Interesting.
I would have guessed those reflections were RT'd but I will take your word for it.
They still look pretty great, all things considered. IMO, anyway
the windows look great, the floors don't really.
but Hitman 2, and 1 to a lesser extent, already had really good reflections.
they also both used render to texture in many scenes, the second game way more than the first tho and in more impressive ways (the big windows in the intro mission)
and enemies actually can spot you in reflections... something SplinterCell 3 on the og Xbox already did btw...that game was a fucking tech showcase back in the day
I could be wrong and the reflections in those windows are raytraced here, but to me they very much look like render to texture reflections (which can look better than RT actually, but are more or less limited to flat surfaces)
since RT reflections would usually show signs of noise due to the limited ray count and softness around edges that the denoising does to the image.
EDIT: so apparently my analysis was bang on, GameInformer confimed that the devs said RT implementation will come sometime later in 2021 and not on release.
