Treatment posted a reasonably in depth record of fixes on the Alan Wake web site and it’s primarily fixing bugs with sure missions not progressing as they need to, but it surely seems to be like Treatment had some enjoyable writing up the notes, with useful updates like “made Espresso World extra enjoyable” and “fastened cases of Alex Casey t-posing menacingly”. Alongside these humorous ones, there are some necessary fixes too although, together with eliminating development bugs within the missions “Scratch” and “Native Woman”.
There are nonetheless a few missable collectibles that can lock you out of getting all of the Alan Wake 2 achievements — these aren’t technically bugs, but it surely’s annoying to see and hopefully will get patched at a later time. For now, I’ll simply must do one other playthrough to get them, which is ok by me, provided that Alan Wake 2 is so rattling good.
Our overview code got here in simply earlier than launch, however you’ll be listening to our full ideas on Alan Wake 2 quickly. Spoiler alert: it completely guidelines and ought to be a robust contender for recreation of the yr. I didn’t run into any of those development bugs throughout my playthrough of the sport, but it surely’s nice to see them getting fastened. That is on prime of final week’s patch which already remodeled 200 fixes. You’ll be able to see the total patch notes under.
Alan Wake 2: Replace 10 Patch notes
GLOBAL
- Normal bugfixes and extra polish
- Mounted a number of localization points
- Mounted banding current in sure cinematics
- Rebalanced the Taken Diver enemy to be extra harmful
- Added just a few lacking German and Spanish VO strains
- Elevated ammo and well being merchandise drop charges from containers within the Cynthia boss struggle
- Rebalanced Nightingale boss struggle in Regular mode making participant weapons extra highly effective
- HDR toggle in brightness calibration UI ought to now work as anticipated
- Tutorial texts ought to solely seem in the best locations
- Mounted the climate. It shouldn’t be raining indoors anymore
- Low well being state visible impact depth toned down
- Mounted a difficulty with the digicam going wild in Saga’s weapon improve display screen
- Mounted cases of Alex Casey t-posing menacingly
- All Pat Maine radio reveals are actually listenable
- Participant progress ought to not be blocked by unruly furnishings and props being within the incorrect place
PLATFORM SPECIFIC
Xbox Sequence
- Mounted a difficulty with audio lacking or slicing out
PlayStation 5
- Mounted a difficulty the place utilizing Share Play would, in uncommon cases, crash the sport
- Mounted a number of incorrect audio states in direction of the top of the sport
MISSION SPECIFIC
INVITATION
- Mounted a difficulty the place gamers had been unable to speak to Casey after the post-mortem and thus being blocked from progressing within the mission
- Mounted a difficulty the place in uncommon circumstances, Nightingale might get caught within the surroundings
CASEY
- Opening the subway door through the escape from the Darkish Presence has been made considerably simpler by requiring far much less button mashing, particularly on keyboards
LOCAL GIRL
- Made Espresso World extra enjoyable. Mounted a difficulty the place cups from Sluggish Roaster weren’t displaying and the place carriages from Espresso Categorical blocked participant progress
- The clue in regards to the Kalevala workshop now unlocks on the appropriate time
- A Manuscript web page didn’t wish to be discovered and has been taught a lesson
WE SING
- The cursor ought to seem accurately on the Plot board through the mission.
OLD GODS
- Mounted a difficulty the place the important thing fob from Rose didn’t spawn accurately for gamers
- Mounted a difficulty the place gamers had been unable to set off the decision from Tor and place proof on the Case Board + a number of associated points
- Mounted a difficulty the place gamers couldn’t enter the Overlap upon dying because the document participant refused to play the hits and permit re-entry to the Overlap.
- Mounted a difficulty the place the choice to Profile Cynthia disappeared after reloading a save recreation
ROOM 665
- Mounted a difficulty the place gamers might get caught within the Break Room
- The Echo will now respawn within the occasion that the participant doesn’t watch the video to the very finish
SCRATCH
- Mounted a difficulty the place gamers had been unable to speak to FBC agent Estevez and give you a New Plan to progress the mission
- Saga mustn’t find yourself in Darkish Place after the purpose of no return
- Mounted a difficulty the place gamers might get their progress blocked if altering to a different case
ZANE’S FILM
- Tim Breaker’s map now correctly reveals the Phrase of Energy location behind the cinema