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Hopefully they'll at least do some sort of half-step update the same way they eventually added 60fps to True Colors(or Xbox saves the day with FPS Boost). But it's definitely scummy not to specify last gen in the Ultimate Edition.
Basically you want a remake that was never plausible within the timeframe.
I get the frustrations but people need to realize Deck Nine is pretty smol.
I think I'll just stick to last gen versions. Great game tho if you haven't gotten around to playing it yet.
lol at those screens tho. New Bucket Edition
lol at those screens tho. New Bucket Edition
Maybe they shouldn't have announced a "remaster" then? Or they could have delayed longer and actually released a more noticeably improved remaster that actually takes advantage of current gen consoles.
That being said I got these as part of the True Colors bundle so they are now installing lol
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This isn't how they were released, but playing it Before The Storm THEN Life is Strange might be a good experience if this is your first time. You might grow a certain appreciation for some characters.
I mean that what the vast majority of remaster are the same game with all the content at higher resolution/framerate with some texture improvement (if you are lucky)
I'm pretty sure the 1st game run on the same version of UE as True Color but that doesn't make a game better looking by itself.
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Launch notes and known issues
Launch blog.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1265930/view/4463632073239509250
Steam
Consoles and streaming
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1265930/view/4463632073239509250
Steam
https://lifeisstrange.square-enix-games.com/en-gb/blog/lis-remast/
Consoles and streaming
We are thrilled to give fans new and old alike the chance to experience the first two games in the iconic Life is Strange series, Life is Strange and Life is Strange: Before the Storm, on new consoles with modern improvements!
Key Improvements
Brightness/Gamma Settings
- Now rendering in native 4K in Unreal 4 and Unity, with a rebuilt lighting pipeline
- New and updated 4K-ready character models with increased polycounts
- All character models feature more emotive and expressive animation, more natural hair physics, and updated tears, injuries, and more
- Updated character models and environment visuals
- All-new engine and lighting upgrades
- Updates to some puzzle gameplay
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered includes previously released deluxe content (bonus outfits and the 'Farewell' bonus episode)
- All licensed tracks & original scores from the original games
- New lipsync animation throughout Life is Strange: Remastered
- New and updated scenic materials for reflectivity and texture
- Updated models and materials for key props
Don't forget to adjust the games' default Gamma Settings to tweak the brightness and shadow to your taste! You can find the Gamma settings at the top of the Settings > Video Settings menu in both titles. Access Video Settings either from the main menu, or from the pause menu during gameplay.
Stores/General Entitlement Notes:
For clarity, we wanted to share some information in advance of any issues you might face when trying to download the game as part of entitlement to the Life is Strange: True Colors Ultimate Edition, or otherwise.
· Life is Strange: True Colors Ultimate Edition customers will see/be able to download the Remastered Collection games to which they are entitled once the two Remastered games are released. Because of the way console store bundles are structured, Add-Ons and bonus bundle content are not visible on-store and in a customer's console library until they are actually released. This may have presented as being able to add the Life is Strange Remastered Collection to your store cart before release / not see the games you have purchased as part of the Ultimate Edition. Now that the games are released, you should be able to see them, ready for download. You may need to refresh or restart your console if they have not appeared automatically after 5PM GMT / 9PM PST on February 1.
Pre-Order Zombie Crypt Chloe Outfit DLC
- On PlayStation, both games are available as cross-generation compatible PS4 versions, so there is no PS5-specific version available to purchase. The PS4 version on the PlayStation store will run on PS4, PS4 Pro, and PS5..
- The two games install / can be installed separately from one another, appear as separate games in your library, and are launched independently. They can only be purchased as the paired Remastered Collection - except on Stadia, where the games are available separately.
- Do let us know through our customer support link if you are still experiencing any issues with your game entitlement:
SQUARE ENIX Support Center
The SQUARE ENIX Support Center is a centralized support site that provides product information and solutions to the frequently asked questions and issues with our products and services.sqex.link
We have become recently aware, due to some last-minute issues, that the pre-order bonus 'Zombie Crypt' Outfit for Chloe is missing from the PlayStation and Stadia versions of Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered. All customers who pre-ordered the game up to 8am PST on the day of launch will receive the outfit DLC entitlement once an upcoming patch is issued, and we stress your entitlement is not affected. We sincerely apologise for this inconvenience to your first experience with the game. Expect news on when to expect this patch soon.
Rest assured we are dedicated to improving the user experience of the Life is Strange: Remastered Collection post-launch through a series of patches. We thank you for any reports, helping us to identify and fix issues as quickly as possible. Do let us know through our customer support link if you are experiencing any issues:SQUARE ENIX Support Center
The SQUARE ENIX Support Center is a centralized support site that provides product information and solutions to the frequently asked questions and issues with our products and services.
The Life is Strange Team
Thanks. I think I will start with Before the Storm then. Also do we know if there will be a remaster of Life is Strange 2?
I guess the update to 4k is nice at least, but I believe you could already play the original at 4k on PC.
I'm playing the first remastered right now and I'm noticing a lot of stuttering in the classroom on XSX. Is anyone else?
I was skeptical initially… and yeah this seems like a rip-off lol
Felt like these releases alongside TC was an attempt to re-canonise the series.
I'm doubtful we'll hear of 2 again from this point onwards :(
Felt like these releases alongside TC was an attempt to re-canonise the series.
Wait, is there no 60fps mode on Series X? That's the one thing that seemed like a no-brainer to me. I mean, the last-gen version of the original release is FPS boosted and I'm 99% certain Before the Storm had a 60fps mode built-in originally. I just started downloading them so I can't check yet but please tell me I'm mistaken. Because that seems like a straight up downgrade if so.
