Since March 2024, Horizon Forbidden West is no longer entirely exclusive to the PS5. In fact, the Guerrilla title is now available on PC, where it has just received a new patch.
Launching a new license is always a gamble, especially when it takes a 180° turn compared to its previous productions. However, it is a bet that Guerrilla Games. After a decade of Killzone, PlayStation Studio abandoned the FPS to launch into the action-adventure RPG with Horizon Zero Dawn in 2017, transforming the trial into 2022 with Horizon Forbidden West.
Sony Interactive Entertainment having started porting its exclusives to PC for several years, the license is also entitled to its entry on Steam. Since March 21, PC players have finally discovered the continuation of Aloy’s adventures, including via the DLC Burning Shores.
However, Horizon Forbidden West is very resource intensive. It therefore requires a solid configuration to run it. If the machine follows, the gamble is worth it as it shines with its beauty. However, a title of such magnitude sometimes stumbles over a few persistent bugs. But Guerrilla reacts!
Welcome fixes for Horizon Forbidden West
After a difficult start at the time on PC for Horizon Zero Dawn, Guerrilla Games and Nixxes Softwarein charge of porting, ensure that Forbidden West is optimal on your machines.
With its latest patch, the game should More comfortable. From now on, it will suffer fewer display bugs, particularly in terms of UI and framerate. The developers have also thought of several optimizations for keyboard-mouse gameplay.
Finally, processor owners AMD Radeon RX 6000 can rejoice! Bad optimization regularly led to image corruption when opening the map. From now on, they should no longer encounter this very annoying problem.
Details of patch 1.2.48.0
The latest patch released by Guerrilla resolves some minor issues. Check out the details shared in the patch note:
- Improved stability.
- Optimizations to address slowdowns that could occur in certain locations.
- Fixed an issue that could cause level and XP bars to display incorrectly.
- Fixed a visual corruption that could occur on the card for AMD Radeon RX 6000 GPU users.
- Opening the cocking wheel now places the mouse pointer in the center of the wheel.
- When clearing a key assignment, it no longer resets to the default key after restarting the game.
- Skills are no longer automatically learned when displaying information when the toggle option is enabled in the lock menu.
- Various UI bug fixes.