Horizon Zero Dawn was pretty buggy when it came out on PC last year. It was a shame considering it was the first bug exclusive to PlayStation to make the jump to the PC. But Guerrilla Games has been steadily updating it to fix all kinds of issues, and yesterday the game received its 1.10 patch, with a few more crash fixes and performance improvements.
Specifically, this patch marks the beginning of Guerrilla slowing down their HZD updates so they can shift focus to the game’s sequel, Horizon Forbidden West.
“As our team continues to develop our upcoming Horizon Forbidden West title, after this patch we will switch to less frequent updates to Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition for PC. Keep in mind that we will continue to monitor our common areas as always! ” they said.
“We would like to thank you all for your continued support and for submitting your crash reports over the past months. The information we received through your reports has been invaluable to further investigate and fix some of the trickier issues we fixed in Patch 1.10. “
Strangely enough, these quotes are actually no longer on Guerrilla’s website. They were there when the post went live yesterday, but now appear to have been removed. It’s a wonder why – it doesn’t look like it contains particularly sensitive information. It seems a pretty logical assumption that the Horizon team would be working more on the game’s sequel now, and I can’t think of any reason why they should lose their “thank you” to the community.
I have contacted Guerrilla Games to ask why they took those pieces out but I have not received a response yet.
Horizon Forbidden West was announced last June and is expected to be released sometime this year. It is currently unclear whether it will launch on PC; at the moment it looks like it’s going to be a PlayStation scloosie.
Despite its many bugs (like the hilarious one that lead character Aloy accidentally made a little kid forever), Nate still thought the game was brilliant in his Horizon Zero Dawn review, saying, “It’s one of the most immersive, beautiful open-world adventures ever made.”
If you’re interested, here are the full patch notes for Horizon Zero Dawn 1.10 update:
Crash fixes
- Crash fix for when players have continuously pressed Windows key
- Crash fix for when you press the ESC button on the LMB in the Benchmark results
Performance improvements
- Fixed an issue that saved up to 250MB of VRAM on all AMD GPUs
Graphics improvements
- Fix for negative values in cubemap relighting shader (e.g. fixes the red graphical glitches in the Hades battle when you let the timer run out)
- Fixed the name of the preset graphics settings name that was not updated when you pressed Auto-Detect
- Fix for menu (and loading screen) being incorrectly scaled when changing AF in borderless mode
- Solution for sometimes too low resolution in window mode
- Fix for overlapping command list for command list with tutorial command list
Other changes
- Graphics settings are now stored in a text file instead of a binary file for easier tweaking