The long-awaited Alan Wake 2 Anniversary Update is now live. It comes with bug fixes, quality-of-life improvements, and The Lake House expansion for players who purchased the more expensive Deluxe Edition.
In a post explaining the Anniversary Update, Remedy Entertainment’s senior community manager Vida Starčević said work on Alan Wake 2 has not stopped since its launch. Starčević also said the developer has been gathering feedback and working to implement the changes pointed out in the feedback.
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“All players will be able to download the Anniversary Update for free, and it contains our biggest addition to quality of life and accessibility options to the game to date,” Starčević said. “The features we’ve included are those that have been frequently requested by the community.”
Remedy has made improvements to the DualSense controller in the Anniversary Update, expanding haptic feedbacks beyond just weapons to healing items and throwables. Anniversary Update will add gyro aiming (motion controls) support to Alan Wake 2. This option can be toggled on and off.
Also, the Anniversary Update will add a Gameplay Assist menu which will be available in the gameplay options and will contain the following toggles:
- Quick turn
- Auto complete QTE
- Button tapping to single tap
- Weapon charging with taps
- Healing items with taps
- Lightshifter with taps
- Player invulnerability
- Player immortality
- One shot kill
- Infinite ammo
- Infinite flashlight batteries
Deluxe Edition owners will get the Classic Alan Wake Outfit also known as the Layered One. Below are all the other improvements and fixes coming with the Anniversary Update.
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Improvements
- Finetuned Flashlight Boost’s usability. Shooting should now feel better while boosting. Then again, we have worked on this game for so long that we don’t know anymore.
- Words of Power are now easier to unlock as they accept a wider angle from the flashlight. This should help especially with that one Word of Power in the Oceanview hotel
- Resources from all containers are now easier to pick up (no more strange camera movements to grab stuff)
- [PS5] Added support for PlayStation 5 Pro. More details here.
- [PS5][PC] Added Optional Support for Motion Sensor (Gyro) controls while using a DualSense Controller (so that one person on Reddit who kept asking for this, hope you enjoy!)
- [PS5][PC] Refined and additional haptics. Haptics will now trigger when using throwables and healing Items (reminder: we should have had healing items like in Final Fight. Apples. Chickens).
- [XBox Series S] Increased internal render resolution from 1280 x 720 to 1505 x 847.
Fixes
- Fixed an issue where while trying to shoot while recharging batteries would sometimes trigger a melee attack instead.
- Fixed an issue where the player was getting pushed towards (instead of away) enemies upon hit if they had the flashlight equipped.
- Fixed an issue where Case Board clues would not always trigger voice-over lines.
- Fixed some areas becoming too dark if the character automatically unequipped the flashlight.
- [Night Springs] Fixed Achievement / Trophy for completing the episodes, that on occasion would not trigger when playing them as part of the main campaign.
What is the size of the Anniversary Update?
Remedy Entertainment has revealed the size of the Anniversary Update. The download size varies depending on the platform. PS5 will get the lowest file size of 15 GB followed by Xbox at 18 GB while PC gamers will need to download 20 GB.
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Reckless experiments have caused reality to collide with the Dark Place in… The Lake House.
Monsters wear many faces… and survival is just the beginning.
The Lake House, the second Alan Wake 2 expansion, is available now. Exclusive to the Deluxe Edition. Find out more at… pic.twitter.com/mKjsP9r1b7
— Alan Wake 2 (@alanwake) October 22, 2024
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