Get ready to face the ultimate combat challenge when the Freedom Pals open the Danger Deck. Put your superhero skills to the test this Tuesday, December 19!
South Park: The Fractured But Whole
Danger Deck - December 19th
Get ready to face the ultimate combat challenge when the Freedom Pals open the Danger Deck. Put your superhero skills to the test this Tuesday, December 19!
Advanced Combat Tutorial
South Park: The Fractured But Whole features an all new combat system. If you’ve watched the Basic Combat Tutorial and are ready for more, check out Advanced Combat:
https://youtu.be/xnygC3HTZQ8
Bringing South Park Into Snowdrop
Ubisoft’s Studio San Francisco, the developers behind South Park: The Fractured But Whole, peel back the curtain on what it’s like to bring South Park the show into Ubisoft’s versatile Snowdrop Engine.
https://youtu.be/g4pjG02Fwx8
All-Platform Fall Update
We’re committed to improving gameplay to deliver the best experience we can for South Park: The Fractured But Whole, which brings us to our latest Fall update information! The below is in addition to many fixes already live on PC, which you can find here. Here’s what is included among some other minor bug fixes:
What we fixed:
- An issue where players were unable to manually save.
- Main mission not progressing after taking mandatory selfie with woman in park.
- Players received a black screen under certain circumstances in front of U-STOR-IT.
- If you are dual-classing an Elementalist with Psychic and enter Inspection
- Mode while being Confused, combat would get stuck.
- The New Kid would play the game with their normal clothes if you manually saved or loaded after Wendy’s cut scene but before the following mini-game.
- Game would freeze if a certain event does not trigger after knocking a stripper into Classi.
- Players would get stuck on the building after using fartkour under certain conditions.
- Players should no longer become stuck if Call Girl uses Power #2 against a shielded character in the Morgan Freeman fight.
- An issue with the Escape Shady Acres mission.
What we adjusted:
- Ubisoft Club rewards can no longer be sold to vendors in-game.
- Portfolio Mini-game now only updates if you level up or level down. Leaving or resetting the game will no longer affect level.
- After you beat the game, The Coon should now appear in the hero roster before a fight.
**Updates with possible spoilers**
<*>Infinite loading no longer occurs when in pre-combat screen when triggering the Wine Drunk Randy combat.
<*>If you restart combat after defeating Bartles the game should no longer black screen.
If you run into any issues at all, please reach out to Ubisoft Support with as much information as possible. For future updates and news on South Park: The Fractured But Whole, feel free to check out our Ubisoft Forums.
PC Patch Notes - Title Update 2
We hope you’ve been enjoying South Park: The Fractured But Whole! We’re committed to continued improvements to the game to give you the best experience possible and recently released a patch for the PC platform. Here’s what was included among some other minor bug fixes:
- Steam users should no longer experience a black screen upon launch.
- If using a keyboard that does not accept more than two key presses at a time, the toilet mini-game will now give you the option to skip.
- Fixed Mrs. Cartman’s animation/dialog which was occasionally duplicated during a certain mission.
- FPS drops have been improved in various places in the game.
- Fixed an issue that caused the backstory combat to freeze.
- Improved high FPS issue that sometimes prevents pushing/pulling objects from working as intended.
- Setting the FPS limit to 60 should also prevent any character freezing.
- Fixed an issue that would cause the New Kid to play the game with their normal clothes if you manually saved or loaded after Wendy’s cut scene but before the following mini-game.
- Fixed an issue where users with framerate issues would experience characters freezing.
- Players should now receive each piece of the Ubisoft Club’s Assassin’s Pack as redeemed without having to redeem all at once.
- Ubisoft Club rewards can no longer be sold to vendors in-game.
- Portfolio Mini-game now only updates if you level up or level down. Leaving or resetting the game will no longer effect level.
- Wonder Tweek now has the correct damage area icon.
- Game now appears correctly in task manager.
- *Patches that involve spoilers
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- Fixed an issue that caused combat to freeze during Spontaneous Bootay.
- Players should no longer experience infinite loading when in pre-combat screen triggering the Wine Drunk Randy combat.
