Today, Guerrilla Games Technical Director Michiel van der Leeuw went in-depth on how the PlayStation 4 Pro will benefit Horizon Zero Dawn when it launches next year on February 28, 2017.
To start, van der Leeuw explained that Horizon Zero Dawn was running on a standard PS4 during the past two E3s and the final release will “look beautiful on PS4,” but it “will look even better on PS4 Pro ? particularly if you own an HDR-compatible 4K TV.”
Thanks to the PS4 Pro’s extra power, Guerrilla is able to “get even closer to our vision for a lush and vibrant living world,” and they can “do some exciting things for Horizon Zero Dawn?s art style.”
If you own a standard 1080p HDTV, van der Leeuw talked about what to expect from Horizon running on a PS4 Pro: For starters, for players who still possess standard 1080p HDTVs, we?re able to offer far better image quality. We?ve got a number of techniques at our disposal. The most logical one is supersampling. This is a very high-quality anti-aliasing technique, which basically means we internally render at a higher resolution (close to 4K) before shrinking it down to the final 1080p resolution. As our internal calculations are done at a resolution much higher than 1080p, more detail survives before we shrink it down to 1080p, resulting in smoother edges ? virtually no jaggies ? and a more stable image.
Guerrilla’s also looking at “enhancing the quality of our shadow ...