Directive 8020 — PS5 & PS5 Pro performance

Directive 8020 is Supermassive's first Unreal Engine 5 game and it gives both PlayStation consoles the same three-mode structure: a 30fps quality mode, a 40fps balanced mode that needs a 120Hz display, and a 60fps performance mode. Every mode uses Lumen. On base PS5 that Lumen is software-based, which suits the metal-and-glass corridors of the colony ship but leaves blotchy, flickering shadows and reflections; resolution is dynamic, roughly 864p to 1440p in performance mode and a native 1440p in quality, all reconstructed to 4K with TSR. Frame rates hold up well, but the 30 and 40fps modes suffer uneven frame pacing that shows as judder during camera pans, and image noise around strobing lights is a recurring issue. PS5 Pro gets the meaningful upgrade: the quality mode switches to hardware-accelerated Lumen, which stabilises reflections dramatically — most visibly on transparent surfaces like helmet visors — and PSSR replaces TSR with a resolution floor pushed up to 1728p-2160p. It still stops short of the PC path-traced option, since console ray tracing does not feed shadows, but on Pro this is the reference console version. Performance mode is the pick if you value response; quality mode on Pro is the one to see the game at its best.