- Fixed an issue where the game would not end the combat and the player could only access the pause menu when using the Gadgeteer's Ultimate to defeat the Mutant Kyle boss fight.
If you run into any issues at all, please reach out to Ubisoft Support with as much information as possible. For future updates and news on South Park: The Fractured But Whole, feel free to check out our Ubisoft Forums.
Season Pass Announced
Continue your superhero adventure with a Season Pass for South Park: The Fractured But Whole. The Season Pass adds Stick of Truth costumes and perks, Towelie game tips, new combat challenges, two new story missions, including new combat buddies, new superhero costumes and perks. The season pass will be available on October 17th for Xbox One, PS4, and PC and is also part of the Gold Edition.
For more information, click here.
Get Ready with "Franchise Prequel"
Get ready for South Park: The Fractured But Whole with the all-new South Park episode “Franchise Prequel,” tonight at 10p ET.
Starting Life as a Superhero **Possible Spoilers**
Written by Mikel Reparaz for UBIBLOG.
By the end of South Park: The Stick of Truth, the New Kid (known to some simply as “******bag”) became a hero and a king, the most powerful character in the town-spanning fantasy game concocted by the kids of South Park. But everyone knows the best heroic journeys start from nothing, so South Park: The Fractured But Whole busts you back down to nobody status when Cartman abruptly changes the game from fantasy to superheroes. We’ve played through the first few hours of the game, and we spent them getting caught up in a civil war between superhero factions, punching out dangerous sixth-graders, and building our follower count on social media by taking selfies with as many people as possible (which is more challenging than it sounds).
https://youtu.be/afHGo1RiHHg
The game’s early hours put a big emphasis on building up your character, and on adding a little more definition to the always-silent, fully customizable New Kid. Once we’d gone through initial character creation and barged our way into Cartman’s superhero game, we were able to pick from three superhero classes: Blaster, Brutalist, or Speedster. We went with Brutalist, which gave us a selection of powerful brawling moves and an eggcrate-covered costume meant to look like living rock, and then we powered up with a strength-boosting fidget spinner “artifact” from Cartman. And from there, we were set loose to explore the town, solve problems, and flesh out our origin story.
After a few minutes of nosing around in people’s houses, knocking over mailboxes, experimentally throwing Snap N Pops at fragile-looking objects, and taking selfies with South Park residents to raise our Coonstagram influencer level, we ran into trouble in the form of a group of sixth-graders who were blocking the road into town. Combat in The Fractured But Whole plays out like a tactical RPG, with characters moving around a grid each turn to line up attacks and/or retreat out of the range of enemies, and taking turns as dictated by each character’s stats.
There are opportunities to get into fights all over town, and whether it’s sixth-graders, minions of Professor Chaos, or even Raisins waitresses (more on them later). More often than not, you’ll see your enemies loitering on the street, and you can get an advantage in battle if you run up and deck them (or hit them from a distance with a Snap N Pop) before they notice or reach you.
Being ready to rumble with villains doesn’t mean you’re a complete hero, though – far from it. There’s much to learn in South Park, so the next phase of our journey took us to Freeman’s Tacos (owned and operated by Morgan Freeman, of course) for a lesson in crafting. Finding blueprints and using them with the mundane items you find throughout South Park enables you to craft new, power-boosting artifacts and other items, which Freeman demonstrated by walking us through the process of “crafting” a burrito, and then combining it with an enchilada to create an enchirito.
With that important step complete, it was time to continue the New Kid’s quest for self-discovery by stopping by the church to visit Father Maxi. This meant being shut into a “meditative chamber” (actually a dark supply closet filled with old toys and Sunday School supplies) so we could reflect on the New Kid’s alignment – only to immediately be ambushed by a pair of pedophile priests, who had to be fought off in a tutorial about how to identify and dodge telegraphed attacks during combat.
