IGN hosted a watch-along for the first two episodes of the Hulu Original Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. with co-creators Jordan Blum and Patton Oswalt, and they revealed why they chose M.O.D.O.K. as the star of their series, which Marvel cameos they were and weren't allowed to use, and much more.

During our interview from the M.O.D.O.K. watch-along, Blum explained that the beauty of the Marvel Universe is that every character has the potential to be a star, even the most obscure.

"If you went back a few years ago, and you were like 'Rocket and Groot are going to be two of the most famous superheroes of all time,' I’d say, 'That’s insane! Those guys have been in like five comics!' I think It’s that these characters have so much humanity built into them, especially the ones that are larger than life or crazy like a M.O.D.O.K. or a Groot,” Blum said.

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/05/20/watch-marvels-modok-early-w-patton-oswalt-and-jordan-blum-ign-watch-party"]

"That’s the recipe of the Marvel Universe,” Blum continued. “It's big, crazy sci-fi with larger-than-life characters but they’re so grounded and so relatable, and that’s what we found with M.O.D.O.K. when we were talking about this character. This is a guy who is brilliant, but he’s self-conscious or aware that he is not Dr. Doom, and it drives him insane."

This all sounds great, but how do you build a show around him? Blum said the idea of following M.O.D.O.K. when he is not featured in a comic book panel was what won them over.

"Does he go home to a family? Also, great, he has A.I.M., he has this evil organization. Well, what is it like to run that? What does it take to keep that thing going? You have employees, you have HR, and you have all these things that make up running an organization," Blum said.

"We were like, let’s make a show that’s kind of the behind-the-scenes of that. We never get this guy’s story. We only see him as a foil to these heroes. So, to us, it began by asking these questions, and then exploring the bureaucracy of A.I.M. led to all this comedy,” Blum explained. “The idea of, yes you can be this arch-evil villain during the day, but how do you go home and try to maintain a relationship with a family? It was hilarious to us. So, it kind of was like, keeping M.O.D.O.K. as the M.O.D.O.K. we know and love, but expanding his world.”

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/marvels-modok-season-1-review"]

Another strength of a M.O.D.O.K.-focused tale, according to Oswalt, is that while all these Marvel supervillains had to sacrifice their friends and family to take over the world, M.O.D.O.K. believes he is superior to all of them and can get everything without sacrificing anything, which obviously isn't true.

Additionally, they believe the key to a good villain story is pitting one villain against an even more villainous enemy. In the case of M.O.D.O.K., this is the corporation. How will M.O.D.O.K. manage when he can't just mind blast everything?

Getting Approval for Marvel Cameos Did Not Go As M.O.D.O.K.'s Co-Creators Planned

Slight spoilers for Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. ahead!

M.O.D.O.K. is a Marvel character, meaning there is a chance for other Marvel characters to make cameos in the show. When approaching the decision makers at Marvel, Blum and Oswalt decided to take the approach of asking for the best-of-the-best heroes and villains, even though they figured they wouldn't be able to use them. By using this strategy, they figured they could get characters they really wanted as they weren't as much of an ask.

To their surprise, Marvel gave them everything they asked for, except for three surprising lesser-known characters.

[widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=marvels-modok&captions=true"]

"We got all the A-listers we wanted," Blum said. "There’s a very funny episode that Patton wrote, that’s set at the Bar With No Name, and it’s got a lot of the D-List and deep cuts from the Marvel handbook. We wanted Stilt-Man as the bartender so he could kind of stilt up to get the top shelf liquor and then come back down, but they were like ‘Stilt-Man is off limits!.’ It was like him, Turner D. Century, and Paste-Pot Pete. Those were the three that you can’t touch!”

As for future cameos, including any other supervillains, Oswalt teased that, "this season is really about M.O.D.O.K. confronting his ‘I would never BLANK’ and then having to adjust those limits. Let’s leave it at that.”

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/05/21/marvel-origins-everything-you-need-to-know-about-modok"]

For more on M.O.D.O.K., check out our review of the show's first season, which is now available on Hulu.

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IGN hosted a watch-along for the first two episodes of the Hulu Original Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. with co-creators Jordan Blum and Patton Oswalt, and they revealed why they chose M.O.D.O.K. as the star of their series, which Marvel cameos they were and weren't allowed to use, and much more.

During our interview from the M.O.D.O.K. watch-along, Blum explained that the beauty of the Marvel Universe is that every character has the potential to be a star, even the most obscure.

