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It ’s been almost one year sinceAlan Wake 2released , and the developer at Remedy Entertainment are celebrating with a large update that makes the plot more accessible thanks to options to greatly reduce the difficulty .

In apost published Monday , the studio apartment announce a serial publication of quality - of - living update , along with more features in the Gameplay Assist menu . These assist pick can help you to , if you so prefer , concentrate difficultness on scrap to almost nothing . you’re able to toggle on player invulnerability and player immortality , so that you ’ll never die . If you want to turn over down the survival horror kale aspect , you could typeset it so you have multitudinous ammunition and torch battery . There ’s even a one - shot killing feature if you want to steamroller over enemies .

Alan Wake stands in front of a movie theater in Alan Wake 2.

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Turning these features on diminishes the scares by quite a moment , but they could be first-class option for the great unwashed who were either too frightened to clean upAlan Wake 2or can just use some canonical gameplay to experience what the story , visuals , and music have to offer .

Beyond fighting , Remedy has added a characteristic that let you turn back the X axis with computer mouse and comptroller instead of just the Y axis vertebra , which it says was a extremely bespeak feature . There ’s also now a warm turn and an option to auto - consummate quick - fourth dimension events .

In addition , the studio apartment announce PlayStation 5 - specific updates . DualSense exploiter can now practice gyro target ( although you could turn this off ) and will receive haptics living for healing items and throwables like grenade .

In a separate announcement , Remedy also uncover how it has enhancedAlan Wake 2for thePlayStation 5 Pro . A lot of the premium cabinet ’s collection has to do with its improvements to performance modes , which allow for 60 frames per second ( fps ) , but typically at the cost of graphic tone . The PS5 Pro utilize Sony - specific AI upscaling engineering science called PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution ( PSSR ) , which Remedy took vantage of .

The Quality Mode , which point 30 fps , will now have ray trace , which was n’t usable at launch on the regular PS5 . Meanwhile , the Performance Mode will be direct the same image quality configurations as in the Quality Mode from the base console table , and can potentially output to 4K.

The update will be free and will plunge on October 22 . This is to coincide withThe Lake HouseDLC , which   isAlan Wake 2‘s last plan storey enlargement . Players beget to see a first look at gameplay , young monsters , and connection toControlat theOctober 2024 Xbox Partner Previewlast week .