![]() Part 2 opens as Joel, the gruff protagonist from The Last of Us, tells his brother his darkest secret, the secret that may have doomed humanity. Although the game’s backdrop is a global pandemic, and although it reaches toward the idea of larger injustices by depicting two warring human factions - the cult of the Seraphites, and the militaristic Washington Liberation Front - it is really just a story about a teen girl, her damage, and her apparent belief that the only way to get over that trauma is murder.Ī lot of murder. It’s filled with characters dedicated to never seeing the bigger picture beyond themselves. Part 2 is a game about not rising above revenge or violent urges in general. I kept expecting her to grow and turn away from a life of constant violence, but she never picks up on the obvious didactic nature of the game she’s in, even as the designers beat you over the head with a very simple lesson about the value of human life. What’s worse is that the characterization of Ellie makes it seem like she should also understand this part of the journey. But the game’s larger problem is that the characters themselves don’t ever seem able to catch up with me. The Last of Us Part 2 must think I’ll struggle with it, though, since it doles out all sorts of reasons why I should feel regret about the murder spree its characters have embarked upon. It’s almost like magic! Except not, because it takes a ton of work.I don’t have any problem empathizing with the people who I’m asked to kill in video games. What’s more, this “translation” between the old and new controllers happens entirely in the DualSense firmware - PS4 game code doesn’t change at all when it’s running on a PS5. “So the controller firmware in the DualSense has to receive the ‘old’ signals that are meant to spin up a motor (which has much higher latency), and emulate the resulting FEELING in the controller using a completely different mechanical method,” he said on Twitter. The DualSense features two weights that move forward and back, and can “express frequency and amplitude at extremely high fidelity and low latency (almost like a speaker),” Margenau explained. ![]() The DualShock 4 controller delivers vibration through two different-sized weights that rotate inside. ![]() Polygon staffers noticed the mismatch in haptics at the PS5’s launch last November, saying that “some PS4 games’ vibration schemes clearly feel designed with the DualShock 4 in mind - because they were.” We noted that the feeling of force feedback was not a “one-to-one transition from DualShock 4 to DualSense.”įixing the disparity was complicated, according to Margenau, due to mechanical differences between the controllers. Margenau said that he had the chance to give feedback to Sony’s DualSense team “a few months ago,” to “help improve certain timing, intensity, and ‘texture’ of haptics” when people use the controller with PS4 games.Ī few months ago, I got to give feedback to the Sony DualSense team to help improve certain timing, intensity, and “texture” of haptics when in backwards compatibility (BC) mode to closer achieve the feeling we authored for the original DualShock 4 for our games.- Kurt Margenau May 21, 2021 PS4 games played on PS5 with a DualSense should now feel closer to their original experience with a PS4 and its DualShock 4 gamepad. Hot on the heels of this week’s PS5 performance update for the 2020 game - which doubled the frame rate to 60 frames per second - Margenau noted on Friday that players returning to the game “may notice the haptics feel better.” The reason, Margenau explained in a Twitter thread, is that the DualSense firmware update tweaked haptic feedback when the controller is used to play PS4 titles. At the time, Sony gave no information on what the update did, but we finally have some details now, thanks to The Last of Us Part 2 co-game director Kurt Margenau. If you own a PS5, you may recall that after the patch, the console asked you to plug in the controller to update its firmware. ![]() ![]() Sony issued a major system software update for the PS5 in mid-April. If you’ve noticed that your PlayStation 5 DualSense controller’s vibration feels a little better with PlayStation 4 games these days, no, it’s not just you. ![]()
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