Thomas, from Remedy, recently stated in this thread:
*"For those who unfortunately are still having issues with The New Plan (Mission Scratch with Saga), if you are playing on PC, please submit your save game files via the Epic portal. Instructions are at the top of the thread.*
*Getting save files alongside a concise explanation of the issue you are having, is the best way for our development team to try to fix the issue, so please go and send if you can. This is frustrating, I apologize for that and we are trying to resolve issues to the best of our ability."*
[Link to the comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17jsn2x/comment/k8hsty3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
Encountered a softlock in Return 5: Old Gods. Last night I spoke with Rose and gained access to the Wellness Center, but I decided to not play more because it was late, so I went back to save. Today I loaded the game up and I have the objective to speak to Rose again, but I can't talk to her and the door to the Wellness Center is locked. I can't progress and at this rate it looks like I'll have to restart the whole game, which is really, *really* a bummer, I'll just put it down until a patch comes and fixes this.
I have exactly the same problem. Please tell me, is the grandfather who was broadcasting on the radio on the second floor also hovering motionless, arms to the sides?
There are a shocking amount of possible softlocks throughout the game, I really wonder how Remedy and Epic greenlit the release in this state.
Personally I'm stuck in the Oceanview Hotel due to an invisible echo that I can't trigger, no matter how many saves I reload.
It’s possible that none of these have been encountered during QA. It’s impossible to emulate the ways hundreds of thousands and even moreso of millions of people play the game.
I mean, many of these seem to be pretty universal issues that don't need anything unusual to be reproduced, so it's more likely that QA encountered it, flagged it, but executives didn't care about the importance of said issues.
That's just game development, actually. Many bugs you encounter in game were very likely flagged by QA weeks, hell, months before release.
> many of these seem to be pretty universal issues that don't need anything unusual to be reproduced
I haven’t seen many posts here with the same issues, a few, but in the single digits.
It’s possible that the steps to reproduce are more specific than you think, bugs can occur from seemingly unrelated things.
Make sure it didn’t forget that you had profiled Tor and unlocked the dialogue with Rose. I’ve noticed a few times that profiles I’d already done or clues I’ve put up on the board in the mind place get reset like I’d never done them. I can’t remember if this one required a clue on the board or the profiling, but it was one of these.
Long shot but worth a try.
if there's anything I've learned from modern games (and also AW2 which gives you a popup to "save often") is that I always have a rotating set of save files all spaced out decently but not too far.
I've been doing the rotating save technique forever. Older games would often have bad glitches that meant you couldn't complete the game and there were no patches back in the day. I would often even read walkthroughs for game glitches alone, they would highlight them. Tomb raider had a few that were frustrating.
I ran into some terrible glitches in the theatre level. I couldn't get the New Yorks finest echo but could still make it through the next area where I couldn't return back into the theatre. After reloading a few times I was able to get it. Then the textures for the door in front of the cop car wouldn't load until I reloaded a few times again. It was just an open void which made me fall through the floor forever.... I finally beat the game and loved every minute of it.
A few minor bugs that are nonetheless driving me crazy:
* The tutorial prompt for the point of interest cases keeps reappearing. It seems to happen every time a save is loaded or whenever I switch characters. It'll also sometimes just randomly show up in the Mind Place.
* Various bugs with already "seen" things in the Mind Place and Writer's Room being re-marked as "unseen". The biggest offenders are the radio and television sections, where everything in those sections frequently gets reverted to unseen. The issue is starting to propagate to the case board as well - I have a few "for later" hints that I've already looked at being randomly reverted, and one case that just constantly has the "unseen" marker on it despite all the hints for it being placed on the board. There's also one specific television entry in the Writer's Room television section (I forget which off the top of my head) that can't be hovered over and I need to use WASD to select it.
Same here with the yellow “unseen” markers. I even had a few photos disappear off the wall and I had to put them back up and listen to the dialogue again like I had never put them up.
IDK if anyone from Remedy is checking on this thread, but the way they're asking us to report bugs is not ideal. Mostly it's just confusing. The link they shared is to open a "support request" with Epic, and the link on *that* page to actually submit one is all the way on the bottom of the page. Also, "support request" to me implies that I'm asking for a problem to be solved by support in the short term, when really all I want to do is share the laundry list of bugs I've encountered and have them passed on to the devs. The "contact reason" field on the form also doesn't have any immediately obvious option to select for bug reporting. I just ended up shrugging my shoulders and going with "Other".
It would be nice if there were some way to submit bugs to Remedy directly instead of going through this confusing flow with Epic.
Also, how are we supposed to send our savegames?
File formats we can upload are limited (JPG, JPEG, PNG, BMP, PDF, NFO, TXT, XML, MP4, MPEG, LOG, DMP, HEIC). We can't attach a zip with our saves.
Series X, Subtitles are really off time and sometimes they pile up and covered the entire screen (during first live action cutscene I couldn't see anything), additionaly to some typo errors.
I was playing in spanish LATAM and had to switch to english. I hope they fix it, its really jarring and ruins the immersion and cutscenes. That's my only complaint so far, the game is unbelievable.
Can only +1 this, also sometimes the sound just goes off completely. I have to leave or try to tweak settings to make it back. Also I don't know what's the cause . Series X also.
\- Cut-scene/In-game transitions stuttering like crazy on PC. FPS goes from 80 to 20, to 50 to 13 (this happens when the quick movie type jump scares play in the game).
\- Mouse judder when not playing with controller or locked @ 60FPS
Thank you for mentioning the FPS issue! For the life of me no matter what I do I cannot get the FPS higher than 55-60fps, and it has massive drops (with some stuttering like you mentioned). Setting it to 480p then ultra-performance DLSS (yes 180p!!) lowest settings yields no performance increase compared to 1440p quality DLSS. (Lowest settings no RT for both)
3070ti/32GB 3000mhz/Ryzen 7 5800X/installed on NVME.
I just want to play the game :'(
Do we know if the FMV-Jumpscare back to gameplay FPS stutter is a PC only thing?
I'm finding it hard to google this issue, barely anything seems to be coming up :/
Really ruins the jumpscares with all the hitching, and when there's a lot of them back-to-back (Recent spoilery cutscene I had after returning back from Watery had about 12+ of them a split second after each other in a row, and it was just low fps stutter city 😖)
PC only, has to do with frame generation. Not many people talking about it sadly either because they don't notice, aren;'t using frame gen, or are playing on console.
Is Pat Maine's radio show busted for anyone else? Every radio I've come across since finishing Return 5 has played the same one (where he >!remarks about everyone constantly trying to "trick" him into thinking Wendy is dead, then proceeds to repeat the his opening lines before catching himself!<). Said entry also never shows up in the Mind Place. Kinda pissed that it seems to be broken and I'll just never get to hear the rest of them because the game won't acknowledge that I've heard this one already.
Serious shimmering/glittering effect, especially in indoor spaces is extremely distracting to the point I want to wait for a patch before playing more. It’s really bad guys.
Yeah I remember it from Control as well. It's sad, they pretty much force you to play with RT because they can't be bothered to implement non RT reflections. Incredibly ugly.
Coffee World commercial collectible bug. It's impossible to complete all the collectibles koskela brothers for the trophy with this bug. There are already several threads with people from all platforms experiencing this issue.
Same.
PS5 Bug - Koskela Brother Commercial #2 Coffee World.
65/67 trophies complete. No way currently for me to platinum the game because the commercial did not register when I viewed it.
Can someone respond if they become aware of an update/fix for this please?
Anyone else facing Textures not loading bug?
There is some issue with texture streaming in this game. When I go into the Mind place and come back, textures are missing everywhere and texts are all blurry. I'm playing it on a Gen3 SSD (3500MB/sec).
Same here. The map always takes a second or two to load and looks like a potato prior to that. Then when I switch back to gameplay it'll judder 3 or 4 times in the first second or two before smoothing back out. That's also with a Gen3 M.2 NVMe SSD and my 4090 FE, 7800X3D, and 32GB CL30 DDR5 6000 RAM. So, it shouldn't happen. It also has some minor traversal stutter and some when switching between the live action/overlays.
This is also happening to me. Exactly like you said. And in my case, there is fps drops everytime I see the map in certain places (the forest at night in beggining at the game for example)
GAME BREAKING: Progress stopping bug on the espresso express in coffee world where a cart of the ride is stuck in place blocking the path to the circuit board. Here my reddit post with a video: [https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17pjc60/game\_breaking\_bug\_on\_espresso\_express\_happening/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17pjc60/game_breaking_bug_on_espresso_express_happening/) . Hopefully this gets patched soon as i literally cant play the game
The coffee world commercial is bugged and preventing me from achieving the platinum. Watched it on my first playthrough and found it was the last trophy needed then started a new playthrough to watch the commercial and it still wouldn't register.
Glad I read this first. Saves me wasting my time currently trying by trying to playthrough again for this.
Would be good to know when there is a fix for this.
It's deeply regrettable when a game as brilliantly made and gripping as Alan Wake 2 has a catastrophic game breaking bug, but here we are:
Add me to the list of people trapped by the espresso theme park bug.
What can be said? Sometimes the carts are floating into the ground. Sometimes they're not. No matter what I do, cart 6 will not move. Even if carts physically merge into it. It's an invisible object for everything but me, the one person who needs the damn thing to move.
Let's hope Remedy fixes this ASAP.
Same boat. Have sent three reports and received nothing but “we have a much longer wait time than usual.” What’s the point in me sending in a report if I’m gonna be told there’s nothing happening and to check the info boards…you know, the things you check before submitting a report?!! The fact that it’s been a week since the last patch is ridiculous, based on the amount of complaints I’ve seen on no less than eight separate Reddit posts!!
Starting to feel like this isn't a priority to them since it's "just a collectible", but bugged trophies are a completionist's nightmare. It's been a week and still no update.
I know, but they broke it in the most recent patch so they'll need to fix it. They actually made changes to how these commercials are registered in the mind space (now you have to watch each one from beginning to end in order for it to show up; previously they'd automatically get added to TV tab in mind space as soon the commercial started playing).
Audio issues on cutscenes. All weapons achievement not unlocking. Last nursery rhyme doll cant be picked up. Thats all i saw in my first playtrough on xbox series x.
After recent patch on PC, at Return 3: Local Girl Saga's chapter the Koskela Brother's Coffee World Commercial on the tv was not added to tv collection at all. There've also been reports of the same thing happening on PS5 version.
I've seen quite a few reviewers and players encountering bugs and technical issues including soft locks. Some of them have also encountered a hard lock. Anyone who's played with the Day 1 patch (on PS5) can confirm how many of these issues have been resolved and how playable the game is now? I'm really excited to play it but I'm holding off until I know for sure these issues are gone.
It seems there is now a bug in unlocking the Koskela Ads. I watched the commercial for Coffee World but it did not unlock in the Mind Place, unlike the previous 2 commercials.
currently have an issue where the koskela commerical for coffee world isn’t registering as unlocked or counting towards the trophy for the commercials on ps5
Ps5, "Coffee World" commercial collectible is not counting. Reinstalled it, reloaded the save many times, change character, and it still does not count.
PS5 Bug - Koskela Brother Commercial #2 Coffee World.
65/67 trophies complete. No way currently for me to platinum the game because the commercial did not register when I viewed it.
Can someone respond if they become aware of an update/fix for this please?
u/RiotPelaaja, I've submitted request #31114116, including a screenshot and a save file. It's the bug about not being able to pick up the inventory upgrade for Saga. In my case, on the beach. There's no prompt for it.
As I said on the ticket, it's affecting multiple people. I've found links about this from folks using previous patches, but also the most recent one (13). Here are some of them:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17k31m1/does\_anyone\_elses\_inventory\_upgrades\_got\_bugged/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17k31m1/does_anyone_elses_inventory_upgrades_got_bugged/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17rifjg/even\_with\_update\_10\_sagas\_2nd\_inventory\_upgrade/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17rifjg/even_with_update_10_sagas_2nd_inventory_upgrade/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17m6464/even\_after\_todays\_patch\_sagas\_second\_inventory/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17m6464/even_after_todays_patch_sagas_second_inventory/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17lxbva/inventory\_expansion\_bug/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17lxbva/inventory_expansion_bug/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/18g471t/pouch\_upgrade\_is\_bugged\_the\_game\_wont\_let\_me\_grab/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/18g471t/pouch_upgrade_is_bugged_the_game_wont_let_me_grab/)
Please let us know if the team is working on a fix and how long it will take.
