MindsEye: Launch Patch Notes

This update brings a wide range of performance improvements and bug fixes, along with enhancements to controls, AI, UI, and audio for a smoother, more polished experience.

Available now on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.

Download sizes:

• PC: ~16 GB

• PlayStation 5: ~8 GB

• Xbox Series X|S: ~16 GB

Improvements

Performance

• Drastically improved performance across the game.

• Fixed critical framerate drops.

• Improved baseline framerate.

Graphics

• Improved civilian LOD.

• Improved material resolution.

• Improved distance building light and glass flickering.

• Improved Open World Free Roam playable character.

3C (Character, Controls, Camera)

Weapon Handling

• Player now raises their gun when aiming near walls.

• Added additional animations for Sgian Dubh handling.

• Player no longer plays the holstering animation when switching weapons.

• Improved animations and setup for firing from turrets.

• Improved finger posing for PST cover animations.

• Improved weapon/reticule alignment.

• Slowed gun-up poses when aiming at a companion.

Traversal

• Removed RIF glitchiness when vaulting.

• Improved responsiveness of direction changes after vaulting.

Cover System

o Updated cover-to-cover transition animations.

o Improved responsiveness of sprint cover exit.

o Enhanced shoulder switching when exiting cover.

o Implemented more consistent cover generation.

o Improved turning when exiting peek to make it smoother.

o Ensured player faces the correct direction on thin cover.

o General bug fixes.

Camera

• Reduced camera popping when crashing a car.

• Added camera shake when taking damage while driving to Silva's house.

• Reduced camera popping when triggering climbs.

• Improved camera height when going down the stairs and exiting lifts.

• Added camera shake when receiving damage while in the military pickup turret.

• Improved camera pitch and responsiveness when entering turrets.

• Various bug fixes and overall camera improvements.

Base Locomotion

• Improved sprint pivot animations to reduce popping and rotation.

• Reduced weapon clipping.

Additional

o Jacob now looks at points of interest more reliably.

Weapons

• Numerous cinematic VFX bug fixes.

• Vehicle turret rotation is now independent from the vehicle they are attached to.

• Added camera shake when firing from or receiving damage in a turret.

• Quality-of-life improvements to weapon switching and reloading.

AI

• Improved AI vehicle combat behaviour and fixed related bugs.

• Enhanced AI reactivity and responsiveness.

• Miscellaneous fixes and enhancements to AI combat.

• General performance improvements.

Vehicles

• Various improvements to vehicle distance models.

NPCs

• Fixed pedestrian reactions in cutscenes.

• Reduced excessive pedestrian screaming when witnessing danger.

• Resolved issues related to NPC death inside vehicles.

• Fixed collision issues (missing or overly solid AI).

• Bug fixes for locomotion and sliding issues for ambient AI.

• New foot movement system implemented for civilian AI.

• Improved ambient AI reactions to danger and damage.

• Fixed and improved ambient AI when exiting vehicles and engaging in combat.

• Enhanced ambient robot locomotion behaviour.

• Improved pedestrian variation.

• Mayor Vega character-specific improvements.

Audio

• Improved audio propagation feedback.

• General audio bug fixes and polish.

• Enhanced facial animation synchronisation.

• Audio performance improvements.

• Refined pain and death sound effects.

• Increased diversity in pedestrian, OWE, and enemy voices.

• Improved synchronization of audio with animations.

• Interactable prop audio enhancements.

Environments & Lighting

• Improved destruction effects in several areas.

• Removed environmental obstacles that may disrupt player flow.

• Improved lighting across the map and in core mission locations.

Cinematics

• Polished audio in cutscenes.

• Improved seamless transition systems for smoother cutscene integration.

UI

• Updated fail screen visuals.

• Objective markers now indicate enemy verticality (above/below).

• Optimized UI performance for smoother menus and HUD responsiveness.

• Brightness and Gamma settings now display percentage values.

• Standardized mini-map blip colours.

• Added a loading screen fade-out function.

• Improved key rebinding support for French Standard and BEPO keyboards.

Bug Fixes

Open World & Free Roam

• Fixed various clipping issues involving civilians and enemies.

• Resolved bugs related to Jacob's implant not appearing in the correct state.

• Addressed multiple gameplay VFX-related bugs.

Missions

• Fixed various mission flow issues discovered during destructive testing.

3C (Character, Camera, Controls)

• Resolved camera and interaction bugs when entering/exiting vehicles and other interactive objects.

Companion Drone

• General bug fixes (see AI section for related improvements).

Weapons

• Fixed weapon misfires when shooting from a car.

• Rocket impact VFX are now correctly attached to their target.

AI

• Fixed AI bugs related to entering, exiting, and shooting from cover.

• Resolved cover generation issues for both AI and player characters.

• Fixed navigation issues affecting AI behaviour.

• Fixed issues with companion and combat AIs improperly entering or exiting vehicles.

• Fixed behaviour loop bugs that caused AI to get stuck or repeat actions.

• Addressed cases where drones and turrets would not appear on the minimap or HUD.

• Fixed excessive friendly fire from allied AIs.

• Fixed rare teleportation and locomotion bugs.

• Resolved collision issues for both robot and human AIs.

Vehicles

• Shooting car lights no longer pushes them inside the car body.

• Various fixes to car headlight behaviour and visuals.

• Resolved camera clipping issues with the world.

• Fixed excessive forces applied when shooting certain vehicles.

• Large vehicles now correctly display all wheels in Build.MindsEye.

• Fixed player death triggers when colliding with other cars while inside a vehicle.

• Destroyed robot parts no longer float if the robot was inside a vehicle.

• Traffic now properly takes damage from nearby explosions.

NPCs

• Bug fixes for story characters.

• Smoothed out jerky acceleration and braking cycles in vehicles.

• Fixed pedestrian animation issues when exiting vehicles.

Audio

• Various fixes to footstep audio inconsistencies.

• Restored missing sounds for destructible foliage.

• Addressed inconsistencies with ragdoll audio effects.

Environments & Lighting

• Fixed numerous mission and world traversal bugs affecting performance and navigation.

• Fixed cover related bugs.

• Fixed issues which caused the player to get stuck.

• Resolved camera issues when passing through tunnels or under overpasses.

• Prevented players from climbing unintended rock geometry.

• Fixed material and asset-related issues.

• Fixed various floating assets.

• Fixed issues related to HLOD lighting.

• Fixed light leaks in specific locations.

• Fixed floating debris when restarting missions.

• Fixed various landscape and asset popping instances.

• Numerous destructible fixes.

Cinematics

• Numerous cinematic VFX bug fixes.

• Improved LOD popping and texture loading in multiple scenes.

• Fixed visual issues like animation clipping and lighting overexposure.

• SIS scenes now appear correctly in all situations.

UI

• Fixed control mapping and key binding issues.

• Resolved sniper scope HUD misalignment at non-standard resolutions.

• Various settings menu formatting improvements:

  • Tightened spacing in the Display header.

  • Kept “Controls Mapping” sub-header on one line.

  • Prevented resolution dropdown options from wrapping.

PC Only

• Added the option to enable or disable framerate limits during cutscenes.

• AdjustedIn Build.MindsEyelogic nodes and billboard sizes have been reduced by 50%.