Finally, the PC version of Dead Island gets the patch many have been waiting for. Techland delayed the Bloodbath Arena DLC to get important in game issues fixed. Most prominent was the corrupted save file glitch which ruined saved files after players had accumulated 190 items. Other fixes include include ending weapon duping exploits and fixing the four player co-op freezing issue.

Here is the full list of changes:

*Fixed running game on Steam in offline mode
*Fixed damaged saves when a player has more than 190 items in inventory (weapon or stacked items, counting in items from Jin’s storage and player inventory). Corrupted games will be recovered when possible.
*Fixed problems with unlocking “There and back again” with progress 72/72
*Fixed duplicating weapons:
*When throwing and dropping at one time
*When dropping items from inventory
*Optimized scanning for friends-process, to decrease lobby server workload
*Fixed random freezes when playing 4 players coop no longer appear
*Fixed issues when using medkits from inventory menu
*Stacking items issue solved: miscellaneous items to 9999, medkits and alcohol to 30 instead of 10.
*Added the option to disable voice chat in game.
*Limited Jin’s storage capacity to 150
*Fixed: disappearing items when there is no place in inventory and a player tries to get an item from Jin’s storage
*Improved trading: items will be removed from the smallest stack instead of a random one.
*Fixed problems with corrupted profiles, which caused the game to start with black screen and freeze.
*Fixed levitating zombies after killing
*Fixed not being able to show quest details in quest menu using Xbox controller

Posted: Oct 13, 2011 1:21 pm

Source: http://www.ripten.com/2011/10/12/dead-island-pc-patch-is-live-what-it-fixed/