Colt Canyon (Switch): Software updates (latest: Ver. 1.2.1.1)

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On this page, you will find all there is to know about the various Software updates for Colt Canyon on Nintendo Switch (originally released on June 16th 2020 in Europe and North America)!

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Colt Canyon – Ver. 1.2.1.1

Release date: October 5th 2022 (North America, Europe)
Patch notes:

Small balancing tweaks to medic merchant

Made shields slightly less common

No longer allowing save restore after successful rescue

No longer counting new no permadeath game overs for average run length/progress stat

Blood weapons take slightly less health to use

“Damage taken” stat is now multiplied by 2 just like damage indicators, to prevent <1 values

Split “runs failed” stat into “permadeath fails” and in brackets “no permadeath” fails (only for new runs)

Fixed invisible game over screen bug that was present on some devices

Fixed companion shields not being saved

Fixed old saves not being auto-loaded

Fixed crash when killing merchants

Fixed a bug where players would get duplicated

Fixed decals sometimes disappearing when tabbing out

Fixed a memory leak related to pausing the game

Fixed background not being blurred on all devices

Fixed a bug where grass, shadows and decals would not be restored when re-entering a level

Fixed a bug where the HUD transparency didnt work as expected

Fixed a bug with shop pricing

Fixed a crash related to incendiary barrel

Fixed character rescue stat not increasing when savegame was loaded during B-Levels

Fixed a bug with the bandit boss shield

Fixed pause menu allowed to be opened when on game over screen

Fixed save being possible while on game over screen

Fixed a minor issue with seed input on consoles

Fixed some blood weapons reloading despite it killing you

Fixed upgrade icons on game over screen not being centered when having a lot of upgrades

Fixed explosive bullets explosions not being positioned correctly

Fixed blood weapon save reload exploit

Fixed merchants sometimes having no grass nearby

Additional notes: none.
Source: Retrific (Steam)

Colt Canyon – Ver. 1.2.1.0

Release date: August 23rd 2022 (North America, Europe)
Patch notes:

Added run setting to disable permadeath, by allowing to restore the last save instead of deleting the savegame on death

No longer allowing 50% boss health, enemy attention nor 150% health drops without disabling achievements, but you can disable permadeath without disabling achievements now

Tweaked some UI elements

Decreased movement bonus enemies get in loops

Reduced amount of elite enemies in loops

Increased coyote base damage

Decreased reload times / cooldown times of a bunch of guns

Increased damage of explosive weapons

Slightly decreased accuracy, shield damage, active reload period and penetration power of arrow weapons

20% of all arrows previously reusable with Premium Arrows upgrade will no longer be reusable

Decreased bonus damage of Premium Arrows upgrade and no longer granting bonus damage to throwables

Reduced amount of weapon crates in loops, but slightly increased regular crate amount

Fixed instance references not being restored correctly

This fixes a bunch of savegame issues, for example prisoners not being in their coffins or horses not being tied to poles

Fixed movement history not being part of savegames

Fixed weapons in crates not being loaded from savegame

Fixed some sprite placement issues on the game over screen

Fixed enemies being duplicated when following to different level

Fixed issues where a loaded level is treated as a different level while still loading, causing stuff like green locked crates showing up in area one

Fixed companion weapon ammo duplication glitch

Fixed upgrade titles glitching into each other in pause menu

Fixed some issues with scrolling menus

Fixed menu background blur not being used on some systems

Fixed decals sometimes disappearing

Fixed crash when killing merchants

Additional notes: none.
Source: Retrific (via Wiki)

Colt Canyon – Ver. 1.2.0.1

Release date: July 20th 2022 (North America, Europe)
Patch notes:

Slightly nerfed fast reload upgrade

Rebalanced some area 2 enemies

Slightly buffed bandit snipers

Slightly reduced player knockback when hit by heavy weapons

Fixed a crash preventing some players from starting new runs

Fixed guns not creating any particles when fired

Fixed remapped trigger button not being saved

Fixed throwing knives missing collision

Fixed player in savegames not loading correctly when game crashed during level generation

