Version 0.5.0 is Here! - We're Halfway There

Before we dive into the patch notes, we wanted to take a moment to thank you all and share a quick message from Dallen and the team.

"Hey everyone! Jumbo Josh and version 0.5.0 are finally here! There are a few things we didn’t quite get across the finish line in time, but we’re working hard to get them wrapped up as soon as we can. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy everything this update has to offer! We’ll be pushing out a hotfix ASAP. Thanks so much for your continued support and patience. 💚"

— Dallen & the Cross Impact Team

Patch Notes Overview

Hey all! coralNecropolis here! Battle Planner at Team Impact. It’s finally here, huh? Jumbo Josh has arrived, alongside Gwen Colgrave, who many may not have expected, but she’s quickly become one of the team’s favorites. Alongside those two new fighters come a sizable amount of well overdue improvements to performance, online, and just the gamefeel of Cross Impact in general.

Content

Jumbo Josh from Garten of Banban and Gwen from Stitched Together make their impact! We hope you enjoy these brand new additions to our growing roster! Banban’s Kindergarten and Flipside have been added as brand new stages! Two new assists arrive! Captain Viridian from VVVVVV can help you recover in a pinch, and Axe from Stomp Party is here to anchor your opponents into the blastzone! Stardrop has received a resprite by UhAlexWorks! Enjoy Stardrop even more with super cute new art! Characters have been given more sound effects for their attacks. Lots of new alternate colors have been added!

Engine

Fix

Profiles no longer delete themselves when opening the game.

Fix

Online CSS now displays your chosen character and alternate color!

Fix

Fixed a lot of desyncs, ensuring you can enjoy Cross Impact’s rollback without any issue!

Fix

Rebound the default controls so the Meter and Item Toss buttons were no longer on the same button.

Fix

Workshop Support has hopefully been fixed! Fingers crossed. (No Impact.)

Fix

The icons that tell the player how to navigate the controls and profile menus on the Character Select Screen have been made more visible.

Fix

Countdown on match start is now synced with the announcer. You can now clear binds from a profile! When you bring up the prompt to hit a button and bind it to an action, you can press Select on Controller or Backspace on Keyboard to clear it! Made massive improvements to game performance. Overhauled the camera! Airdodges have less endlag across the board! This was done to promote use of special cancelling, as it is one of the many ways you can spend meter, it should be worth the meter you spend! The Parry window on shield release has been reduced to 5 frames, but to compensate, Shield Release will end earlier (down from 18 frames of lag to 11.) and can be jump cancelled. Wall Jump momentum can now be affected by holding left or right. Rolls now have slightly less endlag.

Stages

Control Room

Lowered the top blastzone. Fixed a bug where foreground elements were not displaying above the characters.

Flower Mountain City

Adjusted art to add items to the foreground. Adjusted the spawn locations.

My World

Lowered the top blastzone.

Neo Osaka Adjusted the collision on the insides of the walls to behave closer to as expected. Slightly adjusted layout of platforms.

Pizzascape

Lowered the top blastzone.

Styxcoin

The end of the right side of the stage is now a platform instead of being solid.

Assists Alex

Alex will now ascend slightly before performing LP Toss, giving him more effective range. The size of the hitbox on the record is now slightly larger. CLEAR

Flat hitstun effect removed. Knockback scaling increased slightly. Increased the size of the final slash’s hitbox. Jay Eazy

Jay Eazy’s pellets will now combo into each other, locking the opponent in place until the final shot, a larger lemon that pops them up for combos! To compensate, the range of the pellets has been reduced.

Nat

Stun time increased from 5 to 20. Orange

Extended the range of this assist.

Puss in Boots

Hitboxes have been given the Autolink flipper, hopefully improving consistency. Final hitbox knockback reduced.

Wizard

Knockback scaling reduced from 1.0 to 0.8.

Characters Alex

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug that would cause the game to crash if Alex traded hits with another player using his Forward Tilt.

Balance

Alex

Jump squat increased from 3 frames to 5.

Alex

Fastfall speed reduced from 14 to 12.

Jab

Endlag is now reduced on a successful hit.

Down Tilt

Knockback scaling on second hit reduced from 1.1 to 0.7.

Down Tilt

Angle on second hit changed from 65 to 55.

Neutral Air

Spike hitbox lifetime reduced from 4 frames to 2.

Neutral Air

Spike hitbox base knockback reduced from 14 to 7.

Neutral Air

Late hitbox base knockback decreased from 14 to 9.

