How EA Sports WRC brings realism to rally driving on PS5– out Nov 3
blog.playstation.comHi – I’m Jon Armstrong, rally driver and games designer here at Codemasters. I’ve got some news to share. Today, I want to talk about using the power of Playstation 5 to give you the most immersive experience in EA Sports WRC, launching November 3.
Q: How does EA Sports WRC leverage the power and capabilities of the PS5 to enhance the realism of the rally racing experience?
A: We have leveraged the capabilities of the PlayStation 5 to enhance EA Sports WRC in multiple ways. Firstly, we take advantage of the SSD to significantly reduce loading times, allowing players to jump into the action swiftly. Additionally, the DualSense wireless controller of the PlayStation 5 enables players to truly feel the car’s movements, providing an enhanced sense of control and a deeper connection to the driving experience.
Q: Can you provide examples of how the game takes advantage of the PS5’s hardware, such as ray tracing, to create more immersive and visually stunning environments?
The PS5’s powerful GPU enables us to create complex shaders which layer together many different materials to a level we’ve not been able to achieve before, simulating varied and detailed surfaces throughout the environments, with tiled textures efficiently streamed on demand thanks to the PS5’s high speed drive.
With the correct set up, the PlayStation 5 specific depth buffer optimisations enable us to handle foliage far more efficiently than before, something that is crucial throughout all of our environments to help achieve that constant sixty frames-per-second. We’re now able to render really long dust trails which enhance the realism and create some spectacular scenes – great for photo-mode!
Q: How does the game utilize the PS5’s DualSense controller
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