- Training Mode, Balance (0.39.0) - 20 August 2026
Testing GroundsAdded the Testing Grounds, accessible from the main menu.The Testing Grounds combines the functionality of the Loadout Gallery and Stage Gallery into one place, while also providing additional training features.Training features: Set player damageSet Jim's damageSet Jim's behavior (stand, recover, shield, lvl 1-9 bot)Set Jim's DI (none, random, in, out)Set shield mode (normal, no drain, no break)Combo tracker (off, lenient, moderate, strict)You can also set Jim's loadout directly in the Testing Grounds.Removed the Loadout Gallery and Stage Gallery (they have been replaced by the Testing Grounds).BalanceShieldsReduced maximum shield health. Reduced bonus shield damage of Pincers and Crossbow to account for this.Reduced shield regeneration speed.Reduced popup height of shield break.Removed shield break damage (previously breaking an opponent's shield dealt 10 damage automat…
- Gameplay Overhaul, Air Dashes, Ice Cube (New Suit) (0.38.0) - 5 August 2026
This is our largest patch to date in terms of gameplay impact. It aims to improve pacing and increase player freedom and expression in moment-to-moment gameplay. This is accomplished by speeding up various mechanics (knockback, jumps, etc), by introducing faster and more freeform aerial movement (airdashes), and by reworking several gear pieces to give them more movement-based and offensive-minded utility. The new Suit (Ice Cube) also reflects this, with its movement and edge cancel-focused passive abilities. Huge thanks to the Discord community for helping test these changes over the past few weeks. GeneralAir dodge replaced with Air dash.No longer grants invulnerability.Much faster and actionable nearly immediately.Now regained when hit by opponent.Can now be used directly out of tumble (once hitstun ends).Can grab ledge out of air dash.Reduced jumpsquat frames from 5f -> 3f. This mea…
- Map Editor Beta (0.37.0) - 29 June 2026
Map Editor (Beta)Added a Map Editor, which allows players to create custom maps to fight on. The Map Editor includes Stages, Platforms, Icy Stages, Icy Platforms, Targets, Bumpers, Barriers, Spike Balls, Checkpoints, and also a few completely new stage hazards:New stage hazard: Teleporter. State and momentum are maintained while teleporting, which allows for some cool combo setups. New stage hazard: Conveyor belts.There are now two types of Spike Balls, Regular and Void. Regular Spike Balls deal damage and knockback, and Void Spike Balls instantly KO on contact. Note that the map editor is considered in beta, as there are some important features still missing. For example, there is currently no way to upload and discover maps made by other users. There are also currently no customizable win conditions, which means puzzle/platformer-type levels will be a bit janky. This is a pretty large…
- Performance Improvements and QoL (0.36.0) - 18 April 2026
Hi! Sorry this patch is not the most exciting... but it sets us up for some cool new features :) General - Rewrote core rendering code to improve rendering performance. This will not be noticeable to most players, but it allows me to work on some new resource-heavy features without being constrained by performance on lower-end machines such as Chromebooks. UX/UI - While in a lobby, pressing Tab will now focus the chat box, and Tab/Esc will unfocus it. - Tab is no longer a bindable key. (Previously it was technically bindable, but pressing it caused the game screen to unfocus). If this causes issues for anybody, please let me know. - The mouse cursor will now automatically be hidden when the keyboard or a controller is in use. Bugs - Healing from the Leech upgrade will now only activate for the player who placed the Leech debuff. - Fixed broken cutscene for the Angry Jim story mission. -…
- Balance Patch (0.35.0) - 22 March 2026
Hi folks! We've been due for a balance patch for a while. Highlights include reworked Folding Blade attacks, buffs to various Secondaries, buffs to Shine Bracer, and nerfs to UFO. General Increased shield damage universally by ~10%Slightly altered velocity curve of downward-sending attacks (spikes) against high-damage opponents. Spikes should feel more impactful, knocking opponents back faster initially. However total distance knocked back should be similar. Crossbow: Now automatically reloads when user is KOdCan now be reloaded while in the air Buckler: Increased damage to 8-12 depending on charge (up from 4-8)Slightly increased daze hitstun multiplier when bashing a shielding opponentReduced start lag by 1 framePlayers reported Buckler's payoff not feeling high enough to compete with grab-based secondaries. Harpoon Up throw angle now launches inward rather than outward, increasing com…
- Online 4-Player Modes (0.34.0) - 27 February 2026
