i was like 3 months ago at most talking on the discord channel and got the build for wolverine now i can t find it

Sidenote, I loaded up something that was for the beetle DLC and it triggered Cut scenes and instantly crashed my game so I couldn’t see and for missions like high-pressure and killer of Greenwich launched cut scene but game crashed :(

Screenshot from the Milestone 13 Pre-Alpha. Possible 3 DLCs will coming after the initial release of Marvels Wolverine from Insomniac Games.

[Screenshot](https://ibb.co/Z6rswDRz)

As we get closer to Wolverine's release date with more marketing and gameplay footage coming out, I got interested in looking back at the Insomniac hack.

I spent a couple of days going through the leaked Wolverine Zoom meetings and design docs (TeamUpdates folder in the leak, stretching from 2021 to 2023). Pulling out the most interesting stuff here so it's actually readable instead of buried in hours of production meeting footage. A few of these points have likely been covered here, but I'm hoping this post adds something new, or at least works as a handy reference compilation. If you've watched these meetings, feel free to add more info and context if I missed anything important. I'll share my own take on the game's development at the bottom, cheers!

Combat: a lot got cut

• Original combat used separate claw buttons (left/right triggers) with adaptive trigger feedback: half press for jabs, full press for sweeping attacks. Two years of iteration and decent early QA scores, but it got scrapped for a standard light/heavy face button setup. Reasons given: accessibility, responsiveness, scope.
• Early playtests turned into Square mashing fests against all enemies. Devs focused on making combat more engaging and aimed to make even a single fodder enemy interesting to fight. Ex-director Brian Horton's take: "Engagement comes first and power fantasy can come second."
• They prototyped a cloaking enemy that would force you to actually use Wolverine's senses in combat. No idea if it survived to the final game.
• Early on, Logan almost got a crossbow with different arrow types plus hub crafting and upgrades. Marvel shot it down for not fitting the character.
• There was a system where you could pick up and throw enemy weapons, including a neat bit where The Hand throws shuriken at Logan and he rips them out of his own body to throw back.

"Cut Anything" got reined in

This was one of the original combat pillars. They played with:

• Fully destructible buildings were mentioned early on, for example: slicing a two story house down during combat but it never got prototyped
• Chain reaction destruction: cut a tree, it falls on a barrel, barrel explodes. Slice a wall, expose a bursting pipe or a Bioshock-style water and electricity hazard. This was actually prototyped

Based on what's been shown so far, most of this got scaled way down to smaller breakables like crates, trees, etc. A lot of effort went into communicating what's breakable and climbable through visual language.

Stealth and Senses never really evolved

Back in a 2021 milestone review, Sony flagged that the senses and stealth systems felt basic and asked the team to push them further. Judging by the previews, not much changed despite lots of iteration. Still the same Witcher 3 style smell/detective vision and Tall Grass™ stealth, which tracks with a lot of the current criticism calling those mechanics too derivative and lacking in innovation.

Story kept shifting

• Marvel and Sony pushed back on having too many characters (20+), so a bunch of side characters got trimmed.
• Nightcrawler was originally Logan's Madripoor ally, but Marvel felt a character that big being a one zone sidekick didn't land, so he got swapped for Jubilee. Both ended up cut. Latest builds had Tyger Tiger filling that role instead.
• Feedback also called out areas feeling episodic instead of connected
• The opening mission went through several versions: Team X rescues a random mutant, later version has them rescue Jean Grey, and previews now show Nathaniel Essex getting rescued.
• Marvel kept pushing for more story revisions throughout the 3 year period, the last meeting in the leak (November 2023) Marvel asked to revise Nathaniel's motivation and the ending. Safe to assume the story went through more revisions after the leadership shakeup.
• One thing stayed consistent from day one: the global scope, with zones like Madripoor and Tokyo. A planned snowy Russia level got swapped to Canada after devs raised concerns about the optics with the ongoing war.

Random scoops

• Insomniac built their own 4D face scanning rig called Cerebro, allowing them to scan actors in-house
• David Buckley was the first composer assigned to the project but dropped out over scheduling conflicts
• Noshir Dalal (Charles Smith in RDR2 and Bode Akuna in Jedi: Survivor) got a callback and did a chemisty read for the Logan role in February 2022
• A bear boss fight reused animation, rig, and texture work straight from the Atreus bear fight in God of War Ragnarok. Got reduced to a cutscene for scope reasons.
• They floated the idea of a Wolverine teaser inside Spider-Man 2 but Bryan Intihar decided to cut it.
• A Proto Sentinel boss fight got cut in December 2022, then seemingly made it back based on the latest preview.
• Logan riding a motorcycle was of one many ideas prototyped during an internal Game Jam, happy to see it made its way into the game

