Xbox One Updates | Outer Wilds

- Players can now sleep at campfires to fast-forward time. This automatically becomes available after a few loops.

- Updated writing for the Sun Station and Interloper to clarify a certain story beat.

Updated writing, art, and level design across multiple planets to clarify the solution to the Ash Twin Project mystery:

- Updated writing (and ship log entries) for the Black Hole Forge, High Energy Lab, White Hole Station, Nomai Mines, and Hollow’s Lantern.

- Art and design changes for the Black Hole Forge and the area around it, including a different mural.

- Art and design tweaks for the High Energy Lab, including a new mural, better gravity alignment, and other minor art fixes.

- Art and design changes on Ash Twin, including a new mural and some architectural tweaks.

It now registers more keyboard keys and controller axes (as in: more than one axis).

New binds work immediately, but aren’t saved until you specifically press Save and Exit.

- Slightly more speed is retained when traveling through a certain area in Dark Bramble.

- It is no longer possible to activate the „put me outside“ feature of a specific Nomai device until it is necessary to do so.

- Player ship less likely to fall into the sun after falling through the black hole.

- Added dialogue to later Gabbro conversations to alleviate Archeologist achievement issues.

- A Nomai computer in a certain room stays activated even after the orb moves away.

- Relocated fuel stash on the surface of Brittle Hollow for easier discoverability.

- The ship’s eject button no longer allows players to bypass electricity on Giant’s Deep.

- New profiles will now only copy over graphic settings, instead of all settings

- Profile Creation window now doesn’t respond to Q/E hotkeys for Submit and Default

- Save data will be created in a temp directory first, and then overwrite the current save file.

- Fixed returning to the settings menu from the key rebinding menu not selecting any menu options

- The „Reset to Defaults“ menu option now sets all settings to default, including graphics settings.

- The „Discard Changes“ button has been renamed to „Discard Changes then Exit Menu“

- Sliders in the options menu have new graphics and display numeric values when adjusting FOV and Gamma

- Gamma will now change as it is adjusted in the settings menu, instead of only when the change is saved.

- Fixed mouse behavior with various menu items (sliders, multiple option settings, etc)

- Updated keyboard button prompt icons and layout to improve visibility of certain prompts

- „Mark on HUD“ and „Scroll Text“ prompts in the ship log are 1.5x larger

- Changed the player ship’s altimeter to be more visible in landing camera mode.

- Fixed the player ship’s landing camera view not properly showing warp fog, quantum fog, sand, and clouds.

- Adjusted Brittle Hollow fragments so they would not clip through the eye shrine area in the Hanging City.

- XB1: Fixed a bug involving an Xbox System Resume causing unwanted controller behavior

- Fixed occasionally falling off of the gravity crystal trails on Brittle Hollow

- Minor changes to some areas on Giant’s Deep to prevent players from getting stuck

Here’s a list of the biggest and most exciting changes:

- Removed an invisible repelling force that’s no longer necessary ;;)

- Added menu for gameplay options that can be triggered by looking at the Player Suit in the Ship after the first loop

- Visually revamped menu UI system

- Significant performance improvement on PS4, especially the PS4 Pro

- Changed the clue in the Black Hole Forge (again…)

- Sound, especially ship impact noises, no longer travels between Dark Bramble areas

Design improvements

- The Fig backer satellite is now more easily accessible and less frustrating to explore

- Fuel and oxygen gauges in the ship cockpit now give actual measurements

- Added tooltips to the gameplay options menu to describe each option

- Scrollbars across the game now fully scroll from top to bottom

- Improved dialogue UI to fit text better

- Asterisks in the ship log are now orange/yellow

Visuals

- Improved visual effects for a certain sequence in the High Energy Lab

- The Ash Twin hologram on the Orbital Probe Cannon now has antennae

- Changed the Ship Log picture for the High Energy Lab mural

- Improved lighting and added baked ambient occlusion to a certain Nomai area

- Mesh geometry on the Little Scout now rotates to match the camera direction

Minor fixes & adjustments

- Fix to the archeologist achievement that allows you to get all ship log facts from Gabbro in later conversations.

- Fix for not being able to look/rotate while using a Nomai projection pool in zero-g

- Fixed miscellaneous crash bugs

- Fixed bug that occasionally makes the geometry of the planet you’re on disappear

- Fixed planet symbols at the Black Hole Forge

- Fixed lakebed cave lighting bug that occurs when the player enters in a particular way

- The player can no longer slightly see inside the clouds on Giant’s Deep

- Slate and Hal’s auto-conversation triggers now deactivate if you talk to them manually

- Fixed bug that occasionally vaulted the player upwards while jumping at a certain object

- Fixed a PS4 crash on the first visit to the backer satellite

- Fixed a bug where the autopilot tries to direct you towards something that doesn’t exist anymore

- Fixed bug with singularities

- Improved memory fragmentation and reduced crashes due to out of memory conditions