"If you went back a few years ago, and you were like 'Rocket and Groot are going to be two of the most famous superheroes of all time,' I’d say, 'That’s insane! Those guys have been in like five comics!' I think It’s that these characters have so much humanity built into them, especially the ones that are larger than life or crazy like a M.O.D.O.K. or a Groot,” Blum said.

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/05/20/watch-marvels-modok-early-w-patton-oswalt-and-jordan-blum-ign-watch-party"]

"That’s the recipe of the Marvel Universe,” Blum continued. “It's big, crazy sci-fi with larger-than-life characters but they’re so grounded and so relatable, and that’s what we found with M.O.D.O.K. when we were talking about this character. This is a guy who is brilliant, but he’s self-conscious or aware that he is not Dr. Doom, and it drives him insane."

This all sounds great, but how do you build a show around him? Blum said the idea of following M.O.D.O.K. when he is not featured in a comic book panel was what won them over.

"Does he go home to a family? Also, great, he has A.I.M., he has this evil organization. Well, what is it like to run that? What does it take to keep that thing going? You have employees, you have HR, and you have all these things that make up running an organization," Blum said.

"We were like, let’s make a show that’s kind of the behind-the-scenes of that. We never get this guy’s story. We only see him as a foil to these heroes. So, to us, it began by asking these questions, and then exploring the bureaucracy of A.I.M. led to all this comedy,” Blum explained. “The idea of, yes you can be this arch-evil villain during the day, but how do you go home and try to maintain a relationship with a family? It was hilarious to us. So, it kind of was like, keeping M.O.D.O.K. as the M.O.D.O.K. we know and love, but expanding his world.”

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/marvels-modok-season-1-review"]

Another strength of a M.O.D.O.K.-focused tale, according to Oswalt, is that while all these Marvel supervillains had to sacrifice their friends and family to take over the world, M.O.D.O.K. believes he is superior to all of them and can get everything without sacrificing anything, which obviously isn't true.

Additionally, they believe the key to a good villain story is pitting one villain against an even more villainous enemy. In the case of M.O.D.O.K., this is the corporation. How will M.O.D.O.K. manage when he can't just mind blast everything?

Getting Approval for Marvel Cameos Did Not Go As M.O.D.O.K.'s Co-Creators Planned

Slight spoilers for Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. ahead!

M.O.D.O.K. is a Marvel character, meaning there is a chance for other Marvel characters to make cameos in the show. When approaching the decision makers at Marvel, Blum and Oswalt decided to take the approach of asking for the best-of-the-best heroes and villains, even though they figured they wouldn't be able to use them. By using this strategy, they figured they could get characters they really wanted as they weren't as much of an ask.

To their surprise, Marvel gave them everything they asked for, except for three surprising lesser-known characters.

[widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=marvels-modok&captions=true"]

"We got all the A-listers we wanted," Blum said. "There’s a very funny episode that Patton wrote, that’s set at the Bar With No Name, and it’s got a lot of the D-List and deep cuts from the Marvel handbook. We wanted Stilt-Man as the bartender so he could kind of stilt up to get the top shelf liquor and then come back down, but they were like ‘Stilt-Man is off limits!.’ It was like him, Turner D. Century, and Paste-Pot Pete. Those were the three that you can’t touch!”

As for future cameos, including any other supervillains, Oswalt teased that, "this season is really about M.O.D.O.K. confronting his ‘I would never BLANK’ and then having to adjust those limits. Let’s leave it at that.”

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/05/21/marvel-origins-everything-you-need-to-know-about-modok"]

For more on M.O.D.O.K., check out our review of the show's first season, which is now available on Hulu.

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IGN hosted a watch-along for the first two episodes of the Hulu Original Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. with co-creators Jordan Blum and Patton Oswalt, and they revealed why they chose M.O.D.O.K. as the star of their series, which Marvel cameos they were and weren't allowed to use, and much more.

During our interview from the M.O.D.O.K. watch-along, Blum explained that the beauty of the Marvel Universe is that every character has the potential to be a star, even the most obscure.

"If you went back a few years ago, and you were like 'Rocket and Groot are going to be two of the most famous superheroes of all time,' I’d say, 'That’s insane! Those guys have been in like five comics!' I think It’s that these characters have so much humanity built into them, especially the ones that are larger than life or crazy like a M.O.D.O.K. or a Groot,” Blum said.

