With the launch of Days Gone Remastered for PlayStation 5 simply across the nook, we’re excited to highlight our expanded suite of accessibility options. Taking the inspiration of our baseline record from Days Gone in 2019, we made it a precedence to evolve and enhance accessibility to make the participant’s expertise extra accessible and customizable when hitting the Damaged Highway on April 25. Let’s dive proper in!
Visible options
Subtitle customization is now vaster than ever earlier than in Days Gone. We added a complete of 11 subtitle colours so that you can select primarily based in your choice, which will also be used for the speaker’s identify. Need to combine and match? No downside! Select the subtitle textual content to be one shade and the speaker’s identify to be one other shade. On prime of shade customization, we additionally expanded the choices for subtitle background. Initially, this might solely be toggled on or off. Now, you possibly can choose between default (clear), darkened, gentle, and black.
One of many greatest accessibility expansions coming to Days Gone Remastered is a totally customizable Excessive Distinction Mode. This pairs with our Excessive Distinction HUD that was carried out within the unique recreation to help with simpler navigation and visibility. With Excessive Distinction Mode, you possibly can shortly apply predefined settings with two preset choices – Main and Secondary. Nonetheless, you can too customise it to your preferences by setting the hero, pleasant NPC, enemy, and interactable colours primarily based on the 11 complete shade selections you even have with the subtitle settings. These distinction choices are designed to extend visibility for the participant throughout gameplay.
Subtitles and Excessive Distinction Mode, together with different generally used settings, will be accessible to pick out earlier than even getting into the sport with our new Preliminary Setup display screen as you boot up Days Gone Remastered for the primary time. Additional changes will be made within the Accessibility tab by way of the Choices choice on the principle menu, which additionally acquired an uplift offering real-time preview panels to show your chosen settings with out going in-game.
Audio options
Together with a totally revised and improved audio combine in Days Gone Remastered, two new audio accessibility choices make their debut in Days Gone for the primary time – UI Narration and Collectible Audio Cues.
UI Narration prompts audio descriptions for the consumer interface studying out key info to help gamers in navigating on-screen gadgets corresponding to all menu choices and in-game Touchpad choices together with Stock, Abilities, and Storylines. This setting will probably be set to ‘ON’ as default when booting up Days Gone Remastered for the primary time and will be toggled ‘OFF’ in the event you want from the Preliminary Setup display screen.
With 240 collectibles scattered throughout the sprawling Pacific Northwest open world, we’ve added the choice to show Collectible Audio Cues on to sound notifications to assist find collectible objects extra simply. Whether or not you’re enjoying by way of the Story or cleansing up open world actions, this distinct sound will make it easier to observe down these hard-to-find collectibles. As well as, you’ll really feel elevated haptic suggestions by way of your DualSense controller mimicking the sound as you get nearer to the collectible.
Gameplay options
Preventing hordes, driving your Drifter bike, and sneaking by way of ambush camps requires extra accessibility options so that you can benefit from the recreation at your personal tempo and in your personal means. Tackle the brutal and dynamic world of Days Gone with Personalized Controls! The ability is now in your fingers to customise your playstyle any means you want with absolutely remappable controls together with your DualSense controller. That is additionally appropriate with the absolutely useful PlayStation Entry controller.
One other thrilling function coming to Days Gone Remastered is Sport Pace. Sport Pace determines the pace of gameplay starting from 100% to 75%, 50%, and 25%. Sport Pace is good for gamers who would possibly really feel overwhelmed in sure conditions or have problem with varied inputs in excessive stress moments, particularly combating off hordes of Freakers. Hordes are a pillar in Days Gone gameplay and with our new Horde Assault mode arriving within the remaster, we wished to make this distinctive fight expertise extra accessible to our gamers.
Extra options coming to Days Gone Remastered embrace Recenter Digicam on Assault, Haptic vibration depth sliders, Subject of View, and Persistent Middle Dot. We additionally made a quality-of-life change to our auto-complete QTE function. Earlier than, it was solely usable on Straightforward problem. Now, you possibly can activate this setting in any problem from Straightforward to Survival II.
Most new accessibility options are coming to Days Gone on PC as properly.*
At Bend Studio, we try to create experiences that go away a long-lasting influence on our gamers. The pursuit of permitting gamers of all talents to share our pleasure of play collectively evokes our work each day. We hope you benefit from the definitive model of our open world epic, and we are able to’t wait to see you hop on the Drifter bike and expertise all Days Gone Remastered has to supply on April 25, 2025.
*Replace to model greater than Construct ID 10034136 by way of Patch 1.08 required. UI Narration is just not supported for Damaged Highway DLC on PC. Appropriate controller required for haptic suggestions and customised controls. For DualSense controller, wired connection required to expertise the total vary of in-game controller options.
