Since the launch of RiME last November, players have reported widespread issues regarding the game’s performance and visual fidelity. Players have expressed their feelings about the current state of RiME on Switch and the developers have addressed these concerns with an upcoming update, arriving next week.
With these last few months, Greybox and Tequila Works have taken into account all the concerns that players have reported and hope to amend a majority of these bugs with the next update, however, things like volume streaming hiccups cannot be addressed.
We’ve included all the upcoming changes that will be arriving on next week’s update, below:
RiME Switch 1.0.2 Patch Notes
– Increased visual fidelity, bloom and post-processing
– Sharpened image resolution
– Opening Cinematics visually improved
– Fixed possible stage exploits that would enable players to skip parts of the stages
– Increased texture quality in specific areas
– Increased view distance
– Fixed an issue with foliage density, shadows, and render distances
– Updated texture mipmaps for the Fox
– Improved global mipmaps
– Improved shadow distance and quality
– Fixed instances of foliage pops
– Stabilized FPS
– Optimized the Boys cape and hair physics
– Rebuilt streaming volumes
– Fixed an issue that allowed you to see outside of the map in later stages.
– Updated lighting to prevent bleed through
– Updated the quality of trees in earlier stages where they would display poorly.
The new update will be available on Monday, February 19th for Nintendo Switch. Greybox is also offering compensation for those who purchased RiME on Switch by providing a small bundle on their other title, Dreadnought.
If you have a Dreadnought PC account, you can reach out to our Customer Service Team (support@greybox.com) with the subject line “RiME Switch Dreadnought Bundle”, and you’ll receive the following for the PC version of Dreadnought:
● White Fox Decal Collection
● Black Fox Decal Collection
● 250 Greybox Points
● 14 Days Elite Status
● 25,000 Credits
(Please note a Greybox.com account is required in order to redeem this code.)
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