The latest update of MechWarrior 5: Mercenary has officially added ray-tracing effects for lighting and shadows. If you have the right hardware, you will be able to see much more realistic lighting thanks to the use of this technology.
The patch, which updates Mercenaries to version 1.0.233, includes several options for users of Nvidia RTX graphics. Not only can you enable ray tracing, but you can also use DLSS 2.0 and adjust the quality of shadows and reflections. DLSS 2.0 can be optimized for quality and performance or achieve a balance between the two.
This patch also includes updates for the game editor. This part of the patch is mainly aimed at modders and fixes errors caused by loading mods in the editor. The community had found a way around this problem, but with the new patch this problem should no longer exist.
Since the implementation of the patch, Piranha has also released a hotfix to fix a bug that caused some players to experience a DirectX 12 error during the initial installation. This should no longer be a problem, so you can install it with confidence.