Ratchet & Clank PS4 Glitches - Son of a Glitch - Episode 61 

when game developers use that much extra collision: "Please find a way out of bounds to explore my work". The game must have been begging to be "broken".

You know it's a re-imagining when they bring glitches that allow you to get on the racetrack on foot, just like in the original lol

I deeply respect the collision programmers..

I have a feeling that the creators wanted us to find these glitches

The reason those out of bounds areas have collision detection is likely because of reused assets. They use the same mountain surface object that may have been used in another part of the level, so it has the same collision detection. This is a really good way to save memory in level design, and it makes building levels easier as well.

True to their nature, Insomniac left much room for their swimming in the air glitches.

"Somebody overdid it on the collision programming" God, I love Insomniac Games!

Someone give the collision creator a promotion!

Swimming in the sky! One of the best glitches ever made! This is Spyro all over again! Thank You Insomniac!

I remember when i first got the Ratchet and Clank Collection on PS3, the first time i went to Florana and entered the Path of Death, *everything* was underwater all of a sudden XD as in i could swim literally everywhere in the level because, _god knows why_, when i entered the Path of Death, it must've accidentally triggered a swimming protocol or something I swear i couldnt make this shit up if i tried

The enemies getting stuck in walls has been a common glitch since the first ratchet and clank, I commonly see it in all the games

"BK: Nuts and Bolts" has out-of-bounds collision in Spiral Mountain. There's a HUGE field behind Grunty's head you can explore (and where you can fall through, you can use a flying vehicle to venture to the sadly NOT solid game factory cutscene area).

This game has some 'Clanky' glitches

This game has way too much solid ground, something I thought I'd never say

The reason some out of bounds objects might have collision is that they are simply just placed, pre-made objects, collision included. It's not a cheap way of doing things, but it is easy.

I never thought you'd do an episode on this game, so cool man! I enjoyed this one a lot. :) I remember doing the pixelized plumber glitch through my 2nd run of the game.

Somebody had way too much time to program all of that collision.

This reminds me of the old games speedruns where people joke about the npc's seeing the main character fly by in unnatural speeds. Rayman 1 speedrun is amazing for players of the game as it is an unfair and really hard game even for veterans

To respond to the collision confusion, a lot of modern game engines allow for automatic collision, or visible collision, essentially generating a collision from what the engine sees instead of having to make on manually.

I like how they made the PS4 version the same way they made the ps2 version. Things being solid and stuff, the games are amazing.

Andy and Syckoh have a good way of narrating these kinda videos whilst making them funny and not boring, which is a good talent.

Insomniac was known for adding out of bounds since they knew people will be exploring the heck out of the maps. So a lot of the out of these are actually on purpose.

You don't understand how happy I become when I see a new video on this channel. it has renewed my thirst for fun videos and I salute you sir

I know why this game has so much collision: In the old game, not a collision was programmed, making it so that there was a lot of glitches, they tried to prevent that, but failed.

There is probably so much collision detection, because they were planned to be accessable

4:34 Hey guys! if you glinched out and play as clank on ratchet's side and go to the ship where it holds the predator launcher, get the predator launcher and then after that, clank will now have his very own predator launcher.

In my experience with these games I swear they intend for all these secrets. For the longest time games always had places outside of the boundaries fun to explore. Sometimes even an easter egg. Ratchet and Clank games surely never get old.

From my experience Insomniac games almost always overdone collision detection which is awesome as their games are so much fun to go out of bounds in just like the whole Resistance series.

That was another great episode! It was interesting to see that there was so much active collision outside the play area! :D

7:44 “coming back down to Earth”

Depending on how the game engine works, collision models might be automatically made, and since systems are much faster it really doesn't matter if the physicist engine is doing calculations, even with stuff you'll never touch.

It's awesome that a game can have this many great glitches without being a "glitchy game". I encountered no glitches whatsoever in my 100% run of the game because I didn't try to do any of these things.

What if you WERE meant to go out of bounds?

6:30 It's the thriller!

6:14 "we've got ourselves a floating head" -Best quote 2016

This game actually looks pretty fun, gameplay and glitch-wise!

Everytime you say Veldin I look up. XD Thats what I get for calling myself Veldin.

almost seemed like the developers expected people going out of bonds

Ratchet and Clank - Son of a Glitch Sounds like a standard subtitle for a game in the series.

collision glitches are always great because it makes me hopeful for some fun any% speedruns

Even in the future games are still glitchy.

This is unrelated to glitches, but DANG this game is gorgeous.

