Bear in mind Saints Row? The wacky open world reboot launched on the finish of August to a lukewarm response. This month, developer Volition has an enormous patch prepared to deal with lots of of points.
That is the sport’s first main replace which Volition beforehand mentioned could be used to prioritise fixes and enhancements over new content material. Final month, the studio mentioned it had chosen to spend time bringing the prevailing recreation as much as scratch – though it could have “most popular to be speaking about roadmaps and expansions”.
“Vital effort and testing” has gone into fixing the sport’s co-op, Volition mentioned at this time. Connectivity, map points and rewards ought to all work extra easily post-patch.
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The sport’s world will host extra pedestrians, police, extra roaming Saints. There have been tweaks to make collectibles less complicated to seek out and extra precisely tracked. Escaping notoriety ranges has additionally been made simpler.
Elsewhere throughout Santo Ileso, automobile administration has been improved with seven extra garages throughout town and further cupboard space for your automobiles.
Different enhancements embody a voice pitch slider, and a repair to assist for PS5 DualSense haptic triggers. Full patch notes will likely be launched alongside the replace later this month.
“Volition’s new Saints Row will not set the world alight, however there is a punchy recreation right here with some nice surprises,” Vikki Blake wrote in Eurogamer’s Saints Row overview, dubbing it a “snappy however barely uneven reboot”.