Ghost Of Yotei’s New Patch Fixes Some “Permanent Mission Blocking” Bugs

Sucker Punch Productions’ open-world samurai sim Ghost of Yotei runs pretty well on PlayStation 5, but, of course, it’s not without its issues. Some problems could block your progress in select missions permanently, but there’s a new patch that has addressed many of these random occurrences, so you can keep clashing steel and hunting the Yotei Six without a hitch.

The team dropped the patch notes for Update 1.010 on Sucker Punch Productions’ official website. The patch stabilizes the game by fixing two rare crashes as well as swapping out placeholder assets during a major story beat. But those are somewhat small potatoes when compared to the myriad gameplay tweaks that make the game even more playable than it already is on PS5.

For instance, your progress could be blocked during “The Way of the Kusarigama” mission if you warped into it at a specific point. Or your progress could be halted if you ignored the “armor upgrade” scene and left the area during “The Tale of the Oni” mission. Heck, your progress could be barred if you created a campsite in mission-critical stealth grass during “The Kusarigama’s Shame,” didn’t have flash bombs during the “Fighting Fire with Fire” mission, or–and this is very specific–saved and exited the game after interrogating the enemy but before defeating Saito’s goons during the “Higashi Lumberyard” mission. There are more, but you get it.

In short, many of these very random and very specific “permanent mission blocking” bugs have been ironed out. Now, nothing is stopping you from getting your revenge on that dastardly Lord Saito and his cronies.

Ghost of Yotei–which received a 9/10 in GameSpot’s “superb” review–is available now for PlayStation 5.

Ghost of Yotei Update 1.010 Patch Notes

Performance and Stability

• Fixed a rare crash that could happen when ray tracing is enabled.
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur during “Poison and Lies” if the player backtracked to the fire in the building then walked towards Oyuki with the Nine Tails NPC following Atsu.

Gameplay

• Fixed a bug that prevented the Black Ghost mask from being granted to players who purchased the Digital Deluxe Edition of Ghost of Yotei once they completed “To Catch a Spider”.
• Fixed a permanent mission blocking bug that could happen in “Fighting Fire with Fire” due to the player not being guaranteed to have flash bombs during the flash bomb trainer.
• Fixed a permanent mission blocking bug that could happen in “The Way of the Kusarigama” if the player warped into the mission during a specific point.
• Fixed a permanent mission blocking bug that could happen in “The Tale of the Oni” if the player managed to avoid seeing the “armor upgrade” scene and then left the area.
• Fixed a permanent mission blocking bug that could happen in “A Brokered Trust” if the player managed to complete part of the branching objectives and then goes and completes a different mission allowing the second branch to become available.
• Fixed a permanent mission blocking bug that could happen in “Higashi Lumberyard” if the player saved and exited the game after interrogating the enemy but before defeating Saito’s soldiers.
• Fixed a permanent mission blocking bug that could happen in “Broken Horn Garrison” if the player died after killing all enemies and rescuing the prisoner but before the final conversation plays.
• Fixed a permanent mission blocking bug that could happen in “The Kusarigama’s Shame” if the player created a campsite in mission critical stealth grass.
• Fixed a permanent game blocking bug that could happen if the player climbed a tower in the Frontier, talked to an NPC, but then restarted from their last checkpoint.
• Fixed a bug that could happen in “Encounters of the Wild” that would cause the fox to appear stuck if the player had reloaded their game after seeing the bear above the cave near the sanctuary.
• Fixed a bug that would allow the player to change their loadout during the spar with Kiku in “A Wolf’s Pack”.
• Fixed a bug where the player could become stuck in a permanent respawn loop if they jumped into a pit and died soon after completing an objective or mission.

Environment

• Replaced a placeholder asset that had been along a major path in “The Kitsune’s Fate”.