PC version Wolfenstein: Youngblood will be released on July 25 without RTX support

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/23/2019 11:12 AM | source: tweakers | 24 comment(s)

Bethesda releases the PC version of Wolfenstein: Youngblood on Thursday, one day earlier than planned. However, it will be lacking RTX support with its initial release. Something NVIDIA advertised massively with. Raytracing is to be added later with a patch.

You can expect the game for PC this Thursday Bethesda mentions on Twitter. Wolfenstein makes use of the Vulkan API and would be the first game with that API to get RTX support.

In an earlier interview Jerk Gustafsson, the producer of the game, said that raytracing would not be available when the game comes out. The functionality is added by developers from Nvidia themselves and they are still working hard on that.

It has not been mentioned when the RTX patch for the game will be released. Nvidia is to bundle the game with its RTX cards this the summer. In Wolfenstein: Youngblood, a co-op function is central, but it is also possible to play alone. The game is set in Paris in 1980, twenty years after the events in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. Jess and Soph, the twin daughters of BJ Blazkowicz and Anya play the lead roles. The game comes out for Windows, the PlayStation 4, the Xbox One and the Nintendo Switch.

Minimum specs

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Win7, 8.1, or 10 (64-Bit versions)
Processor: AMD FX-8350/Ryzen 5 1400 or Intel Core i5-3570/i7-3770
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 770 4 GB (Current available GPU GTX1650) or AMD equivalent
Storage: 40 GB available space

Recommended specs

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Win7, 8.1, or 10 64-Bit
Processor: AMD FX-9370/Ryzen 5 1600X or Intel Core i7-4770
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1060 6 GB (Current available GPU RTX 2060) or AMD equivalent
Storage: 40 GB available space

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Undying
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#5693596 Posted on: 07/23/2019 02:17 PM

You should write a poem about it.

If this isn't sarcasm it should be. Nvidia sold cards based on a tech that's in like 4 games at this point. These shouldn't be getting delayed a year out from the cards launch. It's embarrassing.

It was a sarcasm, nice catch. Tomb Raider update was so late that many didnt even think it will come or finished the game already.

Out of those 4 games i would argue only Metro implementation is worthy having an rtx card. It is sad indeed.

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#5693598 Posted on: 07/23/2019 02:26 PM

like already they laugh in internet they are scared of that game, there is no marketing for it, nobody even remembered that crap comes out. maybe next patch instead of rtx will remove those two captain feminazi antifa abominations and politics of game. its easy to do just remove bink movies and anti white comments

Very modern, very feminine and emotional

barbacot
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#5693614 Posted on: 07/23/2019 02:59 PM

Wolfenstein without B.J. is an abomination.
That poetic moment in the reboot when he is waking on the hospital bed and cutting the throat of that soldier mumbling: "Nazi Scum!" - can those two teen girls equal that???

The guy survived a beheading for god's sake but two teen girls finally got the best of him...sad

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#5693616 Posted on: 07/23/2019 03:00 PM

If someone doesn't come up with an easier way to implement ray tracing this RTX thing won't stick if devs have to work this hard to support it.

insp1re2600
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#5693630 Posted on: 07/23/2019 03:26 PM

Or... you could just wait until it gets support. Play the game a bit later

that would be like revisiting wolfenstein 3d in my 30's

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