Dex 🔞

so glad that rift apart is apparently optimized enough that it can run on steam deck, just glad more people will get to play it

both for the inevitable rivet mods

but also so there's hopefully more gary fanart

ok, played through to the title card (medium, 45fps fsr 2.1 cap, 40fps steam deck cap - dropping the settings to low as soon as i realized that it was on medium. still a few hitches here and there on low, but not too bad - a little loading time during the portal jump segment as well)

initial impressions a little worrying

• crashed during the swap to ratchet part of the intro cutscene
• second attempt - load autosave at the swap to ratchet part, successfully finished cutscene, only for none of the floor to load - first screenshot above is after falling through the death barrier
• restart last checkpoint. end up in glitchy version of nefarious city with ratchet & clank, with a lot of non-solid scenery.
• quit game and reload, end up back in same place
• delete just created file, skip all intro cinematics, and this time it works properly

so yeah
i managed to accidentally softlock myself on the PS5 version when i played at launch as well, so i think i'm going to give this a few weeks and see if it gets anything to improve stability a bit

still, the fact it works on steamdeck at all, i consider pretty much a miracle

so glad that rift apart is apparently optimized enough that it can run on steam deck, just glad more people will get to play it

both for the inevitable rivet mods

but also so there's hopefully more gary fanart

some thoughts on seeing this

1. i am glad more people will get to enjoy a fantastic game, even if i very much wonder how or if it will run on lower end systems. someone is going to put it on a 5400 RPM HDD or on an SD card and parts of it may end up being incredibly painful without significant workarounds.
2. with this announcement, there is zero personal reason for me to own a PS5 beyond playing PS4 games. it being ported is the sign that basically everything sony makes now will end up on PC eventually, particularly with this being the next-gen game. particularly with insomniac's games being what sold me on a PS3, PS4, and PS5 - and my console multi-plat library being on the xbox side of things. might need a PC upgrade though
3. excited to see what furries will do with mods. fully expecting "femme ratchet with trans rights armour" in the first week, never mind rivet