It is a massive 12 months for Dying Gentle; the open-world zombie collection is celebrating its tenth anniversary, and developer Techland is marking the event with a wide range of tasks. That features a newly detailed audio and visible refresh for the collection’ debut instalment, which arrives in a free replace – titled Dying Gentle: Retouched – this Thursday, twenty sixth June.
“Among the finest issues about working with your individual engine is that the folks constructing it are simply subsequent door,” Techland explains on its weblog. “Over the previous couple of years, we have added rather a lot, customised rather a lot, and realized easy methods to squeeze extra from the tech we have already got. At some point, somebody simply began making use of these learnings to some outdated property – and it simply clicked that we might try this throughout the entire recreation.”
As such, gamers can anticipate elevated texture decision and high quality, in addition to improved lighting and physics-based rendering. Techland additionally guarantees a brand new 8K Extremely shadow high quality (“lots of surfaces that beforehand regarded reasonably flat now actually come out and get depth!”, it writes), and there is an elevated most level-of-detail choice for these with {hardware} to assist it, that means Dying Gentle’s most detailed property can now be seen a lot additional away.
So far as audio goes, unique composer Paweł Blaszczak has remastered Dying Gentle’s soundtrack for the replace, whereas new tracks and ambient sounds have been “woven in” all through. That is alongside “severely juiced up… hit response audio in fight”, which is alleged to sound “extra satisfying [and] extra impactful.”
Techland does, nonetheless, take nice pains to emphasize that Dying Gentle’s Retouched replace is all about “enhancements” and is “not a whole overhaul or remaster.” Moreover, the “stage of adjustments” gamers can anticipate will “differ by platform”.
Dying Gentle: Retouched launches Thursday, twenty sixth June for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Collection X/S. Notably absent from that record is the unique Swap, which obtained a powerful port of Dying Gentle again in 2021, and Techland has confirmed to IGN the replace is “not coming” to Nintendo’s platform. Do not anticipate a model of Dying Gentle for Swap 2 both, as Techland says it has “no plans [to release one] at this second.”
As an alternative, it is apparently all-hands-on-deck for the studio’s upcoming 18-hour standalone journey, Dying Gentle: The Beast, which launches for PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X/S, and PC on twenty second August. And there is extra deliberate for the collection past that; Techland beforehand revealed it is engaged on “a number of unannounced tasks” that “transcend video video games”, together with board video games, a webcomic collection, merchandise, and “extra”.
