Another Yakuza title hits Steam this week, however that’s not the one excellent news for Japanese underworld lovers on PC. Yakuza zero has a significant patch presently in beta which can add some notable options to the Steam launch, repair some massive visible bugs, and maybe most notably, the replace suggests the game is dropping the controversial DRM layer, Denuvo – simply in time to construct some goodwill forward of the Yakuza Kiwami PC release date.
The DRM change is but to be confirmed, however customers on the Steam forums have famous that the executable has dropped from 220MB to 20MB, and the file now hundreds up considerably sooner – which suggests it’s now not calling out to a server earlier than beginning. Yakuza Kiwami (which nonetheless isn’t even out but) dropped Denuvo a couple of weeks in the past, as proven on SteamDB.
More concretely, this replace provides an FOV slider and correct help for ultrawide setups, even together with border artwork for these bits that may’t fill the side ratio. There’s now a menu choice to decide on what monitor your output to, a background audio slider, and a UI toggle. In quick, it’s getting many extra of the choices you’d desire a PC launch to have within the first place.
Additionally, this patch fixes an enormous lighting problem, which had a very notable impact on one of many game’s greatest story moments. You can see a clip of it beneath, however be warned of spoilers.
The patch is presently in beta, however ought to hit the correct game quickly. You can see the patch notes on the Steam forums.
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Check out our Yakuza Kiwami PC review when you’re at it – for my cash, zero remains to be the very best game and greatest start line within the collection, however the impending launch of Kiwami seems to be to convey us extra Yakuza goodness on PC.



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