LobbiesLobbies now support 2v2 and FFA modes, with up to 4 players in a lobby.Added spectator support to lobbies. (Note that currently spectators still count toward the maximum of 4 players in a lobby).Added a lobby chat system.Lobby hosts can now add bots to their lobbies.In lobbies (and local matches), players can now set the number of max lives/rounds.QuickplayQuickplay now supports 2v2 and FFA in addition to 1v1.Added the ability to duo queue with a friend for 2v2.UI/UXReworked lobby and quickplay UI to support new 4-player features.When selecting a stage, ctrl/start no longer selects a random stage. Instead it selects the currently-focused stage.The default random stage pool for new players now excludes stages with hazards.Improved button mappings for 8BitDo controllers. BugsFixed rare bug where stage and blastzone colliders wouldn't load at start of quickplay match, causing player…
- Local 4-Player Modes (0.33.0) - 13 August 2025
General Added support for up to 4 players/bots in local multiplayer. (Online support coming soon). Bot-only matches are now supported. Added teams. Friendly fire can be set to off, on, or partial (50% damage). UI/UX Redesigned local multiplayer UI. Altered Arena/Hybrid mode UI to support 4 players. Oleg's rage is now indicated as active via a rage symbol rather than a red aura. (Colored auras are now used to indicate team). Shortened many Arena/Hybrid upgrade descriptions. Bugs Fixed bug where Television could teleport instantly upon landing, ignoring typical landing lag. Fixed bug where using UFO Barrage (down special) on a frozen opponent would cause the opponent to remain stuck in the ice cube. Fixed rare bug where players' air resources could reset without landing. Fixed bug where incorrect animation would play for shield breaks.
- Performance Optimizations (0.32.0) - 20 May 2025
This patch includes some major under-the-hood code optimizations. Not the most exciting in terms of content but it allows me to work on some more exciting features that were previously held back by performance concerns. General Re-wrote core animation, rendering, and collision logic to optimize game update speed. These optimizations primarily target rollback (netcode) performance. In high playercount and high rollback test scenarios achieved roughly ~50% speedup. Art Icy stages now have a dedicated ice block tileset. This should make the ice effect much clearer to new players. Balance Note that due to the updated collision system you may notice minor changes to various hitboxes and hurtboxes. In general, collisions should align a little better with the visuals. If anything feels very off please let me know. UFO The UFO flies slightly lower during neutral special (abduct). This enables t…
- Art Enhancements + Quality of Life Improvements (0.31) - 27 April 2025
0.31.0 - April 25, 2025 This patch includes art improvements, general gameplay quality-of-life changes, and some gear-specific updates. Art and Animations Re-designed several gear pieces. The most significantly impacted are all Suits, Quad Staff, Chakram, Cannon, Wrecking Ball, Harpoon, and Spiked Fist. Improved run and jump animations. Notable changes to skins: (Quad staff skin) Wooden Cross now has a permanent slight glow. (Oleg skin) Xenoleg's head is now furry. All cannon skins have been updated to show depth. To those wondering, Wrecking Ball is no longer spikey because it caused some players confusion with its similarity to Spiked Fist. Spiked Fist now looks like the previous design for Wrecking Ball. UI/UX Added difficulty indicators to gear pieces to help guide new players. Streamlined all gear descriptions. They all now fit within 2 lines of text. General Gameplay Added checks…
- 3 New Secondary Weapons (0.30.0) - 4 April 2025
New Secondary WeaponsAdded 3 new secondary weapons: Crossbow, Buckler, and Gauntlet.Crossbow: "A one-handed crossbow whose arrows deal massive shield damage. It must be reloaded after each shot".Buckler: "A small buckler that can be used to bash opponents, knocking them back. Bashing opponents while they are shielding or countering will inflict additional stun. Chargeable".Gauntlet: "A weighty metal glove used to grab, hurl, and punch. Slow but powerful, capable of directly knocking out damaged opponents".Each can be unlocked for 1500 peanuts for online use. (For Gear Pack owners they are unlocked automatically).BalancePlungerUp throw now sends the opponent straight up rather than slightly behind.Forward throw now sends more horizontally.Back throw now sends slightly more vertically. In simple terms, these changes are intended to flip plunger's DI (directional influence) counterplay. Pr…
- UI Overhaul (0.29.0) - 16 February 2025
UI OverhaulRedesigned Loadout menus. Instead of being text-based, Loadout menus now use a comprehensive set of menu icons representing gear pieces and skins.Players can now create Loadout Presets to easily swap between their favorite gear combinations. Flattened menu and sub-menu structure, allowing for loadout edits with fewer menu actions.Cosmetics are now accessible without toggling to a separate menu.In the Loadout Gallery players can now equip unowned skins and palettes in order to preview them in action and in combination with other unowned cosmetics.Redesigned Stage Selection menus. Stage selection is now icon-based and flattened. Players no longer need to enter a sub-menu in order to change the stage.Added icons for stage cosmetics, simplifying skin and palette selection.Added the ability to customize one's random stage pool for local and lobby matches. Increased the prominence…
