Oh wow. That has me hyped! And i'm not a 100% achiever so I'm not too worried about it. Just like good platforming, music, and levels/worlds to explore!
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Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time coming to Steam October 18th; Next Crash Game Reveal Hinted for Game Awards December 8th
- Thread starter Lant_War
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Hmm, I disagree. I think the audience for Crash is fairly small that Microsoft could eat the loss and prop up their family friendly view and gamepass value with it.
Though the next one I think will at least be multi since the deal hasn't closed and there's seemingly already contracts for it. And I could see them releasing on Switch potentially. I hope I'm wrong though, Crash is one of my favorites and I'd love for it to be on everything.
If this is what you're looking for, 4 may just be the best one by a large margin to you lol
Wasn't there talk from their leadership last year that they're considering coming back? Maybe after whatever deal they have with EGS expires.
Adding my voice to this, I have no goddamn clue how it hasn't happened yet.
So it's just CTR that's not on PC now right?
Must be why MS is trying to buy Acti. 76 Billion Dollar port of CTR for PC
Must be why MS is trying to buy Acti. 76 Billion Dollar port of CTR for PC
Well, who was going to port it? Beenox was already busy trying to keep the game running and updated on console. Activision had everyone else on COD.
Holding a dim candle of hope for future CTR stuff.
Really wish they'd port all of their remakes since the N. Sane trilogy to current gen. Those 30fps caps and load times ache.
Really wish they'd port all of their remakes since the N. Sane trilogy to current gen. Those 30fps caps and load times ache.
Man, I boot up the game, I'm in love with the colors, the music, the vibes, the memory of looking forward to it and even playing it... but then when I look at the levels and gem requirements to get the last of the skins with my eye on the Crash bat since forever and my head just starts to fucking twist between my ears and behind my eyes and I get angry as fuck and remember my kids giving up on playing or watching me play and then I shut the game down without ever playing. Has been this way for so long.
Fuck, I hate the unlock requirements!
Fuck, I hate the unlock requirements!
Wumpa League teases summary
Glad people will finally be able to play Crash 4 on PC without needing to recur to Battle.Net (seriously.. that was just weird..); BUT I'm really excited to see what Wumpa League is all about, FINALLY after so much teasing and rumors.. I was pretty tired... and I know that lot of stuff changed behind the curtains (not to mention Activision literally crumbling down as a company), but the publicly available clues only added to the agony...
So, let me take a moment to recap *everything about Wumpa League throughout these last two years (yes..) and put you up to speed if you're not aware; Feel free to Threadmark if you want, Lant_War !
*proposedly avoiding a certain someone that is a banned source in the forum
------ PRIOR CRASH 4
- First leak regarding Crash 4 (mistakenly reported as a **Wrath of Cortex remake; later clarified) accompanied details of a Crash PvP game; (Mar 12th 2020)
** there are certain evidences on Crash 4's assets that at least they played with the idea of remaking Wrath of Cortex; such as The Elementals as crates.
