MultiVersus season 1 patch notes

The first season of the new season has been released after a delay in January. MultiVersusIt’s here and it brings major updates to the platform fighter. Season 1 will include at least four new characters and balance improvements. The new, bimonthly-free-to-play character rotation is also initiated by this update.

Two parts will make up the season 1 patch. First, the patch will be available Monday afternoon. The second part should arrive within about a week. Scroll down for a list of all patch notes, including the ones that are applicable to this round.

Morty and More

Morty Rick and MortyWill be MultiVersus’ This will be the debut appearance of the new character. He’ll join the ranks of Batman and LeBron James as the game’s newest brawler. Sometime before the end of season 1, MultiVersus Rick will be also able to get him (also from). Rick and MortyBlack Adam Comics. Stripe Comics. Gremlins.

New free-to-play rotation

MultiVersus It is free-to-play and requires players to purchase real currency or make in-game purchases to unlock the characters. Player First Games provides temporary access to an unlimited number of characters that are free to play on a weekly basis. The first season of the free roster will see players have access to Arya and Batman as well as LeBron James and Steven Universe.

Season pass missions for better results

MultiVersusA battle pass is a collection of cosmetics that players can use to increase their level and unlock new missions. Player First Games is making some improvements to the season 1. The only mission that is class-based (i.e. get a set amount of wins using a mage characters) has been removed from the daily rotation. Tank characters are exempted from this exception, as all players have permanent access via the tutorial to Wonder Woman.

Although less important on a daily basis, Player First Games also has significantly reduced the need for many seasonal missions.

Changes in balance

After a few weeks in pre-season, Player First Games has made significant changes to many of the characters, reigning in those that have proven too powerful in players’ hands while buffing those that are underperforming.

Each of the game’s characters 17 has seen some kind of change with Monday’s patch. Superman, Velma, Bugs Bunny and Superman were all given nerfs while the weaker characters, Arya or Taz, received mostly buffs. The patch notes (which you can read in their entirety below) make following along with your favorite character’s changes easy by using specific symbols (+,-,~) for nerfs, buffs, and neutral changes.

Here is the full list of official patches notes MultiVersus Season 1.

Allgemein

• Morty will arrive in our world on August 23rd! This will be Morty’s first Plumbus-wielding Character!
• There will be two sections to the patch. First, the patch will arrive on August 15, and second shortly thereafter (hopefully within the next few days). Not all changes will occur in this patch, but the majority of them will take place on August 15.

All New Rotation of Characters Free (8/15-8/30).

• Arya
• Batman
• LeBron
• Steven

Meta Systems

• The icon for Free Rotation Characters is now available in the character select. This allows you to easily identify them
• Battle Pass XP matches now offer 10 wins and 5 losses. This is an increase of 5 wins and 3 losses.
• Battle Pass mission for disabled classes other than Tanks
• Developer Note: Because players may not be able to access fighters of specific classes, such as Tank, (thanks to Wonder Woman), it was felt that relying upon rerolls wasn’t a good enough way to get around these missions.
• Reduced the requirements for some seasonal missions
• Ringout players from the top 50 of the map (previously 75).
• Ringout players from either side of map 50 times. (Previously 75)
• Ringout any player starting at the bottom 50 times. (Previously 75).
• 50 assist (previously: 125)

General Perks

• Clear The Air– Greater consistency for perk effect
• We are aware of inconsistencies in this perk’s interaction with Velma’s speech bubbles and Batman’s Batarang. These interactions will be addressed in a later patch.
• Dog, make it rain!Now, projectile speed can be applied correctly to throwable items.
• Paintted Target – Fixed an issue where projectiles weren’t applying bonus damage
• Retaliation Ready– Unstacked gray health reduced from 3 HP to 3 Seconds, to 1 HP in 3 Seconds
• Reduction in stacked grey health: From 4 HP per 3 Seconds to 2 HP per 3 Seconds
• School Me Once…– Greater consistency with projectile block spawn. It is now possible to get hit by Jerry and spawn a projectile bloc buff.
• Slippery when Feint– Corrected an issue that hit cancels didn’t increase the evade distance
• Snowball Effect – Fixed an issue where projectiles weren’t applying bonus damage
• Static electricityProjectile electric damage applications now apply electricity more consistently. Important – Electricity will be applied to thrown objects

Systeme for Gaming:

• Ice DebuffReduced movement speed at one stack from 20% to 15%
• With each Ice Debuff stack, slow now scales linearly
• Fixed a bug that caused Ice Debuff fighters to receive additional knockback
• Ability CooldownsCooldowns wouldn’t trigger correctly if they were used close to Jake, a bug was fixed

There are many game modes:

• FFA Pop up text was incorrectly displaying the point value due to a bug.

