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.

This is the patch that matters, and the interesting part is what it is not. 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 does 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. It is now on the table as one. We track the current state of what you can and cannot switch off on the scent trail settings page.

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.

Neither patch has touched the three things reviewers and players raised most often after the scent trail:

• No Senses toggle. Evaluated, not promised. The opacity cut is the only movement so far.
• No New Game Plus changes. NG+ shipped in the box — see what it carries over — and has not been patched.
• No PC version. Patches are PS5-only, and nothing in either one 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 1.001.005, 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.