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/05/20/watch-marvels-modok-early-w-patton-oswalt-and-jordan-blum-ign-watch-party"]

"That’s the recipe of the Marvel Universe,” Blum continued. “It's big, crazy sci-fi with larger-than-life characters but they’re so grounded and so relatable, and that’s what we found with M.O.D.O.K. when we were talking about this character. This is a guy who is brilliant, but he’s self-conscious or aware that he is not Dr. Doom, and it drives him insane."

This all sounds great, but how do you build a show around him? Blum said the idea of following M.O.D.O.K. when he is not featured in a comic book panel was what won them over.

"Does he go home to a family? Also, great, he has A.I.M., he has this evil organization. Well, what is it like to run that? What does it take to keep that thing going? You have employees, you have HR, and you have all these things that make up running an organization," Blum said.

"We were like, let’s make a show that’s kind of the behind-the-scenes of that. We never get this guy’s story. We only see him as a foil to these heroes. So, to us, it began by asking these questions, and then exploring the bureaucracy of A.I.M. led to all this comedy,” Blum explained. “The idea of, yes you can be this arch-evil villain during the day, but how do you go home and try to maintain a relationship with a family? It was hilarious to us. So, it kind of was like, keeping M.O.D.O.K. as the M.O.D.O.K. we know and love, but expanding his world.”

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/marvels-modok-season-1-review"]

Another strength of a M.O.D.O.K.-focused tale, according to Oswalt, is that while all these Marvel supervillains had to sacrifice their friends and family to take over the world, M.O.D.O.K. believes he is superior to all of them and can get everything without sacrificing anything, which obviously isn't true.

Additionally, they believe the key to a good villain story is pitting one villain against an even more villainous enemy. In the case of M.O.D.O.K., this is the corporation. How will M.O.D.O.K. manage when he can't just mind blast everything?

Getting Approval for Marvel Cameos Did Not Go As M.O.D.O.K.'s Co-Creators Planned

Slight spoilers for Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. ahead!

M.O.D.O.K. is a Marvel character, meaning there is a chance for other Marvel characters to make cameos in the show. When approaching the decision makers at Marvel, Blum and Oswalt decided to take the approach of asking for the best-of-the-best heroes and villains, even though they figured they wouldn't be able to use them. By using this strategy, they figured they could get characters they really wanted as they weren't as much of an ask.

To their surprise, Marvel gave them everything they asked for, except for three surprising lesser-known characters.

[widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=marvels-modok&captions=true"]

"We got all the A-listers we wanted," Blum said. "There’s a very funny episode that Patton wrote, that’s set at the Bar With No Name, and it’s got a lot of the D-List and deep cuts from the Marvel handbook. We wanted Stilt-Man as the bartender so he could kind of stilt up to get the top shelf liquor and then come back down, but they were like ‘Stilt-Man is off limits!.’ It was like him, Turner D. Century, and Paste-Pot Pete. Those were the three that you can’t touch!”

As for future cameos, including any other supervillains, Oswalt teased that, "this season is really about M.O.D.O.K. confronting his ‘I would never BLANK’ and then having to adjust those limits. Let’s leave it at that.”

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/05/21/marvel-origins-everything-you-need-to-know-about-modok"]

For more on M.O.D.O.K., check out our review of the show's first season, which is now available on Hulu.

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Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

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IGN hosted a watch-along for the first two episodes of the Hulu Original Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. with co-creators Jordan Blum and Patton Oswalt, and they revealed why they chose M.O.D.O.K. as the star of their series, which Marvel cameos they were and weren't allowed to use, and much more.

During our interview from the M.O.D.O.K. watch-along, Blum explained that the beauty of the Marvel Universe is that every character has the potential to be a star, even the most obscure.

"If you went back a few years ago, and you were like 'Rocket and Groot are going to be two of the most famous superheroes of all time,' I’d say, 'That’s insane! Those guys have been in like five comics!' I think It’s that these characters have so much humanity built into them, especially the ones that are larger than life or crazy like a M.O.D.O.K. or a Groot,” Blum said.

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/05/20/watch-marvels-modok-early-w-patton-oswalt-and-jordan-blum-ign-watch-party"]

"That’s the recipe of the Marvel Universe,” Blum continued. “It's big, crazy sci-fi with larger-than-life characters but they’re so grounded and so relatable, and that’s what we found with M.O.D.O.K. when we were talking about this character. This is a guy who is brilliant, but he’s self-conscious or aware that he is not Dr. Doom, and it drives him insane."

