How does the PsychOdyssey DLC work?

[Yujah]

Note; am aware that PsychOdyssey is also downloadable at e.g. archive.org; am wondering specifically about the DLC...

PsychOdyssey is listed as free DLC for the game on the Steam store page. I added it after buying Psychonauts 2 and indeed Steam says I have it, including in the game's library right-click Properties menu -- but I can't seem to find a way to have it in fact play from/through Steam. Specifically whether I choose "Play Now" or "Download" at

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3245600/Double_Fine_PsychOdyssey/

the game itself opens, and it's then also not available e.g. from the "Extras" menu, nor is it from Steam's own "Videos" category in my library. Is it perhaps in that "Extras" menu after I finish the game itself or something like that?

As said; aware it's available otherwise as well (and I've in fact already watched it that way) but how is the DLC route intended to work?

[DF Peter S]

Hey there, the intention is that it should be working as a download, but we've noticed it doesn't quite seem to be behaving right now. We've asked Steam for help, but there might be a little bit of a delay because of Thanksgiving and all that.

[Yujah]

Thanks for the reply. Good to know I'm not just an idiot; will wait...

[DF Peter S]

This ought to be working now! (Warning, it's big!)

[Yujah]

It does -- although hitting the "Download" button on

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3245600/Double_Fine_PsychOdyssey/

did still also launch the game which supposedly it shouldn't. But it's downloading; all 200G of it. Thank you.

It would by the way be top if you guys could also bring back, perhaps as DLC for Broken Age,

https://store.steampowered.com/app/402590

[Doctor Hades]

Confused about this DLC too.

I download the entire 200+ GB and the shows it is installed as DLC but on loading the game I cannot see any option to view this from the Extras menu, which is where I would have expected it to accessed from, nor any other menu in the game.

What am I missing?

*EDIT*
OK, so I see 33 videos (plus subtitles files once decompressed) in the game install folder and, sure enough, they play fine with the Film & TV app in Windows when I double-click on them but, surely, this isn't how we are supposed to view them... is it?

Why are these not showing in the game's Extras menus like other games which have documentary and other video content as bonuses? Surely that is far more user friendly, especially for a 200+ GB download?

[Yujah]

Yes, they're not launched from inside the game; are downloaded simply as .mp4 files to the game's install folder. You can use <game rightclick> -> Properties -> Local Files -> Browse to open a file manager window directly in the game's install folder and will be able to locate PsychOdyssey from there.

You can of course also for example make a shortcut to the folder on e.g. your desktop if you like that better...

[Doctor Hades]

Originally posted by Yujah:

Yes, they're not launched from inside the game; are downloaded simply as .mp4 files to the game's install folder. You can use <game rightclick> -> Properties -> Local Files -> Browse to open a file manager window directly in the game's install folder and will be able to locate PsychOdyssey from there.

You can of course also for example make a shortcut to the folder on e.g. your desktop if you like that better...

What is this? 1998?

How much effort would it have taken to have allowed the game to play these from the Extras menu? Or for that matter to embed links to the YouTube videos so you can view them directly from the game for the complete Psychonauts 2 experience?

[Yujah]

I vastly prefer what they did. It's a 24 or so hour documentary; individual files in a standard format make it trivial to e.g. play them via or move them over to a mediaplayer connected to my TV -- which is also the type of viewing experience I'd suggest for this. In-game access provides little to no advantage; who's going to watch 24 hours of this from behind their gaming PC?

Note also that you got all that content for free, and that's it's thoroughly enjoyable (I already watched it earlier via official downloads from archive.org).

[DF Peter S]

Originally posted by Doctor Hades:

How much effort would it have taken to have allowed the game to play these from the Extras menu? Or for that matter to embed links to the YouTube videos so you can view them directly from the game for the complete Psychonauts 2 experience?

More effort than you'd think! (plus I sorta agree there's not much reason to play these with the game running, it's about a day's worth of footage across 33 episodes. But, if you'd rather not use these files there's always the youtube option!)

[minorsnow]

why Mac can not set the language to Chinese verision
only a few languages and no Chinese,

[DF Peter S]

Originally posted by minorsnow:

why Mac can not set the language to Chinese verision
only a few languages and no Chinese,

Sorry, the addition of Chinese language happened some time after the game was first launched, and for various reasons it was only practical for us to update the Windows Steam version at the time. We added a notice to the top of the game description to try to make this clear, but that's all we can really do at the moment.

[heckuva]

I hope the movie would not download automatically along with the game. I appreciate the move but cannot afford allocating 200 gb of space while the YouTube version exists.

[Yujah]

Use <game rightclick> -> Properties -> DLC and uncheck PsychOdyssey; then cancel the presumably already started download.

I expect that Double Fine can't change automatic download of a DLC you have added; that this is all Steam...

[Rabblevox]

Originally posted by minorsnow:

why Mac can not set the language to Chinese verision
only a few languages and no Chinese,

Agreed. I have issues with China's politics, but Chinese speakers are the 2nd or 3rd largest gaming audience. I've only taken one semester in Mandarin, and spent one month in China. Just enough to convince me how completely ignorant i am.

I do understand that translating from English to Spanish or German is relatively simple. Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Hindi each presents unique translation challenges.

But word to the wise, we cannot, should not, and must not ignore China. As allies, adversaries, or difficult partners, China matters (always have, always will, they are the Eternal Kingdom).

[Yujah]

They are not ignoring China -- they are ignoring Chinese Apple users.