Alan Wake 2 anniversary update helps you steamroll through enemies

digitaltrends.com:

It’s been almost one year since Alan Wake 2released, and the developers at Remedy Entertainment are celebrating with a large update that makes the game more accessible thanks to options to greatly reduce the difficulty.

In a post published Monday, the studio announced a series of quality-of-life updates, along with more features in the Gameplay Assist menu. These assist options can help you to, if you so choose, reduce difficulty on combat to almost nothing. You can toggle on player invulnerability and player immortality, so that you’ll never die. If you want to turn down the survival horror loot aspects, you can set it so you have infinite ammo and flashlight batteries. There’s even a one-shot kill feature if you want to steamroll over enemies.

Turning these features on diminishes the scares by quite a bit, but they could be excellent options for people who were either too scared to pick up Alan Wake 2 or can just use some basic gameplay to experience what the story, visuals, and music have to offer.

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Beyond combat, Remedy has added a feature that lets you invert the X axis with mouse and controller instead of just the Y axis, which it says was a highly requested feature. There’s also now a quick turn and an option to auto-complete quick-time events.

In addition, the studio announced PlayStation 5-specific updates. DualSense users can now use gyro aiming (although you can turn this off) and will receive haptics support for healing items and throwables like grenades.

In a separate announcement, Remedy also revealed how it has enhanced Alan Wake 2 for the PlayStation 5 Pro. A lot of the premium console’s appeal has to do with its improvements to performance modes, which allow for 60 frames per second (fps), but typically at