It's been a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time! ...Lenneth.

Ladies and gentlemen, over four years after the initial PC release I am proud and sad really mostly sad to present the final Skullgirls PC patch! It addresses a major bug, a minor bug, and a launch option - no gameplay changes, don't panic. :^)

- FIXED a very old bug that led to certain people experiencing frequent disconnects on character select! The character select socket was not allowed to use Steam's relay servers, so people with draconian firewalls or very bad connections that required relay servers would experience disconnects very often at character select or the end of matches. Extra special thanks to Mane6, who discovered the bug and the fix.

- Re-enabled the Salt character when you win a game with Squigly's Lv5. Oops.

- Added the -debugkeys launch option. With this enabled, extra debug functionality is available in Training Mode or Replay Theater (-enablereplays):
-- The minus - key (on the full keyboard, not on the numpad): Press it once to place the game in slow-motion. Press it again to stop the game completely. While the game is stopped, pressing the key again will advance the game by a single frame. That's the important bit. :^)
-- The plus + key, does the opposite of the minus key.
-- The zero 0 key, toggles between regular speed and stopped.

Title screen build ID 15694 (lobbies are now fixed!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8ClltY7bqk
See ya on Indivisible!

Yes, the physical versions, JP PS4/Vita patches, and XBox patch are still coming.

It's been a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time! ...Lenneth.

Ladies and gentlemen, over four years after the initial PC release I am proud and sad really mostly sad to present the final Skullgirls PC patch! It addresses a major bug, a minor bug, and a launch option - no gameplay changes, don't panic. :^)

- FIXED a very old bug that led to certain people experiencing frequent disconnects on character select! The character select socket was not allowed to use Steam's relay servers, so people with draconian firewalls or very bad connections that required relay servers would experience disconnects very often at character select or the end of matches. Extra special thanks to Mane6, who discovered the bug and the fix.

- Re-enabled the Salt character when you win a game with Squigly's Lv5. Oops.

- Added the -debugkeys launch option. With this enabled, extra debug functionality is available in Training Mode or Replay Theater (-enablereplays):
-- The minus - key (on the full keyboard, not on the numpad): Press it once to place the game in slow-motion. Press it again to stop the game completely. While the game is stopped, pressing the key again will advance the game by a single frame. That's the important bit. :^)
-- The plus + key, does the opposite of the minus key.
-- The zero 0 key, toggles between regular speed and stopped.

Title screen build ID 15694 (lobbies are now fixed!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8ClltY7bqk
See ya on Indivisible!

Yes, the physical versions, JP PS4/Vita patches, and XBox patch are still coming.

The year's biggest Skullgirls tournament is underway, at the Pheasant Run Resort near Chicago! ...and I'm at it, so let's hurry on up here.
:^)
The full schedule is here but the relevant bits for SG are...
Friday 5/26
Auction tournament - 1-3 PM CST on twitch.tv/bgcallisto
A small portion of pools - 3-5 PM CST on twitch.tv/bgcallisto
Saturday 5/27
Top 24->8 - 2-4 PM CST on twitch.tv/xsplit (apparently?)
Top 8 - 6-8 PM CST on twitch.tv/teamsp00ky
CRAZY EXHIBITION MADNESS LIKE ALWAYS - 10+ PM CST on twitch.tv/bgcallisto
There is also a Third Strike tournament on Saturday and Vampire Savior on arcade boards and aaaaahhhhhh....!

...did you know there was a Skullgirls Mobile? Well there is, so dreams do come true - it's made by Hidden Variable Studios, and you can play it right now and stuff!
If you own a cellphone-like device that was made more recently than mine was, ch-ch-ch-check it out:
iOS App Store
Android on Google Play Store
The official SG Mobile forums are HERE (not on Skullheart!) if you have bugs to report, rants to rant, or things to praise.

tl;dr
We had to wait for a lot of things to happen, and we weren't super great about telling everyone that we had to wait, and it took an exceptionally long time, so we apologize. :^( But we're finally ready to get at making the builds so they can be approved and y'know, pressed and sent out and stuff!
Full version:
https://twitter.com/Skullgirls/status/867924998811402240
[or]
http://skullgirls.com/2017/05/skullgirls-lrg-update-3/

Congratulations on wading through the giant text wall! Your reward is one last spoiler text: I'm not a huge fan of the word "roundup", but "cluster" sounds kinda weird too. Ah well. COMBO BREAKER TIME!

