New ‘Stellar Blade’ Patch Adds, You Guessed It, More Outfits

Stellar Blade is continually getting updates and adding more of what players want, Eve outfits. This time, it’s a small patch, but there are two new outfits from different sources, and a few quality of life changes as well.

The first new outfit is “Destroyed Denim” and can be purchased from Roxanne’s shop in town. I may be forgetting but this seems like a brand new outfit rather than a reskin of an existing outfit.

The same goes for the second new outfit, which is given out when you beat the Raven Boss challenge on hard. I think this is a variant of the magician outfit added in the last patch. In any case, the casual denim one is better.

Past that, you can now change Eve’s hair through the menu rather than manually traveling to the hair salon each time, which was the only cosmetic change that required such a trek, so that’s cool. You can also now toggle cutscene display UI on and off if you’re in NG+ or something and don’t want to see it again.

It’s a small patch, just 1.9 GB in size, though it does not contain something that fans had been hoping for, photo mode, as if there was ever a game designed for one, it’s this. SHIFT UP has said they are working on one, but it appears it may take some time. They have also indicated that DLC may be in the cards, and obviously they are considering a sequel given the game’s performance, where it did very well for a brand new AAA IP, practically an impossibility in the current market outside of top studios. And even they struggle with that.

Controversies aside, Stellar Blade is probably my favorite…full game of the year? My other top choices are Diablo 4 season 4 and Destiny 2’s Final Shape, but that’s a live season and an expansion specifically. Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree, out in a few days, will also be an expansion. But yes, the game I gave an 8/10 to but managed to put 50 hours into has really stood the test of time these past few months.

While I doubt Stellar Blade will end up in GOTY contention or anything, it’s a pretty impressive achievement, and SHIFT UP also deserves credit for forgoing microtransactions in a game that clearly could have made bank with an outfit shop. But it seems they are in the “add free outfits” game for the long haul, another industry rarity.

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