The update addresses a number of known issues with the base game.
Be sure to update before you next play for the best possible experience.
Update Features
QoL Adjustments
- Lighting improvements: across all in-game environments, particularly attention paid to darker environments.
- Chess set readability: improvement readability across various environments and times of day.
- Level loading screens now match the environment you choose.
- Added an additional camera option to enable focus on pieces.
- Adjustment to the game rating system to better reflect your actual performance in each game.
- New intro cameras for the environments.
Bug Fixes
- Fixes to the dynamic weather to stop it raining more than it should.
- Fixed an issue with favourited chess sets so that it retains its place in the list.
- Fixed an issue with a glitched butterfly stuck in mid air in the Japanese environment.
- Fixes where sometimes the player could lose input focus.
- Fixed an issue where VFX audio may still play even when VFX is turned off.
- Fixed a rare bug that caused the game to occasionally lock on checkmate.
- Fixed a rare bug that caused pieces to levitate in lessons.
Performance Optimisations
- Various audio improvements.
- Ray tracing now enabled and set as default (PC only).
PS5 Pro Enhancements:
- Introduced 'Performance' and 'Fidelity' modes for PS5 Pro - both modes offering ray tracing and optimising either frame rate or resolution.
- Note: ray tracing is enabled by default on PS5 Pro ONLY.
The Ripstone Team
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