Patch 1.6.1 Notes and Midmonth Update

New Lovers Kragg Mid-Month Bundle

Here comes our favorite straight honor roll student, Kragg! Our latest bundle includes the Lovers Kragg skin, emote, icon, and the Lovers Critical Hit (Doki!)!

The rock he throws is now replaced with his favorite Mecha Kragg lunchbox, and his pillar replaced by stacks of books that he knows better than the back of his hand! Pretty sure his pet rock is around there somewhere… Keep an ear open for his new sound effects and win jingle! The bundle also includes 25,000 coins and 250 Aether bucks.

Armada Flagship Stage Skin

We also have a brand new stage skin for Metal Refinery where you can battle atop an Armada Flagship, for those who miss the old stomping grounds. Also, SURPRISE! Armada Flagship is FREE for everyone!

New Shop Items

• Midnight Abyss Maypul Palette

• Mint Lovers Loxodont Palette

• White Lovers Loxodont Palette

• Cool Blue Lovers Loxodont Palette

• Cool Blue Lovers Ranno Palette

• Avatar Florpian

• Avatar Tsuclami

• Avatar Slade

Audio Changes

Slade

• Slade's Tether Grab/ZAir no longer uses Galvan's sound-effects and has a new custom one instead.

• Up Special's SFX timing has been fixed.

• Slade's coin pickup sound volume has been raised slightly

• New sounds have been added whenever Slade gets enough coins to buy a new item using his Down Special chest. Every threshold has it's specific sound. For the time being there are no sounds for Neutral Special item thresholds but we'll be evaluating over time the possibility of also adding these.

Items

• A new sound has been added to the Ice Spike hit when it hits the ground.

• Crystal Core now play sounds correctly when the hit player gets out of crystallize.

Gameplay Updates

• New Advanced Control Option: Airdodge Rounding Angle

  • In previous patches, the angle at which airdodges round to cardinal directions has changed back and forth between 12 and 20 degrees, with many people preferring one over the other. Now we're adding it as a setting so that both camps can have it their way. Higher values will make it easier to get perfectly horizontal wavedashes/wavelands, while lower values will allow for more precise control of your wavedash/waveland distance.

• Bug fix: Item throw states will now go into the Land state if they land after their IASA frame

  • Previously, characters would stay in the item throw state when landing and retain their aerial actionability, including the ability to airdodge.

• Fixed a bug that prevented airdodge friction from being applied on the frame where the airdodge sound effect played.

• Fixed a bug with loading a state while a character was grabbing the ledge of a moving platform.

• Fixed back button on the top bar on the CSS and StageSelect getting stuck in the hovered state

Runback

• New QoL feature! In lobbies or local with tourney mode off, any player can press TriggerLeft + TriggerRight + Jump after the game has ended, but before moving to Results, to trigger a Runback! This restarts the match on the current stage with the current characters.

• Dash Attack's last active frame no longer reaches as far downward

  • With this change, it no longer consistently hits players on the ledge.

• Up Special multihits hitstun multiplier: x0.75 > x0.5

  • Even after the last hitstun reduction, trading with this move (especially the tip hitbox) would leave the opponent in an awful spot if they DId the move behind Clairen.

• Airdodge Speed: 21.25