- New Gadget: Shine Bracer (0.28.0) - 20 January 2025
New Gadget: Shine Bracer Added a new gadget. The Shine Bracer is a wrist-worn device that harnesses the power of stars. Added Arena new upgrade: Nova Boost - your Shine Bracer's recovery range is greatly increased. Added skins for Shine Bracer: Heart, Hexagon, and Skull. General Slightly increased prominence of visual effect of hitting a shield. Added a subtle sound effect for hitting shield. Lower level bots (levels 1-4) are now easier. (Previously they were too tough for most totally-new players). UFO Up special: Increased the minimum delay before the UFO can be released by pressing the gadget button. This is to prevent accidentally releasing the UFO immediately after initiating up special, which caused players to self-destruct offstage. Note that you can still immediately release the UFO by pressing the jump button. Warp Mine Aerial Pest upgrade no longer triggers on self-detonates,…
- New Gadget: UFO (0.27.0) - 9 December 2024
New Gadget: UFO Added a new gadget, the UFO. The UFO is a floating companion that can shoot projectiles, abduct your opponent, and pull you upward with a tractor beam. You can also hop inside it and charge at your opponents, dealing damage on contact. Added Arena upgrade for UFO: Warp Drive - your UFO and its projectiles are faster. Added a skin for UFO: Jello. General Gameplay Removed shield pokes. (Shield poking was the ability to hit shielding opponents by attacking the part of their body not covered by shield). Increased damage taken by shields by 10%. Reduced number of frames that the ledge remains "occupied" when a player gets off the ledge. Warp Mine When placing a mine on top of an opponent it'll now stick to them. This works through shield. As with regular mines, mines stuck to your opponent can be detonated or teleported to. Jet Boots Slightly reduced up and down special fuel…
- NPC Collecting, Expanded Quickplay, Optional CPU Matchmaking - 29 October 2024
This patch allows players to earn rewards while enjoying their preferred game mode(s), with or without the pressure of human competition. It also aims to promote quickplay usage to increase the likelihood of finding player opponents. NPC Collecting Added optional NPCs (CPUs) to quickplay (explained further below). NPCs vary in playstyle, difficulty, rarity, and appearance. NPC opponents are indicated with "(npc)" next to their name. (This means that players can now earn peanuts and progress on daily and weekly tasks even if there aren't any other players to match with). There are currently 9 playstyle traits that NPCs can have. Some only appear at higher difficulty levels. The difficulty level of NPCs that you match against will increase/decrease as you win/lose matches. Higher rarity NPCs start the match with upgrades. Defeating these NPCs will earn you extra peanuts. (Note that rarity…
- Significantly Improved CPU AI (0.25.0) - 8 October 2024
This patch significantly improves the CPUs. They should now challenge the majority of players and should legitimately help dedicated players improve at the game. Given how difficult it can be to find real people to play against I think this is pretty important! The new AI will also allow me to add some new features I'm pretty excited about... more on that soon. Please leave feedback on the new CPUs via any of the usual channels. Thanks! CPU AI There are now 7 CPU difficulty levels, up from 4. The new difficulty levels are Dummy, Very Easy, Easy, Medium, Hard, Very Hard, and Extreme. Significantly improved all aspects of CPU AI. Note that some of these improvements are only relevant at higher difficulty levels. Offense: Improved attack selection, timing, combo routes, and edgeguarding. Defense: Improved ability to defend against opponent attacks and projectiles. Added the ability to esca…
- Art Enhancements (0.24.0) - 7 September 2024
Art Added shading to the majority of character sprites. This includes gear pieces, respawn platforms, and avatar faces. Redrew and added depth to stage tiles to give them a 3-dimensional appearance. Tweaked a few animations, including some Flame Cannon animations and Chakram back aerial attack. Re-drew Oleg. His eyes and mouth are now subtley animated during certain actions to give him a more lively feel. Cosmetics Added shield skins. Currently there are two: Beach Ball and Smiley, each with their own set of unlockable color palettes. Flame Cannon Neutral Air: Added 5 frames of aerial endlag. (Its abnormally low aerial endlag was something of an oversight). Neutral Air: Increased size of strong hitbox relative to the weak hitbox. Bugs Fixed bug where shield break hitstun was reduced when a player's shield was broken immediately after performing a self-detonate with warp mine.
