Atomic Heart Ditches Ray Tracing on PC at the Very Last Minute

Atomic Heart will not feature any ray tracing at launch even on PC, Mundfish confirmed to Wccftech, after years of promised features.

[ZycoFox]

Sounds like purposely gimping a game because of consoles again..

[jeromeface]

no, it sounds like they couldnt get it running under their own performance standards they put out

[CobraKai]

It says “at launch” too. It doesn’t sound like it was nixed completely.

[KeeseToast]

I don't have a problem with developers delaying features, if it means the game comes out in a playable state otherwise, which sadly isn't the norm on PC anymore. I just hope the RT is gonna be as sophisticated as the trailers they've shown.
Plague Tale: Requiem (which is still an amazing game) delayed their RT features only for the RT being fairly minimal and unimpressive. Hope mundfish can do better

[KeeseToast]

I am still really happy they managed to push out a game that looks and runs great on PC on Day1, even without Ray-Tracing. Would have loved to see it ofc, but the cube-maps in the opening sequence also look pretty good.
Only issue I had with the game so far is that sync is broken and has to be activated in the Nvidia control panel, otherwise it has been perfect so far from a technical standpoint.

[antikbaka]

RT is a gimmick, never well implemented one

[BehindTheRows]

Several games have done a fine job of implementing it and it is certainly not a gimmick at all.

[Good-Smurf]

The leaked and cracked older Dev build still have ray tracing options though, some youtubers already did some test on it.
Probably due to stability and performance concerns,I'm pretty sure they would add it back in the retail build in the future with patch updates.
I also already did some basic test myself and it looks glorious but performance are pretty unstable when RT on.