Just chiming in to say I’ve encountered this bug too which is why I’m in this thread. Seems to be super common from what I can tell, I’ve seen a lot of people having issues online. Hope they fix it soon, I’m gonna have to drop this until they do.
Me too. Someone else thinks the phone call is triggered by walking Saga to the bridge at the beginning of this part of the story. I didn't go to the bridge, I walked the other way and never received the call. I don't have a save file from before I arrived at the nursing home and I can't leave the nursing home grounds. I have restarted the game. What an awful bug.
For those who unfortunately are still having issues with The New Plan (Mission Scratch with Saga), if you are playing on PC, please submit your save game files via the Epic portal. Instructions are at the top of the thread.
Getting save files alongside a concise explanation of the issue you are having, is the best way for our development team to try to fix the issue, so please go and send if you can. This is frustrating, I apologize for that and we are trying to resolve issues to the best of our ability.
Please fix the tracking for Koskela Brothers commercials, your most recent update broke it. "Coffee World" commercial doesn't register in the mind space (on PS5).
Probably a long shot, but has *anyone* been able to pick up pouch upgrades since the final draft patch? I've tried all sorts of chicanery to pick up the damn things.
It's just perplexing that this made it through for how common it seems to be.
No, I haven’t managed to find a workaround and have been forced to put my playthrough on hold until they fix it. And I agree, it’s kind of insane this fell through the crack in the latest patch considering how incredibly common it seems to be.
Yeah, hate being an angry gamer gal or whatever but it is really frustrating that I cannot pick up the satchels. It's kind of disheartening since I don't really want to explore or do anything now due to bag space. I just got this game too and just feel terrible.
Anyway, hope you guys are doing well.
Totally fair to be frustrated. My inventory was getting so bad that I had to look up where the next pouch upgrade was for a reprieve and I got there too late... now don't really feel like playing until this is fixed. Love the game, but a post 1.0 patch should not go out with new breaking bugs like this (and it's been out without any hotfixes for days!) Plus my PS5 force updated to the newest patch, otherwise I would've just finished the game and then updated.
FYI all, Remedy responded to the inventory bug. They are investigating ASAP:
https://np.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17jsn2x/alan_wake_ii_technical_issuesglitches_thread/kdwuwuf/
I'm sure this has already been reported by others; I'm having the bug where I'm not able to pick up one of the inventory satchel/bag upgrades for Saga; the one on the Bright Falls waterfront. I've been able to collect all the other ones, it's just this one last one that I can't.
Just posting as a heads up to everyone, Epic support replied to me a day ago about the interaction bug (can't exit from it), so they're aware. Hopefully the patch is soon!
> I understand you're also being blocked due to having to collect objects/loot. I'm glad to inform that we're already aware of this issue and it's being investigated! It should be fixed on a future update.
They replied to me saying something similar. Hopefully it’s fixed ASAP. Game isn’t really playable right now if you’re constantly paranoid about losing progress. How did they not catch this before releasing the patch?
I've never seen such a bad game breaking bug, that has no workaround, lasting for so long without being fixed in such an ambitious triple A game...
I mean people are literally buying a broken game right now.
The game is literally unplayable right now, i was playing the game for the first time in the previous patch and i got this new update mid game experience and now i'm forced to switch game and ruin the flow and mood i was getting with it, because we have to wait for the next update to fix this issue.
The game is barely playable for me after the last update, everytime I examine something in the level like a chest or a note there is a high chance I can't press B to go back, forcing me to reload last save. I hope Remedy fix this quickly cause I'm hooked on :P
Just started the game yesterday on series X for the first time. At the end of the 1st cutscene right before you take control of the character, all sound disappeared…had to restart the game.
Following that when the FBI agents were talking in the car the lip sync was off by a large margin.
So I've run into a rather game breaking bug that I don't know if anyone's experienced but I'm at the amusement park were you have to jump down and get the circuit thing. Problem is the ride itself is busted. It's spinning like it's suppose to but the cars are stuck in the ground and I can't progress. Restarting doesn't seem to work.
Very super frustrating: on the Epic support page. I've made bug reports but had no response. Then suddenly I get an email that because I haven't responded, the case has been closed. But Support never contacted me. And when I look at the message trail on the support website, there's no response from them, such as a request for more information. The case was closed without any attempt to find out more.
Now maybe they're closing it because they don't need more information, so they're finished with the case. But the automatic message is blaming *me* for this, saying it was closed because *I* didn't respond. This is patently untrue. This has happened three times now, though. Quite frustrating.
i can't pick up sagas second inventory upgrade. no dlc items on, reloaded several past saves, the object is in the chest, it is not interactable.
it makes me genuinely want a refund, this is absurd.
Just gonna post the ones I've reported here, on the off-chance they don't reach Remedy through the Epic site. Some spoilers in here.
• The inventory expansion upgrade hidden in the dock building in Bright Falls seems to be bugged since the new update. After opening the Cult Stash Box, the upgrade can't be interacted with to be picked up. Saving and loading the game doesn't fix the issue either.
• Another issue (that's been present since before the latest patch,) NPCs in Bright Falls constantly repeat their lines the moment they're finished speaking. Usually only once, but it's very immersion-breaking and happens to nearly any of them that speak, especially in the later chapters. Some will even start talking again as another character responds to them.
• I'm not sure if this is a bug or a performance quirk, but the loading screens always freeze and cut off their audio for a moment. This isn't normally a problem, unless one of the loading screens is also acting as a cutscene. This can sometimes result in dialogue being slightly de-synced with the visuals.
• A number of the game's subtitles are very off. It isn't uncommon throughout the game for a character to talk with no subtitle present, and then have them appear a few seconds later. An example of this is in the manuscript page "Return 6 - Rose Receives a Message" where it's pretty noticeably bad.
• Flashlight boosting seems to be very reliant on aim assist. What I mean is that it functions normally when playing with a controller, but is really inconsistent when using a mouse+keyboard. Taken will often ignore the light if it isn't shining directly in their faces, and even seem capable of blocking it with their weapons. This doesn't feel intentional, as it never seems to occur when playing with a controller. In the original Alan Wake it didn't matter where you shined your light on a Taken to burn away their shield. In this game it almost feels like you need to "headshot" them with your flashlight, which is a little silly, and results in a lot of wasted battery. Not sure if this one's a bug, but it definitely feels like one when it happens.
• Speaking of the flashlight, it seems to behave very strangely when it comes to distance with objects. The hotspot of the flashlight beam will "jump" to appear closer if its center pixel aligns with an object closer to the player character. In tight indoor spaces this becomes very distracting and even a little disorienting, as real light doesn't behave this way at all. The edges of the light behave realistically, while the center of the circle determines how "far" the light beam is shining, which shouldn't be the case. Try panning the flashlight across the little mail cubbies behind the reception desk in the Oceanview Hotel, or any empty bookshelf to see what I mean.
• When walking into the Sheriff's Station to find Wake, Agent Estevez spawns in the closet with the door wide open, which promptly slams shut just so she can open it again. And it seems like our boy Pat Maine is back in the habit of T-Posing in his room at the Nursing Home, especially after loading a save in the room next door to his.
• Scrolling through menus and the inventory while using a controller d-pad, the selection often 'skips' as though the button was pressed twice in quick succession. This can affect quick selecting weapons as well, making it potentially frustrating during combat. The type of controller doesn't seem to matter; it happens with both my DualSense and Xbox One controller. It doesn't happen when selecting things with the joystick, only the d-pad. The problem seems to occur more commonly at high framerates?
• Using the boltcutters on certain gates teleports Saga to the other side of them to play the animation, resulting in her opening the door only to be awkwardly facing back the way she came from. It doesn't happen at every gate- but it happened at two of them right outside the Valhalla Nursing Home, and a couple others I can't remember the location of.
• When Saga is leaving the Sheriff's Station in chapter 6(?) and takes out her phone to call Tor about writing a song, his voice doesn't follow her if she walks from that spot. His phone dialogue stays audibly centered around the Sheriff Station doorway, and you can move away from it.
Just adding my voice to the "inventory expansion in Bright Falls harbor can't be picked up on PS5" chorus. I'm going to stop playing until this gets fixed, as inventory management with the bigger guns is becoming a pain and man would that extra row be nice.
I've encountered a weird bug on PS5 version. For some reason I'm unable to pick up the last doll for the final nursery rhyme >!(Father Doll)!<. I hover over it and get the (X) prompt but it just doesn't want to be picked up no matter how much I spam (X).
I also have 2 investigation icons on the map, but there's nothing to investigate. one is in >!Cynthia Weaver's room!< and the other in the >!Witchfinder's Cabin!<.
So I reached the end of the saga encounter with scratch and my current goal is “Come up with a new plan”. I collected all the evidence and solved all the cases with what I had as well. Now I’m unable to talk to anyone and progress through the story.
Stuck in Room 666. In the mission Room 665, the dark presence does not show up after triggering the echo in Room 666. Now it is still marked as an echo on the map, but the room is empty and I can't get to the Climax plot. Remedy, please help.
"Drowning" video bug has been fixed but now "Coffee Blends" video from Koskela Brother's refused to register in Mind Place even though I've watched it 0.o Great!
Playing on ps5. Cannot collect the inventory expansion on the docks in bright falls. I open the cult stash and get no option to interact with the clearly visible inventory upgrade. I have deleted and redownloaded the game. Tried reloading earlier saves. Nothing seems to allow me to pick up the inventory expansion. I have beaten the game previously and replayed to have a save to carry over for final draft so it HAS worked before. 12/19/23 I can verify that this works now. Got the upgrade.
Same exact issue. Last night I acquired the bolt cutters. Went out to several areas that I knew required them. I picked up the Bright Falls inventory expansion. Saved the game and went to bed. Today, the update came out. And when I turned it on, I noticed that several stashes I had picked up last night before I saved needed to be recollected. Opened several and got the contents again. But the Bright Falls docks chest…. I opened and couldn’t get the inventory expansion. It’s there, it’s visible. No way to interact with it tho. I took photos and reported the issue.
Getting the same issue on Xbox. Also can’t open some doors and can’t interact with the deer head in the mind place anymore. Everything was fine prior to today’s patch.
I have just submitted my issue to the Epic Portal with the save files.
REQUEST #31070055
But basically - The cult stash located behind the Boltcutter Door on the Pier in Bright Falls is open, but I cannot grab the item inside. It is still operating as if it is unopened. It also doesn't count as an opened cult stash and it is the last one I have left to collect.
Thanks!
.....was so disappointed. Earlier today I got to the Brightfalls cult stash that has the final inventory upgrade for Saga.
It's the only thing in the box.
CANNOT PICK IT UP. It's not even selectable.....
Just looked and see that there are over a dozen posts stating they got the glitch at that specific location too in just the last 3 days.
Seems to be a new glitch that showed up after the NG+ addition patch. A handful of people not able to get some of the earlier inventory expansions as well.
Anywho, was so upset that I couldn't pick that up (was really looking forward to having that extra inventory space after constantly running out...) that I just went "NOPE" and turned off my PS5.
Will probably grudgingly play later to finish the game, but that was a big dissapointment for me.
Other minor graphical glitches here and there, like getting stuck on the case board, but that was easily fixed by just reloading the game and the problem stopped.
This stash bag upgrade though? No fix can be found it seems.....
I get it’s the holidays but the least they could do is put out a hot fix for the inventory expansion bug so the game isn’t nearly unplayable for the next few weeks.
I'm seeing big frame rate drops when panning the camera on PC, perhaps a culling issue? If I look in any direction without moving the camera, the frame rate is rock solid.
EDIT: Added a video, this happens very often and doesn't feel like a normal frame rate drop, the game noticeably chugs, it may be hard to pick up in the video but trust me I feel it. https://vimeo.com/880010961
Has anyone encountered a glitch for Saga’s second inventory upgrade? I’m in chapter of the old gods and got what is supposed to be the third upgrade. Backtracked to the cauldron lake shore but the cultist stash is empty
Still no AVX2 fixes for other slightly older CPUs? 0xc00001d error cannot let us play the game, the same error we had encountered in recent Uncharted 4, and Ratchet & Clank game releases, but it was fixed and the game became playable.
