Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Developers
	Insomniac Games
Windows	Nixxes Software
Publishers
	PlayStation PC
Engines
	Insomniac Engine
Release dates
Windows	November 18, 2022
Reception
Metacritic	88
OpenCritic	85
IGDB	89
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Open world
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	North America, Supernatural
Series	Spider-Man

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales is a sequel to the Marvel's Spider-Man. The game was developed for PlayStation 4 and 5 by Insomniac Games, while the PC version is being developed by Nixxes Software and published by PlayStation PC. The PC version improves in a variety of ways compared to the PlayStation 5 release, including improved ray traced reflections (improved resolution and improved complexity of geometry included in reflection), newly added ray traced sun and moon shadows, FoV slider, improved weather particle density, improved shadows, HBAO+, DLSS 2, DLSS Frame Generation, FSR 2.1, XeSS, DLAA, ultrawide screen support and an unlocked frame rate.

The game released on November 18, 2022, two years after it was originally released for PlayStation 4 and 5 in 2020. On release, it was found that general lighting had changed compared to the PlayStation 5 version, which makes some scenes look better and others look worse by drowning out some texture detail. The games' loading times were found to be longer than compared to the PlayStation 5 release. The game also suffers from various issues where full-resolution textures don't always seem to load or only load in very late. Additionally, in rare cases, some surfaces didn't seem to utilize ray traced reflection, while they do on the PlayStation 5 version. Ray traced sun and moon shadows of vegetation can also look worse compared to rasterized shadows as the ray traced variant produces shadows from a lower quality vegetation object model without taking any movement into account. Overall it was regarded as a PC port of high quality featuring good performance.

Post-launch patches included improved stability, shader caching process, optimization, ray-traced shadows, ray-traced reflections, cutscene performance and several bugfixes. The perceived general lighting changes compared to the PlayStation 5 release were also fixed. Additionally, a menu option to skip Fast Travel animations and gyro support for Steam Deck were added.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Official support page

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Epic Games Store		DRM-free when a shortcut is made to the executable with the -EpicPortal command line argument appended to the Target URL.
GamersGate
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam

Monetization

Type	Notes
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Pre-purchase entitlements	Pre-orders came with early access to T.R.A.C.K. Suit and Into the Spider-Verse Suit as well as the Gravity Well gadget, plus three bonus skill points.

Microtransactions

Type	Notes
No microtransactions	No microtransactions are present in the game.

Essential improvements

Skip or enable launcher

The option to enable or disable the launcher is available in-game and within the launcher itself. In case of encountering issues booting the game, command line arguments are available to enable or disable the launcher.

Use -nolauncher command line argument to disable, and -launcher command line argument to enable the launcher

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\Insomniac Games\Marvel's Spider-Man Miles Morales\crs %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Marvel's Spider-Man Miles Morales\<user-id>\-userprefs.save HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Insomniac Games\Marvel's Spider-Man Miles Morales
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1817190/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Marvel's Spider-Man Miles Morales\<user-id>
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1817190/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud		Saves and most settings.

Video

While at the graphics settings menu, the game itself can still be seen paused in the background. Making the user able to directly see the effects of changed graphical settings. Loading different quality of textures can take a few seconds after changing texture quality.

Display settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Hor+ gameplay and rendered cutscenes. HUD can be bounded to 16:9, 21:9, 32:9 and 48:9 aspect ratios or scale freely.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		Adjustment slider with values between -25° and +25°.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Exclusive fullscreen also available.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Up to 16x available.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Off, SMAA, TAA, DLAA
High-fidelity upscaling		DLSS 2.4, FSR 2.1, XeSS 1.1 IGTI (Insomniac Games' Temporal Injection) also supported. DLSS Frame Generation is supported.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Half Refresh Rate option also available.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		Max Luminance and Paper White adjustment settings available.
Ray tracing (RT)		Ray traced reflections and Ray traced shadows (from moon and sun). Reflection Resolution, Reflection Geometry Detail and Object Range settings available.
Color blind mode		'Contrast Options' available.