UI:

• Announcer pack – You can now preview a character’s announcer pack before deciding to unlock it.

Tutorials:

• Various Bug Fixes –
• For tutorials that create stage hazards, fix it.
• The down spike tutorial is now required to be used by an aerial attack rather than an actual spike.
• After your partner has been rung out, you can no longer use the Reindog tether Step of the Intro Tutorial.
• Fail to land Shaggy on the map in the aerial combat tutorial demonstration.
• To the KBI Tutorial, added a wall.

Glossary and Terms

• New terms
• The glossary has been updated to include Wall Fatigue.
• We have added the terms Block and Hazard to the glossary, as well as updated our move lists.

Characters

Legend:

+ = Buff

–= Nuf

~= Variation

Note: Attacks callouts reference default controls.

Arya

The goal of these changes was to make Arya’s combos be more consistent and successful at lower skill levels.

• + Air/Ground Up SpecialHitting a fighter with a weapon will launch it more accurately at an angle, allowing for Arya follow-ups.
• + Aim UpThis will allow you to combine the first and second hits more effectively.
• + Neutral Air Attack– Hit has been branching earlier.
• + Ground Side AttackArya will maintain velocity after the initial hit of a side attack.
• + Ground-Down AttackBranching is now possible slightly earlier
• Special Ground/Air Neutral – Fixed a bug where Arya would not copy over capsule hitboxes on her normal neutral attacks when stealing a fighter’s face.
• Set Arya’s hurtbox to match her victim’s hurtbox while she is disguised as them.
• Fixed a bug where Arya’s top UI would be offset incorrectly when she steals a face.
• Fixed bug where Arya’s disguise attack hitbox could get disconnected.
• Fixed bug where Arya’s original hitboxes would be useable during disguise attacks.
• Fixed bug where the hitboxes from Arya’s disguise would stay active during her normal attacks.

Batman

• ~ Air/Ground Side SpecialFixed bug: Batman wouldn’t reach his grapple destination when he grappled to dodge a fighter.
• Increased the distance of overshooting when grappling with an allie.
• Failure of Fixed Batman at short distances in high latency
• Ground Side Attack3. Frames of whiff recovery added to the first hit.
• – Ground/Air Neutral Attack (coming in patch 2): Batarang pick up will now return 9.45s of it’s cooldown down from 11.55s. The opponent can react to the batarang by using a shorter window. Coffeezilla, a perks that makes the cooldown even shorter than usual, made us feel this was necessary to provide counterplay to the batarang.

Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny’s safety is too high in all he does. We’ve given him some additional whiff punish windows to help address this.

• Special Air UpBugs can now spawn 2 rockets from an exploit.
• Air Side Special Bugs can now spawn 2 rockets from an exploit.
• Special on Air/Ground NeutralBugs can now spawn safes from multiple locations without activating their cooldown.
• –Reduced safe HP from 16 to 14
• Air Down Special – Bugs’ previous tunnels will now disappear when creating new tunnels.
• – Air Up Attack
• Additionally, 4 frames were added for whiff recovery.
• Air Side Attack– 5 Frames of increased whiff recovery
• – Air Neutral Attack– An increase of whiff recovery to 5 frames
• Ground Down AttackFrom infinite, the maximum pie lifetime is 8 seconds.
• –Pie is not the same as slow.

Finn

Finn was too easy to fight against because he felt too secure and could launch attacks with little fear. This is due to the speed at which he healed. The foundational Hurt/Hit boxes updates will be coming in the next patch, but won’t be here.

