Sonic Frontiers Latest Update Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes

Can Sonic surpass Mario? Anything is possible.

Can Sonic achieve that with Sega behind the wheel? Never.

Cause I'm here, reaching far across these new frontiers!

Oh yeah. Sonic Frontiers.

The new patch broke some sound effects, lol.

And thus, the game is still smeared with Vaseline...oh well.

For those playing on Hard, don't be ashamed of dropping the difficulty down of one or two notches if you want to clear certain sections, especially the one with a SNAKE. It feels like for the Final Horizon is set for those who has already cleared the game.

Also Knuckles's gliding..has it been tuned to not have the turning be so slow?

I wonder if this means the PC version will get updated too?
Got hit by the nasty "game plays at 1-2 fps" bug that has affected others too and now the game is literally unplayable. None of the possible fixes posted online have worked sadly, so I'm waiting on a patch to hopefully play it again.

Real shame too as this game is the most fun I've had with Sonic in a very long time, despite the jank and glitchiness, but Sega is just soo bad at coding their games nowadays v.v

Great to see! The free update is fun, but could have been balanced better, so it's nice to see that improved.

@FishyS The game has added lots of content since release, including new levels, characters, and story elements. But the core gameplay is the same. It's fun. Many of the niggles the reviewer on Nlife had, show that they simply didn't play the game properly. Complaints about bad battle mechanics and poor puzzles show that they didn't bother to pay attention. The game has multiple mini challenges throughout that teach you how to play properly. It just takes some time to get used to the mechanics. Sonic is fast, but he's not uncontrollable. You can fine tune the controls in the options menu too. Some levels require a few playthroughs to find the optimum route. There can be the odd glitch where you fall through a rail or bounce off a wall weirdly, but these are very rare. The story is nice. The music is ace. On Switch, the graphics have been lowered, but the game keeps a fairly solid framerate as a result. Check out some gameplay footage on YouTube before buying it. See if it looks like your kind of thing. That's what I did first.

@FishyS snark regarding Sonic aside, I'd love it if there was video of patched games in articles like this one. I'm not expecting Digital Foundry level minutiae. Just a sample.

@RainbowGazelle so the game also fails at messaging how "to play properly."
That's pretty funny.
Reviewers are not always great at games, but they are usually able to quickly pick up a game of any genre and understand how it works. Seems most of the time it's the game's fault when that does not happen. And since we are talking about Frontiers, I'm leaning towards the game is a top-to-bottom failure, including tutorialization. Here is my shocked face.

It's Sonic Frontiers. I'm fairly certain the reviewer understood how Sonic Frontiers worked. It's like if I read a review of Everybody Poops and the author didn't understand the message. I wouldn't be seen on that site again...

@LikelySatan The game clearly shows how to play the game, and re-emphasises it with mini challenges. I'm honestly baffled with how the reviewer struggled with parts of the game. It was a lot of fun. Just takes time to master.

@RainbowGazelle Frontiers looks like a Unity asset flip, and plays like a Unity asset flip.

@RainbowGazelle A possible reason why they struggled is that Sega didn't send review copies for Switch, and the speed at which the review was uploaded. Assuming they didn't get a copy that broke street date, the game released on November 8th, and a review was posted on November 10th. I seem to recall an article being posted saying that they were going to take the time to review the game properly anyway, but then the review is still posted 2 days later? I'm not the reviewer, I can't speak for them, but if I recall correctly, their published word/posted in the comment section was that they did not rush playing the game just to get the review out.

@LikelySatan You'll have played it then, I assume. Every article about Sonic, you're in the comments calling it crap. Big Sonic fan?

It is a fun game and I have spent a lot of hours playing it since I got it last year and would recommend to people who like Sonic 3D games and Open World games but I don't think it is the best Sonic 3D game even though it has been the biggest selling one and most critically praised one and I still like Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Sonic Heroes, Sonic Unleashed and Sonic Generations the most. I also think Tails, Amy and Knuckles should have been available to play as from the start and not DLC but I am looking forward to the sequel and I am happy they are FINALLY going to include more Sonic characters as playable characters in it 'cause too many popular characters like Cream, Rouge, Vector, Charmy Bee, Espio and Blaze have been left out of the main games.

I see Sega ran the numbers and found out that too many people got filtered by the story DLC. Unfortunate, but not entirely unexpected. That was a lot harder than most anything in the base game.

@Debbiee oh yeah! Thanks for reminding me to pick up Heroes again! It's just sittin' there in it's case.

@RainbowGazelle annnnnnd YOU show up on every Frontiers article crying that people are playing it wrong and that NL didn't review it right.
I have played it for around five hours. I have it on Switch. It's not installed, because it is bad, but yes.
As for whether I am a big Sonic fan, I'm not. Because ever since any of the characters opened their mouth, the series has been trash. Even the music turned into terrible butt rock. The fandom is fascinating though. In like a car crash kind of way. Like fans of the Star Wars "Prequels."

Damn it, knew I should've waited for some sort of patch to drop for the DLC

" If you make a mistake before a Cyber Space checkpoint and you have to restart from the beginning, the timer will now reset so you don't need to manually restart."

Thank you. this should be mandatory for all Sonic games with a ranking system

Now they just need to do balance adjustments on normal and hard, because this list isn't showing me that wyvern was adjusted or a sparking animation was added to the perfect guard

Not gonna lie, I 100% the main game and was super excited to play the final DLC. I've played literally every mainline Sonic game to date and besides '06 it never gotten difficult beyond difficult.

My god....the difficulty spikes. I eventually made it to the final, final trial with Super Sonic and I could not get pass the 3rd titan with the limited amount of rings and restrictive power level. If you enjoy a challenge that's great! I just wanted to see the true ending without stressing out.

I'm so glad that they patched a lot of these issues.

It's my favourite Sonic 3D game after Sonic Generations. Yes, it won't surpass Mario like some people here like to remind every Sonic fan on every thread, but I had more fun playing Sonic Frontiers (Series X) than Super Mario Odyssey. I say this as a Mario and as a Sonic fan combined in one person 🤣.

I appreciate how the camera and gameplay have been polished more than ever, but there are some minor issues that they could fix so easily, like the lag in the menus. Why does The End tell you about upgrades, Kocos, elders and hermits when you're about to finish the game and are fully upgraded? 😅 Besides, the dialogues that are not voiced are confusing as heck, with all the lines mixed. It's a very solid and polished game, the best Sonic "Adventure", but there are glaring errors.

@Gryffin It is a great game. I know a lot of people that like it and I really wish they would release it on modern consoles 'cause it seems like nearly every Sonic 3D game has been re-released in some shape or form including Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) while Sonic Heroes goes ignored.

I never finished the final horizon dlc but, maybe I will of they've made the easy mode for it easier. I just don't care enough about the game to try hard to beat it.