Returnal’s Patch 1.3.3 Gets Pulled After Reports of Save Data Corruption

Zhiqing Wan

Published: May 5, 2021 05:57 pm

Housemarque announced earlier this week that they’d be pushing out patch 1.3.3 for Returnal to fix stability issues and reduce crashes. However, it looks like the patch has done more harm than good, as once it was released, players began reporting save data corruption issues that caused them to be unable to progress.

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Housemarque has since looked into the issue and have just announced on Twitter that they’ll be pulling back the patch and releasing a new one in a few hours once the issue has been fixed. If you’ve been affected by the corruption issue caused by the new patch, you’ll need to redownload and reinstall the game completely.

Patch 1.3.3 has been pulled and we are reverting back to 1.3.1 until it's fixed.

We are fixing the issue now and a new patch will be published in a few hours

All users affected by the 1.3.3 need to re-download the game.

Our sincerest apologies.
— Housemarque (@Housemarque) May 5, 2021

The developers also stated if you’ve gotten the CE-100028-1 error popup, that means you’ve been affected, so get to reinstalling if necessary.

Returnal is now available exclusively on PS5.

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Zhiqing Wan

Zhiqing is the Reviews Editor for Twinfinite, and a History graduate from Singapore. She's been in the games media industry for nine years, trawling through showfloors, conferences, and spending a ridiculous amount of time making in-depth spreadsheets for min-max-y RPGs. When she's not singing the praises of Amazon's Kindle as the greatest technological invention of the past two decades, you can probably find her in a FromSoft rabbit hole.