Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Version 3.0.1 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes

Yes but will it run any better now

I really loved this game and saw it through to the end, but the performance soured the whole experience.

Honestly I'm just waiting to replay it on the Switch 2 where it (hopefully) runs better

So... what do you guys think about rumors that GF is not done with the game yet... at least another mythical is coming (Pokemon from the next movie)?

Cool, always good to see updates and bug fixes.

Still no performance fix or even the memory leak fix.

@SpaceboyScreams Wait, I thought Palworld didn't have anything to do with Pokemon?

Tomorrow is Thursday?

(Nooo, I hope they don't fix the Pokémon cloning glitch!)

@MirrorFate2 Probably not, they only sold 25 million at $60 per copy equating to over $1 billion in revenue, so I don't think The Pokemon Company have the budget to do the right thing & make the game run half decently. Shame

@HatesCheese I don't think it'll automatically run better on Switch 2 other than load times? GF would have to work on the performance of the games itself running on Switch 2 for any substantial fixes. Systems with backwords compatibility like Wii and WiiU didn't make the predecessor games run any different or the New 3DS XL upgrade to 3DS didn't do that for 3DS titles prior to the upgrade besides load times at best.

This game is unfortunately never getting fixed, we're 14 months on from release and they still run like a slideshow.

I wonder if the Pokemon company is even going to bother with a performance patch or if they've moved onto the next game already. Maybe something for Switch 2 but I don't feel optimistic about those chances either.

@Bobb But they did make Sca/Vi actively worse than Sw/Sh. Sw/Sh was criticized back then, but it looked and ran much better than disastrous Sca/Vi. Looking at these patches, there's no hope for Pokemon to improve. As long as people buy those games. I for one won't ever again. There's alternatives now.

Is this an indication of how long it would have taken the game to release if they’d finished it first? 🤔

Hey mods, can you tell me how I was trolling? That was my legitimate feeling and action, typed in a non-inflammatory way. Is free thought not allowed here or do y'all just hate me?

@NintendoKnower it was "optimized" by having absolutely no ambition. Environments where hallways with sky boxes as decor. And when it did open up in the wild area, the performance was just as bad as SV.

This is a hotfix for glitches like the TM for Metal Sound requiring drops that can't be collected in Scarlet or leveling up Inkay with candies under Level 30 locking out player input. 0.0.x Hotfixes generally don't fix performance issues; you leave that to more substantial title update patches.

I’m playing Pokemon Violet and I’ve been having a lot of fun I’ve not seen any problems to actually ruin the game experience

Honestly I have almost no faith in the Pokemon company. If the next gen game doesn't run at a stable 60fps with an open world and fully fleshed out mechanics then I'm just done with the series. Everything about Sca/Vio felt so half baked and it runs like garbage still

Hope that Game Freak uses a tried and true engine for the next gen instead of the garbodor they’ve been working with. 14 months in, and SV still looks and plays like day 1…

League club room? Am I missing something?

If GameFreak had been a passenger on the Titanic it would have been running around tossing deck chairs into the Atlantic and bragging about how much more time it was buying everyone to wait for the Carpathia.

Apparently Transform now fails if Smeargle tries to use it in a wild battle, but it still works in trainer fights.

Is anyone gonna talk about how this patch is a whole 5 gigabytes? Surely there has to be more under the hood to justify this, GameFreak’s optimization can’t be THAT bad.

Wow, those patch notes are just one big joke. I really hope TPC will learn lessons from releasing games too early and seeing rivals such as Palworld are welcome to shake things up. I'm never buying mainline Pokémon games on day 1 ever again after S/V.

I have hope that Pokemon on the Switch 2 will use a better game engine and that the new games will run a lot better due to increased horsepower.

I think that the move to open world Pokemon is here to stay (for better or worse), but I think there's a lot here that can be improved.

for starters I think it's kinda boring that there's Pokemon everywhere, so many of them that it's difficult to avoid them..

I feel like it would be a bit better if we actually had to look for them, and also I think it would make sense if the Pokémon actually utilised the environment better. For example some bird Pokemon might sit on tree branches or rooftops, perhaps they build nests up there, some Pokemon might be playing with each other in the wild. perhaps a smaller Pokemon like Pichu would run at the sight of the player and hide behind a rock.

