Outlast 2 Update Fixes Game Balance When Playing on Normal Difficulty
Outlast 2 came out at the end of last month and some players have complained about the balance regarding the game’s difficulty levels. Earlier today Red Barrels released a patch on the PC today to fix this problem, along with a few others!
Outlast 2 developer Red Barrels has released a patch for the PC today, and among the changes is a “global rebalancing of the game difficulty.” While there were no specifics given about what exactly was changed, they stated, “Today’s patch introduces some minor adjustments to the game’s difficulty in key areas and moments. On Normal difficulty this will offer players a more appropriately balanced experience while still maintaining higher levels of challenge on Hard and Nightmare difficulties.”
Besides these changes and rebalanced to the difficulties, the new update focuses on resolving other small issues and bugs within the game. Although this patch is for PC players only, the update will be coming to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One “soon”. Check out the full list of patch notes below.
Outlast 2 Patch Notes
- Global rebalancing of the game difficulty.
- Microphone no longer uses extra batteries.
- Increased the size of subtitles.
- Fixed an issue on Intel HD 4000 cards where most dynamic lights were missing.
- Fixed an issue where flickering black squares appear in the center of the screen at some specific resolutions.
- Fixed an issue with alternate controller mappings and the camcorder UI.
- Fixed an issue with double doors where one of them is locked.
- Fixed an issue causing lost save games when Steam somehow fails to initialize.
- Fixed some heretic sound effects.
- Fixed multiple minor gameplay issues (collisions, crawling, tutorials, etc.)
- Fixed multiple rare crashes.
- Added a “-refreshrate 60” command-line parameter to specify a preferred refresh rate (replace 60 by the desired refresh rate).
- Added a “-notexturelimit” command-line parameter to remove texture size limits based on VRAM amount.
- Added a “-borderless” command-line parameter to use borderless fullscreen and not have to edit INI files.