------ AFTER CRASH 4
- Crash 4 is released, and some teases are present in-game; After getting 100%, one of the unlockable arts depicts Nina and Coco competing in an eSports tournament (note the W flags), and includes an unknown cat-bat hybrid character that sticks out in the crowd (Oct 2nd 2020)
- By getting a whole 106% on the game, you can see a flash of a mysterious Wumpa logo on the TV at the first stage (Oct 2nd 2020)
- The game is datamined and unused animations for the extra characters (Cortex, Tawna, Dingodile) are found, alongside skins and mentions of parachutes; (Oct 2nd 2020)
- The official Crash accounts posts a video with Coco playing Uncharted 4, and for the first time the term Wumpa League is seen in the background; This a new location not in the final game; (Nov 11th 2020)
- Florian Coudray posts the Nina & Coco artwork he painted on Twitter; @CyberWolf_JV (me! 🐺 ✨ ) questions about the unknown character in the crowd, which he replies "Stay Tuned! ;)". @FierceTheBandit also questions the bat-cat, which Nicholas Kole comes to answer with a gif of a chained boy (implying he can't say) (Dec 10th 2020)
- In the Press Release of Crash 4 coming to new platforms (Switch, PC, PS5 and Series X|S) Activision mentions that "other 25th anniversary announcements" throughout the year are coming (nothing happened outside that) (Feb 9th 2021)
- Crash 4 comes to new platforms, and with it an update that the game checks if the player is online (a Wi-Fi symbol is seen occasionally); (Mar 12th 2021)
- In the mobile game Crash on the Run!, during the "Survival of the Fastest" event, a new skin for Crash is added called "The Runner"; It uses the blue/red scheme (which later would be the colors used for the updated WL logo) and with the word "Bash" in the back; (Jul 15th 2021)
- Paul Yan, Chief Creative Officer at Toys for Bob, had a panel at GDC 2021 about Crash 4's development, and a brief flash of a cut-off WL artwork was shown (still using blue and orange) (Jul 22nd 2021)
- At the same GDC pannel, a board of notes was shown discussing what they were aiming for the concept of Crash 4; Deliberately, a note written "Wumpa League" was the only one hidden behind another note and not fully shown. (Jul 22nd 2021)
- In preparation for the series 25th anniversary, lots of Wumpa Piñatas were sent to internet influencers across the world (that took a few weeks to everyone get it); It came with a little hammer with a new WL logo sticker (Sep 8th 2021)
- The franchise's 25th anniversary starts, Toys for Bob publishes a video which uses a Wumpa League spinning icon during scene transitions, and introduces a new White Gem platform symbol on the other side. Avery Lodato (co-studio head at Toys for Bob) ends the video stating "see you pretty soon", teasing further Crash content; (Sep 9th 2021)
- Crash's official accounts posts a Charlie Day conspiracy parody, with the Wumpa League logo highlighted with a bunch of question marks (Sep 9th 2021)
- A State of Play is coincidentally aired on Crash's anniversary date, and during the opening live-action segment, stickers for the WL logo and the White Gem Platform are seen for a split second (Sep 9th 2021)
- Riff Studio in Thailand, published some test animation done for Crash 4; That featured an untextured blank setting used in the Uncharted clip in 2020 (Oct 1st 2021)
- A former TfB employee let it slip a whole development timeline of Crash 4 (Project Quantum) and Wumpa League (Project Lava) on their portfolio; Shows the original schedule for both games and uses old WL logos; Give us more context of content rollout (Oct 10th 2021)
- A christmas box of Crash and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater themed goodies was sent to some influencers; The sticker on the box used the White Gem Platform icon (Dec 13th 2021)
- Toys for Bob twitter posts a suspicious Wumpa Fruit logo mimicking the Wordle game (Feb 2nd 2022)
- For St. Patrick's day, TfB published an edited version of a known Crash 4 artwork; While they drove attention to the leafs, a White Gem platform icon was added to the mechanical arm reaching Crash (Mar 17th 2022)
- In the Xbox Chaturdays podcast (episode 69, nice! 😎), the hosts talked about their predictions on Summer Game Fest and the upcoming "not-E3" season; And casually talked about a "new multiplayer Crash Bandicoot game" being revealed and guessed it would be soon; They realized they were talking openly about something they shouldn't "leak" and shifted the conversation of how it was just a prediction.. but added that "this is the Wumpa League game thas has been delayed for a while" and that the game is a "brawler" of sorts. (Jun 4th, 2022)
- Toys For Bob, on Twitter, made a little guessing game with their followers, so people could point out their portfolio of games released.. with 18 question marks, but they only really put out 17 games publicly at this point. The day they revealed the results, they made a mystery out the 18th game (Aug 15th and 16th 2022)
- And of course, that leads us to present time, where they announced Crash 4 for Steam, with a Pizza Box that gave us a hint of more to come on December 8th, which is The Game Awards 2022; Crash's social media is liking all the reacting tweets on the matter (Oct 7th 2022)
Again, I proposedly avoided using other leaked material that came from a banned source, even though they are pretty much confirmed to be real; But either way.. this has been a ride, and I don't think we could get through with our N.SANITY intact if wasn't for constant insurance of Wrestleman and for that, thank you! 💕
Probably we're getting this list of hints even bigger before we get a proper announcement, because, of course... But it's good to see that the claims that Toys for Bob is just a CoD machine today is unfounded;
So, let me take a moment to recap *everything about Wumpa League throughout these last two years (yes..) and put you up to speed if you're not aware; Feel free to Threadmark if you want, Lant_War !
