MultiVersus

• New Characters: New roster additions are incredibly exciting, so we figured we'd give you a bit of a tease of one of the new characters who will be joining the MVS roster in Season 2! Hailing from the planet Mars and sent to destroy Earth with his Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator, Marvin the Martian will soon be making his way to MultiVersus, in yet another fruitless attempt to claim victory. We'll have more information about Marvin and his kit soon, so hang in there!
  
  
• New Map: Winter is Coming and along with it, a new map! That's right, in Season 2 we're introducing an all new Game of Thrones themed map with all the hazards and pitfalls you'd come to expect from the land of Westeros. Soon you'll be able to hurl your opponents away from the Iron Throne while humming an all-new remix of the awesome Game of Thrones theme music which has been composed with multiple sections that can transition dynamically depending on what mayhem is taking place in the match. When you play the Game of Thrones map, you win or you... fall off the map.
  
  
• Network & Latency Improvements: Since the Open Beta launch, we've made many optimizations to MVS to improve performance. We recently implemented multi-path network traffic acceleration to improve stability and latency, which will lead to a much improved online experience for players worldwide. This is just the beginning and we'll be continuing to invest in and improve in this area. This is a priority for us and the team is hard at work at making the online experience amazing!
  
  
• New Battle Pass: We're happy to share a little information about our Season 2 Battle Pass which is chock full of new badges, icons/profile icons, banners and taunts for you to unlock and enjoy! Season 2 will boast fun new Character Variants to collect along both the Free and Premium tracks such as Baker Street Tom & Jerry and Astronaut Velma. If Ringouts happen to be your thing, we're also adding some new additions such as Toxic Explosion and Lava Breath that are sure to demoralize your opponents in the flashiest way possible.
  

Overall patch summary

General

• We moved the Free-For-All mode to a more prominent position in the play menu. It was on the far right of the menu and was often hidden. We really enjoy the mode and recommend trying it out if you haven't!
  

Characters

• Stripe joins Multiversus! Stripe is our first chainsaw-wielding assassin!
  

Announcer Packs

• Say 안녕하세요! (hello), the Lady Rainicorn Announcer Pack has been added to the store!
  

New Map

• A new map will be appearing very soon that can only be played in custom games. It's new and experimental, so we would love for players to try it out and give us feedback on how to improve! More details soon!
  

MultiVersus Halloween Event!

• Halloween is coming to the Multiverse!
  
• Event Runs: October 12th, 2022 - November 15th, 2022
  
• Earn candy by playing games against other players or bots. Earn extra candy by playing with Combat Stripe, Combat Gizmo, or other Halloween exclusive skins!
  

Halloween Candy Earnings Breakdown:

• Candy earned for 1s Win (Not playing as Combat Stripe or Combat Gizmo or another Halloween Skin) = 20 Candy
  
• Candy earned for 1s Loss (Not playing as Combat Stripe or Combat Gizmo or another Halloween Skin) = 10 Candy
  
• Candy earned for 1s Win (Playing as Combat Stripe or Combat Gizmo or another Halloween Variant = 40 Candy
  
• Candy earned for 1s Loss (Playing as Combat Stripe or Combat Gizmo or another Halloween Variant) = 20 Candy
  

• Candy earned for 2s Win (Neither playing as Combat Stripe or Gizmo or another Halloween Variant) = 20 Candy
  
• Candy earned for 2s Win (Player playing as Combat Stripe or Combat Gizmo or another Halloween Variant) = 40 Candy
  
• Candy earned for 2s Win (Both playing as Combat Stripe or Combat Gizmo or another Halloween Variant) = 60 Candy
  
• Candy earned for 2s Loss (Neither playing as Combat Stripe or Combat Gizmo or another Halloween Variant) = 10 Candy
  
• Candy earned for 2s Loss (Player playing as Combat Stripe or Combat Gizmo or another Halloween Variant) = 20 Candy
  
• Candy earned for 2s Loss (Team playing as Combat Stripe or Combat Gizmo or another Halloween Variant) = 40 Candy
  

Exchange your candy in the candy shop for exclusive treats!

• Pumpkin Patch Profile Icon = 150 Candy
  
• Jack-O-Lantern Emote Sticker = 500 Candy
  
• Mummy Reindog Epic Variant = 3,000 Candy
  
• Calico Cake Epic Variant = 12,000 Candy
  

Exchange your Candy for Gold!

