Spicy take: I hope they dump 2077’s engine and go Unreal.

I recently followed this guide to try and set up “optimized” PT in 2077, and on my lowly RTX 3090 it runs like cold molasses. Not a chance. RT reflections is all I can manage, and it looks… good.

Meanwhile, I’ve also been playing Satisfactory (an Unreal Engine game from a comparatively microscopic studio), and holy moly. Unreal’s dynamic lighting looks scary good. Like, I get light bounces and reflections and everything, and it runs at like quadruple the FPS in a massively complex scene.