Stray Sunday

My cat adventures are officially over… for now. I beat Stray! I still need to go back and find some missing memories and some other achievements/trophies, but I finished the game AND had fun trying out a couple of mods:

One of the mods you can get from Stray’s Nexus is photo mode! Which is something that should have shipped with the game. It’s a little buggy, and I did crash the game a couple of times, but that only seemed to occur if I Alt-Tabbed one too many times. This mod alone will make my next playthrough of the game all the more worthwhile! Now I can go through the game pretending to be tourist cat. 😛

I also tested the split screen co-op mod. It looks really nice on a big 4K TV! But it’s even buggier than photo mode; If you walk into an area you’re not supposed to the second controller will stop functioning partially, and only Player 1 has the robot and HUD button prompts. It was fun to play with, but this mod still needs some time to mature. It has really been nice seeing all of the different mods popping onto the Nexus for Stray! Now if someone could just add a level editor so people could make their own platforming puzzles that would be purr-fect.

One of these days I’ll play through it again, perhaps when my Steam Deck finally arrives! Until then it’s back to fighting off the rest of my gaming backlog! 😛

Everybody Wants To Be a Cat

I made some time to play Stray! Or as other people have been calling it: The Cat Game. Since I’m playing on PC I have the abillity to make my own “cat-sona”. The game runs pretty well at 4K on my system, but every once in awhile I experience some stuttering (thanks Unreal Engine). This seems to be happening to everyone on PC, while on Playstation it doesn’t have this issue. Given the choice though I have to have my mods, and like I said prior, it doesn’t happen enough for me to want to rage quit. In fact, I really love how unique this game is.

Quite a few people I know at work have been playing it on Playstation, and a couple friends of mine were telling me about how their cat kept trying to paw at the screen while they were playing. I have the game ready to go on the living room PC! I just need to play it out there on a day when I have a captive kitty audience, they were all doing cat things outside today while I was inside doing cat things. I’ve been having a fun time being catatonic today! 😛