Marvel’s Wolverine patch tones down the ‘fart gas’ scent trail

Marvel’s Wolverine patch 1.001.005 tones down the game’s much-discussed scent trails, reducing the opacity of the blue visual guidance effect and the game’s Audio Sense indicators. The update also addresses common crashes affecting a small percentage of players.

Marvel’s Wolverine patch 1.001.005 addresses the scent trail meme

The scent trail is meant to represent Logan following a smell or using his mutant senses, but its bright, persistent-looking presentation became one of the game’s most mocked features. Reviews and players quickly gave the blue trail a less polite nickname: “fart gas”. That joke travelled further than the trail itself, which is unfortunate for everyone involved.

Insomniac’s official patch notes describe the change as a presentation adjustment rather than a removal. The studio says the update reduces opacity to make both Scent Trails and Audio Sense indicators “less intense”.

What else does the Wolverine update change?

The hotfix also targets “some common crashes experienced by a small percentage of players since launch”, according to Insomniac. The notes do not describe a wider redesign of the guidance system, so players should not expect the trails to disappear entirely after installing the patch.

Insomniac says it is continuing to evaluate improvements to Senses, including toggleable options in a future update. That leaves the current patch as a visual reduction rather than the full off switch some players wanted. MP1st’s breakdown reports the same change and places it alongside the broader player discussion around the game’s guidance effects.

The timing follows Insomniac’s earlier promise to refine Marvel’s Wolverine after player feedback and the criticism covered in tbreak’s report on the game’s reception. The patch is small, but it addresses the one visual effect players were unlikely to forget.