Publisher Kepler Interactive and developer Sandfall Interactive have announced the release of a new patch for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The 1.3.0 patch increases the parry and dodge window by 40% for the Story Mode difficulty, adds the ability to rematch against Simon, the game’s toughest boss, along with more challenge modifiers from Act 3. Finally, the update adds a slew of bug fixes across the entire game. Other than that, the publisher also released an accolades trailer celebrating all the great critical reception the game has achieved. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 launched on April 24 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store. The game is also on Xbox Game Pass. In Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, players “traverse awe-inspiring landscapes in their fated journey towards the Paintress.”
The full patch notes can be seen below:
Ver 1.3.0 Patch Notes
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 3 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
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