Prizes

• 1st place: $30 cash prize
  
• 2nd place: $10 cash prize
  

Sephi'ra & variants

Dead Cells

Condor X

Senator Feathers

Vandal

Drifter

Yooka-Laylee

Olaf Tyson & variants

General changes

• The Fire Temple stage from The Trials is now selectable
  
• Tribalstack Tropics is now available in Competitive Mode with the side platforms removed.
  
• Fixed water not being visible in some stages on low quality settings

The Drifter:

• Side Special & Air Side Special now have 2 parts, a short buildup and a slide.
  
• Side Special slide range increased
  
• Side Special slide knockback increased if you have rage
  
• Air Side Special slide knockback increased
  
• Down Special & Air Down Special are now cancellable 5 frames earlier
  
• Sprint attack is now available sooner after you start sprinting (about 10 frames)

Dead Cells:

• Up Special & Air Up Special now have a landing animation if you teleport into the ground
  
• Air Down Special (Firebrands) projectile's fall speed reduced
  
• Air Down Special fire duration reduced and can now only hit once
  
• Decreased knockback on Jab Special Attack
  
• Decreased knockback on Air Forward Attack part 2

Sephi'ra & variations:

• Air Up Special now has a landing animation when you teleport into the ground
  
• Removed end lag from Air Up Attack (when touching the ground)
  
• Decreased end lag on Down Tilt

Yooka-Laylee:

• Air Up Special now hits multiple times
  
• Increased end lag & decreased hitbox range on Forward Tilt
  
• Decreased end lag on Side Charge Attack
  
• Increased knockback on Down Charge Attack
  
• Decreased knockback & end lag on Down Special

Vandal:

• Up Special & Air Up Special now have a landing animation if you touch the ground while it's active
  
• Decreased damage & removed shock debuff when the Rage Meter is empty on Up Special & Air Up Special
  
• Decreased knockback growth on Side Attack & Air Forward Attack
  
• Increased knockback & decreased end lag on Down Charge Attack
  
• Increased knockback on Side Charge Attack & Up Charge Attack

Apunaut:

• Decreased knockback on Air Forward Attack part 2

Paco:

• Side Special Attack now drops the victim when in air
  
• Increased end lag on Side Charge Attack

The Beheaded from Dead Cells joins the brawl!

New Stage: Prisoner's Quarters

General gameplay changes

• A visual effect has been added to many high-impact attacks like Charge Attacks when they connect on an opponent to give them a little extra OOMPH.
  
• Players launched at shallow angles will now bounce and skip across the stage while in hitstun instead of sliding. The bounces are techable, giving players with good timing the chance to get back in the fight faster.
  
• Tweaks to knockback scaling on Up Aerials have been made across the board. Upair ladders are now less reliable as a KO option on their own.
  
• The respawn meteor's fall speed is now the character's fall speed.
  
• The respawn meteor can now fast fall.
  
• CPU opponents now have better DI
  
• Tribalstack Tropics has been removed from the stage list in Competitive Mode.
  
• Shivering Coast's blast zones have been reduced in size.
  

Ledge changes:

• Removed the 55 frames ledge grab restriction after getting hit, players can now grab ledges immediately after taking damage.
  
• Characters no longer get ledge invincibility after landing on Olaf's pillar/platform
  
• Decreased ledge snap distance when facing the ledge from 2.5 to 2 (snap distance remains 1 when not facing the ledge)
  

Teching changes:

• Wallteching has been added.
  
• The teching window has been reduced to 10 frames. The cooldown for a missed tech is still 30 frames.
  

Menu changes:

• Decreased result screen timer in online lobbies for spectators.
  
• Added a new controller setting "Use taunts on pedestal" . This defaults to "On". If set to "Off" you can't use taunts on pedestals (like on the character select / stage select / result screen) and frees up the dpad for navigation.
  

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug with detecting resolution on screens with aspect ratio different than 16:9
  
• Fixed a bug where you could fast fall a ledge attack and self destruct
  
• Fixed the microphone icon showing up in gameplay when a player is muted.
  

