A newly launched patch for Outer Wilds seems to have added a brand new bug that includes the face of the event studio’s proprietor.
Patch 16 was not too long ago launched on Steam, and is described by studio Mobius Digital as a “minor patch” which will likely be rolling out to all different platforms (besides Change) in late Might,
The studio has assured non-Steam gamers that they’re “not lacking out” by not having the patch but as a result of it’s solely supposed to repair two PC-only bugs and for “including a pair of us to the credit”.
It will seem that the patch has by accident credited somebody greater than supposed, nonetheless – the studio’s founder and Outer Wilds producer, Masi Oka.
One participant (as noticed by Automaton) famous {that a} photograph of Oka – who additionally performed Hiro Nakamura in NBC’s present Heroes – now seems in one of many home windows of the participant’s ship.
After asking the studio if the photograph of Oka was at all times there and maybe they’d solely simply observed it, the sport’s official X account replied: “Oh man that’s a bug, that’s NOT the place he’s purported to be, lol. Thanks for calling this out!”
The studio didn’t verify how the bug occurred, nor did it reveal the place the photograph of Oka is “purported to be”, if it was certainly added as a hidden easter egg.
Oh man that’s a bug that’s NOT the place he’s purported to be lol. Thanks for calling this out!
— Mobius Digital Video games (@Mobius_Games) Might 7, 2025
The sport’s newest patch won’t be coming to Change as a result of Mobius is presently being “danger averse” with its updates as a consequence of most of its sources being allotted to its as-yet unannounced subsequent sport.
“Why stagger the [patch] releases like this? It’s to extend the possibility that, if any unhealthy bugs on Steam slipped by means of testing, they’ll get caught and stuck earlier than the discharge of the opposite platforms,” the studio stated. “That is no shade to our QA testers, we’re simply making an attempt to be additional danger averse and conservative with the sources we put towards Outer Wilds since our new sport is our precedence.
“That is additionally why we’re not bringing the patch to the Change in the interim: it’s a dangerous platform for us to the touch and a very powerful of those bug fixes don’t even apply to the Change. We plan to rethink as soon as we determine if we’re going to deliver Outer Wilds to Change 2.”
Final yr former Nintendo artist Takaya Imamura, who designed the Zelda character Tingle, informed VGC he would like to see the character showing within the upcoming live-action Zelda film, and that Oka was his most popular option to play him.
