Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Version 1.3.1 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes

So glad my Mudsdale has a "stable" to call home in Paldea.

uh so no frame rate fix? How about add some silent hill 1 fog and just lower the draw distance...

Unreal that they didn’t do anything to address the issues from the past weekends Tera raids. The game still looks like 💩

Despite liking the Scarlet/Violet OLED more than any other special edition Switch OLED, I almost feel ashamed to own one at this point. It's been 6 months since the games launched and they haven't even bothered to try and better optimize them through patches? I'm not touching the game again until I can play it at more than 20fps. It's a shame, really, because it does seem like there's a solid Pokemon game beneath the abysmal performance and lack of polish

Still not fixing the crappy performance lol

@PikaPhantom same, after i beat it at launch month i've decided the same thing.

I listed my copy on eBay a few days ago as these past few updates show no sign of performance improvement. I’m done with this charade. Good thing I have a ton of other past games in the series to scratch my ‘mon itch but I’ll never preorder another Pokémon game ever again.

6 months later and this is all they came up with smh

I'm curious how many people here complaining about the performance bought the game anyway. I was going to pick it up when they fix it, but it seems that will be "never". Regardless, a really bad look for Nintendo IMO.

Still waiting for that Pokémon Home patch, or you know...any update that's relevant. It's probably for the best that they're holding off though.

At least when there are headlines about saves corrupting, the Pokémon are new. It'll be worse when you import your collections from GBA/DS era and they get corrupted.

Again, no performance improvements. Despite Nintendo acknowledging on December 3, 2022 (!!) they were aware of the issues / promising they would work on improvements to the games. It's almost 6 months later now.

@RubyCarbuncle I just kinda wish my console wasn't themed around what is arguably the most embarrassing product Nintendo's ever released on store shelves, at least in the state it launched in (they've released worse). It's essentially the one Nintendo game that reflects the state of much of the rest of the industry. Bug-riddled launches with poor polish, pushed out the door before being ready. At least many of those other games have had some updates to try and fix them, though. The fact that Scarlet/Violet haven't is embarrassing

Just accept simple fact: that this game will never be fixed.
They took your money and took off into the sunset to make overpriced DLCs.

so they're just patching and updating the multiplayer side of things, thats their main priority, a part of pokemon that I have never delved into. I'm sure there are loads out there that will benefit, but you have to catch them in the main buggy and choppy single player game first to battle them!

I promised myself I wouldn't play it any more until they fixed the performance ... Looks like I just won't play it ever again. I rarely care about performance or graphics and have a very high treshold for wobbles, but I had so many issues here it soured me on the whole game. Forget open world, give me routes and Snap 2 like vibrancy.

@PikaPhantom I think S/V sucks too but I still like my OLED. Imo it looks far better than both the Splatoon and Zelda special editions.

Home integration when?

@Cashews I kind of agree, mostly because I have a distaste for any of the Joy-Con designs that just cut off before the edges of the controller. Looks tacky to me, even if realistically my hands will cover that up as I play. If I was more of a Splatoon fan, I'd probably have been more drawn to that OLED because of the gradients on the Joy-Con, but...I'm not. But if it wasn't for the left Zelda Joy-Con looking really ugly to me, then I would've probably preferred getting it

@PikaPhantom I love Splatoon over Pokemon since last summer. But I didn't like the design of the switch much at all. I like the Zelda one - not asmuch as the SV edition - but I'm a minor Zelda fan at best.

I still like this thing and it is certainly the most rare of the bunch.

Man I love Pokemon but the amount of effort they put into polishing the game is really sad. I have never been more ashamed to be a Pokemon fan & I’m not even interested in getting the DLC, which im usually all for it. Hopefully this Generation lasts 4 years so they can spent an extra year cooking the Gen 10 games. Its possible, Gen 3 —> Gen 4 & Gen 4 —> Gen 5 was 4 years inbetween.

@NielsNL That's because despite Nintendo saying things, they ultimately have no power there: they don't develop the game.

