‘Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice’ Update Shakes Up Combat And Fixes PC Performance Issues

For an indie game made with a relatively small team, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice was fairly free of bugs and issues at launch. That said, the game wasn't perfect, and developer Ninja Theory has released its first big Hellblade patch, which makes a variety of tweaks to the game's combat, and adresses performance issues PC players with AMD GPUs have been having.

#Hellblade Hotfix 1.01.1 has just been released for PC to resolve reported performance issues seen by players with AMD GPUs. pic.twitter.com/3GvkP80Vrm

— NinjaTheory (@NinjaTheory) August 18, 2017

Here's the full notes for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice update 1.01:

General

• Fixed a crash that could happen if two Keep Guard enemies are standing close to each other and one dies.
• Russian subtitles for the Hellblade feature have been added.
• Fixed an issue where the audio would be out of sync with the Hellblade feature if it has been paused for an extended period of time.
• Fixed an issue where the Baldr Masks in the Tower Shard level are white on the inside.
• Fixed scenarios resulting in unlit geometry after reloading from checkpoint.
• Fixed a potential progression stopping bug in the Fenrir Cave by the 'M' rune door puzzle.
• Fixed potential progression stopping bug in Fenrir Cave due to check pointing after skipping a lit region.
• Fixed potential progression stopping bug in Fenrir Cave if player fails to collect floor rune after combat and subsequently dies.
• Fixed collision issues that could allow players to unintentionally exit the game world.
• Fixed audio cut-out issues.
• Added audio cues for hidden faces.
• Fixed audio hard cut at the end of various cut scenes.
• Fixes for audio lip sync issues.
• Audio balancing fixes.
• Various subtitle localization fixes across a number of languages.

Combat tweaks

• Adjusted automatic difficulty enemy health scaling and Senua's damage taken/given modifiers.

Senua:

• Increased damage value of certain combo finisher attacks.
• Adjusted rate of combat focus resource build-up in Hard difficulty mode or higher.
• Fixed issue with stinger animated cameras popping if the same attack was repeated.

Warrior Enemy:

• Warriors now have an increased chance of evading certain heavy attacks.
• Fixed missing sound effects on certain reactions.

Protector Enemy:

• Health values have been lowered.
• Will now remain vulnerable for longer after his shield guard has been broken.

Keep Guard Enemy:

• Fixed a potential crash bug if Keep Guard enemies are standing close together and one of them dies.
• Tweaked rotation rate during certain attack windups.
• Fixed missing sound effects on certain attacks.

Surtr:

• Fixed an issue where Surtr was able to throw Senua outside of the arena.

Valravn:

• Fixed an issue where Valravn could not be damaged while in Focus for certain combos.
• Parried projectiles will now remove shadow state on hit.

Fenrir:

• Health values have been adjusted.
• Fixed issue where certain attacks were not dealing damage correctly to Fenrir.

Revenant Enemy:

• Adjusted slide properties for certain attacks.
• Adjusted cooldown for parry and evade defensive actions.
• Parried projectiles will now remove shadow state on hit.

Photo Mode:

• Fixed an issue where motion blur is applied to object incorrectly during Photo Mode.
• Removed the second slider that did nothing when cycling through the Effects tab.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is currently available on PC and PS4. You can check out WWG's full review of the game, right here.