The development team of the game Hogwarts Legacy has released a new update that addresses improvements to the overall gameplay experience and stability. The update includes various bug fixes in areas such as gameplay, missions, cinematics, avatar, achievements/trophies, and user interface.
In gameplay and missions, issues such as mission progression failure when initiating the final battle with Guardian Pensieve HL-12745 and the inability to complete the Percival Rackham's Trial HL-12745 have been resolved. In cinematics, the problem of the avatar using a generic NPC wand instead of their unique wand HL-11594 has been fixed.
In the Character section, the issue of unnatural movement of the avatar's cape while drinking the potion if it is crafted immediately after making a manual save in another character slot has been resolved. In achievements/trophies, problems such as large gold chests being lootable after applying the patch and achievements not functioning properly when there was no internet available have been fixed.
The key changes in this Hogwarts Legacy game update include improvements to the overall gameplay experience and stability, with various bug fixes in areas such as gameplay, missions, cinematics, avatar, achievements/trophies, and user interface. Some examples of fixes include resolving issues with mission progression and the inability to complete certain missions, addressing problems with the avatar using a generic wand instead of their unique wand, and fixing issues with achievements/trophies not functioning properly. Performance improvements and enhancements to the user interface have also been made.
Bug Fixes
Gameplay
Missions
- Resolved quest failing to progress upon starting the final battle
with the Pensieve Guardian HL-12745 - Resolved Percival Rackham's Trial not being able to be completed
causing a progression blocker HL-12745
Cinematics
- Resolved avatar using a generic NPC wand instead of their unique
wand HL-11594
Avatar
- Resolved the avatar's robe moving unnaturally while drinking the
potion if they are created immediately after making a manual save
on another character's slot
Achievements/Trophies
- Resolved large gold chests being lootable after patching
- Resolved achievements not working correctly when no internet
was available - Resolved Gregory and Goblet of fire field guide pages not showing
complete after latest patch HL-12917 - Resolved with Daedelian Key and not being able to open chest to
get house reward HL-12673 - Resolved "Allow "Known" Collection items to count correctly
towards proper achievements
UI
- Updated localization overlapping issues related to location names
- Resolved quest tracking icon remaining on map and minimap after the
quest is completed - Resolved intro outfit and robe being available in your gear appearances by
default HL-4880 - Resolved untracking missions in-game, in the map and/or mini-map not
updating their icons and/or disappearing - Resolved the user getting stuck on the 'Field Guide' screen if they spam
the [MENU] button while transitioning to the 'Map' screen
Save Game
- Resolved restarting from a manual save can place Sir Nicholas at the
mission's starting point - Resolved player being able to permanently lock themselves out of the
conversation with Natsai when using a manual save during a mission HL-12659 - Resolved avatar being able to unlock the talent menu during a mission
after reloading a manual save - Resolved reloading an autosave after gathering any collection chest
allows the avatar to obtain the same chest rewards again
Performance
- Resolved a crash when fast traveling to Hogsmeade using floo flames
- Optimization to overall lighting
- Resolved crash during level and mission transitions/loading
- Resolved a crash when opening and closing pause menu during missions
- Resolved crash related to foliage
- Resolved a crash when ornate chests in the game
- Resolved a crash related to in game beacons
- Resolved memory optimization
- Resolved single frame hitching throughout the game
- Resolved localization crash when dictionaries are reloaded from a save
game - Resolved landscape streaming issues during Hogwarts
- Resolved crash VRAM memory leaking HL-313
- Update to latest NVIDIA Streamline SDK
Miscellaneous
- Resolved improper shadowing around the vines of dungeons
- Update to game credits