Alan Wake 2 has been out for around a week, and it has been getting impressive reviews. Remedy isn’t ready to rest yet, and a patch has been released for all platforms.
The update brings over 200 improvements and fixes, resulting in a smoother gameplay experience regardless of where you’re playing. Although the game has been well-received, there have been some minor complaints of audio glitches and bugs that have stopped some players from progressing. Hopefully, the patch will solve some of these problems.
Alan Wake 2 Patch 1.0.8 notes
You can expect the following features on all platforms:
- Various localization fixes, such as improved subtitle timings for all languages
- Improved localized audio for live-action cinematics
- Various audio-related improvements and additional polish
- Improved lip sync in some instances
- Fixed various graphical issues in the environments
- Fixed various minor issues in cinematics
- Minor improvements to image aliasing in Performance mode and Xbox Series S
- Improved lighting
- Fixed lighting bugs in multiple locations
- Various UI-related fixes and additional polish
- Various gameplay fixes and improvements
- Minor gameplay fine-tuning
- Improved auto-aim for specific circumstances
- Fixed rare player character animation issues
- Fixed various issues in the Case Board
- Fixed various map issues
- Several conversations failing to trigger and thus blocking progress later have been fixed
- Fixed Rose’s dialogue choices, sometimes not being selectable, blocking progress
- Fixed a rare issue with Saga’s lines not playing when going to the Sheriff’s Station, blocking progress
- Resolved a potential problem in the player getting stuck in a Case Board Tutorial
- Fixed exploration rewards for Lighthouse
There have also been some mission-specific fixes, which should help some players who have had trouble progressing:
INVITATION
- Fixed a bug where Saga could get stuck in the environment (“Crazy forest”)
CASEY
- Fixed potential issue with players able to get stuck when falling from ladders
- Fixed potential issues with Dark Presence (it remains a threat)
- Fixed a rare crash
ZANE’S FILM
- Fixed a bug where Alan could fall through the environment
SCRATCH
- Fixed a bug where Saga could fall through the world
- Fixed a bug in where a gate could get locked after reloading a save game, causing the player to get blocked from progressing
- Fixed an issue where, in rare circumstances, the player could end up outside of the game world when opening the map
- Fixed an issue where, in rare cases, the Lighthouse key could not be picked up
WE SING
- Fixed a bug where Alan could get stuck in the environment
ROOM 665
- Fixed an issue that caused the Oceanview Hotel Lobby Echo not to align correctly
MASKS
- Fixed an issue where if the player performed specific tasks in an unpredictable order, the mission progress could get blocked
DEERFEST
- Fixed an issue with physics-related props that could block the player in and halt progress
COME HOME
- Fixed an issue where the player, in rare instances, could not exit the radio, TV, or manuscript interact modules.
Lastly, some PC-specific fixes have been added:
- Fixed a bug that could cause graphics settings to reset when launching the game
- Improvements to PC Window handling logic
- Fixed mouse cursor sometimes not appearing in menus
Though the update is much appreciated, the absence of a photo mode is still painful. Hopefully, one gets added soon because a game as gorgeous as this deserves the most stunning images.