*proposedly avoiding a certain someone that is a banned source in the forum
------ PRIOR CRASH 4
- First leak regarding Crash 4 (mistakenly reported as a **Wrath of Cortex remake; later clarified) accompanied details of a Crash PvP game; (Mar 12th 2020)
** there are certain evidences on Crash 4's assets that at least they played with the idea of remaking Wrath of Cortex; such as The Elementals as crates.
------ AFTER CRASH 4
- Crash 4 is released, and some teases are present in-game; After getting 100%, one of the unlockable arts depicts Nina and Coco competing in an eSports tournament (note the W flags), and includes an unknown cat-bat hybrid character that sticks out in the crowd (Oct 2nd 2020)
- By getting a whole 106% on the game, you can see a flash of a mysterious Wumpa logo on the TV at the first stage (Oct 2nd 2020)
- The game is datamined and unused animations for the extra characters (Cortex, Tawna, Dingodile) are found, alongside skins and mentions of parachutes; (Oct 2nd 2020)
- The official Crash accounts posts a video with Coco playing Uncharted 4, and for the first time the term Wumpa League is seen in the background; This a new location not in the final game; (Nov 11th 2020)
- Florian Coudray posts the Nina & Coco artwork he painted on Twitter; @CyberWolf_JV (me! 🐺 ✨ ) questions about the unknown character in the crowd, which he replies "Stay Tuned! ;)". @FierceTheBandit also questions the bat-cat, which Nicholas Kole comes to answer with a gif of a chained boy (implying he can't say) (Dec 10th 2020)
- In the Press Release of Crash 4 coming to new platforms (Switch, PC, PS5 and Series X|S) Activision mentions that "other 25th anniversary announcements" throughout the year are coming (nothing happened outside that) (Feb 9th 2021)
- Crash 4 comes to new platforms, and with it an update that the game checks if the player is online (a Wi-Fi symbol is seen occasionally); (Mar 12th 2021)
- In the mobile game Crash on the Run!, during the "Survival of the Fastest" event, a new skin for Crash is added called "The Runner"; It uses the blue/red scheme (which later would be the colors used for the updated WL logo) and with the word "Bash" in the back; (Jul 15th 2021)
- Paul Yan, Chief Creative Officer at Toys for Bob, had a panel at GDC 2021 about Crash 4's development, and a brief flash of a cut-off WL artwork was shown (still using blue and orange) (Jul 22nd 2021)
- At the same GDC pannel, a board of notes was shown discussing what they were aiming for the concept of Crash 4; Deliberately, a note written "Wumpa League" was the only one hidden behind another note and not fully shown. (Jul 22nd 2021)
- In preparation for the series 25th anniversary, lots of Wumpa Piñatas were sent to internet influencers across the world (that took a few weeks to everyone get it); It came with a little hammer with a new WL logo sticker (Sep 8th 2021)
- The franchise's 25th anniversary starts, Toys for Bob publishes a video which uses a Wumpa League spinning icon during scene transitions, and introduces a new White Gem platform symbol on the other side. Avery Lodato (co-studio head at Toys for Bob) ends the video stating "see you pretty soon", teasing further Crash content; (Sep 9th 2021)
- Crash's official accounts posts a Charlie Day conspiracy parody, with the Wumpa League logo highlighted with a bunch of question marks (Sep 9th 2021)
- A State of Play is coincidentally aired on Crash's anniversary date, and during the opening live-action segment, stickers for the WL logo and the White Gem Platform are seen for a split second (Sep 9th 2021)
- Riff Studio in Thailand, published some test animation done for Crash 4; That featured an untextured blank setting used in the Uncharted clip in 2020 (Oct 1st 2021)
