Patch Notes: Alpha v 0.4.0 Part 2

Powers

• Lowered stun times for the majority of moves.

• Ground Pounds: Now accelerate to a higher max speed, but hit with lower impulse before reaching top speed.

• Dodge Air: Now keeps half their velocity on exit.

• AdjustedUnarmed Air HeavyReduced hitbox size, increased recover time on first use and fixed recover issue with 2nd and 3rd uses, slower initial hit.
• AdjustedUnarmed Side QuickReduced Damage and Force.
• AdjustedUnarmed Neutral HeavyIncreased minimum charge time, increased recover time, decreased Force.
• AdjustedSword Air Down QuickIncreased recover time.
• AdjustedBlaster Neutral QuickReduced Damage.
• AdjustedBlaster Air Down QuickPushes target away farther on last hit. Increased recover time on a miss.
• AdjustedBlaster Side HeavyIncreased recovery time.

• Blaster Side Heavy: Can now be jumped over.

• AdjustedHammer Air Down QuickDecreased stun after throw.
• AdjustedHammer Air HeavyDecreased stun after throw.
• AddedNai Jaws of the CoatlIs now a brand new Spear move.

• Bödvar Dragon's Doom: Now uses Thrulk's old Sharp Stick Slam! power.

• Thatch Clear the Decks: Uses Cassidy's old Dry Gulch Drop power.

• AdjustedCassidy High NoonAdjusted hitboxes to fix cases where the first shot wouldn't chain into the second.
• AdjustedVraxx Selenite SlingReduced Damage and Force.
• AdjustedMines, ArmedImproved hit boxes.
• AdjustedRocket Lance ThrowDecreased the hitbox size.

UI

• "Play Now" (online matchmaking) has been moved from the Online Options window and into the main menu and been renamed "Online Brawl".

• Legends now have unique selection poses and animations (Bödvar is still in progress).

• New clearer color thresholds to indicate damage taken.

• Hit color threshold gfx should now show up on characters that are out of jumps.

• Added special effects to charge throws to indicate how long it takes to get fully charged.

• Hero overview now shows a more accurate representation of states and abilities for each character.

• Reduced the total number of roster icons in the character selection screen.

• Fixed join game number input screen so it works more reliably.

• Character prompts now show what devices are available to control the other characters.

• Hitting back in character select screen now unassigns the control device.

• If you unplug a controller that's active in the character select screen, that player will be backed out.

• If you are the last player the back button now drops you out with one push (no longer goes to all bots first).

• Replaced keyboard toggle with new input device system.

• The keyboard no longer has to be first player. Just start controlling the menus with the keyboard or mouse and that player will join the next open slot.

• The Brawlhalla icon properly shows up in the executable now.

• Updated color picker to use icons and be required before a character is locked in.

• Main menu has been updated with more useful options.

  • Online Brawl - Instant online matchmaking.

  • Arcade Mode - Solo player tournament vs. bots. (Early look, lots of placeholder here)

  • Custom Online - Create custom online games, FFA or Teamed, Timed or Lives, toggle players and bots.

  • Custom Local - Create custom local games, FFA or Teamed, Timed or Lives, toggle players and bots.

• Battle button has been removed and replaced with a banner indicating all players are locked and ready.

• Online Brawl shows your steam name for you and your guest instead of "Player1".

Performance

• Lag no longer penalizes low ping players more than high ping players when in the same game, the penalty is now normalized across all pings.

• Decreased lag for players with high ping opponents by introducing small amounts of input delay to players with pings higher than 100ms.

• Improved memory usage