Far Far West
Steam News 4 May 202617d ago

FFW Early Access - Hotfix 3 - Version 601

Howdy y'all! It's third hotfix time! This patch is mostly focused on the save corruption issues & crashes, this took most of our time and thus this patch is quite small :( You can expect a patch with lotta bugfixing, ba…

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3 fixes1 addition2 changes0 removals
  • Gameplay
  • Balance
  • Performance
  • UI and audio
  • Fixes
fixedIt's third hotfix time!
changedThis patch is mostly focused on the save corruption issues & crashes, this took most of our time and thus this patch is quite small :(You can expect a patch with lotta bugfixing, balance improvements and some (good) system changes during the next week!
addedIMPROVED SAVING SYSTEMMade lots of improvements on the saving system to try and prevent save corruptions The game should no longer save if the progress somehow became corrupted The game will no longer try to save while doing important operations that could crash the game, leading to a corrupted save Auto backups are no longer stored on Steam Cloud, so you can’t lose them anymore if you use Family Sharing on Steam User settings are no longer stored on Steam cloud, which mean you can now have custom user settings for Steam Deck and different user settings on PC/other computers
fixedIMPROVED SAVING SYSTEMFixed a shader crash that could happen on Far Far North
changedKNOWN ISSUESROG Ally UI not working properly
fixedKNOWN ISSUESMany more little bugs that will be fixed as soon as possible! Keep reporting issues if it’s not fixed in the new update!

Howdy y'all!

It's third hotfix time!

This patch is mostly focused on the save corruption issues & crashes, this took most of our time and thus this patch is quite small :(

You can expect a patch with lotta bugfixing, balance improvements and some (good) system changes during the next week!

STABILITY

IMPROVED SAVING SYSTEM

  • Made lots of improvements on the saving system to try and prevent save corruptions

    • The game should no longer save if the progress somehow became corrupted

    • The game will no longer try to save while doing important operations that could crash the game, leading to a corrupted save

    • Auto backups are no longer stored on Steam Cloud, so you can’t lose them anymore if you use Family Sharing on Steam

    • User settings are no longer stored on Steam cloud, which mean you can now have custom user settings for Steam Deck and different user settings on PC/other computers

  • Fixed a shader crash that could happen on Far Far North

BALANCE

JOKERS

  • Weaklink: buffed from max. 1 to max. 2

  • Run and Gun: buffed from Prime (3) to Rare (2)

QUALITY OF LIFE

  • The Gamba Machine now displays the odds

KNOWN ISSUES

  • Fatal Errors happening after multiple hours of playing the game

  • Fatal Errors on launch

  • Possible memory leak issues when playing for several hours

  • ROG Ally UI not working properly

  • Many more little bugs that will be fixed as soon as possible! Keep reporting issues if it’s not fixed in the new update!

  • Deadeye: this is not a bug, but due to many feedbacks we will be adjusting it so it’s not as oppressive

If you have Fatal Errors or are unable to launch the game, please take a look at this list of solutions.

If this list doesn’t help you, join our Discord, ask for help in #support-help and we'll get back to you asap :)

Until next time!

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