ARC Raiders PS5 Pro Enhancements and Improvement Revealed

ARC Raiders is launching later this month, and for all PS5 Pro players out there, there’s some good news: the game will come with PS5 Pro enhancements. PS5 Pro players can expect the game to run at higher quality graphical settings, including an increase in dynamic resolution.

Unfortunately, it looks like the dynamic range of the resolution can be as low as 720p on both platforms.

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ARC Raiders Will Run on Epic Settings for PS5 Pro Players

While we’re unsure if ARC Raiders is going to be offering any additional performance and quality modes (120Hz, VRR enabled, or even 30 FPS for you multiplayer sickos out there), we do know now what kind of PS5 Pro enhancements we can expect come launch.

Embark Studios revealed this on the game’s official Discord channel, where they detailed the differences between the PS5 and PS5 Pro versions.

• PS5: Scalability settings – High Quality; Dynamic Resolution range – 720p-1600p
• PS5 Pro: Scalability settings – Epic Quality; Dynamic Resolution range – 720p-2160p
  • Scalability settings affect rendering quality in aspects such as Global Illumination, Shadows, Reflections, Post Processing, Texture resolution and filtering, VFX, View Distance, etc.

It may not be much, nor does it reveal the framerate (assuming it’s 60 fps), but it does indicate that the general graphical settings will differ, with the PS5 (base) targeting high settings and the PS5 Pro aiming for epic settings. That should mean better textures, reflections, lighting, and all the other stuff they listed, while also achieving a higher dynamic resolution over the base model.

I’m not too excited about knowing that the resolution can drop as low as 720p. I would have been more fine with 1080p as the baseline, but let’s hope that those drops are reserved for more minor instances rather than the norm. With the game using Unreal Engine 5, I suppose we shouldn’t be too surprised by that, but let’s also hope that Embark has managed to deliver a stable framerate at the expense of the picture quality.

I guess we’ll all find out when the game launches on October 31, for the PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. As a reminder, pre-orders are now live, and a server slam playtest is also scheduled for October 17.

In related news, Embark announced a price reduction for ARC Raiders in some countries, which is surprising to see.

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