The year's biggest Skullgirls tournament is underway, at the Pheasant Run Resort near Chicago! ...and I'm at it, so let's hurry on up here.
:^)
The full schedule is here but the relevant bits for SG are...
Friday 5/26
Auction tournament - 1-3 PM CST on twitch.tv/bgcallisto
A small portion of pools - 3-5 PM CST on twitch.tv/bgcallisto
Saturday 5/27
Top 24->8 - 2-4 PM CST on twitch.tv/xsplit (apparently?)
Top 8 - 6-8 PM CST on twitch.tv/teamsp00ky
CRAZY EXHIBITION MADNESS LIKE ALWAYS - 10+ PM CST on twitch.tv/bgcallisto
There is also a Third Strike tournament on Saturday and Vampire Savior on arcade boards and aaaaahhhhhh....!

...did you know there was a Skullgirls Mobile? Well there is, so dreams do come true - it's made by Hidden Variable Studios, and you can play it right now and stuff!
If you own a cellphone-like device that was made more recently than mine was, ch-ch-ch-check it out:
iOS App Store
Android on Google Play Store
The official SG Mobile forums are HERE (not on Skullheart!) if you have bugs to report, rants to rant, or things to praise.

tl;dr
We had to wait for a lot of things to happen, and we weren't super great about telling everyone that we had to wait, and it took an exceptionally long time, so we apologize. :^( But we're finally ready to get at making the builds so they can be approved and y'know, pressed and sent out and stuff!
Full version:
https://twitter.com/Skullgirls/status/867924998811402240
[or]
http://skullgirls.com/2017/05/skullgirls-lrg-update-3/

Congratulations on wading through the giant text wall! Your reward is one last spoiler text: I'm not a huge fan of the word "roundup", but "cluster" sounds kinda weird too. Ah well. COMBO BREAKER TIME!

- Japanese combat voices are now added, free, for everyone! Change between JP/EN per character in the Options menu under Voice Settings.
- Japanese story dialog is added to the 2nd Encore Upgrade DLC pack, so now you can choose between JP/EN for your story modes!

- Added the -disablelighting Launch Option. Does what it says, disables 99% of in-game lighting. Enabling this will make the game run better on bad computers, but it will look much worse.

- Added "None" as a Dummy Action choice in Training Mode, on PC/Mac/Linux only. If you have the bug where one controller controls both characters in Training Mode, this is the "fix". Sigh. (=.=)
- Fixed kicking people from lobbies on consoles.
- Fix the Demon Lobbies bug where lobbies would occasionally repeatedly set ready/unready.
- Fixed multiple bugs with midstage double snaps. Assists now must always reach the stage edge to stay in, unless Center Stage is active. A bunch of weird cases are now taken care of. (thanks Age!)
- Bursting the end of A-Train, Pummel Horse, and Canis Major Press can now hit the attacker, and so can Burst->alpha counter. Be careful!
- Gigantic Arm, 3 Wolf Moonsault, Diamonds Are Forever, Tricobezoar, Twice Shy, Head Over Heels, Fifth of Dismember, Lonesome Lenny, Acquisitive Prescription/Countervenom, and Rebirth Ex Machina all now properly grant the opponent a real amount of meter, as opposed to giving them the minimum meter possible from an attack or none at all. Silent Scope and Inferno Brigade were not adjusted, they are supposed to grant very little meter and were already set up to do that.
- Increased the size of the dead zone for legacy USB devices on PS4. Forgot to do this when I did it for DS4s! (thanks AlcoholicRobot)
- Fixed burstable-hitspark sound occasionally being weird. (also thanks AlcoholicRobot)
- Undizzy counts down on all frames, not just non-skipped frames. Fixes a possible desync online!
- Being kicked from a lobby no longer locks you out of all other game modes until the game is restarted. :^P
- SDL has been updated to version 2.0.5, which should fix the framerate issues on certain systems that have weird DBUS configurations.
- Added the -nohidpi option to manually resolve crashes on certain Macs that have extremely recent updates that made the game crash.
- Beowulf's move list now includes the EX Wulf Press Slam command. Oops. :^P

