Alan Wake 2: New Game Plus Is An Excuse To Play This Work Of Art Again
Alan Wake 2, Remedy’s survival horror sequel, came out in late October, but if you’re already longing for another trip through the spiral, I have good news: “The Final Draft” update has arrived, and with it a new game plus mode and new story content. Not convinced? Then just watch this trailer and try not to lose your mind at the 30-second mark.
Yep, you know who that is on the TV…
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New ending
New Nightmare difficulty level
New Manuscript pages and video content
As you’d expect from a New Game Plus mode, you’ll keep everything you unlocked in your initial playthrough, including videos, charms, and upgrades. You will get all of your unlocked weapons after finding the first shoebox in the game (this game’s version of Resident Evil’s Item Boxes). Of course to access the new content, you’ll have to have played through Alan Wake 2 at least once.
Alan Wake 2 update also includes some performance fixes
Remedy Entertainment has also done some technical work to get Alan Wake 2 running a bit better (the game notoriously has very high PC spec requirements and makes use of some cutting-edge graphical tech).
The update promises performance improvements across the board, but PS5’s “quality mode” gets a shoutout in the patch notes, as it has some of the biggest improvements. If you’re on team green, though, don’t worry: The patch notes promise an improvement to texture streaming that was particularly a pain on the Xbox Series consoles.
There’s a laundry list of other improvements and some are rather specific, like shadow quality in the Valhalla Nursing home to help (and yes the patch notes specifically say this) “respect the elderly even more.” If you’re in real estate, rest assured that “broken materials on the garage building in downtown Bright Falls” have been fixed, “raising property value.”
I’m curious to see how these updates improve the experience on PC where, for me anyway, it was certainly playable and enjoyable, but suffered from regular framerate drops. I was hoping to wait until I upgrade my computer to replay this gem of a game, but I guess I’m just gonna get sucked back into that damn lake once more.
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