Alan Wake 2 update 1.0.13 patch notes add New Game Plus

Published December 11, 2023 1:15 PM, by Sam Chandler

Alan Wake 2 has received another update in the form of 1.0.13. The patch notes for this update highlight the addition of New Game Plus as well as a few other fixes, including performance adjustments and more. Take a look at the patch notes below.

Alan Wake 2 update 1.0.13

Remedy Entertainment released the Alan Wake 2 update 1.0.13 patch notes on December 11, 2023 via the Alan Wake site. This update is labelled as 1.00.13 on PlayStation 5 and 1.0.0.13 on Xbox Series of consoles.

New Game Plus mode

• New ending
• New Nightmare difficulty level
• New Manuscript pages and video content
• Retain all unlocked videos, Charms and upgrades
• NOTE: To access the New Game Plus mode, a completed playthrough of Alan Wake 2 is required. In New Game Plus, you will find the unlocked weapons in the first available shoebox for the character.

Performance

• Improved overall quality of the occlusion culling algorithm, improving GPU performance especially on locations with a lot of geometry.
• The performance upgrade is most visible in the PlayStation 5 Quality mode, where (incredibly) there are up to 1.8ms improvements. Cauldron Lake should be coughing less.
• Optimized HUD UI content setup so rendering the HUD takes less time. This brings between ~0.5-0.7ms improvements to performance.
• A few selected tweaks and optimizations for path tracing and rendering.
• Improved streaming by removing occasional 10 – 100ms stalls that mostly affected Xbox Series platforms.
• Reduced memory usage by 16 MB on all platforms.
• [PC] Slightly improved performance on by removing some error diagnostics instrumentation.

Tutorials

• Changed when some Tutorials appear in the Tutorials menu.
• Added a timeout to the Tutorial about Fadeouts.
• Players can now slow down to walking speed while a Tutorial is open.
• Tutorial messages are not slowing down player movement speed anymore.
• If tutorials are disabled, the player won’t be locked in the diorama when the first investigation clue gathering tutorial would take place…

Stability

• Fixed several infuriating Lua script errors that made the game more stable and less unpredictable.
• Fixed a hang on Xbox that could occur when attempting to suspend the application during launch.
• Fixed audio middleware crash on Xbox Series platforms.
• Fixed a rare crash that could happen during streaming.

Visuals

• Somewhat reduced specular aliasing (“shimmering”) on shiny surfaces with a new algorithm.
• Improved Trailer Park cinematic lighting.
• Improved shadow quality inside the Valhalla Nursing Home to respect the elderly even more.
• Flashlight shadows are now prioritized to avoid a blocky look in locations featuring heavy dynamic lights usage.
• Fixed (or ruined, depending on your view) the “chameleon chair” visible in front of the sauna. It’s not changing color anymore
• Fixed LODs on the hotdog stand.
• Fixed a variety of broken or ugly LODs.
• Fixed incorrect rendering culling mode on leaf and coffee pot materials to prevent path tracing issues.
• Fixed broken materials on the garage building in downtown Bright Falls raising property value.
• [PC] Improved quality for low ray-tracing preset, fixing flickering fireflies on character’s faces during cinematics.

Audio & localization

• Improved overall audio quality on PlayStation 5.
• Fixed lip sync being off during the cinematic where Saga and Casey arrive at Cauldron Lake.
• Localization fixes for agent Estevez audio lines.
• Additional fixes for localized subtitles.
• We are still working on the audio sync being off for some players on Xbox Series and expect to address this in our next update.

Global

• Fixed an issue with Koskela Brothers Coffee World ad that prevented some players from unlocking the related trophy.
• Father Doll should now be easier to find on the map so that players can complete the last Nursery Rhyme.
• Fixed an issue where the player could be blocked by medical balls by resetting the Wellness Centre props when the mission Return 09 starts.
• Fixed an issue where skipping a cinematic during Deerfest would bring forth premature darkness by fading the screen to black.
• Added heavy duty blockers to stop the player potentially falling out of the world in Return 05 near the Nursing Home.
• Removed the force camera look-at of the Dark Substance at the Witch’s Ladle if the player walks away.
• Disabled the Reality Switch VFX bleeding in the lodge in Return 04.
• Fixed a mysterious blocky shadow in the Sheriff’s station staircase.
• Added a loading screen if skipping a cinematic in Initiation 02 so that lighting can take its time to load correctly.
• Fixed pesky FBC light arrays in Return 06 and 09 to restore their state after loading a save game, and to show the correct visuals when powered on/off.
• Fixed an issue of not being able to pick up some items from red toolboxes after loading into a saved game.
• Fixed a rude manuscript page that was visible but not interactive in Valhalla Home forest shack.
• Fixed an issue where an invisible collision was active near the Bright Falls Sheriff’s Station, making a section of a nearby street narrower than intended.
• Fixed an issue where manuscript pages would stay blank after switching levels when a single page was available in the Mind Place.
• Fixed English being sometimes unselectable in the language drop-down menu after changing language.
• Found manuscript pages should not show up on the map anymore.
• Added UI prompt for items that can be placed from hand to the Case Board.
• Fixed an issue where Saga was misplaced on the ladder after being attacked by the Taken in the Overlap.
• Made ladder interaction icons better positioned.
• Disabled crossbow magnet for dead enemies.
• Fixed missing subtitles in cinematics.
• The player’s inventory now closes when an enemy grapples the player.
• Allow enemies to recover from grapple quick escape when stun ends.
• Changed the orientation of the hint on top of the Bright Falls Sheriff Station Cult Stash so that it its more readable.
• Fixed an issue where the player couldn’t wield a weapon after being interrupted by being hit in the boss fight at the end of Return 03.
• Fixed an issue where in some cases Estevez would not talk to Saga after coming back from the morgue (optional dialogue).
• Added a new goal in Initiation 08 after entering the crime scene so that players are not left without objective in the Dark Place.
• Fixed an issue where Alan could reload his weapon while simultaneously doing a Light Shift. Seems like a thing he should be able to do, but anyway.
• Fixed an issue where Saga could reload invisible weapons even though she was socially bound to not wield weapons in certain areas (kertaus on opintojen äiti).
• Fixed an issue where Saga was able to reload the flashlight and other weapons simultaneously causing the unholstered weapon to disappear and reappear after flashlight reload was completed.
• [PC] Added drag and drop support for moving items in the Inventory and Shoebox.
• [PC] Added a mouse smoothing option (defaulted to on) to prioritize mouse and camera. Movement smoothness over accuracy.
• [PC] Fixed an issue with the mouse that resulted in jittery camera movements if not playing in 30fps.

Those are your patch notes for Alan Wake 2 update 1.0.13. Make sure your platform downloads the update and then dive in and enjoy New Game Plus. Swing by our Alan Wake 2 page for more information about Remedy Entertainment’s stellar sequel.