Clair Obscur Expedition 33 Patch Adjusts Dodge and Parry Timing

The Story difficulty in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 will involve more manageable battles, as a new patch included dodge and parry time adjustments to make the windows for reacting larger. There are also options to change settings to arrange for a greater challenge if you are in Act 3. All are present after updating to 1.3.0.

Both of the Story difficulty changes in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are designed to make things a bit more manageable if someone experienced issues mastering dodge and parry timing. Both are now more forgiving. You get 40% larger windows to respond to an enemy by moving out of the way or counter their attack. Also, if you do get hit, it won’t hurt as bad. While previously, an attack that hit would do 60% of the damage it would on other difficulty levels, now it will only deal 50%.

As for making the game more difficult, you can set caps on your damage or adjust the health of enemies. With characters, you get two options for damage. You can make it so attacks top out at either 99,999 or 999,999. With enemies’ health, there are six different variants, all of which increase their vitality. The minimum increase is twice as much HP as normal, while the maximum is up to 100x.

Here are the full Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 patch nots for 1.3.0, which Sandfall shared on Steam. Note that there are spoilers in them, if you haven’t gotten to about Act 3.

Simon Rematch

• Players can now rematch Simon after defeating him!

Story Mode Balancing.

Story mode is our easiest difficulty setting.

• Parry and dodge windows increased by 40%
• Incoming damage reduced by 10% to 50%

Challenge Modifiers (Act III onward)
At flag checkpoints, players can now:

• Limit max player damage to 99,999 or 999,999
• Multiply enemy HP by x2, x5, x10, x20, x50, or x100

Bug Fixes (297 total, notable examples below)

• Verso now gains Perfection correctly when in reserve
• Simoso weapon will no longer cause lag due to memory leaks
• General polish across collisions, terrain, and scripting
• Cutscenes scale properly on ultrawide and non-standard resolutions
• Fixed a bug where loading a save after resting at a different location would spawn the player at coordinate zero
• Placeholder textures removed near Chromatic Boucheclier and his battlearena
• Fixed performance drops from repeated resting on certain levels
• Crash after dialogue sequences resolved
• Fixed stability issues after extended play sessions
• French voiceover now plays correctly when selected

System & Settings

• Audio can now be muted or unmuted when the game is running in the background
• Mouse and joystick sensitivity improvements
• Manual save file renaming is now supported (EXPEDITION_XX format required. XX must be a value between 00 and 09.)

Localization

• Rolling credits updated (added creature VO, refined IOI section)
• Font size adjustments for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
• New strings added and minor text corrections implemented

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is available for the PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC.