New update for Days Gone on PC and for the remaster on PS5 by Bend Studio has actually divided opinion. It just went live, promising stability improvements, fixes for crashes, and most importantly, the resolution of that very annoying blocker in the endgame mission that had its player base stuck midway through it. The fix is greeted with much elation by some; others are not shy to attack the studio for only partly exerting itself.
So what does the update really consist of? Bend Studio goes into greater technical details in its patch notes, saying that they attempted to address the problematic performance and a major progression bug that could prevent a player from completing the story. For the PC players, that would mean some on-the-fly tweaking of one or two technical things across the board, and for the PS5 owners, optimizations of similar nature for the remastered version.
Here comes the mess. Some gamers remain unimpressed, as reported by Manazeros via Twitter. They attest that the patch introduced new bugs but did nothing to address long-standing ones such as foliage LOD issues (basically when textures pop in as you pan the camera idly) and UI glitches in crafting menus. “Weeks of testing and you fix only shipped exe ignoring global issues,” they tweeted, making things worse for the developers.
Others had been through all the glitches in permadeath mode way before the patch landed. ‘Little late for me,’ he joked, somewhat a sad truth that some patches land a bit too late to save an active run.
And then, there goes the whole begging-for-a-sequel group. Many players tagging Bend Studio launched the “Days Gone 2 please” response to spur some action for the follow-up! Since that sort of division had been present in the first game at launch (before it found its cult following on its own), it’s no surprise that the fans are hungry for more.
Meanwhile, accessibility campaigners like Planet Mark are eyeing audio navigation to go alongside the existing screen reader support. And PC players, they have other cards: DLSS or frame generation upgrades to carry that performance to infinity.
Yep–mixed reviews. Some patrons are highly thankful that their game is getting attention; others, quite frankly, say that the fixes aren’t worth it. Meanwhile, the Days Gone community remains in limbo with taxes.
