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Horizon Zero Dawn 1.13 Update Adds Background Music and Bug Fixes

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The 1.13 update for Horizon Zero Dawn is out today, developer Guerrilla Games revealed. The patch includes a few new features and bug fixes concerning progression issues.

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The biggest feature of the update is that players can now listen to their own music on the PlayStation 4 while playing, which has been requested by the community. The other new feature is the ability to drop treasure chests with items that players do not want.

The rest of Horizon Zero Dawn’s patch notes, like the previous 1.12 patch, deals with bug fixes. The full notes are listed below, but be wary of spoilers because it contains the titles of story chapters and specific actions within them.

NEW FEATURES

  • Added support for background music playback.
  • Added the ability to drop treasure chests.

FIXES

Progression Fixes

  • Fixed an issue in “The Point of the Spear” where some players could escape the quest area and get stuck here, blocking progression of this quest.
  • Fixed an issue in “A Seeker at the Gates” where some players could get stuck behind the gates to All-Mother Mountain.
  • Fixed an issue in “The City of the Sun” where some players were able to exit Olin’s basement during the ‘Investigate Olin’s Secret Workshop’ objective.
  • Fixed an issue in “The Grave-Hoard” where the objective would not update when some players fast traveled away after activating the Holo Projector.
  • Fixed an issue in “Deep Secrets of the Earth” where some players could avoid triggering a cutscene, resulting in the quest not progressing.
  • Fixed an issue in “Fatal Inheritance” where talking to Ranaman after freeing Daradi would cause Daradi to disappear for some players.
  • Fixed an issue in “Hammer and Steel” where for some players the quest objective would not update after gathering all nine Behemoth Cables.
  • Fixed an issue in Cauldron Xi where some players could avoid triggering a cutscene, resulting in the quest not progressing.

General Fixes

  • Fixed an issue in “The Point of the Spear” where the objective ‘Meet Rost at the North Gate’ would always be marked as failed for some players in the objective log.
  • Fixed an issue in “The Point of the Spear” where the fix for duplicate spears introduced in Patch 1.12 would not solve the issue for some player if they already finished “In her Mother’s Footsteps”.
  • Fixed an issue after “The Proving” for certain players where Aloy would not retrieve her Focus after visiting Rost.
  • Fixed an issue where some players could permanently lose the Tearblaster in their playthrough after selling it at a merchant. The Tearblaster will now be available to purchase from certain merchants after completing ‘Hunter’s Blind’.
  • Fixed an issue where a pile of Ancient Debris appeared to be located underground for certain players.
  • Fixed an issue where some players were not able to pick up their loot when it was dropped in water.
  • Fixed an issue in the “Gatelands” Bandit Camp where some players could get stuck in a rock after performing a ‘Strike from below’.
  • Fixed an issue when certain players would try to mount during Aloy’s falling animation, causing Aloy to float in midair.
  • Fixed the issue where some players were able to gain +10,000 XP every time they cleared hunting trials with all Blazing Suns.

Crash Fixes

  • Fixed various miscellaneous crashes.

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