Clair Obsur: Expedition 33 – Story Mode Just Got Easier
Sandafall Interactive has released the details of the latest patch for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Patch 1.3.0 is live now and makes some changes to the game’s easiest difficulty setting.
The ‘story mode’ difficulty has been tweaked to increase the parry and dodge windows by 40%. Additionally, the damage received by the player in this mode has also been reduced by 10% to 50%.
There are also 297 total bug fixes in the patch, although Sandfall has only released the details of some of the more notable fixes.
You can see the patch notes below:
Simon Rematch
- Players can now rematch Simon after defeating him!
Story Mode Balancing.
Story mode is our easiest difficulty setting.
- Parry and dodge windows increased by 40%
- Incoming damage reduced by 10% to 50%
Challenge Modifiers (Act III onward)
At flag checkpoints, players can now:
- Limit max player damage to 99,999 or 999,999
- Multiply enemy HP by x2, x5, x10, x20, x50, or x100
Bug Fixes (297 total, notable examples below)
- Verso now gains Perfection correctly when in reserve
- Simoso weapon will no longer cause lag due to memory leaks
- General polish across collisions, terrain, and scripting
- Cutscenes scale properly on ultrawide and non-standard resolutions
- Fixed a bug where loading a save after resting at a different location would spawn the player at coordinate zero
- Placeholder textures removed near Chromatic Boucheclier and his battlearena
- Fixed performance drops from repeated resting on certain levels
- Crash after dialogue sequences resolved
- Fixed stability issues after extended play sessions
- French voiceover now plays correctly when selected
System & Settings
- Audio can now be muted or unmuted when the game is running in the background
- Mouse and joystick sensitivity improvements
- Manual save file renaming is now supported (EXPEDITION_XX format required. XX must be a value between 00 and 09.)
Localization
- Rolling credits updated (added creature VO, refined IOI section)
- Font size adjustments for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
- New strings added and minor text corrections implemented
In a final note, at the time of writing, a second hotfix patch 1.3.1 was released to address the issues below:
Bug Fixes and localization issues
- Fixed the mouse sensitivity issue, should now work as intended;
- Fixed an issue with localization for vertical/Horizontal sensitivity in languages other than English;
- Fixed an issue where Simon’s attacks cannot be counterattacked and his second phase issue when sending the reserve team.
Source – Sandall Interactive
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is available to play on a range of cloud gaming services, including GeForce NOW, Xbox Cloud Gaming and Boosteroid.