The R&C games have always had some pretty interesting glitches. I remember Going Commando having a very easy to perform glitch involving using your wrench against walls and floors in the unlockable First Person to climb easily into OB areas! Maybe you should look at R&C glitches from the older games? I'd love to see a glitch video of the _original_ Ratchet & Clank! Speaking of the original, too bad there's no glitch in this game to make it run at 60 FPS just as the original. Sure it _looks_ better, but it doesn't feel better in my book to not have the same smooth framerate..

Anybody else miss the old Chairman Drek? They made him generic and boring as all holy hell in this reboot. Kinda miss old Quark, too... Plus Ratchet has no personality anymore...

I think I may know why so many of the out-of-bounds areas are fully collision programmed. The Ratchet and Clank games were produced by Sony Computer Entertainment, who bought out Naughty Dog, the creators of Jak and Daxter. Jak and Daxter was one of the first games in the early PS2 era to have seamless world transition. I remember reading once that the game originally had loading screens between zones, until the Naughty Dog developers can up with a method for preloading zones as the player approached the boundary between them. This technique was proprietary to Naughty Dog for some time, before other developers made their own versions, so I am sure that similar methods were implemented in the Ratchet and Clank series. Since the zones preload as the player approaches, I am sure that in some test phases, an extremely fast-moving player could zone into an area before the collision loaded, causing game breaking bugs. To combat it, I bet the programmers used some form of auto-collision generation to speed up load times and prevent such bugs.

Aw shit, A+ is back respond and i'll waste my savings on cola

6:40 Is it just me or does that enemy look a lot like a neon-winged, two-legged version of Jimmy Neutron's dog?

It's always a joy to watch your videos. Some are lackluster simply because the glitches don't vary much, though that's beyond your control. But when your video's are full of various glitches, it's amazing to watch and try out myself. I really hope they remaster the sequel for the PS4 Pro. This game was fantastic to replay; truly a remaster.

This game Racheted up the glitchiness!

Sounds like you should do a speed run of this game. You seem to know tons of tricks.

R&C Glitches & traversing unintended areas are one of my favorite things about R&C Games.

6:45 Yep. I saw that while grinding for exp and bolts.

... "You can negotiate these platforms." Fairly certain you mean navigate there, friendo. :P

I know a good game with lots of collision detection, it's called big rig racing, I suggest you do a son of a glitch on that game.

This game just gets so damn hilarious after the first couple new game pluses.

My favorite glitch I found from a Ratchet and Clank game was in Tools of Destruction where on the last planet in the open area filled with enemies right before the final boss, if you kill an enemy and allow him to fall directly on top of you perfectly centered, he can push you through the floor and fall below the map. As you continue falling, you'll notice a small piece of land far below you. If you land on it, you'll find yourself in the final boss arena without the final boss. Not much you can do in there since you need the cutscene to trigger the boss, but still really cool to see that the supposed dimension that Tachyon sends you to is just a hole in the floor.

And now a question: Is this still working 4 years later?

anyone else see that ratchet and clank movie?

6:30 HAHA since he's holding his hand out in front of him like that on the "invisible weapon", it makes him look like King Arthur "galloping" around in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, that's hilarious XD

Without exaggeration, my reaction to seeing a new A+Start in my sub box: "Is that a new Glitch? Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my fuckin' God, yes!"

Why patch such cool glitches...

I am still asking you for an episode on Zelda twilight princes wii. You have done almost every other zelda game except for mine favourite one!

9:35 If you have trouble getting to the end area because of the invisible wall here that jumping on results in death, commit die (if you are already out of bounds), and do everything in order, but when you set down a second springbot, go back and grab another Gadgebot and set it as a bridgebot. Once you put it where you are supposed to, go down and grab the first one (but don't reprogram it) and bring it with you. When you clip through, place said springbot where you are supposed to, then turn around, grab the bridgebot, turn it into a springbot, and bounce on the springbot going to the ceiling. You now have an extra springbot.

The weirdly solid out of bounds areas are a standard thing in the Ratchet and Clank series.

your job will only get easier and easier as we go further into the future....since devs release games more and more unfinished each year....because "fuck it day 1 patch"

O Hai, Love the videos, It would be very helpful for our growing channel if you could credit us in your description for the swimming in air method and the out of bounds methods that you posted on Novalis and Pokitaru. It helps our small channel grow. -Nick

1:24 For some reason I always thought it was 'out of *bounce*' :D

I love the collision programming in all 3 of the originals, it’s just so wacky. Makes these games perfect for speed running.

