If you haven’t yet played Dragon Quest 11: Echoes of an Elusive Age, a fantastic JRPG and the newest entry in the long running series, you really should get on that as soon as possible. If you jump in now, you will find a marginally improved version of the game compared to what players got at launch, thanks to the new update that is available now.
Version 1.01 adds, among other things, fixes for a bug that caused the game to crash once a player got within certain distance of their horse on the field. It also expands the list of permissible names for the player character by adding some more games to the whitelist (such as “Robert”, which was, bafflingly enough, among the names that were not permitted previously), and, for the PC version, adds new graphical options.
There’s nothing particularly revelatory here—this is still the great game it was before, but with some minor sanding of the rough edges. But hey, it’s good to see Square attempt to address those few problems it has with post launch support. Now if only they could add the orchestral soundtrack into the game too…
Dragon Quest 11 is out now on PS4 and PC.
PlayStation 4
- We have identified a bug which can sometimes cause the game to crash when the player is 300m away from their horse on the field, this has been fixed.
- People’s names (such as “Robert”) have been removed from the list of prohibited words when selecting the main character’s name at the beginning of the game.
- Multiple text bugs have been fixed.
Steam
- We have identified a bug which can sometimes cause the game to crash when the player is 300m away from their horse on the field, this has been fixed.
- Players are now able to send log data to the Dragon Quest XI development team in cases where the game crashes.
Players are able to choose between three (Low, Medium, High) pre-set graphic settings before launching the game (see below for details). - People’s names (such as “Robert”) have been removed from the list of prohibited words when selecting the main character’s name at the beginning of the game.
- Multiple text bugs have been fixed.
- It is now possible to move the command selection cursor using the left stick, and by extension WASD on keyboards, with very few exceptions in certain screens.
- It is now possible to select which key exits the game (by default this is set to Esc) and it is also possible to bind the Esc key to a different function.
- More frame rate options have been added; 90 fps, 120 fps, 144 fps as well as the option to leave the frame rate unlocked.
- Finally, we have seen a number of questions about the in-game language in the Steam version of Dragon Quest XI. It is possible to change the in-game language by changing the language setting of Steam itself.
Full details on pre-set graphics settings:
- Low
- Antialiasing Quality: None
- Post-Processing Quality: None
- Shadow Quality: None
- Screen Percentage: 65%
- Display Mode: Windowed
- Resolution: 1280×720
- Medium
- Antialiasing Quality: 3
- Post-Processing Quality: 2
- Shadow Quality: 2
- Screen Percentage: 83%
- Display Mode: Full-Screen
- Resolution: 1920×1080
- High
- Antialiasing Quality: 6
- Post-Processing Quality: 3
- Shadow Quality: 3
- Screen Percentage: 100%
- Display Mode: Full-Screen
- Resolution: 1920×1080