Patch 1.04 out now on Xbox One & PlayStation 4!
Patch 1.04 has just been released for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 and can be downloaded worldwide. Please find the full list of changes below:
- Fixes a possible exploit by preventing certain drowners from respawning infinitely.
- Improves the distribution of experience points gained by completing quests with recommended levels lower than the player character level.
- Fixes an exploit whereby players could buy sea shells and sell the pearls inside them at a higher price.
- Deploys the Bovine Defense Force Initiative.
- Rebalances the prices of maps that can be purchased from merchants.
- Improves camera behavior when the player executes finishing blows.
- Fixes an issue where the player could loot mutagens from Nightwraith clones.
- Fixes an issue whereby interaction with Fiend decoction was incorrect when Geralt was overburdened.
- Fixes a rare issue whereby Geralt could not mount Roach after fast travelling between points.
- Introduces a number of fixes in in-game communities.
- Introduces a number of fixes related to combat.
- Fixes an issue where the player could not deflect arrows/bolts at longer distances.
- Fixes a crash that could occur on the transition to the Isle of Mists location during the quest of the same title.
- Fixes a number of issues related to horseback riding.
- Improves Geralt's movement, especially when he swims.
- Improves the smoothness of camera movement.
- The player can no longer target foes positioned on different building floors than Geralt.
- Fixes a number of issues related to Vitality regeneration.
- Fixes an issue whereby certain actions could be randomly blocked during gameplay.
- Autosaves will no longer be created when Geralt dies.
- Unequipping saddle bags now correctly affects Geralt's capacity.
- Fixes an issue whereby Geralt could be attached to a sinking boat while aiming his crossbow.
- Vitality begins to drop if Toxicity exceeds 80%, as originally intended.
- Roach no longer levitates after being summoned while Geralt is on a slope.
- Fixes a rare issue where Geralt could become invincible after executing some finishing blows.
- Introduces a number of general stability and performance improvements.
- Introduces a fix for occasional game freezes or infinite loading screens that occurred upon exiting the Main Menu.
- Improves performance in selected scenes and cutscenes.
- Adds a series of color-blind friendly features. Improves visibility of tracks, marks, footprints and scent clues. Color-blind friendly features can be enabled in the Options\Gameplay submenu.
- Ciri can no longer unlock fast travel points.
- Fixes incorrectly named female travelers in some localized versions.
- Fixes an issue where Geralt could pass through walls in the fish market in Novigrad.
- Fixes an issue where in certain situations the game could crash while a save was being loaded.
- Adds a collision near Kaer Gelen that could cause the player to be blocked inside the building.
- Improves the scale of selected elements of the GUI and HUD.
- Reward messages are no longer displayed over black screens.
- Disables "Input device changed" messages and adds options to disable on-screen combat feedback and floating tags above NPCs.
- Introduces a number of improvements in the tutorial messages for gwent.
- Introduces a number of bug fixes and user experience improvements in the GUI panels.
- Adds an information prompt and Journal entries related to new DLC packages.
- Fixes an issue where the player could not talk or otherwise interact with certain NPCs.
- The player can no longer venture beyond the game world boundaries during the Through Time and Space quest.
- Fixes an issue where some players could not make Geralt run after the Wandering in the Dark quest.
- Fixes an issue where Keira could sometimes fall beneath the terrain during the Wandering in the Dark quest.
- Fixes an issue where players could not talk to Octo after the Lord of Undvik quest.
- Reduces the number of Wild Hunt minions spawned during the Ciri's Story: Fleeing the Bog quest.
- Fixes an issue where certain actions were blocked during the Blindingly Obvious quest.
- The bookmaker at the races held at the Vegelbud Estate now spawns correctly.
- The Forefathers' Eve quest can no longer interrupt the quest titled A Favor for a Friend.
- Fixes an infinite black screen that could occur during the Now or Never quest.
- Fixes an issue whereby some witch hunters would disappear during the Now or Never quest.
- Fixes a number of errors in dialogue during the Of Dairy and Darkness quest.
- The monster in the Contract: Dragon quest now spawns correctly, and the relevant Journal entries update properly.
- Fixes an issue where player character inebriation and the related effect could become permanent when invoked during the No Place Like Home quest.
- Fixes an issue where the player could get trapped in the ruins of Tuirseach Castle.
- Geralt can now always play gwent with Madame Serenity.
- Fixes an issue where Vernon Roche would not appear at the Hanged Man's Tree during the Eye for an Eye quest.
- Fixes an issue where the player could not activate a portal during the Wandering in the Dark quest.
- Fixes an issue where the sirens in the Lord of Undvik quest could be invincible.
- Fixes an issue where the player could not perform certain actions after the Carnal Sins quest.
- Fixes an infinite loading screen that could occur during the King's Gambit quest.
- Fixes an issue where Ermion could not leave Lugos' area during the Sunstone quest.
- Fixes an issue whereby Triss could get stuck on a set of stairs after a scene during the Now or Never quest.
- Fixes an issue that prevented a character spawning for a random encounter.
- The player can now always leave the crypt during the Scavenger Hunt: Viper School Gear quest.
- Fixes an issue where Simun did not spawn properly during the Unpaid Debt quest.
- Fixes an issue where the player could experience a progression break after choosing a certain dialogue option when talking to Dijkstra in the Count Reuven's Treasure quest.
- Fixes an issue where some players could not interact with an object during the Pyres of Novigrad quest.
- Fixes an issue in the Contract: The Oxenfurt Drunk quest where the katakan was not hostile after being lured.
- Fixes an issue where certain actions were blocked during the Blindingly Obvious quest.
- Fixes an issue in the Contract: Shrieker quest where the shrieker was not hostile in certain situations.
- Fixes an issue where the player could not perform certain actions in the Master of the Arena quest.
- Fixes an issue where the player could not interact with Hattori during the Swords and Dumplings quest.
- Fixes an issue where the player could not fast travel under certain rare circumstances.
- Fixes an issue where the player could not perform certain actions after the Carnal Sins quest.
- The player can no longer take on the Apiarian Phantom contract multiple times.
- Fixes an issue where some players could not progress during the Broken Flowers quest.
- Fixes an issue whereby the "Novigrad, Closed City" entry might have remained in the Journal indefinitely.
- The player can now use the activator received from Triss during the quest titled The Battle of Kaer Morhen.
- Players can no longer prematurely obtain a key from a halfling, thus blocking the Contract: The Apiarian Phantom quest.
- Fixes an issue in the Return to Crookback Bog quest where monsters were spawned inside a building.
- Fixes an issue in the Greedy God quest where the player could kill a monster twice.
- Adds fail-safes for players being unable to obtain gwent cards after Dijkstra or Lambert can no longer be found in the game.
- Fixes an issue where Vernon Roche failed to proceed to Oxenfurt Bridge after a scene during the Get Junior quest.
- Fixes an issue where Geralt could not interact with a torch in the Get Junior quest.
