Guerilla Games has announced that a new patch is on the way for Horizon Zero Dawn on PC following a raft of technical issues that have plagued the game since it launched in early August. The PC port of the former PlayStation 4 exclusive was highly anticipated due to the extra features and improvements included in the title. However, it has been met with a mixed reception from fans.
With Horizon Forbidden West still some time away, the complete edition of Horizon Zero Dawn on PC was a great way for players to jump back into the action role-playing game. But the title suffered from a variety of technical problems and players quickly began to point these out on online forums and Steam. In fact, a barrage of negative review quickly appeared on the title’s Steam page, showing just how widespread the issues were.
In a Tweet earlier today, Guerrilla Games has confirmed the release of a new patch for the PC edition of Horizon Zero Dawn. The developer announced that Patch 1.01 is now available to players, which is set to address a number of issues that have affected the game since its launch last week. According to the studio, this is just a small initial update while the team works to solve more of the problems. Some of the fixes in the patch include preventing certain startup crashes, allowing players to save progress more consistently, and solving corrupted graphical issues. Guerilla Games has also added better diagnostic data collection so that the developer can better gather information and understand what is causing the technical issues.
Following backlash from players who had bought the PC edition of Horizon Zero Dawn, Guerilla Games released a statement acknowledging the widespread issues. The studio also promised that its team was working hard to fix the technical problems, saying that patching the game was the developer’s top priority. The quick response was welcomed by fans, who had shown their dissatisfaction with the state of Horizon Zero Dawn on PC.
The fact that Guerilla Games has responded so quickly to the launch issues affecting Horizon Zero Dawn is reassuring. This was one of the only PlayStation 4 first-party exclusive games to come to PC and might be seen as an experiment by Sony that could lead to even more games coming to the platform if it went well. The negative reaction would certainly have caused friction between the developer and publisher, especially when both companies will not want any bad press in the run-up to the launch of the PlayStation 5 and the upcoming sequel Horizon Forbidden West. Fans can only hope that this patch along with future updates will quickly solve the technical issues.
