Summary
- Patch 10 for Alan Wake 2 addresses over a hundred issues, including critical bugs that blocked player progress and mission-specific problems.
- The update focuses on general bug fixes, localization issues, rebalancing gameplay aspects, and preventing glitches like rain indoors and furniture blocking progress.
- Platform-specific updates include fixing audio issues for Xbox players and resolving crashes and audio states for PlayStation 5 gamers.
Remedy Entertainment has unveiled the patch notes for the latest Alan Wake 2 update, which makes over a hundred fixes to the game. The True Detective-inspired Alan Wake 2 mostly 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 2 released 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 for Alan Wake 2 corrects over a hundred issues. Like previous Alan Wake 2 updates, 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 2 players 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 the free DLC promised for Alan 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 2 already 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.
Alan Wake 2 Update 10 Patch Notes
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.
GLOBAL
- General bugfixes and additional polish
- Fixed multiple localization issues
- Fixed banding present in certain cinematics
- Rebalanced the Taken Diver enemy to be more dangerous
- Added a few missing German and Spanish VO lines
- Increased ammo and health item drop rates from containers in the Cynthia boss fight
- Rebalanced Nightingale boss fight in Normal mode making player weapons more powerful
- HDR toggle in brightness calibration UI should now work as expected
- Tutorial texts should only appear in the right places
- Fixed the weather. It should not be raining indoors anymore
- Low health state visual effect intensity toned down
- Fixed an issue with the camera going wild in Saga’s weapon upgrade screen
- Fixed instances of Alex Casey t-posing menacingly
- All Pat Maine radio shows are now listenable
- Player progress should no longer be blocked by unruly furniture and props being in the wrong place
PLATFORM SPECIFIC
Xbox Series
- Fixed an issue with audio missing or cutting out
PlayStation 5
- Fixed an issue where using Share Play would, in rare instances, crash the game
- Fixed several wrong audio states towards the end of the game
MISSION SPECIFIC
INVITATION
- Fixed an issue where players were unable to talk to Casey after the autopsy and thus being blocked from progressing in the mission
- Fixed an issue where in rare circumstances, Nightingale could get stuck in the scenery
CASEY
- Opening the subway door during the escape from the Dark Presence has been made significantly easier by requiring far less button mashing, especially on keyboards
LOCAL GIRL
- Made Coffee World more fun. Fixed an issue where cups from Slow Roaster were not showing and where carriages from Espresso Express blocked player progress
- The clue about the Kalevala workshop now unlocks at the correct time
- A Manuscript page did not want to be found and has been taught a lesson
WE SING
- The cursor should appear correctly on the Plot board during the mission.
OLD GODS
- Fixed an issue where the key fob from Rose did not spawn correctly for players
- Fixed an issue where players were unable to trigger the call from Tor and place evidence on the Case Board + several related issues
- Fixed an issue where players could not enter the Overlap upon dying as the record player refused to play the hits and allow re-entry to the Overlap.
- Fixed an issue where the option to Profile Cynthia disappeared after reloading a save game
ROOM 665
- Fixed an issue where players could get stuck in the Break Room
- The Echo will now respawn in the instance that the player doesn’t watch the video to the very end
SCRATCH
- Fixed an issue where players were unable to talk to FBC agent Estevez and come up with a New Plan to progress the mission
- Saga should not end up in Dark Place after the point of no return
- Fixed an issue where players could get their progress blocked if changing to another case
ZANE’S FILM
- Tim Breaker’s map now properly reveals the Word of Power location behind the cinema
Alan Wake 2
- Released
- October 27, 2023
WHERE TO PLAY
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?
- Developer(s)
- Remedy Entertainment
- Publisher(s)
- Epic Games
- Franchise
- Alan Wake
- Platform(s)
- PC, PS5, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X
- Genre(s)
- Survival Horror
