Psychonauts 2 is a mostly-great experience, but if you were out to 100 percent the game – to grab every collectible and achievement – the game could get a little frustrating. Thankfully, Double Fine have released a new “quality of life” update that largely focuses on a number of tweaks that make finding every bit and bob easier. You can also expect improved stability and performance, and a variety of bug fixes. Here’s Tim Schafer and Psychonauts 2 lead designer Seth Marinello to explain what the patch has to offer.
Here are the full patch notes for the Psychonauts 2 quality-of-life update:
New Features:
- Bonus Psychoseismometer unlocked in Otto’s lab after finishing Gisu’s quest, making it possible to unlock enemy achievements during the post-game state.
- Checkmarks appear in location selection menus to indicate if all collectables in a location have been found.
- Otto-Spot photo filter to show collectables in the Otto-Shot photo mode.
- Show all available figments in the figment viewer menu even if you haven’t found them yet.
Bugs Fixed:
- General stability improvements for all platforms.
- Improve environmental collision to prevent players and objects from rarely falling through walls and floors.
- Fix issues related to fall death and water curse, and prevent them from being broken if interrupted by a cutscene.
- Fix duplicate characters and stray animation appearing in some cutscenes.
- Fix the issue that could cause flickering around objects submerged in water.
- Improve save checkpoints to prevent the player’s save data from getting into a bad state.
- Improve photo mode stability.
- Expand the mental health advisory message.
- HUD improvements to prevent extra health brains from appearing.
- Improve xCloud streaming touch controls.
Psychonauts 2 is available now on PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, and is playable via backward compatibility on PS5. You can check out Wccftech’s very positive review of the game, right here.
