Despite claims from Insomniac that only the size of the puddle had changed, fans quickly created the term “Puddle-Gate.”
The issue in question can be seen when comparing a section of the game that was used in the game’s E3 2017 demo. In it, Spider-Man fight’s some goons on a rooftop. There are puddles around the goons, and many noticed that the lighting and reflections of those puddles, as well as Spider-Man’s suit, were not of the same quality in the release as they were in the pre-release.
With that information in hand, game tech analysts, Digital Foundry, found the opposite results in their analysis of Spider-Man.
In the video, John Linneman outlines how most of the changes, like Spider-Man’s suit, where made to make the game less “shiny” and more realistic:
When talking about the puddle images, Linneman theorized that it probably had less to do with man power, and more to do with tech power:
Spider-Man releases September 7 on PlayStation 4.
