Dawnwalker Update 1.1: Release Window, Features & Patch Status

Update 1.1 release status: direct answer

On October 17, the official Rebel Wolves developer account announced that Update 1.1 is planned for next week. In calendar terms, that points to the week of October 19–25, but it is a release window rather than a confirmed day or hour.

Update 1.1 is not live as of October 18. Rebel Wolves has shared a feature summary, not the complete changelog. The exact release day, platform rollout order, download size, final build number and the individual list of 1,100-plus fixes remain unpublished. Keep those fields provisional until first-party release notes and a public build appear.

Confirmed Update 1.1 features

The October 17 announcement materially expands the earlier preview. Skill respec is now confirmed through a new Draught of Mind Rebirth, which refunds the learning time invested across Swordmastery, Witchcraft and Vampirism so those abilities can be chosen again.

Accessibility and presentation changes are also confirmed. A new Story mode adds extra combat assistance, while the previous Story preset becomes Forgiving. Rebel Wolves also names additional subtitle settings, combat-targeting, traversal and camera improvements, Frame Generation updates and directional animal petting. The announcement says more than 1,100 other improvements and fixes are included, but does not enumerate them yet.

What the October 16–17 SteamDB activity means now

SteamDB recorded app and depot-page activity shortly before the official Update 1.1 announcement. In hindsight, that activity was a useful early signal, but it still did not prove that a public patch had shipped or reveal its contents.

The first-party announcement now confirms Update 1.1 and its release window. SteamDB still cannot establish the exact public release time, download size or console rollout. The release gate remains a public build plus first-party patch notes, not a database timestamp by itself.

Earlier preview versus the 1.1 announcement

The new announcement confirms several ideas previously discussed by game director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz and adds major details. The difficulty rename is now Forgiving, respec is a named feature, and the scope is explicitly Update 1.1 with more than 1,100 improvements and fixes.

Some earlier interview details—such as the exact three-hit stun-targeting behavior—are not repeated in the short October 17 summary. They remain credible preview information, but should not be treated as final implementation details until the full changelog confirms them.

Not confirmed for Update 1.1

New Game Plus is still being developed for a future update and is not part of the confirmed 1.1 feature summary. Photo mode, HDR, PS5 Pro-specific upscaling and new enemy types also do not appear in the announcement.

The phrase '1,100+ improvements and fixes' is not permission to claim that any particular crash, quest blocker or performance problem is fixed. Bakir's post-fight crash, Svartrau traversal stutter, Borderless-mode stutter and individual save-state failures must each be matched against the complete changelog or reproduced after release.

• New Game Plus: not announced for 1.1
• Photo mode and HDR: not named
• PS5 Pro-specific PSSR/QSSR support: not named
• Universal PC or console stutter fix: not promised
• Bakir crash and individual quest blockers: await the full changelog
• Download sizes and platform rollout order: not published

How to prepare without risking saves

Keep one manual save before a difficult boss or irreversible choice and avoid overwriting it while waiting for the update. When the patch ships, close the game, let the platform finish the download, restart the system if required, and test the same save before deleting backups.

For combat and performance comparisons, use the same encounter, route and settings before and after installation. Do not combine the patch test with a driver change, mod update and graphics rewrite at the same time; changing one variable makes it possible to identify what actually helped.

• Back up or preserve a pre-patch manual save
• Disable incompatible gameplay and camera mods before first launch
• Record the current version and storefront
• Retest the same stun, escape and performance scenario
• Wait for the final changelog before declaring a specific blocker fixed

Hotfix 1.0.5: direct answer

Rebel Wolves released Hotfix 1.0.5 on September 10, 2026 for Steam and GOG. The official change list contains one item: improvements to the shader-compilation pipeline that can fix stuttering for some users.

That wording is deliberately limited. It does not promise to remove every hitch, does not name Svartrau City, camera-motion or Borderless stutter, and does not describe a shader-compilation crash fix. PS5 and Xbox were not included in the official 1.0.5 rollout notice.

Hotfix 1.0.4: release status

Rebel Wolves published Hotfix 1.0.4 on September 9, 2026. The studio's official rollout notice confirms that the update is available on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.

The detailed notes contain both general fixes and explicitly platform-limited PC fixes. The Steam GameInput FPS fix is Steam-only, while the FSR Frame Generation V-sync fix is PC-only. Do not extend either claim to consoles or to unrelated stutter.

Save, loading and progression fixes

The largest player-impact changes are the saving fix and the removal of several progression blockers. The notes do not say that every old save is automatically repaired, so confirm the update, keep the existing save intact, and retest the blocked trigger before starting a new playthrough.

Quest names below are taken directly from the developer changelog. A listed fix confirms the named failure mode; it does not prove that every unrelated problem in the same quest is resolved.

Combat, NPC and difficulty fixes

Hotfix 1.0.4 also corrects several gameplay states: Voracious Bite no longer advances too quickly and blocks the tutorial, Coen should no longer become stuck inside houses, and Crake can now be spoken to during training.

Other confirmed changes stop dead NPCs from initiating dialogue, restore blocking when it was disabled under some circumstances, prevent Ocha from attacking Coen merely because guards attack him, and make A Lone Wolf's Hunt use its intended difficulty.

Controller and PC performance fixes

The general gameplay notes include further controller deadzone and sprint-input adjustments. On Steam, a separate fix prevents outdated GameInput controllers from causing FPS drops. On PC, FSR Frame Generation should now work correctly with V-sync.

These are narrow fixes. The changelog does not claim a universal cure for Svartrau City slowdowns, shader-compilation crashes, Borderless stutter, all controller hardware, or the cinematic frame-rate cap.

How to confirm the update and retest safely

Close the game fully, finish the platform download, and relaunch. On Steam, confirm there is no pending Dawnwalker item in Downloads. Console players should use the system check-for-update command, but should not expect a PC-only 1.0.5 build. Preserve a manual save from before any broken quest trigger.

For stutter, repeat the same 60-second route before and after the update with the same graphics settings. Run it twice so first-pass shader work is not confused with steady-state frame pacing. Test old 1.0.4 save, quest, controller or FSR fixes separately.

• Install 1.0.5 on Steam or GOG and restart the game
• Keep the same resolution, preset and route for the comparison
• Repeat the route once after shader compilation has settled
• Do not combine the patch test with driver, overlay and config changes
• Record storefront, build and exact symptom if the problem remains

Download size and free space

Rebel Wolves has not published an official Hotfix 1.0.5 download-size matrix. DSOGaming reports a 2.1 GB Steam download, which is useful as one observed PC figure but should not be presented as a universal Steam/GOG size.

The official installed PC requirement remains 60 GB on an SSD. Keep extra temporary space for unpacking and file replacement, and treat the number shown in your own store queue as the accurate size for that installation.

• Reported Steam download: 2.1 GB (independent observation)
• Official universal 1.0.5 size: not published
• Official installed PC requirement: 60 GB SSD
• Practical free-space target: at least 75–80 GB
• Patched files may be replaced, so download size is not added directly to installed size

What Hotfix 1.0.5 does not confirm

The official note does not claim a universal Svartrau performance fix, camera-stutter cure, Borderless-mode fix, cinematic FPS unlock or repair for Oodle and DecompressShader crashes. Independent RTX 5080/5090 testing still reproduced camera stutter after 1.0.5, so a remaining hitch is not proof that the update failed to install.

Hotfix 1.0.4 remains the update that fixed saving, named quest blockers, controller deadzones, the Steam GameInput FPS-drop cause and PC FSR Frame Generation with V-sync. On consoles it remains the current confirmed baseline; on PC those fixes remain part of the history beneath 1.0.5.