Global Illumination not working after 0.2.0h

Same issue here (Base PS5). The first thing I noticed when testing the new patch was that the game looked visibly "worse," with a noticeable drop in visual quality. At first, I thought it was just related to lightning skills — which I've always admired for their visuals — but it soon became clear that the issue is with the game's global lighting.

Because of that, I believe this is just a bug. I really hope it gets fixed soon, as proper lighting makes a huge difference and the game looks much better when it's working correctly.

Lightning skill effects before the patch



Lightning skill effects after the patch



Sorry for the poor image quality — I had to record and take screenshots from the video, which affected the clarity — but the lighting difference, especially in the lightning effects, is still very noticeable.

I brought up this issue after the patch has been deployed in this post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1kn5hgr/visual_downgrade_post_020h_patch/

It is not only the GLOBAL ILLUMINATION, the quality of the graphics and the resolution got hit badly.

The game looks like a game from early ps4 era after the patch. Yesterday, i did the hive map, i was shocked at how bad it looks! It was stunning before.

The game needs a massive work in the technical department. It is extremely and poorly optimised.

I am switching to another game for now untill they fix the graphics on ps5 pro. I bought the pro for this game 😂 and it looks really bad on it now. Hopefully, they will hotfix the game soon or revert it back to prior the patch.

Man, early access on PS5 is going pretty rough. Lots of unresolved issues while new ones are pilling up :/

Is it fixed?

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Tomo#8039 schrieb:

Is it fixed?

No, there hasn't been an update for PS5 yet. Will hopefully be fixed this coming week, but more likely next patch (0.2.0i probably).

Yup, same here. Lightning spear looks so much worse after 0.2h - was wondering if that was just a reduction in gfx after the patch or intended

Same here. I'm not playing it since the patch and I was playing it every day before. It looks horrible. I'm on PS5 Pro

Really surprised that we have not seen a fix yet from GGG. The visuals on PS5 are bad enough that the game is borderline unplayable compared to previous state. Hopefully it is fixed very soon.