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[Hollowpoint5557]

Seriously, can you imagine sleeping on this giant? It's been almost a full year since these systems released, where is my upgraded ray-traced Minecraft? Has any word leaked out about what the hold up is? They teased an upgraded Minecraft build YEARS ago.

 

[Beechos]

I remember reading at some point it was scrapped. This was the version that was shown during the xbox one x reveal with all the fancy lighting.

 

[Punished Miku]

Its in the same place as Crystal Pepsi.

Sometimes you just leave the shit alone I guess.

 

[STARSBarry]

I heard production ran into a few miner issues.

 

[Thanati]

I heard production ran into a few miner issues.

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

I heard production ran into a few miner issues.

Can you dig on the matter ?

 

[ZehDon]

I remember reading at some point it was scrapped. This was the version that was shown during the xbox one x reveal with all the fancy lighting.

That was the Super Duper Graphics Pack. And that was indeed cancelled, but in 2019. The Path Traced Minecraft shown off during the Xbox Series X demoes was a different beast entirely. We've had no word on it since the Xbox Series X launch.

 

[StateofMajora]

I want ray traced atari et, myself.

 

[Fredrik]

I guess they’re waiting for the sales to slow down on the original first, should happen any day now, it’s at 230+ million, how much longer can it take until all gamers have it?

 

[nikolino840]

I guess they’re waiting for the sales to slow down on the original first, should happen any day now, it’s at 230+ million, how much longer can it take until all gamers have it?

Everyday there's a new 10 years old kid that ask parents to buy minecraft.....
Maybe need more people like me that f### every 8 years like Spock

 

[Fredrik]

Everyday there's a new 10 years old kid that ask parents to buy minecraft.....
Maybe need more people like me that f### every 8 years like Spock

Lol yeah you’re right this train might never stop moving. It’s kinda wild if you do some match on it. If you split up the total it has sold 20 million per year, 1.7 million per month.

 

[Greirat]

The "upgraded" ray-traced version looked worse, in my opinion. Adding a bunch of shiny effects on top just ruins the beauty of the game.

 

[Fahdis]

I guess they’re waiting for the sales to slow down on the original first, should happen any day now, it’s at 230+ million, how much longer can it take until all gamers have it?

Which reminds me. I'll be buying it soon.

 

[Godot25]

Minecraft does not need next-gen patch. It transcends generations /s

 

[Esppiral]

I have no interest I Minecraft whatsoever, but I was really looking forward to the RT version....

 

[Bragr]

It has an official ray-traced version on PC, I've been playing it and it looks great, but the view distance is tiny, I usually revert back to standard. It does look good though, but I can understand why it was scrapped on Xbox, it's just too damn resource-heavy to get a good version of Minecraft going on the consoles.

 

[Sophist]

it's here

Minecraft with RTX Now Officially Available For All Windows 10 Players

Ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS are now part of the official Minecraft Windows 10 Bedrock client, enabling full cross-platform compatibility, multiplayer support, and all the other features of Minecraft you know and love.

www.nvidia.com

 

[DeltaPolarBear]

Minecraft is ironically so resource intensive that any visual improvement would tax the strongest computers a gamer can realistically buy.

Basically the game is already pushing the limits of what hardware is able to do, due to the scope of the game. Them raising the height limits doesn't help things.

 

[bad guy]

You must wait till your console hardware is outdated before you get an acceptable choice of games that take advantage of the hardware.

 

[Hendrick's]

It’s on PC

 

[Bragr]

it's here

Minecraft with RTX Now Officially Available For All Windows 10 Players

Ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS are now part of the official Minecraft Windows 10 Bedrock client, enabling full cross-platform compatibility, multiplayer support, and all the other features of Minecraft you know and love.

www.nvidia.com

These are the worlds I have been playing, it's pre-built worlds, you can't generate your own for some reason, and as I mentioned earlier, the view distance and options are limited to make it actually playable.

It feels like some controlled beta thing, if you played normal Minecraft a lot, it feels very stinted and restrictive, even if it looks great.

The problem is, I would think, that when you expand the view distance, the amount of light calculation becomes absurd and it will lag even heavy-duty computers. I would guess that this is the issue with ray-tracing on consoles too, the games aren't built ground-up with ray-tracing in mind, and it becomes hard to force it into the game later, so you end up with these half-ass ray-tracing modes. Like Cyberpunk, for example, it looks good with ray-tracing, but it's nowhere NEAR as cool as you would expect, and I would imagine a lot of that is because if they boost it to maximum, it would crash the game. At least that is my presumption with no understanding of ray-tracing at all.

 

[cash_longfellow]

Its in the same place as Crystal Pepsi.

Sometimes you just leave the shit alone I guess.

They brought Crystal Pepsi back for a minute a couple years ago…then they rightfully put it back where it belongs

 

[ReBurn]

Minecraft does not need next-gen patch. It transcends generations /s

Considering it was created as a PC game the statement is actually true and needs no /s.

 

[Paasei]

Will it be rounded instead of squared?

 

[Stitch]

These are the worlds I have been playing, it's pre-built worlds, you can't generate your own for some reason

you can, it's just that they don't give players a resource pack for their own worlds for some weird reason

install and activate this one and you can create your own RTX worlds

https://mcpedl.com/kellys-minecraft-vanilla-rtx-conversion-pack/

there are other ones but this one is recommended a lot

 

[Mars2003]

Had a look back at the trailer for the cancelled super duper graphics pack and I think it looked great. I would've thought the X/S would've been able to handle it and they could've put it out as a stopgap until DXR version was ready.
That path traced XSX version we saw a year ago looked pretty done to me, I'm surprised we've not seen it yet and more surprised there's been nothing said ever since.

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

The idea of pretting up Minecraft graphics is weird to me with the art style it uses

 

[Kacho]

I think it’s a combination of incapable hardware and Mojang is slow with updates.

 

[Tarin02543]

I've been thinking about Minecraft next gen.

The only logical upgrade would be smaller blocks so more detail.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

RTX Minecraft looks pretty incredible. My 8-year-old was astounded playing some of the rtx maps.

 

[Dee Dah Dave]

Yeah I think the super duper graphics pack was better overall than the ray traced version. Shame that neither has seen the light of day as of yet.

The raytraced one seems a bit pointless if it cant lock at 60fps at decent rez and draw distance etc. Maybe that's why it hasn't arrived. The raytracing capability of these new consoles ain't that great.

But yes, bring back the super duper pack for next gen consoles only please uncle phil.

 

[skit_data]

It’s wierd because DF said they saw Minecraft running with RT on a Series X console several months before the consoles even launched