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inFAMOUS Second Son Patch Out Tomorrow + New Photo Mode

T

TheRealTalker

Banned
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/04/16/infamous-second-son-patch-out-tomorrow/#sf2609005
I have some good news for you. We’ve made great progress on the inFAMOUS Second Son patch on PS4 I promised you a couple weeks back. In fact, we expect to publish it on PSN tomorrow, April 17th.
Now first, let me update you on the specifics I promised, and then toss in a few extra goodies that we managed to squeeze in when nobody was looking. First — addressing one of the top two requests we’ve gotten — you’ll be able to disable the HUD, and once you’ve finished the game you’ll be able to adjust the time of day as you like.
We also promised, and have included, an option to cap the game frame rate at 30 FPS if you prefer playing this way. To set expectations for you all: this is a frame rate cap — not a lock. It won’t eliminate the rare instance of a dropped frame during gameplay.

But that’s all stuff you expected. Let’s talk about a few surprises, saving the best for last:
A handful of localization text changes, and a couple of fixes for rare crashes in the game (Thanks to all of you who uploaded reports on those, they were extremely helpful!).
If your controller runs out of batteries in the middle of gameplay, your game will pause. Our art director pulled a hamstring scrambling to get his second controller mid-boss-battle, so we needed to fix this.
If you’re choosing expert difficulty, we let you know within the options dialog if you’re qualified for the “Unstoppable” trophy the moment you opt in.
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Photo Mode.
Wait, what’s that last one? We were totally amazed at the quality of the screenshots you all shared. Amazed. So we thought we’d try to help you all out. With this patch, you can enable photo mode within the options. Once you do that, clicking L3 will pause the game, and allow you to use a suite of our internal tools (like setting depth of field) to take even more amazing shots.



To hold you over until the patch goes live tomorrow, check out the brief video tutorial above showing how the Photo Mode works!
Final full disclosures and fine print: these options and settings, including frame rate, will reset to defaults each time you restart the game. We chose to not disturb our game save file format with this patch in order get these features to you as quickly as we could. Additionally, Photo Mode will only work in situations where the camera is freely movable by players. In scripted sequences/cutscenes you can still take screenshots of course, just not with the Photo Mode tools.
We hope you enjoy the new tools and the Photo Mode, and we can’t wait to see what you come up with! Enjoy, and talk again soon.
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Photo Mode Tutorial Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbkvRpL72mo
 
V

VanWinkle

Member
OH YES. Once I finished the game, I stopped playing (I haven't 100% it yet) to wait for this patch.

Photo mode sounds AWESOME.
 
D

dynamitejim

Member
It's really nice they're including something a bit more in depth than just and ability to turn off the HUD. Good job Sucker Punch!
 
R

RoboPlato

I'd be in the dick
Photo mode will make for some good screen taking. Now all we need is the ability to pull screens from the PS4 via USB.
 
J

jaypah

Member
Man, you thought there were some nice SS shots before. This is going to make for some amazing shots. Can't wait to see what people do with it.
 
P

PensOwl

Banned
Walking around and taking pictures is the best part of open world games. This is a pretty great addition.

There's going to be a ton of great shots up on the console screenshot thread when this hits.
 
M

MercuryLS

Banned
Photo mode is a great addition. Sony should make something like that built into the UI though. Something where when you press the share button an overlay comes up with options similar to what sucker punch did.
 
dr guildo

dr guildo

Member
Yes ! This is it ! Photomode greatness ! I Will delete my 500 screenshots and replace them by the new ones taken with this new feature.
 
C

crazygambit

Member
We also promised, and have included, an option to cap the game frame rate at 30 FPS if you prefer playing this way. To set expectations for you all: this is a frame rate cap — not a lock. It won’t eliminate the rare instance of a dropped frame during gameplay.
Click to expand...

This is perfectly understandable. I don't know how a game could even be locked at a certain fps guaranteeing no drops ever, something's gotta give.

these options and settings, including frame rate, will reset to defaults each time you restart the game. We chose to not disturb our game save file format with this patch in order get these features to you as quickly as we could
Click to expand...

Now that's a bit annoying and disappointing. Hopefully they'll sort it out for the next patch.
 
eso76

eso76

Member
is it bad that this has me more excited than..uh, pretty much anything they could add to the game.

Unfortunately it looks like camera isn't entirely free to roam around, but can only orbit around Delsin, still i'm sure you can get basically any angle you'd like with some trickery

Fantastic, can't wait
 
N

n00bsauce87

Member
Great mode to include. It really just makes sense. I wonder if we'll see it standard for new IPs this new gen. Just hitting the share button won't be enough, we gotta make it pretty, oh so pretty.
 
J

jett

D-Member
These guys are going above and beyond.

Meanwhile Naughty Dog charges $5 for a new difficulty mode.
 
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