Does Dead Island 2 have ray tracing?

With the upcoming launch, many will be wondering if Dead Island 2 has ray tracing.

With our Dead Island 2 review drooling over the mechanics and gameplay of the game, there’s another factor that is also important to consider. While they say never judge a book by its cover, the same doesn’t quite apply for games. How Dead Island 2 looks is incredibly important, and with games such as Elden Ring and Resident Evil 4 Remake benefitting from ray tracing, there’s wonder why people are asking if Dead Island 2 will feature it.

The game looks fantastic, and it somehow manages to do so without any ray tracing. Dead Island 2 doesn’t have ray tracing, at least, not yet.

Will Dead Island 2 ever get ray tracing?

Many games don’t need ray tracing. Realistically, it’s an aesthetic procedure that increases visual fidelity while decreasing performance. More often than not, this isn’t really necessary.

Ray tracing is a graphical procedure used to simulate the appearance of light-rays and shadows in-games. Exclusive to Nvidia’s RTX and AMDs RX graphics cards, it’s quite a taxing procedure, both in terms of performance and financially. Fortunately for Dambusters, the game looks amazing with only the pre-baked lighting so it’s unclear if they’ll decide to fork out for ray-tracing in the future. While we hope they will, we also still believe Dead Island 2 is very good as is.

We’ll be keeping a close eye on this so make sure to watch this space to keep up to date on the news.

Frequently Asked Questions

With such a big release we know many gamers have questions they want answers to. We’ve done our best here to answer the most pressing queries.

Is Dead Island 2 on Steam?

No, Dead Island 2 is hosted by Epic Games Launcher. However, you can access Dead Island 2 on Steam Deck by going through Lutris.

Does Dead Island 2 support 4K?

Yes! Dead Island 2 can reach 4K at 60 fps in Ultra mode.