Next, the New Kid needed a weakness – and the hero responsible for assigning weaknesses, Mosquito (Clyde), was currently stuck at Raisins, where the waitresses had kept him ordering wings for what we’ll assume was an expensive amount of time. So expensive, in fact, that Mosquito refused to pay the bill, sparking a fight with the Raisins waitresses (who can temporarily charm your heroes to fight for them) and adding another faction to the villains waiting around town to ambush us.
With a new hero added to the party, we took some more time to explore, discovering remote areas like the formerly trendy remains of SoDoSoPa, and stumbling onto side quests. Checking in with Randy Marsh led to a request to find out who’s been keying his wife’s car at night, while wandering around the police station led to the New Kid being drafted into a “kiddy case” by Detective Yates, who immediately sent us to neutralize a “kingpin of crime” out to take over South Park’s drug trade.
Finally, the New Kid needed a gender. Unlike The Stick of Truth, in which you were automatically a boy, The Fractured But Whole lets you meet with easily flustered school counselor Mr. Mackey to determine whether the New Kid is a boy or girl (either cisgendered or transgendered), or gender-neutral. No matter what you decide, leaving the school leads to an ambush from a pack of rednecks, who will loudly, violently, and specifically disapprove of cisgendered boys as quickly they will anyone else.
The battle with the rednecks brought our time with the game to a close, but not before we’d spent hours snapping selfies, tracking down hidden yaoi art of Tweek and Craig, and using every toilet we saw to create “crafting items” in increasingly elaborate minigames. Even then, it’s clear that this is literally only the beginning – and you’ll be able to explore it and much more when South Park: The Fractured But Whole arrives on PS4, Xbox One, and PC on October 17.
South Park: The Fractured But Whole PC Specs and System Requirements Revealed
The South Park: The Fractured But Whole development team has released official specs for the PC version of the game. You’ll find the full list of system requirements below:
MINIMUM CONFIGURATION
Resolution: 720p @~60FPS
Video Preset: Low
V-Sync: Off
OS: Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only)
PROCESSOR: Intel Core i5 2400 | AMD FX 4320 or equivalent
VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560Ti / GTX 650 / GTX 750 / GTX 950 / GTX 1050
AMD Radeon HD 7850 / R9 270 / R9 370 / RX 460
(2GB VRAM or above | See supported list below)
SYSTEM RAM: 6 GB
RECOMMENDED CONFIGURATION
Resolution: 1080p @~60FPS
Video Preset: High
V-Sync: Off
OS: Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only)
PROCESSOR: Intel Core i5-4690K | AMD FX-8350 or equivalent
VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 / GTX 750ti / GTX 960 / GTX 1060
AMD Radeon R9 280X / R9 380 / RX 470
(2 GB VRAM or above | See supported list below)
SYSTEM RAM: 8 GB
*Supported NVIDIA cards at time of release:
GeForce GTX500 series: (minimum) GeForce GTX560Ti or better | (recommended) none
GeForce GTX600 series: (minimum) GeForce GTX650 or better | (recommended) GeForce GTX670 or better
GeForce GTX700 series: (minimum) GeForce GTX750 or better | (recommended) GeForce GTX760 or better
GeForce GTX900 series: (minimum) GeForce GTX950 or better | (recommended) GeForce GTX960 or better
GeForce GTX1000 series: (minimum) any GeForce GTX10 card | (recommended) GeForce GTX1050Ti or better
**Supported AMD cards at time of release:
Radeon HD7000 series: (minimum) Radeon HD7850 or better | (recommended) 7970 or better
Radeon 200 series: (minimum) Radeon R9 270 or better | (recommended) Radeon R9 280X or better
Radeon 300/Fury X series: (minimum) Radeon R9 370 or better | (recommended) Radeon R9 380 or better
Radeon 400 series: (minimum) Radeon RX460 or better | (recommended) Radeon RX470 or better
UBISOFT® AND SOUTH PARK DIGITAL STUDIOS ANNOUNCES SOUTH PARK™: THE FRACTURED BUT WHOLE™ RELEASE DATE ON OCTOBER 17TH
Hey South Park fans! Get ready to don your cape and tights to join the Coon and Friends when South Park: The Fractured But Whole launches on October 17th.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtT5sjUzKu8&feature=youtu.be