After some (seemingly random) amount of gameplay, I'm getting a very distracting glitch, where graphical corruption starts to take over the screen. There are two symptoms:
- Black 'blobs' appearing, principally around the edges of characters or other geometry. These look quite different when temporal AA is enabled (temporal AA seems to result in bigger, blurrier black blobs, whereas without it, they're often a single pixel in size. Though sometimes, only without temporal AA, much more of the screen will be covered in black squares, depending on the direction the camera faces)
- Bright primary colours appear, usually magenta or yellow or blue, most prominently in reflections or "glow". It almost is like some sort of environment map is being corrupted, and the reflections have such a bright value that they then override anything nearby.

See screenshots (also attached):
https://davidgow.net/stuff/p2-glitch-noaa1.jpg
https://davidgow.net/stuff/p2-glitch-noaa2.jpg
https://davidgow.net/stuff/p2-glitch-noaa3.jpg
https://davidgow.net/stuff/p2-glitch-aa1.jpg

Note that this issue typically occurs (and sometimes partially fixes itself) on level transitions or other cases where I'm moving between areas. Sometimes it will begin by only affecting some area of the map, then 'spread' to the rest.

I'm running openSUSE Tumbleweed, with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB/PCIe/SSE2 and the nVidia driver 515.48.07 on KDE/KWin 5.25.1, and the issue occurs both with X11 and Wayland, including when the game is run natively on wayland with a custom build of libnvidia-egl-wayland and SDL2, as well as both XWayland and X11 with no weird custom setups.

I do notice that the game spits out a lot of Vulkan validation errors if I run with the Vulkan validation layers, including (but not limited to):
Descriptor update with descriptorType VKDESCRIPTORTYPESAMPLEDIMAGE is being updated with invalid imageLayout VKIMAGELAYOUTCOLORATTACHMENTOPTIMAL.
and
The SPIR-V Extension (SPVGOOGLEusertype) was declared, but none of the requirements were met to use it

While this does occur randomly, once it has occurred, the game is usually unplayable (or nearly so) until restarted.

Was hoping for some expansion and patching on Psychonauts 2.
Was surprised to find no add-ons, no extra brains to explore, no hidden or extra powers or power upgrades.
Was also surprised that the story line is so linear, no real side quests or extended extras.
Would be great to evolve this open world game into something that doesn't have an ending.
Hoping y'all and the developers are willing to create some real expansions and patches.
Open up and expand on PSI powers and their upgrades, add features that enrich the game like entering the minds of side characters or NPCs, expanding the world and adding powers, adding more story lines and side missions to keep the game and it's dialogue going.

This is a great game as was the original Psychonauts, has potential to be alot bigger.
I understand that you can only do so much with a single player store line based game but add-on stop lines and psi lowers would be a great minimum upgrade.
Even letting second player explore with you as a different character?
Apologies for rambling, bottom line, I've loved this game series from the beginning and I Know myself and others would love to see some expansion.

My setup: i typically play games with 5.1 audio using a reciever and discrete speakers. Hdmi from the gpu right to the reciever. Its all hdmi 2.0 stuff. And the PC is set to output 5.1 over LPCM. Nothing terribly complicated.

Note: I am on the windows 11 beta, but nothing really seems to have changed with sound in general (other than the look of the settings area).

Problem: It seems that with 5.1 enabled in the windows settings the game outputs certain sounds only to the back right or back left speakers.

A good example is the updrafts from campfires, in Questionable Camp Grounds. The wooshing sound is blasting out of the rear speakers. I unplugged my back speakers and literally can not hear the effect at all, no matter where I put the camera.

The effect of this is that some sounds are the only thing you can here.

Thankfully Stereo audio works great.

Typically UE4 games have a stereo or surround sound option somewhere in the settings.

I only feel vibrations when getting hit, and even on the highest setting it can be kind of weak. I haven't felt any vibrations anywhere else in the game, which seems bizarre to me considering that previous doublefine games going all the way back to the first Psychonauts have always had excellent force feedback support. Rad, in particular, had excellent force feedback support.

Additionally, adding vibration to the vibration control in the menu would allow a player to easily check if their vibration is working, as well as instantly be able to feel how their current setting affects the strength of their vibrations.

I have a 4K monitor and typically have the scaling set to 200% (since I grew used to that approximate size with 1080p monitors). On loading Psychonauts 2 and seeing the "Previously On" cinematic, I was surprised to see the subtitles acting poorly. On further investigation, I found that it's tied to the Windows UI scaling.
At 200% scale, the subtitles are too large to fit on the screen!
At 150% scale, the subtitles just fit on the screen, but really feel way too big.
At 100% scale, they feel just right!

I can of course then get around this by adjusting my UI scaling before launching Psychonauts 2, but at such a high DPI it then gets a bit awkward to enter Steam Big Picture mode and launch the game! (I then of course have to reset the UI scaling after playing.) This definitely doesn't seem intentional (given that the subtitles fall off the screen at 200% scale).

I have a feeling the answer is "No", or a "Series console was courtesy of Microsoft", or both. But I thought it was worth a shot, especially asking here instead of on DF social medias.
I was really looking forward to this game, especially after seeing the game through the motions in development since 2015 (even though I didn't back it), and watching the non-playable demo at E3 2019; I still have the souvenirs and even saw Mr. Schafer there! I'd have asked if he accepts pictures, but he was in front of a camera crew. I was happy to see it finally have a release date, but then the news broke that Playstation wouldn't be getting a next-gen SKU like Xbox is. It's thrown a wrench in my plans since my PC, which could possibly push 4K, 120hz, HDR, faster loads, and better visuals (through probably not all at once, I tried at 4K on my 2080 Super), but that's where I work.

So, my options are playing a game with the output bottlenecked by my monitor, or my couch PS5 version bottlenecked by backwards compatibility. At the same price as all other platforms, no less.

I know how much of a quibble this is since I could just lub my PC to my living room & get the OLED experience, but taking it back every time I have to work isn't practical and not everyone is affluent enough to have a PC so powerful, or multiple platforms. So simply, I'd like to ask:
Could Psychonauts 2 ever come to the Playstation 5?
I know its unlikely since Microsoft and Playation are competing platforms, but Sony published MLB: The Show 21 on Xbox just this year! And Xbox has published Ori and the Blind Forest on Switch (the sequel seems to be published by iam8bit, but no doubt MS had some deal in that), AND is letting Banjo-Kazooie on Nintendo 64 Online! All in all, we could happily use more platform amicability and parities.
Thank you.