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Patch 1.0.4 is out!

12/3/2019

 
Hello everyone!  We’ve released a new patch and are very excited to show it to you ::).


Here’s a list of the biggest and most exciting changes:

  • Removed an invisible repelling force that’s no longer necessary ;;)
  • Added menu for gameplay options that can be triggered by looking at the Player Suit in the Ship after the first loop
  • Visually revamped menu UI system
  • Significant performance improvement on PS4, especially the PS4 Pro
  • Changed the clue in the Black Hole Forge (again…)
  • Sound, especially ship impact noises, no longer travels between Dark Bramble areas

Continue reading below if you want to know what else made it in!


Design improvements
  • The Fig backer satellite is now more easily accessible and less frustrating to explore
  • Fuel and oxygen gauges in the ship cockpit now give actual measurements

UI
  • Added tooltips to the gameplay options menu to describe each option
  • Scrollbars across the game now fully scroll from top to bottom
  • Improved dialogue UI to fit text better
  • Asterisks in the ship log are now orange/yellow


Visuals
  • Improved visual effects for a certain sequence in the High Energy Lab
  • The Ash Twin hologram on the Orbital Probe Cannon now has antennae
  • Changed the Ship Log picture for the High Energy Lab mural
  • Improved lighting and added baked ambient occlusion to a certain Nomai area
  • Mesh geometry on the Little Scout now rotates to match the camera direction


Minor fixes & adjustments
  • Fix to the archeologist achievement that allows you to get all ship log facts from Gabbro in later conversations.
  • Fix for not being able to look/rotate while using a Nomai projection pool in zero-g
  • Fixed miscellaneous crash bugs
  • Fixed bug that occasionally makes the geometry of the planet you're on disappear
  • Fixed planet symbols at the Black Hole Forge
  • Fixed lakebed cave lighting bug that occurs when the player enters in a particular way
  • The player can no longer slightly see inside the clouds on Giant's Deep
  • Slate and Hal's auto-conversation triggers now deactivate if you talk to them manually
  • Fixed bug that occasionally vaulted the player upwards while jumping at a certain object
  • Fixed a PS4 crash on the first visit to the backer satellite
  • Fixed a bug where the autopilot tries to direct you towards something that doesn't exist anymore
  • Fixed bug with singularities
That’s the End of This Update

Join us for another development update soon! Have a great week everyone!

Cheers,

Mobius

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Rohan
12/4/2019 12:25:47 am

That "Fixed miscellaneous crash bugs", does that include the PS4 save file corruption crash?

F you
12/17/2019 11:42:48 am

Nope. Just had my save corrupted. Unnacceptable to release a game for money in this state. Rather embarrassing.

Bignon Thibault
12/21/2019 11:22:25 am

Hi, Save corrupted 4h after buying and launching the game... Wtf is going on?

Hamish Cameron
12/6/2019 10:53:00 pm

Also having the file save corruption crash on PS4. Happened twice today and lost everything (Dec 7 New Zealand Time)--the first crash this morning lost many day's worth of play and had nearly discovered everything.

vlogging camera canon link
1/20/2020 04:55:28 pm

The powerful zoom feature makes it ideal for people who want to record close-up, distant and mid-range videos.

potesala
12/7/2019 08:01:12 am

the file save corruption crush occurred to me yesterday. I bought it last week and play about 30 hours over no save data crush(once application crushed but save data was no damage). Came after Patch1.0.4, It's data corruption crush occur twice in a day. 2nd time I played about 7 hours new game😩

Dana Cameron
12/7/2019 10:31:53 pm

Solidarity. Hamish and I are now on our 4th restart since yesterday. Are you also playing on the PS4?
Losing everything is frustrating, but at least the game is set up so that if you remember what is where you can still follow the story without having to redo everything (unless you want to). Good luck! Hopefully this will get fixed soon. This game is so good we have to keep pushing forward!

Sanchises
12/8/2019 12:41:45 am

What does "Removed an invisible repelling force that’s no longer necessary ;;)" mean?

Axius
1/25/2020 04:39:25 am

I don't want to spoil the surprise, so I'll keep things vague. It is to do with the Ash Twin Project. You might want to study EVERY aspect of the process a little more carefully ;)

Leif
12/8/2019 11:13:08 am

On my 4th restart, 3rd in 3 days 😠 (ps4). Before 1.0.4, no crashes.

Ryan
12/11/2019 03:59:06 am

Hi, I'm also having the save data corruption issue repeatedly. I really hope you can fix this ASAP as I love the game, but I can't bring myself to play it knowing my save might get wiped again.

