It was virtually a foregone conclusion, however Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 completely crushed it at The Game Awards this 12 months, taking dwelling little polygonal statues for a record-setting variety of classes it was nominated for. When the sport’s director, Guillaume Broche took the stage, he thanked a lot of people, however he ended his speech by giving a really particular thanks to us, the gamers, not with a speech, however with a quite sizable replace for the sport that dropped the second he walked on stage to simply accept the award.
Dubbed “The Thank You Update”, that is no mere costume/weapon set, although there’s over a dozen every of these to go discover too. That is an all-encompassing replace that brings all the things from quality-of-life updates–a Picto/Lumina filter, a long-overdue photograph mode, and an possibility to flee from battles, to a totally new space known as “Verso’s Drafts,” with a bunch of latest story content material, largely about Verso’s childhood, and the ultimate music tracks written by Lorien Testard for the sport.
You possibly can watch the trailer for it right here, however, actually, we’re very sorry, this can be a Jack from Misplaced state of affairs now; you are gonna have to return and play. The Thank You Update/patch 1.5.0 is out there proper now on all platforms. The total patch notes are under:
New Content material
- Verso’s Drafts, a brand new playable atmosphere, taking the characters of Expedition 33 to a brand-new location with new enemy encounters and surprises to find 🙂
- Situated on the World Map, subsequent to Lumière – Accessible from Act III
- Esquie’s Underwater capacity is required!
- New textual content and UI sport localizations into Czech, Ukrainian, Latin American Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai, and Indonesian, bringing the whole variety of supported languages to 19, with extra to come back!
- New costumes for every member of the Expedition, giving much more customization choices for gamers all through their journey
- New boss battles for late-game gamers to beat within the Limitless Tower – They’re variations of iconic bosses from the principle sport, designed to be much more difficult
- Added new Luminas and Weapons
- Added the “Previous Key” quest merchandise to the ultimate space of the sport – Beforehand obtainable solely through the Prologue, this addition offers gamers a second probability to gather all journals inside a single playthrough
New Options
- Added Photograph Mode with loads of settings and choices for gamers to get artistic with whereas capturing your favorite moments from the sport, accessible at any time from the pause menu!
- Added Lumina Units characteristic, permitting gamers to avoid wasting as much as 50 totally different lumina loadouts for adapting to loads of totally different combating techniques at any second
- Added Abandon Battle possibility within the pause menu which might now be opened in battle
- Added HUD Scale setting, permitting gamers to regulate the dimensions of in-game HUD parts from 80% to 120%
- Added FSR 4 help, together with AMD temporal upscaling for sharper visuals and Body Era for smoother gameplay on suitable GPUs
- Added new filters for Pictos and Luminas and improved the UI
- Added enter remapping for controller
Handheld PC enhancements
- The sport is now licensed on Steam Deck and ROG Xbox Ally!
- International enchancment of textual content legibility
- Mounted a number of fog and lighting points:
- Overly intense results through the Flying Manor boss struggle (which additionally impacted some cinematics)
- Overexposed areas within the Visages
- Overly darkish areas within the Limitless Tower
- Mounted FPS being capped at 30 on Steam Deck
- VSync can now be correctly disabled within the settings when enjoying on Steam Deck
- Graphic settings are actually adjusted for Steam Deck customers
- Improved first-time setup move:
- Controller enter is now supported in set up wizards (now not touchscreen-only)
- Exterior controllers now change seamlessly with the Steam Deck controls
Bug Fixes
- Mounted a problem the place utilizing Battle Retry after a cinematic or automated set off may spawn the participant out of the world if the final save was created in a special location
- The playtime displayed on save recordsdata now precisely displays complete playtime, together with time spent on Game Overs
(Be aware: this repair doesn’t retroactively replace current save recordsdata.) - Mounted stock behaviour so that kind order now persists after closing the sport menu
- Mounted concern stopping Intel XeSS Body Era setting from being accessible on PC Game Move
- Mounted a problem the place the utilization of explicit diacritic marks (e.g. ^, ~, ´, `) in Home windows is blocked after launching the title
- Mounted Breaking Loss of life all the time breaking all enemies when the character dies, it ought to solely break the enemy that killed the character – In consequence, it shouldn’t work when the character kills themself anymore
- Characters’ flip order throughout a First Strike, triggered by attacking an enemy on the map, now accurately respects characters’ Velocity
- Mounted Boucharo giving +150% Vital probability as an alternative of +50% Vital probability
- Mounted some Luminas giving unintended hidden +10% harm:
- Candy Kill
- Teamwork
- Useless Vitality II
- First Strike and others