Difference between revisions of "High on Life"

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High on Life is a singleplayer first-person action, FPS and shooter game.

Game has received some post-launch updates that improved performance, audio and the keybindings menu, while it fixed achievement unlocks, some crashes and many other bugs. Additionally, features such as a FOV Slider, text resizing and audio balancing were added.^[2]

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Epic Games Store
Humble Store
Microsoft Store		Xbox Play Anywhere. Included with Xbox Game Pass for PC.
Steam

Monetization

Type	Notes
One-time game purchase	High On Life requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type	Notes
No microtransactions	High On Life has no microtransactions.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Oregon\Saved\Config\WinGDK\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1583230/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Oregon\Saved\SaveGames\
Microsoft Store	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\2637SquanchGamesInc.HighonLife_mh7dg3tfmz2cj\SystemAppData\wgs\<user-id>\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1583230/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

Display and graphics settings

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Natively supports 4:3, 16:9, 16:10, 21:9 and 32:9. A slider for "Render Scale" was added in Patch #3.^[2] Set to 90% by default. Adjustable from 50%-200%.
Multi-monitor		^[3]
Ultra-widescreen		Hor+ is applied. FMVs are pillarboxed to a 16:9 aspect ratio.^[4]
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)	A slider was added in Patch #3.^[2] Set to 90° by default. Adjustable from 70°-120°.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	Referred to as "Texture Quality". Three presets are available: "Low" (off), "Medium" (2x), "High" (4x), and "Very High" (8x).^[5]
Anti-aliasing (AA)	TAA with four presets available: "Low" (off), "Medium" (2x), "High" (3x), and "Very High" (4x).^[6]
High-fidelity upscaling
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS	Plays at an uncapped framerate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)	See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Field of view (FOV)

Use Rose's cheat-engine based trainer^[7]

Use Flawless Widescreen^[7]

Use Bionic-Blob fix (Xbox Game Pass)

Input

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Some actions cannot be rebound.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Separate sliders for "Mouse Sensitivity" and "Mouse Sensitivity ADS" are available.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Referred to as "Inverse Mouse Y Axis". Can be toggled on or off.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity		Separate sliders for "Controller Sensitivity" and "Controller Sensitivity ADS" are available.
Controller Y-axis inversion		Can be toggled on or off.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Keyboard and mouse bindings
Gamepad layout

Audio

Audio settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sliders for Master, Sound Effects, Music, and Voice.
Surround sound		Plays up to 6.0.^[8]
Subtitles		An accessibility option to increase the text size was added in Patch #3.^[2] Adjustable from 0-10.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

General settings

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Russian				Fan machine translation, download.
Latin American Spanish

Issues unresolved

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^[9]
Delete `<path-to-game>\Engine\Binaries\ThirdParty\OpenXR\win64\openxr_loader.dll`.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	12

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Wwise	^[10]
Cutscenes	Bink Video	^[11]

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-4430K	Intel Core i5-6402P AMD Ryzen 5 2600
System memory (RAM)	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	50 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 AMD Radeon R9 290X 3 GB (Nvidia), 4 GB (AMD) of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible	Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB of VRAM DirectX 12 compatible

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1583230/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1583230) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Over 80 Unreal Engine-powered games featured during 2022 summer gaming events - last accessed on 2022-11-16
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Patch 3 - last accessed on 2023-01-16
↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
Tested on a multi-monitor setup in windowed mode at 3840x1080 resolution.
↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
Tested at 2560x1080 resolution.
↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
Tested by playing the game with the Universal Unreal Engine 4 Unlocker and checking the texture quality setting after changing each individual graphic setting with the command r.MaxAnisotropy.
↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
Tested by playing the game with the Universal Unreal Engine 4 Unlocker and checking each anti-aliasing setting with the commands r.PostProcessAAQuality and r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing. r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing was set to 2, the equivalent of TAA, for all settings.
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 Verified by User:Keith on 2022-12-25
↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
Tested in 7.1 using Orban Loudness Meter in conjunction with Razer Surround.
↑ Game not starting FIX - last accessed on 2022-12-03
↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
As seen during splash screens upon boot-up.
↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-17
As seen after opening the Movies subfolder in the game's installation directory. All of the files in the directory are BK2 files.

[Proton_path_note-3] 1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1583230/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1583230) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] Over 80 Unreal Engine-powered games featured during 2022 summer gaming events - last accessed on 2022-11-16

[update3-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Patch 3 - last accessed on 2023-01-16

[4] Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
Tested on a multi-monitor setup in windowed mode at 3840x1080 resolution.

[5] Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
Tested at 2560x1080 resolution.

[6] Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
Tested by playing the game with the Universal Unreal Engine 4 Unlocker and checking the texture quality setting after changing each individual graphic setting with the command r.MaxAnisotropy.

[7] Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
Tested by playing the game with the Universal Unreal Engine 4 Unlocker and checking each anti-aliasing setting with the commands r.PostProcessAAQuality and r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing. r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing was set to 2, the equivalent of TAA, for all settings.

[Keith_2022-12-25-8] 7.0 ^7.1 Verified by User:Keith on 2022-12-25

[9] Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
Tested in 7.1 using Orban Loudness Meter in conjunction with Razer Surround.

[10] Game not starting FIX - last accessed on 2022-12-03

[11] Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-15
As seen during splash screens upon boot-up.

[12] Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2022-12-17
As seen after opening the Movies subfolder in the game's installation directory. All of the files in the directory are BK2 files.

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Developers

	Squanch Games
Engines
	Unreal Engine 4^[1]
Release dates
Windows	December 13, 2022
Reception
Metacritic	69
OpenCritic	70
IGDB	69
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, FPS, Shooter
Art styles	Stylized
Themes	Comedy, Sci-fi, Space