Hogwarts Legacy March 8 update patch notes: Broom flight, connection & bug fixes

Hogwarts Legacy has released another patch, fixing some connection issues, gameplay problems, and frustrating bugs reported by players. Here are all the March 8 patch notes for Hogwarts Legacy.

Since its release, Hogwarts Legacy has taken the gaming world by storm. Its popularity has naturally caused a few players to have issues with bugs, which is why it’s so important for the developers, Portkey Games, to squash them and make the game a magical experience throughout.

So, with the release of the latest Hogwarts Legacy patch notes on March 8, we’ve put together a summary of everything being fixed or altered in this open-world game so you can get back to learning new spells or visiting the Highlands’ wondrous locations.

Contents

• Hogwarts Legacy PC update patch notes
• Hogwarts Legacy PS5 and Xbox Series X update patch notes

Hogwarts Legacy PC update patch notes

Avalanche Software

Bug fixes

• PC
  • Online
    • Improve player account network registration and tracking.
    • Fixed DLC related issues during pause menu, gear menu.
    • Fixed DLC flying mount inventory issue potentially disappearing during a mission.
  • Gameplay
    • Missions
      • Fixed blocker issue when unlocking the bandit camp cage before starting the mission.
      • Fixed not being able to complete a quest during a specific conversation with Madam Kogawa missing from her desk.
      • Fixed avatar getting stuck between barrel and furnace by jumping or opening tool wheel.
      • Fixed a duplication collision next to one of the store entrances.
      • Fixed issue with waypoints being in the air instead of the ground within Hogsmeade.
      • Fixed objective maker being over Fig properly after waiting period.
      • Fixed missing exit prompt on some doors within Hogwarts.
      • Fixed opening butterfly chests other than the intended ones for a quest doesn’t count toward mission progression.
      • Fixed butterflies to not appearing at the specified area to progress the mission again.
      • Fixed incorrect merge mission progression.
      • Fixed stability issue in the Spoons in the Potion’s classroom.
      • Fixed stars being present when focusing telescope during Astronomy class on low settings.
      • Fixed stars brightness and pop issues with Astronomy mini-games.
      • Fixed shields not displaying correctly during Crossing Wands missions.
    • Broom flight
      • Fixed player getting trapped while mounting a broom or while rotating a statue.
      • Fixed not landing on Viaduct bridge.
      • Fixed mesh breaking when avatar mounts broom after teleporting in open area.
      • Fixed flash and shuttering when mounting any broom.
    • World Events
      • Fixed wagon carts clipping into one another while avatar is blocking them.
      • Fixed occasional respawning duplication of One Man Band in Hogsmeade.
    • Characters
      • Fixed issue with characters that do not have hair.
    • VFX
      • Fixed broom speed parameters.
      • Fixed enemy shields not displaying correctly during Cross Wands missions.
      • Fixed enemy shields disappearing after being hit several times.
      • Fixed visibility of constellations at the astronomy table.
      • Fixed Dark Wizard Extortionist AOE lightning VFX attack remaining on screen.
  • Audio
    • Fixed audio of waterfall in the cliffside based on avatars proximity.
    • Update latest audio soundbanks.
    • Resolved localization and VO selection properly playing correctly.
  • UI
    • Updated localization strings.
    • Fixed female avatar face appearing different from the creation preview during gameplay.
    • Fixed transition between UI purchase window and forced conversation with vendors.
    • Fixed map showing wrong path to the map chamber.
    • Fixed damaged being represented when enemy is hit with transformation and oppugno.
    • Improve tracking for Room of Requirement.
    • Fixed Ansel issue when FOV is set too high.
    • Fixed UI controller icons displaying correctly based on controller platform type.
  • Cinematics
    • Updated facial animations.
    • Fixed NPC treadmilling during the House Cup.
    • Fixed blurred texture and LOD pop.
    • Fixed Avatar robes appearing before Fig makes them appear before the sorting ceremony.
  • Raytracing
    • Improve stability and performance after long play throughs.
    • Improve VFX performance during while raytracing.
    • Improve performance by batching and caching raytracing buffers.
    • Removed fog volumes for better BVH performance.
    • Fixed RTAO making decals black.
    • Fixed directional light shadows.
    • Fixed shadows on trees.
    • Fixed performance of the culling of lights in the frontend.
  • Save Game
    • Fixed not being able to talk to Vendors during sequential saves after issue being patched.
    • Fixed streaming in and out after getting the ‘Dung Bomb’ field guide and loading a manual save.
    • Fixed an issue when turning off the title and loading an auto-save during final credits causing an infinite loading screen.
    • Fixed voice pitch setting save issue with avatar.
  • Performance and Stability
    • Fixed streaming issues throughout Hogwarts.
    • Fixed crash when common room is being shown to the player.
    • Fixed crash with skeletal mesh.
    • Fixed crash with deflection impacts.
    • Fixed crash when reading dictionary files.
    • Fixed performance when using ancient magic squash finisher on elevated Thornback Ambusher in Rune Door arena.
    • Improve rendering performance of translucent objects.
    • Fixed crash during a story graph.
    • Fixed streaming of plants in the Slytherin Common Room.
    • Fixed several memory leaks.
    • Fixed crash with map icon state.
    • Fixed crash with invalid UI.
    • Fixed streaming out of the Great Hall while navigating Hogwarts.
    • Fixed crash during audio occlusion checks around player.
    • Fixed crash when using explosive barrels.
    • Fixed crash when using Incendio spell.
    • Fixed crash when using Accio, Confringo, or Stupefy spells.
    • Fixed crash when updating gear items.
    • Fixed crash recursive crash with Solomons shields.
    • Fixed crash with mount zones.
    • Fixed crash during combat cursed lifetime.
    • Fixed crash during and spawning race on broom
    • Fixed occlusion culling with doors opening and closing.
    • Fixed occlusion culling issue.
    • Fixed a crash when travelling to Professor Fig’s classroom.
    • Fixed crashes related with Niagara and destructible related VFX.
    • Fixed a crash with damage over time not registering correctly.
    • Fixed crash spawning actor not being stored correctly.
    • Fixed crash with spawning actors correctly.
    • Fixed crash during character creation.
    • Fixed optimization animation instancing.
    • Fixed crash with moving stairs.
    • Fixed crash with VFX after prolonged play throughs.
    • Fixed crash related transformations in Overland.
    • Fixed crash dealing with object state.
    • Fixed crash with parry in combat.
    • Fixed crash with VFX AOE.
    • Fixed crash with hints.
    • Fixed crash with achievements with an invalid online userid.
    • Fixed crash while speaking to Rackham.
    • Fixed crash when using Wingardium.
    • Fixed performance drops experienced during longevity of the game.
    • Fixed performance drop in Divination classroom.
    • Improve VRAM usage specially for video cards with reduced memory.
    • Fixed raytracing lighting performance in the frontend.
    • Fixed using Ansel while a spell is being cast.
    • Fixed using Ansel while the avatar is riding a broom.
    • Updated shader compilation with latest PSO cache.
    • Fixed lighting optimization with Nvidia drivers.
  • Display
    • Resolved 32:9 aspect ratio issue when using an Ultrawide monitor.
    • Fixed Ansel issue when FOV is set too high.
  • Miscellaneous
    • Updated “Special Thanks” credits and legal lines.
    • Updated minimum Nvidia and AMD video driver recommendations.

