There are still areas packed with lots of zombies, but I did notice a thinning out of the horde during normal exploration.
Despite the changes, it's very much Dying Light, as the video above demonstrates.Īnother change I noted is a reduction in overall zombie numbers, but the full extent of this compromise is a little tricky to define. However, depth of field and other post-processing effects are intact and look great on Switch. Once in the open world, it's more noticeable that distant detail and dynamic lights are pared back, producing a pop-in effect much closer to the player. Shadow resolution is significantly lower, shadows on vegetation are gone, texture quality takes a hit on both characters and world textures, while motion blur is absent. Usually, when comparing Switch ports to other more powerful machines, the resulting image is blurry and obviously of a much lower resolution but Dying Light really does compare more favourably than usual.Ĭompromises are inevitable though and here, we're on familiar ground. Naturally, the actual base resolution is lower, often counting around or below 720p in docked mode, but the result is interesting: it looks reasonably close to native when standing still but as you move, you'll notice some image break-up. The idea here is to reconstruct the image over several frames to match the target output resolution: either 1080p in docked or 720p in portable. Techland is using what seems to be a new TAAU feature - temporal anti-aliasing with upscaling. So, first things first - Dying Light for Switch is based on version 1.43 of the original game and brings most of its visual features to the table, along with some changes.
Then there's the whole concept of an open world with granular detail - a test for Switch's memory, CPU and bandwidth, but an environment that simply has to be delivered with quality on a game like this.
Meanwhile, resolution often comes crashing down, to the point where upscaling artefacts and blur can cause problems. To a certain extent, this port bucks the trend - many Switch conversions from the current-gen consoles run at 30fps from source material that ran at 2x frame-rate (an easy way to save on CPU and GPU resources). Dying Light has obvious compromises but the game is content-complete, performance is decent, image quality is better than expected and played in handheld form especially, it's a treat. could this conversion possibly work? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. Bearing in mind its sheer scale and scope, plus the fact that the game targeted 30fps on the much more powerful PS4 and Xbox One, we had to wonder. Last month, developer Techland revealed that its open world survival horror game - Dying Light - would be coming to Nintendo Switch.
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