God of War Ragnarök will be available for everyone to play in less than 24 hours. Developer Santa Monica Studio wants players to have the best experience possible. So, a day-one patch has been announced, including its details.
The major update will fix hundred bugs and make many improvements. AI pathing will be improved and missing checkpoints to specific encounters will be added. We have mentioned all gameplay-related fixes below.
Gameplay
- Fixed several cases where enemy loot would fall in inaccessible places and could only be retrieved from the lost items chest in the shop.
- Fixed a few cases where the companion would get stuck and not follow the player.
- Fixed cases where the companion would behave erratically.
- Added checkpoints to specific encounters that were missing them.
- Made improvements to AI pathing.
- Fixed several cases where the player could fall through the world under certain conditions.
- Fixed several locations where the player could not interact with an elevator or was blocked from entering an elevator.
- Fixed a case where the player was unable to enter the Svartalfheim office, which prevented them from returning to the bay when backtracking.
- Fixed a case where the player was unable to interact with health stones during the quest “The Lost Sanctuary.”
- Fixed a case where the companion could get stuck to the sled and carried away.
- Fixed a few cases where the player would be unable to dismount a sled while exploring, which required a restart from the last checkpoint.
- Fixed several cases where the sled did not properly follow the player when traversing on foot in exploration areas. (It can be a long walk!)
- Fixed a case where the player could lose functionality while interacting with a mask and fall off a ledge during the quest “Unlocking the Mask.”
- Fixed a case where the player could lose functionality and be unable to open a gate after completing the quest “The Last Remnants of Asgard.”
- Fixed several cases where picking up collectible items could cause the player to fall out of the world.
- Fixed a case where the player would fall out of the world when loading in after having restarted from last checkpoint while crawling through a cave.
- Fixed a case where camera control could become disabled if the player and the companion entered a crack climb simultaneously.
- Fixed a case where the companion would behave incorrectly during a tutorial in the quest “The Reckoning.”
You can check out the complete patch notes of God of War Ragnarök Day 1 Update via the official site.