Fixed crashes/glitches when loading/saving a savegame while already loading or saving something else

Fixed pause menu saying save and quit instead of just quit in prologue level

Fixed weapon break particles visual issues

Fixed penetrating arrows duplicating visually

Fixed Pistolero achievement

Fixed cliff decals not being restored

Fixed beartraps sometimes causing savegames to not load correctly

Corrupted savegames shouldnt crash the game anymore

Various other fixes

Additional notes: none.
Source: Retrific (via Wiki)

Colt Canyon – Ver. 1.2.0.0

Release date: July 1st 2022 (North America, Europe)
Patch notes:

Biggest changes:

Save game support! To save progress in a run and continue later.

Switched to a new engine version (Important to be able to continue updating and supporting the game)

User progress is not backwards compatible! (If upgrading to 1.2 do not go back to 1.1 or you might lose progress)

Balancing changes:

Adjusted bullet logic for shell weapons (shotguns), also buffed some of the shotguns in general, like the pumpgun, and adjusted damage values and falloff distances for all shell weapons

Buffed most throw weapons and reduced their melee cooldown but decreased melee damage

Slightly reduced health of bear boss and bandit boss and slightly increased slaver boss’ health

Increased explosion size of explosive weapons

Increased amount of items found in loops

Reduced revolving rifle reload speed

Buffed Eagle’s bow reload speed but nerfed bonus damage

Nerfed Fox’ bow reload speed

Buffed Taco’s tnt reload speed but nerfed bonus damage

Allowed enemy attention 50% without disabling achievements

Spawning less new containers if player already has a lot of ammo

Made ammo cheaper to buy from merchants

Companions bleed out slower and can no longer bleed out in boss levels (they can still be executed)

Loot in all locked crate now scales with level (before only the locked weapon crate scaled with progress)

Slightly reduced elite power in looped runs

Reduced attention range of elites

Made it impossible for enemies to spot you unless they are visible on screen

Increased health or attack speed of some bandit types

Its no longer possible to keep companions when looping, except for Flint

Made ambushes much less likely to occur after first level

Other changes:

Added indicator in character selection when all loadouts for a character are unlocked

No longer removing loaded ammo that cant be turned back into ammo when weapon is replaced

Dead prisoners will no longer drop medicine

Added a way to unlock the unique revolver again and added some ammo to its loadout (Die just before reaching your partner, but in a looped run)

You can now visit the main menu before starting the prologue

Disabled damage indicator in tutorial level

Disabled weapon level indicator when swapping with empty slot

Weapon level indicator now highlighting if same weapon but durability is better than equipped durability

Changed the input system causing some custom key mapping to possibly become invalid

Persistent levels now utilize the save game system so reduce memory usage (they are loaded from disk now)

Various command prompt changes to support new engine features

Fixed boss corpses fading before dropping their loot

You can now go back in menus using RMB

Fixed active reload being impossible to fail in first half on some weapons

Fixed some objects being displayed incorrectly on game over screen

Fixed level 4+ elites not having circle indicator

Fixed crosshair animation missing if no weapon equipped

Fixed a special case where buying a shop item would fail

Various minor visual changes/fixes/tweaks

Additional notes: none.
Source: Retrific (via Wiki)

Colt Canyon – Ver. 1.1.1.1

Release date: February 14th 2022 (North America, Europe)
Patch notes:

Slightly reduced amount of enemies in B levels

Dodge rolls will now save characters from being on fire

Buffed some melee weapon stats

Dynamite Bandits will not throw dynamite when they are not on screen

Fixed a rare graphical glitch with vertical fences

Nerfed movement speed of some elite enemies

Made it easier to avoid killing dogs

Disabled explosion blur on consoles

Improved explosion performance slightly

High contrast player indicator now uses color of player one

PC: Improved scripting support and command prompt capabilites

Fixed secondary melee key binding not being saved

Fixed back button in keybindings being at wrong spot

Fixed main menu discord hint not working

Fixed bisons in ambushes count as innocent

Fixed dynamite bandit game over screen display

Minor translation fixes

Additional notes: none.
Source: Retrific (via Wiki)

