Cryptic Runner

honestly it just looks bad

t's too dark in shaded aareas and the sunlight is this awful grey-yellow color

all the more reason to play java, where you can have good-looking rtx with optifine/shaders

The thing is, while RTX can be used to calculate many behaviors of light, developers usually don't implement them all to improve performance.

In Minecraft's case, RTX is used for global illumination, volumetrics and reflections, and gameplay footage shows that it's actually updating in real-time and thus, is not baked. In fact, there are a lot of temporal artifacts still, so it's clearly a work in progress.

I do agree it looks bad, but that's probably bad artistic decisions, with dull colors and ugly materials. But since custom textures are fully supported (in fact, some footage of the game running such textures actually looks pretty great), and players will be able to build their own RTX-powered shaders, this is promising nonetheless. Hell, maybe by the time it actually ships, they will take the time to polish the default shaders.