In recent times, more and more publishers have been offering advanced access to their games – allowing those who pay extra to play the game a few days early. Just as we saw with Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, launching early can come with its own issues. In the case of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, those who coughed up the extra cash won’t benefit from any path-tracing features until the game launches for everyone.

Despite paying extra for Advanced Access (starting today), the premium edition of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle won’t be feature-complete until the game’s wide release 3 days from now.

As stated by Nvidia in their latest driver blog post, full ray tracing (aka path traced shadows, reflections, and global illumination) won’t be accessible to PC players until the 9th of December via an update.

While certainly not as bad as Suicide Squad’s early access period literally not working, the fact that those who pay extra for advanced access to Indiana Jones will be getting an objectively inferior experience is confusing to see.

Hopefully this trend of ‘Advanced Access’ doesn’t last too much longer.

KitGuru says: What do you think of Advanced Access as a concept? What about in this particular instance? Will Microsoft address this directly? Let us know your thoughts down below.

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