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.

19+ hours in and around rank 30... something happened. I had just finished the "Ford's Follicles" level (I think). Finding myself back at the atrium of the Motherlobe I started seing already obtained collectibles everywhere. I got denied access at every door with thinkerprint scanning. Plus all my ranks were gone, hearts (brains) back down to three, I can't access the inventory, quest log, map, etc. Can't assign nor use any of my powers (except for levitation ball, which I had mapped to triple jump. I keep hearing announcements that I am expected in class or maybe Hollis' office, but when I get there, there's nothing to do and nobody there (except for some class mates). Only thing I can do there is enter the door to the janitor's closet / mail room (the one you're supposed to be bullied into at the beginning of the game). Once inside can't get out anymore since I could't access or use the powers needed to progress. So I'm practically softlocked at this point. From here my only option is to open the start menu and return to the title screen (or change settings). I tried fully closing the game from the xbox dashboard, selecting another save slot in-game, then reselecting mine again and
completely rebooting the Xbox Series S...
But, alas to no avail. My last attempt, before i'm about to start a new game in slot 2, is to uninstall the Psychonauts 2 app completely (but not the save game) and then redownload / reinstall it.
...
Still didn't work.

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.

Hi my name is Gustavo Escalante Jr. and I’ve recently purchased Psychonauts 2. The introduction to the level was flawless almost no bugs or glitches of any sort, everything loaded fine and we’ll but I started running into issues once I got to the motherlobe, the game constantly stutters in the hub area, loading times take really long, I don’t mind long loading times but the ones I got tended to get really bad, not only that but the game stutters at certain moments that break my immersion during the game like when Sam brought in the whale, it froze for 10 seconds and when playing the casino level while exiting one of areas on dice hub area, it froze while exiting for around 10 seconds as well. I don’t usually send complaints like these ever but I really love Psychonauts 2 so far and I’m having a lot of fun I wish to see these issues ironed out so when I replay this game it’s as the way it was intended because it’s clear you guys put a lot of work into to making your games great and it shows, like I said I just want the game to be as it was intended. Anyways, thanks for whoever reads this, once again loving the game so far I’ll be happy to go into detail about the bugs and glitches I’ve encountered if so necessary. Thank You