Back Air

Added a weaker hitbox that covers the non-spike portions of Alex’s hair.

Down Air

Reduced the damage of this attack from 23 to 17.

Neutral Special

Panda will no longer disappear on his own, and will need to be destroyed to be cast again.

Forward Special

Damage reduced from 15 to 5.

Forward Special

Base knockback reduced from 11 to 3.

Forward Special

Knockback scaling reduced from 0.4 to 0.2.

Forward Special

Projectile speed increased from 15 to 20.

Down Special

Reduced the cooldown of the move from 170 frames to 60.

Down Special

Reduced the amount of time it takes to detonate the amp.

Cowboy

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug that would cause the game to crash if Cowboy traded hits on the same frame their slowdown passive would trigger.

Balance Jab

Made jump cancellable on hit.

Up Tilt

Damage reduced from 13 to 8 on the sweetspot, and 8 to 5 on the sourspot.

Side Special

Can now special cancel out of throws.

Fark

Overview

Fark is a very odd rushdown character, with unique tools such as his Forward Tilt and Down Tilt controlling large amounts of space alongside powerful burst options like Side Special. Many of his air options (besides Up Air) felt clumsy to use at times, leading Fark to not feel as agile as he should in the air. With these changes, I hope to round out Fark as a character into being closer to what the team envisioned when they first designed his moveset.

Content

Fark has received a large bundle of new alternate colors!

Balance

Jab

Startup reduced from Frame 8 to Frame 6.

Jab

Extra hitlag effect reduced from 10 frames to 5.

Jab

Endlag reduced from 18 frames to 12 frames.

Neutral Air

Hitboxes have been made larger to match the animation.

Neutral Air

The second hit no longer has a reverse angle flipper.

Neutral Air

Angle on second hit changed from 45 to 35.

Neutral Air

The first hit now has an autolink angle flipper.

Neutral Air

Landing lag on whiff increased from 12 to 20.

Neutral Air

Landing lag on hit increased from 4 to 12.

Down Air

Removed the ability to fastfall during this move.

Down Air

Extra hitlag effect reduced from 15 frames to 5.

Down Air

You can now jump cancel this move on hit.

Up Air

Damage reduced from 11 to 7.

Forward Air

Now gives Fark a slight vertical boost on each successful hit, to help him continue the chain.

Forward Air

The first two hits should chain better into the next, with new autolink flippers.

Back Air

No longer makes Fark descend rapidly.

Back Air

Cleaned up the hitboxes.

Back Air

Separated the 3 hits into their own hitbox groups.

Up Air

Now launches slightly behind Fark.

Up Special

Can now be walljump cancelled.

Side Special

Can now be walljump cancelled.

Side Special

Knockback scaling reduced from 0.7 to 0.3.

Side Special

Reduced the hitstun of the attack.

Neutral Special

Max range reduced from 270 to 250.

Neutral Special

No longer deals shield damage.

Jacket

Bug Fixes

Fixed Jacket not being able to airdodge cancel his neutral special (with gun) in the air. Fixed Jacket not being able to airdodge cancel his neutral special (no gun).

Balance Jacket

Increased the length of Jacket’s wavedash.

Dash Attack

Jacket can now chain his dash attack into his jab on a successful hit! Beat your opponents to a bloody pulp with this brutal new addition to his kit.

Down Tilt

Down Tilt will now begin to charge when Jacket is holding his axe over his head, cutting down the time between releasing charge and the hitbox coming out.

Down Tilt

Now has super armor when beginning to swing the axe.

Forward Air

Landing lag reduced from 17 frames to 10.

Forward Air

Startup reduced from 15 frames to 12.

Forward Air

Angle changed on grounded opponents to bounce opponents off the ground on a successful spike.

Up Air

Landing lag is now reduced on successful hit.

Down Air

Damage reduced from 10 to 7.

Neutral Special (No Gun)

Given the ability to B Reverse during this move.

Neutral Special (No Gun)

Knockback Angle changed to be more vertical.

Neutral Special (Gun) (Grounded): Base hitlag reduced from 8 to 3. Neutral Special (Gun) (Grounded): Given 5 frames of extra hitlag. Neutral Special (Gun) (Aerial): Base hitlag reduced from 8 to 4. Neutral Special (Gun) (Aerial): Given 5 frames of extra hitlag.

(With extra hitlag allowing you to special cancel sooner, Jacket can use his lengthy wavedashes to close the gap between him and his opponent and follow up with ease. This was done to encourage use of special cancelling, by making it fun to use!)

