The Callisto Protocol patch 5.03 has been rolled out across all platforms, addressing a crashing issue on PC related to ray tracing.
This new update appears to be a minor one. Aside from addressing the abovementioned ray tracing crashing issues on PC, this patch fixes an audio log issue on PlayStation and included additional performance optimizations across the board. In addition, the patch fixes Out-of-World streaming issues in the Final Transmission expansion.
You can find the official release notes for this patch on the game’s official website here. Ever since the game’s global launch last year, players have been suffering some optimization and performance issues, especially on PC. Several patches have since been released to improve the gameplay experience. On Xbox Series, ray-traced reflections were initially disabled until the development team released a patch that enabled this feature on Microsoft’s console.
Let’s hope that this new update further improves the game’s performance on all platforms.
Here’s what we wrote about the sci-fi survival horror title in our launch review last year.
“While an incredible looker in screenshots and death scenes, The Callisto Protocol suffers from a lack of intriguing content that makes the twelve-plus hour journey through Black Iron Prison worth two, even perhaps one single playthrough”, we wrote. “Crafting and skill trees are both minimal in nature (with both costing a heavy amount of credits where players might only be able to fully upgrade two or three weapons in the full playthrough) while melee combat and combat encounters as a whole feel largely scripted. The horror elements stand out as reason alone to play Striking Distance’s debut horror game, but you might want to find yourself getting thrown back into Black Iron Prison rather than see the journey through to the end.”
The Callisto Protocol is available globally now for PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PS5 and PS4.