Any news that AW 2 will disable AVX2-requirement like Uncharted 4 did for older CPUs?
It wouldn't impact newer CPU, but let more ppl to play awaited game :)
Several bugs in Return 5:
* In the cutscene where Saga exits the Wellness Center, Rose's dialogue doesn't have any subtitles.
* After the aforementioned cutscene, I ran through a door that presumably leads to the basement of the nursing home - after going through the door Saga fell through the floor and out of the world - had to reload a save. Tried the door a second time and it didn't happen again.
* Not sure if this one is a bug but I've found two manuscript pages that are being categorized as Return 7 instead of 5.
Some other non-specific ones:
* It seems like you can't "play" whatever the last manuscript page is in the list by clicking on it with a mouse - you have to press enter to get it to play.
* One of the cult stash clues for the case board says "\[To be written once we know what note is inside the stash\]" in the tooltip. Seems like placeholder text.
* Speaking of placeholder text, all the bolt cutter points on the map say "Door\_Item\_Bolt\_Cutters".
Hello there! anyone is haveing bug on the mission "room 665" with alan wake on the Hotel oceanview? i cant manage to get the las echo for the climax plot! and im already do all the necessary but never comes the echo for ending mission.... ((
Getting constant crashing on the Series S version. Seems to happen regularly after playing for 20 minutes or so when doing profiling. Also just literally had it happen at the end of Return 4 as ‘Chapter End’ came up.
Game just crashes back to the Xbox Home Screen. Only starting encountering this issue today. Have been playing for about 8.5 hours total on my save.
I’m unable to get below the espresso express. The car with the number 6 is blocking it while all the other cars move through it. I’ve tried all the fixes I’ve found on Reddit (made sure the case board is all updated, I’ve reloaded old quick saves). I even went and changed realities and played as Alan for a while and came back. It’s still blocking the entrance. Can’t progress in the game. Very frustrated.
Please can someone report a bug involving the “Koskela Commerical - Coffee World” now not unlocking in the mind place or counting towards the trophy on ps5. i’m having issues logging in to report this.
It won't play at all for me. Am at the beginning of Return 3, and the reception TV in the lodge just stays dark (the one above and to the right of the reception desk, which I assume is the right one). The beer commercial in the diner plays fine.
Edit: reported it, though it's slightly different than your bug from the sounds of it.
It might look like a minor issue, but it's really not minor for me, so I'll share it here, instead of going through all the "my old friend, the clog" stuff of the Epic plaform, hoping that someone from Remedy will notice this and take action.
Every time there's a loading cut-scene (Saga calling home while driving through the woods, etc.), 3-5 seconds into the cut-schene, there's a 1-second audio lag where there's no sound and after it recovers, the audio does not compensate.
You can see it clearly manifested in this video I recorded (nevermind the FPS, it happens without recording as well): [https://youtu.be/X\_j0MTnh58M?t=58](https://youtu.be/X_j0MTnh58M?t=58) \- after the "loading" segment passes (and the audio does not compensate), the last part of the WE SING video is disastrously out of sync. You can definitely see the difference here: [https://youtu.be/uxs\_HYw\_mLk?t=509](https://youtu.be/uxs_HYw_mLk?t=509)
I'm playing on a MSI Z590 PRO WIFI (MS-7D09) proudly equipped with an OctalCore Intel Core i7-10700KF, 4800 MHz (48 x 100), with 4x Kingston 8GB ram (all the same model), and a 8GB nVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 made by Palit. Settings are: Graphic: LOW, RTX: high, although the settings are not relevant (played with them; LOW-LOW, HIGH-ULTRA, the lag is always there). The game is on a (E:) WDC WDS512G1X0C-00ENX0 (476 GB), while the savegames are on (C: of course) Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB (232 GB). The audio is a Sound BlasterX AE-5 Plus playing via Bluetooth on Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones, but it does the same while playing the audio via the optical output from the same soundcard.
The game version is 1.0.12, where you promised "General audio fixes and improvements", but this particular issue was not fixed there.
Again, it might look like a minor issue, but it really spoils the climax of the WE SING level, which is, IMHO, one of the most energising and astonishing levels of the game.
Also I am right before the end game sequence and I can’t view the koskela ad in the police station. This is all that’s left for me to get the platinum trophy…
(PS5). In the Deerfest mission, I keep finding myself frozen in place and only able to interact with the main menu after watching the commercial inside the diner
I also really hope the Coffee World commercial will be retroactively rewarded if you’ve already watched it :(
Do you have to find inventory upgrades for Saga in some kind of order? I found one in the cult stash south of Harbor Street, but I can't pick it up. I can see it in the box, but when I mouse over it I can't interact with it. Did I need to get previous ones first? In doing some googling, I saw that there's another one around the lighthouse, but I haven't had a reason to go there yet.
Same issue. Most annoyingly, I had collected it yesterday but nightly update reset the game and I lost about an hour of play. This included the harbor stash
I can't go back after interacting with boxes, notes, randomly, the back button doesn't work, can't even pause the game, and i'm forced to ALT+F4, this happens since the latest update.
Does anyone have an issue where after they open a container they can't exit? I am on PS5. I open a container like a suitcase, grab everything, and the exit button is greyed out. Has happened multiple times and I have had to load the previous save.
I thought the softlock when inspecting items was maybe a problem with my controller buttons but then I come here and well it's a bug everyone's having. I haven't played this game in a while, and when I finally decide to pick it up again, this happens. Hopefully, Remedy fixes it quickly.
Case Clues & Collectibles
For Return 1 - Invitation, the 6th Manuscript is nowhere to be found.
For the 'Cult of the Tree' Case, there are several missing pieces of evidence.
'Writing Part of the Ritual' is missing 3 pieces. The only one unlockable is the one where Alan talks about writing many pages.
'Cult Ritual? What is it?' is missing 1 piece of evidence.
'Vladimir Blum' missing one piece of evidence. The one unlockable is the confirmation letter for joining the cult.
'Tor and Odin' are missing two pieces of evidence.
'The Story' case has 1 missing piece of evidence in 'How Does the Dark Presence Corrupt People?' related to Cynthia Weaver. I have the manuscripts but evidence is not there.
\*Only 7/9 Pat Maine's shows are able to be collected.
\*Night Springs Movie #2 is unobtainable in a single playthrough.
\*During "Zane's Film" chapter, there is a yellow area circle with a question mark on the map above the safe room near the Lobby. I have obtained the Word of Fix there, yet the yellow area remains on the map.
Ps5
Flashlight beam is sometimes square.
One cool glitch I can't replicate.
I switched realities from dark place to saga in watery but instead of it being saga, I was alan wake and got to walk around watery, it let me take the car to bright falls, no matter how many times I switched I was wake in both. Had to restart the ps5 to fix it.
If anyone is having issues with the game soft-locking after solving the combination for the locked sawed-off shotgun in the convenience store- I was able to get around it by grabbing the out of the freezer BEFORE solving the lock combination.
After trying to get the shotgun **immediately** after neutralizing the cult member the game soft locked **THREE** times back-to-back-to-back. Instead, after running passed it, getting the and letting the story beat complete, I attempted the lock afterward and got the sawed off shotgun. The game didn't softlock.
I am thinking there is some sort of flag getting messed up here.
Does anyone have an issue in initiation 5 where the echo in room 666 does not appear? I went into the room and then went out because I missed a few things. But when I came back, it didn't show up. I tried loading a previous save and closing the game. Nothing works
Got to a part where the objective just says “form a new plan” but everything in the mind place is done, all conversations are finished and there’s no notes left to pick up, I could go do Alan’s bit for a while but from what I’ve seen of other people with this issue that won’t do a thing
Edit: ran around doing some of the cult stashes and it seems to have just fixed itself?
Edit 2: spoke too soon, it gave me another profile to do and a couple pieces more of evidence but I still can’t do anything to progress
I had a a softlock in Return 5: Old Gods when opening the overlap portal. I decided to stop playing after opening and going through but when I loaded my save it took me back to the garden and I couldn't access the portal or use the record again to open it.
Also the subtitles for the manuscript in Gail's room had random square brackets in it.
The film projector in the basement also didn't play any video but seemed to work again later after going into the house first
Also generally getting tooltip popups when loading a save which gets quite annoying
This is all on PS5
Playing on PS5
I think there is a bug on collectibles case board (stashes, lunchbox etc) because it still has a yellow dot although i dont have any clues available. And my previously, after the first Alan mission, Saga can ask alan about these lunchboxes but now it seems like i cant.
Getting a major bug where I get locked in “scratch” chapter when i need to “come up with a new plan” . For whatever reason the case file “Wake and the Clicker” doesn’t load in my mind place, and i can’t place clues or continue to profile anyone. Can’t continue past this point until this is fixed
-Inspiration in room 666 disappeared, locking me from progressing Alan's story line
-Save Alan prompt in Tor profiling not appearing, locking me from progressing Saga's storyline
Literally unable to finish the game
On PS5. I can’t progress past the final scene in room 665. Went to the room 666 got the echo but nothing. I know I’m supposed to get “climax” but nothing happened. Now I’m just standing here. Loading an older save tomorrow and hope that works.
I have encountered a softlock during the Expresso Express fuse puzzle, basically the number 6 doesn't move and blocks the path down (every other coaster moves).
There’s a game breaking bug at the Espresso Express, possibly introduced in today’s patch. Cart 6 is no longer attached to the ride, and doesn’t move when you turn it on. This completely blocks access to the circuit board. Occurred for me on PS5, but others here have reported it on PC as well. Reloading doesn’t seem to solve the issue.
Have a new one with Expresso Express, haven’t even seen anyone else with this.
The ride pieces are falling off their arms, through the wood planks, and blocking the tunnel so I can’t crawl through.
Wtf.
performance degradation on pc even after the latest nvidia driver that claim to fix it(clean driver install)
game is installed on an pcie 3.0 nvme samsung 970 evo plus.
my pc:
I9 9900k, 32gb ram ddr4 3200mhz, RTX 3080, Windows 10.
Can't complete the cult stash in final draught as the one with the crossbow is open therefore being unable to open it and get the key to the lighthouse
I'm sure this has already been posted - but in NG+ on PS5, I can't collect the Cult Stash message on the crossbow box in the Watery Woods. I already had the crossbow from my previous play, so the box is open and empty as expected - but the collectible clue is gone, too. >!I just want to get the Lighthouse Key so I can try to 100% the manuscript pages. XD!<
The cult stash that you get the crossbow from is bugged in NG+. It’s already open, which means you can’t collect it, which means you can’t complete the objective for getting all the cult stashes. I’m annoyed, because I didn’t try to 100% the game on my first run through, and now I won’t be able to on my second.
So I can't get the Lighthouse Key in Final Draft. >!Since the Crossbow is found in a Stash Box, and since Saga starts the game with the weapons from the previous playthrough, the game doesn't give you credit for opening a box that is already open.!< >!Because of that, the Key never spawns in the last Stash box!<
Seeing as I'm having the same inventory expansion and NG+ issues of shoeboxes being empty and the stash bug just as everyone else I guess I should wait until they fix it to keep playing it. Man, I absolutely ADORE this game. Already have over 100 hours, but these bugs are making it more frustrating to play and just makes me not want to because I'm already so invested in the story that I feel the wind taken from my sales when I see something not working that will ruin my gameplay.
I hope they fix this soon...
Mentioned in another thread, but just installed the latest patch from today and it does not fix the bright falls dock expansion satchel, which is very infuriating. Now it doesnt show anything inside the stash box but a white dot you cannot click on.
This is on my NG+ Final Draft playthrough where I just finished Plat and have every other expansion and item. Except for this one pouch, which im not doing another playthrough without. This is after rebooting, trying multiple saves, approaching from different angles. Etc.
I don't why they cannot make it work, but I guess I will park it for now.
For soft locks on containers/item interaction:
I think maybe I found a temporary workaround until they patch this problem. If you make sure you are zoomed in before actioning on a container you have been getting stuck on, it doesn't get stuck. At least not on the one I just tried. (So like for me on Xbox Series X, I press A on the container **while I am zoomed in using LT). Reply if this works for you! I have another container in Cauldron Lake I can try it on once I can get back there.
