Guerrilla Is Working On A 40fps Mode For Horizon Forbidden West

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Horizon Forbidden West is one of PlayStation's biggest titles, and although Elden Ring stole much of its thunder since they both released in February, Guerrilla's epic action RPG was a much anticipated follow-up to the best-selling Horizon Zero Dawn.

Guerrilla hasn't rested on its laurels since this sequel launched either, and has added many patches and updates to its flagship game. This includes the likes of NG+ and Ultra Hard difficulty mode and numerous glitch fixes. But a recent patch was even more substantial since it altered the 60fps performance mode. Tech analysts Digital Foundry even said the upgraded performance is now "the best way to play" the game.

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To summarise, Patch 1.16 for Horizon Forbidden West significantly improves the visual fidelity of the 60fps performance mode making textures sharper and reducing pop-in and ensuring more assets are in the picture at any one time. Since Horizon Forbidden West's movement and combat is pretty important the improved smoothness offered by 60fps was significant but the loss in visual fidelity was something of too much of a compromise. With this patch this is now much better.

Senior principal tech programmer Giliam de Carpentier at Guerrilla revealed how he and his team haven't been idle: "The team also spent a lot of time post-release looking at how we could squeeze more performance out of the PS5, especially around the dynamic resolution system, to give us headroom to improve both quality and effective resolution and prepare the way for this update as well" (via Eurogamer).

But a future update could offer an even better compromise between the optimum visual fidelity offered by the resolution