Hogwarts Legacy introduces an Arachnophobia Mode in latest update

Hogwarts Legacy brought fans of the potterverse one step closer to living out their wizarding dreams. The game was praised for its loyalty to the lore and creatures of the universe. Among those creatures was the Acromantula, a giant spider species from the Harry Potter series. Undoubtedly, facing them wasn’t the best experience for fans with Arachnophobia (fear of spiders). Taking note of this, the developers have introduced a new mode into the game to deal with it.

Hogwarts Legacy introduced a new Arachnophobia Mode

On May 4, Avalanche Software released a new patch for Hogwarts Legacy to improve the game’s stability and introduced arachnophobia mode. Here’s what the patch contained:

Arachnophobia Mode

• Changes all enemy spider appearances
• Reduces and removes spider skitters and screeches
• Removes small spider ground effect spawners
• Makes static spider corpses in the world invisible
  • Collision is still active to prevent players from getting stuck when
    toggling this setting
• Note that spider images in the Field Guide remain unchanged

Professor Ronen Themed Cosmetic Gear

• Added support for the new Professor Ronen Cosmetic Set Twitch Drops

Additional Fixes

• Resolved Lodgok’s Helm of Urtkot quest lock, preventing players from
  continuing with the quest
• Did some laundry after students pointed out that robes looked dirty
• Multiple save game fixes
• Identified and resolved multiple collections and Field Guide Page issues
• Resolved multiple issues that could cause the player to fall out of the world

Performance

• Resolved multiple potential crashes
• Performance fixes and optimizations

Although developers have introduced these major changes for fans to enjoy this action-adventure game to its fullest, some things remain unchanged. The spider images in the Field Guide will appear the same as before. Further, defeating the spiders will still drop the item they previously dropped.

Aside from this major mode update, this patch also introduced Professor Ronen Themed Cosmetic Gear for the Hogwarts Legacy. This patch also fixed multiple bugs and glitches that fans experienced while playing Hogwarts Legacy.