Game Demo Publicly Available All Weekend 9/19-9/20!

General

• 🚧Versus Screen overhaul is in-progress! What you'll see this weekend is in a bit of a halfway state. More polish / improvements to come.

• Voice Chat has been added to lobbies. By default when joining a lobby you will be put into a voice chat with all other players in the lobby.

• 2v2 Brawl queue has been removed.

• Players can now queue directly into Skirmish.

• A 📶Ping Indicator will now appear next to a player's portrait when their ping is high.

  • Yellow: 100+ ping

  • Red: 150+ ping

• Bot Opponents should now be more effective across modes.

• Hit VFX have been improved, including a new "killing blow" VFX when landing a strong hit likely to KO an opponent.

Characters

• Character Efforts have been implemented, with characters now vocalizing more when performing attacks or getting hit.

King Arthur

• Ultimate

  • Charges up faster

• Forward Special

  • Damage and hitbox range now extends more significantly while charging

  • Air version now has more horizontal movement based on charge amount

• Down Special

  • Air jump is now refreshed upon successfully landing a counter

• Forward Heavy

  • Hits a little harder

  • Hitboxes have been adjusted to hit targets directly overhead more reliably

• Down Heavy

  • Back hit now hits harder

• Back Air

  • Hitboxes have been adjusted to hit targets closer to Arthur's center more reliably

• Movement

  • Fastfall speed has been increased

La Rosa

• Up Heavy

  • Animation has been adjusted to a more fencer-like stab

  • Hits a bit harder

• Up Special

  • Snap range to both enemies and the hat have been reduced

  • Vertical movement from whip-pulling to the hat has been reduced / made more consistent

  • If the kick does not hit anyone, La Rosa will flip out of the end of the swing, leaving her vulnerable for longer

  • Hitboxes have been adjusted to more match her legs (was previous more disjoint)

• Ultimate

  • Now unactionable for a bit longer when failing to hit a target with her Ultimate

• Back Throw

  • Fixed a bug where this was dealing more damage than intended. (18% -> 11%)

Dracula

• Side Special

  • No longer creates bat pillar when hitting a shield

• Down Special

  • Impale stun duration has been reduced some

  • Other hitboxes can no longer destroy the spear

• Ultimate

  • Moves faster while in bat form

Merlin

• Forward Special

  • Now pauses briefly before launching when done aiming, but shoots faster (overall more distance)

  • Other hitboxes can no longer destroy the bird

• Up Air

  • Knockback angles have been made more consistent

• Forward Heavy

  • Launch angle has been lowered, to facilitate KO'ing a little earlier

• Down Throw

  • Knockback has been adjusted to better facilitate combos

• Up Throw

  • Knockback has been adjusted to better facilitate combos

  • Projectile should now connect more reliably

Hercules

• Neutral Air

  • Early hit knockback angle made less lethal

• Forward Air

  • Now hits harder

Combat

• Air Dodges now have increased landing lag.

• Shield Drop can now be performed by pressing down during Shield release.

• Input

  • Slightly reduced leeway when pressing a direction before shield to trigger a roll

  • Fixed an issue that would cause diagonal inputs to sometimes be read as horizontal inputs