Horizon Forbidden West Patch 1.08 Is Now Live

Guerrilla Games has released yet another update for Horizon Forbidden West, with patch 1.08 placing a major focus on continuously reported issues from players.

As usual, the developer shared the patch notes on Reddit and started out by prefacing the already known issues that the team is still looking into. These include graphical issues regarding shimmering, sharpening, and screen saturation; fast travel bugs, and a problem receiving the reward for completing the Black Box Collectibles activity.

For fixes and improvements, the long list addresses everything from main quests and side quests, world activities, performance and stability, and other miscellaneous problems. Most notably, it looks like Guerrilla has fixed the multiple crash issues that were plaguing players' games, as well as performed some maintenance on the in-game cinematics, unintentional loading screens--which were mentioned to be in progress in patch 1.07--and visual popping.

An assortment of graphical bugs have also been addressed, including an issue where Aloy's attire wouldn't appear wet anymore after being in water and an issue where Photo mode controls would freeze after initiating a swan dive. The previously known issue of the NPC movement animation bug in settlements has finally been fixed, with the developer also introducing some balancing changes to weapons and enemies. The full list of patch notes can be found below:

Horizon Forbidden West update 1.08 patch notes

Main Quests

• Fixed an issue in ‘To The Brink’ where using Silent Strike on a quest-specific Bristleback would teleport the player to Chainscrape.
• Fixed an issue in ‘The Dying Lands’ where Varl and Zo would sometimes idle outside of Plainsong and block progression.
• Fixed an issue in ‘The Dying Lands’ where Aloy’s companions would not lead the way after restarting from a specific save.
• Fixed an issue in ‘The Broken Sky’ where reloading a certain save could sometimes disable fast travel unintentionally.
• Fixed an issue in ‘Cradle of Echoes’ where loading a save created on the previous patch would cause Aloy to be stuck in the Base.
• Fixed an issue in ‘Thebes’ where Aloy’s breathing sounds were playing during a cinematic sequence.
• Fixed an issue in ‘All That Remains’ where restarting from a certain save would cause Aloy to spawn in the Base and unable to leave.

Side Quests

• Fixed an issue in ‘The Bristlebacks’ where Ulvund didn’t get the memo and stuck around in Chainscrape after the quest was completed.
• Fixed an issue in ‘What Was Lost’ where Kotallo would sometimes become unresponsive when reloading from a specific save.
• Fixed an issue in ‘Blood For Blood’ where Kavvoh and Arokkeh could not be interacted with in specific circumstances, blocking progression.
• Fixed an issue in ‘Forbidden Legacy’ where fast traveling during the Slitherfang encounter would cause the machine to not respawn, thus blocking progression.
• Fixed an issue in ‘The Roots that Bind’ where the quest objective "Go to the Drumroot" would not complete after damaging the Widemaws from a large distance.
• Fixed an issue in errand quest ‘Call And Response’ where killing the enemies before receiving the objective to do so could block progression.

World Activities

• Fixed an issue in Gauntlet Run, where passing the finish line in last place would result in a win in specific circumstances.
• Fixed several issues with specific Firegleam and Metal Flower icons not being displayed on the map.
• Fixed an issue where Firegleam icons would not be correctly removed from the map once the related activity was completed.
• Fixed an issue where fast travel would be disabled in specific circumstances when loading a save made while playing Machine Strike.

UI/UX

• Fixed an issue where the Machine Strike UI would briefly flicker at the end of a game.

Graphics

• Fixed an issue where Aloy wouldn’t appear wet anymore after being in water.
• Multiple graphics fixes and improvements in cinematics.
• Multiple visual improvements in shadows and clouds.
• Fixed an issue where Photo Mode controls would be frozen when initiating Photo Mode during a swan dive.

Performance and Stability

• Multiple crash fixes.
• Multiple performance and streaming improvements in cinematics.
• Removed multiple unintentional loading screens and black screens.
• Fixed multiple instances of streaming and visual popping.

Other

• Made several improvements to the NPCs’ movement and animations in settlements.
• Made it easier to tag individual components when using motion aiming and scanning machines.
• When picking up potions or tools that don't fit in your toolbelt anymore they are now moved to the stash.
• Several balancing changes to weapons and enemies.
• Fixed several instances where Aloy could get stuck in geometry.
• Fixed an issue where the ‘All Machine Types Scanned’ trophy could be easily missed during the final main quest ‘Singularity’.
• Fix for the mount call sometimes causing the flying mount to be spawned in undesirable positions and in rare cases be unreachable.
• Several datapoints that are located in areas that the player could not return to are now automatically unlocked upon the player leaving that space.
• Fixed multiple instances of specific music tracks getting stuck and repeating.