Rockstar has issued a shock title replace for Purple Useless Redemption 2 — its first for almost two years — which makes numerous enhancements and fixes for the sport, but it surely doesn’t add the replace the group desperately desires.
Purple Useless Redemption 2 Title Replace 1.32, out now for the sport throughout PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, consists of enhancements for FSR (now up to date to FSR 2.2), assist for HDR10, and a repair for an notorious Purple Useless On-line glitch that precipitated the sport to freeze when getting into stables.
Nonetheless, the title replace doesn’t add 60 frames per second to Purple Useless Redemption 2 on consoles, maybe the most-wanted replace in all of video video games.
In September, the explosive FTC vs Xbox leak despatched shockwaves all through the Purple Useless Redemption group after a Purple Useless Redemption 2 next-gen replace was discovered listed by a Microsoft govt in a planning e-mail.
In an e-mail chain between Microsoft executives dated Might 2022 is a listing of third-party video games earmarked as potential day-and-date Recreation Move titles. One of many video games talked about is Purple Useless Redemption 2 “D&D for gen9”, which Microsoft anticipated to come back out throughout the second quarter of its 2023 monetary yr (October to December 2022).
“Gen9” refers back to the ninth technology of consoles, aka the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X and S. Rockstar has but to announce a next-gen replace for Purple Useless Redemption 2, regardless of the numerous calls from followers.
Then, in October, Rockstar quietly patched its Purple Useless Redemption port so as to add a 60 frames per second toggle to the sport on PlayStation 5 by way of backwards compatibility, which made Rockstar’s 2010 open-world western was formally playable at 60fps for the primary time.
Purple Useless Redemption 2 launched in 2018 on PS4 and Xbox One and in 2019 on PC, and is taken into account by some to be Rockstar’s biggest sport. Followers have criticized Rockstar for a scarcity of significant updates in favor of assist for GTA On-line, however Purple Useless Redemption 2 stays massively fashionable, promoting over 61 million copies to this point.
Purple Useless Redemption 2 Title Replace 1.32 patch notes:
Normal Stability Fixes and Enhancements
- Purple Useless On-line Normal Fixes
- Fastened a difficulty that resulted in Naturalist samples not being counted towards Day by day Challenges
- Fastened a difficulty in Useless of Night time that resulted in Night time Stalkers having the ability to accumulate the Night time Stalker masks
- Fastened a difficulty that resulted in ambient autos not showing in sure content material
- Fastened a difficulty that resulted in Free Roam Missions not launching
- Improved a difficulty that resulted in gamers turning into caught when getting into the stables
- Improved a difficulty that resulted in gamers being unable to summon horses and wagons
- Voice Chat now defaults to Off
Recreation Stability and Efficiency
- Fastened numerous points that might lead to a crash
Recreation Stability and Efficiency (PC)
- Fastened numerous points that will outcome within the sport crashing or failing to launch
- Fastened a difficulty that resulted in Offline Mode not working as a result of Home windows 11 updates
- Fastened a difficulty that resulted in crashes after reporting different gamers
- Fastened points that resulted in Offline Mode not working accurately
- Added assist for HDR10+ GAMING, this can routinely set sport graphics in HDR for HDR10+ GAMING shows on appropriate graphics playing cards and displays related by way of HDMI
- Up to date AMD Constancy Tremendous Decision (FSR) libraries to model 2.2
- Fastened a difficulty that resulted in 3200×2400 decision being unavailable
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