Returnal finally allows you to save the course of the game -apkrig

One of the few things that was blamed on the unexpected spring hit Returnal by the developers from the Housemarque studio was the inability to save the course of the game, or rather the specific cycle behind the scenes of the relentless world of Atropos. If you wanted to shut down the console, you found the game in a reset state after turning it on again, and you had to start a completely new run in accordance with the rules of the roguelite genre. As a result, you were exposed to the need to repeat even hours of incredible effort, unlocking paths and collecting items, which could discourage many players and possibly even cause them not to return to Returnal. But the developers have finally heard many wishes and are adding a standard feature in the latest update save & exitwhich does exactly what you imagine under it. Of course, this is not possible due to the processing of the game without certain exceptions, but even these do not obscure the importance of the described update.

“One of the main features of the new update is to suspend the cycle, which will allow you to continue it later. You can quit the game and turn off the console without losing your progress, but the structure of the game remains unchanged, ”says game director Harry Krueger in his post on the PlayStation blog. He explains that Returnal cannot be stored in the standard way in any place, so that there is no room to bend the game mechanisms and the whole concept, but the players did not expect anything else. “Pausing a cycle simply creates a single-use snap point that clears again when the game is restarted,” Krueger discusses the usual function, perhaps unnecessarily in detail. He adds, however, that it will not be possible to leave the game in this way during boss fights, during movie scenes, or first-person sequences, or during intense fighting scenarios, probably moments when the door closes behind you in the arena and you have to go out. spread out. “We felt that there were certain moments in our game that it was better to experience unbroken in order to maintain the intended challenge and fluidity,” added the new director of the game director.

As for the photo mode, which is the second novelty of the current update, even here it does not bring anything unusual to the developers. On the other hand, we do not claim that very nice images could not be created with the help of the photomode, taking into account what the game world looks like and what effects are mixed in it, especially during duels. Even here, players have to reckon with a few exceptions, when it is not possible to start the photo mode – for example during the mentioned first person sequences – but otherwise players get a tool that they know well. Free movement of the camera, the ability to set various filters, effects or frames and then created photos Share in the usual way with others on the Internet. And the developers of the image galleries, which they took when testing the new feature, prove that there is something to take pictures of. The update is of course completely free and already available for download.