Samson is a brand new game inspired by the likes of Grand Theft Auto and Driver. Developed by Liquid Swords, the gritty action game launched to mixed reviews on Steam, with fans criticising the lack of polish and litany of bugs. Fortunately, however, Samson has just received its first major update, as the development studio looks to improve review scores and deliver the experience fans have been hoping for.

Indeed, the brand new Samson update makes crucial bug fixes and gameplay tweaks, all the while improving performance and eliminating crashes.

As you can see from the patch notes below, the update fixes various stuttering related issues and Ray-Tracing problems.

Elsewhere, the update fixes an issue with Physics destructables behaving like solid objects, as well as fixes for issues like enemies not advancing towards you in group encounters and NPCs running onto roads to inspect dead bodies.

There are also more than a dozen polish updates, tweaking things like dialogue, audio volume and grammatical errors.

That’s on top of general usability improvements that should result in a smoother, more intuitive experience.

You can check out the Samson patch notes below, and keep checking back for more updates in the future.

Samson Game Update #1

Performance

• Several performance fixes focusing on PSO related hitches (Fixes stuttering related issues)

• Fixed some misses with Slate

• Fixed landscape RayTracingDynamicGeometry misses

• bIgnoreMaskMateria & bRequireRTDynamicGeometryUpdate was not set correctly from landscape PSO precache dispatch since 5.7

• NaniteLumenCard & NaniteShading misses

• Fixed PSO misses due to FStaticMeshComponentHelper::CollectPSOPrecacheDataImpl fetching materials from LOD levels depending on MinLOD even for Nanite-enabled meshes which will render with LOD 0 materials

• Crash fix for clearing UseDestructionHelp for vehicles with a timer

• Fix for potential case where attempting to update a failed dispatch when losing warp governance could clear the callback lambda as it was being executed, causing a dangling this pointer and crash

• Fixed various audio-related crashes, including one when closing the game

• Avoid race conditions caused by writes to bIsCachedRayTracingInstanceValid and bDynamicRayTracingInstanceCachedDataDirty from parallel tasks

• Force separate storage unit between ray tracing and non-ray tracing bits

• Force separate storage unit between bIsCachedRayTracingInstanceValid and bDynamicRayTracingInstanceCachedDataDirty

• Fixed issue with Physics destructables behaving like solid objects and not getting destroyed when playing on high framerates.

• Ice Fish – NPCs spawned in the Beatdown are no longer only Level 1

• Thrill of the Fight and Running on Fumes – now functional after save/continue

• Suzy Red no longer gets multiplied during “Stitches for Snitches” mission completion

• Hit 16 (No Return Fare) – passenger now gets into the cab at the pickup location

• Dave Shultz Tailing Job – Dave now spawns close to player, avoiding near-instant fails for being too far away

• Story Chapter – No Whisper Dealers – no beatdown triggers when eliminating enemies, preventing mission failure

• Hot Iron – fixed issue where the fail radius for the reach dealer objective was too small

• Day 3: Oonagh Welcome Home – call now comes after story mission Blood on Tap rather than Dirty Scripts

• Fixed issue with the “Hot Iron” not being replayable after failing and retrying the next day.

• Improved traversal and removed collision traps by White Whisper stash close to the priest’s house in Park Avenue.

• Fixed the Cumberland barge wall

• NPC fall damage added as a failsafe for dropped NPCs

• Day 3 Pickups – raised interact range to allow easier pickup if an item is dropped under a body

• Let outsiders check if the driver can be pulled out of the vehicle

• Fixed issues where enemies were not advancing towards you in group encounters

• Fixed issues with AI running onto roads to inspect dead bodies

• Fixed issue where police siren sometimes did not work

• Fixed smoker alignment in Double Tap and Suzy’s

• Added a dedicated “remote dialogue” bucket for voice lines without a visible speaker (e.g. phone calls or police radio chatter)

• Added separate dialogue buckets for police vehicles and remote dialogue

• [Audio] New day stinger now plays before dialogue

• Increased volume for NPC vehicles

• Prevented corpses from popping back up or being launched into the air after takedowns, hazards, or railing interactions

• Improved lean-on-wall alignment

• Blocked bark gestures or one-offs during ranged combat

• Fixed Vivian holding a folder in the doctor’s office instead of nothing

• [Audio] Added “outside vehicle” dialogue lines to NPC non-combat efforts

• Fixed several grammatical errors

• Removed the facility marked on the map for no reason.

• Improved French localisation, adding a whole lot of strings that were missed in translation.

• Fix for unreliable combat barge. If you tried to do a combat barge during the 4-second cooldown, it would just drop you out of combat stance instead.

• Fixed issue with Enemies failing to pull the player out of a vehicle if misaligned even slightly.

• Balanced Police escalation detection ranges to make it fair to the player.

• Fixed issue with player falling through the floor, dying.

• New “Controls” screen for showing game input from the pause menu

• Correct text for Carpe Diem: First Job costs 0 AP.

• Added Heal to combat hints

• Fixed so we toggle Grab / Throw when you pick up an item in the combat hints

• Fixed issues with changing the Deadzone setting not changing the way sticks respond

• Fixed issues with turning off vibration in the settings.