This all sounds great, but how do you build a show around him? Blum said the idea of following M.O.D.O.K. when he is not featured in a comic book panel was what won them over.

"Does he go home to a family? Also, great, he has A.I.M., he has this evil organization. Well, what is it like to run that? What does it take to keep that thing going? You have employees, you have HR, and you have all these things that make up running an organization," Blum said.

"We were like, let’s make a show that’s kind of the behind-the-scenes of that. We never get this guy’s story. We only see him as a foil to these heroes. So, to us, it began by asking these questions, and then exploring the bureaucracy of A.I.M. led to all this comedy,” Blum explained. “The idea of, yes you can be this arch-evil villain during the day, but how do you go home and try to maintain a relationship with a family? It was hilarious to us. So, it kind of was like, keeping M.O.D.O.K. as the M.O.D.O.K. we know and love, but expanding his world.”

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/marvels-modok-season-1-review"]

Another strength of a M.O.D.O.K.-focused tale, according to Oswalt, is that while all these Marvel supervillains had to sacrifice their friends and family to take over the world, M.O.D.O.K. believes he is superior to all of them and can get everything without sacrificing anything, which obviously isn't true.

Additionally, they believe the key to a good villain story is pitting one villain against an even more villainous enemy. In the case of M.O.D.O.K., this is the corporation. How will M.O.D.O.K. manage when he can't just mind blast everything?

Getting Approval for Marvel Cameos Did Not Go As M.O.D.O.K.'s Co-Creators Planned

Slight spoilers for Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. ahead!

M.O.D.O.K. is a Marvel character, meaning there is a chance for other Marvel characters to make cameos in the show. When approaching the decision makers at Marvel, Blum and Oswalt decided to take the approach of asking for the best-of-the-best heroes and villains, even though they figured they wouldn't be able to use them. By using this strategy, they figured they could get characters they really wanted as they weren't as much of an ask.

To their surprise, Marvel gave them everything they asked for, except for three surprising lesser-known characters.

[widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=marvels-modok&captions=true"]

"We got all the A-listers we wanted," Blum said. "There’s a very funny episode that Patton wrote, that’s set at the Bar With No Name, and it’s got a lot of the D-List and deep cuts from the Marvel handbook. We wanted Stilt-Man as the bartender so he could kind of stilt up to get the top shelf liquor and then come back down, but they were like ‘Stilt-Man is off limits!.’ It was like him, Turner D. Century, and Paste-Pot Pete. Those were the three that you can’t touch!”

As for future cameos, including any other supervillains, Oswalt teased that, "this season is really about M.O.D.O.K. confronting his ‘I would never BLANK’ and then having to adjust those limits. Let’s leave it at that.”

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/05/21/marvel-origins-everything-you-need-to-know-about-modok"]

For more on M.O.D.O.K., check out our review of the show's first season, which is now available on Hulu.

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Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

A Highlander remake is in the works at Lionsgate starring Henry Cavill and John Wick director, Chad Stahelski, set to direct the film. This news comes by way of Cavill himself who confirmed the news today on Instagram with a photo of a Deadline story about the news. According to Deadline's report, the film will be a reboot of the popular 1980s fantasy action adventure movie of the same name. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-10-best-80s-action-movies&captions=true"] "Very exciting news today," Cavill's Instagram post reads. "I've been a fan of Highlander since I was a lad. From the movies in all of their 80s, Queen slathered glory to the TV show with an actor who looked remarkably like one of my brothers. Being not shy with swords, and having a director as talented as Chad Stahelski at the helm, this is an opportunity like no other." Cavill said he and the team are working to make this movie an "adventure I (and hopefully all of you) shall never forget." His Instagram post also features a photo of what appears to be a knife, some history books, and more. Cavill said this project has prompted him to dip into his own Scottish heritage, which also doubles as research for the movie. The original Highlander movie was released in 1986 and starred Clancy Brown, Sean Connery, and Christopher Lambert as immortal warriors that hunt each other, as noted by Deadline. The original film received four movie sequels and three television series. As for what to expect of this Cavill-led reboot's plot, not much is known. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/12/20/the-witcher-game-vs-netflix-scene-comparison"] For what it's worth, Cavill is no stranger to fantasy action-adventure as he was the lead in Netflix's Witcher series. You can read our thoughts on his performance in the show in IGN's Season 1 review of Netflix's The Witcher. While waiting for this Highlander reboot, check out this video of Cavill building a PC from scratch and then read IGN's list of the 10 best '80s action movies. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes. 

