Patch Notes: Alpha v 0.4.0 Part 1

Legend Differences

• Better Stats

  • Stats no longer directly oppose each other making them easier to feel in game.

  • Strength - How hard you hit your opponent. The higher your Strength the farther and faster your enemies fly when you connect.

  • Dexterity - How fast you attack. The higher your Dexterity the more quickly you can land attacks and the faster your attacks charge.

  • Defense - How quickly you recover from a hit. The higher your Defense the faster you stop moving after being hit.

  • Speed - How quickly you move. The higher your Speed the faster you can zip around the map.

• 2 Weapons

  • Each character now has two melee weapons they can use in combat.

  • Picking up a weapon drop randomly gives your character one of their two weapons.

  • What weapons a Legend uses are displayed as icons on the select screen and Legend info screen.

New Weapon

• Spear has been added as our first new weapon!

• Thrulk, Nai, and Hattori use the Spear.

• Stabby stabby!

New Legends

• Captain Thatch has been added to the roster!

• Hattori has been added to the roster!

• Both are now playable by everyone during Alpha.

• Pirates vs. Ninjas go!

Community Requests

• Players can now vote for the level they want to play on in Custom Online games!

• Up to two players can join a match together from one client in "Online Brawl" mode.

• Updated alternate colors to be less monochromatic.

• Dialed up gravity and max fall speed to reduce the floatiness feel.

• Pressing up on the controller no longer jumps.

• Both attack buttons activate the summoning horn.

• Fixed the edge case where the online host wouldn't be the first player resulting in not having the correct selection choices (you can no longer 'kick' yourself).

• Bots recover better when in danger of falling off the map.

• Bots now wander instead of standing still while waiting for targets to spawn.

Gameplay

• Online players that leave games get converted to easy bots.

• Players can now rejoin games in progress.

• "Brawl Online" games always generate a 4 player game filling in slots with bots as needed.

• You now come off the bottom of a ledge with velocity pushing away from the wall and facing the proper direction.

• You glide around corner ceilings now instead of just bouncing off.

• Players can now influence the angle at which they get hit based on what direction they are pressing when it happens.

• Down attacks on soft platforms should be significantly easier to pull off.

• Improved item physics code.

• Non-explosive thrown items now have an air time bonus damage multiplier that increases the longer an item is airborne, and resets when an item bounces.

• Decreased the bounciness of the sword. Sword no longer sticks in walls.

• Items should never hit or explode on players who dodge at the same time and go off without an impact.

• Items thrown horizontally are now thrown slightly upward so that they actually look more flat.

• Improved thrown power collision code.

• Unarmed players can now catch thrown items that are considered dangerous (i.e, they can hit you) if timed properly by pressing Quick Attack right before being hit.

• Changed threshold when an item is dropped.

• When you drop a weapon from a hit, it flies off in a similar trajectory.

• You can no longer charge a throw while wall sliding.

• Bouncy Bombs and Spike Balls can now be ejected from players' grips as easily as the VALKRI summoner. They were previously as difficult to lose as weapons.

• Players