- A former TfB employee let it slip a whole development timeline of Crash 4 (Project Quantum) and Wumpa League (Project Lava) on their portfolio; Shows the original schedule for both games and uses old WL logos; Give us more context of content rollout (Oct 10th 2021)
- A christmas box of Crash and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater themed goodies was sent to some influencers; The sticker on the box used the White Gem Platform icon (Dec 13th 2021)
- Toys for Bob twitter posts a suspicious Wumpa Fruit logo mimicking the Wordle game (Feb 2nd 2022)
- For St. Patrick's day, TfB published an edited version of a known Crash 4 artwork; While they drove attention to the leafs, a White Gem platform icon was added to the mechanical arm reaching Crash (Mar 17th 2022)
- In the Xbox Chaturdays podcast (episode 69, nice! 😎), the hosts talked about their predictions on Summer Game Fest and the upcoming "not-E3" season; And casually talked about a "new multiplayer Crash Bandicoot game" being revealed and guessed it would be soon; They realized they were talking openly about something they shouldn't "leak" and shifted the conversation of how it was just a prediction.. but added that "this is the Wumpa League game thas has been delayed for a while" and that the game is a "brawler" of sorts. (Jun 4th, 2022)
- Toys For Bob, on Twitter, made a little guessing game with their followers, so people could point out their portfolio of games released.. with 18 question marks, but they only really put out 17 games publicly at this point. The day they revealed the results, they made a mystery out the 18th game (Aug 15th and 16th 2022)
- And of course, that leads us to present time, where they announced Crash 4 for Steam, with a Pizza Box that gave us a hint of more to come on December 8th, which is The Game Awards 2022; Crash's social media is liking all the reacting tweets on the matter (Oct 7th 2022)
Again, I proposedly avoided using other leaked material that came from a banned source, even though they are pretty much confirmed to be real; But either way.. this has been a ride, and I don't think we could get through with our N.SANITY intact if wasn't for constant insurance of Wrestleman and for that, thank you! 💕
Probably we're getting this list of hints even bigger before we get a proper announcement, because, of course... But it's good to see that the claims that Toys for Bob is just a CoD machine today is unfounded;
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Oh is the work culture at activision fixed yet or do we just not care anymore?
It's genuinely weird that we ban discussion on the HP game (rightfully so) but turn a blind eye to this. I don't understand
I'd love to be wrong btw, I love blizzard games, but so far I'm not aware of any major shifts
It's genuinely weird that we ban discussion on the HP game (rightfully so) but turn a blind eye to this. I don't understand
I'd love to be wrong btw, I love blizzard games, but so far I'm not aware of any major shifts
I thought that was specifically Blizzard. This is Vicarious Visions.
Looks like a cursory search shows that acti blizzard at large has the workplace issues. Seems to follow that money into this supports the parent company. Also seems to follow a similar logic that if we buy the new HP game the money ultimately flows back to the TERF that wrote my former favorite childhood book series.
I'm genuinely confused about why we make the exceptions we do on this website, I'd really love to hear from a mod what the reasoning is.
I think the issues should be openly discussed and criticism should be encouraged in threads on Activision games (albeit without too much derailing and nor attacking other members, of course), but since we're talking about a whole publisher, one of the biggests in the market in fact, and on top of being a subject of a giant acquisition in a couple of months, it's not comparable to shutting down just the HP franchise.. which barely gets a game or two per generation these days.
