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Far Far West FFW Early Access - Hotfix 3 - 601 Notes (4th May 2026)

Evil Raptor's third hotfix for Far Far West zeroes in on the save corruption problems that have been plaguing players since launch.

Nathan Lees
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Save corruption is the kind of bug that turns goodwill into refund requests fast, so it's the right call that Evil Raptor spent most of their time here. Hotfix 3 (Version 601) landed on May 4 and focuses almost entirely on shoring up the saving system, with the studio openly acknowledging the patch is small because of it.

The changes that matter most: the game will no longer attempt to save mid-operation if doing so could cause a crash, and corrupted progress will no longer trigger a save at all. Auto backups have also been pulled off Steam Cloud storage, which is a smart move for anyone using Family Sharing. There's also a separate fix for a shader crash on Far Far North. On the balance side, the Weaklink joker now caps at 2 instead of 1, and Run and Gun has been bumped down a rarity tier to Rare, making it easier to find. Small tweaks, but Weaklink hitting twice per round changes how you build around it.

The studio flagged that fatal errors, potential memory leaks on long sessions, and a broken ROG Ally UI are all still outstanding. A larger patch with balance work and system changes is planned for next week. Full patch notes below.

Full Patch Notes

Howdy y'all!

It's third hotfix time!

This patch is mostly focused on the save corruption issues & crashes, this took most of our time and thus this patch is quite small :(

You can expect a patch with lotta bugfixing, balance improvements and some (good) system changes during the next week!

STABILITY

IMPROVED SAVING SYSTEM

  • Made lots of improvements on the saving system to try and prevent save corruptions
  • The game should no longer save if the progress somehow became corrupted
  • The game will no longer try to save while doing important operations that could crash the game, leading to a corrupted save
  • Auto backups are no longer stored on Steam Cloud, so you can’t lose them anymore if you use Family Sharing on Steam
  • User settings are no longer stored on Steam cloud, which mean you can now have custom user settings for Steam Deck and different user settings on PC/other computers
  • Fixed a shader crash that could happen on Far Far North

BALANCE

JOKERS

  • Weaklink: buffed from max. 1 to max. 2
  • Run and Gun: buffed from Prime (3) to Rare (2)

QUALITY OF LIFE

  • The Gamba Machine now displays the odds

KNOWN ISSUES

  • Fatal Errors happening after multiple hours of playing the game
  • Fatal Errors on launch
  • Possible memory leak issues when playing for several hours
  • ROG Ally UI not working properly
  • Many more little bugs that will be fixed as soon as possible! Keep reporting issues if it’s not fixed in the new update!
  • Deadeye: this is not a bug, but due to many feedbacks we will be adjusting it so it’s not as oppressive

If you have Fatal Errors or are unable to launch the game, please take a look at this list of solutions.

If this list doesn’t help you, join our Discord, ask for help in #support-help and we'll get back to you asap :)

Until next time!

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Nathan Lees

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