Spider-Man 2 PS5 patch accidentally lets players view dev menu revealing DLC plans, fans call it the “best part of the update” as Insomniac warns it could corrupt saves

I guess a bug in a Spider-Man game shouldn’t be too shocking

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The latest update forMarvel’s Spider-Man 2promised a lot of long-awaited features, but I don’t think anybody, including the developers atInsomniac, expected it to include a full debug menu loaded with goofy, game-breaking features and some apparent details about the game’s DLC plans.

It looks like all you need to do to open the dev menu is hit L3 and R3 on the save select screen, or press the touchpad and options button at the same time during gameplay. Players are still figuring out the limits of what the menu can do, but it appears that this is the tool Insomniac would’ve used to test the game - meaning you can do things like give yourself infinite health, skip through missions, or spawn into otherwise inaccessible test rooms.

“We’re aware the latest game update may have inadvertently allowed access to a development game menu,” Insomniac says onTwitter. “There’s a hotfix on the way. Please note that using this menu could corrupt your saves and trophy progress. There is no risk associated with playing the game as intended.”

The wildest part of this dev menu is that it appears to outline the entire story arc of an upcoming DLC release. You can look atRedditfor yourself if you want to see the semi-spoilery details, but it does appear to match up with the plans outlined in the materialleaked from the Insomniac hack.

Players seem to be enjoying all the weird shenanigans of the dev menu more than they’re worried about corrupted saves, and I’ve seen a fair fewcommentsto the effect of this being “the best part of the update.” There’s no word yet on when the hotfix removing this dev menu will land, so enjoy it while it lasts.

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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He’s been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.

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