Horizon Zero Dawn’s PS4 Pro Enhancements, New High Res Screenshots
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Horizon Zero Dawn’s PS4 Pro Enhancements, New High Res Screenshots

On Sony’s Playstation Blog, Horizon Zero Dawn developer Guerilla Games has detailed some of the enhancements the game is receiving for the PS4 Pro, when the PS exclusive Action RPG releases on February 28th. The PS4 Pro, the Playstation family’s new high end entry to the 4K market, releases next week, November 10th. Here’s what players have to look forward to next year.

Horizon Zero Dawn PS4 Pro Enhancements

  • Better image quality for 1080p TV owners including supersampling: This is a very high-quality anti-aliasing technique, which internally renders at a higher resolution (close to 4K) before shrinking it down to the final 1080p resolution. More detail survives before the image is shrunk down to 1080p, resulting in smoother edges, virtually no jaggies and a more stable image.
  • Enhanced quality of shadow maps and increased quality of anisotropic filtering: This is a technique which increases the quality of texture sampling, resulting in more detailed environment textures.
  • Full support of users with 4K TVs, outputting at a much higher resolution: The game is being rendered on a 2160p checkerboard, which is a special technique that brings forward many subtle details, from stitching on Aloy’s outfit, individual leaves and branches swaying in the wind, kilometers away in the distance, and more detail in all the machines and NPCs in the world.
  • High dynamic range (HDR) support: a brand-new feature that enhances the range of colors we can display. This is a new feature for most, and it will ensures a high degree of color fidelity that normally gets lost in the conversion process. According to Guerrilla, “The only thing that you can compare HDR with is reality.”

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For those players in the market for the 4K experience including the PS4 Pro, hearing specifics is good. While several developers have announced 4K support for their games, it’s still a mystery as to what extent these games will use the new hardware in development. Guerrilla went on to share some high res shots of the game. Check out the gallery below:

Thoughts on the next wave of hardware coming through and the games that will feature for them, such as Horizon Zero Dawn and Final Fantasy XV? Let us know in the comments.


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9 responses to “Horizon Zero Dawn’s PS4 Pro Enhancements, New High Res Screenshots”


  1. Bump for forum visibility as these articles are falling off the front page before others see it.

  2. What it looks like to me is an RPG that doesn’t take itself too seriously and focuses on the combat and exploration and Guerrilla has been very up front about not hitting you over the head with a massive character sheet to manage. They really never made a bad Killzone game, so although this is a genre departure for them, with the creative attention the studio is known for I have a hard time thinking that this game will be anything but really good.

  3. Lol Skare. Well this game is going to support both, so it might be time to live out that dream of moonlighting as a dancer.

  4. Dammit…still haven’t found enough money for a PSVR and here they are trying to give me good reasons to upgrade my PS4?

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