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|release history = The game was released on December 2, 2022. At launch the game was suffering from major performance and shader compilation stutter problems.
|current state = Developers announced free New Game + and Hardcore game modes to be added to the game on February 7, 2023.Cite error: Closing </ref>
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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 |
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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
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Pre-purchase incentive |
Retro Prisoner character and weapons skin. |
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Season Pass |
Includes Outer Way Skin Collection (February 7, 2023), Contagion Bundle (March 2023, Contains new Contagion mode: reduced ammo and health drops, a customized difficulty and permadeath), Riot Bundle (Spring 2023, Black Iron Prison area, twelve new enemy death animations and Engineer Skin Collection) and story content (Summer 2023.)[1] |
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Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Rename/move/delete logo files[citation needed]
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- Go to
<path-to-game>\TheCallistoProtocol\Content\Movies\ .
- Rename/move/delete the following files:
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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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Video
- Supports benchmarking option in the Graphics menu.
- The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.
Input
Audio
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Separate volume controls |
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SFX, Music and Dialogue toggles and volume sliders available. |
Surround sound |
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Subtitles |
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Font size, Font color, Speaker name (and color), Background (opacity and color) and Dyslexic font options available. |
Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Royalty free audio |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
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Sub |
Notes |
English |
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Simplified Chinese |
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French |
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German |
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Italian |
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Japanese |
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Korean |
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Polish |
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Brazilian Portuguese |
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Russian |
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Latin American Spanish |
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Spanish |
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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] The developers of the game have acknowledged this problem and are working on alleviating these performance issues through several upcoming patches.[7][8]
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][9][10][3] The developers have acknowledged this problem.[7] A patch was released on December 3, 2022 to "improve gameplay stuttering issues due to shader compilation", but it has been unconfirmed so far if this patch really alleviated or even solved the problem.[8]
Workaround: create shader cache on load (DX11-only)[11]
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- Switching to DX11 causes some graphical options to become unavailable, see Video table.
- Increases loading times.
- Switch the game to DirectX 11 in the grahpics menu.
- Insert the following lines in
Engine.ini , located in config file location.
[/script/engine.renderersettings]
r.CreateShadersOnLoad=1
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Game will not launch due to VR hook
- If VR hardware is used, you may be unable to launch the game without its requisite software running.
Workaround: delete VR hook files[12]
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- Delete
<path-to-game>/Engine/Binaries/ThirdParty/OpenXR/win64/openxr_loader.dll .
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Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
11, 12 |
Can swtich DirectX version in General Graphics menu, requires restart.[4][13] |
Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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Middleware
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Middleware |
Notes |
Audio |
Wwise |
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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:
References