{"id":539983,"date":"2026-04-19T21:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539983\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T21:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:04:10","slug":"ghost-of-yoteis-hell-mode-boss-battle-difficulty-is-now-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539983\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost of Y\u014dtei’s Hell Mode boss battle difficulty is now live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ghost of Y&omacr;tei<\/a>‘s Hell Mode boss battle difficulty is now here, along with a load of QoL and performance fixes, plus Raid matchmaking.<\/p>\n

Patch 1.601<\/a>, which rolled out over the weekend, shows developer Sucker Punch is still committed to stabilising and polishing its action-adventure game six months on from release. It introduces a number of interesting tweaks, including the ability to matchmake Raid missions and skip straight to the Dragon and Saito raid boss fights.<\/p>\n

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Here’s everything you can expect in Patch 1.601:<\/p>\n

Raid Updates<\/p>\n

\u201cHell Mode\u201d boss battle difficulty for the Raid is now live.
\nAdd new class cosmetics for defeating Hell Mode bosses.
\nEnable matchmaking for Raid missions.
\nAdd \u201cSkip straight to the Raid Boss\u201d options for Dragon and Saito.<\/p>\n

Gear Retirement<\/p>\n

Add \u201cGear Retirement\u201d prestige feature.
\nPlayers can spend in-game currency to retire perfected gear items. There is no gameplay advantage, but gear retirement count is visible to other players, and attracts fireflies when bowing.<\/p>\n

Performance and Stability<\/p>\n

Various rare crash fixes.<\/p>\n

Gameplay<\/p>\n

Fix issue where certain enemies could occasionally do extra damage on some attacks.
\nAdded “Matchmake to fill empty slots” in weekly Nightmare missions.
\nPrevent players from being disarmed during Ultimate attacks.
\nReduced Tanegashima damage vs bosses.
\nReduced Lightning Tanegashima headshot damage.
\nFix issue where Samurai and Shinobi could have their Ultimates canceled when being attacked.
\nEnable petting the spirit animals in Survival.
\nEnable emotes while waiting at gathering points
\nFix issue where Bo-Hiya Rain card could cause players to die after completing an Incursion mission.
\nDon’t allow Giant Bo-Hiya to drop inside defend areas in Story missions.
\nUncompleted daily bounties now refresh daily.
\nPrevent Shadow Snake from Attuning himself.
\nAdded a checkmark on completed Story and Incursion missions in the Campaign menu.
\nEnable weapon trails in Lobby Bamboo Strike.
\nFix leaderboards UI issue where the list would not scroll past the first page.<\/p>\n

Ghost of Y&omacr;tei is Sucker Punch’s follow-up to Ghost of Tsushima<\/a>, set in northern Japan around 300 years after the first title. We awarded it 3\/5 stars, writing in Eurogamer’s Ghost of Y&omacr;tei review<\/a>: “Sucker Punch’s sequel offers more great swordplay and heartfelt storytelling, but would be better served as a linear action game, freed of its poor sidequests and dated open world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ghost of Y&omacr;tei‘s Hell Mode boss battle difficulty is now here, along with a load of QoL and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-539983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}