Insomniac just handed players the off-switch they demanded, and the scent trail discourse can finally die screaming. Update 1.001.006 dropped the toggles for Whiskey Bottle scent trails, Material Crate audio clues, and Nightmare Door roots, exactly the hand-holding features that got memed into oblivion as "fart gas" and "Jean Grey's perfume" the second Wolverine launched on PS5 September 15. Story-critical senses stay locked on, but everything else can now vanish into the ether where it belongs.

The patch also squashed a bunch of launch headaches: claw-stuck tree slides in The One That Got Away, misaligned claws in photo mode, random white-object glitches, and that infamous overlapping casino bathroom sign that sparked the AI accusations Insomniac had to publicly deny. James Stevenson confirmed the team was listening, and here we are days later with actual options instead of another opacity nerf.

Community reaction on X is mostly "finally" and "about damn time," with side-by-side clips showing the before-and-after. The game already moved 1.9 million copies and $130 million in its first three days despite the backlash, so the real audience clearly cared more about ripping through enemies than perfect immersion. Insomniac keeps shipping fixes while the game prints money. That's how you quiet the loudest complainers without rewriting the whole damn thing.