A new update for Marvel’s Spider-Man is now available. The big feature from this is New Game+ has been added. Not only that, a few new trophies are also available to unlock, for the dedicated players out there.
New Game Plus comes to #SpiderManPS4! Play through the game with all your gear and upgrades, take on its new Ultimate difficulty, and pick up a couple new Trophies. #PlayEverythingPS4 pic.twitter.com/c9hbelsC45
— PlayStation Asia (@PlayStationAsia) October 22, 2018
Here’s the release notes as released by the developers Insomniac on their subreddit:
New Features
- Added support for “The City That Never Sleeps – The Heist” story pack.
- Added New Game+.
- Added Ultimate difficulty.
- Added 2 new Trophies.
- Added the ability to rotate layers in Photo Mode.
- Added new frames and stickers to Photo Mode.
- Added a shortcut option to trigger Photo Mode via the left directional button.
Fixes & Updates
- Tuned Friendly combat difficulty based on player feedback.
- Added a max health cap of 250 and normalized players.
- Added a potential solution for a crash related to graphical artifacting.
- Addressed an issue where players could respawn inside a building in the Financial District.
- Addressed an issue where animation during cinematics could break due to hard drive streaming.
- Addressed an issue where pedestrians would disappear for a frame in the distance.
- Addressed an issue where combat music would persist in the open world after completing a Sable Base.
- Addressed various additional issues.
Interestingly, the update also includes some additions to the Photo Mode. One in particular is a jab to the whole #puddlegate controversy. For the unaware, early final build screenshots of the game was compared to the E3 gameplay, which led to some alleging the game to be downgraded.
Insomniac profusely denied this, and a feature by Digital Foundry debunked the puddle changes not due to technical issues, but an artistic one.
But hey, there’s now puddle stickers. Ths specific tweet by Gil Doron, UI/UX lead at Insomniac makes it more apparent:
We have a new patch today! Not only do we have NG+, but we added a bunch of stuff in Photo Mode, including:
stickers
frames
rotation for stickers
shortcut to Photo Mode with the D-Pad…
…and I fixed this for you 🙂 pic.twitter.com/SW7Jxrxab6— Gil Doron (@GilFromUI) October 19, 2018
Touché.
Coincidentally, the last time the Gamer Matters crew discussed about the whole puddlegate debacle on dia.log – The Gamer Matters Podcast has an artwork involving puddle stickers.
Marvel’s Spider-Man is out now on the PS4. We have yet to go around to review it, but based on our first impressions playing a preview build close to release, it certainly is a great depiction of the wise-cracking web-slinger.
Via Eurogamer, Siliconera