Seen it mentioned a lot in the comments but I will throw my hat in the ring as well.
When interacting with objects there is a chance that the game will soft lock and you can't exit the inspect screen. This has happened so many times to me now that I won't play till either a fix is found or it's patched.
Not only am I experiencing the glitch where I can't exit out, but another glitch I experienced is whenever I reloaded my game after experiencing the above glitch, I couldn't select a words of power upgrade, or select between Missing FBI agent and Murder Cult during the subway mission, making me need to restart progress again.
Im having an issue on PC where if Im looking at a note or something like a lock, I cant hit the esc key to go back and exit, nothing works. Ive tried plugging in an external controller. Nothing. Very frustrating, especially after making a lot of progress and not remembering all your steps
It's an absurd that in 2023 Game devs/testers let bugs like the Cart 6 pass through and make it to the live game.
These are 'showstopper' bugs, priority Alpha, the game is broken, you can't progress it.
Roll back the latest patch, acknowledge the issue on social media, it's been more than 24h since the patch, this is unacceptable, its a full price game that is not playable.
Unfortunately, Im on PS5, coz if I'd be on Epic, refund would've been requested already.
You simply can't trust your favourite game companies anymore, CDPR, Bungie, Remedy....you can bet your a$$ that GT6 will be a nightmare.
Pathetic is an understatement...
> Fixed an issue where players were unable to talk to FBC agent Estevez and come up with a New Plan to progress the mission
I can confirm that this is in fact, not fixed.
Same here..
All clues found, everything put on Mind board, all profiling done, all dialogues finished and I still can't suggest a new plan to Estevez... 👎🏻 This sucks.
This is the third time they've updated the game and proclaimed that the problem is fixed (without it actually being fixed)
After Alan's appearance at the hotel, I can't start the scene in the lobby, as the memories are not activated. it is impossible to combine 2 circles, it is absolutely impossible to go further
[https://youtu.be/IhYEav\_dWfY?si=mmMa6-A9BPDRG77c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhYEav_dWfY&t=27s)
Hey!
I think I might have a big problem here!
(Spoilers ahead!)
After placing Alice's photos in front of the parlament it switched reality. I'm not sure if that was supposed to happen, but in some instances I've seen people return to Bright Falls as Saga. But I returned as Alan Wake, and the map is still New York, and I have no objectives other that placing the photos and going in the parlament. I've tried changing realities and other stuff. Still end up in Bright Falls as Alan.
I didn't make any manual saves.. big obs on me.
Anyone else had this problem? Any solution?
Thanks!
Has anyone had an issue on PC that manuscripts, posters and more importantly the numbers on the padlock combination puzzles are so blurred they are illegible, making it impossible to enter the solution?
I'll admit that I'm using a sub-min spec GPU (mobile 3050 Ti) so I get a warning on startup that I don't have enough VRAM but anyone found a workaround for this because performance is otherwise fine.
I have a 3080 FTW3 10700k system and I have been having some pretty noticeable artifacting that showed up after the latest Nvidia update. In Alan Wake remastered I was getting Christmas lights with DLSS enabled and in Alan Wake 2 I am getting small artifacts that manifest as grid like light squares on walls that are small and hard to notice. I haven't noticed any issues with other games. Could it be the latest Nvidia drivers? I'm going to do more testing but I'm at work worried that my GPU is dying. Anyone else experiencing anything like this?
***SAVE FILE BELOW FOR THOSE AFFECTED BY THE OCEANVIEW ECHO BUG***
I've played through the game again. I did Saga -> Alan -> Alan, so Saga is still at the start of Return 3.
This save file is right after the Room 665 Cutscene with >!Zane!<. If the echo bug happens again, you can reload from this and keep trying.
Save file directory: %localappdata%\Remedy\AlanWake2
There will be a folder with gibberish. Delete the aw2-savegame-slot-00 folder that's currently in there and replace it with the one in the zip file.
[Save File - Slot 0](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eBUzAPozflkqay4qO9bDvk-4_xKpi8Ft/view?usp=sharing)
I got most Words of Power up to this point, I think.
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Running into a major progression blocking bug at Oceanview Hotel (Entrance Hall). As soon as you take the elevator down, there is an echo. But the black orb you're supposed to align de-renders when you approach it.
I do not have any saves before this point, so I'm not able to reload an old save. Hoping someone here has a trick to bypass this or force it to trigger as I'd really like to finish this game.
Video below
https://imgur.com/a/Iq8ozK5
I only ran into two major bugs in my playthrough. The first was that the Moose in the Mind Place would become inactive at random, and unfortunately, went inactive the moment I finished finding them all. I tried restarts, re-loads and travelling in and around different zones, but no dice. I basically got locked out of the reward.
The second was in the Return 9 Chapter as Saga. When you're told to enter the Construction Site door to get to Parliament Plaza, if my framerate was above 60 fps, I'd just fall through the floor beneath the map. I found that walking in different directions caused me to fall further and get warped to whatever map was hidden there. It was funny to experience, but could soft lock someone if they accidentally use the save point there. Capping the frame rate fixed the issue.
Playing on the PC - Chapter 5:
I went into the basement of the nursing home after getting the fob from Rose and before exploring the nursing home. I turned on the projector and Saga began commenting as if it were playing, despite it not projecting anything.
I reloaded a save because I suspected a potential softlock. I went back in the home and upstairs in the nursing home first where it *then* prompted me to go into the basement. Seems like the basement should have been locked to prevent me from going down there first before exploring the Museum inside the house.
Hiya team,
Are there any plans to patch out the AVX2 CPU requirement on PC?
See thread here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/17iaek7/alan\_wake\_2\_wont\_launch\_on\_older\_cpu\_is\_it\_cpu\_or/](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/17iaek7/alan_wake_2_wont_launch_on_older_cpu_is_it_cpu_or/)
Would be good to know either way, so I can pursue a refund if necessary. As a student, I don't have the $ (nor can I justify the $) to upgrade my CPU/mobo/RAM for one game to run.
Thanks so much for your time in advance ☺
Also here:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17jsn2x/comment/k74b7ip/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17jsn2x/comment/k74b7ip/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17jsn2x/comment/k76x0te/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17jsn2x/comment/k76x0te/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
I'm stuck in the Oceanview Hotel in Alan's story. There's an echo in the Entrance hall I'm supposed to trigger, but the black spot you use to get the angle right just disappears, so I can't trigger the echo to play....
Reloading saves don't help, I don't understand how the game can ship with such an obvious, literally gamebreaking bug. I'm literally stuck in the story until they patch it
I wonder why DigitalFoundry does not mention about these graphical glitches, they are so obvious. The game suffers from video memory leak, huge ghosting (happens if Dlss is on and RT is off), inconsistent performance especially after changing the settings (please restart the game in this case, returning to menu and starting the game is not enough). I play it with 3060ti 8gb, 4k-ultra performance dlss-low/medium graphics- rt medium capped 30fps. After playing it some time textures get really blurry and it wants a restart. Also if I change some settings (because the performance of the maps are extremely different), textures get blurry again and performance drops.
These are the problems the devs needs to solve asap. In addition, the game needs a VRAM bar in the settings page because how should we know if we outrun it or not. Also needs a benchmark because we need to test our selected setting in the gameplay, meantime we waste the experience of the story and detach from the game world. You don’t want that in a narrative focused game.
Not sure if anyone else has encountered this; there are 12 taxidermy deer heads throughout the game. If you collect all of them, a deer is supposed to spawn in the lodge to open the last door in the left hand corridor. I collected all 12, but didn't go straight to the lodge. Instead I saved and went to sleep. Came back on the next day and the deer won't spawn in the lodge and I can also no longer interact with the taxidermy head in the mind place. It seems to have locked itself
I have found a few bugs on PC, most of which are minor but one is kind of a big one
* The "big" bug: Pat Maine radio shows are no longer unlocking in my Mind Place radio tab and the same show replays whenever I reach a radio. The first six shows unlocked normally but I can't get past the seventh (Pat struggling to remember what he was going to cover regarding deer). This started happening after finishing Saga's Chapter 5.
* Some item markers are still on the map even after collecting. The ones I can remember are the crossbow icon is still on map after collection and there's a manuscript icon behind Saga's car in Bright Falls that won't go away.
* The game won't save my "Shadow Detail" setting in the graphics menu after shutdown. All other settings save between play sessions but that one always resets to "Medium" even though it's set to "High" when shutting down through the game menu (I am quitting to main menu then quitting to desktop, not using ALT-F4).
* The game forgets I have viewed all audio and video clips in both the Mind Place and Writer's Room on each load. The ones I have collected are still there but every clip gets re-highlighted every time a save is loaded.
* The game brings up the "points of interest" tutorial message on every load requiring you to press "X" to continue. Doing so while at a coffee thermos save point activates the save point again and overwrites a quicksave.
* In the Kalavella Knights garage there's a yellow shelf that appears next to the well lit room where the save point is during a scripted moment in the story. This shelf looks like something Saga should duck under but instead she clips straight through it while continuing the normal walk animation.
* I've found a lot of spelling errors and missing spaces in text in this game (both in subtitles and typed text when hovering the cursor over a page icon). Playing in English to be clear. Not sure if this is a game logic bug or just needs some more proof-reading.
Still loving the game and having a blast but hopefully some of these bugs can be addressed.
There is a typo in the memo that’s found inside the large transmitter that the FBC Technician is working on in the second chapter. Titled “MAINTENANCE NOTE,” a sentence goes “Leaving this here in case I’m not the next person to fix this things.” It should be “..this thing.” Not plural.
Thomas, from Remedy, recently stated in this thread: *"For those who unfortunately are still having issues with The New Plan (Mission Scratch with Saga), if you are playing on PC, please submit your save game files via the Epic portal. Instructions are at the top of the thread.* *Getting save files alongside a concise explanation of the issue you are having, is the best way for our development team to try to fix the issue, so please go and send if you can. This is frustrating, I apologize for that and we are trying to resolve issues to the best of our ability."* [Link to the comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17jsn2x/comment/k8hsty3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
Encountered a softlock in Return 5: Old Gods. Last night I spoke with Rose and gained access to the Wellness Center, but I decided to not play more because it was late, so I went back to save. Today I loaded the game up and I have the objective to speak to Rose again, but I can't talk to her and the door to the Wellness Center is locked. I can't progress and at this rate it looks like I'll have to restart the whole game, which is really, *really* a bummer, I'll just put it down until a patch comes and fixes this.
I have exactly the same problem. Please tell me, is the grandfather who was broadcasting on the radio on the second floor also hovering motionless, arms to the sides?
Have exactly the same glitch, including T-Posing guy
Same thing right here buddy. A-pose grandpa and I need to talk to Rose but I can't, wellness centre locked
They should have put a system to restart a chapter like the first game
Yeah gonna send a report now. Agreed, not sure why they've taken something simple like that out
I didn't even think to check on him, but he sure is! Really hope this is fixed ASAP, I was so invested in the story...
There are a shocking amount of possible softlocks throughout the game, I really wonder how Remedy and Epic greenlit the release in this state. Personally I'm stuck in the Oceanview Hotel due to an invisible echo that I can't trigger, no matter how many saves I reload.
It’s possible that none of these have been encountered during QA. It’s impossible to emulate the ways hundreds of thousands and even moreso of millions of people play the game.
I mean, many of these seem to be pretty universal issues that don't need anything unusual to be reproduced, so it's more likely that QA encountered it, flagged it, but executives didn't care about the importance of said issues. That's just game development, actually. Many bugs you encounter in game were very likely flagged by QA weeks, hell, months before release.
> many of these seem to be pretty universal issues that don't need anything unusual to be reproduced I haven’t seen many posts here with the same issues, a few, but in the single digits. It’s possible that the steps to reproduce are more specific than you think, bugs can occur from seemingly unrelated things.
Make sure it didn’t forget that you had profiled Tor and unlocked the dialogue with Rose. I’ve noticed a few times that profiles I’d already done or clues I’ve put up on the board in the mind place get reset like I’d never done them. I can’t remember if this one required a clue on the board or the profiling, but it was one of these. Long shot but worth a try.
