You may have noticed that there was a day one update available if you’ve started playing Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope. The patch notes have been released by Ubisoft.
The update is important since it contains a vast number of fixes. Battle, exploration, and other aspects have been enhanced.
Day one update patch notes
The following are the complete patch notes for the Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope day one update:
- FIXES FOR EXPLORATION BUGS
- fixed many framerate issues.
- Heroes could no longer get caught in a wall in the tunnel under Woodrow’s home.
- Fixed a bug that might cause the game to soft-lock at the conclusion of the puzzle in the side mission “The Riddle of Barrendale Mesa.”
- Fixed a problem where, after finishing the side quest “The Riddle of Barrendale Mesa,” you may not be rewarded and the mission would not disappear from your quest record.
- Fixed a problem where the L-shaped connection from the third circular puzzle on Barrendale Mesa would sometimes vanish.
- NPCs that wouldn’t always stop moving when the heroes approached has been fixed.
- Fixed a problem where Heroes might enter the Everbloom Tree in Terra Flora outside of its boundaries near the first Rabbid Pipe.
- The Teleportation Flag close to a tree and some rocks next to the Volcano entrance on Terra Flora been fixed to prevent Heroes from being stranded there.
- Fixed a bug on Terra Flora where Heroes might get trapped and cross a line near to a Darkmess puddle.
- In the Sunrise Temple on Beacon Beach, a problem where Heroes can get trapped near to an Echo Memory has been resolved.
- The Armored Goomba on Beacon Beach was missing if you lost the encounter and left the area to continue exploring later. This problem has been fixed.
- Fixed a problem where the starbits would spawn extremely slowly after touching the Teleportation flag located on Pristine Peaks after winning the “Icy Breath of Winter” combat.
- Fixed a problem where, after leaving the second cave on Pristine Peaks, you would constantly hear Rabbids laughing in the SFX.
- The stupid fish respawn rate for the Victor challenge on Beacon Beach has been fixed.
- Combat bug fixes
- A problem whereby Rabbid Luigi’s improved Technique only inflicted weakness to physical damage as opposed to all damage, has been fixed.
- The game would sometimes stall when Rabbid Peach’s Healing Jump healed an NPC ally.
- Fixed a problem where, sometimes, if Rabbid Peach’s Healing Jump took place on a trampoline, the game may get stuck.
- Fixed a bug where sometimes the Bob-omb on the building in the Beacon Beach fight “Explosive Situation” would spawn within the building’s roof.
- It was resolved that if two goombas pressed each other as they entered or exited a Rabbid pipe, they may get soft-locked.
- Fixed a bug where, despite the fact that dashing numerous foes would harm them, the red and yellow spike marking wasn’t always shown appropriately.
- Fixed a problem where the large Goomba from “A Truly Ginormous Goomba” wasn’t doing enough harm on Beacon Beach.
- Fixed a bug where, after analyzing Midnite with Beep-0 in the “Midnite Library” combat on Pristine Peaks, players would get an error message and a crash.
- Fixed a problem where a Lone Wolf would make noise for longer than intended if it was hit by a Fire super effect and survived.
- The game would crash if you activated the Spark Screech near to the Darkmess eggs during the “Hide n’Squeak” questline combat.
- The “A Blast Through The Bedrock” combat on Palette Prime had a bug where, sometimes, the game would crash when Bedrock jumped after the Heroes attacked her.
- Fixed a problem where Bedrock sometimes entered the T-Pose after leaping in the Palette Prime combat “A Blast Through The Bedrock.”
- Fixed a problem where Darkmess Eyes might sometimes spawn during the “One Angry Wiggler” combat on Terra Flora beyond the reach of many heroes.
- The ability for a Hero to get stranded on a cauldron during the “Spout Forth” combat has been fixed.
- Fixed a bug that might have led to a game crash while smashing barrels in the Terra Flora combat “Foul Attraction.”
- Fixed a bug where, if you tossed a sphere from the cauldron out of bindings without having it explode, the combat during Terra Flora’s “Quest For Courage” questline would soft-lock.
- Fixed a problem where the damage done by Electric Traps in the “A Foul Windmill Blows” combat on Barrendale Mesa was improperly shown.
- The “The Desert Riptides” combat on Barrendale Mesa has a bug fixed where a Riptide may become lodged in a wall if it was propelled there by a Gust effect.
- The problem where an adversary will pursue heroes to exact revenge after being attacked has been fixed.
- Fixed a problem where Heroes might get stranded on a platform in the “Magikoopa Mayhem” encounter on Barrendale Mesa.
- Fixed a problem where a Magnafowl’s technique would continue to work even if one of Bowser’s summoned Mecha Koopas exploded while it was being used on it.
- During the last fight, various problems were fixed.
- Fixed a bug that might cause the game to crash if a barrel in the “King of Darkmess” combat was broken.
- Fixed a bug where the “Deep, Dark Secret” battle’s opponent turn might cause the game to soft-lock.
- COMMON BUGS FIXES
- fixed a bug that sometimes caused the game to crash when entering the map after a combat.
- fixed a number of problems that might have led to game crashes.
- Fixed a problem where, sometimes, hitting the Home button on any loading screen would cause the game to crash.
- The voices no longer sometimes continue into the next cinematic and overlap it if you hit A to skip a cinematic.
- Various difficulties involving pressing many buttons simultaneously were fixed.
- REACTION OF THE USER
- The Prologue questline’s problem with Rabbid Mario’s “I’m back!” being cut off and becoming “I’m” has been fixed.
- Spanish-speaking gamers’ text display problem has been fixed.
- VFX during the “A Foul Windmill Blows” combat were not playing properly due to a bug that was fixed.
- Fixed a problem where Spark voices were absent in the prologue’s last section.
- SFX for the Red Coin Challenge on Beacon Beach had a problem with inadequate equalization, which has been fixed.
- SFX that was missing when the Heroes utilized ladders has been fixed.
- SFX were missing when a Squashette was called, which was fixed.
- corrected a problem where portions of the Beacon Beach cinematic’s scenes were missing.
- On Barrendale Mesa, a problem where background music was overly loud during exploration and battle was fixed.
- Several NPC Rabbid voices that were missing on Terra Flora, Barrendale Mesa, and Palette Prime have been fixed.
- There was a bug that prevented audio from playing in the Echo Memory menu.
