I must admit, despite not being the biggest fan of the overall franchise, I’ve been thoroughly enjoying Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Troy Baker’s solid impersonation of the titular whip-slinger is absolutely spot-on. However, it appears that some players have had problems making use of Indy’s iconic item.
In the most recent patch – the aptly named Update 2 – MachineGames has sent forth a few fixes for The Great Circle. There have been a couple of tweaks to some of the missions in which Gina isn’t pulling her weight, for example.
However, the one that stood out for me in the official patch notes is the bit that says the studio has fixed an issue in which the player “may be unable to equip Indy’s whip.” I’ve been lucky not to have experienced this problem, but imagine a world in which you get to play Indiana Jones but are unable to use his whip. It’d be like Spider-Man without his web-shooting abilities, Doom Guy without the Super Shotgun, or any Keanu Reeves film where he doesn’t get to say “whoa.”
Couldn’t bear it!
Update 2 also fixes a few PC-specific things in the game, mostly related to Nvidia. For example, the patch should sort out performance problems for DLSS and Low Latency Mode. So, if you’re playing on PC, hopefully, you’ll see some improvements going forward.
For any streamers out there, there is one note at the bottom of the patch notes that says content creators “may have experienced crashes in the game if using OBS Studio software to capture video.” Updating OBS to version 31.0.0 should sort this. Thought it was worth mentioning here.
Other than that, it’s business as usual. As I said above, I think Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is a solid game overall, and I say that as someone who hasn’t really been overly keen on MachineGames’ past work (save for the Quake 2 maps the team did for the recent remaster). It’s been getting some pretty great reviews overall, and it might actually inspire me to go back and watch the films again.
Published: Dec 18, 2024 08:39 am