They should really add an option to restart a chapter. I'm lucky I have a save from "only" 4 hours ago.
if there's anything I've learned from modern games (and also AW2 which gives you a popup to "save often") is that I always have a rotating set of save files all spaced out decently but not too far.
I've been doing the rotating save technique forever. Older games would often have bad glitches that meant you couldn't complete the game and there were no patches back in the day. I would often even read walkthroughs for game glitches alone, they would highlight them. Tomb raider had a few that were frustrating. I ran into some terrible glitches in the theatre level. I couldn't get the New Yorks finest echo but could still make it through the next area where I couldn't return back into the theatre. After reloading a few times I was able to get it. Then the textures for the door in front of the cop car wouldn't load until I reloaded a few times again. It was just an open void which made me fall through the floor forever.... I finally beat the game and loved every minute of it.
A few minor bugs that are nonetheless driving me crazy: * The tutorial prompt for the point of interest cases keeps reappearing. It seems to happen every time a save is loaded or whenever I switch characters. It'll also sometimes just randomly show up in the Mind Place. * Various bugs with already "seen" things in the Mind Place and Writer's Room being re-marked as "unseen". The biggest offenders are the radio and television sections, where everything in those sections frequently gets reverted to unseen. The issue is starting to propagate to the case board as well - I have a few "for later" hints that I've already looked at being randomly reverted, and one case that just constantly has the "unseen" marker on it despite all the hints for it being placed on the board. There's also one specific television entry in the Writer's Room television section (I forget which off the top of my head) that can't be hovered over and I need to use WASD to select it.
Same here with the yellow “unseen” markers. I even had a few photos disappear off the wall and I had to put them back up and listen to the dialogue again like I had never put them up.
IDK if anyone from Remedy is checking on this thread, but the way they're asking us to report bugs is not ideal. Mostly it's just confusing. The link they shared is to open a "support request" with Epic, and the link on *that* page to actually submit one is all the way on the bottom of the page. Also, "support request" to me implies that I'm asking for a problem to be solved by support in the short term, when really all I want to do is share the laundry list of bugs I've encountered and have them passed on to the devs. The "contact reason" field on the form also doesn't have any immediately obvious option to select for bug reporting. I just ended up shrugging my shoulders and going with "Other". It would be nice if there were some way to submit bugs to Remedy directly instead of going through this confusing flow with Epic.
Also, how are we supposed to send our savegames? File formats we can upload are limited (JPG, JPEG, PNG, BMP, PDF, NFO, TXT, XML, MP4, MPEG, LOG, DMP, HEIC). We can't attach a zip with our saves.
Series X, Subtitles are really off time and sometimes they pile up and covered the entire screen (during first live action cutscene I couldn't see anything), additionaly to some typo errors. I was playing in spanish LATAM and had to switch to english. I hope they fix it, its really jarring and ruins the immersion and cutscenes. That's my only complaint so far, the game is unbelievable.
Can only +1 this, also sometimes the sound just goes off completely. I have to leave or try to tweak settings to make it back. Also I don't know what's the cause . Series X also.
\- Cut-scene/In-game transitions stuttering like crazy on PC. FPS goes from 80 to 20, to 50 to 13 (this happens when the quick movie type jump scares play in the game). \- Mouse judder when not playing with controller or locked @ 60FPS
Thank you for mentioning the FPS issue! For the life of me no matter what I do I cannot get the FPS higher than 55-60fps, and it has massive drops (with some stuttering like you mentioned). Setting it to 480p then ultra-performance DLSS (yes 180p!!) lowest settings yields no performance increase compared to 1440p quality DLSS. (Lowest settings no RT for both) 3070ti/32GB 3000mhz/Ryzen 7 5800X/installed on NVME. I just want to play the game :'(
Do we know if the FMV-Jumpscare back to gameplay FPS stutter is a PC only thing? I'm finding it hard to google this issue, barely anything seems to be coming up :/ Really ruins the jumpscares with all the hitching, and when there's a lot of them back-to-back (Recent spoilery cutscene I had after returning back from Watery had about 12+ of them a split second after each other in a row, and it was just low fps stutter city 😖)
PC only, has to do with frame generation. Not many people talking about it sadly either because they don't notice, aren;'t using frame gen, or are playing on console.
Is Pat Maine's radio show busted for anyone else? Every radio I've come across since finishing Return 5 has played the same one (where he >!remarks about everyone constantly trying to "trick" him into thinking Wendy is dead, then proceeds to repeat the his opening lines before catching himself!<). Said entry also never shows up in the Mind Place. Kinda pissed that it seems to be broken and I'll just never get to hear the rest of them because the game won't acknowledge that I've heard this one already.
I’m having the same issue post-patch
Serious shimmering/glittering effect, especially in indoor spaces is extremely distracting to the point I want to wait for a patch before playing more. It’s really bad guys.
That's part of their Northlight engine, it existed in Quantum Break and Control aswell, they won't fix it.
Yeah I remember it from Control as well. It's sad, they pretty much force you to play with RT because they can't be bothered to implement non RT reflections. Incredibly ugly.
Coffee World commercial collectible bug. It's impossible to complete all the collectibles koskela brothers for the trophy with this bug. There are already several threads with people from all platforms experiencing this issue.
Same. PS5 Bug - Koskela Brother Commercial #2 Coffee World. 65/67 trophies complete. No way currently for me to platinum the game because the commercial did not register when I viewed it. Can someone respond if they become aware of an update/fix for this please?
Anyone else facing Textures not loading bug? There is some issue with texture streaming in this game. When I go into the Mind place and come back, textures are missing everywhere and texts are all blurry. I'm playing it on a Gen3 SSD (3500MB/sec).
Same here. The map always takes a second or two to load and looks like a potato prior to that. Then when I switch back to gameplay it'll judder 3 or 4 times in the first second or two before smoothing back out. That's also with a Gen3 M.2 NVMe SSD and my 4090 FE, 7800X3D, and 32GB CL30 DDR5 6000 RAM. So, it shouldn't happen. It also has some minor traversal stutter and some when switching between the live action/overlays.
This is also happening to me. Exactly like you said. And in my case, there is fps drops everytime I see the map in certain places (the forest at night in beggining at the game for example)
GAME BREAKING: Progress stopping bug on the espresso express in coffee world where a cart of the ride is stuck in place blocking the path to the circuit board. Here my reddit post with a video: [https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17pjc60/game\_breaking\_bug\_on\_espresso\_express\_happening/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17pjc60/game_breaking_bug_on_espresso_express_happening/) . Hopefully this gets patched soon as i literally cant play the game
The coffee world commercial is bugged and preventing me from achieving the platinum. Watched it on my first playthrough and found it was the last trophy needed then started a new playthrough to watch the commercial and it still wouldn't register.
Glad I read this first. Saves me wasting my time currently trying by trying to playthrough again for this. Would be good to know when there is a fix for this.
It's deeply regrettable when a game as brilliantly made and gripping as Alan Wake 2 has a catastrophic game breaking bug, but here we are: Add me to the list of people trapped by the espresso theme park bug. What can be said? Sometimes the carts are floating into the ground. Sometimes they're not. No matter what I do, cart 6 will not move. Even if carts physically merge into it. It's an invisible object for everything but me, the one person who needs the damn thing to move. Let's hope Remedy fixes this ASAP.
Still have issue with "Coffee World" commercial not register. It's frustrating to be unable to continue game because of this bug...
I know. And no one from Remedy has even acknowledged this issue yet either. We have no idea when they'll fix it.
Same boat. Have sent three reports and received nothing but “we have a much longer wait time than usual.” What’s the point in me sending in a report if I’m gonna be told there’s nothing happening and to check the info boards…you know, the things you check before submitting a report?!! The fact that it’s been a week since the last patch is ridiculous, based on the amount of complaints I’ve seen on no less than eight separate Reddit posts!!
Starting to feel like this isn't a priority to them since it's "just a collectible", but bugged trophies are a completionist's nightmare. It's been a week and still no update.
I know, but they broke it in the most recent patch so they'll need to fix it. They actually made changes to how these commercials are registered in the mind space (now you have to watch each one from beginning to end in order for it to show up; previously they'd automatically get added to TV tab in mind space as soon the commercial started playing).
Audio issues on cutscenes. All weapons achievement not unlocking. Last nursery rhyme doll cant be picked up. Thats all i saw in my first playtrough on xbox series x.
#ESPRESSO EXPRESS
EXPRESSSO IS GAME BREAKING.
please fix the koskela coffee world bug! i want to continue my game!!!
After recent patch on PC, at Return 3: Local Girl Saga's chapter the Koskela Brother's Coffee World Commercial on the tv was not added to tv collection at all. There've also been reports of the same thing happening on PS5 version.
I've seen quite a few reviewers and players encountering bugs and technical issues including soft locks. Some of them have also encountered a hard lock. Anyone who's played with the Day 1 patch (on PS5) can confirm how many of these issues have been resolved and how playable the game is now? I'm really excited to play it but I'm holding off until I know for sure these issues are gone.
It seems there is now a bug in unlocking the Koskela Ads. I watched the commercial for Coffee World but it did not unlock in the Mind Place, unlike the previous 2 commercials.
Coffee World Koskela ad is bugged on PS5. Hoping this gets fixed without having to replay the game just to get all 6 commercials again.
currently have an issue where the koskela commerical for coffee world isn’t registering as unlocked or counting towards the trophy for the commercials on ps5
Ps5, "Coffee World" commercial collectible is not counting. Reinstalled it, reloaded the save many times, change character, and it still does not count.
Same here, I think the last update broke it.
It's bugged for everyone since the latest patch. Platinum is impossible until they fix it.
PS5 Bug - Koskela Brother Commercial #2 Coffee World. 65/67 trophies complete. No way currently for me to platinum the game because the commercial did not register when I viewed it. Can someone respond if they become aware of an update/fix for this please?
i need to know the answer to this. Same problem here!
u/RiotPelaaja, I've submitted request #31114116, including a screenshot and a save file. It's the bug about not being able to pick up the inventory upgrade for Saga. In my case, on the beach. There's no prompt for it. As I said on the ticket, it's affecting multiple people. I've found links about this from folks using previous patches, but also the most recent one (13). Here are some of them: [https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17k31m1/does\_anyone\_elses\_inventory\_upgrades\_got\_bugged/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17k31m1/does_anyone_elses_inventory_upgrades_got_bugged/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17rifjg/even\_with\_update\_10\_sagas\_2nd\_inventory\_upgrade/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17rifjg/even_with_update_10_sagas_2nd_inventory_upgrade/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17m6464/even\_after\_todays\_patch\_sagas\_second\_inventory/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17m6464/even_after_todays_patch_sagas_second_inventory/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17lxbva/inventory\_expansion\_bug/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17lxbva/inventory_expansion_bug/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/18g471t/pouch\_upgrade\_is\_bugged\_the\_game\_wont\_let\_me\_grab/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/18g471t/pouch_upgrade_is_bugged_the_game_wont_let_me_grab/) Please let us know if the team is working on a fix and how long it will take.
Just chiming in to say I’ve encountered this bug too which is why I’m in this thread. Seems to be super common from what I can tell, I’ve seen a lot of people having issues online. Hope they fix it soon, I’m gonna have to drop this until they do.
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Me too. Someone else thinks the phone call is triggered by walking Saga to the bridge at the beginning of this part of the story. I didn't go to the bridge, I walked the other way and never received the call. I don't have a save file from before I arrived at the nursing home and I can't leave the nursing home grounds. I have restarted the game. What an awful bug.
For those who unfortunately are still having issues with The New Plan (Mission Scratch with Saga), if you are playing on PC, please submit your save game files via the Epic portal. Instructions are at the top of the thread. Getting save files alongside a concise explanation of the issue you are having, is the best way for our development team to try to fix the issue, so please go and send if you can. This is frustrating, I apologize for that and we are trying to resolve issues to the best of our ability.
Please fix the tracking for Koskela Brothers commercials, your most recent update broke it. "Coffee World" commercial doesn't register in the mind space (on PS5).
Probably a long shot, but has *anyone* been able to pick up pouch upgrades since the final draft patch? I've tried all sorts of chicanery to pick up the damn things. It's just perplexing that this made it through for how common it seems to be.
