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The Enhanced update for Senuas Saga: Hellblade II has arrived, and with it, comes some new features and enhancements for you to explore.Very HighWhen the game launched last year we offered Low, Medium and High graphics presets. With this update weve made some select visual enhancements to take advantage of newer, more powerful hardware, which you can enable with our new Very High graphics preset. Rather than dialling everything up, our team carefully considered where we could make the most impactful improvements for a visual quality bump at a reasonable performance cost. The result sees more detailed and accurate shadows, improved AntiAliasing, better post-processing such as depth of field, motion blur and bloom. Very High will also offer increased view distances and improved volumetrics. For those with hardware that supports it, weve also included DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Generation for boosted frame rates.Steam DeckSomething else we wanted to revisit with this update was performance on Steam Deck to achieve Verified compatibility, and were pleased to report that this work was successful. Deck performance at launch wasnt an out-of-the-box experience, so players would find themselves needing to tweak settings to achieve optimal performance. Weve now made the game Deck-aware, so the game will now automatically select the best settings for this hardware. Weve also found some CPU performance improvements for a better game experience on Steam Deck.New featuresOnce you have completed the game, youll now unlock two new ways to experience Senuas story. Select Dev Commentary mode to hear from our team, cast and collaborators as you play. Youll learn about the craft, care and creative decisions that went into making Senuas Saga: Hellblade II. For those looking for a challenge, Dark Rot mode will truly put your skills to the test. Not only is the combat harder in this mode, but die too many times and the Dark Rot will consume Senua, wiping your progress. Sound familiar? For the virtual photographers, weve added some new photo mode features to push your creativity even further. Motion, ambient sounds and music can now be added to your captures. Weve also made some improvements to a range of settings to make sure you have the tools you need to capture incredible images from the game.We hope you enjoy these new enhancements and features, whether youre a returning player, or youre embarking on Senuas quest to Iceland for the first time.Full Patch Notes:Dark Rot mode can be selected after completing the game.Dark Rot Achievement added.Developer Commentary can be selected after completing the game.Very High graphs preset added.DLSS4 / Multi Frame Gen.Dolby Atmos for speakers.Enhanced Photo mode.Steam Deck Verified + performance improvements.DualSense controller support.Fixed overlaps present in localised languages in pause menu when text size is set to large.Fixed Senua's hair turning white when she steps into the light in Chapter 4 "Act of Sacrifice".Fixed a bug where changing upscaler for the first time does not load upscaler quality mode properlyFixed Senua's hair sometimes turning white when using Intel XeSS or AMD FSR Ultra Performance mode in Chapter 2 "Return Home".Fixed a bug where holding input does not always work for getting up, when button mash input method is set as Hold.Fixed speaker colour settings.Fixed an enemy encounter in the 2nd fight of Chapter 6 where an opponent continues an attack sequence after Senua is knocked down on the ground against a wall.Fixed Senua's footprints moving alongside her in Chapter 4 caves after the Trial of Wisdom checkpoint, if reached in asingle game session that started in a previous chapter's checkpoint.Fixed Senua dying after climbing elevated ground in the first part of the Sea Giant's ritual in Chapter 5.Fixed assets without collision spawning after skipping a cinematic with Astridr in the forest, during Chapter 6.Fixed a Hiddenfolk puzzle disappearing if the graphic preset is changed.Fixed the speaker disappearing from the subtitles after pausing and resuming the game.Fixed Thorgestr and Senua's subtitles not syncing with audio during the Draugr fight at the settlement in Chapter 5Fixed The Goi spawning on screen behind Senua if she performs the neck breaking animation on the last Axe Northman warriorFixed Northman enemies spinning around jarringly if attacked in the back with Focus attacks during Chapter 6.Fixed a red light highlighting Senua after the 4th fight with devourers during a checkpoint.Several menu narration fixes across the board.
