It's been a good week for fans looking forward to A Plague Tale: Requiem, as we have had a gorgeous new story trailer, and learned how long a typical playthrough of the game will take. Let's keep the hype train rolling then, with a look at some of the ways in which developer Asobo Studio is utilising the full power of the PS5 to bring your worst rat-fuelled nightmares to life.
Over on the PlayStation Blog, developers from Asobo Studio sat down to discuss the technological leap between A Plague Tale: Innocence, and Requiem, and it all begins with the rats themselves. In the first game (which was developed for PS4 but got a native PS5 version last year), the number of on-screen rats capped out at 5000, which was horrific enough. In Requiem, that number has been multiplied by a factor of 60, meaning players will face apocalyptic swarms of rodents of up to 300,000, which is pretty wild.
Players of the first game will recall that light and fire played a big part in keeping the swarms at bay, and these systems have received upgrades as well. Volumetric fog, beams of sunlight and other atmospheric elements will add to the tension and drama of a given scene.
Adaptive triggers will be used to simulate the weight and heft of Amicia's weapons. For example, when using the sling, if you aim for too long, you will lose precision. The adaptive triggers will give the impression that shooting becomes harder, and players can use this as a measure of when to shoot. The crossbow will work in a similar fashion, with the tension of the string being felt as the weapon is loaded.
You will be able to feel the swarms of rats through the haptic feedback of the DualSense, adding another layer of immersion that wasn't possible in Innocence. It all sounds honestly fantastic, and we can't to get our paws on this one. October 18th can't come quickly enough.
The entire article is worth a read if you can't get your enough Requiem details in your everyday life. Have you purchased a ticket for this particular hype train? Where will this rollercoaster end? Take deep breaths with us in the comments section below.
[source blog.playstation.com]
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All this sounds like a free advertisement for the game, and not like a piece of classic journalism. Which is not surprising, because it’s taken from a SIE channel. So: Is the Series S not capable of rendering 300k rats?
@Max_the_German well this is a PlayStation website. It's kind of irrelevant what another console can or can't do
@jrt87
Why are you coming to a PlayStation website asking for Xbox advice? Surely you should try a multiplatform or Xbox news site?
But, to answer your question, yes, I’m sure it can. As are you 🙄
(Doesn’t this get tiresome? I don’t know about the rest of you, but I specifically come to a single platform publication to avoid all the usual fanboy rubbish)
Nice. I’m not even interested in the game but it’s cool to bring attention to some interesting stuff on PS Blog that I/we often forget to check out.
I like how they use the DualSense and Id like to see that in every game. Even with the DS4 I liked when they used the special features so now it’s doubling down on new gen features.
Ignore the console warriors and keep reporting on awesome PS5 features. 👍🏻
This games going to be awesome with the dualsense
I loved feeling the rats in the original - well, "loved" isn't exactly the right word, I just remember starting the game and feeling the coach rumble pass and the rats swarm around in my hands and thinking it was the best use of haptics since Astro. So excited that this feature will have been thought about since the get go!
@roe PushSquare could be a serious, critical and balanced medium, which avoids to replicate emotional SIE social media items. Or it could be a fanboy community disguised as an online magazine, kind of „The Unofficial PlayStation Magazine“. Other media from Hookshot Media are significantly more critical with „their“ company.
@jrt87 you're not buying the game, you're just borrowing it digitally. You don't own it and you don't support the developers for their hard work. 👍🏼
@Nintendo4Sonic like the Devs don't get paid ????? Stop the bs twitter says crap , if they didn't make from it gamepass ( or extra etc etc ) wouldnt have any companies signing up to it , have you seen how many games are game pass day one now and in the future ??? Yeh companies love to not make money lmfao
This game is such a tough thing for me.
First I was happy it comes to Gamepass since I got an Xbox.
Then they apparently got amazing PS5 Dualsense features, so I was like “damn, should I buy it for PS5?”, then they show off RTX features and I am like “omg, should I maybe buy it for PC and use a PS5 controller?”.