Cosmetics

Halloween Event Cosmetics (Puchaseable)

Gameplay Systems

• Anti-Infinite System: We've lowered the same attack limit from 4 to 3. Using the same attack 3 times in the same hitstun combo will now decay the attack and all subsequent attacks in the combo. The goal is to put a global soft-cap on infinite combos and make combos more creative (rather than the same attacks over and over). We hope the change pushes players to explore new and more exciting combo routes instead of the same few attacks looped together. We will be paying careful attention to this system and as always we appreciate your feedback!
  
• Dodge Meter System: We've increased the time it takes to regain ticks of the dodge meter. This is to promote more deliberate action and management of the dodge meter. The goal is to increase the importance of the dodge meter and thereby increase the importance of perks affecting the dodge meter as well.
  

Overall patch summary

General

• Rick Sanchez joins MultiVersus! Rick is a new Mage character joining the roster.
  
• The XP required to go from level 3 - 15 on the character mastery track has been doubled
  
• We were finding that players could get to level 15 of the mastery track too quickly. This is to help us make it a bit more of a journey.
  
• Loading performance improvements for PS4 and Xbox One.
  
• Initial free character from completing the intro tutorial has been switched to Shaggy from Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman can now be purchased for Gold or Gleamium.
  
• Attack decay steps have been added to the intro tutorial.
  
• Fixed an issue in Coop-Versus-AI that was causing only Wonder Woman and Reindog bots to appear.
  
• Fixed a bug where some players weren’t able to equip profile icons.
  
• Fixed a bug where the game would occasionally freeze at the end-of-game screen.
  

Cosmetics

• Reindog Skin: Chef Reindog is now available!
  
• Reindog Skin: Golden Reindog is now available! ONLY purchasable with gold!
  
• Steven Universe Skin: Tiger Millionaire is now available!
  

Twitch Extension

• Minor visual bug fixes
  
• Added 'Fighter Voting' which allows broadcasters to poll their audience on which fighter to play, viewers who have MultiVersus get bonus votes.
  
• Added the ability for viewers who have MultiVersus to claim free toasts from Twitch channels running the extension.
  

Gameplay Systems

Anti-Infinite Combo System

• We’ve implemented a new anti-infinite-combo system that will decay all subsequent attacks if the same attack has been used 4 or more times in the same true combo. The goal is to put a global soft-cap on infinite combos and make combos more creative. We hope the change pushes players to explore new and more exciting combo routes.
  
• We were considering the max number of the same attack being used to be 3, but we wanted to more slowly evaluate the change. We’re going to be evaluating the change and are open to feedback on how we can improve the system!
  
• The option to choose between 4 direction or 8 direction for the right-stick control (c-stick) has been added to the settings menu.
  

Projectile Systems

• We are continuing the projectile systems update in this patch. The most notable addition is the inclusion of a new “Light Projectile” classification for projectiles that deal no knockback. The only Light Projectiles in the game for now are Rick’s uncharged blaster and the pies fired by the Neptr assist item.
  

Character Updates

• Bug Fix
  
• Fixed issues where Arya could deal much more damage than intended.
  
• Bug Fix: Neutral Special
  
• Fixed issues that were causing hit boxes on stolen attacks to not hit reliably.
  
• We are still looking at updates to Arya’s up special, but could use more time to make it right. Expect an update in the near future.
  

• Down Air Attack
  
• Hitbox is slightly smaller to better match the visuals
  

• Bug Fix Side Air Attack
  
• Can no longer ignore air special limits when branching into the attack.
  
• Air Down Attack
  
• Instant cancel on hit removed.
  
• Ground Side Attack
  
• Instant jump cancel on hit removed.
  

• Ground Down Attack
  
• Garnet now retains some of her velocity moving into the attack.
  
• Ground Up Attack
  
• Recovery reduced by 3 frames on hit.
  
• This change should improve Garnet’s ability to follow up on a successful attack.
  
• Air Down Attack
  
• Hitbox active frames start 2 frames earlier
  
• Air Neutral Attack
  
• Recovery reduced by 3 frames on hit.
  
• This change should improve Garnet’s ability to follow up on a successful attack.
  

• Jump Speed
  
• Increased jump speed to 3700 from 3400.
  
