The Thing Remastered (Switch): all the updates (latest: Hotfix)

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The Thing Remastered – Ver. ??? (Hotfix)

• Release date: March 31st/April 1st 2025
• Patch notes:

All platforms:

• Fixed a bug where weapons could rarely stop working after transitioning between levels.
• Fixed a crash when rapidly using medipacks from the inventory.

PS/Switch:

• Fixed inconsistent terminology in the sniper rifle field manual entry.

• Additional notes: none
• Source: Nightdive Studios

The Thing Remastered – Ver. 1.1

• Release date: February 11th/12th 2025
• Patch notes:

GENERAL

• Fixed the Conspiracy Theorist achievement. Old saved games are retroactively fixed!
• Fixed a softlock where Stolls would stop running to the black tech lab door.
• Fixed a crash after detonating the C4 on the airstrip level.
• Fixed a rare intermittent crash when fighting Thing beasts.
• Added a “Most Recent” button to the load game menu, so it’s easier to load your latest save.
• Autosaves now contain the name of the level they were saved on, instead of just “Autosave”.
• Fixed a bug where characters would sometimes become unable to step up onto higher surfaces after falling off of the curbs in the roadway tunnel.
• Fixed a crash when quitting the game.
• Fixed a bug where bindings would be missing from the input options on first launch.
• Fixed a crash in Strata Medibay when Fisk dies before telling you the code.
• Fixed Blake’s hand clipping with his sleeve in the first cutscene with Faraday.
• Fixed a bug where the second camera angle would fail to activate during the weather station cutscene, allowing you to interrupt it and recruit yourself.
• Improved performance when querying dynamic game options.
• Moved the game version information to the options menu, off of the interstitial screen.
• Decreased the visibility of the game version information so it is less intrusive.
• Reimplemented the pan upwards when the game over screen is visible.
• Updated Colin’s Fate achievement description.

GAMEPLAY

• Fixed an oversight where weapon firing rates were not properly respected when mashing the fire button. Excluding the pistol.
• Ammo and health dispensers now dispense fewer clips and medipacks depending on the difficulty. This can be changed at any time during gameplay.
• Marked some grenades as “volatile” so that they explode when damaged, like the original game, to fix a quirk where grenades placed for cinematic purposes would not explode.
• Changed the direction Blake faces after ending the cutscene in the weather station level.

LEVELS

• Fixed an oversight where an explosive barrel would explode when passing through the tripwire of an already exploded tripmine charge in the penultimate level.
• Hid the out of bounds “Back Door Key” item that looked like a document in the submersible level.
• Fixed innacurate collision in the first level, where characters would appear to sink into the snow.
• Fixed collision in the watchtower on the third level where you could get stuck in the handrail.
• Renamed Carter in the Strata Medibay level to Hawk, to utilise a set of unused voice lines.
• Added the missing green light to a save terminal in the third level.
• Fixed two computers in the weather station level that did not have an ID set for the Conspiracy Theorist achievement (given automatically to old saves).
• Shimmied a medipack dispenser down in the level following Strata Medibay that was WAY too high up.
• Fixed bad collision on the external stairs in the weather station.
• Flipped a few ammo boxes which were facing the wrong direction.
• Fixed several collision bugs in the Norwegian outpost where you could fall off of the world and walk underneath the building.
• Fixed sounds across several levels that would duplicate forever, causing the game to eventually fall silent.

DISPLAY

• Fixed the depth of field effect sometimes creating bright flickering pixels.
• Fixed the glass on the doors in the submersible being opaque.
• Improved normal maps on many posters and boards.
• Gave Whitley new trousers.

SOUND

• Fixed a bug where speech audio would sometimes not follow the speaker.

ALL CONSOLES

• Fixed a bug where Blake’s head and legs would sometimes disappear after leaving first-person mode.
• Fixed a light flickering very, very fast in the Norwegian base.

NINTENDO SWITCH

• Optimized performance.

• Additional notes: none
• Source: Nightdive Studios

The Thing Remastered – Ver. ??? (Day One Update)

• Release date: December 5th (North America) / December 30th 2024 (Europe)
• Patch notes:

No patch notes available.

• Additional notes: none
• Source: Nightdive Studios

How to download updates for The Thing Remastered for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for The Thing Remastered, you have three options:

• let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off

If not…

• try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;

OR

• select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet.

To check that you have the latest version installed, simply select the game on the Home Menu, and press – or + to go to the Options: the version number is displayed just below the game title.