Far Cry Primal hit yesterday on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, while on PC the game is launching next week. On the day of the console release Ubisoft was also kind enough to launch a "Day One patch" that adds an entirely new extra challenging difficulty level called Expert Mode.
According to the game's official blog the mode will offer more challenging enemies, reduce aim assist and give enemy AI a boost. The patch also fixes gameplay and performance in various ways, as seen below in the full patch notes.
Expert Mode Changes:
• Players' health has been halved compared to Hard difficulty.
• Reduced players aim assist.
• AI shoots faster by 1/3
• Enemies in combat are not shown on mini map by default (they appear only if they are tagged).
• It takes the AI a longer time to "forget" you when you hide
• The aim assist box is reduced for several weapon types (bow, club, spear)
• The player damage is reduced
Other Fixes:
• Stability & Performance
o Optimization and stability have been improved
o Improved lighting
• Weapons & HUD
o Improved reticle display
• Wildlife & AI
o Improved beast companion behavior
o Fixed rare animation issues
o Improved visual of the mammoth when it destroys objects
o Improved animal fighting behavior when triggering a fight
• Design & progression
o Tweaked and balanced XP rewards
o Tweaked the damage ratio of certain recipes
o Improved overall balancing
• Gameplay
o Improved animations of weapons on fire
o Fixed issues with lit weapons during cinematics at night
o Improved player navigation and small collision issues
o Improved camera transition and minor collision issues on cinematics
Size:
• PS4 : 564MB
• XBONE : 561MB