Marvel's Wolverine Update History

That is the complete public list. Insomniac has not documented any version below 1.001.004, and nothing suggests players saw one — the day-one patch is where the published history starts.

Released October 6, 2026. The patch notes, per Insomniac:

• "Adds the option to toggle story-related Scent trails using the Hint button (default on ‘R3’)"
• "Addresses additional community-reported issues related to crashes and bugs"

This closes the gap 1.001.006 left open. That patch let you hide collectible trails from a menu but kept story-critical Senses on screen; this one puts the story trail on a button. Insomniac's summary: "players now have more control over the visibility of Scents, Audio Cues, and Nightmare Roots based on community feedback."

The step-by-step for every guidance layer is on the scent trail settings page.

Released October 1, 2026, the same day PlayStation announced QSSR — Quick Spectral Super Resolution, an AI upscaler for the base PS5 that came out of Sony's Project Amethyst collaboration with AMD. Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei were the first two games patched to use it.

Insomniac's notes say the game now uses QSSR on PS5, on by default. The rest of the patch is fixes:

• UI, Photo Mode, out-of-bounds and visual polish issues
• Progression issues and crashes "experienced by a small percentage of players"
• Accessibility fixes for Navigation Assist, Lock-On, High Contrast and Screen Reader
• Localisation fixes across supported languages

What QSSR does, how it differs from the PS5 Pro's PSSR, and what Digital Foundry made of it in this game are on our QSSR explainer.

Released September 25, 2026. The notes as published:

• Senses toggles added under Settings → Gameplay → Senses: Whisky Bottle Scent Trails, Material Crate Audio Clues, Nightmare Door Roots
• "Note that the Whisky Finder and Crate Finder Adaptations will override the applicable settings."
• "Story-critical senses will still appear in the world, such as for ‘Red’ during ‘The One That Got Away’."
• Fixes for several crashes identified through crash logs and the community
• Fix for players getting stuck sliding down a tree in The One That Got Away
• Misaligned claws in Photo Mode fixed
• Rare issue where objects turn white after long sessions fixed
• Overlapping bathroom sign in the casino fixed

Six days earlier, the 1.001.005 note had said toggles were only being "evaluated". This was the first time Insomniac went further than dimming the effect.

Released September 19, 2026, and the first sign Insomniac would move. The Scent Trail was the loudest complaint of launch week, widely nicknamed "fart gas", and the request was a switch to turn it off. 1.001.005 did not add one. It reduces the opacity of the trail and of the Audio Sense indicators so both read as less visually intense, and leaves the system in place.

Two changes, per Insomniac:

• Scent Trails and Audio Sense indicators — reduced opacity, described as making the effects "less intense"
• Stability — fixes for common crashes affecting "a small percentage of players since launch"

The studio added that it is continuing to evaluate improvements to Senses, including toggleable options in a future update. That is a genuine shift: before this patch, community director James Stevenson had explained the trail as a canon story mechanic rather than a setting. This note was the first time it was treated as one — and 1.001.006 delivered the toggles six days later.

Three fixes were published, and they are worth reading literally because two of them are progression blockers rather than polish:

• "Fixed an issue where English VO would not play if the console language is set to any other language"
• "Fixed an issue where Jean Grey would drop off in a mission in Japan"
• "Fixed an issue where Logan wouldn't slide under a prison door in Telambang"

The first one is the reason to install before playing if your console is not set to English — without it you can lose the English performances entirely, which for a game carrying Liam McIntyre's Logan is not a cosmetic issue.

The patch also changed Logan's face. It replaced the mutton chops with a full beard, a change that appears in no patch note and was identified by players comparing pre-release footage. Treat it as confirmed by observation rather than by Insomniac.

The scent trail complaint is now answered. Two of the other things players raised most often have not moved:

• No New Game Plus changes. NG+ shipped in the box — see what it carries over — and none of the five patches has changed it.
• No PC version. Patches are PS5-only, and nothing in any of them implies a port. The PC status page covers why.

Insomniac's stated position is that it is "actively engaged with our player community and gathering feedback to further refine the player experience", which is a commitment to listening rather than to any specific change.

The game will not tell you which version you are on from inside itself. Check it from the dashboard:

1. Highlight Marvel's Wolverine on the PS5 home screen.
2. Press Options → Information. The version number is listed there.
3. If it is below 1.002.001, press Options → Check for Update.

Automatic updates only run while the console is in rest mode with Stay Connected to the Internet enabled, so a console that is fully powered down between sessions will often be a patch behind.