- ALL damage when above 240 undizzy is simply scaled by an extra 45% (to 55%, 1000 -> 550), with the same minimums as normal.
- When Undizzy is at 240+, the bar waits for 4f after recovery from hitstun before starting to decrease, so that resets must give the defender a larger window before no longer being penalized. Below 240, the bar still decreases instantly, and there is no delay when recovering from blockstun (unless a previous delay from hitstun has not yet finished).
- Snapping out a character on a trio now locks out both assists, not just the one you snapped out. This also locks out DHCs to both characters, and in general makes playing a trio riskier. Technically this qualifies as a bug fix, but since it changes that dynamic I have listed it as a Change.
- When Undizzy is at 240+, the attacker always gets the minimum damage-scaled metergain and the victim always gets the maximum.

Changes
- All versions of A-Train are now IPS tracked, and can grant Undizzy or IPS bursts if not chained into. (For IPS it counts as a separate special move from Brass Knuckles.)
- He now can’t use taunted supers during the same combo that he gained the taunt.
- Taunted Super Sonic Jazz -190 damage. At full scaling having a taunt gives almost exactly one extra super’s worth of damage now, instead of more than that.

Bug Fixes
- s.MP -> Pipe Bomb will no longer wrongly trigger Undizzy from the mic drop if the first hit of s.MP both wasn't chained into and also brings Undizzy over 240 on the first hit.
- Two chairless j.HPs that would trade with each other, will now tech each other. This requires both attacks to be active! If only one is active then it will grab as normal.
- Removed leftover buggy script from armor reactions. (thanks EU SG!)
- Added missing physical extent box on frame 4 of air knockup hitstun.
Change
- Non-super versions of Canis Major Press are now IPS tracked, and can grant IPS and Undizzy bursts if the grab-mode starting attack wasn't chained into.

Bug Fix
- Enemies held by Excellebella are always considered to be very far in front of her, because on the frames during the settling after being grabbed where that was not the case. This should fix randomly getting attacks facing the wrong way or backward motions during the first part of Excellebella assist grabs.
Changes
- Pummel Horse is now IPS tracked, and can grant Undizzy or IPS bursts if not chained into. (For IPS it now counts as Excellebella, because they are both comboable grabs.)
- The last hit of Excellebella assist only and all followup damage is force-scaled to 33% maximum. (Raw assist 1650 dmg to 1047 dmg.)
- j.HP scales damage to 75%, to give her slightly less reward for how much blockstun and priority it has.

Bug Fix
- The middle hits of j.HP now have the same momentum fix as the last hit does. This may not change very much, it is more for consistency.

Bug Fix
- Sekhmet doesn't turn around when hit from the back by certain moves like Zoom!

Bug Fixes
- Instant-air beams are now always possible with assist commands (D,DF,F,UF/U+P+K). Previously this was glitched during jump-rise unless the Kick button was pressed before the Punch button.
- All allied sprites will never blow up Headrone Impact mines. (This was a few bugs combined.)
- Removed leftover buggy script from armor reactions. (thanks EU SG!)
- Headrone Salvo missiles “Kitten Moussles”, free unused pun to good home now properly display IPS and Undizzy sparks when they hit, if those conditions are active.
- Lv1 and Lv3 Catastrophe Cannons now pull the opponent downward more, hitstop on each Cannon hit increased by 4f, and lowered the launch height of the individual hits, to help make many DHCs from Cannon not randomly miss half the time.

Bug Fix
- Countervenom and Acquisitive Prescription properly set the DHC number, so the correct DHCs are always available no matter which supers Valentine has done previously. (thanks amabane!)
Change
- Purple poison decides whether it will be max-undizzy-scaled or not when the syringe hits, and doesn't change any time after that.

