Nioh 3 Version 2.01 Patch Notes Cover Combat, Picture Scrolls, and Save Bugs

Nioh 3 Ver. 2.01 covers a wide range of issues that can disrupt combat, progression, and online play. The changes include fixes for weapon Martial Arts, Hundred Demon Realms Picture Scrolls, incorrect Guardian Spirit data, mission progression, item drops, Soul Cores, and multiplayer stability. Team NINJA published the full notes in its Steam announcement.

Combat adjustments make several hoko and shield attacks behave more consistently, while separate fixes address the ninja hoko and shield. The patch notes also revisit the Guardian Spirit problem tied to the earlier 2.00.01 and 2.00.02 updates. Ver. 2.00.02 was aimed at correcting affected Guardian Spirit data, as detailed in our coverage of that save issue, but Ver. 2.01 addresses cases where the problem remained after players continued playing.

Hundred Demon Realms Picture Scrolls receive their own group of corrections, including fixes for blocked entrances, missing combat starts in multiplayer, incorrect cursor placement, and invalid scroll values. General bug fixes also cover several missions, online targeting and synchronization, inventory behavior, collectibles, and keyboard-and-mouse controls.

Nioh 3 Ver. 2.01 Patch Notes

The official notes cover four broad areas, weapon adjustments, Picture Scroll fixes, feature changes, and general bug fixes. The final section reaches save data, online play, missions, items, Soul Cores, and control issues.

■ Adjustments and bug fixes for weapons

Samurai weapon: hoko and shield

• Fixed an issue causing a mid-air Quick Attack to be performed when the player pressed the input for Combination Input Martial Art 1 just after a jump.
• Made changes so that the controller will now vibrate when the Martial Art Ki Wave is performed.
• Fixed an issue causing a decrease in the damage dealt by Ki Wave from the Martial Art Rending Charge Revenge.
• Fixed an issue causing a decrease in the damage dealt by Ki Wave from the Martial Art Thunder Roar Lightning if the player was equipped with a weapon that had an attribute applied.
• Adjusted the knockback amount when hitting a yokai with depleted Ki with the Martial Art Shatter.
• Fixed an issue preventing the player from defeating enemies with depleted Ki with the Martial Art Shatter.
• Fixed an issue preventing Curse from disappearing from opponents with depleted Ki if the player hit them with the Martial Art Shatter.
• Fixed an issue preventing the player from using Ki Pulse with a Strong Attack during Living Artifact.
• Fixed an issue that delayed the attack window following the Martial Art Gong Bash during Living Artifact.
• Fixed an issue where using the Martial Art Shield Strike to throw the shield while Onmyo Magic like the Fire Familiar Talisman was active would cause the accompanying fireballs to disappear.
• Fixed an issue allowing players to learn Martial Arts for Low Stance and High Stance even if they had not yet learned Low Stance or High Stance.

Ninja weapon: ninja hoko and shield

• Made it easier for air-born Strong Attacks to hit opponents.
• Made changes so that the controller will now vibrate when the Martial Art Night Wave is performed.
• Fixed an issue preventing damage from increasing following Night Wave from the Martial Art Piercing Downpour.
• Fixed an issue preventing Curse from disappearing from opponents with depleted Ki if the player hit them with the Martial Art Bedrock Breaker.
• Fixed an issue causing the Martial Arts Storm Surge and Storm Surge Water to be performed with the hoko.

Other

• Fixed an issue preventing Curse from disappearing when the player performed Flowing Mist with the Samurai weapon the sword.
• Fixed an issue causing a decrease in the damage dealt by the special effect Tonfa Gun with the Ninja weapon the tonfa if the player was equipped with a weapon that had an attribute applied.
• Fixed an issue preventing Ki from being expended if the player performed the Martial Arts Winter Dawn, Summer Twilight, or Autumn Dusk with the Ninja weapon the kusarigama and then cancelled the attack with a Guardian Spirit Skill or other technique.

■ Adjustments and bug fixes for Hundred Demon Realms Picture Scrolls

• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused obstacles to appear at the entrance to Hundred Demon Realms Picture Scrolls.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes made it impossible to select Go Forward after defeating the final enemy in Hundred Demon Realms Picture Scrolls.
• Made changes so that if there are multiple bosses with the same name in the Hundred Demon Realms Picture Scrolls, their information will not be consolidated.
• Fixed an issue where the cursor highlighted the wrong Hundred Demon Realms Picture Scroll if the player completed a Hundred Demon Realms Picture Scroll under certain conditions.
• Fixed an issue preventing the icons for Hundred Demon Realms Picture Scrolls with powerful special effects from being displayed in the Equipment menu.
• Made changes so that the number of attempts allowed for the next Hundred Demon Realms Picture Scroll will be displayed only on the host player’s screen when awaiting the start of an Expedition for a Hundred Demon Realms Picture Scroll.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented combat from starting for guests during multiplayer sessions in Hundred Demon Realms Picture Scrolls.
• Fixed an issue allowing players to obtain wrongfully generated Hundred Demon Realms Picture Scrolls during Expeditions or while they had Visitors.
• Note: If the player has a Hundred Demon Realms Picture Scroll with values that exceed the valid range, each value will be adjusted so that it falls within the valid range.

