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The Blood of Dawnwalker's final system requirements include upscaling set to Balanced—so unsurprisingly, they're lower
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Squinting at the new The Blood of Dawnwalker system requirements this morning before my second cup of coffee, my bleary eyes registered that the listed GPUs are often significantly less powerful than the previous recommended specs.
As my tired eyeballs came into focus, though, it became clear why: upscaling, of course. Rebel Wolves has taken into account the modern inventions of DLSS, FSR, and XeSS in its final specs sheet. A reply to the X thread from the official account reveals that the new specs are based on Balanced upscaling settings, which would account for some of the drops.
Why the Balanced setting wasn't clearly stated on the specs image and left for a thread reply to clear up is beyond me. Anyway, for 1080p 30 fps gameplay, Rebel Wolves now recommends an Intel Core i5 11400F or AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, alongside 16 GB of RAM and an Nvidia GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580.
For 1080p Medium settings at 60 fps, you're looking at an RTX 2060 Super, a GTX 1070 Ti, an RX 5700, or the Intel Arc A750, along with significantly chonkier CPUs.
For 1440p High settings, the specs jump significantly to an Intel Core i7 11700K or AMD Ryzen 7 5700X, and an RTX 4060, RX 7600 XT, or Intel Arc B580. Those are some fairly quick processors, although the graphics card requirements are still pretty light.
Nvidia RTX 2060 Super / GTX 1070 Ti / AMD RX 5700 / Intel Arc A750
It's also worth noting that when recommended spec sheets include upscaling across the range, it's often set to Quality rather than Balanced. Still, the biggest change comes in the form of the 4K specs.
Previously, Rebel Wolves claimed you'd need an RTX 5090 (!) for 60 fps gameplay at 4K Ultra settings, but many vampiric moons have passed since then. Now, presumably thanks to the fairly hefty dose of upscaling, the GPU requirements have dropped to an RTX 4070 Ti or RX 9070.
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