Blizzard Entertainment has recently added ray tracing technology to the test servers of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. Users immediately started testing it and showing results. Player under the pseudonym Ahabraham posted on Reddit a selection of screenshots with different ray tracing settings. The commentators were not impressed by what they saw. Some people felt that the visual component did not change at all.
As an example, below are screenshots from the Ahabraham selection. One of them shows the highest quality ray tracing technology enabled in WoW: Shadowlands, and the second screenshot was taken without it.
Ray traced
No ray tracing
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Indeed, there is no difference in the published images. Shadow quality and lighting have not changed in any way. The situation is similar with the images shared by the site. Wccftech… Screenshots showing a significant part of different locations look the same, and the result of ray tracing is invisible on them. In World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, ray tracing is only felt in dark rooms where local light sources are present. In such conditions, you can see how the technology improves the realism and quality of the cast shadows.
One of the users on Reddit noted that Blizzard may still only be testing ray tracing with the release of WoW: Shadowlands, which will take place in the fourth quarter of 2020, the situation will improve.
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