Ray tracing technology has allowed current-gen systems like the Spider-Man: Miles Morales. The newest installment of Insomniac’s wildly successful superhero sandbox series recently hit stores alongside the PS5 last week, putting players behind the mask of the titular rookie wall-crawler as he looks to make his mark in New York City.
Since its release, fans have been naturally searching every nook and cranny of Spider-Man: Miles Morales’s game world for easter eggs and small references to the larger Marvel Universe and even Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman. However, some players have come across a few unplanned quirks that would have gone unnoticed in a less graphically-intensive era.
Yesterday morning, Studio Zero creative director Will Meilane posted a screenshot from the PS5 version of Spider-Man: Miles Morales on Twitter, featuring a small handful of NPCs being shown in their default, pre-animated poses in the reflection of a convenience store window. Both Meilane and fans in the comments attribute this discovery to the game’s drastically-improved ray-traced graphics, which makes NPCs standing behind the player visible through the reflection in a pane of glass.
This is far from the only glitch to appear in Spider-Man: Miles Morales in the days since its highly-anticipated launch. Making the rounds on the internet are videos of Miles being randomly hardened supervillains like the Rhino and the Vulture has made for a fun novelty for fans as they enjoy one of the PlayStation 5’s first flagship titles.
Spider-Man: Miles Morale’s ray tracing-induced NPC glitch is a relatively minor oddity compared to Miles turning into a lamp, but it’s no less worthy of a good chuckle. It also speaks volumes about how far gaming technology has come in rendering reflective surfaces, to the point where game developers might have to be more careful in animating their computer-controlled characters in the future - lest they be caught frozen in place by an unsuspecting superhero during a routine trip to the store.
Spider-Man: Miles Morales is available on PS4 and PS5.
Source: Will Meilane/Twitter