• – PassiveAttacks that are affected by Attack Decay do not spawn coins anymore
• Finn now spawns from 100 gold, instead of 200
• + Special on Air DownThis fix addresses an issue that the gem needed 200 gold to spawn. However, it now only requires 100 gold. Now the gem requires 100g and is available for purchase at 100g
• Air Side SpecialAdditional whiff recovery
• Special Ground/Air-Up• Reduced strength of vacuum on backpack
• Weaker hits of the backpack will no longer “overwrite” stronger knockbacks from other attacks
• All hits Whiffing will drop one coin
• Additional whiff recovery
• Better match of attack and hitboxes is what we are trying to do (not until the planned harm/hit box overhaul).
• Air Side Attack – Reduced active frames to diminish Finn’s ability to hit fighters behind him
• Ground Down AttackFinn’s distance covered by this attack increases with the intensity of his attack.
• Ground Side Attack– Greater whiff recovery on the first hit.
• + House perkFixes an issue in which Finn could still spend gold for gems that were spawned from the perk
• Slightly reduced the launch speed of gems spawned by the perk – this should fix issues that arose when this perk was combined with the “Make it Rain, Dog!” perk

Garnet

• + Ground/Air Neutral Special Song activation begins earlier in frame 12 than frame 30.
• • Special Air/Ground Down – Fixed bug where Garnet would be stopped by Iron Giant’s collision when she moves with her down special.
• + Air Neutral AttackBase knockback slightly higher

Harley

• ~Stuffie Bat– The explosion radius for the Harley bomb Vfx has been reduced to make it more compact
• + WeightIncreased from 42 to 43

Iron Giant

• VFX – Global fighter VFX now better matches Iron Giant’s size without making the screen too busy. You can find notable changes in Speed Boost buff, Projectile Block buff, and Steven bubble debuff.
• Special on Air/Ground DownVFX Trails would not disappear and take up too much screen space.
• When out of range specials are available, you can no longer make cannonball attacks
• Changes made to Knockback angle in order for fighters to be sent more horizontally away from Iron Giant.
• Issues fixed that enabled infinite bounce on enemies close to the ground
• Special on Air/Ground NeutralGray Health activation reduced to 2 + #boltsHP for 5 seconds and 3 seconds respectively
• Gray Health from Ally Overlap reduced from 5 HP per 5 Seconds to 3 HP per 3 Seconds
• ~ Ground Forward SpecialIron Giant grabs can be correctly stopped by incompatible state.
• Air Up Attack You can’t hit the exact same target more than once
• – Air Neutral AttackChanged final hit knockback angle to allow fighters to be sent more horizontally away from Iron Giant
• Higher knockback scaling
• Ground Up Attack Gray Health reduced from 5 HP to 3 HP in 3 Seconds
• Allies who consume scrap can overtake any gray health that they may have as a result of consuming scrap
• Ground Forward AttackFixed attack decay is not activated for all forward attacks
• Ground Down AttackGray health reduced from 10 HP per 10 second to 6 HP per 3 seconds

Jake

• Air Down AttackTo prevent infinite skateboarding, the instant cancelout of the attack was removed
• Stop bouncing off of allies
• Ground Up Attack You can cancel your charge at a later time to get more commitment.

LeBron

• ~ Air/Ground Side Special – LeBron’s solo dunk no longer spawns a shockwave on the ground.
• The alley-oop teleport version of LeBron’s dunk spawns a shockwave and will launch fighters into the shockwave. A shockwave is a powerful weapon that will unleash fighters onto a final hit which grants Weakened debuff.
• Hitbox and solo dunk knockback increased
• Corrected a bug so that LeBron could dive into the clouds
• Ground/Air Down Special (No ball) – Allows for ball spamming
• Air Side Attack– Branchs on Hit earlier; Fix for his hitbox hit behind him too much
• + Air Neutral AttackCombination potential can be increased by removing branches earlier.
• For ball neutral, branching air into no ball neutr air.
• + Ground Side Attack/ Ground Down attack– Removing shared attack decay from side attacks and down attacks
• + Ground Side AttackMore consistent 3 Hit Combination hits
• Ground Neutral Attack– A fixed angle of attack
• BasketballResolved some issues with team colors when LeBron basketball was being played.
• LeBron no longer had to be able to strike his ball and was instead able visually to hold it.
• ~ Hot Hands perkHot Hands Perk: When an allie catches a pass that is not viewed, the Hot Hands buff emits flames so they can let their allies know they are throwing an ignited ball.

