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Sword of the Sea Patch Notes 9/19/25

Hey surfers! There’s a new patch out with some nice quality-of-life features and a bunch of bugfixes. Thanks again for playing Sword of the Sea!

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Repeated intro

Hey surfers! There’s a new patch out with some nice quality-of-life features and a bunch of bugfixes. Thanks again for playing Sword of the Sea!

What changed

12 fixes5 additions7 changes0 removals
  • Gameplay
  • Fixes
  • UI and audio
  • Performance
addedHey surfers! There’s a new patch out with some nice quality-of-life features and a bunch of bugfixes. Thanks again for playing Sword of the Sea!
addedAdded Invert Camera (Horizontal), Invert Camera (Vertical), and Camera Sensitivity photomode options that can be set separately from the the regular game camera
addedAdded a collectible tracker to the chapter select screen
addedAdded a collectible tracker to the pause screen in new game plus
changedImproved resolution settings- full range of resolutions are now accessible, with better handling of multiple monitor configurations
fixedFixed issue where the count of collected items could be displayed incorrectly, leading to an associated trophy not triggering appropriately

Sword of the Sea changes

addedHey surfers! There’s a new patch out with some nice quality-of-life features and a bunch of bugfixes. Thanks again for playing Sword of the Sea!
addedAdded Invert Camera (Horizontal), Invert Camera (Vertical), and Camera Sensitivity photomode options that can be set separately from the the regular game camera
addedAdded a collectible tracker to the chapter select screen
addedAdded a collectible tracker to the pause screen in new game plus
changedImproved resolution settings- full range of resolutions are now accessible, with better handling of multiple monitor configurations

Updates:

  • Added Invert Camera (Horizontal), Invert Camera (Vertical), and Camera Sensitivity photomode options that can be set separately from the the regular game camera

  • Added a collectible tracker to the chapter select screen

  • Added a collectible tracker to the pause screen in new game plus

  • When using the Restart Chapter option in the last chapter or starting the level from the chapter select screen, the intro cutscene will be skipped, allowing for quicker restarts

  • Improved resolution settings- full range of resolutions are now accessible, with better handling of multiple monitor configurations

Fixes:

  • Fixed issue where the count of collected items could be displayed incorrectly, leading to an associated trophy not triggering appropriately

  • Score now has a maximum value to avoid overflowing and displaying as a negative number

  • Fixed issue where some Japanese and Traditional Chinese characters displayed incorrectly

  • Fixed issue where music faded incorrectly at the beginning of levels

  • Fixed issue where certain particles and sound effects could remain active incorrectly during some cutscenes

  • Improved camera rotation assist behaviour in some areas

  • Improved visibility of photo mode effects menu elements

  • Fixed issue where a guide beam could reset incorrectly after returning to gameplay from main menu

  • Fixed issue where some sound effects would no longer play after returning to gameplay from main menu

  • Improved visibility of some interactive objects

  • Made tetra around certain halfpipes easier to collect

  • Fixed issue where sound effects for grinding could remain active

  • Fixed issue where some snow effects could disappear abruptly

  • Fixed issue where UI for remapping analog sticks may not work as expected

  • Fixed minor character animation pops

  • Fixed geometry pop-in in some cutscenes

  • Fixed minor seams in geometry across the game

  • Improved minor environmental collision shapes across the game

  • Improved falling reset zones across the game

Known Issues:

  • Some Intel Arc GPUs have been reported to crash on startup

Source

Steam News / 19 September 2025

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