Yooka and Laylee

• Decreased hitbox size and hit active frames on Forward Aerial
  
• Up Air Attack angle adjusted to send opponent a bit more to the side
  
• Projectile speed decreased
  
• Projectile's knockback decreased
  
• Small bubble now deals 1 dmg
  
• Big bubble now deals 6 dmg and its speed increases with time charged
  
• Up Special now consumes Rage
  

• Down Charge Attack no longer has an active hitbox above the sword
  

Juan

• Sprint Attack reverted to configuration before 1.7.0
  
• Aerial Rooster Uppercut now consumes Rage
  

Vandal

• Up Special and Up Air Special now consume Rage
  

Ripjack

• Poison DPS reduced from 5 to 3
  

Apu, Apunaut, Apucalypse and Funkmaster

• Small tweak to Down Air Special knockback angle
  
• Small knockback growth increase on Forward Charge Attack
  

Olaf, Ooga, Tysonstein and Acolyte

• Removed a hitbox from Sprint Attack
  
• Sprint Attack damage increased
  
• Sprint Attack knockback reduced
  
• Glacier Punch knockback growth increased
  
• Pillar no longer stops opponent attacks when lifting them, increasing the risk of lifting someone
  

• Back Aerial can now be fast falled
  
• Reduced hitpause on Down Charge Attack to prevent opponents from having too much time to react & tech
  
• Charge forward attack hitbox reduced
  

The brand new single-player mode The Trials is now available!

Character Balancing

Paco

• Increased Knockback on his Back Air

Mako

• Increased character weight (5.16 -> 5.7)
  
• Increased Knockback on his Back Air
  
• Increased Damage on his Down Air
  
• Increased Knockback on his side Special Side Dive Out

Apunaut

• Down Air Special can be countered with a Spike Cancel off stage

Funkmaster

• Down Air Special can be countered with a Spike Cancel off stage

Apucalypse

• Down Air Special can be countered with a Spike Cancel off stage

King Apu

• Down Air Special can be countered with a Spike Cancel off stage

Volt

• Increased knockback on the last hit of Down Special
  
• Increased damage on Down Tilt

Juan

• Tweaked Sprint Attack Knockback angle: the victim now flies behind Juan, making it a perfect combo starter
  
• Increased knockback on Olmec's Headbutt (Neutral Special)
  
• Increased knockback on Rooster Uppercut (Up Special)

Yooka-Laylee

• Increased Knockback on Forward Air
  
• Increased Damage and Knockback on Up Charge Attack
  
• Increased knockback on Lizard Leap (Down Special)
  
• Up Air Special no longer multihits
  
• Fixed the freeze time and stun time on Neutral Special's projectile (ground and air versions)

Senator Feathers

• Reduced damage on Down Charge Attack's full charge

Natu'ra

• Reduced knockback on her jab special

Vandal

• Increased knockback on the last hit of Down Special
  
• Increased damage on Down Tilt

New Online Lobby system!

It's time to Party!

NEW:

• Jumping now has a 8 frame buffer.
  
• You can now fastfall from a ledgehang by double tapping down.
  
• There is now a 0.5 second ledge regrab timer that is active when attacking from ledge.

ADJUSTED:

• You can now act faster after jumping off of the ledge.
  
• You can now fastfall right after wavedashing off of a platform.

FIXED:

• Fixed a bug in 1.4.16 where players couldn't downtilt on platforms without cstick.

ADJUSTED:

• You can now fastfall during most aerial attacks.
  
  • Attacks that stop or alter your momentum, such as Sephi'ra's forward air part 1 or divekick cannot be fastfalled.
    
  • Previously, players could not fastfall while an attack was active.
  
  
• You can now act faster after falling from ledge

FIXED:

• Fixed some ledge get up invincibility timings

NEW:

• All characters can now hang on ledge for a few seconds.

ADJUSTED:

• Tysonstein's neutral special buff duration doubled

FIXED:

• Fixed a bug with C-Stick tilts