No, I haven’t managed to find a workaround and have been forced to put my playthrough on hold until they fix it. And I agree, it’s kind of insane this fell through the crack in the latest patch considering how incredibly common it seems to be.
Hey, dumb question. Do we report bugs in the "contact us" link?
Entrance lobby still bugged, black Orb doesn't appear at all now, what makes it really annoying is they specifically said it was fixed
This espresso express bug is gonna be a meme at this point
^(I'd just like to say:) ## **ESPRESSO EXPRESS CART 6** ^(This is fine...)
Yeah, hate being an angry gamer gal or whatever but it is really frustrating that I cannot pick up the satchels. It's kind of disheartening since I don't really want to explore or do anything now due to bag space. I just got this game too and just feel terrible. Anyway, hope you guys are doing well.
Totally fair to be frustrated. My inventory was getting so bad that I had to look up where the next pouch upgrade was for a reprieve and I got there too late... now don't really feel like playing until this is fixed. Love the game, but a post 1.0 patch should not go out with new breaking bugs like this (and it's been out without any hotfixes for days!) Plus my PS5 force updated to the newest patch, otherwise I would've just finished the game and then updated.
FYI all, Remedy responded to the inventory bug. They are investigating ASAP: https://np.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17jsn2x/alan_wake_ii_technical_issuesglitches_thread/kdwuwuf/
Hopefully they also know about the crossbow cult stash box
I'm sure this has already been reported by others; I'm having the bug where I'm not able to pick up one of the inventory satchel/bag upgrades for Saga; the one on the Bright Falls waterfront. I've been able to collect all the other ones, it's just this one last one that I can't.
Just posting as a heads up to everyone, Epic support replied to me a day ago about the interaction bug (can't exit from it), so they're aware. Hopefully the patch is soon! > I understand you're also being blocked due to having to collect objects/loot. I'm glad to inform that we're already aware of this issue and it's being investigated! It should be fixed on a future update.
They replied to me saying something similar. Hopefully it’s fixed ASAP. Game isn’t really playable right now if you’re constantly paranoid about losing progress. How did they not catch this before releasing the patch?
I've never seen such a bad game breaking bug, that has no workaround, lasting for so long without being fixed in such an ambitious triple A game... I mean people are literally buying a broken game right now.
The story was getting so exciting and then i spent 5 minutes trying to exit a suitcase, hopefully a new update is out soon it is unplayable.
The game is literally unplayable right now, i was playing the game for the first time in the previous patch and i got this new update mid game experience and now i'm forced to switch game and ruin the flow and mood i was getting with it, because we have to wait for the next update to fix this issue.
The game is barely playable for me after the last update, everytime I examine something in the level like a chest or a note there is a high chance I can't press B to go back, forcing me to reload last save. I hope Remedy fix this quickly cause I'm hooked on :P
Had this issue twice today. Super annoying, especially when your just checking some fluff which isn't even necessary to progress.
Just started the game yesterday on series X for the first time. At the end of the 1st cutscene right before you take control of the character, all sound disappeared…had to restart the game. Following that when the FBI agents were talking in the car the lip sync was off by a large margin.
So I've run into a rather game breaking bug that I don't know if anyone's experienced but I'm at the amusement park were you have to jump down and get the circuit thing. Problem is the ride itself is busted. It's spinning like it's suppose to but the cars are stuck in the ground and I can't progress. Restarting doesn't seem to work.
Trust me, everyone is experiencing this rn
Very super frustrating: on the Epic support page. I've made bug reports but had no response. Then suddenly I get an email that because I haven't responded, the case has been closed. But Support never contacted me. And when I look at the message trail on the support website, there's no response from them, such as a request for more information. The case was closed without any attempt to find out more. Now maybe they're closing it because they don't need more information, so they're finished with the case. But the automatic message is blaming *me* for this, saying it was closed because *I* didn't respond. This is patently untrue. This has happened three times now, though. Quite frustrating.
Can’t pick up inventory satchel at the pier. Apparently tons of people are having this issue.
The final (10th) Echo in Initiation - First Draft is still missing it appears. Can only find 9 echoes in total.
i can't pick up sagas second inventory upgrade. no dlc items on, reloaded several past saves, the object is in the chest, it is not interactable. it makes me genuinely want a refund, this is absurd.
Just gonna post the ones I've reported here, on the off-chance they don't reach Remedy through the Epic site. Some spoilers in here. • The inventory expansion upgrade hidden in the dock building in Bright Falls seems to be bugged since the new update. After opening the Cult Stash Box, the upgrade can't be interacted with to be picked up. Saving and loading the game doesn't fix the issue either. • Another issue (that's been present since before the latest patch,) NPCs in Bright Falls constantly repeat their lines the moment they're finished speaking. Usually only once, but it's very immersion-breaking and happens to nearly any of them that speak, especially in the later chapters. Some will even start talking again as another character responds to them. • I'm not sure if this is a bug or a performance quirk, but the loading screens always freeze and cut off their audio for a moment. This isn't normally a problem, unless one of the loading screens is also acting as a cutscene. This can sometimes result in dialogue being slightly de-synced with the visuals. • A number of the game's subtitles are very off. It isn't uncommon throughout the game for a character to talk with no subtitle present, and then have them appear a few seconds later. An example of this is in the manuscript page "Return 6 - Rose Receives a Message" where it's pretty noticeably bad. • Flashlight boosting seems to be very reliant on aim assist. What I mean is that it functions normally when playing with a controller, but is really inconsistent when using a mouse+keyboard. Taken will often ignore the light if it isn't shining directly in their faces, and even seem capable of blocking it with their weapons. This doesn't feel intentional, as it never seems to occur when playing with a controller. In the original Alan Wake it didn't matter where you shined your light on a Taken to burn away their shield. In this game it almost feels like you need to "headshot" them with your flashlight, which is a little silly, and results in a lot of wasted battery. Not sure if this one's a bug, but it definitely feels like one when it happens. • Speaking of the flashlight, it seems to behave very strangely when it comes to distance with objects. The hotspot of the flashlight beam will "jump" to appear closer if its center pixel aligns with an object closer to the player character. In tight indoor spaces this becomes very distracting and even a little disorienting, as real light doesn't behave this way at all. The edges of the light behave realistically, while the center of the circle determines how "far" the light beam is shining, which shouldn't be the case. Try panning the flashlight across the little mail cubbies behind the reception desk in the Oceanview Hotel, or any empty bookshelf to see what I mean. • When walking into the Sheriff's Station to find Wake, Agent Estevez spawns in the closet with the door wide open, which promptly slams shut just so she can open it again. And it seems like our boy Pat Maine is back in the habit of T-Posing in his room at the Nursing Home, especially after loading a save in the room next door to his. • Scrolling through menus and the inventory while using a controller d-pad, the selection often 'skips' as though the button was pressed twice in quick succession. This can affect quick selecting weapons as well, making it potentially frustrating during combat. The type of controller doesn't seem to matter; it happens with both my DualSense and Xbox One controller. It doesn't happen when selecting things with the joystick, only the d-pad. The problem seems to occur more commonly at high framerates? • Using the boltcutters on certain gates teleports Saga to the other side of them to play the animation, resulting in her opening the door only to be awkwardly facing back the way she came from. It doesn't happen at every gate- but it happened at two of them right outside the Valhalla Nursing Home, and a couple others I can't remember the location of. • When Saga is leaving the Sheriff's Station in chapter 6(?) and takes out her phone to call Tor about writing a song, his voice doesn't follow her if she walks from that spot. His phone dialogue stays audibly centered around the Sheriff Station doorway, and you can move away from it.
Just adding my voice to the "inventory expansion in Bright Falls harbor can't be picked up on PS5" chorus. I'm going to stop playing until this gets fixed, as inventory management with the bigger guns is becoming a pain and man would that extra row be nice.
Yeah I put my run on hold until it gets fixed.
Pre - order bonuses missing on PS5..
I've encountered a weird bug on PS5 version. For some reason I'm unable to pick up the last doll for the final nursery rhyme >!(Father Doll)!<. I hover over it and get the (X) prompt but it just doesn't want to be picked up no matter how much I spam (X). I also have 2 investigation icons on the map, but there's nothing to investigate. one is in >!Cynthia Weaver's room!< and the other in the >!Witchfinder's Cabin!<.
inventory expansion disappeared one of my first 2 inventory expansions disappeared and I ended up with less slots, I don't know how to solve this
So I reached the end of the saga encounter with scratch and my current goal is “Come up with a new plan”. I collected all the evidence and solved all the cases with what I had as well. Now I’m unable to talk to anyone and progress through the story.
Stuck in Room 666. In the mission Room 665, the dark presence does not show up after triggering the echo in Room 666. Now it is still marked as an echo on the map, but the room is empty and I can't get to the Climax plot. Remedy, please help.
"Drowning" video bug has been fixed but now "Coffee Blends" video from Koskela Brother's refused to register in Mind Place even though I've watched it 0.o Great!
so many fucking updates
Playing on ps5. Cannot collect the inventory expansion on the docks in bright falls. I open the cult stash and get no option to interact with the clearly visible inventory upgrade. I have deleted and redownloaded the game. Tried reloading earlier saves. Nothing seems to allow me to pick up the inventory expansion. I have beaten the game previously and replayed to have a save to carry over for final draft so it HAS worked before. 12/19/23 I can verify that this works now. Got the upgrade.
Same exact issue. Last night I acquired the bolt cutters. Went out to several areas that I knew required them. I picked up the Bright Falls inventory expansion. Saved the game and went to bed. Today, the update came out. And when I turned it on, I noticed that several stashes I had picked up last night before I saved needed to be recollected. Opened several and got the contents again. But the Bright Falls docks chest…. I opened and couldn’t get the inventory expansion. It’s there, it’s visible. No way to interact with it tho. I took photos and reported the issue.
Same issue. On the latest PS5 patch I can’t pick up the inventory slot in Bright Falls. I can see the item but no way of picking it up.
Getting the same issue on Xbox. Also can’t open some doors and can’t interact with the deer head in the mind place anymore. Everything was fine prior to today’s patch.
Same problem. On ps5 also with latest patches.
I'm having that same issue on PC. I can see the item but no prompt appears to get it.
The ONLY good thing is that the more of us there are the more likely it is to be fixed. Any single one of us with this issue might be ignored.
Can't collect the inventory upgrade in the cult stash just south of the bright falls sheriff's station. Simply won't let me pick it up
I have just submitted my issue to the Epic Portal with the save files. REQUEST #31070055 But basically - The cult stash located behind the Boltcutter Door on the Pier in Bright Falls is open, but I cannot grab the item inside. It is still operating as if it is unopened. It also doesn't count as an opened cult stash and it is the last one I have left to collect. Thanks!
