Dordogne update now available, patch notes
Posted on July 10, 2023 by Dawn in News, Switch eShop
An extensive update has just been released for narrative adventure title Dordogne, which brings a number of general fixes and improvements, quality of life features, and visual enhancements. Full details can be found below:
General fixes and Improvements:
- Fixed an issue that allowed players to clip through the ground when obtaining a collectible, ensuring a more consistent gameplay experience.
- Resolved a sound problem when changing the window focus during a cinematic, preventing audio disruptions.
- Overhauled various animations to enhance their quality, readability, and to eliminate instances of clipping, resulting in smoother visuals.
- Addressed multiple sound issues to ensure that all audio cues are played at the correct timing, enhancing overall immersion.
- Made changes to a shader to eliminate one-sided textures and improve depth of certain elements, enhancing visual fidelity.
- Fixed a critical issue that prevented camera clips from attaching and blocked player progress, ensuring a seamless gameplay flow.
- Improved and overhauled shaders and visual effects (VFX) for better overall quality and optimised framerate, enhancing visual experience.
- Rectified camera issues that occurred when leaving the game at specific moments, improving transitions and player control.
- Resolved language issues with Mimi, ensuring she now speaks exclusively in the language chosen in the options, without occasional English dialogue.
- Prevented Mimi from interacting with her surroundings while reading a Letter, using the Phone, or during a loading screen, reducing distractions.
Quality of Life:
- Enhanced mini games, such as breakfast and garden activities, by adding shadows under objects to improve spatial readability and provide a more immersive environment.
- Rearranged the order of collectibles in the Binder to align with their appearance sequence in each chapter, enhancing organisation and progression tracking.
- Added arrows around written and audio language options to indicate available choices. As a reminder, there are 14 written and 7 audio languages to choose from!
- Improved the user interface (UI) when reading Letters, enhancing readability, and making it more intuitive.
- Improved the Phone interface by allowing one to scroll through texts without spamming the down direction with the joystick.
- Addressed a previous issue that caused Phone conversations, especially with Fabrice, to end prematurely.
- This improvement further develops the relationship between Mimi and her father.
- Introduced additional interactive elements in the garden and Renaud’s lair to enhance environmental storytelling and immersion.
- Increased font size to improve text readability, ensuring a more comfortable reading experience on small screens.
- Added Binder and Phone tasks to provide more explicit guidance to players and help them progress in the intended direction.
Platform Specifics:
- Improved texture quality on some objects.