I can’t find info if this game comes to PC game pass in particular. It just always says “Gamepass”.
@jrt87 the 300k rats thing isnt playstation specific. Just plus square trying to make it out that the ps5 can only do it. When that developer was at xbox event they said the same thing about how the new hardware has given them more room to breath.
@Nintendo4Sonic we dont have to as they are supported just from our subs. Microsoft has obviously given asobo a fat cheque to put it in gamepass. ✌
@Max_the_German it can.
Slightly off topic but Plague Tale Requiem was the final push for me to get an Xbox for GamePass. I planned on getting a Series X next summer but saw that this game was coming day one to GP so I decided to go ahead and buy one. I planned on buying it for my PS5 but figured I might as well go ahead and pick a Xbox. So, GP in a way will really start paying for itself once this releases. Granted, I’ve enjoyed the Xbox games I’ve missed as well. The last Xbox I owned was the 360, so I have some catching up to do.
Just a general fyi, I still play my PS5 daily.
I've been on the hype train since the reveal trailer. Really excited to see how this one turns out. Looks incredible!
@jrt87 Do i deduce that you're rats are free since you have paid nothing for said mentioned Game Pass ??
@jrt87 i didn’t even know that. I didn’t plan to buy Wo Long because it’s a tough game (played the demo), so not worth paying it for me. But if it’s on Gamepass, I am more than ready to at least give it a proper try!
@UltimateOtaku91 The first game is still one of the very few that takes advantage of the dualsense, meaning it actually adds to the gameplay. I imagine this one will be even better use of it.
If it wasn’t coming to gamepass I’d get the ps5 version just because of the Dualsense…hard to compete with a day 1 option on gamepass though
@jrt87
Yes, fair enough, although to be expected really given the interests of their reader base.
On the other matter - subs sacrifice potential profits for security for the dev. For some devs this is a godsend, for the industry as a whole it does limit ambition I feel. But, anyway, I don’t support most devs myself so I don’t care about that. I refuse to be ripped off by buying digitally with no resale value, and don’t believe in supporting Sony given their insulting and quasi racist censorship policies.
As a result, the only games I buy new are VR games, because that is an industry I really want to support financially, even if it is Sony making the strides.
@Max_the_German nope, but its on the switch apparently 😁
@jrt87 well I read somewhere that it isn't ,something to do with cpu or whatever
You could already feel the swarms of rats with the haptic feedback in Innocence. Unless they've upgraded it further to make it even more immersive and that's why it was mentioned.
Innocence was already one of the best games at using the DualSense features, so if they made it any better, that'd be great.
this article is taken from PS blog, why would it say what xbox can do? or does the xbox blog go into details of what ps5 can do?
I'm actually looking forward to this one. It'll be my next purchase. That said... 5000 rats in the first game was insane looking. I can't imagine what 300k rats is going to look like.
What's with the sudden increase of people asking Xbox-related questions on this site? I've noticed it in the last few days. No, Push Square is not going to go into details on how the game runs on Xbox, this should be obvious.
I will start count the rats and I will let you know who is the winner, xbox or ps5.
The article is about the game and the 90% of the comments is which console is better sick and tired that's why I post this.
@Uncharted2007 I’d imagine if anyone even comes close to noticing 300000 rats they’ll be dead
Safe to say their claims, true or not, are safe haha
18 Days to go! MY HYPE FOR THIS GAME CANNOT BE CONTAINED!!! First A Plague Tale: Requiem in October, and then God of War Ragnarok in November, and then The Calisto Protocol in December. Three months of back-to-back AWESOME games to play!
I loved the first one so looking forward to this. Not sure I needed it to be longer personally but still seems to be a decent length, as long as I'm done under 20 hours I'll be happy.
It's a great thing I don't have a phobia of rats, otherwise never would have been able to enjoy the first game or be looking forward to the sequel.
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