Expedition 33 patch to balance overpowered build

Thursday, May 8, 2025, 11:20 am

Players of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 discovered a game-breaking build capable of dealing over two billion damage, prompting immediate developer concern. In response, a patch is on its way to restore balance and fair play in this beloved turn‐based RPG, ensuring competitive integrity in epic battles.

kotaku.com / A Beginner's Guide To Maelle In Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Usually in an RPG, when you think “absolute assbeating swordwielder” in a video game, you picture the likes of Cecil from Final Fantasy IV, Auron from FFX, or even someone like Hulkenberg from Metaphor ReFantazio. What you’re usually not thinking of is a tiny befreckled orphan girl who wins the Mia…

techspot.com / Former Ubisoft director, Clair Obscur maker slams AAA dev bloat: "It would've taken 25 years" to make my game

Broche, who founded Sandfall Interactive after his tenure at Ubisoft, recently commented that getting approval to develop Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 would have taken "25 years" at a larger corporate studio. His statement emphasizes the magnitude of bureaucratic red tape involved with large AAA…

kotaku.com / Clair Obscur Has A Build So Busted You Can Do Over 3 Billion Damage With It, But Not For Long

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been hailed as a GOTY-contender and a refreshingly modern take on the beloved turn-based fantasy RPGs of yore. So it’s fitting that players have discovered a strategy so broken it lets a single character do over 2 billion damage, enough to kill the hardest boss…

gamespot.com / Expedition 33 Patch Will Fix One Of The Most Broken Builds In The Game

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive has revealed that it'll release a patch this week that will tone down one of the more popular builds from the game. Expedition 33 has a robust system for buildcrafting, and one of them turns the character Maelle into a weapon of mass…

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