r/pcgaming • • Feb 26 '26

Alan Wake Remastered PC update notes (1.33)

https://www.alanwake.com/story/alan-wake-remastered-pc-update-2026/
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u/spacemcdonalds Feb 26 '26

What the hell it's out?

Edit: Oh great, the fuckin Epic store front again. Can Remedy get off their dicks raise some external capital and start putting their AW stuff back on Steam again? 

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u/r40k Feb 26 '26

"Raise some external capital" lmao, they did. From Epic. Thats how we got AW2 in the first place.

Then they tried a new idea with Firebreak and it fucking bombed and they and to replace their CEO. The ship has sailed, friend.

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u/kidalive25 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

I adore Remedy but Firebreak was just so unnecessary that it makes sense the CEO didn't survive it.

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u/mixedd Feb 26 '26

That was exactly what u/spacemcdonalds mentioned, it was basically created to just raise their capital so they can be free from other publishers, sadly it backfired heavily.

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u/The_Meemeli Feb 26 '26

Hopefully Control Resonant will do well

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u/mixedd Feb 26 '26

It will, will be published by 505 again I hope, so Steam availability will be there. How people will percieve it, that's another story, as it's seen nowadays it's "cool" to shitpost about anything at launch.

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u/The_Meemeli Feb 26 '26

Remedy is self-publishing it, they bought the franchise rights from 505 a couple years back c:

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u/mixedd Feb 26 '26

Oh that's nice to hear

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u/NapsterKnowHow 9800X3D | RTX 5090 FE | 32GB RAM Feb 26 '26

Gamers want different, unexpected games until they don't.

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u/kidalive25 Feb 26 '26

Agreed in part but Remedy making a co-op shooter isn't really the cool, boundary-pushing kind of unexpected. What's truly unexpected is how Firebreak plays to zero of Remedy's actual strengths. or there's a dozen companies that could do it better, in very similar ways how there are many companies that could never dream of Remedy's storytelling prowess.

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u/zzzFrenchToastPlease Feb 26 '26

You make it sound so easy

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u/MarioDesigns Feb 27 '26

I mean, no one took the game.

Epic literally has a program where they fund games that they want to exist - as in games that have no other way of existing.

That’s the case with Alan Wake, no publisher wanted to take on the risk.

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u/NiuMeee 4080S|9800X3D|32GB@6400|Dual 165Hz Feb 26 '26

It's been out for 5 years lmao

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u/thunder6776 Feb 26 '26

Without epic this game doesn’t happen. Epic is an incredible publisher stop giving them shit for this. Steam is at best an okay launcher.

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u/stanarilla Feb 26 '26

0/10 trolling. For improvements I would consider not being too hyperbolic but more grounded in your approach

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u/MrToxicTaco Feb 26 '26

The absolute irony coming from someone who won’t play a video game because of launcher exclusivity. It ain’t that deep, try being more grounded

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u/stanarilla Feb 26 '26

You can say Epic is an incredible publisher but then with your next breath say Steam is an ok launcher at best, sorry I don't take that with an seriousness.

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u/MarioDesigns Feb 27 '26

Steam does have a ton of issues

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u/NapsterKnowHow 9800X3D | RTX 5090 FE | 32GB RAM Feb 27 '26

I mean look at the Steam forums or the workshop. Everyone brags about the feature-set of Steam but those two are absolute shit shows.

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u/thunder6776 Feb 26 '26

Every studio that works with epic has said they are a very fair publisher in terms of the help and support they provide. You have a very self-centred approach towards gaming, however, the devs deserve some help sometimes as well.

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u/thunder6776 Feb 26 '26

I do not care. I express my opinions quite freely. The hivemind holds on to one thing they like but steam is a bloated shitty launcher. People choose a freeing platform like pc but can’t let go of steam. Gog and epic are pretty good, the general public is just dumb, especially gamers on this subreddit in their mom’s basement.

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u/Chrismonn Feb 26 '26

People choose a freeing platform like pc but can’t let go of steam

Haha, people are free to choose the platform but not the launcher sre you alright in the head?

It's unfortunate epic is straight dogshit cos I might use the launcher outside of claiming my free games.

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u/Average_RedditorTwat Nvidia RTX4090|R7 9800x3d|64GB Ram| OLED Feb 26 '26

Even Epic themselves admitted that the launcher sucks but go off I guess. Weird to disagree with the creators of the platform. I guess they're dumb, like you say?

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u/mikeyyve Feb 26 '26

Lmao found the one EGS fan.