The Jackbox Party Pack 8 update out now on Switch
Posted on October 31, 2021 by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch eShop
A new update has gone out for the Switch version of The Jackbox Party Pack 8. All of the games have seen improvements, additions, and fixes.
Below are the full patch notes for the new update for The Jackbox Party Pack 8:
Drawful: Animate
- New Featured Content episodes
- Aesthetic improvements to audio and art, as well as in Friend Mode
- Menu screen updated to add clarity for the PLAY button
- The Double Down can now be used once per round in two-round games
- Miscellaneous controller and timer fixes
- Consoles: entering text behaves normally and will not delete typing
- Drawful Animate remains stable even if players submit just as the timer ends
The Wheel of Enormous Proportions
- Improvement to timer length, to keep the gameplay moving even with a big audience
- Players will now have an undo and a submit button when placing their slices on the Wheel
- Accessibility for screen readers
- 5 new Slice types! What do they do…? You’ll have to play and find out!
- Audience: Points to Slice Count
- Audience: Skull Swapper
- Audience: Slice Enhancement
- Power Slice: Rainbow
- Power Slice: Replace Slice
- Game screen updates during rapid fire/matching type questions to help keep the audience in the action
- Audio effect and EasterEgg additions
Job Job
- New animated goofs during the writing phase! One has an audio component with a ton of variations; some useful, some just plain funny. (You’ll have to keep playing if you want to hear them all!)
- The motivational poster feature for Audience now has even more photos to choose from!
- Added feature to end the game and return to the menu if no one has voted 5 times in a row, or if no players answer their interview questions in a round (in case all the players are spirited away by aliens)
- Switch: winner reveal at the end of game no longer creates lag
- Job Job responds normally even if players submit just as the timer ends
The Poll Mine
- Improvement to timers in Streamer Mode, to make sure large audiences have time to submit but the gameplay keeps moving
- Improvements overall to both Streamer Mode and audience interactions
- Change to timers in all modes to improve gameplay flow
- The final remaining choice in all rounds will now automatically reveal
- In the Final Round when both teams answer incorrectly, answer rank will not be revealed if 5th or lower, so teams can make a comeback even in the last round
- New host voiceover and audio effects
- Consoles: players will always have their turn picking a door in Round 3
- Consoles: no longer possible to accidentally have a team of zero
Weapons Drawn
- Points are awarded to the person first to place their vote to accuse a suspected murderer
- New soundboard feature allows audience members to vote on sound effects combinations which will play in the game
- New audience “Stab” button during the Murder Phases, stab away for fun (but non-murdery) results!
- Improved credits screen will now show every player’s stats
- Animation and controller additions
- Easter Egg additions (we won’t tell!)
- Consoles: adjustments to scoring (including ensuring audience can’t get away with points murder)
- Weapons Drawn responds normally even if players submit just as the timer ends
All Switch players can download the update for The Jackbox Party Pack 8 now.
