Ratchet & Clank PC port, bring your own disc. No game files are included.
Install: download rac-rs-0.4.2.zip below, unzip it, double-click Setup.cmd, click Browse and pick the .iso of your own disc (PAL/Europe v1.00 or USA v1.00), then click Install. Already on v0.4.1? Just start the game (or use the launcher): it offers the update and keeps your saves.
Linux: install it with one click from the RAC-RS Launcher (github.com/AsobiCodes/rac-rs-launcher, the Linux download rac-rs-launcher-linux-x64.tar.gz: extract it and double-click the launcher), or unzip the game, run sh setup.sh and then ./play.sh. No programming tools and no sudo are needed. Linux support is still new (tested on Ubuntu and Arch Linux under WSL), so please report what you find.
What's new
- Updating from v0.4.1 keeps your saves and settings.
- Speed: on our test laptop (Core i5-11400H, RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, 1920x1080, every graphics option at its highest) the same scripted run on Pokitaru went from about 57 fps in v0.4.1 to about 96 fps, and the 1% lows (the slowest frames) from about 45 to about 62 fps. The picture and the game itself stay exactly the same.
- Speed: the game no longer draws what you cannot see (hidden and far-away objects, in the main view, the water reflection and under the water; sun shadows only for objects that can cast into them), and there are fewer stutters: the HUD picture is sent to the graphics card by a helper thread, on NVIDIA cards the last steps of each frame also run on a helper thread, and Ratchet's drawing no longer stalls a frame when the camera comes very close to him. The picture is the same, pixel for pixel, and the game plays exactly the same.
- New: Linux. The launcher for Linux is now a .tar.gz folder you extract and double-click (no chmod). It checks the system libraries before Play and names a missing one with the install line for your distribution, the game shows a window with the reason when it cannot start, and "Add to Steam" (Settings > Advanced > Steam in the launcher, or
sh setup.sh --add-to-steam) puts the game into your Steam library for the Steam Deck (not yet tried on a real Steam Deck). Script mods like Arsenal Mastery now work on Linux. The game tells you when a newer version is out, and the PC no longer goes to sleep while the launcher builds the game or while you play. - New: "Strafe aiming" (Pause or title > Options > Camera): Raised (today's strafe aim, the default), Shoulder (aims over Ratchet's shoulder) or Off.
- New: "Quick Select mouse" (Pause > Options > Graphics, page System), off by default: hold Triangle (T or the middle mouse button) and point the mouse toward a weapon on the wheel, all eight directions (issue #13). "Stick dead zone": High, Medium or Low (issue #30). "Button glyphs": PlayStation (the default), Letters or Letters (Switch), with pictures drawn for this project.
- New: the title screen's Graphics page has the same sections and rows as the pause menu's. Esc, Space, Enter or a controller's Start skip the boot logo movies.
- Fixed: tutorial pop-ups show your keyboard keys when you play on keyboard (issue #36), and Load Game shows the PC's date and time for new saves instead of 95/00/00.
- Changed: the mouse in the pause menu. The highlight follows the pointer at once on the Options, Help, Camera, Sound, Subtitles, Weapons, Items and Gadgets pages, a click acts at once, and the Sound sliders can be clicked or dragged. A stray click can no longer answer the Quit Game or save-overwrite question by accident.
- Changed: in shops with eight or more icons the mouse does not pick items for now (use the keys or a controller).
- Arsenal Mastery 0.3.4 (preinstalled, off): the setting and preset called "Up Your Arsenal" are now called "Standard" and "Default".
- Thank you: to everyone who reported problems and ideas on GitHub.
The full list is in CHANGELOG.md inside the zip.