Colt Canyon – Ver. 1.1.1.0

Release date: December 17th 2021 (North America, Europe)
Patch notes:

Reinforced Shields Upgrade will also affect companion shields now

Run Settings: Allowed enemy attention of 75%, Health Drops of 150% and boss health of 50% without disabling achievements

Taco now deals bonus damage with tnt weapons

Made ambushes less likely when you rescue the prisoner and when there has been an ambush recently

Made marksman rifle spawn later

Increased buckshot range

Increased machete damage

Increased pike damage

Increased thrown heavy spear damage

Increased bison health slightly and even more in loops

Increased repeater, half auto bow and crossbow fire rate

Increased various other rifle reload times and adjusted some damage values

Made war axe more rare

Increased blood weapon drop rate and made them start show up earlier in a loop

Removed experimental weapons from regular weapon crates

Adjusted some weapon durability values

Modified some english texts

No longer aborting reload when trying active reload too late, only aborting after failing active reload once and trying again

Companions level up slightly slower

Companions will take slightly longer before learning to dodge

Now counting loop as rescue for OG Squad achievement

Small nerf to Big Bear attack speed in looped runs

Nerfed final boss in loops

Increased amount of elite enemies in loops

Decreased amount of health dropped by elites in loops

Slightly reduced damage of final boss weapon in loops

Slightly reduced amount of health crates

Companions can no longer hurt prisoners

Made hitting arrow traps with bullets more reliable

Adjusted aggression distance on bisons

Slightly reduced amount of shield drops

Reduced chance of getting companion upgrade, especially in loops

Increased size of some heavy gun bullets

Decreased burning sfx volume

Reduced default game volumes

Placed some additional bear traps in bear boss level

Reduced time that bear trap takes to open

Reduced minimum enemy spawn distance in loops

Nerfed companion behavior with volley guns

Fixed some visuals on the explosive carriage

Fixed Mom’s Flint Rifle Loadout being a secret

Fixed crosshair being drawn over reload button hint

Fixed some run settings having 50% steps instead of 25%

Fixed bison and merchant sometimes not counting as innocent

Fixed upgrades sometimes showing up multiple times in the same pool

Fixed received damage setting not being applied to dash damage

Fixed dash knockback being too strong

Fixed wildnis scum hitbox

Fixed enemies not reacting to their shield being hit

Fixed weapon becoming invisible when swapping with companions

Other minor fixes

Additional notes: none.
Source: Retrific (via Wiki)

Colt Canyon – Ver. 1.1.0.0

Release date: October 12th 2021 (North America, Europe)
Patch notes:

Biggest changes:

Melee Combat Overhaul!

All weapons now have additional melee stats that influence melee damage, cooldown and much more, even stuff like how many targets can be hit with a single attack

Enemies (especially late-game enemies) will still try to block melee attacks but some weapons will be harder to block

Throwable weapons will have a much stronger focus on melee combat and should only be thrown if no longer needed or when fighting enemies you don’t want to get close to

NPC melee still works as before to not increase combat complexity too much, but they will sometimes drop melee weapons now

Throwable weapons now have actual durability that is displayed in the HUD

Added active reloading to make reloading more exciting

Added over 50 new weapons, including various melee weapons and special late game guns

Added Blood Weapons, legendary blood-colored weapons only found in very late game, that use your life force to boost their power

Increased the maximum ammo you can carry and adjusted Max Ammo Upgrades

Added 7 new upgrades, most of them related to ammo and increasing either the inventory ammo capacity or the amount of ammo you will find

Shield Overhaul!

