SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated
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| Developers | |
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| Purple Lamp Studios | |
| Publishers | |
| THQ Nordic | |
| Engines | |
| Unreal Engine 4[Note 1] | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | June 23, 2020 |
| Reception | |
| Metacritic | 69 |
| OpenCritic | 70 |
| IGDB | 67 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | One-time game purchase |
| Microtransactions | None |
| Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
| Pacing | Real-time |
| Perspectives | Third-person |
| Controls | Direct control |
| Genres | Action, Platform |
| Art styles | Cartoon |
| Themes | Fantasy |
| Series | SpongeBob SquarePants |
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Key points
- Remake of SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom based on the console releases, which were completely different from the original PC game.
General information
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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| Epic Games Store | |
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| GOG.com | |
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| Green Man Gaming | |
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| Humble Store | |
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| Microsoft Store | |
Included with Xbox Game Pass for PC. | |
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| Steam | |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\Pineapple\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\ |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/969990/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\Pineapple\Saved\SaveGames |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/969990/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
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| Epic Games Launcher | ||
| GOG Galaxy | ||
| Steam Cloud | ||
| Xbox Cloud |
Video
Video settings.
Gameplay settings.
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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| Widescreen resolution | Cutscenes are cinematically letterboxed. | ||
| Multi-monitor | Vert- scaling, black bars at cutscenes and dialog screens. See Ultra-widescreen. | ||
| Ultra-widescreen | Vert- scaling, black bars at cutscenes and dialog screens. See Ultra-widescreen. | ||
| 4K Ultra HD | |||
| Field of view (FOV) | See Ultra-widescreen. | ||
| Windowed | |||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | "Fullscreen" option is borderless windowed mode. | ||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Always set to 8.[4] | ||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | Using FXAA.[5] See Anti-aliasing (AA) to disable it. | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Capped at 146 FPS.[6] 60 FPS during cutscenes.[7] See High framerate. to fix. | ||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives. | ||
- The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.
High framerate
- Game is capped at 146 fps by default
| Modify framerate cap |
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[/Script/Engine.RendererSettings] t.MaxFPS=0 in
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Ultra-widescreen
- By default, ultrawide support is achieved through Vert- scaling. Dialog screens are pillarboxed and cutscenes are windowboxed.[8][9] Certain non-HUD elements may appear stretched or anchored incorrectly.[10]
| Use the community trainer to remove black bars and adjust FOV |
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| Use the community DLL injection to adjust FOV |
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Anti-aliasing (AA)
| Modify Engine.ini[11] |
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Ambient occlusion
| Modify Engine.ini to increase ambient occlusion[12] |
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More Engine.ini graphics tweaks
A mod by ExpnandBanana can be found with various Engine.ini tweaks to improve graphics on GameBanana.
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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| Remapping | Lacks support of non-QWERTY keyboards.[13] See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | When using inverted axis, user needs to press left click at least once after switching characters to not have the look ability limited.[14] | |
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | ||
| Full controller support | ||
| Controller remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
| Controller sensitivity | ||
| Controller Y-axis inversion | The issue of axis getting reset back to default when changing characters was fixed in patch 1.1. |
| Controller types |
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| XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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| Xbox button prompts | ||
| Impulse Trigger vibration |
| PlayStation controllers | Lacks native support. Use DS4Windows or Steam's controller configuration tool as a workaround. | |
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| PlayStation button prompts | Fix available, see DS4 Button Prompts | |
| Light bar support | ||
| Adaptive trigger support | ||
| DualSense haptic feedback support | ||
| Connection modes | ||
| Generic/other controllers |
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| Additional information | ||
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| Controller hotplugging | ||
| Haptic feedback | ||
| Digital movement supported | ||
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M | Rapidly changing glyphs, see here for a glyph locking patch. |
| Steam Input | ||
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| Steam Input API support | ||
| Hook input (legacy mode) | ||
| Official controller preset(s) | ||
| Steam Controller button prompts | ||
| Cursor detection |
DS4 Button Prompts
| Add DS4 buttons prompts[15] |
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Audio
Audio settings.
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
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| Separate volume controls | Sliders for "SFX", "Music", and "Dialogues". | |
| Surround sound | [16] | |
| Subtitles | Text boxes, accompanied by voice acting, is used when talking to characters. Subtitles during cutscenes and gameplay can be toggled on or off. |
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| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language settings.
- Spoken language can be changed independently from on-screen text language.
- Non-English dubs are missing various sounds in in-game cutscenes.[17][18]
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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| English | ||||
| Simplified Chinese | ||||
| French | ||||
| German | ||||
| Hindi | Added on October 5, 2022.[19] | |||
| Hungarian | Fan translation (Magyarítások Portál) | |||
| Indonesian | Fan translation by IGTC Team (Indonesia Game Translator Community) | |||
| Italian | ||||
| Japanese | ||||
| Korean | ||||
| Malay | Added on October 5, 2022.[20] | |||
| Polish | ||||
| Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
| Russian | ||||
| Spanish | ||||
| Latin American Spanish | Added on December 17, 2020.[21] |
Network
Multiplayer types
| Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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| Local play | 2 | Co-op |
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| Online play | 2 | Co-op |
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Connection types
| Type | Native | Notes |
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| Matchmaking | ||
| Self-hosting |
Issues unresolved
Save file corruption
- A few initial reports of save file corruption.[22] Saving in multiple slots recommended.
