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NieR: Automata’s Steam Version Is Finally Getting a Patch, 4 Years After its Release

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Zhiqing Wan

Updated: Apr 13, 2021 10:42 pm

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NieR: Automata was released for PS4 and PC back in 2017, and it hasn’t received a single patch on Steam since then. It’s especially strange, since the game had launched with some performance issues that required players to install user-made mods to be able to configure the game they wanted it. The console version, thankfully, wasn’t plagued with bugs, but the same certainly can’t be said for the Steam version.

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Either way, Square Enix never released any patches for the Steam version for some reason, but they’re finally doing so now. This comes off the back of the game being available on PC via Xbox Game Pass, which is allegedly a more stable version than the one on Steam, and users review-bombing the Steam version as a result.

With NieR Replicant just a couple weeks away from release, it’s likely that Square Enix doesn’t want the brand of the series to be marred by the state of the Steam version. Over on Twitter, it’s been announced that the game will be getting an “upgrade patch.”

https://twitter.com/NieRGame/status/1381925380622192642

However, no details have been released about what this patch will fix, or when it will be released.

NieR: Automata is now available on PC and consoles.

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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.
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