Some may let you know that the newest Dragon Quest XI patch sounds nice, lifting the cap on framerate and including extra key binding choices to the game our Noa called “a beauty of a JRPG”. These individuals are incorrect. The patch has launched a grave injustice by permitting folks to depart their horses behind. Just consider the form of monster that would go away a digital horse alone in a land of slimes. The game beforehand punished such monsters by generally making the game crash however now Squeenix say that was a “bug” and so they have “fixed” it? So folks can abandon their horse with out consequence? Terrible. Terrible patch. Terrible information. A horrible precedent.
Squeenix famous in Friday’s patch notes:
- We’ve recognized a bug which may generally trigger the game to crash when the participant is 300m away from their horse on the sphere, this has been mounted.
That’s not a bug; that’s a characteristic. Look after your rattling horse. This animal is your finest good friend and even helps you to sit on its again, the least you are able to do is carry it with you all over the place. EVERYWHERE. I can’t think about what Squeenix had been pondering by condoning digital horse neglect.
Don’t be distracted by that by among the different, nice-sounding adjustments within the patch:
- Players are ready to decide on between three (Low, Medium, High) pre-set graphic settings earlier than launching the game
- People’s names (similar to “Robert”) have been faraway from the listing of prohibited phrases when choosing the primary character’s identify originally of the game.
- It’s now doable to maneuver the command choice cursor utilizing the left stick, and by extension WASD on keyboards, with only a few exceptions in sure screens.
- It’s now doable to pick out which key exits the game (by default that is set to Esc) and it is also doable to bind the Esc key to a distinct perform.
- More body charge choices have been added; 90 fps, 120 fps, 144 fps in addition to the choice to depart the body charge unlocked.
Putting the proof collectively, I’ve concluded {that a} horse-hater named Robert wields an uncommon quantity of affect over Squeenix. As Americans say: you do the mathematic.