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  Graphics settings

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  Launcher display settings

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  Launcher graphics settings

Input

Game settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		As a slider with values between 0 and 100. Can be set for both axes independently. Separated into general mouse and mouse aim axes sensitivity.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Separated into general mouse and mouse aim axes. X-axis can also be inverted.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity		As a slider with values between 0 and 10.
Controller Y-axis inversion		X-axis can also be inverted.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers		DualShock 4, DualSense, DualSense Edge
PlayStation button prompts
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support		Works over Bluetooth connectivity natively or with Steam Input added since v.2.516.0.0.
DualSense haptic feedback support		Wired only.
Connection modes	Wired, Wireless (Bluetooth) No vibration and internal speaker support with Bluetooth connectivity.

Generic/other controllers

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

Steam Input
Steam Input API support
Official controller preset(s)		Steam Deck, DualShock 4, DualSense and Xbox One.
Steam Controller button prompts		Uses Steam Deck button prompts.

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  Keybind settings

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  Mouse settings

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  Gamepad settings

Audio

Audio settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, Music, Speech, UI, SFX sliders. Separate Controller Speaker and Audio Balance sliders also available.
Surround sound		Mono sound option also available.
Subtitles		Size, background and color options available.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio		Several licensed songs are used in the cutscenes.

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  Subtitle settings

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  Accessibility settings

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  Language settings

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Arabic
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Swedish

A few in-game dialogues are in ASL (American Sign Language) with subtitle translation. An optional narration is available in the Accessibility menu.

Issues fixed

Choppy character movement

This is not an issue. It is actually an intentional and optional effect that can be applied to all suits when the user equips the Vibe the Verse Suit mod, that comes with the Spider-Verse Suit. This suit mod alters Miles's movement animations to become more comic book-like to match that of the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse movie.

This effect can be disabled by unequipping the Vibe the Verse Suit mod

Issues unresolved

SMT and HT causing inconsistent CPU usage

Happens when SMT (Ryzen) or HT (Intel) is enabled.

The game seemingly can't efficiently use the logical cores available via the use of SMT/HT when the CPU has more than 6 cores, disabling it may increase CPU core utilization and improve game performance in CPU intensive scenarios.

Disabling SMT/HT can severely impact the performance of games and applications. Strongly advised to turn it back on after quitting the game.

Currently unknown if developers are aware of this issue and if they are working on a fix.

Disable CPU multithreading
If using Ryzen CPU - Disable SMT (Simultaneous multithreading) in BIOS settings or via the Ryzen Master program. If using an Intel CPU - Disable HT (Hyper-Threading) from BIOS settings

Textures not loading in at full resolution

The game suffers from an issue where some high resolution textures (for example on cops, armor and cop cars) don't seem to load in. The cause of this and whether the developers are working on this is currently unknown. There is no fix or workaround for this bug so far.

Slow texture loading when loading a save

After booting the game or loading a save, textures can take a while to load in. This is especially visible on buildings, where on a high-end system it can still take around 7 seconds sometimes to load in the full resolution texture. There is currently no fix available for this issue.

Workaround: reduce texture quality to reduce texture loading time

Graphical artifacts when using XeSS

Intel is aware of some graphical artifacts that can occur while using XeSS. Intel is investigating these issues and working on improving image quality in future versions.

Game does not load into the main menu

If the game gets stuck on the loading after the logos and before the main menu, your savegame is corrupted.

Workaround: Replace latest save game with an automatic save backup. Navigate to Documents\Marvel's Spider-Man Miles Morales\SteamID\, and replace the latest normal save with the latest backup save. For example, delete "slot0-s.save" and rename "slot0-s.save.backup01" to "slot0-s.save"

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
vorpX		User Profile, see vorpx forum for introduction

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	12
Shader Model support	6.6

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Havok
Audio	Wwise, XAudio	XAudio v2.7
Interface	Scaleform
Cutscenes	Bink Video, Annosoft Speech Engine	Bink v2.7p, Annosoft Speech Engine v4.0.25.0 (used for automated lipsync)

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10 build 1909
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3-4160	Intel Core i5-4670 AMD Ryzen 5 1600
System memory (RAM)	8 GB	16 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	75 GB (HDD)	75 GB (SSD)
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 950 AMD Radeon RX 470 DirectX 12 compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 AMD Radeon RX 580 6 GB (Nvidia), 8 GB (AMD) of VRAM

A 64-bit operating system is required.

The minimum requirements are for 720p 30 FPS at Very Low settings, while the recommended requirements are for 1080p 60 FPS with the Medium preset. Additional requirements for higher presets, 4K, ray tracing, and more are listed here.