Hogwarts Legacy patch 1.04 patch notes released for PS4 and PS5 players. According to the official Hogwarts Legacy 1.04 update notes, the latest update addressed an issue with achievement data being properly pushed to Wizarding World portal after linking. Apart from this, the Hogwarts Legacy update 1.00.004 also adds additional retry connections to WB Games server in the event session expired.
Unfortunetly, since the release, players are experiencing various bugs and issues. Recently, a day-one update was also released with minor tweaks. More tweaks and changes are expected to come with Hogwarts Legacy update 1.04. Read more details below.
Related: Hogwarts Legacy Known Issues and Bugs.
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Hogwarts Legacy 1.04 Patch Notes
Bug Fixes:
General
- Gameplay
- Missions
- Resolved the player can permanently lock themselves out of the conversation with Natsai after using a manual saving during a mission.
- Resolved avatar being able to unlock the talent menu during a mission after reloading a manual
- Resolved Percival Rackham’s Trial not being able to be completed causing a progression blocker.
- Optimization triggering multiple auto-save requests
- Doors
- Resolved visual issues of door of the vault looking open from a far distance
- Resolved the avatar falling from the balcony when using prompt to open the door away from it
- Cinematics
- Resolved issue with the avatar and companion NPC’s in cinematics having their wands swapped for a generic one.
- Resolved Fig flickering away at the end of the first cinematic
- Resolved characters using generic NPC wands instead of their unique wands.
- NPC
- Resolved student NPCs standing in air in the courtyard after completing the tour with Everett Clopton
- Avatar
- Resolved the avatar’s robe moving unnaturally while drinking the potion if they are created immediately after making a manual save on another character’s slot
- VFX
- Resolved Professor Hecat’s apparate VFX is missing during a scripted event
- Achievements/Trophies
- Resolved “Allow “Known” Collection items to count correctly towards proper achievements
- Resolved Gregory and Goblet of fire field guide pages not showing complete after latest patch.
- Missions
- UI
- Updated localization overlapping issues related to location names
- Resolved quest tracking icon remaining on map and minimap after the quest is completed
- Resolved untracking missions in-game do not update their icons and/or disappear
- Resolved opening the map has a chance in softlocking the game
- Resolved intro outfit and robe being available in your gear appearances by default.
- Resolved the user getting stuck on the ‘Field Guide’ screen if they spam the [MENU] button while transitioning to the ‘Map’ screen
- Save Game
- Resolved save issue with Deathly Hallows
- Resolved restarting a manual save places Sir Nicholas at the mission’s starting point.
- Resolved reloading an autosave after gathering any collection chest allows the avatar to obtain the same chest rewards again
- Performance
- Resolved world unloading when the avatar stands at the top of the staircase near the Beast Hut
- Resolved the PS4 memory allocator being more robust and thread crashes after soaking
- Resolved memory optimization
- Resolved landscape streaming issues during Hogwarts
- Resolved localization crash when dictionaries are reloaded from a save game
- Resolved avatar falling out of world due to missing rocks at Coastal Cavern
- Resolved crash with light probes
- Resolved crash when opening ornate chests in the game
- Resolved crash during level and mission transitions/loading
- Resolved a crash when opening and closing pause menu during missions
- Resolved crash related to foliage
- Resolved crash fast traveling from Central Hall to Forbidden Forest floo flame
- Resolved a crash when fast traveling to Hogsmeade using Floo Flames
- Miscellaneous
- Update to game credits
- Resolved extra collision issue on spiral stair case pillar leading to the map chamber
- Resolved visible banding with weather decals
- Resolved several metal assets looking completely black in the last room of the Percival Dungeon”
The following changes were added previously.
Online
- Fixed issues with achievement data being properly pushed to Wizarding World portal after linking.
- Added additional retry connections to WB Games server in the event session expired
Gameplay
- Trophies
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- Fixed a trophy cap limit resolving the Collector’s Editiontrophy not updating correctly. This will retroactively unlock and display all earned trophies earned by the player. This resolves the following reported issues:
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- Owl Mail
- Fixed an issue with mail not properly triggering a sequential mission
- World Events
- Fixed rare crash around certain locations where in-game World Events spawn
- NPC
- Fixed a rare crash when respawning NPCs in the world
- Fixed crash with some NPC schedules
- Characters
- Fixed issues with flickering occurring with a transparent head while hair is still present
- UI
- Updated localization text for additional content items
- Added Build version to first time EULA
- Fixed rare occurrence of mission descriptions not being displayed correctly
- Cinematics
- Corrected VFX presentation of robe transformation
- Fixed a stability issue when skipping cutscenes
- Fixed a crash when playing cutscenes and cinematics
- Save Game
- Cleaned up autosaves properly when closing game
- Corrected a crash when save system was writing data
- Fixed error of rewriting last autosave slot
- Fixed an issue when restarting from last save around not being able to talk to a vendor after initial conversation.
- Performance and Stability
- Improved performance on Fidelity mode
- Fixed rare crash around hovering over the map
- Fixed issue with wind causing distortion and stretching of world assets
- Fixed a rare occurrence with material swapping
- Fixed a rare crash with map assets state
- Fixed Rare crash occurring with in-game world events
- Fixed a memory leak with global lighting system HL-313
- Fixed a crash when trying to solve a Flying Cabinet
- Owl Mail
PC Steam/PC Epic Games
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- Save Game
- Fixed rebuilding of Save Game list if manually deleted
- Performance and Stability
- Improved crash collection to help chase rare crashes
- Save Game
Related: Best Hogwarts Legacy Graphics Settings.
Download the free Hogwarts Legacy patch 1.004 on PlayStation 5.