I would like stuff like that a lot if would make the world feel more alive. as things are right now it's very very simple in terms of Pokemon behavioural AI.

What could take up 5GB? New textures? Better performance?

@DreamlandGem Respectfully I feel like you're just throwing words around. My intention wasn't to "bait", it's an honest feeling that just happened to be potentially upsetting to some people I guess (I haven't read the comments) even though what I currently chose to play in my free time shouldn't upset a soul considering it's legal and non-violent. What does "unconstructive" even mean? 99% of comments are unconstructive, will you allow me to post the comment again if I somehow include a remark that makes it more "constructive" to the author or developers or you or whoever you feel needs that? To think I'm responsible for derailing anything for playfully mirroring a very common public sentiment at the moment is absurd, it's in the air with or without me here.

@SpaceboyScreams,

Firstly your comments a lot of times are rarely constructive on this particular subject, although they may seem to be in your own mind, and secondly, which I think is your main issue with this, is that you keep alluding to a common public sentiment or complaint, which has no basis in fact or indeed evidence to back it up.

As I have always said there is a very loud and vocal part of the Pokemon community, that are very toxic and complain all the time, but I would suggest these are the core minorities, rather than a more widspread crusade against these games, which I have said over and over, are far from perfect, but still very enjoyable.

I have deleted my initial comment to you, as it was also not very constructive.

That's a bit odd, the fixes are welcome of course, but i doubt it takes 4.9GB of data to implement them...

So either there's more content coming, or it downright replaces a whole bunch of files instead of patching them.

@Hoshiko Considering how the game runs Gamefreak's optmisations really can be that bad.

@Greatluigi The League Club is part of the Indigo Disk DLC.

I’ve abandoned Pokemon for now. I’ll patiently wait for something amazing in the future.

5GB? Does that include all prior updates too? That's gigantic (and further demonstrates that even the 64GB OLED model is too small if a game WITH A GAME CARD needs updates of this size).

@JohnnyMind
That is the sad point, as long as The Pokemon company does not adjust that "schedule" in favor of allowing Game Freak (and giving it support) to develop the games with more time necessary, the problem with the games will continue; And how, "the general pressure" to maintain that "poke machine" generating more and more products to "keep the fans" with the franchise is turning out to be a double edge, since it still generates a lot of profits, but it consists of putting more pressure rapid development of the next, and that means, new generations in a short time and yes, Game Freak and Creatures, working that extra time that they should not have, but unfortunately they have to obey.

A while ago I shared a video of this, which explains it very well, unfortunately it is in Spanish, but I recommend it.

and in another post about this, I also recommended an episode of a cartoon that, in my opinion, shows what this problem looks like with The Pokemon company, Game Freak, The franchise and even the fans; The episode is 'Canterlot Boutique', from the series My Little Pony Friendship is magic, and it seems like a joke, but it's not, I seriously recommend watching it and you'll see, as I saw it and I understood that it is exactly what we see in this conflict.

4.9 gigs?! Yikes-o-rama...

@JohnnyMind
Thanks for taking the recommendations ^^

The Title of video is:
"El verdadero problema de GameFreak con Pokémon"
In English: "The true problem of GameFreak with Pokémon"

I was going to ask if there are any performance improvements, but I knew the answer deep in my heart already.

They need a bigger team, more skilled team, better schedule, better development tools, etc. Nintendo really needs to intervene and help get Game Freak up to snuff. Maybe, have Monolithsoft assist them like the Zelda team.

In what world should this be nearly 5 gbs?

Anybody with the digital game know the total gb for one of the S/V copies is with the update applied?

@Porky I have scarlet 11.2 GB

@HatesCheese its not a problem with the hardware since zelda series runs great and its a lot better, its the devs that dont give a sh**

@DiamondJim That's really sad. I hate when startups struggle.

4.9GB and no performance improvements lol. I don’t even have these games but I’ve seen gameplay and it runs at like 20fps… I think for the next game they should get Monolith Soft to assist since they’ve historically been GODS when it comes to optimization (ahem Xenoblade X)

The v3.0.0 update was 4.8GB, it's not 4.9GB of brand new stuff, they've probably just done some slight change that needed a full redownload.