Hey, it is the primary massive patch for the Silent Hill 2 Remake following its arrival in all of our lives every week and a bit in the past. What’s it do? Effectively, goals to assist curb a few of poor James’ glitchy shenanigans, plus another stuff.
In the event you’ve but to play the sport, you in all probability ought to when you’re into horror stuff, as our resident scary s**t knowledgeable Kelsey wrote of their evaluate that it is a good factor, one which’s each “devoted and outright terrifying”. Funnily sufficient, these are additionally the phrases I would use to explain a number of the extra attention-grabbing mods that’ve come out for SH2 to this point.
Anyway, neglect about Pyramid Head’s bum, as outlined within the notes for Patch 1.04, Bloober Group’s “[paid] shut consideration to any reported points and [gone] via your suggestions relating to bugs, recreation efficiency and extra”, partially to be able to cut back the quantity of unanticpated weirdness you would possibly encounter.
Among the many most noteworthy fixes are ones for “a problem the place interacting with the incorrect aspect of the peephole in Brookhaven Hospital teleported James to the opposite aspect”, and one other “the place James was falling below the map when approaching Laura coming into Brookhaven Hospital from the bushes on the left”. So, mainly, your journeys to hospital are actually much less prone to end in a glitch that might land James in hospital.
That is removed from the top of Bloober curbing James’ unhealthy behaviour both. He additionally now should not get “caught within the window body” after breaking home windows close to Neely’s Bar, discover himself unable to depart the 3F hall within the Lakeview Resort, or randomly discover his means onto a balcony within the Blue Creek Flats that is presupposed to be inaccessible.
Oh, and he ought to lastly be capable of overcome a small espresso desk blocking him right into a nook of the room situated in Woodside Flats (apparently that was an unintended little bit of spookery), and should not have his picket plank instantly seem subsequent to him if he dies, prefer it’s a crap funeral reward. The patch has additionally “improved the deformation of Nurses’ skirts”, which is actually a sentence.
Alongside another gameplay tweaks you possibly can try within the full notes, each PC and PS5 have additionally every gotten their very own checklist of technical fixes, which ought to hopefully make you much less prone to run into crashes or stuttering in your platform of alternative.
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