Wreckfest Will Charge You $10 for a PS5 Upgrade in June

bought this in a sale last year so I wouldn't mind paying a little for the upgrade. A quality meaty racing game offers a lot of gameplay value imo.

Weird that Xbox Series X already had its next gen update for this and it was free.

Maybe the adaptive triggers were more work.

Didn't realize this existed! lol

Looks fun though

@awp69 It's important to clarify that the Xbox version is not a native Xbox Series X version. It's a backwards compatibility patch rather than what this is.

@get2sammyb Exactly! The game is really fun but you can feel how restricted it is by last gen hardware...

@LiamCroft Well, regardless, it’s 4K 60 FPS. I’ll stick with it as it runs and looks beautiful. And load times are very fast.

Normally I'd crucify this practice, paying for upgraded graphics and load times which is provided free in other games.

But there are some additional enchantments

Nah, I own it and this seems fair. Still not really trying to get a PS5 any time soon but whenever I do a $10 upgrade won't kill me I'm sure.

Sounds worth it and assume it won't be long until game+PS5 upgrade will be in a sale. Have it on PC since pre-ordering in 2013 and doing my bit (not a lot) to get the Steam Greenlight go-ahead at the time. It really is a great game. Also loved the 'original' Bugbear Flatout series, that got continued by others (not as good) Wreckfest being the spiritual successor.

I assume then they will be locking the backwards compat version to a lower more feeble FPS, I wonder what it would be just uncapped

I'm hoping there will be an option to transfer save games. I poured hundreds of hours into Wreckfest on PS4 and don't want to lose all this progress.

That’s a bit cheeky I think. Love the game and probably will pay but it’s a very bare game and not the most polished of experiences so to charge for that experience with some standard next gen extras is a little off.

@Total_Weirdo It’s so much fun 😎

@eltomo Does it include all the content released in the season passes?

F*ck that. Greedy.

@eltomo No, do not condone or reward this behavior.

Played this on my XBox One, and the load times are SO painful. It got so bad between the load times and the frame drops during a race with a lot of cars on the screen at the same time, that I stopped playing.

Tried it on my PS5 thanks to a $1 month of PS Now, and the load times (PS4 edition from an external SSD) are a lot better, though still leave plenty of room for improvement. Seems to be fewer frame rate drops, too. But I would dearly love the enhancements they're talking about. Wonder if the PS5 version will also make PS Now...is anything in Now a PS5 edition?

I'll be looking for this on sale, I think. Looks like a fair amount of fun, especially with even better load times.

Now this is an upgrade I’ll gladly pay for!

Over on PureXbox they were all poking fun at PlayStation for the fee to upgrade and calling Sony greedy.
Only for it to be confirmed later by the developer that they have to pay too for a "true" next gen upgrade. Bet they feel stupid now.

I think this is totally fine.

Heck, I'll pay for a brand new copy to show my appreciation. It's a very fun game.