These seeking to up their catch fee in Palworld can now reliably search out Lifmunk Effigies as soon as extra. Patch v0.1.4.1 contains plenty of fixes for the smash hit survival/animal-catching recreation, together with a bug that prevented catch charges from rising. The patch is now stay on each Steam and Xbox.
Within the patch notes for the newest construct, Pocketpair described the difficulty as:
Though the displayed seize fee chance elevated when the seize energy was strengthened with Lifmunk Effigies, the seize chance didn’t truly improve in any respect resulting from an inside processing bug.
Although there was clearly a difficulty with the Lifmunk Effigies, Pocketpair’s notes run counter to what followers have been suspecting: that the Effigies have been reducing seize charges. Regardless, seize fee points with Lifmunk Effigies ought to now not be a difficulty.
As a reminder, Palworld contains a bug report hyperlink proper in its pause menu, which is able to direct you to this kind.
Authentic story follows
On paper, Lifmunk Effigies, these inexperienced glowy statues yow will discover round Palworld’s map, are supposed to extend your odds of capturing a Pal. The issue, nevertheless, is that a number of customers are reporting not solely that these don’t appear to be working as marketed, however they really appear to be making one’s seize fee worse.
It’s price noting that whereas there’s some compelling proof for this obvious bug, there are additionally some customers reporting completely different experiences. Nonetheless, there appear to be sufficient people struggling with worse seize charges after visiting Lifmunk Effigies that it’d make sense to keep away from these till a patch arrives.
The Lifmunk Effigy bug defined
Documented in a 21-minute video by YouTuber Chalenor, recreation model 0.1.0.3 appears to dramatically lower your seize fee upon visiting Lifmunk Effigies. How a lot? Previous to visiting the Effigies, Chalenor reported a 53% seize fee. After snagging all of the Effigies, nevertheless, his seize fee plummeted to 37%. As Paul Tassi notes over at Forbes, “that’s not a margin of error.”
Nonetheless, as one consumer on Palworld notes on the sport’s official Discord server, “the one option to [reliably] know for positive if effigies have been negatively impacting catch fee can be to gather an enormous quantity of knowledge that was as actual as attainable.” And with no correct affirmation from Pocketpair (the developer has acknowledged bugs up to now), we principally have anecdotal information to go by. Nonetheless, with a Reddit put up discussing the issue as documented in Chalenor’s video now hitting 9.2 thousand upvotes, there are lots of people reporting related points.
Kotaku has reached out to Pocketpair for remark.
The way to improve your catch fee with out Effigies
For now it appears finest to keep away from Effigies till Pocketpair formally weighs in on the difficulty. Growing your seize fee, nevertheless, is as simple as crafting higher Pal Spheres. You too can freeze or electrocute Friends to extend your possibilities of seize.
Replace 2/7/24 at 11:15 a.m. ET: This piece has been up to date to replicate a current patch to Palworld.
