Hangar 13 has released the August 2025 update for Mafia: The Old Country, delivering a wide range of fixes and refinements across gameplay, visuals, audio, and stability. Companion AI has been improved to prevent blocked progress, enemy reactions have been tuned, and NPC pathing has been polished to create a smoother gameplay experience. Additional improvements resolve invisible collisions, missing combat covers, and objectives tied to specific actions, ensuring missions flow more naturally.
The update also addresses ghosting issues in cinematics, improves hair physics and lighting, and fixes missing subtitles and audio mismatches across multiple languages. Platform-specific improvements include better stability on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles, along with a fix for DLSS Frame Generation on Steam. Overall, the update makes significant progress toward refining performance and delivering a more stable and immersive experience for players.
Full Patch Notes – August 28, 2025
- Gameplay
- Fixed issues where companions (Luca, Cesare, etc.) failed to perform required actions, blocking progress.
- Customs Warehouse (Chapter 3): Takedown on a specific guard no longer required if avoided.
- Addressed invisible collisions and misplaced combat covers.
- Improved Enemy AI reaction timing, pathing, and behavior.
- Improved Friendly/Neutral NPC pathing, animations, and behavior.
- Various other gameplay fixes and improvements.
- Visuals
- Fixed ghosting issues during cinematics when using upscaling.
- Improved cinematics on ultrawide displays.
- Improved hair physics to reduce flickering in cutscenes.
- Enhanced lighting, VFX, popping, and clipping in cinematics.
- Various additional visual fixes.
- UI
- Fixed Main Menu background reverting after starting a new story playthrough.
- Improved contextual HUD functionality.
- Fixed missing subtitles across all languages.
- Various UI fixes and improvements.
- Audio
- Fixed missing music, ambient sounds, and VO in several instances.
- Fixed mismatched audio and subtitles.
- Animation
- Fixed animation popping, warping, and misalignment issues.
- Resolved cases where Enzo or NPCs were stuck in animation states.
- Corrected animations playing incorrectly during conversations.
- General animation fixes and improvements.
- Localization
- Corrected repeated words in the “Protection Agreement” note.
- Addressed inconsistent translations across languages.
- Platform-Specific
- PlayStation 5: Stability improvements.
- Xbox Series X: Stability improvements.
- Xbox Series S: Visual and stability improvements.
- Steam:
- Fixed DLSS Frame Generation randomly stopping until restart.
- Additional stability and performance improvements.
Mafia: The Old Country is a 2025 action-adventure game developed by Hangar 13 and published by 2K. Serving as a prequel to the Mafia series, it is set in Sicily during the early 1900s and follows Enzo Favara’s rise within the Torrisi crime family. The game was released on August 8, 2025, for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S.
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