Reindog

• + Special on Air-UpReindog communicates with Reindog in ball form after Reindog has removed hitpause.
• Special on Air/Ground Neutral – Cooldown increased from 13s and 14s
• + Aim UpIncreased Hitbox Size

Shaggy

Shaggy’s Side Special felt a little too unpunishable, so we’ve added a bit of Whiff Recovery.

• – Rage Air Side SpecialTwo frames more recovery; better matches are now rage on the ground.
• We addressed a problem where Shaggy could do two Rage Specials
• + Rage Ground Down special – Shaggy’s shockwave will launch fighters into a final hit that applies Weakened debuff.
• Special Ground/Air SideAdditional 4 frames for whiff recovery

Steven

• Ground Down SpecialWatermelon Steven’s ability to cooldown begins now when Watermelon Steven rings out.
• Corrected a bug in which Watermelon Stevens could be trapped inside ceilings.
• ~ Air Neutral AttackAnimation won’t stall anymore
• ~ VO/SFX – Fixed an issue where Steven’s intro VO lines failed to play.
• TauntSteven couldn’t perform his up taunt because of an issue.

Superman

• Ground Neutral AttackAdditional whiff recovery
• Ground Up Attack Additional whiff recovery
• Ground Down SpecialAdditional whiff recovery

Taz

Here is where we start to see the effects of tornadoes on Taz. In case of any additional tornado changes, we will continue to watch the storm with more attention.

• Chicken Debuff –
• Fixes a bug that allowed transformed fighters to receive buffs but not visually after they were returned to normal.
• – The chicken’s time in the oven is reduced by 10 seconds to 8.
• +This has resulted in a larger chicken.
• + Special Air/Ground DownTaz spit projectiles have been adjusted to move more forward than lobs.
• + Taz can fire a projectile towards a fighter if he does so. The projectile will still be at the original speed.
• + Ground/Air Neutral Special – If Taz eats a projectile that can’t be spit back out, he will refresh a count of his apple core ability.
• Taz was able to eat projectiles more easily due to a bigger hit collision. This also made it possible for Taz to eat projectiles earlier.
• Taz gives 1 stack of Weakened to every enemy he chews.
• A bug was fixed that permitted ground movement when an enemy fighter had been eaten
• – Air/Ground Up SpecialBase knockback decreased from 1500 to 1 350 and damage reduced from 10-9
• Fixes a bug that made enemy fighters invulnerable after evading the fight cloud.
• ~ Air/Ground Side SpecialCooldown moves now with a seven-second cooling down. Side special, which is an active cooldown move with a 7-second cooldown, is a weaker tornado version.
• A full power tornado is 1.5 seconds long and can be passed by an ally for an additional 1 Second duration.
• The cooldown tornado is a duration of 0.25 seconds. It cannot be passed by an ally to gain more duration.
• + Ground UpThis is now a 2-hit attack. These are the early hits of the sandwich clap.

Tom And Jerry

• + Tom and JerryDynamite has now added projectile perk effects.
• Normal Air Attacks– A bug was fixed that prevented Tom and Jerry using normal attacks after the Air Special Limit had been exceeded.
• Special: Air Up– Jerry was able to continue having active hit frames after he fell from the rocket.

Velma

• Air Side Special– Reduction in travel distance
• The distance this traveled before gave Velma additional recovery that wasn’t intended.
• Special: Air UpReduced Weaken stacks available from 3 to 2
• –Air Down Attack is no longer a chain that can be used to apply damage.
• – Ground Side Special– Gray health reduced from 12 HP in 4 seconds to 6HP for 3 seconds
• Air Down Attack– Increased Recovery
• Air Side Attack– Additional whiff recovery
• – Ground/Air Neutral Attack – Fixed issues when word bubbles would go through Bugs’ Tunnels.
• Reduction in ammo counts from 4 to 3.
• Ammo returns reduced from 11-10
• – Weight– Weight loss from 63 to 60%
• – Knowledge Is Power perk Gray health reduced from 7 HP in 5 Seconds to 3 HP in 3 Seconds

Wonder Woman

• + Ground/Air Neutral Special – Lower cooldown, 13s to 12,
• + Ground Side SpecialProjectile Shield is available earlier in order to help her react better to projectiles.
• Aim UpHurtbox should match animation better.
• + Weight– An increase in weight of 65 to 76
• The Shield of Athena Signature PerkShield of Athena signature perk: Projectile shield adjusted to fit over an edge where projectiles could pass.