Official Spider-Man 2 (PS5) Thread - 30fps, 40fps, 60fps, 120fps! (*Spoilers Inside*)

First game I’ve preordered for a while. Loved the first as well as MM so more of the same will be perfect for me.
After getting tha Ps5 in January I've been living off the games that you get with the plus subscription, as I missed so many classics for th first few years when I had only Xbox.

First game I've bought on ps store for ps5. I won't lie, it hurt paying £69.99 I got the prepaid cards to make it 62 quid but that still hurts....!


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Quick thoughts:

The video I embedded a few posts can be played at the beginning of the game, if you need a reminder or didn't play the 1st 2 games.
The whole intro cut scenes/story/QTE etc takes about 1 hour.
It feels like you are swinging faster than in the 1st 2 games.
Flying is awesome and even faster than web slinging around

As soon as I could take control I took the obligatory shot from Avengers tower:

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Same place from Spider-Man Remastered:
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And from Miles Morales:
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You can use the gusts of wind and the green circles that appear when you press R3 to go even faster. You can easily fly across the river using that method.

Gonna climb avengers tower again later, jump off and see how far the wings/webs can take me without any boosts.


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Combining the wing suit with swinging around the city is so much fun, you can sort of just get lost and forget about the main campaign and just swing from crime to crime!

It's also a stunning game, YouTube uploads directly from the PS5 tends to lose the quality a bit and it obviously only uploads at 1080p but even from this short 20s clip you can sort of see how gorgeous the game is. Definitely enjoying the 40fps mode as well, first time I've ever used it on any game and it's working really well.
I set the PS5 to record at 4k in webm format and exported it to USB and played it back on a laptop. It shows the resolution is 2160p and also 60fps, but doesn't look that amazing. Now I uploaded it to Youtube and it's processing (1 hr left!). Is this the only way to share 4k captures with the built in tools?

Edit: I think you are at the exact same point in the game as me, just watched a long cut scene with Peter and Harry and now need to go to the Raft as Miles.

I'm still reluctant to start the story missions as flying and webbing around is so much fun. :D



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Serious question, is this playable for folks that cannot combo/button mash? For context I basically couldn't do combo's of any sort on Arkham Knight though I did like the game itself. I remember being good at Tekken and Street Fighter as a teenager but I lost it. I do have fast reactions though, have no issues with recent Tomb Raider, Uncharted type games.
I think so. These days games have so many accessibility options, and this game is no exception.

Finished processing.....4k 60fps HDR


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Unlocked fast travel in about 4 districts now. No matter which district you skip to the loading time is identical, really impressive.

I've noticed the subtitles issue a few times, but no big deal. Apart from that no bugs, but I'm still very early in the game, in terms of main missions.

Bought a couple of suits and then realised I should really save the Tech parts for suit upgrades instead (extra health, speed etc). Can get the suits later. The web swinging seems really fast to me already, can't imagine what it will be like after the upgrades in the tech trees.


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I was dying a lot at first, especially with the groups with the fire weapons. I think they really want you to parry the attacks from those and the other bug enemies, but I keep forgetting to press the party button (I think that mechanic wasn't in the 1st 2 games iirc)

It's a bit easier once you get a few health upgrades.

Edit: game.shows 11 hours playtime and I've still only done 13/31 of the main missions.


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Currently rocking the Iron Spider suit for Peter and the Forever (Wakanda) suite for Miles. It occurred to me how little tweaking would be needed to actually add other Marvel heroes to this game and have them too jumping and flying around New York. You could Easily have Hulk, Iron Man, Black Panther, Captain America and most other agility/jumping/flying heroes without having to add many new physics or moves.

Edit: The jumping/swinging/flying speeds are insane once you get the Venom suit.


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Why do you 'sign' your own posts? I used to see kids doing that a long time ago.
i saw some kids doing it, a long time ago, and it seemed cool so I started to do it.

