Mafia: The Old Country's Free Ride Update is now live, adding a new mode, new challenges, new items to collect, and much more in a free update for all players.* Free Ride mode, which fully replaces the old Explore mode, features new Race and Combat Challenges to take on while you explore the Valle Dorata at your own pace. The Free Ride Update also includes new weapons, Charms, cars, and outfits to collect, as well as new features like First-Person Driving, Photo Mode, Cinema Siciliano, and Classic Difficulty, all of which can be used in both Free Ride mode and the main story campaign.
Below, you'll find some highlights of the biggest additions in the Free Ride Update, along with a list of additional improvements and changes. Make sure to read our Free Ride Update article for full details.
The Free Ride Update has been a labor of love from everyone at Hangar 13, and we can't wait for you to traverse the landscape in any direction, take on all the new Challenges, and play with the new features. Thanks so much for your continued loyalty and support; we hope you enjoy returning to the Valle Dorata.
*Base game required. Some content requires unlocking via gameplay.
Free Ride Mode
Free Ride offers new ways to experience Mafia: The Old Country's vision of 1900s Sicily, letting you explore the environment at your own pace and take on a series of new Challenges. This mode is focused primarily on new gameplay content and does not have any bearing on the narrative aspects of Enzo's journey.
That said, Free Ride contains a variety of Challenges that are unlocked based on your main story Chapter completion. You can jump between the campaign and Free Ride via the pause and main menus as you make your way through the story, or you can wait until you've finished every Chapter so you can embark into Free Ride with all starting Challenges available; the choice is yours. Challenges come in two main varieties, racing and combat, each with their own sub-categories; you can find full details in the Free Ride Update article.
Cinema Siciliano
Cinema Siciliano is a dramatic new mode designed to immerse players even further into the era by evoking classic Italian cinema. Experience Mafia: The Old Country as though it was shot on a turn-of-the-century soundstage, with a moody black-and-white visual treatment, convincingly vintage-sounding audio, Sicilian VO set by default, and more clutter-free contextual UI for a more cinematic feel.
Classic Difficulty
Hone your skills and test your mastery of combat, stealth, and driving by playing the main campaign or Free Ride mode on Classic Difficulty, where enemies are deadlier, health regen is sparse, and unspent bullets are lost when you reload.
Photo Mode
Mafia: The Old Country's stunning Sicilian countryside practically begs for players to photograph it, and now you can. Photo Mode—one of the features most requested by fans—lets you pause the action with the push of a button, capture those beautiful vistas and harrowing mid-firefight moments, then share them online or with friends.
New Features
Free Ride mode
Explore has been renamed to Free Ride and can be accessed directly from the Main Menu once you've completed Chapter 2.
New races and combat Challenges will appear on the Free Ride map as you progress through the story. Players who have already finished the story will have all the starting Challenges unlocked, but some harder Challenges require that you complete a previous Challenge.
Each Challenge can be completed at three increasing reward tiers, netting you increasing amounts of Dinari (the in-game currency that's earned via gameplay) to spend at Pasquale's store. New items unlock in the store as you progress through Challenges, which unlock in sequence; play them all to get the best rewards.
Car & Horse Races: Seek out Pasquale to initiate car races, or find Gaspare if you'd rather race on horseback.
Circuit Race (3 Challenges): Get behind the wheel of your fastest car and complete a set number of laps around the track ahead of competing drivers.
Road Sprint (3 Challenges): Race against multiple opponents across the Valle Dorata in these challenging point-to-point races.
Time Trial (6 Challenges): Try to beat the clock and your previous bests as you barrel through these courses without opponents getting in your way. Checkpoint Time Trials take place across a set path, while Freeform Time Trials challenge you to find the fastest possible route between two points.
Horse Race (3 Challenges): Gallop faster than the opposing riders in these intense lap races that require smart use of your spurs.
Combat Challenges: Speak with Valerio to take on these combat-focused Challenges.
