Update: Steam pre-load is now live Metro Exodus Digital Game Unlock Times: PC (Steam and Epic) Worldwide - Game will unlock at one fixed time - 00.00 EST on Friday, February 15th - that translates as : US (West Coast) - 21.00 PST, Thursday 14th Feb UK - 05.00 GMT, Friday 15th Feb Europe - 06.00 CET, Friday 15th Feb Russia - 08.00 MSK, Friday 15th Feb Australia - 13.00 AWST, Friday 15th Feb New Zealand - 18.00 NZDT, Friday 15th Feb Metro Exodus launches tomorrow, Friday 15th February! If you've purchased Metro Exodus digitally, your game will be fully up to date and ready to run. All PC reviews were based on 'near-final' code, but 4A Games have continued to work right up to launch, and made some further and significant tweaks since; we have listed these in the notes below. Added more filters for Photo Mode General bug fixes General performance optimisations General balance improvements General polish improvements Improved VO and subtitles timing in all languages PC SPECIFIC UPDATES: Tuned HDR saturation RTX Improvements / Bug Fixing Added DLSS Support Additional HUD removal options (coming soon to console) when playing in Ranger Mode Added Motion Blur options (coming soon to console) ADDITIONAL PC FIXES SINCE REVIEW CODE WAS SENT: Fixed Locking of player input after scene of rescuing Yermak Removed v-sync option from benchmark launcher Tuning and fixes for Atmos audio system Fixed memory corruption in DX12 Fixed crash on launching game on old AMD CPUs Fixed crash after changing of resolution and Shading Rate to 4k/4x on Video cards with 2Gb and less Fixed blurred UI when DLSS is enabled Fixed visual artifacts for RTX high mode Fixed input lock in when patching gas mask during combat Fixed forcing to V-Sync on after alt-tabbing the game running at maximal available resolution for the monitor Fixed crash when pressing ALT + Tab during start videos Fixed forcing of V-SYNC mode if the game resolution is different than the desktop DLSS can be applied in the Benchmark Tuned DLSS sharpness to improve image quality Updated learned data for DLSS to improve image quality with DLSS on @Hilbert Hagedoorn
Downloading the game from EGS as I type this, yes, I'd caved though I'd said I'd not buy the game since they'd moved it to EGS. But I'm weak when it comes to the Metro series. I was expecting slow as molasses download but it isn't too bad, downloading at about 30MB/s....