A Highlander remake is in the works at Lionsgate starring Henry Cavill and John Wick director, Chad Stahelski, set to direct the film. This news comes by way of Cavill himself who confirmed the news today on Instagram with a photo of a Deadline story about the news. According to Deadline's report, the film will be a reboot of the popular 1980s fantasy action adventure movie of the same name. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-10-best-80s-action-movies&captions=true"] "Very exciting news today," Cavill's Instagram post reads. "I've been a fan of Highlander since I was a lad. From the movies in all of their 80s, Queen slathered glory to the TV show with an actor who looked remarkably like one of my brothers. Being not shy with swords, and having a director as talented as Chad Stahelski at the helm, this is an opportunity like no other." Cavill said he and the team are working to make this movie an "adventure I (and hopefully all of you) shall never forget." His Instagram post also features a photo of what appears to be a knife, some history books, and more. Cavill said this project has prompted him to dip into his own Scottish heritage, which also doubles as research for the movie. The original Highlander movie was released in 1986 and starred Clancy Brown, Sean Connery, and Christopher Lambert as immortal warriors that hunt each other, as noted by Deadline. The original film received four movie sequels and three television series. As for what to expect of this Cavill-led reboot's plot, not much is known. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/12/20/the-witcher-game-vs-netflix-scene-comparison"] For what it's worth, Cavill is no stranger to fantasy action-adventure as he was the lead in Netflix's Witcher series. You can read our thoughts on his performance in the show in IGN's Season 1 review of Netflix's The Witcher. While waiting for this Highlander reboot, check out this video of Cavill building a PC from scratch and then read IGN's list of the 10 best '80s action movies. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes. 

A Highlander remake is in the works at Lionsgate starring Henry Cavill and John Wick director, Chad Stahelski, set to direct the film. This news comes by way of Cavill himself who confirmed the news today on Instagram with a photo of a Deadline story about the news. According to Deadline's report, the film will be a reboot of the popular 1980s fantasy action adventure movie of the same name. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-10-best-80s-action-movies&captions=true"] "Very exciting news today," Cavill's Instagram post reads. "I've been a fan of Highlander since I was a lad. From the movies in all of their 80s, Queen slathered glory to the TV show with an actor who looked remarkably like one of my brothers. Being not shy with swords, and having a director as talented as Chad Stahelski at the helm, this is an opportunity like no other." Cavill said he and the team are working to make this movie an "adventure I (and hopefully all of you) shall never forget." His Instagram post also features a photo of what appears to be a knife, some history books, and more. Cavill said this project has prompted him to dip into his own Scottish heritage, which also doubles as research for the movie. The original Highlander movie was released in 1986 and starred Clancy Brown, Sean Connery, and Christopher Lambert as immortal warriors that hunt each other, as noted by Deadline. The original film received four movie sequels and three television series. As for what to expect of this Cavill-led reboot's plot, not much is known. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/12/20/the-witcher-game-vs-netflix-scene-comparison"] For what it's worth, Cavill is no stranger to fantasy action-adventure as he was the lead in Netflix's Witcher series. You can read our thoughts on his performance in the show in IGN's Season 1 review of Netflix's The Witcher. While waiting for this Highlander reboot, check out this video of Cavill building a PC from scratch and then read IGN's list of the 10 best '80s action movies. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes. 