- New primary weapon: Wrecking Ball (v0.23.0) - 25 August 2024
Wrecking Ball Added a new primary weapon, "Wrecking Ball". The wrecking ball is a mechanized flail attachment propelled by advanced magnet tech. It excels at mid-range combat and can be thrown to finish off opponents from afar. Wrecking ball is automatically unlocked online for Gear Pack owners, otherwise it can be unlocked for online use for 250 peanuts. Cosmetics Added 3 wrecking ball skins: Basketball, Tomato, and Eyeball. Default wrecking ball skin palettes: Iron (default), Poison-tipped, Bloodied, Gold-coated. Basketball palettes: Classic (default), Red, Teal, Lights Out, Showboat, Up-tempo, Intangibles, Inner Dog, World Champs, MVP. Tomato palettes: Tomato (default), Tomatillo, Rotten, Sunkissed, Heirloom, Caspain Pink, Blueberry, Grape. Eyeball palettes: Blue (default), Brown, Green, Grey, Lavender, Red, Sickly, Alien, Golden. Arena Mode Added Wrecking Ball arena upgrade: "Big Ba…
- Game Speed and Pacing (v0.22.0) - 3 August 2024
This patch aims to increase game speed and pacing by increasing aerial mobility, increasing attack speed, and reducing knockback scaling on many attacks to make them more usable as setup tools for combos and knockouts. Shoutouts to the folks in the Discord who helped test these changes. General Gameplay Significantly increased fast fall speeds. Increased max air speed and acceleration. Suits now gain more speed from dash attacking. Buffering an air dodge with no direction input will now cause you to wavedash down instead of airdodging in place. UX/UI: Increased volume of "match found" sound effect. Escape now must be held for 2 seconds to exit fullscreen. This allows keyboard users to use esc as back button without accidentally exiting full screen. You can now bind 3 buttons/keys to a single input, up from 2. Keyboard users can now bind a key to use as a dedicated start button, as an al…
- Mouse support, improved controls + UI (v0.21.0) - 25 July 2024
ControlsAdded support for playing with a mouse.Added a brief controls onboarding questionnaire to help set up new players with a default control layout that fits their playstyle.Changed the default keyboard controls based on player feedback. Note that this may mess up your existing keyboard binds and profiles. Please ensure they are correct and re-save any profiles. for the inconvenience!UI/UXRedesigned loadout menus to be less overwhelming.Altered UI to be easier to navigate with mouse.Secondary menu selection (used to change color palettes) is now bound to /grab instead of /jump.To reduce new player confusion, Enter (in addition to Space) can now be used to select menu items. Control now acts as a "start" button for keyboard users.Replaced various floating UI prompts with new menu items to reduce clutter.GameplayWhen tap jump is on it is now possible to perform upward light and strong…
- Free to play customizable platform fighter Counterpick Labs is out in Early Access - 15 July 2024
Here's your chance to play a platform fighter that's a bit different, and help shape its development with Counterpick Labs now in Early Access from developer UrbanMotmot. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/free-to-play-customizable-platform-fighter-counterpick-labs-is-out-in-early-access
