Summary
Remedy Entertainment’sAlan Wake 2earned critical acclaim at the time of its release, but it still has some technical issues that the developers have been fixing with post-launch updates, the latest of which is available to download right now. While the game earned mostly positive reviews,Alan Wake 2has been criticizedfor some technical shortcomings.
Remedy has worked to addressAlan Wake 2’s bugs and other issues with regular updates since the game’s launch. So far,Alan Wake 2updateshave gone a long way in improving the game and giving fans a smoother survival-horror experience. The same can be said for the newestAlan Wake 2update, as the extensive patch notes detail all the fixes that fans can expect after downloading it on their platform of choice.
Alan Wake 2update 12 is available to download now, and it addresses many of the game’s lingering issues. Remedy’s patch notes detail a variety ofAlan Wake 2bugs and glitches that are squashed by the latest update, so hopefully players will no longer run into these particular problems. Glitches preventing progress, causing PC crashes, and triggering animation errors have been fixed. Some bugs that were specific to certain mission objectives have also been fixed by the new update.
One particularly annoyingAlan Wake 2bug has been targeted by Update 12. Prior to the update, there was anAlan Wake 2glitch that made it so players could not access items on the far-right side of their inventory. While there were ways around this, it definitely was not ideal. Upon downloading the new update,Alan Wake 2players should be able to access all areas of their inventorywith no problem.
Fans can count on Remedy releasing moreAlan Wake 2updates in the future, alongside substantial paid DLC.Alan Wake 2will have at least two expansionsby the time it’s all said and done, and it will definitely be interesting to see what they add to the experience. Remedy has confirmed that theAlan Wake 2expansions are called Night Springs and Lake House, but fans will have to wait to learn more about what all they bring to the table.Alan Wake 2fans can download the newest patch and continue their survival-horror adventures as Alan Wake and Saga Anderson in the meantime.
PlayStation 5 (1.00.12)
PC (1.0.12)
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Alan Wake 2
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A string of ritualistic murders threatens Bright Falls, a small-town community surrounded by Pacific Northwest wilderness. Saga Anderson, an accomplished FBI agent with a reputation for solving impossible cases arrives to investigate the murders. Anderson’s case spirals into a nightmare when she discovers pages of a horror story that starts to come true around her.Alan Wake, a lost writer trapped in a nightmare beyond our world, writes a dark story in an attempt to shape the reality around him and escape his prison. With a dark horror hunting him, Wake is trying to retain his sanity and beat the devil at his own game.Anderson and Wake are two heroes on two desperate journeys in two separate realities, connected at heart in ways neither of them can understand: reflecting each other, echoing each other, and affecting the worlds around them.Fueled by the horror story, supernatural darkness invades Bright Falls, corrupting the locals and threatening the loved ones of both Anderson and Wake. Light is their weapon—and their safe haven — against the darkness they face. Trapped in a sinister horror story where there are only victims and monsters, can they break out to be the heroes they need to be?
