NIS America and developer Durante announced a new update is available now for the PC (Steam) version of Falcom’s The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero. New updates are coming to the existing console versions soon.
The new PC update for The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero adds the auto text advance feature, water rendering, and achievement triggers on loading saves. Additionally, a number of bug fixes, English localization fixes, and additional changes were applied.
According to NIS America, more updates are coming to the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 versions. Specific details were not shared, however. Fortunately, a new update for The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero on consoles will likely have many valuable fixes found in the latest Steam version.
Patch notes are available below via Steam:
Major New Features
- Water rendering update: water now optionally uses a pixel shader which distorts the reflections/refractions. We tuned this for most bodies of water in the game and it looks pretty neat.
- Added an “Auto Text Advance” feature. Note that there are a few events in-game where this will not apply since they require manual advance.
- Check and trigger achievements on loading saves. This means that if you e.g. import a save from a playthrough of a different version of the game, applicable achievements will now trigger. (Note: this mostly applies to collection-type achievements)
Major Bug Fixes
- Resolved an issue which could cause portraits not to be displayed in very specific circumstances. More details about the cause of this issue are available here.
- Implement a number of English localization fixes.
Additional Changes and Fixes
- Improve font rendering performance by avoiding unneeded copies and temporary textures. This might be noticeable on slower systems when a lot of text is displayed.
- Map geometry fixes on many maps, and some map collision fixes. Some of these are specific to ultra-wide monitors, but others are visible in 16:9 as well.
- Show correct button prompt in detective notebook for “Details”.
- Add mouse support for the casino exchange menu.
- Made direct camp menu save button prompt clickable.
- Check whether detective rank is in a valid range when loading saves.
- Fixed crash when failing to delete saves.
- Allow cancellation of dialogs in the settings menu with the back button.
- Always apply framerate limit, even when vsync is enabled (or forced off). This is to prevent issues when V-sync is off globally.
- Fixed an issue where battle character outlines could flicker with high FPS.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero is available now for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam worldwide.
Lastly, read up on Final Weapon’s extensive coverage of Falcom games below:
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- The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV Review
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero Review
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails Into Reverie Launches in July 2023
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