Either way, that's up to modderation. I'm personally fortunate that I didn't spend any amount of money on Activision games since the controversies exploded, since Crash is basically their only IP I care about.. Wumpa League is a deciding factor for me, I'll have to see how they'll put it out (if it's a retail game, or a F2P title)..
But above everything, I'm hoping Microsoft is the change that the whole culture at ABK is in desperate need.
View: https://twitter.com/CrashBandicoot/status/1579834202593398784
This is officially announced now. $39.99 price tag in the US.
EDIT: Comparing the Steam and Battle.Net legal text appears to reveal that the online requirement is removed for Steam.
Battle.Net:
Steam:
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Not gonna lie.. I was expecting at least a frame-flash of the Wumpa League logo on that monitor, for the sake of tradition;
But neat they're cutting the internet requirement stuff on this release; I think modders long ago made some kind of fix for the Battle.Net version;
But neat they're cutting the internet requirement stuff on this release; I think modders long ago made some kind of fix for the Battle.Net version;
Incredible post! Wow, I didn't really appreciate all of the hints and build up Wumpa League had until seeing it all together like this.Glad people will finally be able to play Crash 4 on PC without needing to recur to Battle.Net (seriously.. that was just weird..); BUT I'm really excited to see what Wumpa League is all about, FINALLY after so much teasing and rumors.. I was pretty tired... and I know that lot of stuff changed behind the curtains (not to mention Activision literally crumbling down as a company), but the publicly available clues only added to the agony...
So, let me take a moment to recap *everything about Wumpa League throughout these last two years (yes..) and put you up to speed if you're not aware; Feel free to Threadmark if you want, Lant_War !
*proposedly avoiding a certain someone that is a banned source in the forum
------ PRIOR CRASH 4
- First leak regarding Crash 4 (mistakenly reported as a **Wrath of Cortex remake; later clarified) accompanied details of a Crash PvP game; (Mar 12th 2020)
** there are certain evidences on Crash 4's assets that at least they played with the idea of remaking Wrath of Cortex; such as The Elementals as crates.
------ AFTER CRASH 4
- Crash 4 is released, and some teases are present in-game; After getting 100%, one of the unlockable arts depicts Nina and Coco competing in an eSports tournament (note the W flags), and includes an unknown cat-bat hybrid character that sticks out in the crowd (Oct 2nd 2020)
- By getting a whole 106% on the game, you can see a flash of a mysterious Wumpa logo on the TV at the first stage (Oct 2nd 2020)
- The game is datamined and unused animations for the extra characters (Cortex, Tawna, Dingodile) are found, alongside skins and mentions of parachutes; (Oct 2nd 2020)
- The official Crash accounts posts a video with Coco playing Uncharted 4, and for the first time the term Wumpa League is seen in the background; This a new location not in the final game; (Nov 11th 2020)
- Florian Coudray posts the Nina & Coco artwork he painted on Twitter; @CyberWolf_JV (me! 🐺 ✨ ) questions about the unknown character in the crowd, which he replies "Stay Tuned! ;)". @FierceTheBandit also questions the bat-cat, which Nicholas Kole comes to answer with a gif of a chained boy (implying he can't say) (Dec 10th 2020)
- In the Press Release of Crash 4 coming to new platforms (Switch, PC, PS5 and Series X|S) Activision mentions that "other 25th anniversary announcements" throughout the year are coming (nothing happened outside that) (Feb 9th 2021)
- Crash 4 comes to new platforms, and with it an update that the game checks if the player is online (a Wi-Fi symbol is seen occasionally); (Mar 12th 2021)
- In the mobile game Crash on the Run!, during the "Survival of the Fastest" event, a new skin for Crash is added called "The Runner"; It uses the blue/red scheme (which later would be the colors used for the updated WL logo) and with the word "Bash" in the back; (Jul 15th 2021)
- Paul Yan, Chief Creative Officer at Toys for Bob, had a panel at GDC 2021 about Crash 4's development, and a brief flash of a cut-off WL artwork was shown (still using blue and orange) (Jul 22nd 2021)
