A Plague Tale: Requiemupdate 1.3 is now rolling out globally on both PC and consoles, Asobo Studio confirmed Wednesday. The Bordeaux, France-based developer also published in-depth patch notes detailing the new update, revealing that the latest version ofA Plague Tale: Requiemintroduces rebalancing changes and a plethora of bug fixes and performance optimizations, among other things. The exact list of changes is platform-specific.
Released last month,A Plague Tale: Requiemis a direct sequel to Asobo Studio’s 2019 survival horror gameA Plague Tale: Innocence. Much like its predecessor, it’s a stealth-heavy single-player adventure which was met with both critical acclaim and fan adoration. Earlier this year, Asobo Studio partnered with French media conglomerate Mediawan ona TV adaptation ofA Plague Tale: InnocencestarringMillie Bobby Brown, best known as Eleven fromStranger Things.
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On the PC side of things, the highlight of the newly published changelog is thatA Plague Tale: Requiemupdate 1.3 introduces support forValve’s hit handheld console Steam Deck. Furthermore, Asobo Studio rebalanced the difficulty of final fights in the game, in addition to fixing a variety of bugs across all platforms. The developer also tweaked some AI systems, including the prevalent rat swarms, to minimize frame rate drops.
Performance improvements aside,A Plague Tale: Requiemremains capped at 30 frames per second on consoles. Since its predecessor offered 60fps gameplay on both the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, some fans are still taking to social media to voice their displeasure about this arguable step backwards. Asobo Studio is yet to give any indication that it intends to address this technical complaint about the game. In the meantime, the best that PS5 and Xbox gamers can do is to hook up their consoles to a 120Hz display, which elevates the frame rate cap to 40fps.
SinceA Plague Tale: Requiemis a single-player title full of slow, methodical stealth sections, it can also be argued that running it in 60fps isn’t crucial to enjoying the experience. And given how the game alreadysurpassed a huge player milestoneduring its launch week, it would appear that many fans of horror and narrative-driven titles agree with that sentiment.
While there’s no denying thatA Plague Tale: Innocenceoffered smoother gameplay on consoles, it also had significantly less ambitious set pieces. For example, oneA Plague Tale: Requiemscene features 300,000 ratson screen at once, and sacrificing frame rates in order to boost the number of rendered assets has been the industry norm for a long time now.
The full patch notes forA Plague Tale: Requiem1.3 update are as follows:
Optimization
Bug Fixes
A Plague Tale: Requiemis available now on PC, PS5, Switch, and Xbox Series X/S.
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