Shift Up has updated each the PlayStation 5 and the PC variations of Stellar Blade, addressing quite a few bugs and glitches.
There’s not likely a lot right here to maintain you taking part in for those who’ve already accomplished it — there isn’t any further story content material or costumes, for instance — however the replace does tackle quite a few bugs and points, together with issues with the Picture Mode, dialogue, keyboard inputs, and lacking hair and weapons.
Here’s what’s new:
Stellar Blade Update 1.3.0 Patch Notes
- Improved Picture Mode in order that when deciding on a emblem, the emblem management indicator is now displayed.
- Mounted a problem the place gamers had been unable to exit the store after buying the ‘Polarized Sun shades’ from Clyde’s store.
- Mounted a problem the place Eve’s hair wouldn’t seem through the last Elder Naytiba cutscene when sporting the ‘Fluffy Bear’ or ‘Pink Bear’ outfits.
- Mounted a problem the place Eve’s last Korean voice-over line was lower off through the ‘Misplaced Objects from Heaven’ dialog with Clyde within the Nice Desert.
- Mounted a problem the place Eve’s arm would sometimes seem unnatural in Picture Mode when sporting the ‘Black Pearl’ or ‘Crimson Pearl’ outfits.
- When utilizing FSR upscaler, restarting the sport is now required to allow body era.
- Mounted a problem the place the Fusion Weapon was not seen when starting the struggle in opposition to the Airborne Squad after defeating Windfall.
- Mounted a problem the place utilizing the numpad on the keyboard to set off abilities within the Coaching Room prompted the coaching system to turn into unresponsive.
- Mounted a problem the place, when fishing for the ‘Betta’ fish with mouse and keyboard, the grey striped sample of the progress bar would obscure the reel-in progress bar.
- Mounted a problem the place, when utilizing the ‘Stinger’, goal lock-on wouldn’t operate accurately underneath particular enter circumstances.
- Mounted a problem the place the zoom operate within the Hair Salon menu wouldn’t reply to controller or keyboard enter.
- Mounted a problem the place dialogue would sometimes not show after interacting with Adam within the Eidos 9 Atelier.
- Mounted a problem the place Dororong would sometimes not seem throughout their introduction scene in Xion.
- Mounted a problem the place newly unlocked objects wouldn’t instantly seem after growing store affinity degree.
- Improved the save timestamp system so that point since final save is now precisely displayed primarily based on profitable saves, slightly than tried saves.
- Enhanced the save failure message by altering it to yellow for higher visibility.
- Varied different bug fixes.
The PC model of Stellar Blade solely launched on June 11, but it surely’s already Sony’s largest single-player Steam launch ever. PC-specific options embody AI upscaling by way of Nvidia DLSS 4 and AMD FSR 3, an unlocked framerate, Japanese and Chinese language voiceover, ultrawide show assist, increased decision setting textures, and DualSense assist for haptic suggestions and set off results.
IGN’s Stellar Blade assessment returned a 7/10. We stated: “Stellar Blade is nice in the entire most necessary methods for an motion recreation, however boring characters, a lackluster story, and several other irritating parts of its RPG mechanics stop it from hovering together with the most effective of the style.”
Remember {that a} sequel, Stellar Blade 2, can be on the best way.
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