Insomniac Games has released the highly anticipated PlayStation 5 exclusive New Game+ update for Marvel's Spider-Man 2, and it adds a number of important new features to the game.
Correction 1,002,000, available now, adds the aforementioned New Game+ as well as Mission Replay and time-of-day options. Insomniac has also added new accessibility options, including audio descriptions and a screen reader, both localized in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish (LATAM/Spain), and Japanese.
Fans will be particularly interested in the New Game+ features, which include Ultimate Levels, associated story Symbiote suit styles, and a new trophy for completing the story in NG+. There are new suits for Peter and Miles too, and a wealth of improvements and fixes across the board.
Spider-Man 2 was released in October last year and has sold 10 million copies so far. Thoughts have already turned to what's next from Insomniac, which recently suffered layoffs as part of mass cuts at Sony Interactive Entertainment.
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Spider-Man 2 Update 1,002,000 Patch Notes:
what's new?
New Game Features+ (NG+).
- Final levels: Exceeded the base game level cap in NG+
- Note: Final levels are not tied to any difficulty
- Symbiote Suit Styles: Unlock new symbiote suit styles for the story by progressing through the final level
- Golden Tool Patterns: Upgrade your tools with an exclusive gold theme
- Tech Fusion Suit: Unlock both perks in the shared Suit Tech slot
- PlayStation Cup Unlock a new trophy to complete the story in NG+
Additional features
- Retry the task: Rerun that task (and many others) as often as you want now
- Time of day: Change the time of day post-game via the Gameplay settings.
- Tendril colours: Toggle the color of the symbiote tendrils in post-game via the Gameplay settings.
- Photo Mode – Action Figure Mode: Shrink the letters for photo opportunities
- Photo mode – stickers: Decorate your photos with new stickers
- Hellfire Party Suits: Two new suits inspired by Hellfire Gala designs have been added
- Gameheads Fly N' Fresh Suit Pack: Two new suits for Peter and Miles, plus photo mode content
- Available by purchase, official details here
New in accessibility
- Audio descriptions: The narrator will describe the main visuals and actions during the cinematic
- Sub-option: Volume slider
- Screen reader: Voice narration moves text through menus, tutorials, and control tips
- Sub-options: Volume slider, Repeat delay time, Repeat delay scale
- Mono audio: Combine all audio into one output
- Captions: Display captions for important in-game sounds during cinematics and some gameplay
- Sub-options: Size, Color, Background Color and Background Opacity
- Translating texts in the world: Enable text boxes to show translated text in the world
- High contrast outlines: Outline friendly matches and enemies with specific, high-contrast colors
- High contrast friendly outlines
- High contrast identifies the enemy
- High contrast presets: Access preset high contrast settings for simplified use
- Center point color: Adjust the color of the center point on the screen
- Target arc color: Adjust the color of the bow that appears during certain moments when aiming
- Target arc color: Change the color of the bow indicator when throwing certain items at the target
- Motion sensor aiming: Aim using the DualSense controller's motion sensors
- Sub-options include: Calibration and Sensitivity
- The user interface holds: Toggle UI holds toggle
- Touchpad in combat: Disable the touchpad during combat to prevent accidental pressing
Improvements/fixes
general
- General improvements to game stability
- Global crashes and freezes that could occur during cutscenes and/or gameplay have been addressed
- Global visual issues that could occur during cutscenes and/or gameplay have been addressed
- Fixed issues where hiding the HUD could prevent the next mission from appearing
- Addressed issues where players would not be able to progress through some tutorials or sections
- Fixed an issue where Web Wings would automatically deploy if tutorials were turned off
- Fixed an issue with the tricky reset animation while diving
- Addressed issues with incorrect player spawns after a checkpoint failure or restart
- Webbed suit textures have been updated
- Cutting and manufacturing issues with some prosthesis lenses have been addressed
- Improved deformation across multiple suits
- Various additional fixes across the game
Accessibility
- Several improvements and fixes have been made to the high contrast settings
- Visibility issues have been addressed across numerous enemy types, attacks, puzzles, and interactable objects
- Added a pause menu option to skip Adaptive Trigger minigames, joining previously included features such as:
- Turn off Adaptive Triggers via your PS5 controller settings to automatically skip these puzzles
- QTE autocomplete can automatically skip these puzzles
- Improvements and fixes have been made to Toggles
- Enabling the Swing/Parkour toggle adds on/off tap functionality for the Spider-Bot Jump Jets
- Enabling the Swing/Parkour toggle adds functionality for MJ to navigate through pressure automatically
- Switch icons are displayed correctly when you restart the game
- Fixed issue where tutorials would interfere with the Swing/Parkour toggle function
- Fixed an issue where swing/parkour was not enabled quickly enough when running as MJ
- Addressed issues with aiming mode switching with MJ Lure
- Issues with the Friendly Neighbor Challenge level have been addressed
- Symbiote nests and vector crimes can no longer fail
- Many improvements have been made to Look at Waypoint across various missions in the game
- Point of Interest (POI) audio indicator added.
- This feature beeps when Spider-Senses are used and there is a point of interest on the screen to help judge distance, height and occlusion
- Several improvements have been made to DualSense haptics
- When the haptic setting is set to “Functional” and the POI audio indicator is enabled, the system includes an additional haptic component for the coordinates.
- Added unique touches to ready-made abilities and tools with Functional Touches turned on
- Added hot/cold touches when moving between objects with functional touches turned on
- Added haptic feedback when the interaction prompt appears on the screen
- Touches have been adjusted across the game's various puzzles and combat scenarios
- The damage has been significantly mitigated slightly.
- The selected shortcuts are now displayed in the first boot menu
- Added the ability to enable Screen Reader in the first boot menu by pressing the Square button
- Fixed resolution and other anomalies when setting the guided button size to largest
- If enabled, auto-healing can save the player from dying due to fall damage if the player has a full concentration bar
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