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Genre: Fighting, Indie

Tough Love Arena

0.95.10

You can find the full changelog at about.toughlovearena.com/log


  • Menu: Pressing Throw works the same as pressing Light on most menus
  • Training Mode: Toggling hitbox display while gameplay is frozen will now update immediately, rather than requiring a frame step
  • Event Mode: You can toggle hitbox display from the Pause Menu (this is tracked separately from Training Mode)
  • Event Mode: There is now a controller preview on the main menu (this is temporary for an offline event)

0.95.9

You can find the full changelog at about.toughlovearena.com/log


  • Attract Mode: The setting to enable this is now enabled by default if playing on desktop
  • Attract Mode: You can now exit by clicking, just like the Welcome screen
  • Event Mode: Fixed bug where rebooting would immediately play music
  • Event Mode: Enable all flavors when playing Human VS CPU

0.95.8

You can find the full changelog at about.toughlovearena.com/log


  • Pause Menu: You can now hold any 1 key/button to switch from Single Player to Two Players controls
  • Pause Menu: You can now hold any 2 keys/buttons to exit without saving
  • Event Mode: Rebooting exits fullscreen. As a workaround, after it reboots to the Welcome/Attract Screen, when you press anything to proceed it will also go fullscreen

0.95.7

You can find the full changelog at about.toughlovearena.com/log


  • Pause Menu: Moved Custom Controls lower down in the options
  • Event Mode: Reverted needing to hold Pause for non-gameplay menus
  • Event Mode: Will automatically reboot after idling for 45 seconds on the main menu, Character Select or the Win Screen

0.95.6

You can find the full changelog at about.toughlovearena.com/log


  • Attract Mode: Added quick loading animation when exiting Attract Mode (used to be instant and jarring)
  • Event Mode: Added inner menu where you can choose between 2P or 1P vs Random CPU
  • Event Mode: You now need to hold Pause for all areas of Event Mode (to reduce accidental pausing)
  • Event Mode: Pressing Heavy at the inner menu takes you to Attract Mode (removed from Pause Menu)
  • Event Mode: Idling at the inner menu for 30 seconds will refresh the app
  • The refresh will load directly back to the Event Menu and show Attract Mode
  • Previously, running Event Mode on the desktop version for 3+ hours could randomly crash the game
  • This refresh mechanism is a workaround while we investigate this difficult to reproduce bug

0.95.5

You can find the full changelog at about.toughlovearena.com/log


  • Adjusted Garlic: Increased Sneak hitstop duration 10 > 12 frames
  • Gameplay: Successful parry attacks will always face the opponent, fixing interaction when parrying Soup placed behind you
  • Maintenance: Fixed meta tag for image preview
  • Maintenance: Phase 1 of rewriting netcode code for open sourcing

0.95.4

You can find the full changelog at about.toughlovearena.com/log


  • Controls: You can now map ShiftLeft and Spacebar
  • Controls: Functional keys (F1, F2, etc) are now completely ignored
  • How to Play: Fixed typo in Rice strategy
  • About: Fixed links pointing to events and the Hall of Fame
  • About: Removed community links (now available at about.toughlovearena.com)
  • Maintenance: Fixed meta tags so that sharing TLA on social media will now look nicer

0.95.3

You can find the full changelog at about.toughlovearena.com/log


  • Menu: Music box in the top right now remembers your music preference
  • Attract Mode: No longer saves replays
  • Maintenance: Migrated deployment scripts to more maintainable framework

0.95.2

You can find the full changelog at about.toughlovearena.com/log


  • Gameplay: Fixed hitstop on REJECT, now there is a slight freeze when it connects
  • Gameplay: It is now impossible to combo after a landing a REJECT
  • Buffed Pork: Caber Toss is now unburstable until the first hit, making Caber > Jump or Caber > Chop guaranteed. Longer combos can still be bursted
  • Training: With hitboxes on, you can now see how many juggle points remain during a combo
  • Debug Tools: Fixed issue with inner menu navigation

0.95.1

You can find the full changelog at about.toughlovearena.com/log


  • Options: Removed "Unload Stale Sprites" until it can be further tested and debugged
  • Debug Tools: Merged public and private debug tools into one ugly menu