Summary
Remedy Entertainment has unveiled the patch notes for the latestAlan Wake 2update, which makes over a hundred fixes to the game. TheTrue Detective-inspiredAlan Wake 2mostly achieved critical success, but it has been criticized for having several bugs, and the developers are working hard to fix them via constant patches.
A few days ago,Alan Wake 2released Patch 9. It was a small update that introduced a workaround fix for issues with Xbox players having their audio cut in some of the game’s segments and corrected some bugs that affected missions. Now, gamers can expect a significantly larger update.
Patch 10 forAlan Wake 2corrects over a hundred issues.Like previousAlan Wake 2updates, it mostly focuses on squashing general bugs, dealing with mission-specific issues, and fixing multiple localization problems, as well as rebalancing a few aspects of the experience. The most significant change in Patch 10 is that a critical bug that blocked the progress of some players in the Scratch (A New Plan) mission has been solved. Other significant updates include rebalancing for the Nightingale boss fight in the Normal difficulty, stopping a glitch that allowed for rain indoors, and preventing furniture from appearing in the wrong place, which would block the progress of some players.
Apart from these general fixes, each platform also received specific updates. For instance,Alan Wake 2players on Xbox will finally not need to deal with audio missing or being cut off anymore. PS5 gamers will see two specific changes: a problem with wrong audio states near the game’s end has been fixed, as well as one rare case in which using Share Play would crash the game.
While there are still some issues to solve, Remedy Entertainment is nevertheless doing good work so far, as it released 10 patches in less than a month after the game’s release. The next step, after the bug-fixing is done, is probably to deliver thefree DLC promised forAlan Wake 2. Last month, director Sam Lake promised that the title would get free DLC drops after the launch, bringing “significant” chunks of new story content. They have not been available so far, though. Apart from that,Alan Wake 2already has two expansions planned, which will probably be out in 2024: Night Springs and Lake House. These expansions will be paid and larger, and Night Springs will allow the player to control other characters aside from Alan Wake and Saga Anderson, according to the game’s creators.
PlayStation 5 (1.00.10)
Xbox Series (1.0.0.10)
PC (1.0.10)
Update 10 includes 100+ fixes. The critical issues blocking progress in the Scratch (A New Plan) mission and misbehaving in the Espresso Express in Local Girl (Coffee World) have been resolved.
PlayStation 5
ROOM 665
Alan Wake 2
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A string of ritualistic murders threatens Bright Falls, a small-town community surrounded by Pacific Northwest wilderness. Saga Anderson, an accomplished FBI agent with a reputation for solving impossible cases arrives to investigate the murders. Anderson’s case spirals into a nightmare when she discovers pages of a horror story that starts to come true around her.Alan Wake, a lost writer trapped in a nightmare beyond our world, writes a dark story in an attempt to shape the reality around him and escape his prison. With a dark horror hunting him, Wake is trying to retain his sanity and beat the devil at his own game.Anderson and Wake are two heroes on two desperate journeys in two separate realities, connected at heart in ways neither of them can understand: reflecting each other, echoing each other, and affecting the worlds around them.Fueled by the horror story, supernatural darkness invades Bright Falls, corrupting the locals and threatening the loved ones of both Anderson and Wake. Light is their weapon—and their safe haven — against the darkness they face. Trapped in a sinister horror story where there are only victims and monsters, can they break out to be the heroes they need to be?
