Bug Fix and Balance Update (version 0.5.1)

All challenges and achievements should now be unlockable with this update. If we missed any be sure to let us know and we'll have them fixed for the next update!

The biggest fixes and changes are below:

• Updated with the latest translations from our volunteers. Of particular note this release, massive work on French by elvee, Brazilian by Tydes, and Spanish by stick and WhoAmI? Thank you all!

• Added a visual effect to when the player's block is broken.

• New story text has been added to opponent dossiers as you rank up.

• AdjustedAll charactersVulnerability periods have been adjusted and normalized.

• Added a hard-stop tutorial for teaching players how to counter attacks by punching during an opponent's attack.

• Added two new Glove options in the shop: Heavy Gloves, and Special Gloves.

• Balanced FedCred rewards across the game, honoring the difficulty of each fight and mission.

• Updated Giga-Chad's background.

• Fixed and rebalanced the "Defeat a Maxed Out Scam Brawler" achievement to be "Knock down a Maxed Out Scam Brawler" so that the achievement isn't just "punch him once and then wait until the end of the 9th round," while also still possible to achieve without exploits or while having all of the best equipment in the game equipped.

• Fixed known instances of menu tutorials softlocking the game.

• Fixed an issue where visiting the Wardrobe would cause your promotion to Agent to malfunction until the game was rebooted.

• Prestige fights now play Instant KO / TKO animations.

And much, much more!

See below to read the full patch notes.

Thanks to all our dedicated players for reporting these bugs to us, happy punching!

Here are the detailed changes for this update:

\Updated with the latest translations from our volunteers. Of particular note this release, massive work on French by WhoAmI?, Brazilian by Tydes, and Spanish by stick. Thank you all!Fixed an issue where visiting the Wardrobe would cause your promotion to Agent to malfunction until the game was rebooted.Similarly, fixed an issue where Missions could start at the wrong prestige level.Added a hard-stop tutorial for teaching players how to counter attacks by punching during an opponent's attack.Second try: Fixed the "dodge to the other side!" tutorial so that it doesn't pester you all the way through Prestige 1.Fixed an issue where the hard-stop dodge and block tutorials no longer displayed.Added a visual effect to when the player's block is broken.New story text has been added to opponent dossiers as you rank up.OPPONENT CHANGESAll characters: Vulnerability periods have been adjusted and normalized.Scam Brawler: Removed some vulnerability_off events to see if that helps an invulnerability bug reported by our Discord users.Scam Brawler: OHKD tell shortened to ensure the player's action is intentional.Scam Brawler: Fixed taunting in P1.Karen: Restored vulnerability after blocking and (successful) punches, with animation changes to show her within range of your punches.Karen: Added vulnerability while she returns to the center after a blowout.Karen: Updated Renegade's coaching tips, focusing on teaching the player how to counter-punch.Giga-Chad: Bravado now has a maximum value.Giga-Chad: Updated Renegade's coaching tips, focusing on teaching the player how to counter-punch.Giga-Chad: Rebalanced counter dazed durations to better reward counter attacks.Giga-Chad: Rebalanced Bicep Curl attack so that it winds up slower in P0.Cat Lady: Basic attacks have better telegraphing.Cat Lady: Basic attacks have clearer directionality.Cat Lady: Shifted the cat throw vulnerability window forward. Should make counter punches and blocks easier.Cat Lady: Fixed an issue where some animations would play to the wrong side of the screen.Cat Lady: Fixed an issue where she wouldn't stop throwing cats.Florida Man: Added vulnerability while he returns to center after some attacks.Florida Man: Fixed a graphical error during his right-side gator swing.Florida Man: Updated one of Renegade's coaching tips to avoid confusing the player into thinking you can punch alligators and survive.Florida Man: Now generally deals more damage on all ranks.Bridezilla: Restored her win-to-idle animation transition.Harolds: Shifted the vulnerability windows of a certain set of attacks forward. Should make counter punches and blocks easier.Harolds: Basic combo vulnerability window expanded.Harolds: Fixed known instances of phase two soft-locking a round.Harolds: Fixed known instances of phase two attacks getting stuck in the Tell vulnerability state.Final Boss: Dramatically increased low punch vulnerability from 4 frames to 10 frames, and they hit later.Final Boss: Fixed a hilarious bug where the OHKD attack would instead fully heal the player.Final Boss: Fixed the animation that happens when you counter her desperation attack with normal punches. (Thanks, Turtulo!)Final Boss: Fixed an issue where restarting the fight caused the exhausted interface to get stuck on screen.Final Boss: Fixed an issue where the game would soft-lock when cutscenes are disabled.Added the RealCivilEngineer hard hat to the rest scene, if equipped.Fixed an issue where the shop could ignore touch or mouse inputs based on tutorial completion state.Added two new Glove options in the shop: Heavy Gloves, and Special Gloves.Fixed known instances of dialog boxes showing no text until you press a button.Fixed known instances of challenge criteria needing to be reset on retrying a fight.Balanced FedCred rewards across the game, honoring the difficulty of each fight and mission.Fixed known instances of menu tutorials softlocking the game.Second try: Fixed an issue where buying level 0 of an item would unlock other levels of the item.Fixed known instances of when resetting the game data didn't always reset your equipped items or player level.GameAnalytics is now implemented. These are the anonymous crash and usage reports you can agree to at the start of the game, or in Settings.Minor adjustments to dialog for help streamer speak good live reading words loud.Fixed and rebalanced the "Defeat a Maxed Out Scam Brawler" achievement to be "Knock down a Maxed Out Scam Brawler" so that the achievement isn't just "punch him once and then wait until the end of the 9th round," while also still possible to achieve without exploits or while having all of the best equipment in the game equipped.Fixed an issue where the "Let Giga-Chad Knock Himself Out" challenge wasn't awarding properly on TKO knockdowns.Fixed an issue where numbers would stop animating when punched during a knockdown. This may also fix a performance issue related to punching the numbers.Fixed an issue where duration modifiers multiplied by zero would soft-lock a round.Set the default sound volumes to 50%. Should help live streamers.Prestige fights now play Instant KO / TKO animations.Obscured the Final Boss further on the awards after defeating the Harolds.Fixed an issue where the player's Time-Trial Best Times were always replaced with their most recent time, even if it was actually worse than their best time.Fixed an issue where toggling Cutscenes Enabled would actually toggle the Tutorials Enabled instead.Updated Giga-Chad's background.Fixed known instances where a dazed indicator did not track an opponent's head.Fixed an issue where the game would sometimes tell you to throw a special, even when you didn't actually have enough special charge to do so.Fixed known instances where an OHKO would result in just a knockdown.Fixed known instances of modal dialogs staying in memory when they shouldn't.Implemented the Midas Punch modifier, as it seems to have not been implemented before now.Fixed an issue where string replacement didn't work in tutorial speech bubbles.Fixed an issue where the Tutorial fight could stop KO cutscenes from playing.Fixed an issue where sometimes the Daily Mission Rewards for Rookie level fights could be less than the default rewards for repeated victories against those fights, specifically with opponents like Scam Brawler. Now we just add those repeated victory rewards to the mission rewards, since it is a repeated victory anyways.Fixed an issue where some of the Player Character's animations were impacted by the animation speed factor stat, like idles, knockdowns, and wins\