Eurogamer berichtet, dass heute der dicke Januar-Patch für Assassin’s Creed Origins erscheint. Er bereitet das Action-Adventure auf den “The Hidden Ones”-DLC vor, indem neue Quests und Regionen ergänzt werden und führt viele Optimierungen durch. Der Patch ist drei GB groß und die kompletten englischen Patchnotes lesen sich folgendermaßen:

Patch Highlights

• Added support for the upcoming “The Hidden Ones” expansion
• Added “Incoming Threat” quest to the game
• Updated item loot pool of the Heka Chest (more details in the “New Features” section)

New Features

• Added a new quest to the world: “Incoming Threat”
• Added the Atlas view on the World Map displaying the Sinai and the Valley of Kings regions
• Added support for the “The Hidden Ones” expansion
• Added the possibility to sell-back outfits to the Weaver shops
• Added all the latest Store items from the Nightmare, First Civilization, Gladiator, Wacky, and Almighty packs to the Heka Chest
• Added the option to toggle the visibility of inventory items on the Gear menu

Quest

• Improved various cinematic transitions
• Increased the resistance of Khaliset to the Overpower Ultra ability
• Corrected the visual size of Isfet’s weapon in the quest “Lady of Slaughter” to match its collision box
• Prevented Tahirah from following the playable character after a certain distance in the quest “Reunion”
• Fixed various issues that might occur when skipping cinematics
• Fixed an issue causing the stash in the quest “The Mousetrap” to float
• Fixed an issue preventing the player from completing the quest “The Healer”
• Fixed various situations causing Jumbe, the War Elephant, to reset in the middle of combat
• Fixed an issue preventing the playable character from climbing and fighting while in the quest “The Final Weighing”
• Fixed an issue allowing Thutmose to lose his felucca in the quest “Blood in the Water”
• Fixed the delay before the Quest Completed trigger when completing the quest “A Tithe By Any Other Name”

Activities

• Reduce the difficulty of Hippodrome races
• Fixed an issue preventing enemies from being able to be pushed into the pit of the Duelist II Arena encounter
• Fixed an issue where players were ranked incorrectly after completing a Hippodrome race

Gameplay

• Improved the behavior of tamed animals
• Fixed various issues on how fire was applying damage to the playable character and NPCs
• Fixed an issue with the spawning of the playable character in the Haueris Nome
• Fixed an issue that could cause a desynchronization when controlling Senu from a hiding location
• Fixed the damage bonus applied by Master abilities, which was lower than designed
• Fixed an issue that could prevent the Chain Attack ability to work
• Fixed an issue that could prevent the Adrenaline ability to be triggered
• Fixed the Overpower Chain Throw ability that was awarding Assassinate bonus XP
• Fixed an issue allowing the inactive weapon to cause damage
• Fixed an issue with the distance counter not updating correctly when NPC is outside of the field of view
• Fixed various situation where the playable character could remain stuck
• Fixed various issues with the animations of the playable character
• Fixed various issues with the spawning, the reactions, and the animations of NPCs

User Interface

• Added the leaderboard to the Horde Mode menu panel
• Fixed an issue with the Target Menu not properly showing The Scarab after reloading the save game
• Fixed various issues with the World Map filters
• Fixed an issue making arrow disappear from its quiver in the gear page when using the customization options
• Fixed an overlapping issue with Custom Markers when playing in Traditional Chinese
• Fixed an issue where the “Bathhouse Towel” outfit would appear as new every time the playable character exits the bathhouse
• Fixed a mistranslation on a Papyrus puzzle when playing in Russian
• Fixed an issue with the distance counter not updating correctly when NPCs are outside of the field of view
• Fixed some discrepancies in the Quest Log
• Fixed various typos
• [Xbox One X] Fixed the user associated with the “Best Score” in the Arena leaderboard after having switched profile in the main menu
• [PC] Added a message telling players to restart their game after acquiring new downloadable contents
• [PC] Added the ‘Hide Icons’ action to the Eagle section of the Customize Controls option menu
• [PC] Fixed the Fast Travel action in the World Map

World

• Fixed the models of the Level 10 gears (bracers visual known issue)
• Fixed an issue with Weaver shops selling the same outfit more than once
• Fixed an issue with cages that could open by themselves when they had a prisoner
• Fixed several areas where the playable character could go through collisions

Graphics & Audio

• Balanced the audio volume level in different areas
• Fixed an issue when the playable character could continue to talk after dying
• Fixed various visual issues that could occur when transitioning from indoor to outdoor
• Fixed an issue with the intensity of the red when in HDR

System

• Improve overall stability of the game application
• Fixed various infinite loadings and black screen hangs
• [PC] Fixed game freeze after minimizing all tabs in Windows 7
• [PC] Improved Performance Metrics graphs functionality