UFO 50 Has Been Updated On Switch, Here Are The Full Patch Notes

Im glad the icon is getting updated. It looks so weird next to DKB, NMS and Totk on my Switch 2, lmao.

It also can't be said enough, this is just an awesome collection of games. I dont even think im halfway through trying them all either!

I haven't seen the updated icon, but thank goodness. Seriously, the original was an eyesore and didn't represent the game well at all. Hopefully the new one looks more colorful and fun.

Yes the filter is fixed! Good thing I waited a bit but I already beat the Horror game. Wish I did it with the filter.

@KaiserGX wheres it mention a filter

Ugh the CRT filter still looks like ***** unless you change it resolution to 720p and put the soft option with pixel perfect. Oh well it's still better than it looking like crap.

@Dragnoran The new Pixel Perfect setting fixes the filter in handheld. But it doesn’t fix it on my TV, which sucks.

I’m glad the icon has changed. I know it was supposed to look like a UFO but… let’s just say it reminded me of a scene in the South Park movie.

I looked and yeah, the old icon does work great as a desktop icon, but not as a Switch art box.

There are still some issues in the game, such as the controller UI appearing whenever you so much as nudge a second controller while in a one-player game, forcing you to disconnect one of them every time it happens rather than just letting you have two controllers on at once.

....and this inability to have two controllers connected during a one-player game actually makes a minor piece of bonus content inaccessible in the Switch version currently.

Hopefully they fix this issue in a future patch. Was a little disappointing to see it wasn't addressed this time.

The sleep mode issue has not been fixed either - the game still keeps counting playtime hours while the console is in sleep mode, leading to some inaccurate times. Mossmouth did say on Bluesky that this was going to be fixed in a later patch, which is good.

Additionally there are still some bugs in some of the games that haven't been fixed yet. For example there's a softlock in Cyber Owls where the forklift key fails to spawn, which can be a real moodkiller if Octavio's stage was the last of the four you selected since you lose a lot of progress.
Hopefully these can be fixed too.

Great to hear - the home screen icon was a little drab. It's the game that counts, though, and wow I am loving this collection! I think I've played more UFO 50 than I have Mario Kart World or DK Bananza.
I've been meandering through the games somewhat "chronologically," so I've played mostly Bug Hunter, Ninpek, Camouflage, Paint Chase, and Planet Zoldath. I've got to sit down one day to play Barbuta and use a sheet of graph paper for notes.

It's just been a brilliant game, and I'd expect nothing less from the creators of Spelunky. I'll dip into UFO 50 now and again for a long time to come.

@Divide_and_Wander indeed.. icon was one of my few -first world - problems...

I'm glad they added the option for button swapping - even if it's complete remapping, it's still nice to have an option.

Weird, my icon is the same even after restarting the console? Maybe I have to redownload.

As an aside I feel like Nintendo really did this amazing game dirty by not including a full trailer explaining what it's about in their Partner Showcase and just throwing it into a Sizzle Reel.

I can't speak for other countries but Is This Seat Taken? and Tiny Bookshop which they highlighted fully have been consistently in the top 10 download games on the UK eShop since the Partner Showcase but UFO 50 currently sits at number 32 😔

On the one hand, I have found UFO 50 enjoyable. On the other hand, I think the whole concept of "it's not 50 minigames, it's 50 bangers" is way overblown. At least for me, most of the games are novelties to try for 10 minutes. Only a small handful of games have actually been anything satisfying. But I'm okay with that.

@sketchturner I played almost 10 hours on the first two games alone! The bug hunting one in particular is super addictive for me and it's funny as I'm not even a Strategy game fan normally but it makes me want to explore the genre more.

@KaiserGX I don't really like the filters must either. I use the soft one but they look far too much like arcade screen filters IMO and most of the games I've tried so far feel much more like Commodore/ZX Spectrum home computer type games.