Shields will protect from melee damage, but also only when attacked from the front

You can now carry more than one shield but it only has 2 hp

If a shield breaks and you got backup shields a new shield will be equipped

More ways to get and find shields

You can now choose between 5 instead of 4 upgrades

Other changes:

Added indicator to help players decide whether a weapon on the ground might be stronger than the one equipped

Weapons that are stronger will be highlighted with a blood-coloured outline/glow around the weapon name when interacting

The indicator only takes the weapon you are currently holding into account, not the one on your back

Added a couple of gamepad-compatible cheats

Added seperate interface settings menu, moved some game settings there

Added auto reload option to game settings

Added received damage mulitplicator run setting (also influences companions)

Changed the color of the fletching on arrows to improve visibility

Added Aspect Ratio Setting (PC Only)

Improved Crosshair (improved visibility) and added more crosshair settings

Showing equipment of enemy that killed you on game over screen

Swapped main melee key and secondary melee key

Adjusted some weapon cooldowns (throwables in particular)

Adjusted some weapon stats (throwables in particular)

Adjusted floor texture to give everything a bit more contrast against it

Enemies will start attacking faster if you are getting close to them

Enemies in first stage no longer receive extra melee damage

First boss changes: Reduced health by 5hp

Second boss changes: Increased health, slightly reduced health scaling with player amount/loop, slightly adjusted movement, Loop changes: reduced dash damage but buffed movement and cooldown and placed toxic plants in the level

Final boss changes: Increased the amount of containers in the level and increased the time between final boss attacks, slightly increased his health and decreased penetration power of his gatling gun, Loop changes: More shield health and more resistant to explosives

Tweaked melee combat target detection algorithm to make aiming in melee combat more important

Added slowdown after melee attacks

Reduced movement speed with throwable weapons equipped a little bit

Resupply can now show up and be selected up to three times per run

Resupply no longer full restocks dynamite if a dynamite weapon is equpped, instead it only grants 2 dynamite

Tweaked arrow ammo sprites

Enemies will try harder to hold some distance from you, especially high-level enemies

Tweaked Scythe, its also now called Combat Scythe

Added new enemy type to first area in loops

Added a new locked crate type that contains shields

Merchants will now also sometimes sell shields

Adjusted big knife upgrade

Improved upgrade generation

Updated some playable character stats (especially in regards to melee combat)

Reduced fast reload upgrade reload speed boost but added active reload upgrade as part of it

Made throwables more rare in big crates but allowed weapon crates to sometimes drop em

Hostile dogs can now lose interest in you if there are no human enemies also chasing you and they are too far away from their spawn

Decreased enemy ammo drops if player has a lot of ammo

Player now always marked if using color blindness mode

Increased amount of loot in first level

Reduced destructible dodge damage

Free tnt upgrade and companionr rest can be chosen up to 3 times

Tweaked companion armor upgrade

Increased capacity that max ammo 2 and max ammo 3 adds for light rounds

Added an extra ammo drop to locked crates

Reduced amount of cacti in area 3 cactus fields

Companions will now also get some short invincibility after being hit by a gatling gun round, just like players

Human companions will now learn to dodge over time

Fixed some item drops being unreachable because they drop outside of level

New upgrade icon color backgrounds

Increased trap blink frequency and contrast

Companions can no longer use throwables (didnt make sense before, with the melee overhaul it would make it even more complicated)

Added new icons for loadouts with special boni that will make it less cryptic whats special about the loadout, no more “!?”

Adjusted some loadouts to use some of the new weapons

Replaced improved auto rifle with high-cap auto rifle

Replaced Improved Slug Gun with Multi-Cylinder Revolver (we already had slug repeater)

Fixed “Mom” not having reloadskill of 10 despite being more skilled than “Fox”

Changes to some weapon sprites

Weapon drops will now lay on their side if the weapon is higher than it is wide

Tweaked some weapon animations

Tweaked some partner stats (made them more agile)

Increased alertness indicator contrast

Slightly increased the chance of enemies dropping their weapon and the amount of ammo in those guns

