I don't like the update, as an Alan Wake fan.
I have just ran through and seen everything besides community ID card and badge, done all riddles.
Riddles, good, locations, good. Don't like how Saga and Alan's outfits were handled, they don't look right. The Writer card looks good.
Problem is, the gameplay. The cosmetic update really put a bunch holes in the ship, me and my group have had CONSTANT nonstop crashes, and when that happens words of powers + dolls reset. Oh and some ghosts are completely bugged. I get the evidence for a Jinn, it's a Poltergeist! Had a Raiju see me through walls with no equipment on me.
As far as gameplay of the event, yeah I mean I like the Cult of the Tree and Cult of the Word stuff, but I don't like how Shades were handled. Instead of burning them with flashlight, ya burn them with angel lamp. And sometimes if you have hiding places blocked off so you can't burn them, and the act of burning them is itself not great. The shades add a lot of atmosphere to the events. Burning them gets rid of that.
Also, is anybody else's game ***darker*** since the update? It's incredibly hard to see stuff sometimes.