Hogwarts Legacy gets massive patch that's especially useful if you're afraid of spiders

A huge, fiery spell being cast against giant spiders in Hogwarts Legacy.
(Image credit: Avalanche Software)

a popular mod that appeared shortly after launch which did the same thing.

After which, the bug jokes pretty much write themselves. Developer Avalanche has been on a squishing mission and the patch notes are voluminous with multiple save game fixes, various fixes to issues that could cause the player to fall out of the world, multiple potential crash fixes, fixes to problems with the collections and Field Guide pages, and fixes to certain quests that could be left impossible to complete if the player did certain things.

The full list is mind-numbingly extensive, but I sifted through it for the vaguely funny bits so you don't have to.

  • Resolved Poacher Ranger treilling onto a wall when the Avatar casts Disillusionment and hides after a cutscene
  • Resolved bumping the elf causing the NPC to multiply and stack on the pumpkin
  • Resolved NPCs using certain stations being misplaced, noticeably floating in the air during Halloween
  • Resolved NPC Alfred Lawley walking against the wall indefinitely when getting alert from the other side of the wall
  • Resolved Dugbogs not being harmed when lifted by the tongue
  • Resolved Adelaide Oakes intense robe clipping issues during cinematics
  • Resolved Professor Hecat sliding to her spot before setting up the dueling table
  • Resolved Natsai and Sebastian's necks briefly stretching up during the Three Broomsticks conversation
  • Resolved avatar bouncing on the water while swimming

As well as this there are accessibility and UI changes, and a bunch of PC specific tweaks, most of which relate to fixing visual effects and frame drops.

promises all the online Quidditch you don't get in Hogwarts Legacy.

Rich Stanton
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Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before ing PC Gamer. He is the author of a Brief History of Video Games, a full history of the medium, which the Midwest Book Review described as "[a] must-read for serious minded game historians and curious video game connoisseurs alike."