Dead Island PC patch arrives, fixes corrupted saves bug

The Bloodbath Arena DLC got delayed so Techland could continue work patching up the original game. Today we're getting a look at what they've been working on. The new patch covers a number of significant issues and fixes, most notably a bug which corrupted save files when a player had more than 190 items in their inventory.

The full list of fixes and changes is included below:

-Fixed running game on Steam in offline mode

-Fixed damaged saves when a player has more than 190 items in inventory (weapon or stacked items, counting in items from Jin's storage and player inventory). Corrupted savegames will be recovered when possible.

-Fixed problems with unlocking "There and back again" with progress 72/72

-Fixed duplicating weapons:
--When throwing and dropping at one time
--When dropping items from inventory

-Optimized scanning for friends-process, to decrease lobby server workload

-Fixed random freezes when playing 4 players coop no longer appear

-Fixed issues when using medkits from inventory menu

-Stacking items issue solved: miscellaneous items to 9999, medkits and alcohol to 30 instead of 10.

-Added the option to disable voice chat in game.

-Limited Jin's storage capacity to 150

-Fixed: disappearing items when there is no place in inventory and a player tries to get an item from Jin's storage

-Improved trading: items will be removed from the smallest stack instead of a random one.

-Fixed problems with corrupted profiles, which caused the game to start with black screen and freeze.

-Fixed levitating zombies after killing

-Fixed not being able to show quest details in quest menu using Xbox controller