Phil
12/11/2019 02:48:40 pm

Happened to me twice, both during the memory flip at the end of a cycle. It is killing me!

Hamish
12/18/2019 08:49:13 pm

That's when it always happens IME.

Aaron
12/14/2019 08:56:15 am

The game has crashed and corrupted my save data 7 (!) times this week. I know that sounds ridiculous and I probably should have quit sooner. Seeing as I'm now well past the point of enjoying the game anymore, I'm just going to look up what I missed.

Jack
12/14/2019 01:47:37 pm

Bought the game just 2 days ago and have had 2 crashes that corrupted my save file. Not happy, please fix.

Lia
12/15/2019 10:08:28 am

I bought my game 3 days ago. It had 2 crashes since. Save data corrupted. After 2 days of playing I lost all of it twice.. I won't play till it wil be fixed. Is it possible to know when the next patch will come out?

Phil
12/15/2019 10:09:59 am

Seems they reverted to the previous patch which fixed the problem for me!

Phil
12/17/2019 05:54:45 am

I take it back. I had a stable game for a week. Had so much... And just lost it all during the memory flip. I will just have to stop playing, despite how much I love this game. Keep us updated on whether there's a fix :/

Fool
12/15/2019 11:06:44 am

Hello I've had the game crash on me too on PS4 today with 1.0.4. I got a corrupted savefile and lost all my progress.

Colle
12/15/2019 02:20:22 pm

Sadly I ran into the same save corruption buy as others on this thread. Really digging the game, but the frustration of losing my ship logs repeatedly is not persuading me to sink major time into it before a fix is issued.

Randall
12/15/2019 03:05:12 pm

Also experiencing corruption of save file and complete loss of progress on ps4

Jeff
12/15/2019 03:31:26 pm

Have now had 2 corrupted save files on ps4. 1st was attempting to load my save the day after playing for the 1st time. 2nd time, game crashed and then the game was unable to load saved data, reporting a corrupted file. Enjoyed the time I spent with the game but will not play again until this is fixed.

Wilds Explorer
12/15/2019 11:21:52 pm

Bought the game three days ago, and my save file was just corrupted after a crash. I know progression is based on game knowledge, but it's really frustrating since I spent a lot of time diligently completing most of the ship log, area by area.

I will probably shelve the game until this bug is fixed since it seems quite common with patch 1.04. It's a shame since I was really enjoying my time with the game. Hopefully the devs will provide an ETA on a fix for this!

Eli
12/17/2019 05:46:30 am

Shoutout to Elsinore

Rich
12/17/2019 10:56:19 am

Just had my save corrupted after about 15 hours of play. Also experienced a hard crash about once every 90 minutes. The state of this game on ps4 is honestly shocking. Too bad because there is a really compelling game under all the technical issues.

Sanchises
12/21/2019 07:27:49 am

Corrupted save file with literally one place to go before the Archeologist achievement (the zero G cave of all places...).

Crash happened for me when there was a system update queued.

How hard is it to keep a backup of one or two savegames? PLEASE fix this, or at least add a temporary workaround to retrieve older saves.

Wooden
12/21/2019 04:16:21 pm

I just got a corrupted save file after playing for a few hours. The instability of the PS4 port is shockingly irresponsible and incompetent. And in a few days, there are going to be a LOT of frustrated people running into this problem who got the game as a gift. So disappointing.

Todd
12/21/2019 06:38:28 pm

I recently bought this game because it got game of the year on a gaming website and I never even heard about it. Just got the save file corruption bug after my game crashed after I burned up trying to land on Hallow's Lantern. Felt like a kick to the gut for a game like this where each discovery kind of builds to figuring out the next clue. Probably was 6-8 hours in after 3 play sessions. I don't have a lot of time to game so this was pretty painful. I'm going to ask for a refund from Sony.

Todd
12/21/2019 07:45:25 pm

Well, Sony refused to give me a refund. Their return policy states, "If you started to download or stream the purchased content you are not eligible for a refund unless the content is faulty." Well I clearly downloaded the content and I tried very hard but very unsuccessfully to convince them that the content is faulty. I was told their official policy on faulty content is, "The publisher has to release an official statement that their game is unplayable." I felt that that was quite a high bar to achieve to get a refund. I told them that the game devs have already acknowledged the bug on their blog but I guess that was not enough. I told them there was no manual save and therefore no multiple save files so when a save file is corrupted there is no way to retrieve your save file and you must start over. I tried to explain why this was a very bad thing a single player adventure game. No luck. By the way this was all said to a supervisor after I got nowhere with the customer service rep. I was told they can't help me, the policy is the policy and I need to take it up with the publisher. Like I have a direct line with the publisher. I didn't give my money to the publisher I gave it to the sony playstation store. How are they going to give me my money back? So I'm out $25 for a game I'm never going to replay because I don't want to retread all the 6-8 hours of stuff I already did.