I saw a video about combat and it said the best way is to just stay in the air. So punch an enemy into the air, jump up and defeat them, once they're done press triangle to yank another enemy. Rinse and repeat. Once you get used to it it's fairly easy to do. All you have to do then is avoid projectiles and there's an ability that lets you dodge them mid-air.
I tried this yesterday with limited success. Need to practice more.

There is an auto heal option in the settings here as well.
There also an option to swap the Tap square prompts into Hold square. Very handy.


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All very weird. As someone learning Spanish (Castillian), I sort of accepted there was also the Latin American Spanish, but this gender neutrelised version using "e" and "ue" instead of "a" and "o" is a new one on me.
In the game Miles and Rio are speaking Latin American Spanish anyway, as I don't really understand some of their phrases, were it not for the subtitles.


Anyway, back to the game. Gonna try and finish the main story today. I've done 21/31 main story missions so far. Hopefully around 4-5 hours left. Wasted far too many Hero tokens on suits that I try on once and then ignore. I'm hoping I can get more hero tokens from the main story to unlock the last few suit upgrades before reaching the final boss or bosses.


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Finished the main story last night. Took me 23 hours but that includes 75% of the side missions and a lot of hours flying around aimlessly!

Amazing storyline that really builds on the first 2 games. At least 1 enemy I was not expecting in the game and a tease of possible future storyline (watch the 2 end credits scenes).

If it was a movie it would be a 9/10.

Now I will just fly around completing missions and maybe start NG+ next week.


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Which character you were not expecting?

Bare in mind I only really watch the trailer for a game before deciding to buy it, and I don't recall this bit in the trailers:

Mary Jane turning into the symbiote "Scream". A relatively short section of the game, but unexpected nonetheless. When I saw the Flames guy steal the red symbiote I half thought maybe they wou;d introduce Carnage at the end of the story, but I think it's relatively obvious they are saving that for the 3rd game! Maybe some DLC for this game if we're lucky, like Black Cat being in the Spider-Man 1 DLC


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I played the whole thing in Performance RT (as my TV doesn't support the higher modes).

Had 1 proper crash, as someone else described above, I got stuck in some QTE and I couldn't press the button so I had to restart.
A couple of times I got stuck on some train tracks or tunnels, but jumping and moving around enough eventually freed me. Subtitles issue gets worse as the storyline progresses as well, but I ignore them anyway. Bit of pop up/pop in here and there.

I'm sure they will release some patches for these issues, although the hardcore (like me) will have clocked the game by the time that happens....

I'm sure I will get 100% trophies in a day or so, but I am certain, when i'm bored, I'll come back to this game just to randomly fly around and swing through NYC.


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The game just updated. Let’s see what they’ve fixed/broken.


Today's patch corrects an error where the Cuban flag was incorrectly displayed instead of the Puerto Rican flag. We understand that accurate representation matters, and greatly regret this error. We sincerely apologize and will do better in the future.

General Fixes & Polish:
  • Addressed an issue where an incorrect flag was displayed
  • Addressed an issue where models would not load properly after long play sessions
  • Addressed an issue where The Amazing 2 Suit's Spider logo appeared too bright
  • Improved stability

Edit: Just realised there is no NG+ mode! a quick google says they plan to add it later, along with the ability to redo missions. Bit annoying.


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There is some options in the game settings to:

1) Change game speed to 30, 50, 70 percent (you can bind this to left or right dpad)
2) Fall damage.

Doing a fight or a flight in the city at 30% speed is amazing. You see every single detail in the animations, which is awesome.

For the fall damage, I just climb a tall tower and dive to the ground for an instant suicide!


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Plan to start this today, so the game speed setting determines how fast Spiderman swings/flys across the city?

Videos watched looks way to quick for my liking, so will try 30 I think.
No. It's literally the speed of the whole game. Imagine like the 0.5x 0.75x speed settings when you play videos. You couldn't play the game at those speeds, maybe select missions.


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