A Highlander remake is in the works at Lionsgate starring Henry Cavill and John Wick director, Chad Stahelski, set to direct the film. This news comes by way of Cavill himself who confirmed the news today on Instagram with a photo of a Deadline story about the news. According to Deadline's report, the film will be a reboot of the popular 1980s fantasy action adventure movie of the same name. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-10-best-80s-action-movies&captions=true"] "Very exciting news today," Cavill's Instagram post reads. "I've been a fan of Highlander since I was a lad. From the movies in all of their 80s, Queen slathered glory to the TV show with an actor who looked remarkably like one of my brothers. Being not shy with swords, and having a director as talented as Chad Stahelski at the helm, this is an opportunity like no other." Cavill said he and the team are working to make this movie an "adventure I (and hopefully all of you) shall never forget." His Instagram post also features a photo of what appears to be a knife, some history books, and more. Cavill said this project has prompted him to dip into his own Scottish heritage, which also doubles as research for the movie. The original Highlander movie was released in 1986 and starred Clancy Brown, Sean Connery, and Christopher Lambert as immortal warriors that hunt each other, as noted by Deadline. The original film received four movie sequels and three television series. As for what to expect of this Cavill-led reboot's plot, not much is known. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/12/20/the-witcher-game-vs-netflix-scene-comparison"] For what it's worth, Cavill is no stranger to fantasy action-adventure as he was the lead in Netflix's Witcher series. You can read our thoughts on his performance in the show in IGN's Season 1 review of Netflix's The Witcher. While waiting for this Highlander reboot, check out this video of Cavill building a PC from scratch and then read IGN's list of the 10 best '80s action movies. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes. 

Earlier this week, The Last of Us 2 received a free PS5 performance patch which allows owners of the next-gen console to run the game at 60 frames per second. Alongside a new PS5 patch, the game's co-director also confirmed that players might notice a change in the haptics when playing the game with a DualSense controller. Kurt Margenau explained in a Twitter thread today, detailing the new changes made to the DualSense following a software update released in April. Margenau explains that he gave feedback to the DualSense team to help "improve timing, intensity, and 'texture'" of haptics" when using the controller to play backward compatible titles to help provide a more authentic feel showcased in its predecessor, the DualShock 4. The DualShock 4 includes two different-sized rotating weights, whereas the DualSense includes two weights that can move forward and backward. Margenau explains how the DualSense is "almost like a speaker," as it can produce frequency and amplitude at an "extremely high fidelity and low latency."

As many of you are jumping back into TLOU2 on PS5, you may notice the haptics feel better. This is actually thanks to a firmware update to the DualSense controller back in April. THREAD: pic.twitter.com/zle0XQwDw6

— Kurt Margenau (@kurtmargenau) May 21, 2021

So, the DualSense firmware would have to allow the controller to receive "old signals," that would spin up the motor to produce a higher latency and, in turn, emulate the feeling in a new controller by using a completely different mechanical method, such as the "rumbly feeling" that comes with a rotating motor, according to Margenau. Essentially, all this means is that all the work done to improve the DualSense's haptics in The Last of Us Part II was done solely from inside the controller without Naughty Dog having to alter the game code. The new firmware update expands on the features already supported in The Last of Us Part II. As GamesRadar reported in November, the game supported the DualSense's flagship feature, noting that the game's combat allows PS5 owners to "feel the tension" when using the controller's adaptive triggers, such as firing a gun. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.

Earlier this week, The Last of Us 2 received a free PS5 performance patch which allows owners of the next-gen console to run the game at 60 frames per second. Alongside a new PS5 patch, the game's co-director also confirmed that players might notice a change in the haptics when playing the game with a DualSense controller. Kurt Margenau explained in a Twitter thread today, detailing the new changes made to the DualSense following a software update released in April. Margenau explains that he gave feedback to the DualSense team to help "improve timing, intensity, and 'texture'" of haptics" when using the controller to play backward compatible titles to help provide a more authentic feel showcased in its predecessor, the DualShock 4. The DualShock 4 includes two different-sized rotating weights, whereas the DualSense includes two weights that can move forward and backward. Margenau explains how the DualSense is "almost like a speaker," as it can produce frequency and amplitude at an "extremely high fidelity and low latency."

As many of you are jumping back into TLOU2 on PS5, you may notice the haptics feel better. This is actually thanks to a firmware update to the DualSense controller back in April. THREAD: pic.twitter.com/zle0XQwDw6

— Kurt Margenau (@kurtmargenau) May 21, 2021

So, the DualSense firmware would have to allow the controller to receive "old signals," that would spin up the motor to produce a higher latency and, in turn, emulate the feeling in a new controller by using a completely different mechanical method, such as the "rumbly feeling" that comes with a rotating motor, according to Margenau. Essentially, all this means is that all the work done to improve the DualSense's haptics in The Last of Us Part II was done solely from inside the controller without Naughty Dog having to alter the game code. The new firmware update expands on the features already supported in The Last of Us Part II. As GamesRadar reported in November, the game supported the DualSense's flagship feature, noting that the game's combat allows PS5 owners to "feel the tension" when using the controller's adaptive triggers, such as firing a gun. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.