Up Special

The spike hitbox now only hits aerial opponents.

Up Special

The normal hitbox’s knockback scaling has been improved.

Up Special

Damage increased from 7 to 15.

Down Special

Down Special is now able to be angled, throwing the molotov at a higher arc if you hold up, and bouncing it off the ground in front of Jacket if you hold down.

Jackie

Overview Jackie was a very powerful and fast character in previous patches, particularly her very powerful Neutral Air and Up Airs being major highlights of her kit. A lot of characters in Cross Impact excel at using their strong Up Airs to juggle people until they could kill off the top at an early percent. To help Jackie have some of her own identity, she has been rebalanced to be more of a defensive character who is strongest on the ground, with options like her new Up Tilt being an extraordinary anti-air given its new upper body invulnerability, and Forward Tilt being given more utility with a unique charge mechanic that grants the move additional strikes! Keep opponents at bay with long-reaching pokes, and punish them greatly if they invade your personal space!

Bug Fixes

Fixed Jackie’s wall jump failing if she was facing towards the wall. Fixed the animation not looping properly when falling with Down Air. Fixed the staple projectile of Neutral Special facing the wrong way if you shot it facing left.

Balance

Jackie

Jumpsquat increased from 3 frames to 6 frames.

Jackie

Run speed reduced from 10.15 to 8.55.

Jackie

Waveland speed boost reduced from 0.55 to 0.45.

Forward Tilt

Reduced the startup after charging.

Forward Tilt

Reduced Endlag by three frames.

Forward Tilt

Knockback multiplier on charge reduced across the board.

Forward Tilt

Reworked entirely! Now starts as only a single poke with the broom, and gains more hits (up to 3!) the longer you charge it.

Forward Tilt

Lowered the charge threshold for the Level 2 Forward Tilt from 15 frames of charge to 6.

Forward Tilt

Lowered the charge threshold for the Level 3 Forward Tilt from 30 frames of charge to 20.

Up Tilt

Increased size of hitboxes to cover more of the laptop.

Up Tilt

Made hitbox cover more of the laptop during the attack.

Up Tilt

Given upper body invulnerability during the active frames.

Up Tilt

Given more endlag if you whiff the attack.

Up Tilt

Added an extra hitbox near the bottom of the laptop that sends downwards, but can only hit airborne opponents.

Down Tilt

Can now reverse hit.

Neutral Air

Increased start up by 4 frames.

Neutral Air

Momentum during the move altered.

Neutral Air

Reduced damage from 10 to 6 (strong) and from 9 to 5 (weak).

Neutral Air

Hitbox made more accurate to the animation.

Neutral Air

Landing lag is now increased on whiff (frame 13 to 20) and decreased on successful hit. (frame 13 to 10.)

Up Air

Added an extra hit, when she initially brings out the cactus.

Up Air

Base knockback on the strong hit increased from 11 to 13.

Up Air

Knockback scaling on the strong hit reduced from 0.9 to 0.5 Back Air: Landing lag increased from 4 to 8.

Back Air

Given a new tipper hitbox.

Down Air

Startup reduced to 9 frames.

Down Air

Fall speed reduced from 20 to 14.

Dash Attack

Initial speed boost reduced from 12 to 10.

Dash Attack

Increased knockback scaling from 0.15 to 0.35.

Dash Attack

Increased DI Angle from default to 20. (This allows the person being attacked to DI further than usual, forcing Jackie to be on her toes if she wants to combo off of this powerful burst option.)

Dash Attack

Increased endlag on hit from 12 frames to 16 frames.

Dash Attack

Increased endlag on whiff from 22 frames to 30 frames.

Neutral Special

Decreased lifetime of the projectile from 90 frames to 40 frames.

Forward Special

Increased air friction while using the move.

Forward Special

Added a very weak hitbox to Jackie’s hand when she pulls out her phone.

Forward Special

Projectile can now only be created after Jackie pulls out her phone.

Up Special

Decreased the jump speed of the initial pogo from 19 to 16.

Up Special

Decreased the jump speed of subsequent pogos from 19 to 13.

Up Special

Added the ability to wall jump cancel out of the move, to help Jackie recover.

Up Special

Removed the ability to fastfall during the move.

Taunt

Added a secret property. 🙂

Mort the Chicken

Balance

Mort

Weight reduced from 0.8 to 1.2.

Mort

Run speed reduced from 13 to 7.25.

Mort

Dash speed reduced from 10 to 7.