Added interaction to prisoners in coffins to help with the rescue

Adjusted a whole bunch of weapon and character stats

Slightly increased the amount of ammo dropped in later levels

Melee enemies will sometimes drop a melee weapon

New Blur Shader

Increased amount of weapon crates

Minor HUD adjustments

Made bears and bisons resistant to toxic plants

Increased health of carried explosive barrels

Reduced strength of boss health scaling with additional players and looping

Reduced strength of enemy health scaling in advaned loops

Scorpions and snakes are no longer scaling their health in advanced loops

Scorpions and snakes have a longer cooldown between attacks

Increased enemy skill in loops

Reduced amount of health dropped by elites in loops

Added some more high-level bandits to looped bandit stage

The dog is slightly more approachable

Slight adjustments to auto reloading

Removed language setting on console version (use system language instead)

Added command prompt command to toggle menu paper sway animation

Fixes:

Fixed player sometimes getting stuck in walls

Fixed companions aiming in weird directions while walking

Fixed some cover not spawning in final boss level

Fixed characters sometimes not being kicked in the air by knockback

Fixed some wrong weapon stats like float damage values

Fixed coop shared ammo not working correctly

Fixed merchants not reacting to trades

Fixed enemies sometimes attacking while player is still frozen

Fixed issues with the enemy skill run setting

Fixed various issues where the player might get stuck

Fixed an issue where npcs will stop moving

Fixed bullets dealing critical damage to shields of unaware enemies

Fixed dynamite sometimes not destroying objects if not in view

Fixed a bug where reload hints were not showing up

Fixed an issue where it was possible to move through solid objects

Fixed a bunch of memory-related issues

Fixed various minor bugs and possible crashes

Additional notes: none.
Source: Retrific

Colt Canyon – Ver. 1.0.2.0

Release date: December 23rd 2020 (North America, Europe)
Patch notes:

Added Run Customization/Difficulty Options! (Including starting as Looped Run)

You can find the difficulty settings in the character selection screen on the top left (the gears symbol)

Added more variation to the level generator

More interface text is now being influenced by HUD scaling

Nerfed stronger tnt upgrade

Buffed explosive weapons

Fixed companions using throwable weapons

Partner levels up faster, normal companions slightly slower

Fixed some translation issues

Reduced Air Rifle Reloading Times

Gave Taco more Dynamite

Olaf now has the highest max health of all characters

Added experimental autoreload command

Reduced damage dynamite deals on enemies but made the damage drop off more forgiving

Increased ammo hud display contrast and added markers to make it even more clear what ammo your weapons use

Changed Menu toggle labeling

Adjusted some shop prices

Increased enemy count and ammo drops in first loop

Adjusted weapon drop chances to increase the variety of weapons dropped

Made enemies in loops slower and gave them more ammo drops

Shell weapons will destroy shields faster

Decreased Rifle Bandit health

Final boss health equals its shield health now (making this boss easier overall)

No longer need a rescue to unlock 1250 total kills reward

Adjusted loadouts that start you with limited health containers to only reduce starting health instead

Adjusted some other playable character stats to buff some characters

Increased Max Health of One Eye and Chain by one

Showing run seed in pause screen now

Saving some more stats in the background for future updates

Decreased high-level elite enemies shield health

Added some new dualshock input icons

Fixed final boss not going into second phase despite having shield

Elites don’t spot you as easily anymore

Decreased conspicuity of some of the playable characters

Fixed, balanced and tweaked various other minor stuff

Additional notes: none.
Source: Retrific

Colt Canyon – Ver. 1.0.1.7

Release date: September 2nd 2020 (North America, Europe)
Patch notes:

Added new interaction to native rock

Added 4 new rare weapons

Fixed a bug that made companions take too long to attack after leveling up a bunch of times

Made companions level up slightly slower

Changed Shadow Walker Achievement: You only have to reach the third area now (instead of your partner) without having been spotted by human enemies

Slightly adjusted some ammo drop rates

Rebalanced enemy counts slightly

Reduced first boss health a bit and made his attacks less frequent

Reduced second boss health a bit and made his attacks slightly less frequent

Made final boss a bit easier to handle

Fixed PlayStation Controllers not being detected in coop

Added Polish translation

Updated existing translations

Added Wiki Hint

Tweaked, rebalanced and fixed some other minor stuff

Additional notes: none.
Source: Retrific

How to download updates for Colt Canyon for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for Colt Canyon, 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;

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.