• Air/Ground Neutral Special
  
• Music note lifetime extended to 10 seconds from 9.
  
• Ground Side Special
  
• Car now classified as a heavy projectile
  
• Air Side Special
  
• Recovery reduced by 5 frames
  
• Air Down Special
  
• Can now jump cancel out of the attack
  

• Bug Fix: Down Special
  
• Fixed an issue where jack-in-the-box would sometimes not hit overlapping enemies
  

• Bug Fix: Neutral Special
  
• Bolts will no longer be destroyed when they exit the blast box but Iron Giant is not KOed
  

• Air/Ground Down Special
  
• While in the House and on the ground, Jake will no longer bounce grounded opponents.
  
• Ground Down Attack
  
• Recovery increased by 4 frames on whiff(miss).
  

• Change
  
• Experimental Tag removed.
  
• Bug Fix
  
• fixed a bug that would cause the ball to disappear when thrown close to the enemy.
  
• Air/Ground Neutral Special
  
• When an ally receives a pass, they emit a small explosion to knock away enemies.
  
• No-Look pass basketball speed increased to 3200 from 3000
  
• Air/Ground Down Special
  
• No longer blocks heavy projectiles
  
• BasketBall Air Neutral Attack
  
• No longer breaks armor on first hit.
  

• Change
  
• Experimental Tag removed.
  

• Air Side Special
  
• Recovery increased by 3 frames on whiff (miss).
  
• Air Neutral Attack
  
• No longer breaks armor on first hit
  

• Air/Ground Up Special
  
• Smoothed out movement so the attack won’t hitch
  
• Ground Side Attack 1 - 3
  <*> Smoothed out movement so the attack won’t hitch
  
• First attack can now branch earlier into the second attack
  
• Second attack can now branch earlier into the final attack
  
• Forward movement during attacks increased so that they hit more reliably.
  
• Air Side Attack
  
• Increased knockback scaling to 14.5 from 13.5
  
• Steven’s horizontal kill power was very low. We hope this change will help him in this aspect.
  
• Air/Ground Side Special
  
• Increased projectile speed slightly.
  
• Air Down Attack
  
• Hitbox active frames start 2 frames earlier.
  
• This change makes the active hit frames more accurately match the animation.
  

• Ground Up Attack
  
• Reduced charged knockback scaling to 1.5x from 2.0x.
  
• Charge cancel reduced by 4 frames
  
• This should make the attack slightly more of a commitment
  
• Ground Neutral Attack
  
• Charge cancel reduced by 4 frames.
  
• Air Up Special
  
• Recovery increased by 12 frames on whiff(miss).
  
• Lowered base knockback of down throw.
  
• This should help make the wall camping strategies less effective.
  

• Ground Side Attack 1
  
• Hitbox active frame window increased by 2 frames
  
• Recovery increased by 4 frames on whiff(miss)
  
• Ground Side Attack 2
  
• Recovery increased by 4 frames on whiff(miss)
  
• Air Side Attack
  
• Recovery reduced by 3 frames
  
• Recovery land cancel reduced by 7 frames
  
• Air Down Attack
  
• Recovery reduced by 3 frames
  
• Recovery land cancel window moved forward by 3 frames.
  
• Pushed knockback angle to be more horizontal
  
• Air/Ground Neutral Special
  
• Jerry returns back to Tom if he is killed when attached to an ally
  

• Bug Fix: Ground Up Special
  
• Fixed a bug where Velma’s vial wouldn’t apply stacks of ice reliably
  
• Air/Ground Neutral Attack
  
• Bug Fix: Toodles speech bubble no longer consumes 1 additional ammo.
  
• Ally Enhanced Speech bubbles no longer apply 1 stack of weaken.
  
• Air Down Attack
  
• Pushed Knockback angle to be more horizontal
  
• Air/Ground Up Air
  
• Recovery increased by 3 frames.
  
• Air/Ground Neutral Special
  
• Ally enhanced beam no longer applies 1 stack of weaken
  
• Ally enhanced beam base knockback reduced from 1750 to 1600.
  

General

• Ice To Beat You! - Projectiles will only apply Ice debuff to fighters that are not already debuffed by Ice.
  
