Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl has been updated today on all platforms. You can find out the complete patch notes for this update from here.
The developers are calling it a minor patch to address a number of issues with the game. These range from fixing general gameplay bugs to changes to various characters to better adjust the game balance. The patch notes were shared on the Steam forums, but you can have a look at them below.
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Update Patch Notes
General
- Fixed characters animating at half frame rate on Rooftop Rumble, Royal Woods Cemetery and Traffic Jam while playing online
- Fixed Ghost Zone causing CPU players to freeze in place
- Projectiles that bounce no longer last indefinitely (Ren & Stimpy Log, CatDog Furball, Toph Boulder)
- Projectiles that bounce no longer disappear when making contact with a wall or ceiling, they will continue bouncing for their spawned duration
- Increased global DI window (10° → 16°)
- Updated pixelated images in gallery
- Fixed certain recovery moves not activating as expected when performed immediately after leaving launch state
- Implemented dash dancing: turning around out of a run begins an immediate run in the opposite direction
- Performing a dash dance starts a 15 frame warmup before a dash attack can be input. On the 16th frame and beyond, conditions for dash attacks return to normal
- Patrick: Fixed command-input not activating super-armor
- Aang: Removed outermost hitboxes on neutral air
- Aang: Increased down special x-speed multiplier (1.75→1.85)
- Toph: Fixed infinite platform bug
- Korra: Fixed down special having variable landing lag
- Lucy Loud: Down special vampire base knockback decreased (180→110)
- Lucy Loud: Down special vampire knockback gain increased (185→265)
- Michelangelo: Neutral air launch angle changed (320→30)
- Michelangelo: Neutral air stun decreased (30→24)
- Michelangelo: Neutral air stun gain increased (0→6)
- Michelangelo: Fixed up air not hitting airborne opponents
- Ren & Stimpy: Down special base knockback decreased (200→120)
- Ren & Stimpy: Down special knockback gain increased (200→250)
- Powdered Toast Man: Powdered Toast sprinkled to the idle animations (Fresh out of the can)
- Zim: Fixed dash attack 2nd hit not manifesting, will now appear as expected
- Zim: Fixed strong mid hitbox misplacement, will now appear as expected
- Helga: Fixed down special taking damage
- Danny Phantom: Down special base knockback decreased (180→100)
- Danny Phantom: Down special knockback gain increased (160→280)
- Oblina: Fixed aerial down strong hitbox misplacement, will now appear as expected
- Oblina: Fixed aerial light down hitbox lingering the duration of the move
- Added missing localized words on the options menu
- Fixed Traffic Jam Bus not rendering properly on Low setting
Gameplay updates explained
- Dashdancing was a highly requested feature that almost made it into the initial release, but the tradeoff of dash attacks made it too overbearing & the time constraints put the feature on the backburner. Now that there’s a dedicated cooldown period for dash attacking out of dashdance specifically, the feature is ready to run
- Projectiles bouncing indefinitely was a consequence of those specific projectiles not having proper despawn functionality period, so fixing that issue consequently makes them not bounce forever. Like Mikey’s down special jump exploit, this is something we’d love to make a feature in the future
- The DI change will mean that combo trees will have much more variety now, as the opponent being comboed now has more control over where they’re launched after a hit. Because this change has pretty significant ramifications on balance inherently, we’ve opted to hold off on making many balance adjustments beyond it for this patch
- The Aang down special buff is emblematic of the design philosophy of not wanting to strictly and explicitly nerf a character. Our aim is to avoid patches where a character receives only nerfs that isn’t tied to some general bugfix
- The Mikey nair adjustments make the move now function as a nair should, instead of the slow-mo auto-combo fodder it was previously. The hitstun scaling will make the move less egregiously combo potent at lower percents, but still have the potential to confirm into kills at high percents. Adding hitstun scaling to the majority of moves in the game is on our to-do list
- The knockback changes to Lucy/R&S/Danny make those specific moves no longer kill at ridiculously low percent, but the buffed scaling ensures kill potential at higher percent
