MindsEye Launch Day Patch Notes

• PC: ~16 GB
• PlayStation 5: ~8 GB
• Xbox Series X|S: ~16 GB

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Improvements

Performance

• Drastically improved performance across the game.
• Fixed critical framerate drops.
• Improved baseline framerate.

• Improved civilian LOD.
• Improved material resolution.
• Improved distance building light and glass flickering.
• Improved Open World Free Roam playable character.

• Weapon Handling
  • Player now raises their gun when aiming near walls.
  • Added additional animations for Sgian Dubh handling.
  • Player no longer plays the holstering animation when switching weapons.
  • Improved animations and setup for firing from turrets.
  • Improved finger posing for PST cover animations.
  • Improved weapon/reticule alignment.
  • Slowed gun-up poses when aiming at a companion.
• Traversal
  • Removed RIF glitchiness when vaulting.
  • Improved responsiveness of direction changes after vaulting.
• Cover System
  • Updated cover-to-cover transition animations.
  • Improved responsiveness of sprint cover exit.
  • Enhanced shoulder switching when exiting cover.
  • Implemented more consistent cover generation.
  • Improved turning when exiting peek to make it smoother.
  • Ensured player faces the correct direction on thin cover.
• Camera
  • Reduced camera popping when crashing a car.
  • Added camera shake when taking damage while driving to Silva's house.
  • Reduced camera popping when triggering climbs.
  • Improved camera height when going down the stairs and exiting lifts.
  • Added camera shake when receiving damage while in the military pickup turret.
  • Improved camera pitch and responsiveness when entering turrets.
  • Various bug fixes and overall camera improvements.
• Base Locomotion
  • Improved sprint pivot animations to reduce popping and rotation.
  • Reduced weapon clipping.
• Additional
  • Jacob now looks at points of interest more reliably.

• Numerous cinematic VFX bug fixes.
• Vehicle turret rotation is now independent from the vehicle they are attached to.
• Added camera shake when firing from or receiving damage in a turret.
• Quality-of-life improvements to weapon switching and reloading.

• Improved AI vehicle combat behaviour and fixed related bugs.
• Enhanced AI reactivity and responsiveness.
• Miscellaneous fixes and enhancements to AI combat.
• General performance improvements.

• Various improvements to vehicle distance models.

• Fixed pedestrian reactions in cutscenes.
• Reduced excessive pedestrian screaming when witnessing danger.
• Resolved issues related to NPC death inside vehicles.
• Fixed collision issues (missing or overly solid AI).
• Bug fixes for locomotion and sliding issues for ambient AI.
• New foot movement system implemented for civilian AI.
• Improved ambient AI reactions to danger and damage.
• Fixed and improved ambient AI when exiting vehicles and engaging in combat.
• Enhanced ambient robot locomotion behaviour.
• Improved pedestrian variation.
• Mayor Vega character-specific improvements.

• Improved audio propagation feedback.
• General audio bug fixes and polish.
• Enhanced facial animation synchronisation.
• Audio performance improvements.
• Refined pain and death sound effects.
• Increased diversity in pedestrian, OWE, and enemy voices.
• Improved synchronization of audio with animations.
• Interactable prop audio enhancements.

• Improved destruction effects in several areas.
• Removed environmental obstacles that may disrupt player flow.
• Improved lighting across the map and in core mission locations.

• Polished audio in cutscenes.
• Improved seamless transition systems for smoother cutscene integration.

• Updated fail screen visuals.
• Objective markers now indicate enemy verticality (above/below).
• Optimized UI performance for smoother menus and HUD responsiveness.
• Brightness and Gamma settings now display percentage values.
• Standardized mini-map blip colours.
• Added a loading screen fade-out function.
• Improved key rebinding support for French Standard and BEPO keyboards.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed various clipping issues involving civilians and enemies.
• Resolved bugs related to Jacob's implant not appearing in the correct state.
• Addressed multiple gameplay VFX-related bugs.

• Fixed various mission flow issues discovered during destructive testing.

• Resolved camera and interaction bugs when entering/exiting vehicles and other interactive objects.

• General bug fixes (see AI section for related improvements).

• Fixed weapon misfires when shooting from a car.
• Rocket impact VFX are now correctly attached to their target.

• Fixed AI bugs related to entering, exiting, and shooting from cover.
• Resolved cover generation issues for both AI and player characters.
• Fixed navigation issues affecting AI behaviour.
• Fixed issues with companion and combat AIs improperly entering or exiting vehicles.
• Fixed behaviour loop bugs that caused AI to get stuck or repeat actions.
• Addressed cases where drones and turrets would not appear on the minimap or HUD.
• Fixed excessive friendly fire from allied AIs.
• Fixed rare teleportation and locomotion bugs.
• Resolved collision issues for both robot and human AIs.

• Shooting car lights no longer pushes them inside the car body.
• Various fixes to car headlight behaviour and visuals.
• Resolved camera clipping issues with the world.
• Fixed excessive forces applied when shooting certain vehicles.
• Large vehicles now correctly display all wheels in Build.MindsEye.
• Fixed player death triggers when colliding with other cars while inside a vehicle.
• Destroyed robot parts no longer float if the robot was inside a vehicle.
• Traffic now properly takes damage from nearby explosions.

• Bug fixes for story characters.
• Smoothed out jerky acceleration and braking cycles in vehicles.
• Fixed pedestrian animation issues when exiting vehicles.

• Various fixes to footstep audio inconsistencies.
• Restored missing sounds for destructible foliage.
• Addressed inconsistencies with ragdoll audio effects.

• Fixed numerous mission and world traversal bugs affecting performance and navigation.
• Fixed cover related bugs.
• Fixed issues which caused the player to get stuck.
• Resolved camera issues when passing through tunnels or under overpasses.
• Prevented players from climbing unintended rock geometry.
• Fixed material and asset-related issues.
• Fixed various floating assets.
• Fixed issues related to HLOD lighting.
• Fixed light leaks in specific locations.
• Fixed floating debris when restarting missions.
• Fixed various landscape and asset popping instances.
• Numerous destructible fixes.

• Numerous cinematic VFX bug fixes.
• Improved LOD popping and texture loading in multiple scenes.
• Fixed visual issues like animation clipping and lighting overexposure.
• SIS scenes now appear correctly in all situations.

• Fixed control mapping and key binding issues.
• Resolved sniper scope HUD misalignment at non-standard resolutions.
• Various settings menu formatting improvements:
  • Tightened spacing in the Display header.
  • Kept “Controls Mapping” sub-header on one line.
  • Prevented resolution dropdown options from wrapping.

• Added the option to enable or disable framerate limits during cutscenes.
• In Build.MindsEye: logic nodes and billboard sizes have been reduced by 50%.

Thank you,

The MindsEye Team