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Topic: Breath of the wild unpatched.

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Nekoda88

Hey guys, I'm picking up breath of the wild tomorrow ( on switch) however won't have access to WiFi for a day as I'm working away. Does anyone know how the game runs without any patches at all? Is it playable? Want to get stuck in the day I grab it! But obviously if it's unplayable I'll have to wait .

Thanks, Neko.

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Nekoda88

Lukandon

From what I remember, handheld mode played just fine, it was TV mode that had frame drops in very grassy areas.

Lukandon

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Blathers

If you're buying Breath of the Wild now it will already have the performance patches on the cart.

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Stay safe, kids: Make sure to save frequently during multiplayer, and always use a stylus!

Nekoda88

I'll be trading in for it so don't know about it being already patched. I was more worrying I'd miss a day one patch that adressed any serious issues, from what I've seen though it was framerate issues when docked? Luckily I'd be playing in handheld mode until I update.

Thanks for all your replies

Nekoda88

Blathers

Nekoda88 wrote:

I'll be trading in for it so don't know about it being already patched. I was more worrying I'd miss a day one patch that adressed any serious issues, from what I've seen though it was framerate issues when docked? Luckily I'd be playing in handheld mode until I update.

Thanks for all your replies

There's not really any serious issues with Zelda at all. There's some nasty framerate drops that can occur in docked mode but only in such rare scenarios - raining + lots of grass + many enemies on screen + explosions or spinning view quickly. It can happen a tiny bit in handheld but it's far less noticeable.

Anyway, unless you're getting a day 1 cart you probably will get a cart with the patches on it. Patch 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 that fixed the framerate drops came out in early April 2017, and the revision of the cart that includes both those patches came out a little after August 2017. Any shop that cycles its stock frequently probably has the updated one.

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Stay safe, kids: Make sure to save frequently during multiplayer, and always use a stylus!

Nekoda88

Blathers wrote:

Nekoda88 wrote:

I'll be trading in for it so don't know about it being already patched. I was more worrying I'd miss a day one patch that adressed any serious issues, from what I've seen though it was framerate issues when docked? Luckily I'd be playing in handheld mode until I update.

Thanks for all your replies

There's not really any serious issues with Zelda at all. There's some nasty framerate drops that can occur in docked mode but only in such rare scenarios - raining + lots of grass + many enemies on screen + explosions or spinning view quickly. It can happen a tiny bit in handheld but it's far less noticeable.

Anyway, unless you're getting a day 1 cart you probably will get a cart with the patches on it. Patch 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 that fixed the framerate drops came out in early April 2017, and the revision of the cart that includes both those patches came out a little after August 2017. Any shop that cycles its stock frequently probably has the updated one.

Great! thanks for that, really looking forward to getting stuck into it

Nekoda88

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