They’ve also revealed their post-launch roadmap, so hopefully it’ll run well enough by February for you to enjoy the New Game+ and Hardcore modes.
The PC tech issues are indeed widespread, as Digital Foundry also report above. They say the issues are down to it not precompiling its shaders, which they know because the stuttering goes away if you replay a section you’ve already suffered through. No PC is immune, apparently, so don’t go in thinking everything will be peachy even if your rig is beefy.
Here’s that roadmap, announcing New Game+ and Hardcore mode will be added in an update on Febrary 7th. If you buy the Season Pass that’s also when you’ll get a new skin collection, which sounds meagre but is at least appropriately macabre terminology for a horror game. Season Pass owners will also get the “Contagion Bundle” in March, the “Riot Bundle” at some point in Spring, then new story content in the Summer.
Alice wound up playing on PS5 to finish her Callisto Protocol review, where the stuttering stopped but her reservations did not. “The big problem is the combat controls”, she said, while also finding the scares tame and the tentacles lame.
You can buy The Callisto Protocol for £50/$60/€60 on Steam, but if you do that then you haven’t been listening, have you?