Standoff (5 Challenges): Enzo must survive multiple waves of hostile guards, bandits, and soldatos in the horde mode gauntlets of timed Standoff Challenges. Killing your attackers and looting stopwatches off of high-value targets adds precious seconds to the clock as you fight off each wave of bloodthirsty enemies. You'll have to manage your weapons, resources, and positioning in these increasingly desperate firefights.
Assassination (4 Challenges): Put your stealth skills to the test in timed Assassination Challenges. Sneak around a fixed location, execute your target, and try to escape with your life. Along the way, you have the option to crack any safes you find to improve your score.
Cinema Siciliano
Sicilian-language dialogue and subtitles
Vintage film grain and moody black & white color grading
Authentic audio treatment with hiss, crackle, and warmth of old reels
Contextual HUD for minimal on-screen UI
Classic Difficulty
Increased difficulty of combat, stealth, and driving
More realistic handling and looting of ammunition
Limited health regeneration
Fewer HUD indicators
Some aim assist options are disabled
Photo Mode
Photo Mode can be accessed any time during gameplay via the pause menu. Capture Mafia: The Old Country through a cinematic lens with a suite of creative tools:
Freely movable camera for dynamic composition
Adjustable brightness, contrast, saturation, tilt, field of view, focal distance, aperture, and zoom
Control over vignette, film grain, and film scratch effects
Apply preset filters with adjustable intensity
Option to show or hide on-screen characters for cleaner shots
First-Person Driving Camera
Officially supported for the first time in franchise history, First-Person Driving is now an option in Mafia: The Old Country. Experience the Valle Dorata from the driver's seat in the most immersive way possible, including new detailed car interiors and a close-up view of character animations. You can toggle between camera views at any time while driving.
New Items to Unlock
New vehicles, weapons, outfits, and charms have been added to the game and can be purchased with Dinari after completing specific Challenges.
16 new Outfits (& 3 new Hats that can be equipped with any outfit)
4 new Knives
3 new Guns
3 new Charms
2 new Cars
New options:
Sundial: While exploring Sicily in Free Ride mode, you have the power to shift the weather via the interactable sundial found in the Vineyard and Enzo's apartment. There are four options to choose from, giving the freedom to explore (and take gorgeous shots in Photo Mode) in whichever atmosphere you prefer:
Sunrise
Afternoon
Foggy
Ashfall
Expanded Accessibility Options:
Swap Sticks - Added an option for players to swap the functionality of the left and right controller sticks.
Reticule Opacity - Added options to change the reticule opacity and color to enhance visibility.
Throwing Arc Opacity - Added options to change the opacity and color of the throwing arc.
On-Screen Damage Effects toggle - Added an option to allow players to turn off blood and gas overlays and directional indicators.
Added support for Adaptive Triggers (PS5) for weapons.
Gameplay
Addressed reported issues where reloading the last checkpoint during certain horse riding or car driving sequences would sometimes load Enzo without a pistol.
Addressed reported issues where Enzo's horse could get stuck trying to reach its destination in Chapter 4.
Addressed a reported issue causing players to get stuck after vaulting over a stone wall while trying to reach the sniper's nest in Chapter 12.
Addressed a reported issue causing the player to become stuck in a squeeze-through in Chapter 10 if the game is running at 120+ frames per second.
Addressed a reported issue causing Enzo's horse galloping animation to not be adjusted to its actual speed, making it look like it's sliding.
Visuals
Addressed an issue causing some textures to become stretched and erratic during Chapter 3.
UI
Various UI fixes and improvements.
Audio
Addressed various instances of mismatched or missing SFX.
Performance & Stability
Addressed instability when skipping cutscenes across the whole campaign.
Various stability and performance improvements on all platforms.
Steam
Addressed a reported issue causing a ghosting effect to appear when playing the game with FSR4 enabled.
Addressed reported instability when using DLSS+DLAA graphics settings on some GPUs.