Obsidian Entertainment has rolled out Patch 1.0.5.0 for The Outer Worlds 2, delivering an extensive range of fixes and refinements across gameplay, quests, visuals, and performance. The update focuses heavily on player-reported issues, addressing crashes, animation bugs, quest progression blockers, and companion behavior improvements. It also includes better foliage placement, enhanced lighting, fixed geometry issues, and improved visual fidelity throughout Arcadia’s locales.
Companions benefit from significant survivability upgrades on harder difficulties, alongside more natural interactions and better staging during conversations. Numerous quests have been fine-tuned to ensure smoother progression, with key adjustments to Inez, Hogarth, and Ruth’s storylines. The patch also refines combat balance, audio responsiveness, and overall system stability, marking one of the game’s most substantial updates since launch.
Full Patch Notes
Community Reported Issues
- Added Fan Tossball Card for Celest Fairbrook.
- Fixed unable to save issue when the “Saved Games” system directory does not exist.
- Fixed stale crime data preventing saving.
- Fixed crash when transitioning to new areas with frame generation enabled on Nvidia GPUs.
- Added a setting to disable mouse smoothing and acceleration.
- Loading screen images now scale for higher resolutions.
- Fixed audio issues with Wireless Free Arcadia.
- Player eyebrows no longer disappear in inventory or idle camera.
- Eyebrow color now properly saves and loads for new characters.
- Adjusted hair and facial hair models to prevent clipping or disappearance.
- Fixed missing geometry and emissive issues with prosthetics and helmets.
- Removed temporary and developer text from various dialogues.
- Corrected spelling and grammar issues.
- Fixed cinematic and quest triggers including Inez, Hogarth, Tristan, and Fairfield events.
- Improved AI behavior and companion availability during missions.
- Enhanced quest staging, companion interactions, and objective clarity.
- Increased companion survivability and improved Leadership-based bonuses.
- Adjusted Bomb Suit, Menacing Mask, and perk interactions for correct functionality.
- Balanced crafting, perks, and tamed creature behavior.
- Improved vendor inventory for minigun barrel mods.
- Fixed loot rewards, quest item handling, and interaction logic.
- Enhanced environmental geometry, collision, and foliage placement in key zones.
- Fixed terrain issues in Golden Ridge and Paradise Island.
- Addressed rare puzzle and quest progression issues across multiple missions.
Major Issues and Crashes
- Fixed multiple crash scenarios tied to saving, fall damage, dialogue interruptions, and ray tracing.
- Addressed WinGDK save manager crash and performance instability.
- Resolved NPC-related and crowd animation crashes.
Content & Quests
- Fixed dozens of quest blockers and NPC logic issues.
- Adjusted quest triggers, objectives, and dialogues for clarity.
- Improved companion quest scripting and scene continuity.
- Corrected item placement, quest rewards, and beacon behavior.
- Fixed overlapping events, teleportation bugs, and conversation freezes.
- Improved cinematic transitions, quest failure messaging, and character reactivity.
- Resolved inconsistencies in “Saboteur of Paradise,” “Fiends in High Places,” “A Way Back to the Light,” and other major questlines.
- Enhanced waypoint logic and journal text presentation.
Combat & Systems Fixes
- Fixed mine traps, projectile, and explosion damage inconsistencies.
- Improved AI combat behaviors and pathfinding.
- Enhanced sneak attack, weapon handling, and companion combat logic.
- Fixed animation desync and reload interruptions.
- Addressed various physics and collision issues.
- Improved performance for DLSS-FG users and enhanced responsiveness for input and aiming.
- Fixed AI transitions between behaviors and reduced clipping of corpses.
- Adjusted perks and flaws for proper triggering and scaling.
- Added new cover nodes and fixed vendor restock issues.
Art
- Eliminated out-of-bounds exploits.
- Improved visual quality for lighting, shadows, and environmental effects.
- Corrected stretched textures, flickering, and misplaced assets.
- Enhanced third-person visuals and animation transitions.
- Smoothed landscape geometry and improved lighting transitions across zones.
Animation
- Fixed weapon reload, crouch, and transition issues.
- Improved companion and player animations during conversations and cinematics.
- Adjusted blending and camera framing for natural movement.
- Fixed bugs involving grenades, sliding, and throwables.
- Polished conversation staging and eliminated unnatural postures.
UI/UX
- Updated translations and widescreen presentation.
- Fixed vendor UI, crafting tooltips, and inventory navigation.
- Improved save/load functionality, menu visibility, and map interactions.
- Adjusted HDR and touch-screen support.
- Refined quest journal layout and icon behavior.
Audio
- Enhanced environmental sounds, dialogue mixing, and ambient effects.
- Added missing SFX and improved radio music logic.
- Fixed cutscene audio timing and looping issues.
- Adjusted music balance in major story moments and exploration segments.
The Outer Worlds 2 is a direct sequel developed by Obsidian Entertainment, built on Unreal Engine 5 and set in a new system called Arcadia. The action RPG expands upon the original’s dark humor and narrative depth, featuring improved combat, enhanced companion systems, and deeper crafting mechanics. The game released on October 29, 2025, for PC (via Steam and Microsoft Store), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, with day-one availability on Xbox Game Pass.
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