Shadow Of The Tomb Raider Appears To Be Getting Optimised For Xbox Series X & Series S

Or maybe they are just using the tag as it's optimized with FPS Boost without a resolution drop like some games?

Playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider right now.. with 4K 60FPS a truly next gen experience.. the game looks and plays amazing. I bought the trilogy for €20 a few months ago and I highly recommend picking it up. It is also for €20 on sale right now.

I got the trilogy definitive pack in the last sale. I'll play Shadow again because I couldn't hear a thing last time I played except gunfire and a PS4 Pro fan. It's the same story with RDR2, I'll probably pick that up in the Xbox sale as well since my XSS is super quiet in comparison.

@Ocat
Rise of the Tomb Raider has no FPS Boost.
The high frame rate mode is 1080p 60FPS.

Only Tomb Raider Definitive Edition and Shadow of the Tomb Raider got FPS Boost.

@gollumb82 My friend plays F1 2020 & says it's the only game it's a good thing for 😂
I feel bad for my other half though as she has to play RDR2 with subtitles so I'll get another copy on Xbox.

I noticed the tag last night, but the update hadn't actually installed yet.

My guess is that this version won't have a toggle anymore - it will just run at 60fps. I doubt a 120fps option is in the cards, I am not sure this game would really benefit from it.

Maybe it will natively take advantage of the SSD as well - though this game already loads up pretty darn quickly when installed on the SSD, so it could just be an almost instant load.

Either way, I don't have any objections to having more native X|S games on my system (well, except for maybe space-related reasons).

@gollumb82 @MaseSco It's been so nice playing my PS4 games on a PS5.

Quick story - due to my own stupidity trying to fix a game update that would successfully complete on the PS4 Pro, I ended up wiping out 2 years of save games by doing a total system restore. I had planned to do 1 month of PS+ to backup everything I had to the Cloud in preparation for PS5, but in my frustration of Uncharted 4 not properly updating to latest version (plus distractions from my daughter), I ended up formatting my system. Poof....2 years of games gone.

Silver lining: I am replaying great PS4 titles WITHOUT a PS4 Pro fan drowning everything out - and in 60fps for certain games (God of War, Days Gone).

It also gives me a reason to get the PS5 upgrades - like FF7 Remake. I also plan to get the Death Stranding Director's Cut. Ghost of Tsushima thankfully came AFTER I had already done the wipe.

Unfortunately for Shadow of the Tomb Raider on Xbox, I already played and finished the game. I might boot this up again and go exploring for an hour once the native version drops just to see if it feels any different.

One thing I would recommend is playing this game (and Rise of the Tomb Raider) in Dolby Atmos. Both titles really showcase the capabilities and make the Dolby Atmos for Headphones license purchase worth the money. It was as if these games were designed around Dolby Atmos.

@gollumb82 haha yeah I thought the same about Shadow. It feels a bit like Arkham Origins in that it's pretty good, but the two that came before just knocked them out the park.

I'd have preferred FPS boost for Rise of the Tomb Raider, hopefully it's on it's way

@adamfother1 Me too, but I highly doubt it TBH

@gollumb82 Yeah, the 3D Audio in Cyberpunk was really great. Still, I don't feel like it holds a candle to Rise and Shadow - it's that good.

I use a pair of Plantronic Rig 400 headphones for my Xbox and PS5.

Ray tracing, maybe?

I still have mixed feelings about the TR reboot series. It's basically TR aping Uncharted which aped TR.

@GamingFan4Lyf For some reason my PS4 Pro wasn't UPLOADING my saves. For YEARS. I moved to the PS5 expecting all my saves to download and found half the games were starting new. #ThanksPSN

@gollumb82 "I could still hear the hum of the console with the headphones "

Your definition of "hum" is far more generous than mine.

And don't forget the stress-creaking of the plastic as you played!

I still haven't tried the vaunted "3D audio" on PS5. I plug into an external amp, not the cheap amp on the controller with BT streamed audio. And naturally the "3D audio" doesn't work through external audio, just the cheap controller audio...

XBox has supported Atmos in headphones via external audio since 2017.......

Could be they implement AMD's Fidelity FX Super Resolution. The developers have become known for eagerly adopting new AMD technologies in the past, like TressFX for Lara's hair.

@gollumb82 I'd say Uncharted 5 is a guarantee. They wouldn't be doing Netflix prequels, wouldn't have set the end up to introduce Drake's daughter as a semi-cliffhanger if it weren't the plan. And under Jim Ryan they'll be making sequels to every successful franchise faster than Nintendo can make limited edition cash grabs!

@FraserG Shadow of the Tomb Raider literally just now updated itself to a Series X game.

I think the further optimization done is in relation to the game streaming from the SSD; I have the Definitive Edition and it's halved in size, from around 45GB to 22.6GB.

Uncharted and Tomb Raider are very different games. It's like comparing Mega Man and Metroid.

@gollumb82 I thought I was the only one. I liked Tomb Raider and I loved Rise of the Tomb Raider. I also beat Shadow of the Tomb Raider 100% but it was not as enjoyable. I think that it is because of the claustrophobic and very confusing and dark tombs and also because the story and the characters didn't hook me. Anyway, the trilogy for that price is a must-buy. My favourite is Rise of the Tomb Raider.

@BlueOcean yeah it's a real bargain at that price, Rise is my favourite and I preferred it to Uncharted 4. Actually I've found a few games in that sale so it's gonna be an expensive month and I'll need to get an external hard drive now

@gollumb82 Uncharted is action adventure, while TR is an action RPG. They both have climbing, shooting, and puzzles. Only TR has crafting, upgrades, permanent inventory, meaningful backtracking, exploration for rewards that are more than simply collectibles, skill tree, shops, sub-missions, optional missions, fast travel, gear/equipment that alters stats, etc. They are only similar at the most very basic level.

@gollumb82 Hades, another great game we'll be able to play on Game Pass 😁.

@carlos82 Yep, Uncharted games are interesting as films but not as games, typically Sony. The first Uncharted game is terrible, though. The gameplay and camera of the Tomb Raider games are much better.

@gollumb82 Yep they have. I managed to finish the first Uncharted game but it was quite frustrating even on the remastered collection (I haven't played it on PS3).

The update will likely put it closer to the Steam version that featured ray traced shadows. It was featured on Digital Foundry a while back and it showed how the enhanced shadows and specular lighting from individual candles offered a nice upgrade from the base game.

@gollumb82 I see. I like jungle environments, too 😊.

I don't really like how it looks on my Xbox One X, it's so dark visually compared to Rise of the Tomb Raider. Also, Shadow of the Tomb Raider is one of the first games that I saw with raytracing demos. Hopefully, we'll get proper raytracing with this game. (I'm still waiting for the Tomb Raider 2013 Series X optimized version)