At present caught within the Silent Hill 2 Remake’s labyrinth puzzle? Er, sorry, however why not play as a large flesh blob when you look forward to Bloober to make things better?

The Silent Hill 2 Remake bought its first huge patch yesterday, one which aimed to assist curb a few of poor James’ glitchy shenanigans. Sadly, it appears to be like prefer it’s additionally induced an uptick in cases of a progress-blocking bug that Bloober seems to already be investigating.

Should you missed the patch dropping, you could find out all the stuff it did right here, with the bunch of James fixes I alluded to being accompanied by another tweaks and completely different efficiency enhancements for PS5 and PC.

Unfortuntely, for the reason that patch was deployed, plenty of gamers throughout each of these platforms have taken to Reddit and Twitter to relay that they’ve now gotten caught on the level within the recreation’s Labyrinth part that sees you’ve got remedy a puzzle involving a dice, with mentioned puzzle now seemigly not doing what it ought to (thanks, Eurogamer).

It is a fairly large drawback playthrough-wise, because it bars you from progressing, and traps you within the Labyrinth eternally, which is clearly a little bit of a bummer. There are a few people who’ve shared potential workarounds on Reddit, however in any other case it appears to be like such as you’re gonna have to sit down tight and look forward to Bloober to deploy a hotfix.

Fortunately, the studio may be very a lot on the case. “We’re conscious of a problem some Gamers could encounter after the latest 1.04 patch launched on October 21 within the Labyrinth stage of Silent Hill 2,” it wrote in a Steam announcement, “This blocker can happen if you happen to load a save knowledge from the Labyrinth stage (after Toluca Jail) created earlier than making use of the 1.04 patch.

“Our group has recognized the difficulty, and a repair is in implementation. The repair can be launched as quickly as potential. At present, we wish to suggest a brief workaround which is utilizing an earlier save, earlier than getting into the Labyrinth. We deeply apologize for this inconvenience. We wish to sincerely thank all Gamers for his or her endurance.”

So, there you go, relax. Or, if you happen to’re not within the temper to attempt the workarounds and are on PC, you can begin a brand new recreation as a strolling flesh blob. Yep, attempt to overlook about Pyramid Head’s toned physique and say good day to ‘flesh blob Sunderland‘, a mod which turns James’ head and torso into one huge flesh blob texture, from which his legs and arms protude. It’s totally a lot giving horror film Humpty Dumpty.

“I made an error whereas modding the sport and created this freak,” reads the one line description from modder WindowBreakerCharlie. I believe they’re being a bit harsh on themselves. That is artwork.

Have you ever run into that Labyrinth bug and do you like the blob? Tell us beneath, and try our Silent Hill 2 walkthrough if you happen to’re in want of assist ending the sport when you’re free of dice jail.