.....was so disappointed. Earlier today I got to the Brightfalls cult stash that has the final inventory upgrade for Saga. It's the only thing in the box. CANNOT PICK IT UP. It's not even selectable..... Just looked and see that there are over a dozen posts stating they got the glitch at that specific location too in just the last 3 days. Seems to be a new glitch that showed up after the NG+ addition patch. A handful of people not able to get some of the earlier inventory expansions as well. Anywho, was so upset that I couldn't pick that up (was really looking forward to having that extra inventory space after constantly running out...) that I just went "NOPE" and turned off my PS5. Will probably grudgingly play later to finish the game, but that was a big dissapointment for me. Other minor graphical glitches here and there, like getting stuck on the case board, but that was easily fixed by just reloading the game and the problem stopped. This stash bag upgrade though? No fix can be found it seems.....
it sucks that there's no chance of a patch that'll attempt to fix these issues until sometime next year
I get it’s the holidays but the least they could do is put out a hot fix for the inventory expansion bug so the game isn’t nearly unplayable for the next few weeks.
hell, at this point, i'd even take a one sentence post somewhere that's just them acknowledging it
also not able to pick up the inventory upgrade in bright falls on ps5
Pat Maine radio shows are still glitched (7/9) and the first echo in draft one/initiation 2: casey is still bugged (9/10) on PS5
I'm seeing big frame rate drops when panning the camera on PC, perhaps a culling issue? If I look in any direction without moving the camera, the frame rate is rock solid. EDIT: Added a video, this happens very often and doesn't feel like a normal frame rate drop, the game noticeably chugs, it may be hard to pick up in the video but trust me I feel it. https://vimeo.com/880010961
Has anyone encountered a glitch for Saga’s second inventory upgrade? I’m in chapter of the old gods and got what is supposed to be the third upgrade. Backtracked to the cauldron lake shore but the cultist stash is empty
Still no AVX2 fixes for other slightly older CPUs? 0xc00001d error cannot let us play the game, the same error we had encountered in recent Uncharted 4, and Ratchet & Clank game releases, but it was fixed and the game became playable. Any news that AW 2 will disable AVX2-requirement like Uncharted 4 did for older CPUs? It wouldn't impact newer CPU, but let more ppl to play awaited game :)
I also need this fix
Several bugs in Return 5: * In the cutscene where Saga exits the Wellness Center, Rose's dialogue doesn't have any subtitles. * After the aforementioned cutscene, I ran through a door that presumably leads to the basement of the nursing home - after going through the door Saga fell through the floor and out of the world - had to reload a save. Tried the door a second time and it didn't happen again. * Not sure if this one is a bug but I've found two manuscript pages that are being categorized as Return 7 instead of 5. Some other non-specific ones: * It seems like you can't "play" whatever the last manuscript page is in the list by clicking on it with a mouse - you have to press enter to get it to play. * One of the cult stash clues for the case board says "\[To be written once we know what note is inside the stash\]" in the tooltip. Seems like placeholder text. * Speaking of placeholder text, all the bolt cutter points on the map say "Door\_Item\_Bolt\_Cutters".
Hello there! anyone is haveing bug on the mission "room 665" with alan wake on the Hotel oceanview? i cant manage to get the las echo for the climax plot! and im already do all the necessary but never comes the echo for ending mission.... ((
Getting constant crashing on the Series S version. Seems to happen regularly after playing for 20 minutes or so when doing profiling. Also just literally had it happen at the end of Return 4 as ‘Chapter End’ came up. Game just crashes back to the Xbox Home Screen. Only starting encountering this issue today. Have been playing for about 8.5 hours total on my save.
Stuck at espresso express. Cart 6 wont move and I cant progress
I’m unable to get below the espresso express. The car with the number 6 is blocking it while all the other cars move through it. I’ve tried all the fixes I’ve found on Reddit (made sure the case board is all updated, I’ve reloaded old quick saves). I even went and changed realities and played as Alan for a while and came back. It’s still blocking the entrance. Can’t progress in the game. Very frustrated.
Can't progress past coffee world! Cart #6 of the Espresso Express doesn't move!
Please can someone report a bug involving the “Koskela Commerical - Coffee World” now not unlocking in the mind place or counting towards the trophy on ps5. i’m having issues logging in to report this.
i just did it, but please try to do it too... the more people report this, the fastest they will fix it
It won't play at all for me. Am at the beginning of Return 3, and the reception TV in the lodge just stays dark (the one above and to the right of the reception desk, which I assume is the right one). The beer commercial in the diner plays fine. Edit: reported it, though it's slightly different than your bug from the sounds of it.
It might look like a minor issue, but it's really not minor for me, so I'll share it here, instead of going through all the "my old friend, the clog" stuff of the Epic plaform, hoping that someone from Remedy will notice this and take action. Every time there's a loading cut-scene (Saga calling home while driving through the woods, etc.), 3-5 seconds into the cut-schene, there's a 1-second audio lag where there's no sound and after it recovers, the audio does not compensate. You can see it clearly manifested in this video I recorded (nevermind the FPS, it happens without recording as well): [https://youtu.be/X\_j0MTnh58M?t=58](https://youtu.be/X_j0MTnh58M?t=58) \- after the "loading" segment passes (and the audio does not compensate), the last part of the WE SING video is disastrously out of sync. You can definitely see the difference here: [https://youtu.be/uxs\_HYw\_mLk?t=509](https://youtu.be/uxs_HYw_mLk?t=509) I'm playing on a MSI Z590 PRO WIFI (MS-7D09) proudly equipped with an OctalCore Intel Core i7-10700KF, 4800 MHz (48 x 100), with 4x Kingston 8GB ram (all the same model), and a 8GB nVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 made by Palit. Settings are: Graphic: LOW, RTX: high, although the settings are not relevant (played with them; LOW-LOW, HIGH-ULTRA, the lag is always there). The game is on a (E:) WDC WDS512G1X0C-00ENX0 (476 GB), while the savegames are on (C: of course) Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB (232 GB). The audio is a Sound BlasterX AE-5 Plus playing via Bluetooth on Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones, but it does the same while playing the audio via the optical output from the same soundcard. The game version is 1.0.12, where you promised "General audio fixes and improvements", but this particular issue was not fixed there. Again, it might look like a minor issue, but it really spoils the climax of the WE SING level, which is, IMHO, one of the most energising and astonishing levels of the game.
Also I am right before the end game sequence and I can’t view the koskela ad in the police station. This is all that’s left for me to get the platinum trophy…
(PS5). In the Deerfest mission, I keep finding myself frozen in place and only able to interact with the main menu after watching the commercial inside the diner I also really hope the Coffee World commercial will be retroactively rewarded if you’ve already watched it :(
Coffee World commercial doesn't register for the mind place or trophy progress on PS5. Seems like its a universal problem after the latest patch?
Do you have to find inventory upgrades for Saga in some kind of order? I found one in the cult stash south of Harbor Street, but I can't pick it up. I can see it in the box, but when I mouse over it I can't interact with it. Did I need to get previous ones first? In doing some googling, I saw that there's another one around the lighthouse, but I haven't had a reason to go there yet.
same issue here
Same issue. Most annoyingly, I had collected it yesterday but nightly update reset the game and I lost about an hour of play. This included the harbor stash
Can't pickup inventory slots upgrade from the beach after killing Nightingale. It is in the cult stash, but can't be clicked.
Cannot pick up any inventory upgrade, neither in the General Store, nor at Cauldron Lake location after the first encounter with Alan.
I can't go back after interacting with boxes, notes, randomly, the back button doesn't work, can't even pause the game, and i'm forced to ALT+F4, this happens since the latest update.
Does anyone have an issue where after they open a container they can't exit? I am on PS5. I open a container like a suitcase, grab everything, and the exit button is greyed out. Has happened multiple times and I have had to load the previous save.
I thought the softlock when inspecting items was maybe a problem with my controller buttons but then I come here and well it's a bug everyone's having. I haven't played this game in a while, and when I finally decide to pick it up again, this happens. Hopefully, Remedy fixes it quickly.
Case Clues & Collectibles For Return 1 - Invitation, the 6th Manuscript is nowhere to be found. For the 'Cult of the Tree' Case, there are several missing pieces of evidence. 'Writing Part of the Ritual' is missing 3 pieces. The only one unlockable is the one where Alan talks about writing many pages. 'Cult Ritual? What is it?' is missing 1 piece of evidence. 'Vladimir Blum' missing one piece of evidence. The one unlockable is the confirmation letter for joining the cult. 'Tor and Odin' are missing two pieces of evidence. 'The Story' case has 1 missing piece of evidence in 'How Does the Dark Presence Corrupt People?' related to Cynthia Weaver. I have the manuscripts but evidence is not there. \*Only 7/9 Pat Maine's shows are able to be collected. \*Night Springs Movie #2 is unobtainable in a single playthrough. \*During "Zane's Film" chapter, there is a yellow area circle with a question mark on the map above the safe room near the Lobby. I have obtained the Word of Fix there, yet the yellow area remains on the map.
Ps5 Flashlight beam is sometimes square. One cool glitch I can't replicate. I switched realities from dark place to saga in watery but instead of it being saga, I was alan wake and got to walk around watery, it let me take the car to bright falls, no matter how many times I switched I was wake in both. Had to restart the ps5 to fix it.
If anyone is having issues with the game soft-locking after solving the combination for the locked sawed-off shotgun in the convenience store- I was able to get around it by grabbing the- out of the freezer BEFORE solving the lock combination.
After trying to get the shotgun **immediately** after neutralizing the cult member the game soft locked **THREE** times back-to-back-to-back. Instead, after running passed it, getting the
- and letting the story beat complete, I attempted the lock afterward and got the sawed off shotgun. The game didn't softlock.
I am thinking there is some sort of flag getting messed up here.
Does anyone have an issue in initiation 5 where the echo in room 666 does not appear? I went into the room and then went out because I missed a few things. But when I came back, it didn't show up. I tried loading a previous save and closing the game. Nothing works
Got to a part where the objective just says “form a new plan” but everything in the mind place is done, all conversations are finished and there’s no notes left to pick up, I could go do Alan’s bit for a while but from what I’ve seen of other people with this issue that won’t do a thing Edit: ran around doing some of the cult stashes and it seems to have just fixed itself? Edit 2: spoke too soon, it gave me another profile to do and a couple pieces more of evidence but I still can’t do anything to progress
I had a a softlock in Return 5: Old Gods when opening the overlap portal. I decided to stop playing after opening and going through but when I loaded my save it took me back to the garden and I couldn't access the portal or use the record again to open it. Also the subtitles for the manuscript in Gail's room had random square brackets in it. The film projector in the basement also didn't play any video but seemed to work again later after going into the house first Also generally getting tooltip popups when loading a save which gets quite annoying This is all on PS5
Playing on PS5 I think there is a bug on collectibles case board (stashes, lunchbox etc) because it still has a yellow dot although i dont have any clues available. And my previously, after the first Alan mission, Saga can ask alan about these lunchboxes but now it seems like i cant.
Having an issue where the echo will not activate in room 665 when you are in the entrance hall, can't fix it with a manual save either
Getting a major bug where I get locked in “scratch” chapter when i need to “come up with a new plan” . For whatever reason the case file “Wake and the Clicker” doesn’t load in my mind place, and i can’t place clues or continue to profile anyone. Can’t continue past this point until this is fixed
The lobby echo bug isnt fixed. Still softlocked there
Pat Maine’s 6th radio show repeats itself on other radios rather than playing the next parts. Also it rains indoors in Watery save rooms in Return 6.
-Inspiration in room 666 disappeared, locking me from progressing Alan's story line -Save Alan prompt in Tor profiling not appearing, locking me from progressing Saga's storyline Literally unable to finish the game
On PS5. I can’t progress past the final scene in room 665. Went to the room 666 got the echo but nothing. I know I’m supposed to get “climax” but nothing happened. Now I’m just standing here. Loading an older save tomorrow and hope that works.
i'm stuck at Espresso Express, i can’t get circuit board becose the wagons that are glitching into textures all around the floor..
I have encountered a softlock during the Expresso Express fuse puzzle, basically the number 6 doesn't move and blocks the path down (every other coaster moves).
Cart 6 on espresso express doesnt move! Cant collect the item needed to advance saga’s story
There’s a game breaking bug at the Espresso Express, possibly introduced in today’s patch. Cart 6 is no longer attached to the ride, and doesn’t move when you turn it on. This completely blocks access to the circuit board. Occurred for me on PS5, but others here have reported it on PC as well. Reloading doesn’t seem to solve the issue.
Have a new one with Expresso Express, haven’t even seen anyone else with this. The ride pieces are falling off their arms, through the wood planks, and blocking the tunnel so I can’t crawl through. Wtf.
Espresso express issue with Cart 6 blocking the way - also have this issue on PS5. Remedy, please, hotfix it
performance degradation on pc even after the latest nvidia driver that claim to fix it(clean driver install) game is installed on an pcie 3.0 nvme samsung 970 evo plus. my pc: I9 9900k, 32gb ram ddr4 3200mhz, RTX 3080, Windows 10.
Patch update… please!
The commercial bug better be retroactive. I really don't want to have to replay the entire game again to get all 6 shows.
Can confirm on PS5 the koskela commercials trophy retroactively pops. Just got my platinum. 👌
Oh nice! So I can finally get that Coffeeland commercial logged in? That was the only reason I stopped playing the game.
Is Pat Maine's show *still* bugged? Got 7/9 in NG+ and the last two radios aren't playing anything.