■ Feature enhancements and adjustments

• Made changes so that pieces of equipment will be locked when saving or overwriting them in Manage Equipment Sets.
• Made it easier to unlock the illustrations of some yokai.
• Improved the visibility of icons for checking the details of documents players have obtained.
• Made changes so that, if the player triggered a new status ailment while the status ailment Confusion was active, which would lengthen the duration of effect for Confusion, then the special effects Status Ailment Duration (Confusion), Extended Negative Effects, and Negative Effects Duration would also be applied.
• Adjusted the difficulty of “1622 CE – Edo” in Enlightened One’s Journey.

■ Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where, if the player applied Update 2.00.01, which caused their Guardian Spirits to load incorrectly, and continued playing, then applying Update 2.00.02 would not resolve the issue for all Guardian Spirits.
• Fixed an issue preventing Curse from disappearing when performing a bare-handed Strong Attack against an enemy with depleted Ki.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes allowed the clones created with the Ninjutsu Shadowself to pass through walls.
• Fixed an issue where taking an enemy attack during the player’s own attack with a Toughness of AA would cause the player to stagger even if a Toughness of A should have prevented them from staggering.
• Fixed an issue where moving while attempting to use a Guardian Spirit Skill would make it impossible to use the Guardian Spirit Skill.
• Fixed an issue where using Summoning Seal: Giant Toad did not remove the Summoning Seal from the player’s inventory.
• Fixed an issue where certain attacks by Yui Shosetsu would move the character, making him face the wrong direction.
• Fixed an issue causing extra damage to be dealt by certain attacks by Yui Shosetsu.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Poison damage taken over time to fluctuate under certain conditions.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the player character to die regardless of the amount of damage they took from one of Ichimokuren’s throwing attacks in the Lesser Crucible near the Vast Cavern shrine in the Koishikawa region.
• Made it more difficult for Kawara Jurobei to fall from the terrain during battle in the Myth Stagnant Shogunate.
• Fixed an issue where dying at a certain point during the Myth Waterside Temptation would make it impossible to progress the Myth.
• Note: The affected save data will be fixed to make it possible to progress.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the player from obtaining the equipment Matsudaira Nobutsuna’s Fan from Matsudaira Nobutsuna under certain circumstances.
• Note: If your save data was affected, this item will be added to your Items list.
• Fixed an issue causing dropped items to become embedded in a bookshelf in The Hollow Schoolhouse.
• Fixed an issue where, if the player inspected the Amrita near the volcano in the Koishikawa region, the item would fall below the cliff.
• Fixed an issue where attempting to pick up an item in Shogun’s Journey or higher difficulty levels in Chokodo in “1651 CE – Hell Rising” would make the item fall into a wall, making it impossible to obtain.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the entrance of restored Lesser Crucibles to be sealed shut in Shogun’s Journey and higher difficulty levels.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the key items Foreign-Looking Key and Yagyu Key to disappear from the player’s inventory after they were obtained.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the count of the positive effect Hyouriken from increasing for certain Martial Arts like Grapple.
• Fixed an issue preventing the effects of the skill The More the Merrier from being enabled for Summoning Seal: Gamatsuki, Summoning Seal: Akaname, Summoning Seal: Tesso, Summoning Seal: Ichimokuren, Summoning Seal: Giant Toad, and Summoning Seal: Jailer Oni (Hell Wind).
• Fixed an issue preventing the positive effect Gust from being duplicated by special effects.
• Fixed an issue allowing the positive effect Faster Movement to be extended through Style Shift and when changing equipment.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused Soul Cores dropped by Yamabiko to have higher +values than they should have.
• Note: Soul Cores with +values higher than the maximum +value available in Enlightened One’s Journey will have their +values reduced to the max +value. The Soul Cores’ enhancement limit will also be reduced.
• Fixed an issue preventing the auto-disposal feature from working properly for some weapons that were not yet unlocked.
• Fixed an issue preventing certain Transformed Arts from appearing in the list under Customize Martial Arts/Ninjutsu.
• Fixed an issue where the Amrita already obtained in Shogun’s Journey near the volcano in the Koishikawa region would show up on the mini map.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented documents the player had obtained from counting toward the list of obtained items under Collectibles in different difficulty levels.
• Fixed an issue preventing the icon for obtainable documents from appearing on the map during Battle Scroll missions.
• Fixed an issue where, if the player attempted to upgrade the +value of a Soul Core to level 171 or higher via Enhance Soul Core, they would be unable to upgrade even if they had the necessary materials.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented the target from being targeted properly when using the Ninjutsu Shadow Dance during online gameplay.
• Fixed a bug causing the game to crash under certain conditions during multiplayer sessions.
• Fixed an issue where, when nullifying the enemy’s Curse effect with a Burst Break, Final Blow, or Grapple, the nullification did not sync properly under certain conditions.
• Fixed an issue where, if the player removed their equipment during online gameplay, they still appeared in their equipment on other players’ screens.
• Fixed an issue preventing some search conditions from being reflected when creating a room via Quick Match.
• Fixed an issue preventing the use of the Martial Art Composure when using the keyboard and mouse.
• Fixed other minor issues.

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Nioh 3

Developed by Team NINJA

In the latest game in the dark samurai action RPG series "Nioh," you will need to use both Samurai and Ninja combat styles in your battles against formidable yokai as you explore a thrilling open world.

• Genre Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure
• Platforms PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
• Perspective Third person
• Modes Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
• Release February 6, 2026
• Publisher Koei Tecmo Games
• Age Rating

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