Patch Notes | 28.10.2025

New Content

• NEW Rapid Travel Network
• NEW Phobias Safe Mode
• NEW Elite Weapons

Improvements

• Major improvements to combat throughout base game and Wicked Isle and The Red Strain story expansions
• Inserted a ‘Location Save’ to allow players to return to the last location they entered if they get stuck
• Added a warning pop-up to remind players to be prepared (hint hint – save!) before they enter the Windscale Plant
• Enhanced text scaling
• Improved haptics when using DualSense controllers
• Added clearer signposting about the effect of the Red Strain to How to Play section
• Added ingredients to Trader 45's stock for crafting Items
• Improved searching bodies while carrying heavy weapons
• Pressing a direction button on an empty slot will now equip empty hands
• Controller users will now stay inside a dispatch tube’s list of items after removing something rather than being kicked to their inventory

Fixes

General

• Fixes and improvements to AI in combat and pathing with further animation fixes
• Wide variety of lighting and special effects fixes throughout
• Variety of art, collision and camera fixes throughout
• Small improvements to localisation
• Directional indicators now show for the duration of whistling from NPCs
• The correct crafting sound now plays when crafting makeshift grenades
• Resolved the 'Equip' option remaining available under the 'View More' after an item is equipped
• Fixed the backpack menu remaining accessible after inserting a battery into a robot
• The Backpack menu no longer freezes if the Backpack and Exit buttons are pressed at the same time
• Mouse scrolling to empty slots will no longer cause the protagonist to stow their weapon
• Pigeons now make pigeon noises alongside their usual flapping
• Corrected the name of Captain Sims’s M. 1911
• The pin in the explosive lure no longer remains when players remove it
• The descriptions of the Air Ace lunchboxes now reflect the names of the comics they are taken from
• The Target Practice achievement now consistently unlocks correctly including with DLC weapons

Quest Specific Fixes

• Mother Jago will now consistently accept that the player has a certain item even if they are infected
• The ‘Dr. Holder wants Dr. Garrow released’ lead will now appear in both Dr Holder and Dr Garrow’s journal entries
• The Windfall Shipment lead will now consistently complete even after opening the chest
• Players are now able to tell Captain Sims that Dr Garrow dead in all intended circumstances
• Wicked Isle Story Expansion
• The interact prompt to give a certain item back to the Abbot now reads 'Use' rather than ‘Observe’
• Bill Anderson's lead will now resolved in all intended circumstances
• Jean Hamer’s lead will now resolved in all intended circumstances

The Red Strain Story Expansion

• Players who collected a Signal Redirector before installing will now have the relevant leads resolved after starting the DLC
• The dispatch tube will now become inactive as intended if players insert the last of a certain item into the Command Centre
• Solved players having the wrong dialogue options if they already had Gillian’s lead but hadn’t found a certain colleague yet
• The ‘Moriah Is Sealed’ lead will now consistently resolve in all correct circumstances
• Corrected players still being able to access the test site in specific circumstances even after interrupting quarantine
• Resolved an issue where players could prevent a specific event if they opened the lift doors, placed a certain item and took the lift down to the Command Centre

Location Specific Fixes

Slatten Dales

• Fixed players becoming briefly stuck in falling animation when dropping from small drop near the Site Office
• Removed some incorrect traversal indicators in the Outlaw's Cave

Casterfell Woods

• Solved Billy Gorse suddenly becoming hostile under specific conditions

Interchange

• The ladder in Data Room C can now be climbed in all intended circumstances
• Players can now no longer be trapped in the Interchange following very specific circumstances
• The door to the Robotics lab will now always shut behind players as intended
• Players can now no longer get stuck on a railing above the Medical Tunnels entrance to the Interchange

Wicked Isle Story Expansion

• The game no longer becomes unresponsive after speaking to Jenny Coggins following a murderous encounter
• Repositioned an obscured ammo pickup near the Beach Hut on the west beach

The Red Strain Story Expansion

• Corrected erratic item movement and instances of items falling through floor if dropped in the access lift in the Slate Mine Caves
• Description of the Commando Knife now reads ‘Average Damage’
• Saves made after activating the lift to the Command Building now no longer have a chance of being corrupted
• The description text for the Contamination Antidote is now consistent with other antidote items
• Music now consistently plays in the Credits after all endings
• Resolved a delay to the Induction Launcher dropping to the floor after dropping it
• Audio in the outro cinematics for each ending will now play consistently
• Players no longer get stuck after jumping on the railings above the water treatment works
• Explosion from induction launcher no longer appears behind robots
• The intercom effect now continues consistently through conversation with Dr Keene