Another day, another Palworld patch. Update v0.1.5.1 is available now for the Steam version of the ‘Pokémon with guns’ survival game, and out soon for the Xbox version.
This one makes a number of fixes across the board, makes a small number of changes to balance, and improves the servers. In the patch notes, developer Pocketpair said it was still working on an issue where auto-save fails on the Xbox and Xbox Game Pass versions. “We expect that this will be resolved in an upcoming update,” the developer said.
There’s no word yet on the much-needed addition of dedicated servers for the Xbox version of the game, which continues to lag behind the PC version when it comes to features. Palworld on Steam lets players create and join dedicated servers that enable up to 32 players to play in the same world and create guilds together. On Xbox however, co-op is limited to 2-4 players.
Last month, Microsoft said it would work directly with Pocketpair to assist development. "On Xbox’s part, we’re working with Pocketpair to help provide support for Xbox versions of the game," Microsoft said at the time. "We’re providing support to enable dedicated servers, offering engineering resources to help with GPU and memory optimization, speeding up the process to make Palworld updates available for players, and working with the team to optimize the title for our platform.”
Palworld has seen more than 25 million players since going on sale in January. Pocketpair said the Steam version has sold an incredible 15 million copies, whereas on Xbox it’s seen 10 million players. But while Palworld is one of the biggest game launches ever, it’s also one of the most controversial.
Pocketpair has said its staff have received death threats amid Pokémon "rip-off" claims, which it has denied. Soon after launch, Nintendo moved quickly to remove an eye-catching Pokémon mod, then The Pokemon Company issued a statement, saying: "We intend to investigate and take appropriate measures to address any acts that infringe on intellectual property rights related to Pokémon." IGN asked lawyers whether Nintendo could successfully sue.
Here are the Palworld update 0.1.5.1 patch notes in full:
Major Fixes
・Fixed various game crashes
Balance Adjustment
・Fixed a bug where breeding Pals always had fixed passives
・Fixed an issue where the increase in condensation progress was incorrect when using Pal of rank 2 or higher as a condensation material (it will increase by the number of Pals used in previous condensation)
Dungeon Issues
・Fixed an issue where the innermost door would not open after defeating the boss of a random dungeon
Pals
・Fixed an issue where the name of a Pal would not change even after renaming them
Server Issues
・Fixed an issue where it was not possible to search for spaces or Japanese/Chinese characters in the server list
・Fixed so that if the server is no longer registered on the server list, it will be re-registered without needing to restart the server
・Fixed an issue where the settings to enable RCON were not loaded from the configuration file
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