Glitched out Spatulas and Socks
- Small amount of reports from the Community from Steam, GOG, Epic Games, and Consoles had reported of Spatulas that are not able to be collected. This wasn't fixed properly by the Devs. [23] And the only way to get all of them is a full on restart on another save that don't have other collectables yet to be grabbed. And without dying or falling while touching them.[24]
Issues fixed
Mouse cursor is always visible on the screen
- Issue was introduced with patch 1.1a.
| Press F4 to access the Epic Online Services sign-in prompt click Cancel[25][26] |
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Game is blurry on non-default DPI screen
| Set the game's .exe DPI scaling to "Application" |
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Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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| Direct3D | 11 | Direct3D 12 can be forced using the -d3d12 command line argument.[27] |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows |
Middleware
| Middleware | Notes | |
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| Physics | PhysX | |
| Multiplayer | Epic Online Services |
System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 7, 8.1 | 10 |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i3-4130 2.8 GHz AMD Phenom II X4 925 2.8 GHz |
Intel Core i3-8100 3.5 GHz AMD FX-6300 3.5 GHz |
| System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | 8 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 8 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 AMD Radeon HD 7870 2 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible Shader model 5.1 support |
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti AMD Radeon R9 4 GB of VRAM |
| Sound (audio device) | DirectX 9 compatible | |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
- Some AMD graphics cards may show weaker performance on Windows 7 and 8.1 compared to 10.
Notes
- ↑ Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.23.1.0[1][2]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/969990/in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (969990) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
- ↑ SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated revamps the graphics and design of a cult classic - last accessed on 2020-02-14
- ↑ Verified by User:Mastan on 2022-09-24
- ↑ Verified by User:Bitl on 2020-06-24
- Tested on the latest Epic Games Store version.
- ↑ Verified by User:Rose on 2020-06-24
- r.maxanisotropy is set to 8, as seen in the console.
- ↑ Verified by User:KingKrouch on 2020-06-23
- Checked the "r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing" command using a command console injector.
- ↑ SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated runs silky smooth on the PC - last accessed on 9 June 2023
- ↑ Verified by User:KingKrouch on 2020-06-23
- Checked with FPS overlay.
- ↑ Verified by User:KingKrouch on 2020-06-23
- Tested in-game with 2560x1080 resolution.
- ↑ Verified by User:Rose on 2020-06-24
- Tested at 2560x1080, 3840x1080 and 5760x1080, screenshots compared to 1920x1080.
- ↑ Verified by User:KingKrouch on 2020-06-23
- Tested by interacting with the television in SpongeBob's house, and by setting off Hans by going out of bounds in the Bikini Bottom hub world.
- ↑ Verified by User:Hman360 on 2020-06-24
- Tested by setting the value in the config file and checking in-game.
- ↑ Verified by User:Keith on 2020-07-06
- ↑ Verified by User:Suicide machine on 2020-07-28
- Checked by switching keyboard layout in Windows to AZERTY and the game did not allow to move forward by pressing W (Z on AZERTY layout).)
- ↑ Verified by User:Suicide machine on 2020-07-28
- Axis inversion was actually fixed in patch 1.1, but this issue still persists.
- ↑ Steam Community - last accessed on 28 May 2023
- ↑ Verified by User:Rose on 2020-06-24
- Sounds heard from the rear speakers of a 5.1 sound system, especially loud when destroying objects. Confirmed the presence of Back Left, Back Right, and LFE output with Special K 0.10.3.
- ↑ SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated - lacking sounds in different dubs - last accessed on 2020-06-26
- ↑ Verified by User:Suicide machine on 2020-06-26
- King Jollyfish cutscene misses shower sounds in non-English dubs.
- ↑ Verified by User:DarkSonicPT on 2023-05-04
- ↑ Verified by User:DarkSonicPT on 2023-05-04
- ↑ https://twitter.com/THQNordic/status/1339616587675021314?s=20
- ↑ REfund :: Steam General Discussions - last accessed on 2020-06-23
- ↑ Bug tracking and reports :: Steam General Discussions - last accessed on 2023-06-30
- ↑ Verified by User:Honscottosolo on 2023-12-14
- ↑ Mouse On Screen (GOG Community) - last accessed on 2020-07-28
- ↑ Verified by User:Suicide machine on 2020-07-28
- Tested with GOG version.)
- ↑ Verified by User:KingKrouch on 2020-07-13
- Tested using launch parameters on Steam, and checking what API is being used with RivaTuner.