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Palworld Xbox and Steam parity "at the mercy of certification", developer says
Palworld is different on Steam than Xbox in part because of Microsoft's certification process.
Bucky has been further replying to users inquiring about hotfixes and such, regardless of that slightly confusing version number situation. Bucky said a hotfix for Palworld had gone live a few days prior on Steam, but users with the Xbox version will need to wait. When further asked about parity between Steam and Xbox with things like DLSS, Bucky again stated certification was the part of the reason that some features are seemingly 'missing' from Microsoft's version of Palworld.
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