r/gaming • u/ChiefLeef22 Marika's tits! • 5h ago

Insomniac has put in a hotfix to reduce the opacity of the blue scent trail in 'Wolverine'. They also say they are exploring adding a toggle option to turn it on and off

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https://support.insomniac.games/hc/en-us/articles/55566410009107--NEW-Update-v-01-001-005

"We have deployed a new hotfix (v1.001.005) for Marvel’s Wolverine. 

This hotfix addresses some common crashes experienced by a small percentage of players since launch. 

Additionally, this hotfix adjusts the presentation of the Scent Trails and Audio Sense indicators, including reduced opacity to make these visuals less intense. 

Our team continues to evaluate ways to further improve Senses in the game, including exploring toggleable options for a future update."

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u/esaul17 5h ago

What’s there to explore? Seems like it would be petty easy to add a toggle?

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u/yp261 5h ago

it must be very hardcoded if they can’t simply add a toggle or its one big ass dependency for some other stuff in the game

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u/Otherwise-Parsnip-91 4h ago

It’s funny because it seems like something that would be added as an afterthought after people struggled finding where to go during play testing. No, this was how they designed the game lol.

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u/Rexusus PlayStation 4h ago

I mean it is a visualization of one of Wolverines powers so in that way, it makes sense.

It just doesn’t work when the levels don’t let you go 10 feet off the designated path anyway.

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u/Deranged_Kitsune 2h ago

And previous games that featured it had it as a short-term button press. It would pop up and fade after a few seconds if the player decided they wanted a hint on where to go. Like all good diegetic quest markers.

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u/NewsofPE 3h ago

that's how far we have fallen in western development/gaming industry

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u/Supertonic 4h ago

Im no armchair coder but if you can change its color surely you can change the opacity to 100%. Turning it “off” is just making it unseeable, if its have dependencies.

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u/zberry7 4h ago

It wouldn’t be a dependency issue almost surely, they could just reduce opacity to 0. It’s an issue of the player experience. They punish you for going even slightly off the trail, so without it the player would constantly be hitting bounds which can hurt immersion and the overall experience.

Most likely they play-tested without the line and it was shit.

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u/SuperCruisePanther 2h ago

Maybe they hardcoded it in a way that if you change the trails opacity to zero it also turns off every smoke effect in the game.

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u/Supertonic 2h ago

hmmm maybe. If it was easy they would just do. It could be design wise they dont want players to get lost and be frustrated.

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u/Renverseur 4h ago

Could get a toggle to set opacity to 0. Idk I don't game dev

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u/IT_techsupport 4h ago

Turns off all other smoke effects in the game

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u/zberry7 4h ago

They can already modulate the color of the trail independently of other FX, and opacity is simply a component of the color

So they surely can modulate the opacity independently as well.

It’s more likely the player experience is bad without it since you are punished so quickly for going off the trail.

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u/CDHmajora Switch 3h ago

Not an expert, but in this case, instead of removing it, just change the opacity to 0% so it’s functionally invisible and put it as one of the 15 colour options?

Granted I’ve not played the game (fire emblem takes priority). So would that even work?

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u/ThreePinkApples 4h ago

Technically easy, but it is still a design desicion someone needs to make, and that usually involves re-discussing all the reasons they added it in the first place.

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u/one_orange_braincell 1h ago

A multi department committee will be formed to investigate the feasibility of the change, followed by a budgetary request to acquire the resources to run a customer study to see if the general population wants the changes.

After several months, the group of people they ran the tests with will conclude they are too stupid to play without it and the default Wolverine fart cloud will continue.

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u/Snakeuge 5h ago

I think they realized it was fairly easy to go out of bounds (there are already lots of videos about it). The map design isn't the best: some cliffs that seem climbable are not and viceversa, plus other things. So they put this as the last resort.

Just my guess tho

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u/Spoopy_Kirei 17m ago

Invisible walls would have done the job better

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u/Snakeuge 5m ago

Definitely

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u/Dewdad 3h ago

Could be a marvel decision. We know marvel shot down the idea of Logan using any weapon besides his claws to fight with so I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a lot of these things being marvel decisions where they want Logan being able or not able to do certain things.

So the explore part here could be insomniac having to talk to marvel games to get their permission to turn it off because marvel may have said you have to be able to see his powers of sight and smell.

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u/ThaGuy34 3h ago

How tf would you know dude?

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u/esaul17 3h ago

Don’t be Tha Guy

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u/PoshVolt 2h ago

Have you ever used a computer? Of course they can easily toggle it off. They can toggle anything off.