Hogwarts Legacy PS5 and Xbox Series X update patch notes

Avalanche Software

Online fixes

• Improve player account network registration and tracking.
• Fixed DLC-related issues during pause menu, gear menu.
• Fixed DLC flying mount inventory issue potentially disappearing during a mission.

Gameplay

• Missions
  • Fixed blocker issue when unlocking the bandit camp cage before starting the mission.
  • Fixed not being able to complete a quest during a specific conversation with Madam Kogawa missing from her desk.
  • Fixed avatar getting stuck between barrel and furnace by jumping or opening tool wheel.
  • Fixed a duplication collision next to one of the store entrances.
  • Fixed issue with waypoints being in the air instead of the ground within Hogsmeade.
  • Fixed objective maker being over Fig properly after waiting period.
  • Fixed missing exit prompt on some doors within Hogwarts.
  • Fixed opening butterfly chests other than the intended ones for a quest doesn’t count toward mission progression.
  • Fixed butterflies to not appearing at the specified area to progress the mission again.
  • Fixed incorrect merge mission progression.
  • Fixed stability issue in the Spoons in the Potions classroom.
  • Fixed stars being present when focusing telescope during Astronomy class on low settings.
  • Fixed stars brightness and pop issues with Astronomy mini-games.
  • Fixed shields not displaying correctly during Crossing Wands missions.

• Broom flight
  • Fixed player getting trapped while mounting a broom or while or rotating a statue.
  • Fixed not landing on Viaduct bridge.
  • Fixed mesh breaking when avatar mounts broom after teleporting in open area.
  • Fixed flash and shuttering when mounting any broom.

