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Even if Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is purely a single-player game, that hasn’t stopped Sandfall Interactive from releasing more patches for the game. Today’s update is more than just for bug fixes, as it even adds new features as well.
Chief among the new features is a way to rematch Simon, the hardest endgame boss, as well as a massive change to Story mode to make it easier for players who want to experience the story.
Read on for everything that got changed in the patch notes.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Update For June 10 Brings New Features, Bug Fixes
Here are the complete patch notes from Sandfall.
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
If you need help in beating Simon, we have a guide just for that, which should help you in conquering the game’s hardest boss.
If, for some reason, you’re reading this and you still haven’t played the game, what are you waiting for? Go check out what will most likely be this year’s Game of the Year winner for a lot of publications.
Our review spoke very highly of it, as we gave it a perfect 10/10 score — yes, it’s that good.