- At the same GDC pannel, a board of notes was shown discussing what they were aiming for the concept of Crash 4; Deliberately, a note written "Wumpa League" was the only one hidden behind another note and not fully shown. (Jul 22nd 2021)
- In preparation for the series 25th anniversary, lots of Wumpa Piñatas were sent to internet influencers across the world (that took a few weeks to everyone get it); It came with a little hammer with a new WL logo sticker (Sep 8th 2021)
- The franchise's 25th anniversary starts, Toys for Bob publishes a video which uses a Wumpa League spinning icon during scene transitions, and introduces a new White Gem platform symbol on the other side. Avery Lodato (co-studio head at Toys for Bob) ends the video stating "see you pretty soon", teasing further Crash content; (Sep 9th 2021)
- Crash's official accounts posts a Charlie Day conspiracy parody, with the Wumpa League logo highlighted with a bunch of question marks (Sep 9th 2021)
- A State of Play is coincidentally aired on Crash's anniversary date, and during the opening live-action segment, stickers for the WL logo and the White Gem Platform are seen for a split second (Sep 9th 2021)
- Riff Studio in Thailand, published some test animation done for Crash 4; That featured an untextured blank setting used in the Uncharted clip in 2020 (Oct 1st 2021)
- A former TfB employee let it slip a whole development timeline of Crash 4 (Project Quantum) and Wumpa League (Project Lava) on their portfolio; Shows the original schedule for both games and uses old WL logos; Give us more context of content rollout (Oct 10th 2021)
- A christmas box of Crash and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater themed goodies was sent to some influencers; The sticker on the box used the White Gem Platform icon (Dec 13th 2021)
- Toys for Bob twitter posts a suspicious Wumpa Fruit logo mimicking the Wordle game (Feb 2nd 2022)
- For St. Patrick's day, TfB published an edited version of a known Crash 4 artwork; While they drove attention to the leafs, a White Gem platform icon was added to the mechanical arm reaching Crash (Mar 17th 2022)
- In the Xbox Chaturdays podcast (episode 69, nice! 😎), the hosts talked about their predictions on Summer Game Fest and the upcoming "not-E3" season; And casually talked about a "new multiplayer Crash Bandicoot game" being revealed and guessed it would be soon; They realized they were talking openly about something they shouldn't "leak" and shifted the conversation of how it was just a prediction.. but added that "this is the Wumpa League game thas has been delayed for a while" and that the game is a "brawler" of sorts. (Jun 4th, 2022)
- Toys For Bob, on Twitter, made a little guessing game with their followers, so people could point out their portfolio of games released.. with 18 question marks, but they only really put out 17 games publicly at this point. The day they revealed the results, they made a mystery out the 18th game (Aug 15th and 16th 2022)
- And of course, that leads us to present time, where they announced Crash 4 for Steam, with a Pizza Box that gave us a hint of more to come on December 8th, which is The Game Awards 2022; Crash's social media is liking all the reacting tweets on the matter (Oct 7th 2022)
Again, I proposedly avoided using other leaked material that came from a banned source, even though they are pretty much confirmed to be real; But either way.. this has been a ride, and I don't think we could get through with our N.SANITY intact if wasn't for constant insurance of Wrestleman and for that, thank you! 💕
Probably we're getting this list of hints even bigger before we get a proper announcement, because, of course... But it's good to see that the claims that Toys for Bob is just a CoD machine today is unfounded;
Hoping the announcement is soon!
Thank you! Well... Not having to keep track of these things is a good position of being! I guess it's more agonizing if you were paying attention.. and that was most of the fanbase because otherwise, there was this weird radio silence (even Crash on the Run entered on a hiatus on its updates now... seems like the perfect timing for a relaunch!); especially when stuff like the State of Play stickers happened, that bursted the conversation for a couple of weeks!
