Alan Wake 2 receives bulky update

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.