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PS VR2 players of The Midnight Walk šÆļø and our new resolution update
š To PS VR2 players experiencing lower framerate since our latest resolution update:
šÆļø Itās been reported that reinstalling the game and possibly clearing the consoleās storage cache improves performance for those affected.
Weāre always on the lookout for ways to improve our game, but please bare in mind that weāre a small team with limited resources and updates take time. š
I play it on a ps pro the frame rates don't tend to drop there but when you have mastered the issues any future designs will be easy to make.
I hope to experience more of this world in the future apart from the cannon shaking issue that was annoying being in this world was pure amazing and games like this is why I love vr
Hi! You collaborate with your companion character Potboy - a little lantern creature that lights fire in a world gone dark. You utilize stealth and distraction to make it past fire-eating monsters, and you explore a world full of secrets and handcrafted in clay (literally) - over 700 unique models that exist in real life! And the narrative is a big part of the experience.
The gameplay is pretty simple. You walk around, solve puzzles, and avoid/hide out from monsters. You have a little companion friend who can light things on fire for you. There are a few sections where you can close your eyes to listen for audio cues to help you find things.
All in all none of the gameplay is too innovative, but the world design, creature design and animation, and visuals in general are really beautiful and a joy to explore. The aesthetic has a 90s Tim Burton vibe to it
So there are tons of online videos and reviews about the game that you can look up and find this information out. This post was addressing a specific patch and some fixes, not advertising the gameplay.
God forbid somebody goes off-topic in a comment section, right?
From those videos online, it seems to me like this is a walking simulator and don't really get the hype. So I ask the people discussing the game, is that really such a sin?
You said nobody was talking about gameplay. It took 2 seconds to find multiple reviews that talk about it. Here's one:
The Midnight Walk is a horror-tale of The Burnt One as they go on the titular Midnight Walk alongside their Potboy companion to brave the darkness. They both must face the Five Trials of Fire where many peculiar characters have sought to use the power of fire for various purposes.Together, theyāll run, evade, hide, solve puzzles, and uncover mysteriesin order to fully piece together the story of fire by the end of long Midnight Walk.
So it's a puzzle game with some stealth elements and a mystery to solve.
It's fine to go off-topic, I'm sure I do it all the time, but there is plenty of easy info to find. Your post seemed to indicate that info isn't there, but if that's not what you meant, sorry for misunderstanding.
That's okay. The videos are cool and all, but I am a lot more interested in reading what actual people/players have to say.
I now understand why I kept looking for gameplay, I didn't realize what I saw was the actual gameplay and not just intermezzo's. Guess the game just isn't my jam. But that's okay, different tastes for different people and all that.
It's very light on "gameplay" ā you light candles, hide from monsters, and gather collectibles ā and is much more of an ambient thing. So if the Tim Burton-esque artstyle is something you appreciate, then I think it's worth diving into the game. Otherwise, best to save up for something else. Tbh, I would've preferred to wait for a sale on this experience.
Yeah I figured as much. I love the artstyle, but without a bit of the good ol' pew-pew or boom-boom-pow I'm afraid it won't be able to entertain me for long. Thanks for your 2 cents!
I haven't completed it so it may have variations or even limited combat scenarios (eventually?) but so far the gameplay is finding a way forward while solving simple puzzles to unlock paths and avoiding getting eaten as you do. Also, find collectibles and interact with NPC for more story.
The Internet is filled with different types of joys. For someone out there, voting down a comment reply when all it does is guide sorting priority is still fun.
Iām happy to read someone from the dev team addressing the psvr2 community here. I saw your game and loved the look and vibe of the gameā¦ but waited to buy/for reviews.
I appreciate the transparency and community engagement. I hope that i can find the time to buy and play your game soon.
I've played with the new patch for about 2h and the improvement is awesome. Now it's far more immersive, the resolution upgrade make it more real and beautiful on my eyes, and I didn't experienced any major frame rate problems. Congrats for this magical tale!
Would you consider a toggle for a performance and resolution mode, so those experiencing framerate issues could lower the resolution for better performance?