But again, we also have everything else happening at Activision too (and the acquisition on top of that)
I'm open to more experiments and new genres! Crash got stuck in this loop of platformers (mainline, of course), racing and mini-game collections, and never got the chance to have something new on his portfolio.. Mario got tons of sports games, Sonic too; I do want to see some weird games on the franchise, while the iron is still hot!
Just bumping to say the game is live now on Steam!
store.steampowered.com
Crash Bandicoot™ 4: It’s About Time on Steam
It’s About Time - the critically-acclaimed Crash Bandicoot™ 4: It's About Time is now on Steam!
Fingers crossed, but that one's probably less likely since it didn't get a PC port to begin with.
… but they should port it to PC. Such a damn good game hampered by the 30FPS cap. I'd play the hell out of it on Deck if they'd let me. :(
Just bumping to say the game is live now on Steam!
Crash Bandicoot™ 4: It’s About Time on Steam
It’s About Time - the critically-acclaimed Crash Bandicoot™ 4: It's About Time is now on Steam!
Damn... € 39,99
Not what I hoped for. Already own the Switch and PS4 version (with PS5 update ), so I' ll wait for a price drop before I triple dip.
Still waiting for that "Lowered number of needed gems to 6 across all levels" patch. Skins for the casuals, relics for the hardcore.
Also, with the amount of hidden boxes they throw in there to fuck with your time and energy, there should be a separate gem for Hidden Boxes ffs.
Also, with the amount of hidden boxes they throw in there to fuck with your time and energy, there should be a separate gem for Hidden Boxes ffs.
For steam deck users, you guys need to wait for the proton update cause the pre render cutscenes are busted
Use the latest version of Proton GE and enter this as a launch option for the game in Steam:
Code:
DXVK_ASYNC=1 %command%I was having issues with cutscenes not playing and with constant stutter during gameplay, but that fixed it entirely for me, seemingly. I'm getting a solid 60FPS on medium settings as of the first desert-y level. (Honestly high settings were mostly great too, but I was getting just enough framerate dips to bother me.)
If anyone wants a lower or higher internal resolution than the output res, go to the engine.ini file for the game (C:\Users\[YOURWINDOWSUSERNAMEHERE]\AppData\Local\CrashBandicoot4\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor) and then put this in at the bottom of the document:
Then, change xx to the number of your desired resolution percentage. Using this on 4k screen with "r.ScreenPercentage=80" to hit 120fps consistently with RTX 3080 :D
EDIT: Also, if you want to add a sharpening filter due to the TAA being a bit blurry, in that same above engine.ini file, put this at the bottom:
xx can go up to 10, though realistically you probably want between 0.5 and 1.0.
Then, change xx to the number of your desired resolution percentage. Using this on 4k screen with "r.ScreenPercentage=80" to hit 120fps consistently with RTX 3080 :D
EDIT: Also, if you want to add a sharpening filter due to the TAA being a bit blurry, in that same above engine.ini file, put this at the bottom:
xx can go up to 10, though realistically you probably want between 0.5 and 1.0.
Nicholas Kole art for Crash 4 and Spyro really fits that particularly cartoonish style, hope they bring back for the next one.
My advice: Play on modern mode (infinite lives), make sure to have the yellow circle on your drop shadow activated, and just play it collecting what you can on your pace and focus on finishing levels normally; It's way less stressful if you do that way and just get to the end of the game without much care about crates, gems and relics. Not even the FlashBack Tapes and many of the alternative character levels are required anyway..
personally, it's the way I always play games for the first time.. and when I get to the end and think I had a good enough time, I go back to get what I miss to 100% it.
But Crash 4, in particular, is what I feel is the first and only game in the series designed to be hard and sometimes a bit unfair on crate and secret placements indeed.. even the Bonus Rooms are much more head scratching than usually. So it's better for your first experience be as laidback as you can have.
Thanks for your advice. I already play with that settings (and attitude 😬). I will go back to the levels and try to do them 100% when I finished the game. In my initial playthrough I am okay with what I get.
When it comes to the Tapes, I love them. I play them immediately.
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