Silent Hill: Townfall New Update 2.005 on October 28 Adds Hard Mode, DLSS Ray Reconstruction, and More
Konami and developers Screen Burn continue improving Silent Hill: Townfall with a new update that adds features and improves several areas of the game.
Dubbed update 1.6, the new download is now live on PC and PlayStation. Console gamers will see the download as Silent Hill: Townfall update 2.005 | 02.005.000 with the in-game version marked as v1.6.155965, while PC gamers will see their version as v1.6.155963.
Here’s a lowdown of everything included in this update.
Silent Hill: Townfall Update for October 28 Adds New Features and More Improvements
The changes below apply to all versions of the game (PS5, Steam, Epic Games Store).
Gameplay
- Addition of a new Hard difficulty mode
- Rebalance of gameplay elements across all difficulty modes to accommodate the introduction of the new Hard mode, creating a smoother difficulty curve for players to choose from.
- Resource adjustment in some sections of the game as part of difficulty balancing.
- Player position now visible on the map in all difficulty modes.
- Enemy hearing sensitivity now varies by difficulty, increasing with the difficulty level.
- The Weight’s attack severity reduction is limited to Story Mode only.
UX / UI
- Nightmare difficulty warning screen now shown if first playthrough is set to Nightmare difficulty.
- Difficulty selection description now shows a clearer summary of differences between the options.
- Improvements to valve status lighting for colourblind players.
- Additional player hints / tutorials added.
- Improvements to some puzzle hints and item wording.
- Restructuring of the Options Menu to better separate options into categories.
- Renamed the controls remapping menu option so that it does not explicitly mention only control pads, as keyboard and mouse commands can be remapped there too.
Other
- DLSS Ray Reconstruction option added (PC only).
- General improvements and bug fixes.
A pretty solid update, and we’re glad to see a new difficulty added to the game, along with DLSS Ray Reconstruction. Hopefully more updates are coming, along with a few other surprises.
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