New Xbox Game Pass RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been enjoying a wildly successful first few weeks on the market - and now developer Sandfall Interactive has turned its attention to the first patch, arriving later this week.
While the team hasn't dropped the full patch notes for Clair Obscur's first hotfix just yet, it has revealed that a major balance change is inbound. The Stendhal skill will be seeing a big nerf - as the team thought that the ability "was making it a bit too easy" to use and take advantage of.
Here's Sandfall's full explanation, pulled from social media:
"Expeditioners, a quick note on Stendhal and balance changes:
We hadn’t planned to make any balance changes this early—just bug fixes, unless something clearly stood out.
Well, Stendhal did.
It was underwhelming for most of development, so in our final pre-release balance pass, we gave it a big damage boost—and clearly overdid it. It ended up overshadowing most other options.
We still want you to be able to break the game—and you absolutely still can—but Stendhal was making it a bit too easy.
You’ve got one more day to enjoy it in its current form and set some wild records. The adjustment will be included in our first full hotfix set, going live tomorrow. The patch will roll out on Steam first, and other platforms will follow.
After the change, it’ll still be a strong single-hit skill with great synergy potential... just more in line with everything else."
As you can see in the above quote, this first Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 patch will be going live on Steam tomorrow, May 9th, where we should find out the full details of this first hotfix. The update is then set to follow on other platforms, including Xbox and Game Pass.
Talking of platforms for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, we recently shared that Xbox has had the most players so far with this title, thanks to the game's day one inclusion in Microsoft's Game Pass service.