If you’re one of the few, who thought Striking Distances’ sci-fi Horror Surivial game, The Callisto Protocol, was perhaps too easy, you’ll be thrilled to know that a Hardcore Mode is both free and currently available for everyone.
Here’s everything you can expect with the new Hardcore Mode:
- Ammo, health and credits are harder to come by and not every Biophage will drop loot.
- Increased enemy damage
- Decreased Stun Baton damage
- Increased enemy mutation speed
- Contraband value is reduced
- Hardcore Mode New Game+ (requires completion of standard Hardcore Mode playthrough)
- New Achievements / Trophies to hunt
In addition, this update also has introduced some performance changes for the PC version and has fixed the bugged “The Protocol is About Life” achievement.
Global
- Players that were not correctly granted the “The Protocol is About Life” achievement upon completing the game will be automatically granted the achievement
- Localization fixes for leveling and VO/subtitle mismatches
- Optimized enemy combat AI when player is surrounded by multiple enemies
- The Outer Way Skin Collection is available for season pass owners.
Steam Deck
- Updated font rendering and UI elements for readability
- Created a rendering functionality profile specifically for Steam Deck with the best settings for smooth gameplay
- Updated control schemes for SteamDeck controls
PC Specific
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Ray Tracing performance improvements
Now that I’m finished with Dead Space Remake, perhaps it’s time to dive into this gem. I had heard off due to the performance issues, but it seems those have been fixed. I love a good horror survival game, and seeing how the co-created of Dead Space is behind this game, it should be a worthwhile experience.
The Callisto Protocol is available for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC.