Outer Wilds game update 1.14 is now available to download on PS4, PS5, PC, and Xbox. According to the official Outer Wilds 1.14 patch notes, the latest update brings support for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. Apart from this, today’s Outer Wilds patch 1.14 also includes 4k 60fps support on next gen consoles.
Previously, a major update was released with quality-of-life improvements. Recently, a hotfix was also released.
Unfortunately, players are facing several bugs in the game. Today’s Outer Wilds version 1.14 will address a few of these issues.
What is new in today’s Outer Wilds 1.14 Patch Notes? – September 15, 2022
Gameplay
- Significant changes to Starlit Cove level design
- Playing Echoes of the Eye no longer requires a photographic memory
- Numerous revisions to visual clues and ship log entries pertaining to “the bottleneck” in Echoes of the Eye
- Echoes of the Eye’s conclusion now significantly less subtle
- Added a distracting way to exit a certain cove after it’s filled with water
- Moderate revisions to Shrouded Woodlands level design
- Added a wine cellar to the Endless Canyon
- Improved public transit between two islands beneath a starry sky
- Buffed reaction times during certain dark sequences
- Changes and bug fixes to certain behaviors in the Starlit Cove
- Fixed a softlock caused by jumping out of a grave
- Player character no longer gets stuck when walking slowly up or down stairs
- Ship autopilot now obeys the first law of thermodynamics
- Cracked down on two violations of the Rule of Quantum Imaging
- Meditation is now a valid path to quantum enlightenment
- Improved logic for “Rigidbody,” “Sleep Wake Repeat,” and “You’ll Never Take Me Alive!” achievements
- Various fixes for collision meshes hindering player movement
- Various minor sfx/audio fixes
- Various minor UI fixes
- Various minor gameplay fixes
Art & Visuals
- Improved depiction of a flight trajectory in Echoes of the Eye
- Added a new mural to a burned building in Echoes of the Eye
- Removed a mural and added a rug in the Cinder Isles Tower (it really ties the room together)
- Added and improved narrative-related art to support design changes
- Improved water traversal VFX in Echoes of the Eye
- Improved shader and meshes for a technology found in Echoes of the Eye
- New stair climbing animations in Echoes of the Eye
- The Party House loft now gets more popular over time
- An important quantum corpse can no longer be seen changing states
- Swapped the material on certain plant pots for historical accuracy
- Improved the presentation of a rooftop easter egg
- Texture fixes to Hearthian sky shutter satellite
- Slight lighting improvement on certain types of crystals, ice, and glass across the game
- Fixes for gaps and seams
- Rock fixes
- Various minor visual bug fixes
Tech
- Added alternative method to reset input bindings, see our Support Page for details
- Added a calibration screen for the Gamma setting
- Disable Screen Prompts settings now behaves more as expected
- Fixes pausing the game catapulting you into the options menu under certain circumstances
- Fixes HUD markers showing up in the wrong location at less common aspect ratios and resolutions
- The player should no longer be able to steal an important artifact (it does not, in fact, belong in a museum)
- Distant versions of planetary bodies should behave more as expected
- The player should no longer unexpectedly encounter rogue Brittle Hollow fragments
- Fixes the player getting jostled mid-transit when recalling a ship from a moon
- Fixes the player waking up in strange places in certain circumstances
- The player can no longer be seized in conditions that didn’t make sense
- Extensive input fixes
- Various UI fixes
- Minor optimizations across the solar system
Text & Localization
- Improvements to readability in some languages
- Fixed text color inconsistencies with certain messages
- Updates to the credits
- An easter egg now loads better in some languages
- Fix for some missing characters in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
- Minor text fixes
- Minor fixes to localizations
PC Only Changes
- Updated default PS4 controller mappings
- Added a indicator for unsupported controllers
- Added a default file for secret settings
- On the Windows Store version, save files no longer get wiped when switching from Game Pass Windows PC to Cloud-supported platforms (Xbox, etc)
- Added support for PS4 and Xbox Series X/S
- Added 4k 60fps support.
- Various bug fixes and changes.
Stuttering workaround
Additional vsync settings
- Some users have reported extreme choppiness running at lower framerates on higher framerate monitors. In these cases, it’s possible that changing the vsync count can improve the situation by forcing the game to sync with the monitor at a more regular pace.
Download free Outer Wilds patch 1.14 on Sony PlayStation 4.
