We're a little late in publishing this one - it should have gone up last week, but Gamescom got in the way! Still, ray tracing? In Doom 2? Sounds like a bad ...
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Raytracing/pathtracing gets a bad rap imo. It’s a really cool effect that, while costly, improves the scene dramatically. Really wish more companies were pushing it, because now that Nvidia has moved on to “AI” I’m worried that it’ll die out a bit.

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Really wish more companies were pushing it

Most AAA companies are, but raytracing is super taxing on the hardware that they’re only viable for high-end computers. See: Cyberpunk, Alan Wake 2, Black Myth Wukong

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