• I’ll Take That - Unstacked cooldown refund decreased from 0.5 seconds to 0.25 seconds
  
• Stacked cooldown refund decreased from 1 second to 0.5 seconds

• Fixed a bug where ability cooldowns may not trigger when projectiles are spawned close to terrain
  

• + Assassin Passive:
  
• Reduced extra damage taken from 14% to 5%.
  
• We’re evaluating if this passive should be removed entirely. We want to take a step towards that while trying to not to go too far too fast. We don’t want to create an assassin dominated meta.
  
• Movelist Description of this change will not be updated until the next patch
  

• + Air/Ground Neutral Special:
  
• Increased base damage from 5 to 6
  
• This base damage is increased by holding and charging the attack
  

• + Air/Ground Down Special (BMO Chop)
  
• Increased Damage from 18 to 20
  
• Increased Knockback Scaling from 18 to 20
  

• + Assassin Passive:
  
• Reduced extra damage taken from 14% to 5%.
  
• We’re evaluating if this passive should be removed entirely. We want to take a step towards that while trying to not to go too far too fast. We don’t want to create an assassin dominated meta.
  
• Movelist Description of this change will not be updated until the next patch
  

• + Assassin Passive:
  
• Reduced extra damage taken from 14% to 5%.
  
• We’re evaluating if this passive should be removed entirely. We want to take a step towards that while trying to not to go too far too fast. We don’t want to create an assassin dominated meta.
  
• Movelist Description of this change will not be updated until the next patch
  

• - Air/Ground Neutral Special:
  
• Increased cooldown from 23s to 25s
  
• - Air Up Attack:
  
• Hit boxes shrank to more accurate fit the attack visuals
  
• - Air/Ground Up Special:
  
• Reduced damage by 1 and base knockback on final hit of spin
  
• + Air/Ground Down Special:
  
• Allow cancel out of Cannonball if it hits an enemy
  

• ~ Fixed a bug that would allow Superman to grapple enemies that wall bounce even if his hitboxes did not connect.
  

• - Air/Ground Down Special:
  
• Velma Educated buff reduced cooldown return from 75% over 8 seconds to 50% over 8 seconds.
  

General

• Ice To Beat You! - Projectiles will only apply Ice debuff to fighters that are not already debuffed by Ice.
  
• I’ll Take That - Unstacked cooldown refund decreased from 0.5 seconds to 0.25 seconds
  
• Stacked cooldown refund decreased from 1 second to 0.5 seconds

• Fixed a bug where ability cooldowns may not trigger when projectiles are spawned close to terrain
  

• + Assassin Passive:
  
• Reduced extra damage taken from 14% to 5%.
  
• We’re evaluating if this passive should be removed entirely. We want to take a step towards that while trying to not to go too far too fast. We don’t want to create an assassin dominated meta.
  
• Movelist Description of this change will not be updated until the next patch
  

• + Air/Ground Neutral Special:
  
• Increased base damage from 5 to 6
  
• This base damage is increased by holding and charging the attack
  

• + Air/Ground Down Special (BMO Chop)
  
• Increased Damage from 18 to 20
  
• Increased Knockback Scaling from 18 to 20
  

• + Assassin Passive:
  
• Reduced extra damage taken from 14% to 5%.
  
• We’re evaluating if this passive should be removed entirely. We want to take a step towards that while trying to not to go too far too fast. We don’t want to create an assassin dominated meta.
  
• Movelist Description of this change will not be updated until the next patch
  

• + Assassin Passive:
  
• Reduced extra damage taken from 14% to 5%.
  
• We’re evaluating if this passive should be removed entirely. We want to take a step towards that while trying to not to go too far too fast. We don’t want to create an assassin dominated meta.
  
• Movelist Description of this change will not be updated until the next patch
  

• - Air/Ground Neutral Special:
  
• Increased cooldown from 23s to 25s
  
• - Air Up Attack:
  
• Hit boxes shrank to more accurate fit the attack visuals
  
• - Air/Ground Up Special:
  
• Reduced damage by 1 and base knockback on final hit of spin
  
• + Air/Ground Down Special:
  
• Allow cancel out of Cannonball if it hits an enemy
  

• ~ Fixed a bug that would allow Superman to grapple enemies that wall bounce even if his hitboxes did not connect.
  

• - Air/Ground Down Special:
  
• Velma Educated buff reduced cooldown return from 75% over 8 seconds to 50% over 8 seconds.