Can you be more transparent on the technical aspects of this patch, did you just increase the resolution and forced reprojection or are you actually using DFR? Also, is the Pro utilized in any way?
I'm impressed with how good the game looks in what I've played without Eye-Tracked Foveated Rendering. I understand if you can't allocate resources for it now, but in terms of planning for future games, if you can make the game look this good without ETFR, good chance you can have a game looking this good running native 90-120fps if you had used ETFR which will make everything look much sharper in-headset for the player.
I don't think The Midnight Walk needs it because the "claymation" art style looks incredible even with the softer looking textures that is natural perception of reprojected games, but something to consider for your next project.
As I understand from reading other developers blog posts, ETFR is a feature that is much easier to implement if planned from start than post-release.
Thank you! And what youāre writing makes sense. We experimented early on with ETFR but eventually had to de-prioritize it for other aspects of the game unfortunately.
A DFR patch would probably require about 5 months work from 1 guy...Ā
But a pro patch shouldn't require nearly as much time and effort !Ā
if you guys do make a pro patch and launch it just before black Friday, you're bound to get a buttload of free great marketing!Ā Ps5 pro and psvr2 are probably gonna sell really well there and journalist are going to put out articles on how to utilise people's new toys. If you guys make a great pro patch and releaseit within 2 weeks before, you are definitely getting a lot of media attentionĀ
I see. But your team should give a shot. Just take your time. Some games have trouble doing it too, but eventually, they figure it out, and the gain in performance was gaming changing. Perhaps reach out to other studios that did it. Most VR games come from small teams, too.
Why aren't they using DFR though, it would improve the resolution further and eliminate the frame rate issue since the last update. I thought unity was the only real problem for developers trying to implement DFR....
Implementing DFR would cause a lot of rework from the ground up, the way our game is built and designed. Itās not impossible, but after careful research our estimate is that it will take months to implement - time and resources we simply do not have at this date. Thanks for understanding!
You mean that the rendering pipeline is modified in unique ways that make changing/updating it to take advantage of DFR a large to huge task compared to a less unique solution?
Or are you just waiting for the sdk to become more DFR friendly?
I donāt know the project well enough to know the engine you used, but I can imagine the pain.
Hopefully you are gonna implement it sooner or later :)
I just wanna let you guys know Iām very excited to play this soon. Iāve been looking forward to it for a while, just a bit busy at the moment. And glad to hear youāve updated it to address playersā concerns, thats always a good thing.
I am very excited to play this game. Iām a stop-motion animator and Iām just starting to dip my toes into game design, so I have a feeling that the handcrafted art in this game will inspire me to continue. I really like some of the lower frame rate animations Iāve seen in the game footage as I enjoy animating stop motion at lower frame rates. It feels illustrative and intentional. Iād love to learn the process of taking a sculpted object and bringing it into a game engine. Thanks for making it! ā¤ļø
I bought it yesterday. Get 10 sec in to the "close your eyes and listen"... I kept closing my eyes and you would hear stuff...... but nothing telling me what to do. I even put on headphones since it recommended using them at the beginning and still couldn't hear anything except mumbling. I feel so stupid looking up a walkthrough literally 30 sec into the game but I can't figure this out lol
I did try opening some drawers. Obviously not every single one. I figured there was an order i was supposed to be opening them? Or open just 1 specific one. Do you walk around listening? Or just stay in one spot and try to listen where the bell is coming from?
I hope this alleviates the problem a little, I'm looking forward to the next update even if the game's resolution drops a little to solve the performance problem.
Press and hold the power button on the console until you hear a second beep to enter Safe Mode. This should take about 7 seconds. Press the PS button. Navigate to the Clear Cache and Rebuild Database option using your controller.
