Senua's Saga: Hellblade II gets Steam Deck Verified with the Enhanced Update out now

The Enhanced Update has arrived for Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, bringing with it optimisations, Steam Deck Verified support and more.

Originally released on PC back in May 2024, this update adds a new "Very High" graphics preset. They said that their team "carefully considered where we could make the most impactful improvements for a visual quality bump at a reasonable performance cost" for it, rather than just dialling everything up. They've also added in NVIDIA DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Generation support.

A good update for Steam Deck players too as they explained in the announcement:

Something else we wanted to revisit with this update was performance on Steam Deck to achieve Verified compatibility, and we’re pleased to report that this work was successful. Deck performance at launch wasn’t an out-of-the-box experience, so players would find themselves needing to tweak settings to achieve optimal performance. We’ve now made the game ‘Deck-aware’, so the game will now automatically select the best settings for this hardware. We’ve also found some CPU performance improvements for a better game experience on Steam Deck.

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The full list of changes are below:

• Dark Rot mode can be selected after completing the game.
• Dark Rot Achievement added.
• Developer Commentary can be selected after completing the game.
• Very High graphs preset added.
• DLSS4 / Multi Frame Gen.
• Dolby Atmos for speakers.
• Enhanced Photo mode.
• Steam Deck Verified + performance improvements.
• DualSense controller support.
• Fixed overlaps present in localised languages in pause menu when text size is set to large.
• Fixed Senua's hair turning white when she steps into the light in Chapter 4 "Act of Sacrifice".
• Fixed a bug where changing upscaler for the first time does not load upscaler quality mode properly
• Fixed Senua's hair sometimes turning white when using Intel XeSS or AMD FSR Ultra Performance mode in Chapter 2 "Return Home".
• Fixed a bug where holding input does not always work for getting up, when button mash input method is set as ‘Hold’.
• Fixed speaker colour settings.
• Fixed an enemy encounter in the 2nd fight of Chapter 6 where an opponent continues an attack sequence after Senua is knocked down on the ground against a wall.
• Fixed Senua's footprints moving alongside her in Chapter 4 caves after the ‘Trial of Wisdom’ checkpoint, if reached in asingle game session that started in a previous chapter's checkpoint.
• Fixed Senua dying after climbing elevated ground in the first part of the Sea Giant's ritual in Chapter 5.
• Fixed assets without collision spawning after skipping a cinematic with Astridr in the forest, during Chapter 6.
• Fixed a Hiddenfolk puzzle disappearing if the graphic preset is changed.
• Fixed the speaker disappearing from the subtitles after pausing and resuming the game.
• Fixed Thorgestr and Senua's subtitles not syncing with audio during the Draugr fight at the settlement in Chapter 5
• Fixed The Goði spawning on screen behind Senua if she performs the neck breaking animation on the last Axe Northman warrior
• Fixed Northman enemies spinning around jarringly if attacked in the back with Focus attacks during Chapter 6.
• Fixed a red light highlighting Senua after the 4th fight with devourers during a checkpoint.
• Several menu narration fixes across the board.