care as a lot about — let’s make a sport about religion and faith.”
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, which stars Tati Gabrielle as Jordan A. Mun, takes place in an alternate historic timeline and incorporates a “fairly distinguished faith” that has “modified and bastardized and developed” over time, Druckmann stated.
The PC model of The Last of Us 2 Remastered arrives forward of Season 2 of HBO’s hit TV adaptation. Showrunners Druckmann and Craig Mazin have confirmed “spores are again” following their omission from Season 1.
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