It's funny how 90% of Pokémon fans seem to think the games are developed/owned by Nintendo when they're owned and developed primarily by GameFreak, and GameFreak is so often quiet about things. And despite that, 7% of the 10% left and the existing 90% seem to think that Nintendo is in any power to force the games to be updated with better performance. Of course Nintendo's going to say something, they're the ones people are complaining to, but it's not like they can do anything in the first place.

Fact of the matter is, GameFreak is just incompetent. Say all you want about the games being rushed, they intentionally split the team to make Gen 9 and Legends Arceus, meaning they were running half-empty on staff in the first place so no wonder the game's a mess. They really should've focused on one over the other, and while I like Legends Arceus - fun as it is, it's clear that they really should've brought their A game to Scarlet/Violet since Legends Arceus was ultimately not needed, since they outsourced the remakes to ILCA.

I mean, it's not like this series when you take a long hard look back, hasn't been suffering from performance issues the moment GameFreak announced that it wouldn't be taking full advantage of the 3DS' 3D effect for X&Y, maybe even longer than that with Diamond and Pearl's slow Surf speed. But we were distracted with things like ice cream cone Pokémon, what new Megas we might get, how they leaked all of Alola, gimmicky motion controls, and how they're only programming in half the total Pokémon in a game on a home console when a much portable can fit about 800+ Pokémon...

@PikaPhantom I agree. I'm going to make sure that I never buy or pre-order a Pokemon game until i see Gold Standard in performance. I just hope we all do out part to make sure that Scarlet/Violet remain the most sells of a Pokemon Game, because Mark my words, the next pokemon game won't top the sells. Oh we will wait by voting with out wallets. Nintendo Gold Standard my butt.

@KibaLG8 I won't get the DLC until they fix there main game. From what it looks like, I'm most likely am not getting the DLC. They brought this one themselves. How is a company like this who makes Billions mess this up? I would have been fine with more time in the oven, but it's clear that the talent isn't there, and they have deadlines due to anime, and other projects that must be set in stone...people won't forget this.

@Suicune I redownloaded Sword, and deleted Violet. As far as I'm concerned, Gen 8 will be the last Pokemon Generation that I will enjoy.

@ChromaticDracula yeah, Gen 9 was a mistake. It was enough for me to say "F this $"

@PersonaTexas - Dude the anime didn’t start until April 2023, they should have waited those 5-6 months but then again, they haven’t done crap inbetween November-May, so I doubt it would’ve made a difference. When the DLC was announced, my excitement was so non-existent for it. Honestly my excitement went to Tears of the Kingdom & will be looking forward to what they bring in for potential DLC.😂

And yeah Im playing Sword more, I have a modded Switch that is playing a “hard mode” version of Sword & loving every minute of it.

@KibaLG8 Hope they bring in the Aliens because during development they showcased some Laser beams from flying saucers shooting down on Link, and in a way the weapons we got to use such as Rockets and Laser beams could foreshadow an Alien Civilization coming to harvest Hyrule for its resources, and if we could find out that they used or there home-based was the moon. Hope we end up going to space, or the game will be set in a massive space ship.

@PersonaTexas If you're talking The Pokémon Company, the bulk of their billions is in merchandise deals: T-Shirts, Toy Sales, that sort of thing. In the grand scheme of things despite the sales figures for Pokémon games being very impressive for their poor quality, they're still a drop in the bucket compared to everything else.

If you're talking Nintendo, well, I already explained that the fault of Pokémon's poor quality isn't on Nintendo's hands, it's just people pointing fingers at them because 'exclusivity means obviously they must've developed it, right?'

And while Nintendo will make an announcement and SAY things, they technically DON'T have the power to force GameFreak to fix performance issues, which the fact is GameFreak's been haphazardly making Pokémon games for nearly a decade.

They're incompetent at their jobs, and it's clear that its more than just 'not enough time' to develop the game. I guarantee you had GameFreak been given an extra year or two on Scarlet and Violet, we would've still gotten the same steaming pile we got - we probably would've just had something else extra added to the game.