Mort

Walk speed reduced from 5.25 to 4.25.

Mort

Air Speed increased to 8.55.

Mort

Air Acceleration increased from 1.25 to 1.35.

Mort

Increased waveland friction from 0.22 to 0.74.

Up Tilt

Hitbox moved back a little to cover more of Mort, instead of the place in front of him.

Dash Attack

Can now be cancelled into Up Tilt during its startup.

Dash Attack

Sends at a more forward angle.

Forward Air

Adjusted hitboxes to be more accurate to the animation.

Forward Air

Sweetspot damage reduced from 13 to 9.

Back Air

Hitbox made longer, to cover more of Mort’s leg.

Back Air

Can now reverse hit.

Back Air

Increased hitlag from 4 frames to 6.

Back Air

Given a late hit that lingers while Mort’s leg is still out.

Up Air

Hitbox lowered.

Up Air

DI angle on move increased from default to 18.

Up Air

Knockback scaling reduced.

Up Air

Base knockback increased.

Forward Special

You can now angle this move slightly up or down.

Forward Special

Projectile damage reduced from 22 to 5.

Forward Special

Slow version of projectile knockback angle changed from 40 to 130.

Forward Special

Projectile base knockback reduced from 12 to 10.

Forward Special

Flat hitstun changed from 35 to 25.

Forward Special

Maximum speed of projectile reduced.

Up Special

Removed the ability to up special again after Mort cancels it with an aerial. You can get the use of up special back by landing, airdodging, or walljumping.

Down Special

On the ground, it will now pop opponents up into the air for followups.

Down Special

In the air, this move will send opponents towards the ground for Mort to follow with special cancels.

Down Special

This move now has a small window where Mort can jump.

NAIR Block

Overview

NAIR Block is almost perfect. They nair! They’re block! What more could you ask for? Well, Down Air had a bit of an issue where it could combo into itself better than intended. Here’s a fix, and a few small buffs just to give our GOAT some love.

Balance

NAIR Block

Reduced the length of their airdodge slightly.

Nair

Reduced the startup of this move from 10 frames to 6.

Nair

Reduced the endlag of this move from 20 frames to 14.

Nair

Increased the size of the move’s hitbox.

Nair

Decreased the damage of this move from 14 to 10.

Dair

Reduced extra hitlag from 30 to 10.

Dair

Reduced base knockback when hitting airborne opponents from 10 to 9.

Dair

Reduced knockback scaling when hitting airborne opponents from 0.7 to 0.4.

Ortheo

Balance

Neutral Special

Gear now has a fixed hitstun.

Forward Special

Jump cancelling out of dive on hit should feel much smoother.

Down Special

Now has a small hitbox while Ortheo raises his arms above his head, and when he throws them down, giving the move more functionality for special cancelling. Pal

Overview

Pal doesn’t need much help to be fun, he’s already a favorite among many. However, he did have a few small bugs that needed fixing, to fully function as expected. I’ve also decreased the amount of hitstun on his Side Special to encourage use of Cross Impact’s Special Cancels.

Bug Fix

Fixed Pal’s wall jump failing if he was facing towards the wall. Fixed an oddity where Pal’s side special in the air would sometimes fail to successfully connect even if the detectbox was activated.

Balance

Pal

Run speed reduced slightly.

Pal

Hitstun gravity increased from 0.35 to 0.45.

Forward Air

Landing lag reduced from 13 to 6.

Side Special

Flat hitstun reduced from 37 frames to 25 frames.

Side Special

Can now be walljump cancelled.

Side Special

On whiff, the endlag has been reduced from 28 frames to 18.

Up Special

Landing lag reduced from 22 frames to 8.

Toree

Overview

Toree was always meant to be speedy, but at times Toree could feel unwieldy and awkward to control. With these changes to Toree’s base stats, we hope to rein in some of that speed while still retaining Toree’s faster-than-average movement. Toree’s Up Air was also a victim of the Ladder Combo Curse, and so it has been reworked to be another accessory to Toree’s powerful grounded combo game.

Balance

Toree

Jump and shorthop height slightly decreased.

Toree

Run speed reduced from 13 to 11.

Toree

Fastfall speed reduced from 14 to 13.

Down Tilt

Made the hitbox slightly longer.

Up Air

Damage reduced from 10 to 7 (strong) and from 10 to 5 (weak).

Up Air

Knockback scaling reduced from 0.8 to 0.3. (Strong)

Up Air

Base knockback reduced from 8 to 6.

