Sony Bend's Days Gone has been out for about two months at this point but the developer's work on the game is far from over. In fact, today's addition to Days Gone might be the biggest that the game has seen since it hit store shelves.

As of this morning, patch 1.21 for Days Gone has now gone live. Per usual with new updates, this patch fixes a variety of bugs that have reared their head in Days Gone recently. Additionally, there have been some other changes dealing with how progression works.

By far the biggest addition to this update though is that of weekly challenges. Bend Studio announced previously that it would be adding this DLC post-launch to the game for free and this update makes good on such.

As for what these challenges take the form of, "Surrounded" is the name of this week's challenge which sees you facing off against an endless horde. You can earn a bronze, silver, or gold rank in this challenge in addition to earning more credits. Subsequent challenges will go live moving forward each Friday. Additionally, new trophies have also been added to Days Gone to support these recurring challenges.

You can find the full patch notes below if you'd like to read them for yourself. Days Gone is out now exclusively on PS4.

Weekly DLC Challenges

  • “Surrounded” is the first DLC challenge drop! It’s you VS. an endless Horde of Freakers! Survive the Horde as long as possible by utilizing your weapons, traps, and the environment. Increase the time on the timer by taking down Freakers and maximizing your score!

  • Each week on Friday, we will unlock a new challenge for you to master! (Will confirm day/time)

  • Earn a Bronze, Silver, or Gold rank to earn credits to buy new characters, custom accents, and rings

  • Once you complete a challenge, you will earn that challenge’s Patch which will be permanently shown on Deacon’s jacket in both challenge and story mode!

  • Free new custom accent has been added to our story mode, “Farewell Mongrels”

  • New trophies have been added exclusive to the new weekly challenges

Progression Issues

  • Lisa will not get stuck on the house terrain during the mission ”Lots Of Sick People”

  • After finishing the objective in “You Don’t Want to Know”, you should be able to properly loot your bounty

General Fixes

  • Picking up and swapping weapons on the ground has been changed to the “Triangle” button

  • A fix has added to fade away the Stat Upgrade and Trust Level banner from the player’s UI

  • Swarmers and the Horde should now vault through windows properly

  • The Breaker’s AI should function correctly when traps are utilized

  • Leaving flashback missions should now retain your melee weapon and proper ammo count

  • Rendering issue has been resolved with a certain set of NPCs

  • Localization fixes

  • Various bug fixes and miscellaneous crash fixes