The folks at Santa Monica Studios “encourage you to download this patch to ensure you have the best possible experience when you play”, and we’d agree. Not so many as to ruin the experience, mind, but certainly more than we’ve come to expect from a first-party Sony title. In his time writing his God of War Ragnarok review, Adam said he encountered a few visual glitches and immersion-breaking bugs that spoilt the moment. It should improve overall performance, as well, ironing out framerate drops and cinematic crashes, which is welcome. Cases of NPCs disappearing, loot falling into inaccessible areas and boss fights not spawning are bad enough to make anyone leave the Nine Realms in a huff. Most of the bugs sound pretty minor and could be fixed with a restart, but there are a couple of more egregious issues among them.

A couple of PS5 and PS4-specific bugs are also addressed, including the DuelSense’s haptics tuning. Over 150 bug fixes are included in the update, touching on just about every aspect of the game – quests, combat, dialogue, UI, audio, accessibility, equipment, and more. If you’re hopping into Kratos and Atreus’ next Norse adventure, make sure you download God of War Ragnarok’s day-one patch before you begin. 🙏 It should fix some of the problems we ran into during our time playing 👍 Developer Santa Monic Studios encourages everyone to download it 🤠 Everything from combat, to dialogue, to the UI has been tweaked 😲 God of War’s day one patch contains over 150 bug fixes

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