Fresh Content & Expansions
- Verso’s Drafts: Discover a mysterious new realm filled with unique enemies and hidden secrets. This environment is located on the World Map adjacent to Lumière and becomes accessible during Act III. Note: Esquie’s Underwater ability is required to enter.
- Expanded Localization: We have added text and UI support for seven new languages: Czech, Ukrainian, Latin American Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai, and Indonesian. This brings our total to 19 supported languages, with more on the way.
- New Cosmetics: Personalized outfits are now available for every member of the Expedition, offering more ways to customize your party’s look.
- Elite Challenges: Face off against formidable boss variations in the Endless Tower. These high-level encounters take iconic foes from the main story and rework them for maximum difficulty.
- Arsenal Growth: A collection of new Luminas and Weapons has been added to the game.
- Completionist Update: The “Old Key” quest item can now be found in the game’s final area. Previously exclusive to the Prologue, this addition allows players to collect every journal entry within a single playthrough.
Enhanced Gameplay Features
- Integrated Photo Mode: Capture your favorite moments with a suite of creative settings, accessible at any time through the pause menu.
- Lumina Loadouts: Manage your strategy efficiently with the new Lumina Sets feature, allowing you to save and swap between up to 50 distinct tactical configurations.
- Combat Flexibility: The pause menu is now accessible during active combat, including a new “Abandon Battle” option.
- UI Customization: Adjust the on-screen display with a new HUD Scale setting, ranging from 80% to 120%.
- Cutting-Edge Performance: Full support for AMD FSR 4 is now live, featuring temporal upscaling for crisp visuals and Frame Generation for enhanced fluidity on supported hardware.
- Refined Navigation: Experience an improved UI with new filtering options for both Pictos and Luminas.
- Input Mapping: Full controller button remapping is now supported.
Handheld & Portable PC Optimizations
- Verified Status: The game is now officially certified for both Steam Deck and ROG Ally.
- Enhanced Legibility: Improved font rendering and text size for better readability on smaller displays.
- Visual Polishing: Resolved several lighting and atmospheric issues, including:
- Reduced visual intensity during the Flying Manor boss encounter and related cinematics.
- Fixed overexposure in the Visages.
- Adjusted lighting in the Endless Tower to prevent areas from appearing too dark.
- Performance Fixes: Removed the 30 FPS cap on Steam Deck and restored functionality to the VSync toggle.
- Streamlined Setup: Installation wizards now support controller inputs, and the game now transitions seamlessly between handheld controls and external peripherals.
General Bug Fixes & Balancing
- World Stability: Fixed a bug where using “Battle Retry” after certain triggers could spawn the player outside the map boundaries.
- Time Tracking: Save files now accurately record total playtime, including time elapsed during Game Over screens (applicable to new save data).
- Inventory Management: Fixed an issue where inventory sorting preferences would reset after closing the menu.
- PC Game Pass Fix: Restored access to the Intel XeSS Frame Generation setting for Game Pass users.
- Input Correction: Resolved a Windows-specific issue where certain diacritic marks (like ^ or ~) became unresponsive after launching the game.
- Combat Logic: Adjusted “Breaking Death” to ensure it only affects the specific enemy that killed the character.
- Turn Order: “First Strike” encounters now correctly calculate turn priority based on the characters’ Speed stat.
- Stat Balancing:
- Corrected Boucharo’s critical hit bonus from +150% to the intended +50%.
- Removed unintended +10% damage modifiers from several Luminas, including Sweet Kill, Teamwork, and Dead Energy II.
We are continuing to work on further optimizations and additional language support. Thank you for your continued support—we hope you enjoy the update!
— The Expedition 33 Team