Expedition 33 Patch Notes for Patch 1.2.3

Last Updated:May 9, 2025

Sandfall Interactive released the Patch notes for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Patch 1.2.3. This brings the promised change to Stendhal, a high-impact bug fix for Medalum and a bunch of minor fixes and quality of life changes.

Key Takeaways

Medalum was bugged and was giving players double damage in Virtuose stance. This has been fixed, resulting in a 50% DPS loss to a lot of the best builds on Maelle.
Stendhal damage was reduced by 40%, when combined with the above Medalum change, it results in the skill doing around 1/3rd of its original damage. Which still gets into the hundreds of millions, meaning you can still 1-shot bosses with it, you just need to put in a bit more effort to your Luminas/buffs now.
The scaling for Lithelim and Blizzon no longer breaks at level 33.

Patch 1.2.3

Steam Deck

Fixed backgrounds of various menus not displaying properly on the Steam Deck

Various Ultrawide Fixes

Gameplay no longer becomes zoomed after a cutscene occurs in ultrawide resolutions
The Options menu image will no longer be stretched in ultrawide resolutions
Combat UI now adapts correctly to ultrawide resolutions
Game will no longer minimize upon changing settings in ultrawide resolution
Cutscenes won’t letterbox in 32:9 aspect ratio
Title screen now displays fullscreen when the game is launched in ultrawide resolution

Mouse and Keyboard

UI button prompts in Expedition Menu are now visible and fully able to be triggered with Keyboard
Mouse buttons do not become unresponsive after first use
With mouse cursor on screen, using 'WSAD' or directional arrows to navigate in UI or trigger any other functionality will no longer hide the cursor instead of doing the intended action
Left Mouse-button click will no longer block the player from using Keyboard to navigate menus
Mouse input is not lost after the first Jump counter attack if it is pressed only once

Fixed areas of the world map where you can get stuck:

Between lanterns scattered on the ground near Stone Wave Cliff portal
While walking on the ship wreck near the Forgotten Battlefield level entrance
Between lanterns on the ground near Bourgeon encounter next to Stone Wave Cliffs level
Between two small rocks located between Spring Meadows and Abbest Cave
Between vases and corals when jumping from rooftopps
Between various rocks
In ruins behind Flying Manor level entrance
Near the bridge between Flying Waters and Spring Meadows
In the rocks on the World Map, near Flying Waters
Next to hardened land, close to the Flying Waters location exit

Fixed situations where Esquie specifically would get stuck (poor guy):

When taking off from paint bridges, making him fall through the bridge and restrict movement
When flying into bottom parts of levitating structures near Visages
Near the Flying Waters entrance level
Near a giant hammer when traversing close to Blades' Graveyard level

Weapon and skill fixes and tuning:

Fixed Lithelim attribute scaling not working at high level. Reduced initial Vitality scaling from A to C (will still end at S at max level). Added Luck scaling starting at D.
Fixed Blizzon attribute scaling not working at high level. Reduced initial Luck scaling from B to C (will still end at S at max level). Added Defense scaling starting at D.
Fixed Medalum third Lumina doubling all damage in Virtuose Stance instead of doubling only Burn damage.
Stendhal: Reduced damage by 40%.

Other fixes

Boss encounter in Stone Wave Cliffs can now be finished on NG+
You will no longer be blocked by the Journal UI window after opening the first Journal in the Spring Meadows
Fixed being unable to shoot in Free aim while exploring levels due to worn triggers
Lune and Monoco no longer spawn in same place during end of theirs Level 6 relationship quests if they are completed without going to camp
If at camp you pick “remember the objective”, then quickly choose to "go to sleep" and immediately after press "leave", the screen no longer goes black
You can no longer trigger the "Discovering the truth" cutscene in Old Lumière a second time in a row, splitting the party forever.
Update to rolling credits

This is the first in a series of patches we are looking to do over the coming months. We are still investigating many feature requests and issues for future updates.

Stay tuned!

~ The Expedition 33 Team

Summary

The Patch Notes for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 patch 1.2.3 include the promised Stendhal nerf, a Medalum bug fix that cuts Maelle's damage (she's still OP), bug fixes for some weapons and progression points and a lot of general quality of life improvements.

Written by: Tenkiei