AM I THE ONLY ONE AROUND HERE WHO WANTS STARFOX ADVENTURES SON OF A GLITCH!

Would you be able to do Glitches on Spongebob Squarepants The Battle For Bikini Bottom?

1:30 the skyrim flashbacks are intense

I ran into the enemy glitches getting stuck in walls, also found a number of glitches when using grav ramps when jumping off in a few places you can get out of bounds too. I love this game and the series hope they make more!

I'm looking for some clank action

Can you do a glitch episode on the current version of RWBY Grimm Eclipse?

These guys went above and beyond, I like stuff like this.

Insomniac was always supportive of glitches and exploring out of bounds

Can you make a SON OF A GLITCH video about SUPER MARIO MAKER?

Cant do any of them. I dont know if they change it or I'm just fucking bad, but I have been raging for the last 20 minutes on all of these

My guess as to why so much stuff has collision is maybe the geometry already had collision metadata so every time they added a new object, the collision just wrapped around the faces automatically to create collision. Not very efficient but it makes creating the parts where the player is faster because they don't need to manually add collision themselves.

8:10 oh now it's a floor without collision detection.

2:04 R&C 3 on the PS2 does this exact thing. I only found out about it using the Moonjump AR codes, but if you go so high up Ratchet will start swimming in the air and the screen will tint green sometimes. Diving too close to the map will drop you out of the ‘water’, too. Don’t know about the other PS2 games.

in rilgar after reaching the racing track you can jump into the water and explore all the planet there is a lot of islands and even deleted parts of the circuit that you can explore is really amazing

Ey Andy! I believe all of those out of bounds areas have collision because that must be the way their map creator works. It seems whenever a map designer puts down some textures/platforms, the corresponding collision for that platform or model is loaded by default. It seems that they designed all the collision nodes for all of the models they used for level building at the same time that they designed the visual aspect of them. That island out in the middle of nowhere had imperfect collision (you were floating above it slightly), but the explanation for that may be that they did a quick job on the collision for that unreachable island. On the other hand, I can't think of a reason as to why they didn't just leave those such islands with no collision, unless they absolutely required collision in order to exist (which doesn't make much sense and would have to be due to limitations of the map creation software).

Out of bounds glitches are the best. Great episode!

Nice work with this video, A+Start! I really enjoyed this game and it was fun to see you break it and discover some programming quirks with the collision.

I'm always amazed by how people find these things. Who sits there and goes: "hmm time to find a way out of the map"

These Glitches are making Ratchet and Clank open world

Hey A+Start, as a novice developer, there are tools where you input a model (the world in this case), where it will generate collision for you. So it's not necessarily that they intended it to have collision, it just ended up being that way as they didn't take the time to do it themselves.

I think the reason collision is programmed in so many places is in the event you ever zoom in to see a projectile hit stuff in the distance. Maybe. No idea XD

I love it when developers go the extra mile and add collision detection in out-of-bounds areas. I dunno, something about that I find really interesting.

As just one last thing i want to say, I've seen the Entire Son of a Glitch series so far (including Glitchmas) and i'm a big fan

I used to do a glitch like that air-swimming one in the old PS1 Spyro games. Some of the levels had water that was perfectly level with the ground/shore, and because the diving animation pushed you up before actually going underwater, you could very easily just move forward onto land and swim in the air.

The deplanetiser drops the beat with amazing music

In one of the games, out of bounds was an actual thing, where you'd "break" into a museum where the developers dedicated a place for you to view certain people and failed project ideas.

This series is basically a way of saying to the creators of whichever game is in the video: These are the bits where you screwed up

R&C have always had out of bounds glitches cos of the wide variety of gadgets etc. So they kinda just rolled with it and made the glitches more fun for the player

Ah, glitches are a mainstay of the Ratchet & Clank series. R&C2 (Going Commando/Locked & Loaded) has my favourite glitch of all time in the post-game "wrench jump" glitch. Also funnily enough establishes the Insomniac Tradition of having far more collision programmed than is necessary. Hell, there was a teleporter to the Insomniac Museum in R&C2 available by going out of bounds through a tiny city which was meant to be a simple backdrop.

I think the reason some of those places are solid is because there may have been a test area there originally, or maybe they're planning DLC!

I remember doing most of these glitches years ago, it was real good fun

At a guess, the reason so much of the ground has collision is because the devs made themselves a tool for making landscapes that automatically adds collision for the landscape as well as providing tools to move the ground around. This means that all that collision would have been accidentally put in with very little extra effort.