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Maneater PS5 and Xbox Series X Update Adds Ray Tracing

The latest update for acclaimed ShaRkPG Maneater is full of stability updates, but also adds Ray Tracing for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.

gamerant.com

In addition to Ray Tracing, several issues for HDR on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X have been resolved including an issue with the background on the pause screen not blurring and the intro movies being darker than normal. Several performance enhancements and adjustments have been made for menus, gore, and animal life. Aside from that, there was a bevy of updates for miscellaneous issues. Full details can be found in the patch notes link below.

 

[Kagey K]

I just deleted this this the other day to make room for something else.

Guess I'll have to reinstall.

 

[Bo_Hazem]

Too late, first ever game to platinum.

 

[pqueue]

would be funny if by "ray tracing" they meant "looking for stingrays."

 

[PuppetMaster]

Demon's Souls players feel a little tightening in thier butts when they see or hear the word Maneater.

 

[lh032]

I dont see any different.

 

[Md Ray]

Yeah, but ray tracing for what? Shadows, reflections? Ambient occlusion? Global illumination? Audio?

 

[Duchess]

Too late, first ever game to platinum.

Really..? Do you tend not to bother?

 

[Duchess]

I dont see any different.

Seems it's been mostly applied to the surface of the water. It's minor and looks good, but it's not worth the frame rate hit, in my opinon.

Also, is this game good? Seems to have an okay reception?

Edit: just had a look on Amazon to find this as a physical release, and I'm getting results for Nelly Furtado, and Hall & Oates ...

 

[lh032]

Seems it's been mostly applied to the surface of the water. It's minor and looks good, but it's not worth the frame rate hit, in my opinon.

Also, is this game good? Seems to have an okay reception?

Edit: just had a look on Amazon to find this as a physical release, and I'm getting results for Nelly Furtado, and Hall & Oates ...

I never played the game, yea I heard some good things about it.

Too many backlogs...

 

[Stuart360]

Yeah, but ray tracing for what? Shadows, reflections? Ambient occlusion? Global illumination? Audio?

As we have seen on this forum, 'Ray Tracing' is such a couple of buzz words that they dont even need to say what its actually doing, just saying it is enough to get some gamers on board, even though they probably wouldnt even know if it had RT or not just by looking at the game.

 

[SJRB]

Comes at a pretty hefty performance decrease, which makes it not really worth it.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

30 fps RT or 60 fps no RT.

I'd take 60.

 

[Shmunter]

30fps. Don’t waste my time developer!

 

[hlm666]

Yeah, but ray tracing for what? Shadows, reflections? Ambient occlusion? Global illumination? Audio?

When they talked about this ages ago it was supposed to be something with raytraced light refraction improving the lighting and shadows on the player shark under water. I've got no idea if that's what they have gone with but if people can't work out what is actually being traced I'm guessing it may still be that.

edit: just watched the video, seems to be RT reflections, I can see the shark reflected when close to the surface and airborne and the sky has some kind of reflection and maybe refraction when close to the surface. Enemy boats, humans and other fish didn't seem to be effected and none of the footage i saw had seaweed or other vegetation close enough to the surface to see if that was included. So seems RT Reflection for select objects on the water surface at close distances.

 

[user1337]

Already beat the game. Was short and enjoyable, but not gonna reinstall just for 30fps RT.

 

[Concern]

Uninstalled awhile ago. Got repetitive and boring for me. Really liked the idea but execution was poor imo.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Didn't like the game. The controls were very clunky idk.

 

[Nikana]

Bought this last BF and still haven't it wrapped. Should probably open it.

 

[blastprocessor]

Need a magnifying glass to tell the differences.

 

[RoadHazard]

Seems like way too small of a visual difference to give up half the frames.

 

[MasterCornholio]

They spent too much time eating hairy legs I'm afraid.

Da na

 

[Bo_Hazem]

Really..? Do you tend not to bother?

Yeah I don't play games more than once since PS3.

 

[Lysandros]

would be funny if by "ray tracing" they meant "looking for stingrays."

Nice one.

 

[Low Moral Fibre]

Not played it since it was on PS+ but the framerate was dire like 40-50fps so hopefully it has been improved.

 

[Flutta]

RT is just waste of processing power. Looks cool the first 5 min then you forget about it. It adds nothing to the overall experience. 60fps all day everyday.

Also Maneater is legit. Good game

 

[Skifi28]

When I tried it on PS5 a few months ago, performance was more like 45fps rather than 60. Locked at 30 it'll probably be much more enjoyable.

 

[sircaw]

Best game ever, where filthy humans get to die at the hands of my kind, now with extra shinies.

 

[Kuranghi]

When I tried it on PS5 a few months ago, performance was more like 45fps rather than 60. Locked at 30 it'll probably be much more enjoyable.

It just feels like that imo, even when you have average 90fps on PC you get frametime spikes (from loading or real-time shader compile? I dunno, its UE though) and drops below 60 when you make a lot of alpha effects happen, ie explosions and water splashes, the latter happening often ofc.

I just put up with it after a bit since its locked to 60 95% of the time and I'd need to go down to 1440p60 from 4K60 or 4K30 from 4K60 to fully fix them. Just not well optimised imo.

This RT update actually fixes that it seems since there is a big overhead and its locked to 30 now, but its much less fun to play at 60fps since the animations are really fast.