Ghost of Yotei Update 1.602 Resolves Shadow Flame Arrow Exploit
Sucker Punch Productions has released a new game update for Ghost of Yotei, and it’s an important one that plugs in the Shadow Flame Arrow exploit.
Players will see this download as Ghost of Yotei update 1.602 (complete version 01.602.000), and this should be a small download for players.
Aside from that exploit being patched out, there are also other fixes applied.
Ghost of Yotei New Update on April 24 Fixes Exploit and Resolves Crashing Issues
Here’s what’s new per Sucker Punch:
Performance and Stability
- Various rare crash fixes.
Gameplay
- Fixed a bug that allowed Shadow Flame Arrow to be fired infinitely.
- Fixed a bug that allowed for Yumi arrows to be fully drawn and shot twice as fast in certain conditions.
That’s about it for today’s update. There was a patch released last week that addressed issues with the raid, and included the following fixes:
Raid Updates
- “Hell Mode” boss battle difficulty for the Raid is now live.
- Add new class cosmetics for defeating Hell Mode bosses.
- Enable matchmaking for Raid missions.
- Add “Skip straight to the Raid Boss” options for Dragon and Saito.
Gear Retirement
- Add “Gear Retirement” prestige feature.
- Players can spend in-game currency to retire perfected gear items. There is no gameplay advantage, but gear retirement count is visible to other players, and attracts fireflies when bowing.
Performance and Stability
- Various rare crash fixes.
Gameplay
- Fix issue where certain enemies could occasionally do extra damage on some attacks.
- Added “Matchmake to fill empty slots” in weekly Nightmare missions.
- Prevent players from being disarmed during Ultimate attacks.
- Reduced Tanegashima damage vs bosses.
- Reduced Lightning Tanegashima headshot damage.
- Fix issue where Samurai and Shinobi could have their Ultimates canceled when being attacked.
- Enable petting the spirit animals in Survival.
- Enable emotes while waiting at gathering points
- Fix issue where Bo-Hiya Rain card could cause players to die after completing an Incursion mission.
- Don’t allow Giant Bo-Hiya to drop inside defend areas in Story missions.
- Uncompleted daily bounties now refresh daily.
- Prevent Shadow Snake from Attuning himself.
- Added a checkmark on completed Story and Incursion missions in the Campaign menu.
- Enable weapon trails in Lobby Bamboo Strike.
- Fix leaderboards UI issue where the list would not scroll past the first page.
In other PlayStation news, Sony launched the Big Games, Big Deals promotion that ushered in a slew of new AAA titles at discounted prices.
Stay connected to MP1st and the latest news by following us on Bluesky, X, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and Google News.