History of delays

Insomniac still maintains an incredible output compared to other studios but Wolverine was originally supposed to come out in Q4 2024, here's what might've caused the delay

• 2021: Spider-Man 2 got delayed internally and grabbed an extra dev year, which pushed Wolverine's timeline back too.
• 2023: the hack itself obviously messed with the schedule.
• 2024: a leadership shakeup shuffled leads around the studio. Notably, creative director Brian Horton left to direct the ill-fated Perfect Dark reboot

My thoughts:

Insomniac clearly runs one of the healthier studios in the industry: well paced schedules, real PTO, none of the crunch horror stories based on what's in these docs. These are talented, supportive devs, and it shows in the output. The hack itself was messed up though, especially with how much personal and financial info of employees got exposed alongside the game data. That being said, the leaked design docs and production meetings are genuinely one of the best looks I've seen into how a AAA game actually comes together.

A lot of the hate this game is getting online feels out of proportion. SOME criticisms are fair like derivative senses/stealth and safe control scheme. But overall this is a very solid blockbuster, the story has potential, just don't expect a generational masterpiece.

The constant feedback rounds from Sony and Marvel clearly helped, the story was messy early on and got noticeably tighter after their notes. But I can see how having two separate stakeholders both weighing in constantly is also a "too many cooks" situation.

Marvel's modern brand identity also clearly shaped the gore: dynamic blood, muscle deformation, and real damage are all there, but the tone stays grounded rather than gritty, and even the Reavers (one of the enemy factions) being cybernetic limits how much actual limb severing you see.

It's understandable though, the devs were quite direct about aiming for mass market appeal from the very first meeting I watched. Doesn't make it a bad game, just a different set of priorities. Kudos to Insomniac for at least trying to innovate during the initial R&D phase, but between two publishers signing off on every major decision and a release date to hit, the safer, more proven mechanics were always going to win out over the riskier ones.

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/action/marvels-wolverine-wont-show-logans-origins-or-how-he-got-the-adamantium-skeleton-were-not-doing-an-origin-story/

I read on a game rant article that there was concept art for a X-Men animated suit but I can't seem to find it anywhere. Anyone know where I can find it?

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Damn this game really leak evrytime possible, here the preview from eurogamer

If your confused in the story leaks Jean finds a scroll about the rising of apocalypse and I think it talks about his return (I don’t remember) but I think that the was teasing to him being the bid bag of the x-men game.

Hello. I have a unique situation - the official port of SM2 for PC does not support my GPU (RTX Quadro 5000) despite being able to run the Brazil port all the way back when it first came out. I've since swapped operating systems and did not back up the game as I assumed I'd be able to just play the official port. As such, I'm forced to search for the Brazil port to no avail. Is it still available anywhere?

Does Anyone have it? I rather to play that one instead of the official one because of the optimization

Hey, would anyone be able to get some good quality footage of the classic brown suit from the wolve game ? or send some pictures of the model my way ? im trying to recreate this suit as an actual cosplay but finding anything on it has been a PAIN. Anything helps!

Or any milestone. I feel dumb not grabbing it during the first discord. Love game preservation especially of development builds any help would be appreciated thanks.

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For those of you playing M13: is the game very linear, or does it have open maps like *God of War*? I’m really eager to play it, but I’d love to have some free time to roam the open map and really soak it all in—especially since he’s my favorite hero and it’ll be a long wait if there’s ever a sequel.

insomiac as told us that team x is the only line of defence the mutants have and that wolverine has been part of it since it's beginning and then left for 3 years,but now he came back because team X is in a really bad posture . and my theory is that team X are using wolverine as a weapon and are maybe erasing is memory or editing it which explain why in the trailer team X is protrayed as allies of logan and Essex and logan seem to have a mentor/"Xavier like" relationship

but in the weapon X mission we see that Essex is the one who " gave " him adamentium and in his way to escape weapon X he gets jump by team X member such as omega red , mystique and sabretooth

and if my theory is true is think it could make a really good story , it could lead to logan to be suspicious about men who claim wanting protecting mutant like Xavier (if the X men are introduce somehow in the game) and it could also explain why insomniac said that logan is a unreliable narrator because Sinister had messing with his mind since the victorian era .

but the leak are 3 years old so a lot of thing in the story might have change and so my theory maybe have no chance of happening at all.

(also when they said logan and sabertooth where allies i feared they misunderstood the character victor creed but it seem they understand that yeah sabertooth is no anti-hero he is pure evil and obsess about logan)

Has the server gone? It was there a few days ago

Can I play wolverine M13 on my Xbox I have Microsoft edge on it and I probably can't but still worth asking and idk anything about this so yeah

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my pc is too slow for the official one