Sekiro patch lands later right now

There’s a patch inbound for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice later right now, and whereas it’s naturally addressing some stability and efficiency points throughout PC and consoles, the adjustments it’s making to the price of sure fight arts and Shinobi prosthetic instruments are actually those that may garner probably the most consideration.

There are, in fact, bugs which were squashed. A very nasty one would result in PC save recordsdata being corrupted when the game crashed, and FromSoft says it’s addressed that one, fortunately. The developer has additionally fastened a problem that prevented sure actions from being carried out after reconfiguring the controls – one other welcome repair, particularly should you’re a participant who prefers or depends on custom-mapped management schemes.

Another repair addresses gamers accessing “unexpected areas, which could result in becoming unable to obtain items or make further progress.” I’m undecided precisely what they’re referring to right here, however I’ve a hunch it’s going to imply speedrunners could have to reevaluate their methods in some areas.

But crucial adjustments are coming to Spirit Emblem value to a number of prosthetic instruments and fight arts. While FromSoft solely says it’s “adjusting” the price, the thought is to encourage gamers to make use of a “diversity of approach” – or in different phrases, use instruments that that they had been largely ignoring in favor of a pair fundamental abilities.

For gamers like myself who are inclined to hoard up each form of consumable accessible in these games, something getting cheaper to make use of is unquestionably excellent news.

Here’s the total patch notes for model 1.03, straight from the official Sekiro site:

• Improvements to Strategic Approaches

  • Adjusted the effectivity and Spirit Emblem value of the next to encourage utilization and variety of method:
    • Prosthetic Tools: “Lazulite Sacred Flame,” “Loaded Axe” collection, “Sparking Axe,” “Lazulite Axe”
    • Combat Arts: “Ashina Cross,” “Dragon Flash,” “One Mind,” “Floating Passage,” “Spiral Cloud Passage,” “Mortal Draw,” “Empowered Mortal Draw”
    • Items: “Spiritfall” collection
  • Reduced the Posture harm dealt by the primary hit of the Combat Arts “Senpou Leaping Kicks” and “High Monk” because it was inflicting extra harm than supposed in sure circumstances. Posture harm dealt within the latter-half of the combo has been elevated.
  • Increased the Poison build-up dealt by the Prosthetic Tool “Sabimaru” in opposition to enemies that had been supposed to be weak in opposition to it.
  • Increased the drop fee of “Divine Confetti” for Fencers in Ashina Castle.
  • Adjusted loading display ideas and tutorial textual content, in addition to including new textual content.

• Other Fixes

  • Slightly decreased Posture and Vitality of Blazing Bull with the intention to enhance game pacing and steadiness time in fight.
  • Lowered the worth of knowledge bought by Anayama the Peddler.
  • The Chained Ogre inside Ashina Castle is now Red Eyed.
  • Fixed a bug the place “Gokan’s Sugar” and “Gokan’s Spiritfall” weren’t mitigating participant Posture harm taken whereas guarding or deflecting enemy assaults.
  • Fixed a bug the place system crashes may trigger save knowledge to turn into corrupted on PC.
  • Fixed a bug the place sure enemies would typically cease attacking the participant.
  • Fixed a bug the place sure actions couldn’t be carried out after reconfiguring the controls.
  • Fixed sure bugs that had been permitting the participant to entry sudden areas, which may lead to changing into unable to acquire objects or make additional progress.
  • Fixed circumstances of sure textual content being displayed incorrectly.
  • Improved stability.
  • Improved efficiency.
  • Other varied bug fixes.

The patch will land at 18:00 PDT/21:00 EST April 22, and on April 23 at 10:00 JST/2:00 BST/3:00 CEST.

Read extra: Here’s our Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice review

I haven’t had time to get very far into Sekiro but, however Rich favored it quite a bit. In his evaluate, he stated it boasts “the best swordfighting in the business,” and simply to think about “duelling a half-naked samurai atop a castle in a blizzard while he throws lightning at you, blades ringing as they clash.”