Rebel Wolves Reverses Course: The Blood of Dawnwalker Gets a 60fps Mode in Its Day One Patch

That did not take long. Two days after console footage confirmed The Blood of Dawnwalker would launch without a 60fps option, Rebel Wolves has announced that a Performance Mode targeting 60 frames per second is coming after all. It will ship in the day one patch on September 3 for PS5, PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X.

The studio was direct about what changed its plans. "We heard your feedback. It was clear how much this mattered to many of you, so we focused on finishing the next round of tests," the official account posted. According to Rebel Wolves, the mode was already in development but was still being tested, and the team simply was not confident enough to promise it at release. The reaction over the weekend made finishing those tests the priority.

From backlash to patch notes in 48 hours

Friday's footage showed two modes on every console, Quality at 30fps and Balanced at 40fps, both at dynamic 4K, with the PS5 Pro spending its extra power on visuals rather than frame rate. The response was loud and mostly negative, especially from PS5 Pro owners who bought the machine precisely for situations like this one. Rebel Wolves has since pulled that console footage video from YouTube, presumably to replace it with a version that includes the new mode.

The turnaround is striking, but the announcement is also carefully worded. The Performance Mode "targets" 60fps, and a mode that was not ready to be promised on Friday is being promised on Monday. We would expect resolution to take a real cut to get there, which is the standard trade, and the proof will be in how stable it holds once the game is out. One machine is still missing from the conversation: Xbox Series S is not mentioned in the announcement, just as it was absent from the original footage.

Our take

This is the good version of a messy week. Plenty of studios would have let the launch absorb the criticism and quietly patched a mode in weeks later; Rebel Wolves committed to day one, publicly, with a plain explanation of why the mode was not announced sooner. The skeptical read is that the backlash forced a promise the testing schedule had not earned yet, and an unstable 60 would sour goodwill fast. Still, with the game playable at gamescom this week and the September 3 launch on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC less than two weeks out, players who held off on the debut RPG from the studio founded by The Witcher 3's director just got the answer they were waiting for. Now the patch has to deliver it.