Marvel's Wolverine update 1.002.001 lets you toggle story scent trails with a hint button

Insomniac released Marvel's Wolverine update 1.002.001 on October 6, adding a toggleable Hint button — mapped to R3 on PS5 by default — that lets players turn story-related scent trails on or off whenever they want. The patch also fixes a range of community-reported crashes and bugs.

The scent trails have been one of the most argued-over features in the game since launch, with a vocal chunk of the playerbase feeling they were too hand-holdy and killed any sense of exploration. Insomniac confirmed on X that the change came directly from community feedback. The new Hint button doesn't just cover scent trails — it also controls the visibility of audio cues and nightmare roots, so players can now stumble onto things like the Nightmare Cabin entirely on their own terms. This follows a late-September update that already made Whiskey Bottle scent trails, Material Crate Audio Clues, and Nightmare Door Roots optional, and an earlier tweak that reduced the overall opacity of scent trail visuals to make them less visually aggressive.

Marvel's Wolverine has been unusually contentious for an Insomniac release — the scent trails and white paint navigation markers drew sustained criticism, and even the casting of Liam McIntyre as Logan sparked debate, though McIntyre said the pushback didn't bother him, pointing to the heat he took when he replaced Andy Whitfield as Spartacus. On September 15, Insomniac publicly committed to ongoing refinement, saying the team was actively gathering player feedback to improve the experience — and the cadence of updates since then suggests they meant it.

With navigation aids now fully optional, the loudest complaints about the game's handholding have largely been addressed. Whether the community moves on to other grievances or settles into a more positive consensus remains to be seen, but Insomniac has at least closed the loop on the issue players raised most consistently.