A quick set of three patches over the last two weeks, featuring a new knockback curve and a little bit of menu polish.

Minor balance patch.

• Can now jump and grab out of the start of dash attack animations
• Lag-canceling energy regen delay is now based on move's landing lag, and lower

Carbon

• Several tweaks and buffs

Helium

• New up-tilt (well, the animation's the same, but it hits differently)
• Several tweaks and buffs

• Improved controller display
• Fix crash on restore state if an entity was removed
• Cleaned up Helium's animation data
• Misc cleanup

Another rework of knockback and stun, character handling tweaks, and balance changes.

• All characters have had their dodge rolls, tech rolls, and floor rolls tuned to be longer
• All characters have had movement/handling tweaked
• Hax dashing should work now
• Shield knockback has been entirely redone, and also applies knockback to a grounded attacker

• Lots of balance changes, but not worth listing until knockback/etc changes settle down
• Iron has a very new up-B trajectory pattern
• Xenon's orb warp now has a short delay

• Updated Node

Picking back up on bug fixes/quality of life improvements, which will be the priority for the rest of 0.7.

• Put a thin layer of polish on old UI code: sound effects, hover states
• Hovering over stages in versus select now previews the stage behind the menu

• The tech input window now extends slightly into a missed tech animation instead of only testing on land
• Removed slopes from Transistor's ledges - collision bugs can make it unplayable, this is easier than fixing now
• Air handling got changed a little again
• A little more balancing

• Attempted fix for some of the weird ground -> air animation canceling bugs and other related things
• Improved some logic that should clean up a few subtle, inconsistent misbehaviors
• Fixed bug preventing forward/back jumps from being used out of moves that allow jumping and similar scenario
• Fixed stats not tracking in some scenarios
• Respawn and hit stun effects no longer have ugly orbs
• Fixed controller input not reading properly in frame-by-frame mode (also groundwork for replays)
• A lot of random systems here and there are now a bit more stable

It's been a while, but 0.7 is finally released.

Headlining the changes, and the source of many delays, is refined netcode: mostly rewritten, and much more stable. There have also been substantial tweaks to knockback curves, several bug fixes, and polish passes over some parts of the game.

As usual, report any bugs in the Steam discussion board or on the official Discord[discord.gg].

Full change log:

New controller polling code, new netplay code, tons of netplay improvements, a lot of code cleanup, more visual improvements, new knockback curves.

• Controller polling is handled more reliably now
• A big portion of the netcode stack has been rewritten or overhauled, and should be much more stable
• Netcode now consumes even less bandwith
• First phase of new SFX work, plus new SFX encoding pipeline
• Lots of visual improvements

• New knockback curves, with a lot of move adjustments that aren't directly comparable anymore
• Big balance pass, accounting for knockback/stun changes
• Xenon and Helium have been resized to be larger
• Can no longer tilt shield while in shield stun
• Parry window reduced to two frames
• Disabled stale DI system for now, to test without it and because it got broken and this is easier than fixing
• Bounce knockback curves reworked - now bounce higher
• Iron has a new up-tap
• Shield can now trigger during iasa frames
• Can no longer buffer actions out of dropping shield
• Lag-cancel window tweaked: active for 10 frames, but can input again after 7

• Fixed some ledge options with control stick not working as intended
• Fixed parry audio being too loud
• Fixed shield knockback
• Tons of code cleanup and automatic linting, which caught a few obscure bugs
• Fixed damage displays rising further and further away from characters based on damage
• Bandaided Xenon bot's recovery
• Fixed sound effects being pretty quiet
• Fixed being able to change spawn facing at the start of a game by holding a direction
• Frame-perfect reverse forward-tap now correctly uses the pivot version of the animation
• Fixed hot reloading of characters not working right if there is more than one of that character in game

• Tuned thresholds for tilts
• Improved ftilt vs utilt input
• Tuned out of shield control options
• Menu fits the screen better
• Remapping menu is spaced better
• Updated TypeScript, Node, FreeType, and other dependencies
• New logo
• Improved controller debug display
• Cleaned up installation a bit (removed unused files + fixed some of the build process)