Horizon Forbidden West patch makes improvements, balances changes, fixes many crash issues, more

Guerrilla Games has released patch 1.08 for Forbidden Horizon in the West.

While many things have been resolved with the patch, there are still some issues the team is looking into. This includes ongoing corrections to reported graphics issues related to screen flicker, sharpness, and saturation.

There is also a really specific case where some players have reported problems with various movement patterns after quickly moving to a campfire while gliding inside a tornado.

The team is also looking into the issue of receiving rewards after completing the Black Box Collecting activity.

When it comes to quests, we won’t post those notes here as they can contain spoliers, so just keep in mind that the seven main quests, four World Activities, and six side quests already have issues. be solved.

Other fixes include an issue where the Machine Strike UI would flash rapidly at the end of the game; many fixes have been applied; many streaming and performance improvements have been made to movie clips; The team eliminated many unintentional loading screens and black screens, and handled many of the streaming and visual appearance cases.

Guerrilla has made a number of improvements to NPC movement and animation in settlements, making it easier to tag individual components using the scanner and motion aim, and potions or Tools that don’t fit on your tool cord will now be moved to storage.

Some balance changes have been made to weapons and enemies, some cases where Aloy might get stuck in geometry resolved, a fix for mounts calling sometimes causing mounts fly was spawned in unexpected locations and in rare cases inaccessibility was applied and some of the data points located in areas you can’t return to are now automatically unlock when leaving that space.

Versions of specific tracks getting stuck and looping won’t be an issue anymore.

You can see the full notes for patch 1.08 at the link.