The Callisto Protocol
Developers | |
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Striking Distance Studios | |
Publishers | |
Krafton | |
Engines | |
Unreal Engine 4 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | December 2, 2022 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 75 |
OpenCritic | 75 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase, DLC |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Genres | Survival |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Horror |
Survive to escape the horrors of Callisto and uncover the dark secrets at Black Iron, a prison colony operated by United Jupiter Company, located at Jupiter’s dead moon. The Callisto Protocol is the spiritual successor to the Dead Space franchise, made by the co-creator, Glen Schofield.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Epic Games Store | Digital Deluxe Edition also available. | |||
Steam | Digital Deluxe Edition also available. |
- All versions require Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.[1]
Version differences
- Digital Deluxe Edition includes the base game, Season Pass and Retro Prisoner character and weapons skin
- Day One Edition was for people who pre-purchased the game, including the base game and Retro Prisoner character and weapons skin.
Monetization
Type | Notes |
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DLC | Season Pass with content regarding story, skins, new death animations and new mode. |
One-time game purchase | The game requires an upfront purchase to access. |
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Pre-purchase incentive | Retro Prisoner character and weapons skin. | |
Season Pass | Includes all DLC below. | |
Outer Way Skin Collection | Outer Way skin pack. | |
Contagion Bundle | Contains new Contagion mode: reduced ammo and health drops, a customized difficulty and permadeath. | |
Riot Bundle | Includes Black Iron Prison area, twelve new enemy death animations and Engineer Skin Collection. |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\CallistoProtocol\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1544020/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\CallistoProtocol\Saved\SaveGames |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1544020/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Epic Games Launcher | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
- Supports benchmarking option in the Graphics menu.
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Texture filter quality option available: Low, Medium or High.[2] | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Disabled, FXAA and TAA Using any different anti-aliasing option than TAA will disable screen space reflections, physical refractions and ray tracing.[3][2] |
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High-fidelity upscaling | FSR 2.1, TAAU [4] |
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Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | DX12-only and requires HDR to be enabled through Windows first. Otherwise option will be greyed out.[3] | ||
Ray tracing (RT) | Ray-traced "transmission" (on/off toggle), shadows (on/off toggle) and reflections (disabled, medium or high).[5][4] DX12-only. | ||
Color blind mode | High contrast mode available to separately color player, enemies and pickups.[2] |
- The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | Separate Aim and Look sensitivity sliders and smoothing options available available.[2] | |
Mouse input in menus | [2] | |
Mouse Y-axis inversion | Option also available to invert x-axis.[2] | |
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | Only choice to pick between Right hand and Left hand controller mapping.[2] | |
Controller sensitivity | Separate Aim and Look sensitivity sliders available.[2] | |
Controller Y-axis inversion | Option also available to invert x-axis.[2] |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers |
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PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | SFX, Music and Dialogue toggles and volume sliders available.[2] | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | Font size, Font color, Speaker name (and color), Background (opacity and color) and Dyslexic font options available.[2] | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Simplified Chinese | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Korean | ||||
Polish | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
Russian | ||||
Latin American Spanish | ||||
Spanish |
Issues unresolved
Performance is very limited
- Due to the game's CPU utilization being very single-thread limited, the CPU is underutilized and subsequently performance is severely impaired.[6]
Game will not launch due to VR hook
- If you use VR hardware, you may be unable to launch the game without its requisite software running.
Possible Resolution
Remove the VR Files (see below), or alternatively ensure your VR software is running (e.g. Oculus or Windows MR) 1. Go to the game folder (Right click on the game in your library -> Manage -> Browse files) 2. Find the file openxr_loader.dll in Engine/Binaries/ThirdParty/OpenXR/win64 3. Delete the file 4. Start your game Fix courtesy of Steam user. Similar issue observed with other UE4 titles.[7] |
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Shader compilation stutter
- The game suffers from noticeable stutters during gameplay, which is caused by shader compilation that occurs during gameplay whenever the CPU compiles the shader of a new effect appearing on the screen. The game does not pre-compile its shaders.[6][8][9][3] The developers have acknowledged this problem and are working on a fix.
Possible Resolution
Insert these lines into Engine.ini in config directory [/script/engine.renderersettings] r.CreateShadersOnLoad=1 This DOES make it take much longer to load, but largely resolves the compilation stutter.[10] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 11, 12 | Can swtich DirectX version in General Graphics menu, requires restart.[4][11] |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
- No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.
Skip intro videos
Rename/move/delete logo files
In <path-to-game>\TheCallistoProtocol\Content\Movies\ AMD_Logo_4K.bk2 Bink_Krafton_SDS_Logos.bk2 Bink_Krafton_SDS_Logos.uasset Intro_logo_Krafton_SDS.bk2 Krafton_SDS_logos_4k.bk2 Unreal_InstaLOD_logos.bk2 Unreal_Logo_4K.bk2 Wwise_InstaLOD_Logos_4K.bk2 |
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System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10, 11 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i5-8400 AMD Ryzen 5 2600 |
Intel Core i7-8700 AMD Ryzen 5 3600 |
System memory (RAM) | 8 GB | 16 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 75 GB | 75 GB (SSD) |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 AMD Radeon RX 580 DirectX 11 compatible | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 AMD Radeon RX 5700 DirectX 12 compatible |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1544020/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (1544020) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ The Callisto Protocol (App 1544020) · History · Change #U:34322451 · SteamDB - last accessed on 2022-11-24
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 #StutterStruggle - Steam Discussion Forum - last accessed on 2022-12-02
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 The Callisto Protocol - 4K Ray Tracing Benchmark - Max Settings - NVIDIA RTX4090 - YouTube - last accessed on 2022-12-02
- ↑ The Callisto Protocol has shader compilation stutters and optimization issues on PC - DSOGaming - last accessed on 2022-12-02
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Callisto Protocol - The DF Tech Review + PS5 vs Xbox Series X/ S + PC #StutterStruggle Analysis - YouTube - last accessed on 2022-12-02
- ↑ https://steamcommunity.com/app/1544020/discussions/0/3716062344552967221/
- ↑ Terrible Stutters - Steam Discussion Forum - last accessed on 2022-12-02
- ↑ Stuttering but not refund worthy (this should get fixed though) - Steam Discussion Forum - last accessed on 2022-12-02
- ↑ https://steamcommunity.com/app/1544020/discussions/0/3716062344552582650/
- ↑ The Callisto Protocol - GTX 1650 | 1080p + FSR - Medium Settings | i3 12100F - last accessed on 2022-12-02