Patch 1.3 Live For Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Allowing Players To Rematch Simon

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, gaming, patch

The biggest surprise hit of the year, as well as possibly the clubhouse leader for game of the year continues get updated. Even the best games can still use some tweaks. Today Sandfall Interactive released patch 1.3 for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, bringing mostly minor fixes with a few exceptions.

The biggest change with this patch is the obvious. Players can now rematch Simon, one of the most difficult bosses in the game. We won't say anything beyond that to avoid spoilers, but this is a welcome change by many in the community.

Another pretty major change is the balancing for those playing on story mode. The parry and dodge windows have been significantly boosted on the easiest setting and the damage taken by your party has also been dropped. While this likely won't affect too many people, those simply wanting to enjoy the story will surely appreciate it.

The last of the big changes is the players ability to change some of the challenge modifiers. This is only available in act 3 but will certainly make those challenges scale to how the player wants it.

Beyond that everything else is just bug fixes and minor changes, though certainly welcome ones. Are you still playing Clair Obscur? Have you been waiting to start it? Now is the time to do so!

You can find the full patch notes below. Additionally, you can find our guides to all the manor puzzles below as well.

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 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