![]() ![]() It’s down to you, a clone of security officer Zimri Eder, to make your way deeper in the decks of The Persistence to repair the systems and prevent the ship from being torn apart. Stranded, malfunctioning and caught in the inexorable pull of a black hole, “The Persistence” is overrun with a crew mutated into horrific & murderous aberrations. The Persistence challenges you to survive aboard a doomed deep space colony starship in the year 2521. Although this game is playable on PS5, some features available on PS4 may be absent. As it is though, The Persistence Enhanced represents an incremental upgrade of an already highly enjoyable title (albeit one that is arguably more enjoyable in VR than without), but the extra work done here isn’t quite enough to entice a return to its dark and foreboding corridors if you’ve already been there and done that twice before.Description To play this game on PS5, your system may need to be updated to the latest system software. Certainly, I would have more pointed criticisms to make if the upgrade to the PS5 version of the game for PS4 owners wasn’t free. This is the thing The Persistence Enhanced looks a little better than the already polished PS4 version but largely, outside of faster loading times and haptic feedback, that’s it. Indeed, given just how terrifying the horror setting of The Persistence is, the lack of 3D audio in particular seems like a missed opportunity and one that would have surely bolstered the dread of The Persistence’s impressive atmospherics yet further still. All the same, developer Firesprite is not an especially large team of folks, so on the other hand it also seems a touch churlish to be frustrated at this given their assumedly stretched resources.Įlsewhere, it’s not hard to think that more should have been made of the PS5’s other impressive capabilities. Given the impressive use of ray tracing in other titles whereupon performance isn’t quite so hammered, it’s difficult to not be disappointed. That said, if you enable just one of the ray tracing options, the framerate holds up for the most part, so in this sense if you want ray tracing, you’re essentially forced to choose between ray traced lighting and reflections. The big problem however, is that when both of these options are selected, the framerate absolutely tanks dropping from an otherwise rock solid 60 frames per second to a hugely unstable framerate that appears to lurk in the 30-50 frames per second area. In The Persistence Enhanced, the ray tracing options are broken down into ray traced global illumination and ray traced reflections options, allowing the player to choose one or both. ![]() The most notable part of Firesprite’s approach to bringing the visuals of The Persistence kicking and screaming onto PS5 is the employ of everybody’s favorite new technical feature, ray tracing. Whether you’re carefully stalking your way down a dank corridor with occasional light flickers bursting into view, or examining the grotesque anatomy of an aberration up close before you see it off with a stealth attack, The Persistence has never looked better. The Persistence still looks great and on PS5, those visuals have been refined yet further still with a raft of visible improvements to lighting and texture work which help to elevate it above what the PS4 was capable of. Though the new lightning fast loading times are welcome, allowing players to get stuck into the game with little delay or friction, where The Persistence Enhanced does its best work in terms of taking steps above and beyond what was accomplished on last generation platforms, is in the visual side of things which sadly, much like the DualSense implementation, is not all sunshine and face shooting.įirst the good, though. ![]()
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