With its average rating of now 72% on Metacritic (in its PS5 version) and 69% in its Xbox Series version, The Callisto Protocol is a game that has quite divided the press and the players. Between gameplay that was not well understood, unexpected crashes, annoying bugs and frankly not terrible PC optimization, Glen Schofield’s title did not live up to its hype. The developers at Striking Distance Studios understand and work hard to improve the experience for players. The studio is also very attentive to them and the latest update solves a lot of game design problems. It is now possible to skip death animations, which are often painful in length since people die very often in the game. Animations for healing and changing weapons have also been singled out for being slow, the character vulnerable to enemy attacks. Since the update, animations have been sped up, making the action more dynamic than ever. Here is what it gives
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DUDE LOOK AT THE SPED UP WEAPON SWAPPING. Imagine having this at launch. Damn… pic.twitter.com/GMBdtHJNLk
— Suzi Hunter (@TheSphereHunter) December 16, 2022
List of improvements with update 1.08 of 16/12/2022
– Added faster healing animations.
– Added faster weapon switching and reloading.
– Ability to skip death animations from the game.
– Added combat enhancements
– Various localization optimizations.
– PS4 trophies now sync via PSN.
– Fixed bugs related to ray tracing.
– More fixes for stuttering issues.
– Fixed crashing issues.
– Fixed random fps drop issue.
– General game performance improvements added.
– Added general stability fixes.
– Other minor fixes.