Up Air

Given an extra hit as the star returns to Toree’s backpack.

Up Air

Landing lag increased from 5 to 8.

Neutral Special

Startup reduced from 30 frames to 24.

V1

Overview

V1 for a long time had a lot of tools and normals that felt awkward to use, making the character feel clunky and preventing them from getting much done besides using a few of their more powerful options such as Forward Air and their various Forward Specials. It was clear to see that V1 didn’t represent their home game, ULTRAKILL, as well as some would hope. With this patch, we hope to rectify this by making V1 more of an explosive character who has a lot of tricks up their sleeves, and plenty of mobility to avoid attacks, while crumbling very easily if any land.

New Mechanic

V1’s airdodge has been replaced with a 2-way airdash with low endlag that allows them to be more aggressive with their movement, at the cost of the airdash not having the invulnerability of a normal airdodge. When V1’s style meter is in ULTRAKILL rank, V1 can use their airdash and double jump twice each before landing, and their movement speed is increased.

Bug Fixes

Fixed irregularities between “no gun” and “pistol” Forward Specials. Fixed the pellets of V1’s shotgun attack being oriented improperly if you were facing the left. Adjusted animation on V1’s forward tilt. Fixed a missing frame of animation on V1’s down tilt. Fixed the game desyncing due to a bug with the Style Meter.

Balance V1

Gravity increased from 0.6 to 0.7.

V1

Hitstun Gravity reduced from 0.65 to 0.6.

V1

Weight reduced from 1.1 to 1.25.

V1

Jump height slightly reduced.

V1

Double jump amount reduced from 2 to 1.

V1

Shorthop height slightly increased.

V1

Increased the rate of the Style Meter’s decay, making it harder to maintain higher ranks.

V1

The Style Meter’s cap has been slightly increased, allowing V1 to hold ULTRAKILL rank for longer.

Jab

Startup reduced: Frame 7 > Frame 5 Jab: Angles altered to be slightly more vertical.

Jab

Knockback scaling reduced.

Jab

Made jump cancellable on hit.

Dash Attack

Damage reduced from 8 to 4.

Down Tilt

Late hitbox now only hits grounded opponents.

Up Tilt

An additional hit has been added to the move, before the charging period.

Up Tilt

Hitboxes cleaned up.

Forward Tilt

Added an additional punch that links into the explosion, mimicking the Knuckleblaster’s behavior from the original game, ULTRAKILL.

Forward Tilt

Reduced time between releasing charge and the move’s hitbox coming out.

Forward Tilt

Reduced knockback and knockback scaling slightly.

Forward Tilt

Added screenshake when the second hit lands. This totally buffs the move. I promise.

Up Air

Startup has been reduced from frame 14 to frame 10.

Up Air

Total duration has been reduced significantly.

Up Air

Added an additional final hit that knocks enemies up and away from V1.

Up Air

Reduced meter gain on hit.

Down Air

Reduced knockback scaling from 1.3 to 0.7.

Down Air

Reduced damage from 8 to 2, to account for the Style Meter’s damage multiplier.

Neutral Air

Startup has been reduced from frame 10 to frame 5.

Neutral Air

Time between the two kicks has been reduced to help them connect better.

Neutral Air

Knockback scaling has been increased.

Neutral Air

Angle has been made slightly more vertical.

Back Air

Hitbox has been made slightly wider, to cover more of V1’s arm.

Back Air

Knockback scaling reduced slightly.

Back Air

Damage reduced from 8 to 3 (strong) and from 6 to 2 (weak).

Back Air

Startup has been reduced by 1 frame.

Pistol/Blue Fspec

Can no longer be shield cancelled during startup.

Pistol/Blue Fspec

Bullet hitstun has been reduced to 10 frames.

Pistol/Blue Fspec

No longer makes V1 bounce if used in midair.

Shotgun/Purple Fspec

Knockback scaling increased from 0.1 > 0.6.

Shotgun/Purple Fspec

Damage reduced from 8 > 5.

Shotgun/Purple Fspec

Angle changed from 70 to 45.

Rocket Launcher/Green Fspec

Now launches lower to the ground, matching the animation.

Down Special

The coin itself now has a very weak hitbox while it travels. Sorry.

Up Special

Reduced the damage of both the meteor and non-meteor versions of the attack to compensate for the style meter’s damage boost. (This move previously did 30 damage!)

Up Special

Reduced the knockback scaling on the meteor version of the move.

Up Special

Changed the damage range for the meteor version to activate from 50 to 100.