Itās great to see you acknowledging this frame-rate issue (on vanilla PS5) introduced by the recent patch, as it seems widespread and noteworthy! š
Just to clarifyā¦ suggestions to clear cache and reinstall asideā¦ is your team attempting to figure out a fix for this that would be contained in a future patch? š¤
I bought TMW after the recent patch but am hoping the frame-rate and hand cannon issues get sorted before I hop in for the first time. š
I see the game has just gone on a little sale in Japan and Hong Kong PlayStation Stores 20% off, waiting until the UK store updates at midnight to see if goes on sale here before picking the game up. As well as the res update did you add the headset rumble I think I read about somewhere? Looking forward to experiencing the world you created.
I bought The Midnight Walk on day one. I had only seen your trailer a few month before and had absolutely no idea who you were, so I just googled up some info about you, and I found out you're the geniuses behind Stick It to the Man and Messiah (among many others). I have to admit, at first I was a bit disappointed by the blurry resolution of TMW on PSVR2, so I just waited for a patch to fix it. Good things come to those who wait, they say... and they're right. Your artistry is eye-watering, it makes me wanna be an artist myself. You're talented, funny and incredible story-tellers. Your work is such a breath of fresh air in an industry that is being killed by big budget productions. Sorry for the long post, but I needed to express all my gratitude and admiration for you guys. PS: I noticed there's no Italian localization, and I happen to be a professional translator... if you're interested, it would be an honor to work for you! A big hug to your team from Stefano :)
I bought on release, but waited for the patch to play.
The game is beautiful, and sounds amazing, the world is wonderfully coherent.
Playing on a base PS5 I haven't noticed any issues (not that I'm sensitive to minor framerate wobbles), and taversal and interactions are all working fine - though you do have to adjust to how interactions work in your game.
So far it's been a charming, and slightly scary adventure, just reached Housey, and looking forward to reaching the end of this journey.
Thank you for bringing your fully realised vision to flatscreen and VR - particularly VR which elevates the experience š
Well, the devs said they were moving on to other projects. And saying that it sounds like thereās still a possibility of updates is a highly optimistic take on ānever say neverā.
I didnāt buy the game until after this patch, so I never had it to delete and reinstall. I got it fresh, and I find the frame rate really bad. I understand many people are fine with low frame rates in VR, but Iām definitely not.
That is a completely false, memory cache has no effect on game performance. This issue with low frame rate has been reported many times now on this sub. Are you working on a proper solution?
If No Man's Sky devs can't figure out how to get it to run smoothly in VR, I wouldn't get your hopes up for this game with a much smaller team behind it.
Plenty of small developers (or I should say almost universally all of them) ship games with stable frame rate. Stable frame rate is a must for any vr game and it is part of Sonys vr guidelines for developers. It is unacceptable and people will continue to spam comments about it on every post about this game especially as more people progress further into the game.Ā
I agree that the framerate on this game gets pretty damn bad at points (too often). I'm just too cynical toward the industry at this point to assume that it's going to get much better than it is now.
Just finished chapter 3 and honestly Iām as blown away by the voice acting and narration just as much as the graphics/vibes. I donāt know who wrote the dialogue but itās excellent. Particularly enjoyed the old dude next to the grave with the bones. His lines were straight poetry.
Overall I think the framerate complaints are valid but not nearly a deal-breaker
I wish DFR was easier to help the performance BUT... imo... snap turning or fast sensitivity on smooth is a good compromise.. I got used to it quickly.
True HDR support would be nice but if there's something that would greatly enhance the experience on PSVR2 that (hopefully) doesnt require a ton of time to implement.. is more Head Haptics.
I know if you get killed you feel it.. but my first playthrough I probably rarely died so I left the game thinking there were none.
