1/19 Patch Update

Patch Notes

[v. 3.01] January 17, 2023

NEW GAME+

• Users who previously completed the game will have access to NewGame+ after the patch.

  • Application restart may be required.

  • Requires an active save file from game completion.

GLOBAL

• Fixed an issue where some users were not correctly granted the "The Protocol is About Life" achievement

• Added New Game Plus. Complete the game to unlock New Game Plus and carry your progression over to a new save. All weapons, upgrades, and Callisto Credits can be collected at the first Reforge

• General performance optimizations across all platforms

• Players no longer take damage when vaulting over obstacles

• Fixed multiple issues where certain camera angles or progression paths could cause environments to stream out and allow Jacob to fall through the ground

• Consistency pass on cabinets, lockers, and shelves to display correctly in High Contrast mode

• Voice leveling and subtitle mismatch adjustments across localized languages

PC

• Fixed low frequency crash in the Tunnels level during the Two Head fight

• Skip Death Cinematics button has been mapped to the Interact/Pickup input

• Fixed a long hitch when enabling Ray-Traced Shadows in the main menu

• Prevented mouse cursor from displaying during some area transitions

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[v. 2.01] December 15, 2022

GLOBAL COMBAT OPTIMIZATION

• Prevent enemies from attacking while you are attacking another enemy by adjusting uninterruptible windows for all player baton attacks vs standard enemies to add an extra 7 frames between hit and recover

• Reduced frequency of players being attacked from behind. Enemies now prioritize grappling or repositioning instead of attacking

• Widened incoming attack camera angle

• Widened angle for dodging off screen attacks

• Reduced damage taken multiplier when attacked from behind

• Increased player facing away maximum angle for Grunt and Blind

• Dodge optimization:

  • Valid dodge angle now allows player to have stick slightly forward and right/left while still dodging (45 -> 30 degrees)

  • Dodging at the end of the dodge window no longer means playing dodge animation and getting hit

• Increased animation speed for:

  • Health injector usage

  • Weapon swapping

  • Weapon reloading

  • Upper receiver swapping

• Auto-play reload animation when switching to an empty weapon

• Continue initiated weapon swaps after interruptions

• Extend amount of time between KTV appearance and mutation

• Fixed phantom arm kills by armless NPCs

• Increased audio cue volume for Danglers

• Reduced default setting for camera shake

• Added player invulnerable window to all 150 cm vaults

• Changed Two Head to a two hit kill on the player in Medium Security, and a three hit kill in Minimum Security

• Final boss encounter combat optimizations

• Minetown AI pathing and spawning improvements

PERFORMANCE AND STABILITY

• Optimized streaming to reduce memory usage in:

  • Habitat Water Maze

  • Snowcat Bridge Collapse

• Fixed a memory leak with the Reforge 3d Printers

LOCALIZATION

• Fixed voice leveling issues in multiple languages

• Fixed subtitle/vo mismatch issues in Korean

• Fixed instances of unlocalized lines in multiple languages

• Fixed incorrect text descriptions on menus in Korean

• Fixed untranslated instances of “Unlocked” on doors in multiple languages

• Fixed instances of missing voice processing in multiple languages

OTHER

• Added an option to enable performance mode when creating new games

• Added an option to skip death cinematics and restart from checkpoint faster

PC

• Improved lighting performance on AMD cards (reduced VGR pressure of FDeferredLightPS)

• Fixed an exploit that allowed players to receive the "The Protocol is About Life" achievement after beating the game once on a lower difficulty

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[v. 1.02] December 06, 2022

PC

• Added popup dialog to display when players change ray-tracing settings and trigger a shader compile

• Added a popup progress dialog to display in the main menu when compiling shaders

• (Epic Specific) Fixed an issue preventing achievements from unlocking and displaying correctly

• (Epic Specific) Fixed an issue causing the Terms Of Service to always display upon loading the app

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[v. 1.01] December 02, 2022

PC

• Updated PSO cache to further reduce stuttering during gameplay