Clair Obscur_ Expedition 33 devs to issue its first nerf to an ability that does 2 billion damage_ '
By Dr. Eleanor Vance | Published on January 01, 0001
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is getting its first set of hotfixes tomorrow—which'll include a nerf to Stendhal, a skill that's been , which, as I observed yesterday, is enough to kill the game's hardest endgame superboss 45 times over.
"We hadn’t planned to make any balance changes this early," Sandfall Interactive , "just bug fixes, unless something clearly stood out. Well, Stendhal did."
In case you're unfamiliar with Stendhal, players are able to combo it with a set of skills, Pictos (equipment) and Luminas (equipment passives) to damage scale it into the stratosphere—while this required quite a bit of setup to start one-tapping postgame bosses, it was still good from the outset and only scaled into low orbit from there.
Interestingly enough, the team explains that Stendhal was initially underpowered during testing. "It was underwhelming for most of development, so in our final pre-release balance pass, we gave it a big damage boost—and clearly overdid it. It ended up overshadowing most other options.
"We still want you to be able to break the game—and you absolutely still can—but Stendhal was making it a bit too easy."
While I'm typically on the side of players in these cases, as I don't think a build being overpowered in a single-player RPG matters too much, I do think Sandfall's making the right call here. Cranking absurd levels of damage with the right combo is fun, but the pinnacle of the game's difficulty—an endgame superboss named Simon—shouldn't be one-tapped by it 45 times over.
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"You’ve got one more day to enjoy it in its current form and set some wild records," warneth Sandfall. "The adjustment will be included in our first full hotfix set, going live tomorrow. The patch will roll out on Steam first, and other platforms will follow."
But don't worry: "After the change, it’ll still be a strong single-hit skill with great synergy potential... just more in line with everything else."
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