Cassette Beasts (Switch): all the updates (latest: Ver. 1.6.2)

On this page, you will find all there is to know about the various updates for Cassette Beasts on Nintendo Switch (originally released on May 25th 2023 in North America, Europe, and Japan)!

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• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Raw Fury (Steam)

Cassette Beasts – Ver. 1.6 (Multiplayer Update)

• Release date: May 20th 2024 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

New Additions

• Connect with up to 7 other players (for a total of 8 players) using invite codes, platform invitations, and a more passive “Play with Friends” mode.
• When using “Play with Friends”, the game will attempt to match you with other active players who are on your platform friends list automatically.
• Cross-play between Steam, Xbox and Nintendo Switch is possible using temporary invite codes.
• See the other players in your lobby explore the world of New Wirral, and get updates on what they’re doing.
• Trade tapes with other players in your lobby. If either of you are using the built-in randomisation modes, you must both be using the same seed.
• Challenge other players in your lobby to PvP battles, with optional rules governing levels, fusion, sticker attributes, and whether duplicate stickers are allowed. You don’t have to be playing the same randomisation seed for this.
• When you encounter a Rogue Fusion in the world, invite a friend to join you in a raid! You won’t get any Fused Material, but there may be something else you both find useful… Any tapes you record will be received by both players. If either of you are using the built-in randomisation modes, you must both be using the same seed.
• Note that there will be a process of ironing out issues for a while after release. From time to time we may temporarily degrade server performance, or reduce update rates and the number of players per lobby, until issues are fixed.
• Added ‘Moonstone Island’ outfit set to the character creator.

Fixed

• Fixed tapes’ exp requirements to upgrade continuing to increase after 5 stars.
• Fixed Custom/Random Starter moves taking effect after the user is defeated.
• Fixed multi-hit moves never hitting for the maximum number of hits.
• Fixed Throw inflicting damage of the wrong type.
• Fixed Bad Forecast stickers never spawning with attributes.
• Fixed Booby Trap’s animation sometimes facing the wrong way.
• Prevented Booby Trap from being Booby Trapped.
• Fixed Scubalrus having only 6 sticker slots.
• Fixed Fragliacci and Rosehood (from the Pier of the Unknown DLC) missing their battle cries.
• Fixed Pier of the Unknown DLC monster Umbrahella sometimes showing up in flood events. (This only ever happened if you had the DLC installed, but we’ve fixed it since it could unexpectedly spoil the DLC content.)
• Fixed move and status animations not always lining up correctly with Adeptile, Blunderbusk, Fragliacci, Rosehood, and Scarleteeth.
• Fixed a few typos.

Cassette Beasts – Ver. 1.5

• Release date: October 3rd 2023 (North America, Europe) / October 4th 2023 (Japan)
• Patch notes:

New Additions:

• Added a button to view the names and descriptions of status effects in battle when using a controller. This was previously only possible if you were using a mouse.
• Added a colour-blind accessibility option to change health bars from green/red to blue/orange.
• Added an audio setting to mute transformation sound effects.
• If you have more than 200 items in a single tab in the inventory, the tab will be automatically split into pages of 50 items each to aid in navigating large numbers of stickers.
• Several filtering options have been added to the sticker inventory: Name, Rarity, Category, and Elemental Type.
• A Bulk Recycle button has been added to the sticker inventory. It can be used when a filter is set, and recycles every sticker that matches the current filters.

Fixed:

• Fixed Intercept not affecting team-target attacks affected by Unitarget.
• Fixed status effects ticking down twice on the round that you fuse.
• Fixed an NPC in Harbourtown who sometimes spawned underground.
• Fixed Kayleigh’s name not being displayed when she talks for Barkley in post-boss cutscenes set in the cafe.
• Fixed inconsistent music near the Cherry Meadow cave.
• Fixed monsters with Vampire healing from 0 HP when they should be defeated.
• Fixed Ghostly and Gambit killing player characters if they record a monster while the status has 1 turn left.
• Fixed Resonance not overloading if you use Dog Years to double it.
• Fixed some geometry that could get a player temporarily stuck under a walkway in the Abandoned Mine in the marsh.
• Fixed Viola’s quest not becoming complete if you defeated the story’s final boss before finishing it.
• Fixed player characters’ sleeves periodically resetting to long sleeves regardless of selected top.

Other Changes:

• Controls in the inventory have been changed to LB/PgUp and RB/PgDn to switch tabs, to become consistent with other tabbed UIs. Left/Right can be used to jump up and down the list like PgUp/PgDn used to.
• Added some text to the controller select screen to help new players figure out what they need to do to enable and start local co-op.
• Added a dialog to confirm the player’s decision to flee before actually attempting to flee.
• Added a hard limit of 2500 to the number of stacks of stickers players can keep in their inventory. This should help keep memory use from getting so large it causes saving to fail. Any stickers you pick up past that limit, that don’t stack with stickers you already have, are dropped until you’re back under the limit. This won’t automatically erase any stickers you already have past the limit when you load a file, but you will need to recycle some to be able to pick up more stickers.
• The game now keeps 2 previous versions of each save file in addition to the current file itself. If it detects that the most recent version is corrupt, it will automatically attempt to load one of the backups instead.

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Raw Fury (Steam)

Cassette Beasts – Ver. 1.4.0 (Catacombs Update)

• Release date: June 28th 2023 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

No patch notes available. This update brings the following to the game:

• adds a new hidden location, can you find the Abandoned Mine?
• adds eight new monsters to find:
  • 3 alternate remastered forms of existing monsters
  • 4 new monsters to discover in the world, including the metal-type spider beast Ferriclaw!
  • One secret unique monster
• adds 10 new moves, including a new attack, several moves centered around new status effects, and 4 new passives
• provides visual and performance improvements

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Raw Fury (Steam)

Cassette Beasts – Ver. 1.3.0

• Release date: May 25th 2023 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

No patch notes available. This update brings the following to the game:

• improves performance

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Bytten Studio (Twitter)

How to download updates for Cassette Beasts for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for Cassette Beasts, you have three options:

• let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off

If not…

• try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;

OR

• select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet.

To check that you have the latest version installed, simply select the game on the Home Menu, and press – or + to go to the Options: the version number is displayed just below the game title.