Horizon Forbidden West’s latest update includes quest and graphics fixes

Horizon Forbidden West patch 1.08 notes

Main Quests

• Fixed an issue in main quest ‘To The Brink’ where using Silent Strike on a quest-specific Bristleback would teleport the player to Chainscrape.
• Fixed an issue in main quest ‘The Dying Lands’ where Varl and Zo would sometimes idle outside of Plainsong and block progression.
• Fixed an issue in main quest ‘The Dying Lands’ where Aloy’s companions would not lead the way after restarting from a specific save.
• Fixed an issue in main quest ‘The Broken Sky’ where reloading a certain save could sometimes disable fast travel unintentionally.
• Fixed an issue in main quest ‘Cradle of Echoes’ where loading a save created on the previous patch would cause Aloy to be stuck in the Base.
• Fixed an issue in main quest ‘Thebes’ where Aloy’s breathing sounds were playing during a cinematic sequence.
• Fixed an issue in main quest ‘All That Remains’ where restarting from a certain save would cause Aloy to spawn in the Base and unable to leave.

Side Quests

• Fixed an issue in side quest ‘The Bristlebacks’ where Ulvund didn’t get the memo and stuck around in Chainscrape after the quest was completed.
• Fixed an issue in side quest ‘What Was Lost’ where Kotallo would sometimes become unresponsive when reloading from a specific save.
• Fixed an issue in side quest ‘Blood For Blood’ where Kavvoh and Arokkeh could not be interacted with in specific circumstances, blocking progression.
• Fixed an issue in side quest ‘Forbidden Legacy’ where fast traveling during the Slitherfang encounter would cause the machine to not respawn, thus blocking progression.
• Fixed an issue in side quest ‘The Roots that Bind’ where the quest objective “Go to the Drumroot” would not complete after damaging the Widemaws from a large distance.
• Fixed an issue in errand quest ‘Call And Response’ where killing the enemies before receiving the objective to do so could block progression.

World Activities

• Fixed an issue in Gauntlet Run, where passing the finish line in last place would result in a win in specific circumstances.
• Fixed several issues with specific Firegleam and Metal Flower icons not being displayed on the map.
• Fixed an issue where Firegleam icons would not be correctly removed from the map once the related activity was completed.
• Fixed an issue where fast travel would be disabled in specific circumstances when loading a save made while playing Machine Strike.

UI/UX

• Fixed an issue where the Machine Strike UI would briefly flicker at the end of a game.

Graphics

• Fixed an issue where Aloy wouldn’t appear wet anymore after being in water.
• Multiple graphics fixes and improvements in cinematics.
• Multiple visual improvements in shadows and clouds.
• Fixed an issue where Photo Mode controls would be frozen when initiating Photo Mode during a swan dive.

Performance and Stability

• Multiple crash fixes.
• Multiple performance and streaming improvements in cinematics.
• Removed multiple unintentional loading screens and black screens.
• Fixed multiple instances of streaming and visual popping.

Other

• Made several improvements to the NPCs’ movement and animations in settlements.
• Made it easier to tag individual components when using motion aiming and scanning machines.
• When picking up potions or tools that don’t fit in your toolbelt anymore they are now moved to the stash.
• Several balancing changes to weapons and enemies.
• Fixed several instances where Aloy could get stuck in geometry.
• Fixed an issue where the ‘All Machine Types Scanned’ trophy could be easily missed during the final main quest ‘Singularity’.
• Fix for the mount call sometimes causing the flying mount to be spawned in undesirable positions and in rare cases be unreachable.
• Several datapoints that are located in areas that the player could not return to are now automatically unlocked upon the player leaving that space.
• Fixed multiple instances of specific music tracks getting stuck and repeating.