As things stand, typically we prefer patches to improve games by adding new features rather than removing rather established ones, but as things stand right now, GTA 5 is a bit of a mixed bag:
PlayStation 4 owners get smoother performance, though a really neat visual effect is gone. Meanwhile, Xbox One owners get a double-whammy - the removal of parallax occlusion mapping and no noticeable improvements to fluidity whatsoever. The minor frame-rate drops at junctions remain, but the more impactful dips when heavy transparency effects are in play are unchanged from the launch version.
Patch 1.09 was released very, very quickly in the wake of the original video - our hope is that's just a placeholder of sorts until 1.10 arrives to restore the game's full visual feature set. We'll keep you updated.
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