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Psychonauts 2 Quality Of Life Patch; Out now on all platforms

Rumenapp

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New Features:


  • Bonus Psychoseismometer unlocked in Otto's lab after finishing Gisu's quest, making it possible to unlock enemy achievements during the post-game state.
  • Checkmarks appear in location selection menus to indicate if all collectables in a location have been found.
  • Otto-Spot photo filter to show collectables in the Otto-Shot photo mode.
  • Show all available figments in the figment viewer menu even if you haven't found them yet.

Bugs Fixed:


  • General stability improvements for all platforms.
  • Improve environmental collision to prevent players and objects from rarely falling through walls and floors.
  • Fix issues related to fall death and water curse, and prevent them from being broken if interrupted by a cutscene.
  • Fix duplicate characters and stray animation appearing in some cutscenes.
  • Fix the issue that could cause flickering around objects submerged in water.
  • Improve save checkpoints to prevent the player's save data from getting into a bad state.
  • Improve photo mode stability.
  • Expand the mental health advisory message.
  • HUD improvements to prevent extra health brains from appearing.
  • Improve xCloud streaming touch controls.

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Psychonauts 2 Update Adds A Wave Of Quality Of Life Improvements

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jph139

jph139

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Oct 25, 2017
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Really nice touches there - the ability to unlock combat achievements after you've beaten the game is nice, I know some people accidentally locked themselves out of those. And anything to make figment hunts easier is appreciated.

That being said, I already 100%'d it, so...
 
Zebesian-X

Zebesian-X

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Dec 3, 2018
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Oh wow all this stuff would have definitely pushed me to 100% it. Guess there's always my next playthrough
 
Fisty

Fisty

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Oct 25, 2017
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Nice, always good to see improved tools and UI for hunting collectibles in collectathons!
 
chandoog

chandoog

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Oct 27, 2017
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So far, this has been an unfortunate victim of my backlog.

Good to see it getting fixes/improvements in the interim.
 
Adryuu

Adryuu

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Oct 27, 2017
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Good news, I'll probably use that figment thing, I just started and already am missing ONLY one figment in each of both of the two first brains!
Didn't know there was a photo mode in this, maybe I have to play more to unlock it. Only just finished the casino.
Thanks Double Fine!
 
MauroNL

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Oct 26, 2017
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Great patch, got the remaining missing Figments in about 30 mins. Finally 100%'d it now!
 
RPGam3r

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Oct 27, 2017
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Only game I've ever had achievements break on. Literally have the game 100% and there are achievements just stuck. Doesn't sound like they fixed that issue. Oh well still my GOTY.
 
105-Shake

105-Shake

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I love that they did a video explaining the patch notes. A lot of times you'll get these updates and not really know what all was updated.
 
Garcia el Gringo

Garcia el Gringo

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Oct 25, 2017
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Best 100% completion experience of the year despite that one 🍌

Happy that new players will have these QoL updates to help them achieve that full clear.
 
PlanetSmasher

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Oct 25, 2017
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I wonder if they fixed the bugged-out progression achievements. I never got credit for clearing the Sensorium and Double Fine told me via e-mail they were working on it. :/
 
tok9

tok9

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Nov 2, 2017
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That is pretty good timing as I just played the opening yesterday.
 
SixelAlexiS

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Dictator said:
Does the game still stutter incessantly on PC after this update?
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I confirm that you get stutters for shader compilation even with the new latest patch (15GB!), at least on Game Pass (should be the same for other PC versions too).
People tend to think that it's "fixed" due to the fact that once compiled they will stay like that until the next video driver change, and I just changed those some days again and now I get stutter at anything I "break" in-game or interact to.

Double Fine claimed to have fixed the issue but was a bunch of lies... even DF Aaron said it was fixed back in september but this was never the case ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Btw Sea Of Thieves have the same crap too, the game is a stutter fest even without a cache but as soon as you change video drivers you can an absurd amount of stutter for the same reasons.

Same stuff for Black 4 Blood too, that does just a partial pre-cache at start (like for act 1).
All of those runs on Unreal Engine... I guess they really have to do something to makes this whole thing more easier for developers since every stuttering game I think of is UE at this point, it's like playing on a freaking emulator.
 
GWX

GWX

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Oct 25, 2017
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Is the slow/delayed texture loading/pop-in after camera cuts fixed in the Series S and X versions of the game? Very annoying issue :(
 
Don Fluffles

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Oct 28, 2017
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Noice!
I hope the next patch fixes the jank in combat. It's too hard at times to dodge away from enemy attacks while whaling on them. In other action games, you'd have a bigger window to cancel out of your attack to safety.
 
Cotrip

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Oct 27, 2017
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The patch notes for the PS5 version indicates a bump in res: "Improve PS4 version's resolution and stability on PS5"

Source: PushSquare
 
BBboy20

BBboy20

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Oct 25, 2017
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There been any patches for the Humble Bundle version? You know, just downloading patches like the days of old?
 
CommodoreKong

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Oct 25, 2017
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I'll have to try this again, my save got messed up in the bowling alley level and it wouldn't ever register I beat the level. The small hot fix for that level like a month ago didn't fix it fir me either.
 
ClayModel

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Oct 29, 2017
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Better late than never. I had to depend on youtube videos to platinum this(getting all figments was a pain in the ass) but this makes it easier for anyone else who hasn't 100% it lol.
 
IIFloodyII

IIFloodyII

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Oct 26, 2017
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That Figment one would have been nice, I spent like an hour on 2 different levels (the Jack Black one and head teacher) checking every section multiple times looking for 1, worst part was both where right at the start.
 

Firefly

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Jul 10, 2018
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It was annoying that we couldn't see if we have cleared an area of all the items. That was much needed.
 
RPGam3r

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Don Fluffles said:
Noice!
I hope the next patch fixes the jank in combat. It's too hard at times to dodge away from enemy attacks while whaling on them. In other action games, you'd have a bigger window to cancel out of your attack to safety.
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Just use your other powers. Combat is simple when you ride the bubble at all times.
 
StudioTan

StudioTan

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Oct 27, 2017
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Already got 1000/1000 on this (first game I've every gotten 1000 on!) and some of those would have been very helpful lol

Still wasn't too bad with guides showing some of the figments I was missing. I also had to replay the beginning of the game for one achievement I missed but it didn't take too long. Luckily the game is fun.
 
Poltergust

Poltergust

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Oct 25, 2017
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Oh my god, Tim pointed out that specific banana figment that took me an hour to find in Bob's Bottles.

He even apologized for it lol
 
Maximo

Maximo

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Oct 25, 2017
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Doesn't seem to micro stutter on the steam version, Gamepass games having issues puts me off from ever resubscribing.
 

Wouwie

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Cotrip said:
The patch notes for the PS5 version indicates a bump in res: "Improve PS4 version's resolution and stability on PS5"

Source: PushSquare
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That's interesting. While i really want to play this, i've been waiting for a PSN sale due to the lower resolution and Xbox exclusive HDR so it's going to be interesting to see what has been done on the resolution. The lack of HDR is not a deal breaker.
 
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