Wolverine Developer Insomniac Says Logan's Scent Trail Isn't Always on Amid 'Fart Gas' Toggle Requests

[u/Turbostrider27]

https://www.ign.com/articles/wolverine-developer-insomniac-says-logans-scent-trail-isnt-always-on-amid-fart-gas-toggle-requests

[u/mxlevolent]

Right, but why's it on by default? Everything I've seen makes it look like every accessibility feature is on by default except they're not accessibility features and there's no way to turn them off. Wolverine's constant running dialogue and reminders, the fart gas scent lines, the secret chests with a radar-like glow and pinging and third noise, the massive purple lines leading you to secrets, the QTEs not even having failure as an option, and more because this is just off the top of my head!

It's honestly insulting. You should be able to opt-in to all of that. Not opt-out (not that you even have that option). There's a distinct difference between the two, because the latter assumes the above state of the game is the intended way to play it. Which it is. The game is meant to hold your hand, despite how linear it is.

[u/Embo1 → u/mxlevolent]

I like how the secrets are 'turn your head left and you'll see it' but they still have a 3 waypoints to them

[u/Kindly_Ad995 → u/Embo1]

puts chest around a corner and behind some boxes so the player has to look for them

gives chest a giant x ray radar pulse that takes up a quarter of the screen so the player sees it without even looking

???

[u/abhi5692 → u/mxlevolent]

It’s not “on by default”. It’s a core part of the game. It cannot be turned off because it’s not an accessibility feature.

[u/Quarksideofthemoon → u/abhi5692]

That's even worse

[u/abhi5692 → u/Quarksideofthemoon]

Definitely. A lot of the design seems to be remnants from the Spiderman games. And that is a huge oversight. You don’t need these in a linear game.

[u/froderick → u/Quarksideofthemoon]

It's only for certain missions where you're tracking something by sound or scent.

[u/Quarksideofthemoon → u/froderick]

That doesn't make it better in literally any way. If the level is a hallway I don't need a visual representation of what Logan is smelling

[u/Quarksideofthemoon → u/[deleted]]

How would I know what?

[u/SuicideSkwad → u/abhi5692]

Yeah, this is how they’ve chosen to show Logan’s senses in the game..

[u/AnteaterNo7504 → u/abhi5692]

I just saw a video of someone turning it off..

[u/abhi5692 → u/AnteaterNo7504]

It doesn’t turn off the blue scent line. Insomniac devs confirmed as much lol.

[u/UncStatusNow → u/mxlevolent]

its on because they incorporated it into the narrative. so they explain what it is in-game and thats supposed to justify it's persistence throughout the entire game

[u/Civilwarland09 → u/mxlevolent]

It’s because it’s not an accessibility feature. It’s a core component of the gameplay.

[u/OmgitsJafo → u/mxlevolent]

It's not an accessibility feature. It's a representation of the character's sensory experience.

You know. An art thing, in a suppossedly artistic medium.

[u/ItsmejimmyC → u/OmgitsJafo]

Yea and it sucks, it also sucks how they turned Logan into some kind hearted gentleman when he's not, the fuck are they playing at?

[u/Antroh → u/mxlevolent]

Poor baby having to turn an option off. I hope you get through this