Return to the Switch home menu. Highlight Cricket 24 , press + for Options, then go to “Software Update” → “Version” should now read 1.2.0 .
Zara set the controller down. The rain outside had stopped. The match auto-saved successfully—no corruption. Update 1.2.0 wasn’t just a patch. It was a goodbye.
She ran a binary diff against the official 1.1.9 update. The results made her lean forward. The new update didn’t just fix bugs—it replaced the entire ray-traced lighting engine with a custom shader pack. Someone at the developer’s studio, or perhaps a rogue modder, had rewritten the Switch port’s rendering pipeline from scratch.