Dang, that's a huge bummer for me. I just got BTS downloaded and that does at least still have a high framerate mode. I'll at least take my time with that and maybe by the time I get to OG LiS it'll be miraculously patched in
Hope you are right and they do patch it in. I'm going to stop playing for now. Just went to the courtyard after telling the principal and I'm not gonna play all the way through in its current state. I already played through the original game like 3 times previously and this doesn't feel like it's worth it at this point to play it a 4th time.
I forgot there was anti-vax commentary in the bathroom in the first game. Surprised they didn't take that out.
I wouldn't say it's anti-vax, just Max being annoyed that last time she got the shot it made her ill. I think saying it's anti-vax is reading too much into it.
Saying she got the flu after getting the flu shot and saying she isn't getting another or something to that effect came off as anti vax to me, but I guess people can interpret things in different ways.
I'd say release order, so Life is Strange first. Before the Storm is a prequel, but as far as I remember it wasn't intended for first time players not familiar with the universe. Especially the Farwell DLC, which is really really good, doesn't really work emotionally if you didn't play the main game first.
I'm playing Before the Storm first. So the game is still using Unity, sadly. The video settings are exactly the same as the OG release, which means there isn't even an in-game v-sync option. I started with the bonus episode and performance seems fine. I want to use DSR but Unity doesn't roll that way. 🙃 Going to see if solutions for the original release still work. I am disappointed there.
If you're on Stadia Pro don't forget to claim them, they're part of the free games this month!
Life is Strange Remastered
Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered
Or if you're not on Stadia Pro you can sign up for a free month to play them.
Life is Strange Remastered
Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered
Or if you're not on Stadia Pro you can sign up for a free month to play them.
Anyone on PS4 getting terrible tearing at the borders of the screen?
EDIT: Now I have tutorial text stuck on my screen that won't go away even during gameplay. Filters go crazy sometimes when a cutscene switches to a new angle. Not even past the prologue, and this seems buggy as hell.
EDIT: Now I have tutorial text stuck on my screen that won't go away even during gameplay. Filters go crazy sometimes when a cutscene switches to a new angle. Not even past the prologue, and this seems buggy as hell.
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End of episode 1 it switches to a 5 minute pre-rendered cutscene that's low res 🤦♂️ (On Xbox)
This remaster is really low effort stuff. no reason it should be 30fps or not have the option for 60. Some scenes had a weird lighting bug where it kept changing between shots which was very distracting.
The animations are an improvement and it's nice not to have the jitters and texture pop in that happened on the old consoles when changing scene but this is not worth paying for…it might actually be worse than playing the fps boosted original on Xbox?
This remaster is really low effort stuff. no reason it should be 30fps or not have the option for 60. Some scenes had a weird lighting bug where it kept changing between shots which was very distracting.
The animations are an improvement and it's nice not to have the jitters and texture pop in that happened on the old consoles when changing scene but this is not worth paying for…it might actually be worse than playing the fps boosted original on Xbox?
I was really impressed with the dialog in True Colors. I think it might have the best dialog of all the LiS games Ive played. Does Before the Storm have a similar quality in dialog?
I am glad I waited before purchasing this. I did not know until this thread that there is not a PS5/Series X version. Saved myself $40.
Is there not a 60 fps version on consoles? I'm playing on Stadia rn and I'm getting 60. That's weird.
Enjoying my time with BTS so far, even though I've played most of it before. This is one of the only game series that has me checking out everything in each scene before moving on. There's such a meditative pace to these games.
Oh what the flying fuck, you mean to tell me they re-rendered (and touched up) the pre-rendered sequences and still kept them as bit starved videos?
I'm willing to cut D9 a lot of slack, but this is a major disappointment.
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720p30 with an overall bit rate of 1.07 kb/s
Are you kidding me?
I'm willing to cut D9 a lot of slack, but this is a major disappointment.
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Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41)
File size : 24.0 MiB
Duration : 3 min 9 s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 1 065 kb/s
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : [email protected]
Format settings : CABAC / 3 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference : 3 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 3 min 9 s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 981 kb/s
Maximum bit rate : 3 000 kb/s
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 30.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.035
Stream size : 22.1 MiB (92%)
Codec configuration box : avcC
Are you kidding me?
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I don't want keep reporting everything wrong with this, but I want to highly suggest everyone playing the original game on PS, especially for the first time, to wait for a patch. The first episode is just co(s)mically screwed up, from lighting to text overlay issues to audio bugs. The screen tearing might just be my TV setting, but I've played with it for like an hour and couldn't fix it no matter the settings.
They fucked up Max's face in this remaster. I did like seeing Max in tears at the beginning though, that was a good touch.
I regret spending as much as i did on these games including True Colors.
I regret spending as much as i did on these games including True Colors.
After seeing a couple more comparison shots and gameplay on Twitch, I'm definitely not feeling the $30+ on this. I just saw someone's subtitles switch to asset file names lol
Same for me on the PS5. Tearing at the borders and the tutorial text. Also a repeating sentence after leaving the class room the first time. I like the changes but I am surprised how unpolished it is.
It's pretty apparent that these are coming in hot. I can only hope they bother to patch post-launch, and the only thing that gives me faith they will is that True Colors got a couple major patches within like a month that fixed stuff/added performance options on consoles.
But this being treated as more of a freebie/side thing also makes me wonder if they'll bother doing much. I'm not a professional by any means and I'm sure there's time pressure and other dev reasons but it's outright shocking to me that they weren't able to do the basic 60fps mode on current consoles.
But this being treated as more of a freebie/side thing also makes me wonder if they'll bother doing much. I'm not a professional by any means and I'm sure there's time pressure and other dev reasons but it's outright shocking to me that they weren't able to do the basic 60fps mode on current consoles.
