Overly small text can quite frustrating when it comes to certain releases on the Nintendo Switch. Often when you swap a game from docked to handheld mode, the user interface isn't properly scaled. It's led to some developers issuing updates for certain Switch releases which increases the size of the text or overlay.
One common complaint about the upcoming sci-fi Switch release The Outer Worlds (on other platforms) was the small size text throughout the game. As lovely as the character dialogue and voice work was, the text font was apparently way too small.
An update for the game towards the end of last year reportedly improved in the situation, but now the text can be made even bigger thanks to the game's latest patch. Patch 1.3 adds a font scaling option - allowing the player to pick a typeface from a range of sizes. Obsidian UI programmer Nate McDorman showed off this improvement via Twitter:
This will no doubt be a great addition to the Switch release when it does arrive. In case you forgot, though, the Nintendo version was delayed last month due to the coronavirus outbreak. Private Division, the publisher handling this release, explained how Virtuos needed more time to finish the development after its offices were temporarily closed. A new release date for the game will be announced in the future.
Are you looking forward to making use of this feature when The Outer Worlds does arrive on the Switch? Let us know below.
[source gonintendo.com, via polygon.com]
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Hope we'll see this game soon!
Honestly, I didn't even consider the size of the font being an issue. I'm glad they addressed it.
Really great work for a game that's already out on most platforms.
I hope tiny text will soon be a problem of the past
This is a game I've been looking forward to and waiting for the Switch version to play. Glad it sounds like they're putting the leg work in for a good port!
Really looking forward to this game. Dumb coronavirus
It's funny. I literally searched google news for "outer worlds" for a status update, and the first result was nintendolife posted 12 minutes ago. Nice timing!
(I liked your comment for you @heavyarms55 haha )
I started this on my one x and my 4tb HDD went pop. Thought I would wait till switch release to continue it. From what I played it was good. Shame the screeching noise from my HDD as it died still haunts me to this day...
It's great to see the devs care enough about their game to pay attention to minor details such as this. Good on them.
Glad to hear developers are thinking about this. Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Xenoblade X really screwed up in this department.
Thank the lord. Every game should have this feature.
In before “It’s too little too late, I already finished this on the PS4, I play something else on the GO.”
I remember playing Xenoblade Cronicles on Wii U gamepad. That was difficult.
@Jack_Goetz three houses? Really? That’s surprised me. I ain’t played it
This is great, it's something every company should do (including Nintendo with games like Fire Emblem).
Man, I want this game!
Really pleased about this. With my eyesight deteriorating I have struggled with games like Steamworld Heist and recently West of Loathing.
I'm baffled that automatically switching to a larger font in handheld mode isn't a standard feature on the Switch, or that every game isn't optimized with handheld play in mind. but even some of Nintendo's own first party releases suffer from the tiny font problem.
Great feature, many games could use this !
@sandman89 3 houses is what made me realize I needed reading glasses.
This is the one switch game I'm truly excited to get my hands on and now that they decided to release an actual physical copy, day one for me! By the by, when IS day one fellas??
Heck yes. This is actually pretty important to me, so good on them! Can't wait to play this one.
Oh thank God the font won't be an issue! Now all we've got to worry about is sub-par graphics and garbage frame rates....PHEW!
I'm ok with the game being delayed, Animal Crossing is going to eat all my time for the foreseeable future (along with Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE Encore). I'm just glad with the delay, that the developer has now decided the physical version will be on a cartridge and not just a game case with a download code.
That is great, I feel like font is one thing devs that don't usually do handheld games think about.
@Mhayes111387 No way! When did you see it? Surely it was a work in progress?
The tiny font won't be a problem, but the game's existing problems well, including but not limited to the cringe-inducing attempts at humour, the fact that you know the old sci-fi trope of corporations being evil (just like in real life) right off the bat and therefore might not want to have anything to do with them, and the unexplained assumption that your character has any reason to give a fraction of a damn about the frozen people on a space ship that he has no connection to. You're free, they're not — why should the player care?
Okay look real talk right now.
I honestly cannot wait for this game.
I have been begging for a Fallout type game on the Switch since Skyrim dropped and 74 DOES NOT count as a game. Let alone a Fallout game.
This is the closet thing we'll be getting until Bethesda actually puts one on the Switch.
Which i don't think will happen but i am actually more than content with this game.
Its really good.
@Razer looking forward to this one as well. Hoping they make it run great on the switch.
@cptspaulding for anyone looking for games that don't have cartoon fluffy animals in them or are 5+ year old ports.
This game and No More Heroes 3 are the only games available this year for us.
@cptspaulding Metro Redux too but thats out already.
@Razer Samurai Shodown is a pretty great port imo. It was ported wonderfully.
@cptspaulding yeah that is true.
But it's a fairly mediocre game to begin with, i mean it's not bad but it doesn't really stand out in any way, but yeah it was ported perfectly in all its mediocre glory.
@Razer I disagree entirely. It is far from mediocre. Quite the opposite. Maybe you should play it before giving it that label.
@cptspaulding i don't know man. I mean you got so many good fighting games on the Switch.
MK11
DBZ FighterZ
Smash bros ultimate
Im not saying Shodown is bad, im sure it hold up, but it doesn't feature high up on any top 10 fighters lists and it didn't make many waves when it first dropped.
But yeah maybe I'll give it a go, i do enjoy my fighting games
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