Fact Check: Does Atomic Heart support ray-tracing on PC?

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Atomic Heart, the latest action-adventure title from Focus Interactive and developed by Mundfish, is one of the best-looking games of 2023. Although the game is a cross-generational title, i.e., available on both current-generation and previous-generation consoles, it still looks and feels like a "next-gen" title. This is also true for the game's PC version.

The game was in development for over half a decade, with many players believing the project would be canceled at some point. However, Mundfish powered through the game's development process to deliver Atomic Heart to players. The title has previously been marketed as a title that players can use to showcase the true capabilities of modern consoles and PC hardware.

Being one of the marquee titles constantly featured in Nvidia's graphics showcases, players expected the game to ship with all modern graphical capabilities, including support for upscaling solutions such as Nvidia's DLSS, AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution, Intel XeSS, and ray-tracing. While the game supports DLSS and FSR, it does not feature ray-tracing on PC.

Atomic Heart was featured in many of Nvidia's hardware ray tracing showcases that demonstrated real-time ray-traced reflections and advanced global illumination techniques used in the game. However, the game's release version, on PC and current-generation consoles, does not feature any form of ray tracing and solely relies on screen space reflections to project reflective surfaces.

During the game's half-a-decade-long development, Mundfish has constantly wowed players with the sheer graphical fidelity of Atomic Heart and how it has intelligently used ray tracing to deliver impressive visuals.

The omission of ray tracing in the game's launch version is