Invincible VS Season 1 Patch Notes

With our first Evo Champion crowned (congrats to Akuri__ and all the competitors), it's time for Universa and The Immortal to kick off Season One. Today's gameplay patch also introduces new progression unlocks, a reworked Rank distribution to ease the grind at the highest levels, and much more.

Major changes include:

• New fighters: Universa and The Immortal

• Rank distribution band adjustments

• Major sweep of Fighter-specific bug fixes

• Save Data changes, including Steam Cloud save support

• Endless Ladder added (Arcade Mode)

• New progression rewards (Ranked, Story Mode, Ladder)

FIGHTER UPDATES

New Fighters

Universa and The Immortal join the Invincible VS roster!

• You can sample both fighters for free in Practice Mode

• See Universa’s bio on our Figher page

• See The Immortal’s bio on our Fighter page

Gameplay Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where some “Air Boosted Dash Cancel” Fighters could perform a grounded Boost Dash Cancel in certain situations

• Fixed an issue where Heroic Strike could consume all Boost Meter if used against an active tag during freeze frame

• Fixed an issue where a ‘Jump Dash Cancel’ after a ‘Boosted Dash Cancelled Normal’ would force a ‘Boosted Dash’ out instead

• Fixed the following Supers so that they no longer teleport the point fighter when striking the assist:

• Battle Beast Super1

• Conquest Super1

• Anissa Super2

• Monster Girl Super2

• Dupli-Kate Super1

Anissa (Bug Fixes)

• Anissa’s Neutral Heavy now moves forward correctly after a Neutral Medium (the neutral Heavy should no longer whiff)

• Fixed an issue where Anissa's Forward Special would sometimes not have forward momentum during block strings in the corner

• Anissa now has lip sync during her Air Super2

Ella Mental (Bug Fix)

• Ella Mental no longer continues to AutoCombo 2 if AutoCombo 1 is blocked and Heroic Strike’d

Invincible (Bug Fixes)

• Fixed an issue with Invincible Super2 when connecting with an assist character

• Fixed an issue with Invincible Super1 when interrupted by Robot Assist

Lucan (Bug Fixes)

• Fixed an issue where Lucan would perform a Light or Medium attack instead of Floating with dash macro (normally Light + Medium)

• Lucan's Super2 now overkills

Omni-Man (Bug Fixes)

• Omni-Man's Jumping Charged Down Medium has received a consistency pass on both hits

• Omni-man's Super 2 has improved alignment against multiple characters

Monster Girl

• Monster Girl can now more easily cancel her Jumping Forward Special on hit, leading to better combo conversion

• Monster Girl can now Boosted Dash Cancel her Jumping Forward Special on block.

Rex Splode (Bug Fixes)

• Rex Jumping Down Heavy no longer teleports the opponent if it strikes on the same frame as Robot assist

RANKED UPDATES

Season 1 Ranked Update

With the data we’ve gathered from Season 0 and the Open Beta, we’re now ready to roll out a new bracket system for your hard-earned LP that will compress the ranks together and make finding matches easier at all skill levels, while also keeping enough distance between ranks to ensure you always have players of similar skill to match with and new heights to reach.

Due to this change, you’ll also notice that when the season 1 reset rolls through it may congratulate you on reaching a higher rank than you thought you did—this is because we are still preserving all of your actual LP values. So, when looking at how our Seasonal Reset will affect you, keep in mind your actual LP value to determine where you will land in Season 1.

— Alexander Stokes, Project QA Lead

Key Changes

• Many of the higher ranks which previously had 600 or 800 LP Divisions have been compressed to 400 LP brackets (Superhero IV – Superhero III required 800 LP to climb previously)

• New Blood IV – Silver I are all now 200 LP divisions

• Gold IV – Guardians of the Globe I have been compressed to 400 LP divisions

• Key breakpoints

• Diamond IV now begins at 6,400 LP (previously 9,600 LP)

• Guardians of the Globe IV now begins at 9,600 LP (previously 16,200 LP)

Season 1 Ranked LP Adjustments

With the above in mind, it’s important to know what your actual LP is to understand where the system will think you Ranked and place you accordingly, as it’s based off of the actual LP value.

