Alan Wake 2 ‘Anniversary Update’ Roll Out Today With A Fix On Quality Of Life Improvements

This coming Sunday, October 27th, marks the first official year since the release of Alan Wake 2. In our review for the game, we wrote that “The four long years of development have paid off, and the passion and love from the studio truly speaks for itself.” And now even a full revolution around the sun later and we still feel that way towards Remedy Entertainment’s latest Magnum Opus.

More recently, Remedy Entertainment is framing up its work ahead. In that, the firm shared its first look at FBC: Firebreak – the developer’s entry into multiplayer with a co-op shooter spin-off that expands from the world of Control. Additionally, the Finnish game studio also shared story DLC Lake House is set to arrive on Tuesday as well.

Now in a new reveal this week, Remedy Entertainment along the new add-on is also rolling out a new ‘Anniversary Update’ for Alan Wake 2 which injects a slew of quality of life improvements alongside new features that players have demanded since the game launched. “With the Anniversary Update, Alan Wake 2 will get the Gameplay Assist menu, which you can find in the gameplay options. It contains, among others, 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

“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. The features we’ve included are those that have been frequently requested by the community. […] Until now, Alan Wake 2 only had haptics support for weapons, but we’re happy to say that the team has been working hard to improve and refine haptics on the DualSense. From now on, haptics will also work with healing items and throwables.

The team also adds: “PlayStation players can look forward to some improvements we’ve made for the DualSense controller. With the Anniversary Update, Alan Wake 2 will have gyro aiming (motion controls) support. You can turn the motion sensor function on and off, as well as tweak horizontal and vertical sensitivity, set gyro space, and choose whether your pitch, yaw, and roll directions are standard or inverted.”

Are you excited for this new update in Alan Wake 2?

Alan Wake 2 is out now for Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC.

Source: Remedy Entertainment