ODB
12/22/2019 02:22:36 am

Please communicate on the crash fix (when is it coming?), this is ridiculous (like everyone else here, had the ps4 game crash and corrupt 5 times)

Carlos
12/22/2019 10:53:50 am

Hey, I understand it must be hard to fix those sort of things, but I think you guys should at least let us know you are looking to fix the crash and save issues on PS4. I am loving the game, and even if it is possible to finish it with just the previous knowledge, I want to play as intended.

potesala
12/22/2019 02:33:35 pm

See the reddit comment stream, maybe PS4 corrupted save file problem already once resolved October patch. then I thought this “Ah, this is the simple develop version management miss. Rewind last develop save point, and add the known bug fix line then solve. That’s as easy as pie. Maybe fix it a few days soon🤔”.
hmm… 20 days gone. This is a critical…deadly problem. U know? I want to say for friends in year-end party “My GOTY? It’s Outer Wilds! don’t wrong Outer world. Miner one Outer Wilds! don’t miss it!”, but NOT, CAN’T. I can’t recommend the “cyclic save data destroy game” to best friends. - Mom!? where is my cheat sheet?😩 -
I don’t know this problem come from the mobius company, subcontractor, programmer, sony market approval section... But one word DISASTER. Now you selling don’t work garbage every day at the end of the year.
If in an another place my smart phone App on like it, send to “requst expedited app review” and rewind patch immediately. What’s happened that in the planet side?

Fixit
12/23/2019 12:10:48 am

The PS4 save corruption bug makes the game unplayable. Release a public statement acknowledging this fact so I can get a refund from Sony. Stop lying to everyone.

REFUND ME NOW

REFUND ME NOW

REFUND ME NOW

REFUND ME NOW

REFUND ME NOW

Kyle O'Halloran
12/23/2019 11:04:18 pm

I just want to say THANK YOU so much for this update. I had played the game a ton and found everything when it launched on Xbox back in May and June, but I was plagued but the Gabbro bugs where the logs wouldn't update. I stuck with you guys through this and was vocal about it, but it was FIXED with this update and I was finally able to get the Archaeologist achievement after talking to Gabbro.

I then was able to start a new file and get my final achievement, for getting to that one place in one loop without dying.

So, thank you Mobius, this game is now perfected. It's absolutely stellar, and it looks and plays wonderfully on my One X.

Please Fix
12/27/2019 12:33:37 am

The game is great, but that save corruption thing really sucks.

Please fix?

potesala
12/27/2019 02:10:38 am

On PS4 Outer Wilds update history 1.03 (latest,released in 12/23~24) wrote
“Implemented a save backup system on PS4 to prevent save data corruption if the game terminated while saving”
I played last 10 hour and have reached the ending. Maybe, It's solved save data corruption problem for now. thanks.
I have recommend Outer Wilds to my friends now on😎

Heretech
12/28/2019 10:22:42 pm

I got hit with a corrupted save for the 5th fucking time today on PS4. Please fix this shit. It's ridiculous you havent figured it out yet. I love this game but having to start over every few hours is making me want to smash my TV. If it means anything I think so far it's happened every time when I run out of oxygen on the Ember twin. Please for the love of god figure this shit out.

Like seriously this is embarrassing.

PC_Master_Race
1/5/2020 05:08:34 am

Please fix the mouse issues with the game, where there's a noticeable delay between movement and on-screen feedback.

Thanks!
1/5/2020 05:10:44 pm

Sure looks exhausting being professional game devs. Wish you all the best of luck with fixing that PS4 save corruption thing. In the mean time, I just wanted to thank you all for delivering such an amazing experience. Literally made me wanna jump straight back into Unity and make something cool (although I do know games like these aren't exactly made in a week xD).

Only problem I had was with the last puzzle (watched noclip though, so I'm aware you already know about it). I feel like the text about alignment in the white hole station kind of contradicts the actual solution. But anyway, great to know you plan to update it. Regardless, this is my favourite game of 2019 by a "galacticly" long shot! Looking forward to your next mind-blowing project, when that time comes :D

ABIRAJ link
8/20/2020 05:49:12 am

Nice post.

Thanks for sharing.


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