Nov 21, 2017

South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™ - UbiVertigo

We’re committed to improving gameplay to deliver the best experience we can for South Park: The Fractured But Whole, which brings us to our latest Fall update information! The below is in addition to many fixes already live on PC, which you can find here. Here’s what is included among some other minor bug fixes:

What we fixed:

An issue where players were unable to manually save.
Main mission not progressing after taking mandatory selfie with woman in park.
Players received a black screen under certain circumstances in front of U-STOR-IT.
If you are dual-classing an Elementalist with Psychic and enter Inspection
Mode while being Confused, combat would get stuck.
The New Kid would play the game with their normal clothes if you manually saved or loaded after Wendy’s cut scene but before the following mini-game.
Game would freeze if a certain event does not trigger after knocking a stripper into Classi.
Players would get stuck on the building after using fartkour under certain conditions.
Players should no longer become stuck if Call Girl uses Power #2 against a shielded character in the Morgan Freeman fight.
An issue with the Escape Shady Acres mission.

What we adjusted:

Ubisoft Club rewards can no longer be sold to vendors in-game.
Portfolio Mini-game now only updates if you level up or level down. Leaving or resetting the game will no longer affect level.
After you beat the game, The Coon should now appear in the hero roster before a fight.

**Updates with possible spoilers**

Infinite loading no longer occurs when in pre-combat screen when triggering the Wine Drunk Randy combat.
If you restart combat after defeating Bartles the game should no longer black screen.

If you run into any issues at all, please reach out to Ubisoft Support with as much information as possible. For future updates and news on South Park: The Fractured But Whole, feel free to check out our Ubisoft Forums.

Nov 21, 2017

All-Platform Fall Update

South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™ - UbiVertigo

What we fixed:

An issue where players were unable to manually save.
Main mission not progressing after taking mandatory selfie with woman in park.
Players received a black screen under certain circumstances in front of U-STOR-IT.
If you are dual-classing an Elementalist with Psychic and enter Inspection
Mode while being Confused, combat would get stuck.
The New Kid would play the game with their normal clothes if you manually saved or loaded after Wendy’s cut scene but before the following mini-game.
Game would freeze if a certain event does not trigger after knocking a stripper into Classi.
Players would get stuck on the building after using fartkour under certain conditions.
Players should no longer become stuck if Call Girl uses Power #2 against a shielded character in the Morgan Freeman fight.
An issue with the Escape Shady Acres mission.

What we adjusted:

Ubisoft Club rewards can no longer be sold to vendors in-game.
Portfolio Mini-game now only updates if you level up or level down. Leaving or resetting the game will no longer affect level.
After you beat the game, The Coon should now appear in the hero roster before a fight.

**Updates with possible spoilers**

Infinite loading no longer occurs when in pre-combat screen when triggering the Wine Drunk Randy combat.
If you restart combat after defeating Bartles the game should no longer black screen.

Nov 6, 2017

PC Patch Notes - Title Update 2

South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™ - UbiVertigo

We hope you’ve been enjoying South Park: The Fractured But Whole! We’re committed to continued improvements to the game to give you the best experience possible and recently released a patch for the PC platform. Here’s what was included among some other minor bug fixes:

Steam users should no longer experience a black screen upon launch.
If using a keyboard that does not accept more than two key presses at a time, the toilet mini-game will now give you the option to skip.
Fixed Mrs. Cartman’s animation/dialog which was occasionally duplicated during a certain mission.
FPS drops have been improved in various places in the game.
Fixed an issue that caused the backstory combat to freeze.
Improved high FPS issue that sometimes prevents pushing/pulling objects from working as intended.
- Setting the FPS limit to 60 should also prevent any character freezing.
Fixed an issue that would cause the New Kid to play the game with their normal clothes if you manually saved or loaded after Wendy’s cut scene but before the following mini-game.
Fixed an issue where users with framerate issues would experience characters freezing.
Players should now receive each piece of the Ubisoft Club’s Assassin’s Pack as redeemed without having to redeem all at once.
Ubisoft Club rewards can no longer be sold to vendors in-game.
Portfolio Mini-game now only updates if you level up or level down. Leaving or resetting the game will no longer effect level.
Wonder Tweek now has the correct damage area icon.
Game now appears correctly in task manager.

**Patches that involve spoilers**
Fixed an issue that caused combat to freeze during Spontaneous Bootay.
Players should no longer experience infinite loading when in pre-combat screen triggering the Wine Drunk Randy combat.
Fixed an issue where the game would not end the combat and the player could only access the pause menu when using the Gadgeteer's Ultimate to defeat the Mutant Kyle boss fight.

Nov 6, 2017

PC Patch Notes - Title Update 2

South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™ - UbiVertigo

Steam users should no longer experience a black screen upon launch.
If using a keyboard that does not accept more than two key presses at a time, the toilet mini-game will now give you the option to skip.
Fixed Mrs. Cartman’s animation/dialog which was occasionally duplicated during a certain mission.
FPS drops have been improved in various places in the game.
Fixed an issue that caused the backstory combat to freeze.
Improved high FPS issue that sometimes prevents pushing/pulling objects from working as intended.
- Setting the FPS limit to 60 should also prevent any character freezing.
Fixed an issue that would cause the New Kid to play the game with their normal clothes if you manually saved or loaded after Wendy’s cut scene but before the following mini-game.
Fixed an issue where users with framerate issues would experience characters freezing.
Players should now receive each piece of the Ubisoft Club’s Assassin’s Pack as redeemed without having to redeem all at once.
Ubisoft Club rewards can no longer be sold to vendors in-game.
Portfolio Mini-game now only updates if you level up or level down. Leaving or resetting the game will no longer effect level.
Wonder Tweek now has the correct damage area icon.
Game now appears correctly in task manager.

**Patches that involve spoilers**
Fixed an issue that caused combat to freeze during Spontaneous Bootay.
Players should no longer experience infinite loading when in pre-combat screen triggering the Wine Drunk Randy combat.
Fixed an issue where the game would not end the combat and the player could only access the pause menu when using the Gadgeteer's Ultimate to defeat the Mutant Kyle boss fight.

Oct 23, 2017

Steam Charts: New Entries Edition!

Cuphead - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (John Walker)

People, people of Earth, for the second week in a row GTA V isn’t in the Steam Charts! And for the first time in human history, this week nor is Counter-Strike: Global Offensive! What’s happened? I’ll tell you what’s happened. Everyone’s got a copy now. Phew.

So instead, here are eight other games and Plunkbat, and one plastic box, in ascending order of dollar-eyes. (more…)

Oct 17, 2017

South Park: The Fractured But Whole dribbles out

South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™ - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)

Pew pew pow pow.

Hold onto your butts: South Park: The Fractured but Whole [official site] launched today. Fraser Brown already told us wot he thinks in our South Park: The Fractured but Whole review but gosh, that was yesterday afternoon and who can remember that far back? The world is full of distracting things like tea and weather. Ah, tea! Sec, nipping off to put the kettle on.

Right. What were we doing here? Oh! Yes. Farty Bottoms is out now. The launch trailer: (more…)