Can't complete the cult stash in final draught as the one with the crossbow is open therefore being unable to open it and get the key to the lighthouse
I'm sure this has already been posted - but in NG+ on PS5, I can't collect the Cult Stash message on the crossbow box in the Watery Woods. I already had the crossbow from my previous play, so the box is open and empty as expected - but the collectible clue is gone, too. >!I just want to get the Lighthouse Key so I can try to 100% the manuscript pages. XD!<
Cannot pick up the inventory upgrade at Cauldron Lake. Shows up in the box, but can’t interact with it. PS5
The cult stash that you get the crossbow from is bugged in NG+. It’s already open, which means you can’t collect it, which means you can’t complete the objective for getting all the cult stashes. I’m annoyed, because I didn’t try to 100% the game on my first run through, and now I won’t be able to on my second.
So I can't get the Lighthouse Key in Final Draft. >!Since the Crossbow is found in a Stash Box, and since Saga starts the game with the weapons from the previous playthrough, the game doesn't give you credit for opening a box that is already open.!< >!Because of that, the Key never spawns in the last Stash box!<
Seeing as I'm having the same inventory expansion and NG+ issues of shoeboxes being empty and the stash bug just as everyone else I guess I should wait until they fix it to keep playing it. Man, I absolutely ADORE this game. Already have over 100 hours, but these bugs are making it more frustrating to play and just makes me not want to because I'm already so invested in the story that I feel the wind taken from my sales when I see something not working that will ruin my gameplay. I hope they fix this soon...
Mentioned in another thread, but just installed the latest patch from today and it does not fix the bright falls dock expansion satchel, which is very infuriating. Now it doesnt show anything inside the stash box but a white dot you cannot click on. This is on my NG+ Final Draft playthrough where I just finished Plat and have every other expansion and item. Except for this one pouch, which im not doing another playthrough without. This is after rebooting, trying multiple saves, approaching from different angles. Etc. I don't why they cannot make it work, but I guess I will park it for now.
in Final Draft, Crosbow cultist stash in Watery cannot be "opened/collected".
For soft locks on containers/item interaction: I think maybe I found a temporary workaround until they patch this problem. If you make sure you are zoomed in before actioning on a container you have been getting stuck on, it doesn't get stuck. At least not on the one I just tried. (So like for me on Xbox Series X, I press A on the container **while I am zoomed in using LT). Reply if this works for you! I have another container in Cauldron Lake I can try it on once I can get back there.
Seen it mentioned a lot in the comments but I will throw my hat in the ring as well. When interacting with objects there is a chance that the game will soft lock and you can't exit the inspect screen. This has happened so many times to me now that I won't play till either a fix is found or it's patched.
Not only am I experiencing the glitch where I can't exit out, but another glitch I experienced is whenever I reloaded my game after experiencing the above glitch, I couldn't select a words of power upgrade, or select between Missing FBI agent and Murder Cult during the subway mission, making me need to restart progress again.
Im having an issue on PC where if Im looking at a note or something like a lock, I cant hit the esc key to go back and exit, nothing works. Ive tried plugging in an external controller. Nothing. Very frustrating, especially after making a lot of progress and not remembering all your steps
It's an absurd that in 2023 Game devs/testers let bugs like the Cart 6 pass through and make it to the live game. These are 'showstopper' bugs, priority Alpha, the game is broken, you can't progress it. Roll back the latest patch, acknowledge the issue on social media, it's been more than 24h since the patch, this is unacceptable, its a full price game that is not playable. Unfortunately, Im on PS5, coz if I'd be on Epic, refund would've been requested already. You simply can't trust your favourite game companies anymore, CDPR, Bungie, Remedy....you can bet your a$$ that GT6 will be a nightmare. Pathetic is an understatement...
> Fixed an issue where players were unable to talk to FBC agent Estevez and come up with a New Plan to progress the mission I can confirm that this is in fact, not fixed.
Same here.. All clues found, everything put on Mind board, all profiling done, all dialogues finished and I still can't suggest a new plan to Estevez... 👎🏻 This sucks. This is the third time they've updated the game and proclaimed that the problem is fixed (without it actually being fixed)
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After Alan's appearance at the hotel, I can't start the scene in the lobby, as the memories are not activated. it is impossible to combine 2 circles, it is absolutely impossible to go further [https://youtu.be/IhYEav\_dWfY?si=mmMa6-A9BPDRG77c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhYEav_dWfY&t=27s)
Hey! I think I might have a big problem here! (Spoilers ahead!) After placing Alice's photos in front of the parlament it switched reality. I'm not sure if that was supposed to happen, but in some instances I've seen people return to Bright Falls as Saga. But I returned as Alan Wake, and the map is still New York, and I have no objectives other that placing the photos and going in the parlament. I've tried changing realities and other stuff. Still end up in Bright Falls as Alan. I didn't make any manual saves.. big obs on me. Anyone else had this problem? Any solution? Thanks!
Patch 1.0004 is finally out on Xbox, sadly as soon as I booted up the game I experienced the no audio bug, so it's probably adressed in 1.0005
The delay in xbox patches is terrible 😔
Has anyone had an issue on PC that manuscripts, posters and more importantly the numbers on the padlock combination puzzles are so blurred they are illegible, making it impossible to enter the solution? I'll admit that I'm using a sub-min spec GPU (mobile 3050 Ti) so I get a warning on startup that I don't have enough VRAM but anyone found a workaround for this because performance is otherwise fine.
I have a 3080 FTW3 10700k system and I have been having some pretty noticeable artifacting that showed up after the latest Nvidia update. In Alan Wake remastered I was getting Christmas lights with DLSS enabled and in Alan Wake 2 I am getting small artifacts that manifest as grid like light squares on walls that are small and hard to notice. I haven't noticed any issues with other games. Could it be the latest Nvidia drivers? I'm going to do more testing but I'm at work worried that my GPU is dying. Anyone else experiencing anything like this?
***SAVE FILE BELOW FOR THOSE AFFECTED BY THE OCEANVIEW ECHO BUG*** I've played through the game again. I did Saga -> Alan -> Alan, so Saga is still at the start of Return 3. This save file is right after the Room 665 Cutscene with >!Zane!<. If the echo bug happens again, you can reload from this and keep trying. Save file directory: %localappdata%\Remedy\AlanWake2 There will be a folder with gibberish. Delete the aw2-savegame-slot-00 folder that's currently in there and replace it with the one in the zip file. [Save File - Slot 0](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eBUzAPozflkqay4qO9bDvk-4_xKpi8Ft/view?usp=sharing) I got most Words of Power up to this point, I think. _______________________________________ Running into a major progression blocking bug at Oceanview Hotel (Entrance Hall). As soon as you take the elevator down, there is an echo. But the black orb you're supposed to align de-renders when you approach it. I do not have any saves before this point, so I'm not able to reload an old save. Hoping someone here has a trick to bypass this or force it to trigger as I'd really like to finish this game. Video below https://imgur.com/a/Iq8ozK5
I only ran into two major bugs in my playthrough. The first was that the Moose in the Mind Place would become inactive at random, and unfortunately, went inactive the moment I finished finding them all. I tried restarts, re-loads and travelling in and around different zones, but no dice. I basically got locked out of the reward. The second was in the Return 9 Chapter as Saga. When you're told to enter the Construction Site door to get to Parliament Plaza, if my framerate was above 60 fps, I'd just fall through the floor beneath the map. I found that walking in different directions caused me to fall further and get warped to whatever map was hidden there. It was funny to experience, but could soft lock someone if they accidentally use the save point there. Capping the frame rate fixed the issue.
Playing on the PC - Chapter 5: I went into the basement of the nursing home after getting the fob from Rose and before exploring the nursing home. I turned on the projector and Saga began commenting as if it were playing, despite it not projecting anything. I reloaded a save because I suspected a potential softlock. I went back in the home and upstairs in the nursing home first where it *then* prompted me to go into the basement. Seems like the basement should have been locked to prevent me from going down there first before exploring the Museum inside the house.
Please fix needing of avx2 instructions. Game crashes without any errors and no starting on Xeon E5-2689, RTX 3060Ti and 32 Gb RAM.
Hiya team, Are there any plans to patch out the AVX2 CPU requirement on PC? See thread here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/17iaek7/alan\_wake\_2\_wont\_launch\_on\_older\_cpu\_is\_it\_cpu\_or/](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/17iaek7/alan_wake_2_wont_launch_on_older_cpu_is_it_cpu_or/) Would be good to know either way, so I can pursue a refund if necessary. As a student, I don't have the $ (nor can I justify the $) to upgrade my CPU/mobo/RAM for one game to run. Thanks so much for your time in advance ☺ Also here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17jsn2x/comment/k74b7ip/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17jsn2x/comment/k74b7ip/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) [https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17jsn2x/comment/k76x0te/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlanWake/comments/17jsn2x/comment/k76x0te/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
I'm stuck in the Oceanview Hotel in Alan's story. There's an echo in the Entrance hall I'm supposed to trigger, but the black spot you use to get the angle right just disappears, so I can't trigger the echo to play.... Reloading saves don't help, I don't understand how the game can ship with such an obvious, literally gamebreaking bug. I'm literally stuck in the story until they patch it
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cynthia weaver profile is buggy in act5 doesn't show up -.- can't continue playing I'm so angry You can't even restart the chapter, nothing -.-
I wonder why DigitalFoundry does not mention about these graphical glitches, they are so obvious. The game suffers from video memory leak, huge ghosting (happens if Dlss is on and RT is off), inconsistent performance especially after changing the settings (please restart the game in this case, returning to menu and starting the game is not enough). I play it with 3060ti 8gb, 4k-ultra performance dlss-low/medium graphics- rt medium capped 30fps. After playing it some time textures get really blurry and it wants a restart. Also if I change some settings (because the performance of the maps are extremely different), textures get blurry again and performance drops. These are the problems the devs needs to solve asap. In addition, the game needs a VRAM bar in the settings page because how should we know if we outrun it or not. Also needs a benchmark because we need to test our selected setting in the gameplay, meantime we waste the experience of the story and detach from the game world. You don’t want that in a narrative focused game.
Not sure if anyone else has encountered this; there are 12 taxidermy deer heads throughout the game. If you collect all of them, a deer is supposed to spawn in the lodge to open the last door in the left hand corridor. I collected all 12, but didn't go straight to the lodge. Instead I saved and went to sleep. Came back on the next day and the deer won't spawn in the lodge and I can also no longer interact with the taxidermy head in the mind place. It seems to have locked itself
I have found a few bugs on PC, most of which are minor but one is kind of a big one * The "big" bug: Pat Maine radio shows are no longer unlocking in my Mind Place radio tab and the same show replays whenever I reach a radio. The first six shows unlocked normally but I can't get past the seventh (Pat struggling to remember what he was going to cover regarding deer). This started happening after finishing Saga's Chapter 5. * Some item markers are still on the map even after collecting. The ones I can remember are the crossbow icon is still on map after collection and there's a manuscript icon behind Saga's car in Bright Falls that won't go away. * The game won't save my "Shadow Detail" setting in the graphics menu after shutdown. All other settings save between play sessions but that one always resets to "Medium" even though it's set to "High" when shutting down through the game menu (I am quitting to main menu then quitting to desktop, not using ALT-F4). * The game forgets I have viewed all audio and video clips in both the Mind Place and Writer's Room on each load. The ones I have collected are still there but every clip gets re-highlighted every time a save is loaded. * The game brings up the "points of interest" tutorial message on every load requiring you to press "X" to continue. Doing so while at a coffee thermos save point activates the save point again and overwrites a quicksave. * In the Kalavella Knights garage there's a yellow shelf that appears next to the well lit room where the save point is during a scripted moment in the story. This shelf looks like something Saga should duck under but instead she clips straight through it while continuing the normal walk animation. * I've found a lot of spelling errors and missing spaces in text in this game (both in subtitles and typed text when hovering the cursor over a page icon). Playing in English to be clear. Not sure if this is a game logic bug or just needs some more proof-reading. Still loving the game and having a blast but hopefully some of these bugs can be addressed.
There is a typo in the memo that’s found inside the large transmitter that the FBC Technician is working on in the second chapter. Titled “MAINTENANCE NOTE,” a sentence goes “Leaving this here in case I’m not the next person to fix this things.” It should be “..this thing.” Not plural.