# Far Far West FFW Early Access - Hotfix 3 - Version 601 - Product: Far Far West (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/far-far-west) - Vendor: Evil Raptor - Date: 2026-05-04 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3124540/view/655979278033224541 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/far-far-west/releases/2026-05-04-ffw-early-access-hotfix-3-version-601 What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **fixed** — Made improvements to the saving system to prevent save corruptions - **fixed** — Game no longer saves if progress becomes corrupted - **fixed** — Game no longer attempts to save during important operations that could crash the game and cause save corruption - **changed** — Auto backups are no longer stored on Steam Cloud - **changed** — User settings are no longer stored on Steam Cloud to allow custom settings per device - **fixed** — Fixed a shader crash that could happen on Far Far North - **changed** — Weaklink Joker buffed from max 1 to max 2 - **changed** — Run and Gun Joker buffed from Prime (3) to Rare (2) - **added** — Gamba Machine now displays the odds Howdy y'all! It's third hotfix time! ##### This patch is mostly focused on the save corruption issues & crashes, this took most of our time and thus this patch is quite small :( You can expect a patch with lotta bugfixing, balance improvements and some (good) system changes during the next week! ##### STABILITY --- IMPROVED SAVING SYSTEM - Made lots of improvements on the saving system to try and prevent save corruptions - The game should no longer save if the progress somehow became corrupted - The game will no longer try to save while doing important operations that could crash the game, leading to a corrupted save - Auto backups are no longer stored on Steam Cloud, so you can’t lose them anymore if you use Family Sharing on Steam - User settings are no longer stored on Steam cloud, which mean you can now have custom user settings for Steam Deck and different user settings on PC/other computers --- - Fixed a shader crash that could happen on Far Far North ##### BALANCE --- JOKERS - **Weaklink:** buffed from max. 1 to max. 2 - **Run and Gun:** buffed from Prime (3) to Rare (2) ##### QUALITY OF LIFE --- - The Gamba Machine now displays the odds ##### KNOWN ISSUES --- - Fatal Errors happening after multiple hours of playing the game - Fatal Errors on launch - Possible memory leak issues when playing for several hours - ROG Ally UI not working properly - Many more little bugs that will be fixed as soon as possible! Keep reporting issues if it’s not fixed in the new update! - Deadeye: this is not a bug, but due to many feedbacks we will be adjusting it so it’s not as oppressive If you have Fatal Errors or are unable to launch the game, please take a look at [this list of solutions](https://farfarwest.notion.site/help-me). If this list doesn’t help you, [join our Discord](https://discord.com/invite/farfarwest), ask for help in #support-help and we'll get back to you asap :) Until next time!