Warner Bros. simply launched a brand new trailer to inform you how stunning Gotham Knights will probably be in your PC, as if to reassure everybody that this time, it’s getting the PC model proper. Back in 2015, the writer’s PC port of Batman: Arkham Knight was so famously dangerous that it pulled the sport from Steam till it might implement fixes. This time, Warner is making its guarantees in regards to the PC port up entrance. If the trailer’s guarantees maintain up, then you’ll be able to count on to see each particular person pore on Robin’s face.

The new trailer boasts assist for prime framerates, 4K decision, ray-traced reflections, ultra-wide and multi-monitor assist, and all of the graphics customization choices PC gamers count on in a great port. Perhaps essentially the most uncommon callout is for Intel’s brand-new XeSS upscaling, which makes use of machine studying to render at a decrease decision after which (try and) upscale the picture with good high quality, which helps you to hit greater framerates at greater resolutions. In different phrases, it’s Intel’s reply to Nvidia’s DLSS and AMD’s FSR, and it’ll be attention-grabbing to see the way it performs.

Given its next-gen nature, you’re most likely going to wish a fairly good laptop to run this recreation. Unfortunately, Gotham Knights’s system necessities are presently listed as “TBD”, so that you’ll have to attend a bit of longer to seek out out in case your machine is simply too potato to run the sport at a constant framerate.

There might be a great motive why a PC-version hype video is dropping so early. Seven years in the past, the launch model of Arkham Knight on PC had so many efficiency points that Warner Bros pulled the sport from Steam a month after its launch. Players reported stuttering, recreation crashes, and a framerate that capped at 30, similar to the console variations’. Kotaku reported that many of the studio’s improvement assets have been devoted to fixing console points, and Rocksteady prevented utilizing exterior stress-testing corporations with a view to keep away from story leaks.

To add yet another wrinkle, 4 months in the past Warner Bros. introduced that it might be scrapping the PS4 and Xbox One variations of Gotham Knights, each as a result of the older {hardware} couldn’t sustain with the sport’s co-op focus and to pay attention improvement assets completely on the higher-end platforms. The recreation had additionally beforehand been delayed from its launch window of 2021.

Gotham Knights will launch on October 21 for the Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, Steam, and the Epic Games Store.