Valor Mortis System Requirements Significantly Reduced Ahead of Launch

This article was first published on the Gamefa website. System requirements for Valor Mortis, an engaging first-person shooter with soulslike elements, appear to have been significantly lowered ahead of its launch, with the minimum processor and graphics card requirements for the PC version reduced. Previously, the game's page stated

It seems that the attractive game Valor Mortis, made in the style of a first-person shooter and Souls-like, has reduced the system requirements of its PC version and lowered its minimum processor and graphics card requirements.

Previously, the game's Steam page listed very powerful and high-end hardware. Around the time of the game's final demo release in June, Valor Mortis required an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X or Intel Core i7-11700 processor as a minimum CPU and an AMD Radeon RX 6700 or Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super graphics card as a minimum. Currently, on this page, the options of Ryzen 5 3600 or Core i5-10600K for the processor and RX 5600 XT or GTX 1660 Ti for the graphics card are visible; A change that makes it far more economical and affordable for players to enter the plague-ridden battlefields of Napoleonic Europe.

This is a very good thing, even if the size required for SSD memory has increased slightly from 50 to 60 GB. However, there are some noteworthy points. First, One More Level Studio has not yet officially announced this reduction in system requirements anywhere, and requests to confirm this have gone unanswered. This suggests that these specifications may not be the final system requirements; However, placing temporary information so close to the release time would be very strange and far from expected.

The author of Rock Paper Shotgun writes about his personal experience:

I didn't have any of the minimum graphics cards listed, so I used a GTX 1070 for my review. At 1080p and Low settings, the game still needs the help of image enhancement technologies to run more or less smoothly: with the TSR technology set to 67%, this 10-year-old Nvidia graphics card often fluctuated between 40 and 50 frames per second, and in a challenging section in an open environment, it averaged 41 frames. It's not abysmal performance, but I did experience some of the same issues and frame drops that I experienced when testing the newer RTX 4060 graphics card for the game review. So, if you're really looking for super-smooth performance, you'll probably need a more stable source of video memory.