We're so thrilled to announce the release of a new patch for A Plague Tale: Requiem, bringing a Performance Mode that includes additional options to optimize the graphical performance for you to enjoy Amicia and Hugo's adventure the way you prefer!

Today’s new patch adds options for PC players, allowing them to optimize the game’s graphical performance. The game also received several bug fixes.

• Added options on PC to save CPU usage and gain performance on minimal configurations:

• Adjustment of the number of animated rats displayed on the screen to reduce CPU usage.
  
• Adjusting the refresh rate of the rats on the screen to reduce CPU usage.
  
• Adjust the refresh rate of the characters to reduce CPU usage.

Watch our Accolades Trailer now for a flash of A Plague Tale: Requiem’s achievements and continued efforts to improve the experience!
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• Implemented Ray Tracing in the graphic settings (shadows and ambient occlusion).

• Fixed random crashes or blockers that could happen in some chapters.

Enjoy!

Hey everyone!

A Plague Tale: Requiem has just been showcased at The Game Awards 2022, an annual awards ceremony honoring achievements in the video game industry. We're incredibly thankful to be part of such an amazing event, among so many amazing games!

A Plague Tale: Requiem’s nominations at The Game Awards 2022 are:

• Game of the Year, recognizing a game that delivers the absolute best experience across all creative and technical fields;
  
• Best Action/Adventure, for the best action/adventure game, combining combat with traversal and puzzle solving;
  
• Best Narrative, for outstanding storytelling and narrative development in a game;
  
• Best Score and Music (Olivier Derivière), for outstanding music, inclusive of score, original song and/or licensed soundtrack;
  
• Best Performance (Charlotte McBurney – Amicia), awarded to an individual for voice-over acting, motion and/or performance capture

Thank you so much everyone. You make us so proud.

🤎

A Plague Tale: Requiem has been nominated in no less than five categories for The Game Awards 2022, including the coveted Game of the Year award!

We're thrilled by this exciting chance, which confirms the overwhelmingly positive reception of the game.

Part of the success undeniably goes to the game’s remarkable score, also nominated as Best Music for The Game Awards, composed by Olivier Derivière and featuring world-class performers. They gave an exceptional concert for the occasion of the game’s release, now available to watch on YouTube to celebrate the successful first weeks and nominations for The Game Awards.

https://youtu.be/J6FTmuf-6mY
A Plague Tale: Requiem is an intense emotional journey, powerfully enriched by Olivier Derivière’s poignant compositions. Olivier Derivière is a passionate video games composer and an international star in the field, who won multiple awards and a nomination for the 2017 BAFTA. His degree of implication is rare among video games composers, putting the gameplay at the center of his considerations and even influencing the development through his input.

The outstanding performers who collaborated with Olivier Derivière on the score include Eric-Maria Couturier – a distinguished member of the Ensemble Intercontemporain – and the two-time Grammy Award-winning Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, who lend spellbinding vocals to the compositions.

Get the OST: https://olivierderiviere.bandcamp.com/album/a-plague-tale-requiem

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A Plague Tale: Requiem, is a spectacular, grounded medieval adventure within a violent fantasy world twisted by supernatural forces. It takes you on Amicia and Hugo’s new heartrending journey to overcome a terrible curse, using a variety of weapons, tools and unearthly powers to strike the enemy from the shadows, or unleash hell.

The Steam Awards are an annual event which celebrates the most appreciated games published on Steam during the year. Players can nominate their favourite game in each category during the Autumn Sale.

A Plague Tale: Requiem is an intensely immersive, visually breathtaking and emotionally powerful experience. In short, it’s everything one looks for in a Game of the Year!

The choice is yours! Nominate A Plague Tale: Requiem for Outstanding Story-Rich Game, or in any of the following categories:

• Game of the Year
  
• Best Soundtrack
  
• Outstanding Visual Style

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We don't want to be cheesy 🧀 but these nominations wouldn't have been possible without your support! Thank you for all the love you send our way. It means a lot. 🤎

The Focus Entertainment & Asobo teams

• The game is now compatible with Steam Deck

• Added new graphics options to improve visual and performance customizations (Frame limiter, Resolution optimizer, SSAO, DOF, Screen Space Shadows, Motion Blur)
  
• Improved auto setting graphic profiles to better match PC configurations

• Fixed specular flickering issues with DLSS

Following its launch last week, A Plague Tale: Requiem has already conquered the hearts of many and garnered critical praise, with reviews heralding “a well-written, breathtaking, powerful adventure” as well as “one of the finest adventures around”.

Highly focused on narration, A Plague Tale: Requiem supports powerful emotions with brilliant technical expertise, in-depth historical research and an immense attention to the depiction of human traits. Altogether, the critics noted the game’s "incredible acting, storytelling, and characters" and praised its "awesome story, fantastic graphics".

We're absolutely thrilled by such a vibrant and positive reception, and can’t wait to hear all the thoughts and feelings you will share in the future as you journey through darkness with Amicia and Hugo.

A Plague Tale: Requiem is a heartrending tale, as one critic put it, “a story that will live on in my mind for years”. And we're so proud about it.

Thank you all so much for the love and support you continuously send our way. It means so, so much. 🤎

The heartrending story of Amicia and Hugo De Rune continues. Embark on their next journey and venture south of 14th century France before setting sail to a mysterious island out in the Mediterranean Sea. Brave a terrible fate, looking for the cure to heal Hugo’s illness, and discover the cost of saving those you love in a desperate struggle for survival within a dark, plague-ridden medieval world twisted by otherworldly forces.

This new chapter stays true to the series’ defining sense of history and strong narrative direction and expands gameplay possibilities, granting extra freedom to players within a more open environment. Choose to strike from the shadow or to unleash hell, turning to Amicia’s new resources—including the use of alchemy to manipulate fire and the long-distance power of a crossbow, but also her cunning use of terrain and ability to wrestle out of an enemy’s grasp.

Designed for long-time fans and newcomers alike, A Plague Tale: Requiem brings a whole new level of realism, delivering a sublime visual experience through the bright new Mediterranean setting and the characteristic contrast between light and dark of the series.

CORSAIR's iCUE technology will make you experience an even more intense immersion, reacting to the in-game action on your screen and synchronizing the RGB lighting on all your compatible CORSAIR devices for a setup-wide light show beyond compare.

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