Treatment Leisure has pushed Alan Wake 2’s newest replace which incorporates the just lately revealed new sport plus mode and a lot of efficiency updates.
There’s additionally after all loads of bug fixes and small tweaks included, oh and the small inclusion of a new ending for gamers to expertise.
Scorching off the heels of its huge wins at The Sport Awards, beating out Baldur’s Gate III in a number of classes for Greatest Narrative, Greatest Route and Greatest Artwork Route, Alan Wake 2 now invitations gamers to return for a little bit of a brand new expertise.
You possibly can take a look at the total patch notes for your self, beneath.
Alan Wake 2 Replace #13 Full Patch Notes
New Sport Plus mode
- New ending
- New Nightmare issue stage
- New Manuscript pages and video content material
- Retain all unlocked movies, Charms and upgrades
NOTE: To entry the New Sport Plus mode, a accomplished playthrough of Alan Wake 2 is required. In New Sport Plus, one can find the unlocked weapons within the first accessible shoebox for the character.
Efficiency
- Improved total high quality of the occlusion culling algorithm, enhancing GPU efficiency particularly on areas with loads of geometry.
- The efficiency improve is most seen within the PlayStation 5 High quality mode, the place (extremely) there are as much as 1.8ms enhancements. Cauldron Lake needs to be coughing much less.
- Optimized HUD UI content material setup so rendering the HUD takes much less time. This brings between ~0.5-0.7ms enhancements to efficiency.
- A number of chosen tweaks and optimizations for path tracing and rendering.
- Improved streaming by eradicating occasional 10 – 100ms stalls that largely affected Xbox Sequence platforms.
- Lowered reminiscence utilization by 16 MB on all platforms.
- [PC] Barely improved efficiency on by eradicating some error diagnostics instrumentation.
Tutorials
- Modified when some Tutorials seem within the Tutorials menu.
- Added a timeout to the Tutorial about Fadeouts.
- Gamers can now decelerate to strolling velocity whereas a Tutorial is open.
- Tutorial messages will not be slowing down participant motion velocity anymore.
- If tutorials are disabled, the participant gained’t be locked within the diorama when the primary investigation clue gathering tutorial would happen…
Stability
- Mounted a number of infuriating Lua script errors that made the sport extra secure and fewer unpredictable.
- Mounted a grasp on Xbox that would happen when making an attempt to droop the appliance throughout launch.
- Mounted audio middleware crash on Xbox Sequence platforms.
- Mounted a uncommon crash that would occur throughout streaming.
Visuals
- Considerably decreased specular aliasing (“shimmering”) on shiny surfaces with a brand new algorithm.
- Improved Trailer Park cinematic lighting.
- Improved shadow high quality contained in the Valhalla Nursing House to respect the aged much more.
- Flashlight shadows at the moment are prioritized to keep away from a blocky look in areas that includes heavy dynamic lights utilization.
- Mounted (or ruined, relying in your view) the “chameleon chair” seen in entrance of the sauna. It’s not altering colour anymore ?
- Mounted LODs on the hotdog stand.
- Mounted quite a lot of damaged or ugly LODs.
- Mounted incorrect rendering culling mode on leaf and low pot supplies to stop path tracing points.
- Mounted damaged supplies on the storage constructing in downtown Vivid Falls elevating property worth.
- [PC] Improved high quality for low ray-tracing preset, fixing flickering fireflies on character’s faces throughout cinematics.
Audio & localization
- Improved total audio high quality on PlayStation 5.
- Mounted lip sync being off throughout the cinematic the place Saga and Casey arrive at Cauldron Lake.
- Localization fixes for agent Estevez audio traces.
- Further fixes for localized subtitles.
We’re nonetheless engaged on the audio sync being off for some gamers on Xbox Sequence and count on to deal with this in our subsequent replace.
International
- Mounted a problem with Koskela Brothers Espresso World advert that prevented some gamers from unlocking the associated trophy.
- Father Doll ought to now be simpler to search out on the map in order that gamers can full the final Nursery Rhyme.
- Mounted a problem the place the participant may very well be blocked by medical balls by resetting the Wellness Centre props when the mission Return 09 begins.
- Mounted a problem the place skipping a cinematic throughout Deerfest would carry forth untimely darkness by fading the display screen to black.
- Added heavy responsibility blockers to cease the participant probably falling out of the world in Return 05 close to the Nursing House.
- Eliminated the pressure digicam look-at of the Darkish Substance on the Witch’s Ladle if the participant walks away.
- Disabled the Actuality Swap VFX bleeding within the lodge in Return 04.
- Mounted a mysterious blocky shadow within the Sheriff’s station staircase.
- Added a loading display screen if skipping a cinematic in Initiation 02 in order that lighting can take its time to load accurately.
- Mounted pesky FBC gentle arrays in Return 06 and 09 to revive their state after loading a save sport, and to indicate the proper visuals when powered on/off.
- Mounted a problem of not having the ability to choose up some objects from crimson toolboxes after loading right into a saved sport.
- Mounted a impolite manuscript web page that was seen however not interactive in Valhalla House forest shack.
- Mounted a problem the place an invisible collision was lively close to the Vivid Falls Sheriff’s Station, making a piece of a close-by road narrower than supposed.
- Mounted a problem the place manuscript pages would keep clean after switching ranges when a single web page was accessible within the Thoughts Place.
- Mounted English being generally unselectable within the language drop-down menu after altering language.
- Discovered manuscript pages mustn’t present up on the map anymore.
- Added UI immediate for objects that may be positioned from hand to the Case Board.
- Mounted a problem the place Saga was misplaced on the ladder after being attacked by the Taken within the Overlap.
- Made ladder interplay icons higher positioned.
- Disabled crossbow magnet for useless enemies.
- Mounted lacking subtitles in cinematics.
- The participant’s stock now closes when an enemy grapples the participant.
- Permit enemies to get better from grapple fast escape when stun ends.
- Modified the orientation of the trace on prime of the Vivid Falls Sheriff Station Cult Stash in order that it its extra readable.
- Mounted a problem the place the participant couldn’t wield a weapon after being interrupted by being hit within the boss battle on the finish of Return 03.
- Mounted a problem the place in some instances Estevez wouldn’t discuss to Saga after getting back from the morgue (non-obligatory dialogue).
- Added a brand new purpose in Initiation 08 after getting into the crime scene in order that gamers will not be left with out goal within the Darkish Place.
- Mounted a problem the place Alan may reload his weapon whereas concurrently doing a Gentle Shift. Looks as if a factor he ought to be capable of do, however anyway.
- Mounted a problem the place Saga may reload invisible weapons though she was socially certain to not wield weapons in sure areas (kertaus on opintojen äiti).
- Mounted a problem the place Saga was in a position to reload the flashlight and different weapons concurrently inflicting the unholstered weapon to vanish and reappear after flashlight reload was accomplished.
- [PC] Added drag and drop assist for transferring objects within the Stock and Shoebox.
- [PC] Added a mouse smoothing possibility (defaulted to on) to prioritize mouse and digicam. Motion smoothness over accuracy.
- [PC] Mounted a problem with the mouse that resulted in jittery digicam actions if not enjoying in 30fps.
Supply – [Remedy Entertainment]