• World Events
  • Fixed wagon carts clipping into one another while avatar is blocking them.
  • Fixed occasional respawning duplication of One-Man Band in Hogsmeade.

• Characters
  • Fixed issue with characters that do not have hair.

• VFX
  • Fixed broom speed parameters.
  • Fixed enemy shields not displaying correctly during Cross Wands missions.
  • Fixed enemy shields disappearing after being hit several times.
  • Fixed visibility of constellations at the astronomy table.
  • Fixed Dark Wizard Extortionist AOE lightning VFX attack remaining on screen.

Audio

• Fixed audio of waterfall in the cliffside based on avatars proximity.
• Update latest audio sound banks.

UI

• Updated localization strings
• Fixed female avatar face appearing different from the creation preview during gameplay.
• Fixed transition between UI purchase window and forced conversation with vendors.
• Fixed map showing wrong path to the map chamber.
• Fixed damaged being represented when enemy is hit with transformation and Ancient Magic Throw.
• Improve tracking for Room of Requirement.

Cinematics

• Updated facial animations.
• Fixed NPC treadmilling during the House Cup.
• Fixed blurred texture and LOD pop.
• Fixed Avatar robes appearing before Fig makes them appear before the sorting ceremony.

Raytracing

• Improve stability and performance after long play throughs.
• Improve VFX performance during while raytracing.
• Improve performance by batching and caching raytracing buffers.
• Removed fog volumes for better BVH performance.

Save Game

• Fixed not being able to talk to Vendors during sequential saves after issue being patched.
• Fixed streaming in and out after getting the ‘Dung Bomb’ field guide and loading a manual save.
• Fixed an issue when turning off the title and loading an auto-save during final credits causing an infinite loading screen.
• Fixed voice pitch setting save issue with avatar.

Performance and Stability

• Fixed streaming issues throughout Hogwarts.
• Fixed crash when common room is being shown to the player.
• Fixed crash with skeletal mesh.
• Fixed crash with deflection impacts.
• Fixed crash when reading dictionary files.
• Fixed performance when using ancient magic squash finisher on elevated Thornback Ambusher in Rune Door arena.
• Improve rendering performance of translucent objects.
• Fixed crash during a story graph.
• Fixed streaming of plants in the Slytherin Common Room.
• Fixed several memory leaks.
• Fixed crash with map icon state.
• Fixed crash with invalid UI.
• Fixed streaming out of the Great Hall while navigating Hogwarts.
• Fixed crash during audio occlusion checks around player.
• Fixed crash when using explosive barrels.
• Fixed crash when using Incendio spell.
• Fixed crash when using Accio, Congringo, or Stupefy spells.
• Fixed crash when updating gear items.
• Fixed crash recursive crash with Solomons shields.
• Fixed crash with mount zones.
• Fixed crash during combat cursed lifetime.
• Fixed crash during and spawning race on broom.
• Fixed occlusion culling with doors opening and closing.
• Fixed occlusion culling issue.
• Fixed a crash when travelling to Professor Fig’s classroom.
• Fixed crashes related with Niagara and destructible related VFX.
• Fixed a crash with damage over time not registering correctly.
• Fixed crash spawning actor not being stored correctly.
• Fixed crash with spawning actors correctly.
• Fixed crash during character creation.
• Fixed optimization animation instancing.
• Fixed crash with moving stairs.
• Fixed crash with VFX after prolonged play throughs.
• Fixed crash related transformations in Overland.
• Fixed crash dealing with object state.
• Fixed crash with parry in combat.
• Fixed crash with VFX AOE.
• Fixed crash with hints.
• Fixed crash with achievements with an invalid online user id.
• Fixed crash while speaking to Rackham.
• Fixed crash when using Wingardium.
• Fixed performance drops experienced during longevity of the game.
• Fixed performance drop in Divination classroom.

Miscellaneous

• Updated “Special Thanks” credits and legal lines.

PS5

Characters

• Fixed character lip-sync animation when “Original Audio” is set.

Cinematics

• Fixed localized VO not playing correctly when set to “Original Audio” is set.

Controllers

• Improve LED effects.

Activities and Game Help

• Improve Activities performance update and memory usage.

• Update to Game Help hints and videos.

XSX

Cinematics

• Fixed black flickering on characters face.
• Fixed graphical glitches with Fig’s head when he first opens the door.
• Fixed shadow flicker in tea cup.

Performance and Stability

• Improved frame rate performance issue when dismissing the contextual menu.
• Improve fidelity mode performance for smooth 30 FPS experience.