Notice of Patch Update 1.6

Thank you for playing JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R.

The 1.6 Patch will be out with balance adjustments, the scheduled date is Monday, March 20th at 1 AM UTC - 10 AM JST.

The fully detailed Patch Notes is available HERE.

General Changes

Backstepping

• Standardized the hurtbox area around feet. → Eliminates differences in ability to avoid certain deployed projectiles (e.g. Ghiaccio's "Any form of attack stops cold when it hits my ultracold temperatures!" skill) by stepping backwards. *The purpose of this is to remove imbalances in different characters' ability to escape deployed projectiles while getting up from being downed.

Direction of counter HHA flying

• Adjusted the force that sends opponents flying to the direction the initiating character is facing. → Under certain situations, when performing a successful counter, the target would go flying in the opposite direction from that suggested by the attack animation.

Guardbreak

• Added damage reduction to combos that start out of guardbreak. → Reduces the reward for performing a guardbreak while maintaining the ability to pursue that guardbreak.

Damage received during skills that don't cause the victim to recoil e.g. Jonathan Joestar's "Tackle" special

• Allowed damage taken during rebound protection to receive damage reduction.

• Changed counterstrikes to not occur while taking damage from attacks that do not cause rebound. → Improves usability in neutral.

Damage received during attacks that do not cause recoil while in Resolve Mode.

• Allowed damage taken during rebound protection to receive damage reduction.

• Changed counterstrikes to not occur while taking damage from attacks that do not cause rebound. → Improves usability in neutral.

Recoil caused by leg sweep attacks

• Shortened animation lead-in and sped up transition to downed state. → This was changed due to certain attacks that allow additional attacks on downed opponents to fail due to recoil invincibility.

The pivot line when characters swap positions in the air.

• Resolved inconsistencies between characters' positional pivot lines and the center of their collision detection. → Under certain circumstances, when jumping attacks hit the opponent in the back, they were less likely to fall frontward. *This prevents confusion from guard direction working opposite to what is expected.

Collision detection (determines when characters push against each other)

• Removed Stand collision detection during standing and crouching recoil animations. → Under certain circumstances, when jumping attacks hit the opponent in the back, they were less likely to fall frontward. *This prevents confusion from guard direction working opposite to what is expected.

Crouching recoil animation

• Fixed a rare issue where being hit during the Stylish Guard's recovery would cause the crouching recoil animation to trigger. → Ensures that recoil animations are appropriate to the situation.

Character Specific Changes

Jonathan Joestar

• Dash Forward

• "Sendo Overdrive" skill

• "Overdrive Barrage" skill

Dio Brando

• Dash Forward

• Crouching strong normal attack

• "Useless, useless, useless, useless!" skill

• "I'll suck you dry!" skill

• "That must be five or six ribs broken!" skill

Robert E. O. Speedwagon

• "Martial Arts, the Eastern mystery!" skill

• "Don't try to bluff, you rich little snot!" skill

• "Aren't you acting tough!" skill

Joseph Joestar

• Backstepping

• "Clacker Boomerang" skill (Hamon version)

Lisa Lisa (Elizabeth)

• Standing strong normal attack

• Jumping strong normal attack

• "Blasphemy is prohibited!" skill

• "Hamon Master" skill

• "All I need is this scarf!" skill

• "You picked a bad time to test me!" skill

• "Die with regret" skill

• "Snake Muffler" skill

• "Settle this with style" skill

• "Prepare to die!" skill

• "Smooth as