@sketchturner Sorry you feel that way. I can only say there's a couple of games that I only wanna play for 10mins and a lot of those are very Arcadey. There's a lot that are overwhelming or I need to go back and learn or get how to play because of how in-depth some can be. Like I'm barely getting into the Avion one (the dinosaur strategy one). Even then I still feel I have a lot left to learn. The party one too I'm still bad at it I don't have that good of a strategy but I beat the first mission at least.

@Suketoudara Yeah it has more of a monitor feel vs the more blurry/color blending on a TV like the ones on the NES Online app.

I preordered a physical copy of this one, looking forward to playing it next february!

@EarthboundBenjy Yeah, I noticed the issue with the play timer continuing to run in sleep mode. I wonder if a patch could retroactively adjust the times to be accurate.

@solarwolf07 I want to pick up the strategy guide (which you can purchase separately).

As others mentioned, I think I could get into more of these games with some instructions.

I am all about discovery and playing the games now. However, it does become more of a chore for game genres I am less interested in.

Puzzle fans should check out Block Koala and Camouflage.

@sketchturner It's not quite 50 amazing games but nearly all of them in my experience have had more depth to them than it initially seems. I think the real strength is the ability to just jump between so many varied, quality games. No matter what you're in the mood for there's something to play.

Happy about the new icon. But the update introduced a new bug in Mortol, where holding A makes you give up, instead of holding B. This is a problem in the levels where you hold A to swim.

@sketchturner I wouldn't call it 50 bangers either, that seems like an impossible achievement. Instead, I would say it's an incredible value proposition, where there's so many games to check out and you may just find a handful of games that super click with you! I've actually been really surprised to go online and see that a lot of people's favorites are completely different from my favorites.

That's the fun of it - the devs describe it as going to a friend's house and trying a bunch of old retro games you dig up in the attic. Some are forgettable but you may just find a few serious gems!

As this game is about discovering a game system you didn't have in its peak, it would profit immensely from an emulator mode. Because that's the way a lot of people discovered NES games for example. Give me rewind and save points! Or even hacks. Ok, that would be too much effort. And to please the hardcore crowd: give out achievements only for playing not in emulator mode. There: everyone is happy. Or at least me. That is what counts!

Where is the after/before of the icon?

@ImpromptuR

I decided to take before / after screenshots before I downloaded the update

https://imgur.com/a/7gANvjS

The before icon is the one they're using for the Steam library PC icon which was designed to look fine at 32x32 pixels.

I suppose when asked to submit an icon, they didn't realise that it was for the big Switch home menu one, so they submitted the small one and it kind of just ended up like this.

I've seen this happen a couple other times, for example when West of Loathing was new (which was... a long time ago, wow), they also had their small Steam library icon as the home menu icon, until they fixed it with an update.

The new home menu icon is now what you would expect - it's the logo and the key art.

@Citrus_Architect Yes, I think that's what I enjoy most about it. The game has gotten me to experience so many genres and creative experiments that I wouldn't have otherwise. Even if I don't love most of them individually... the overall experience of curiosity and sampling is really cool.

@Citrus_Architect
that last paragraph is one of the reasons why i enjoy a lot of retro collections/compilations even for games/franchises i have no nostalgia for.

It's interesting that this patch fixes slowdown! While I didn't enjoy this game as much as I had hoped, I can definitely say slowdown was not something that made me like it less (i.e., I didn't notice any).

(Honestly, I do think it deserves the praise. I just didn't really vibe with as much of the game selection as I had wanted. I intend to go back to it at some point, though.)

@Strumpan Do the devs already know about the new Mortol bug?

@World I also haven’t noticed any slowdown on my Switch 2. But when I tried playing Mortol on my Switch OLED, the slowdown was immediately noticeable.

@LastFootnote I don't know, I haven't seen anyone discussing it, but I assume someone must have told them by now.

@LastFootnote Oh yeah, fair enough. There's likely some differences by game/console on which UFO 50 is being played.

@EarthboundBenjy Thanks, mate.

Wow, what they were thinking?! haha

I remember Switch year 1, when developers shipped an awful icon only to get the marketing on change.