Hey, it is the primary large 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? Properly, goals to assist curb a few of poor James’ glitchy shenanigans, plus another stuff.
Should you’ve but to play the sport, you most likely ought to for those who’re into horror stuff, as our resident scary s**t knowledgeable Kelsey wrote in their evaluate that it is a good factor, one which’s each “trustworthy and outright terrifying”. Funnily sufficient, these are additionally the phrases I might use to explain among the extra attention-grabbing mods that’ve come out for SH2 thus far.
Anyway, neglect about Pyramid Head’s bum, as outlined within the notes for Patch 1.04, Bloober Staff’s “[paid] shut consideration to any reported points and [gone] by means of your suggestions concerning bugs, sport efficiency and extra”, partially as a way to cut back the quantity of unanticpated weirdness you would possibly encounter.
Among the many most noteworthy fixes are ones for “a difficulty the place interacting with the improper aspect of the peephole in Brookhaven Hospital teleported James to the opposite aspect”, and one other “the place James was falling underneath the map when approaching Laura coming into Brookhaven Hospital from the bushes on the left”. So, principally, your journeys to hospital at the moment are much less prone to lead to a glitch that might land James in hospital.
That is removed from the tip of Bloober curbing James’ dangerous 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 Lodge, or randomly discover his means onto a balcony within the Blue Creek Flats that is imagined 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 wood plank immediately seem subsequent to him if he dies, prefer it’s a crap funeral present. The patch has additionally “improved the deformation of Nurses’ skirts”, which is definitely a sentence.
Alongside another gameplay tweaks you may try within the full notes, each PC and PS5 have additionally every gotten their very own listing of technical fixes, which ought to hopefully make you much less prone to run into crashes or stuttering in your platform of selection.
How deep a cleanse are you going to be giving your web historical past after studying this text? Tell us beneath, and check out our Silent Hill 2 walkthrough for those who’re in want of assist ending the sport now you are not trapped in a window body.