• Players below Platinum I or lower will not lose any LP (0 – 6,399 LP)

• Players between Diamond IV and Superhero I will lose 800 LP or be placed at 6,400 LP, whichever is a lesser drop (6,400 LP – 9,599 LP)

Example 1: If you had 6,500 LP, you would have 6,400 LP with the seasonal reset Example 2: If you had 8,800 LP you would now have 8,000 LP

• Players at or above 9,600 LP will be reset to exactly 9,600 LP

Example: If you had 14,000 LP you would be set to 9,600 LP

MODES

Arcade Mode

• AddedNEWEndless Ladder is now available for Arcade players! Challenge limitless opponents to reach a new winstreak

• Invincible Ladder now restores more health between fights, two weeks to live!

Lobbies

• There is now an Arena Select option in LOADOUT which will determine the arena for Lobbies (P1 in the lane will always decide the arena)

• You can now spectate and be in queue to fight in the same lane

Tutorial

Added 5 New Tutorials:

• Beginner: Launcher Follow

• Intermediate: Offense: High-Low Strings

• Intermediate: Offense: When to Active Tag

• Intermediate: Offense: Boost Dash Cancelling

• Intermediate: Offense: Combo Meter Manipulation

New Progression Rewards

• Invincicast (Invincible skin) is unlocked for completing 10 Ranked matches in Season 1

• Rex Sloan (Rex Splode skin) is unlocked for completing an Invincible Ladder during Season 1 or later

• Mark Grayson (Invincible skin) is unlocked for completing Story Mode on Viltrumite Difficulty during Season 1 or later

Practice Mode

• Universa and Immortal are now available in Practice Mode, try before you buy!

• Damage Scaling is now available under Damage Data (as a percentage)

• Several revisions to options labelling for better clarity

• You can now reset to any character by pressing the corresponding assist button and reset buttons at the same time

QUALITY OF LIFE

Save Data

• AdjustedNEWWe have introduced a new and improved rolling Save System that should prevent data loss on all platforms

• NEW: Steam Cloud Save is now supported

Online

• Winstreaks now show up in each game mode for both players on various screens

• Note that winstreaks are unique to each game mode (so your winstreak may be different in casual, ranked, or a lobby)

• Made several optimizations to performance so that online matches should feel better. We are still looking into more improvements for the future.

BUG FIXES

Practice Mode

• Practice Mode now has input delay options from 2 frames to 0 frames

• Dupli-Kate's Low Attacks are now correctly labelled in Practice Mode when Damage Data is turned on

Matchmaking

• Match Found pop-up is now responsive earlier after appearing

Ranked Mode

• Ranked Mode now has a new FTUE that shows all Ranked Leagues and their associated icons

• It should now be easier to read your placement match completion status on Cecil's Victory Screen

• Fixed multiple issues so that LP gain/loss is now more immediate on the frontend (is always correct in the backend)

Replays

• Improvements to backstep function during replays

• Replays no longer loop on themselves and instead prompt you to quit or replay

• Replays now show Ping data correctly when played back

Social Hub

• Sort now works for Recent Players and Blocked Players in the Social Hub

Tutorial

• Tutorial now shows the Dash macro for players

Lobby Mode / Spectator

• Added 1 second delay for Spectators to better account for rollback

• Multiple fixes to Host Migration

General

• The highlight cursor no longer snaps back up to Single Player on first boot of the Main Menu

• Fixed several lip sync issues with character intros

• Fixed several death SFX during slowdown animations on kill

• Fixed multiple crashes on consoles

• Overkill gibs should no longer float when killed on the P2 side

• Visual and physics pass on Viltrumite loincloths for less clipping

• Subtitles now appear correctly during Story Mode on Xbox Series X

• All Story mode progression unlocks have a notification when first unlocked

• Player Profile should show Online Stats correctly now

KNOWN ISSUES

• PRIORITY - We are looking into an issue with match quality degrading after several rematches and are actively working on it

• Season One may cause your LP to appear as 0 until your first MATCH FOUND

• Season One new season message will show your LP and Rank as 0 if you are in placement matches

• Sometimes disconnecting from a Ranked Match will cause the winner to gain double LP, while the disconnected player will lose double LP

• For Replays where your opponent disconnected the label may indicate the wrong winner (this does not affect actual results and is only a UI issue on the Replay screen).