Anyone who owns a Steam copy of The Astronauts’ supernatural first-person mystery The Vanishing of Ethan Carter may want to update the game.
The developer has released a free Redux version of the cult hit, completely updating it from Unreal Engine 3 to Unreal Engine 4, improving its general performance and graphics, and adding a number of new features.
There aren’t any new missions or story scenes in the new Redux version – which the developer points out is not an official title, and won’t appear anywhere in the game’s Steam listing – but there is a new autosave system, improved area transition, and reduced backtracking in the final stages of game.
Most of the graphical upgrades are small tweaks here and there, but the update does offer enhanced resolution scaling.
“The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux features something called Resolution Scale,” the team writes. “Most people will want to leave it at 100%. Those with minimum specs might want to lower it to e.g. 70%. Those with powerful hardware can go e.g. 200%: the game will render internally at twice the current resolution and nicely scale down the image to display it at the current resolution. Such technique produces an image of higher quality than most anti-aliasing solutions. Or, as our graphics programmer insists, “as an alternative to anti-aliasing, such technique produces the extra pixels to help reduce jagged edges.”
You can find all the details regarding the Redux update here. Bear in mind that it’s designed with 64-bit systems in mind.