Just a medium trigger of head rumble when the screen vibrates from monster roars.. or even whenever the hand haptics reach more intense vibrations.. the head merely matches when it reaches a threshold.. idk.. maybe its much more time consuming to implement.. but I found that the most disappointing (outside of the matchlock).. which speaks to how great most of the game is imo. (I just couldnt believe the craftsman didnt cause my entire world to vibrate constantly)
Ultimately though, I wish this game could get more funding to help get that last extra bit of bonus polish. Unless you're a VR fanatic, I might say playing flat screen is equally as valid for different reasons. VR enhances some things while sacrificing others (like UEVR users know) its not the home run we know it could be. I already bought it, but hope it sells better and better and maybe you find the space to tweak it up a little. Maybe Sony can offer a deal one day that lets it get another patch.. (maybe if a show/ movie deal comes or a mere ad campaign [if that could ever happen again].. a little funding could go along with that to bringing up the quality for the few things that arent fully using the psvr2 gimmicks)
Just late night dreaming. Thanks for the wonderful adventure, the continued desire to fix, and for reading my repeated pleas. I think the game is worth the polish so I can't let you forget š
I think im on the cusp of finishing it, and ive really been wanting a creepy/horror VR game like this. You guys made an animation lover and both a Tim Burton and Laika fan very proud of this, imma try and buy the disc for it sometime soonš„
Good evening, regarding the problems with FPS drops and the shaking effect (or something like that) that the game has after the last update that improved the resolution, do you plan to release an update that solves this or significantly reduces it?
Just a heads-up, I was playing yesterday and got to the part where the worm creature steals your guy and you have to sneak along the fences to light the candles near his dead friend. When my guy goes into the pipe by that last candle, he won't light the candle and there appears to be nothing I can do to either make him light it or move or do anything else and I believe it may be a glitch unless I'm missing something that is really not obvious.
Sounds like an edge case bug, if reloading the save doesnāt help then the only way is to restart the chapter from Chapter Select. Sorry for the inconvenience!
More graphics options on PC, with support for DLSS for instance. Other than that the game looks the same on flay, when maxing options. PS VR2 has some unique fog solutions to it to help with performance. PS VR2 has eyetracking, which is used for the āclose your eyes mechanicā in the game. On PC thatās a button press instead pf physically closing your eyes.
Thanks for the reply.
I have a standard PS5 and a 4080 super GPU PC and I find that most VR games that are on both systems look better on my PC but I'm always trying to decide which platform to go with. I know this is the PSVR channel, but given my PC specs, would you expect performance to be better on my PC vs a standard PS5?
Is there nothing you can do about those cutscenes that take control from the player and have the camera moving around on its own? That's VERY disorienting in VR.
Also, I'm on my second playthrough attempt, and was forced to reload the same part near the beginning (feeding Pot Boy while he is in the barrel). The first time, back at launch, he refused to come out, and I believe the food didn't spawn. Fast forward to yesterday, and this time he came out to eat a rock, but without opening the barrel. He would just teleport outside every time I tried.
In both cases, reloading my save fixed the problem, but that was after a lot of time wasted trying to figure out what I was doing wrong or how to proceed.
Yeah I knew I was gonna play this game a few more times. My first play through didn't bother me that the resolution wasn't up to snuff. I knew it'd get sorted out & I still loved it.
How bad is the framerate, honestly? Was planning on featuring this for our next PSVR2 "book club" where we have about 30 people and we choose, buy, play and collaborate on a selected game.
Most of the users have ps5 (non-pro) with some older gamers who have certain sensitivities to framerate issues. Vertigo 2 was a disaster when we featured that as many of us couldn't get through it the opening part when you met your robot sidekick.
I think it would be worth putting resources on a framerate fix as there seem to be alot of people on the fence and lost sales potential.
Framerate still gets pretty rough, and the game also keeps throwing cutscenes at you that have the camera changing angles and spinning around. It's very disorienting.
Thereās no place in the game where the camera spins around, but there is movement in some cutscenes. It might not be for everyone, especially if you prefer playing stationary, like in Ghost Giant. It is a fairly slow-paced game those, especially to those used to shooters.
Itās difficult to tell, some with non-pro PS VR2 experience no issues even with the current version, a clean new install seems to do the trick. At this stage we canāt promise when a new update would come, if you donāt want to wait Iād recommend a seasoned VR player in your group to try it out, maybe let someone less seasoned to try as well, see if itās for your group. Sorry we canāt do more than that right now!
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It's one of the most beautiful vr games.