Title screen build ID 15667

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiCZFhEpRDI

- Japanese combat voices are now added, free, for everyone! Change between JP/EN per character in the Options menu under Voice Settings.
- Japanese story dialog is added to the 2nd Encore Upgrade DLC pack, so now you can choose between JP/EN for your story modes!

- Added the -disablelighting Launch Option. Does what it says, disables 99% of in-game lighting. Enabling this will make the game run better on bad computers, but it will look much worse.

- Added "None" as a Dummy Action choice in Training Mode, on PC/Mac/Linux only. If you have the bug where one controller controls both characters in Training Mode, this is the "fix". Sigh. (=.=)
- Fixed kicking people from lobbies on consoles.
- Fix the Demon Lobbies bug where lobbies would occasionally repeatedly set ready/unready.
- Fixed multiple bugs with midstage double snaps. Assists now must always reach the stage edge to stay in, unless Center Stage is active. A bunch of weird cases are now taken care of. (thanks Age!)
- Bursting the end of A-Train, Pummel Horse, and Canis Major Press can now hit the attacker, and so can Burst->alpha counter. Be careful!
- Gigantic Arm, 3 Wolf Moonsault, Diamonds Are Forever, Tricobezoar, Twice Shy, Head Over Heels, Fifth of Dismember, Lonesome Lenny, Acquisitive Prescription/Countervenom, and Rebirth Ex Machina all now properly grant the opponent a real amount of meter, as opposed to giving them the minimum meter possible from an attack or none at all. Silent Scope and Inferno Brigade were not adjusted, they are supposed to grant very little meter and were already set up to do that.
- Increased the size of the dead zone for legacy USB devices on PS4. Forgot to do this when I did it for DS4s! (thanks AlcoholicRobot)
- Fixed burstable-hitspark sound occasionally being weird. (also thanks AlcoholicRobot)
- Undizzy counts down on all frames, not just non-skipped frames. Fixes a possible desync online!
- Being kicked from a lobby no longer locks you out of all other game modes until the game is restarted. :^P
- SDL has been updated to version 2.0.5, which should fix the framerate issues on certain systems that have weird DBUS configurations.
- Added the -nohidpi option to manually resolve crashes on certain Macs that have extremely recent updates that made the game crash.
- Beowulf's move list now includes the EX Wulf Press Slam command. Oops. :^P

- ALL damage when above 240 undizzy is simply scaled by an extra 45% (to 55%, 1000 -> 550), with the same minimums as normal.
- When Undizzy is at 240+, the bar waits for 4f after recovery from hitstun before starting to decrease, so that resets must give the defender a larger window before no longer being penalized. Below 240, the bar still decreases instantly, and there is no delay when recovering from blockstun (unless a previous delay from hitstun has not yet finished).
- Snapping out a character on a trio now locks out both assists, not just the one you snapped out. This also locks out DHCs to both characters, and in general makes playing a trio riskier. Technically this qualifies as a bug fix, but since it changes that dynamic I have listed it as a Change.
- When Undizzy is at 240+, the attacker always gets the minimum damage-scaled metergain and the victim always gets the maximum.

Changes
- All versions of A-Train are now IPS tracked, and can grant Undizzy or IPS bursts if not chained into. (For IPS it counts as a separate special move from Brass Knuckles.)
- He now can’t use taunted supers during the same combo that he gained the taunt.
- Taunted Super Sonic Jazz -190 damage. At full scaling having a taunt gives almost exactly one extra super’s worth of damage now, instead of more than that.

Bug Fixes
- s.MP -> Pipe Bomb will no longer wrongly trigger Undizzy from the mic drop if the first hit of s.MP both wasn't chained into and also brings Undizzy over 240 on the first hit.
- Two chairless j.HPs that would trade with each other, will now tech each other. This requires both attacks to be active! If only one is active then it will grab as normal.
- Removed leftover buggy script from armor reactions. (thanks EU SG!)
- Added missing physical extent box on frame 4 of air knockup hitstun.
Change
- Non-super versions of Canis Major Press are now IPS tracked, and can grant IPS and Undizzy bursts if the grab-mode starting attack wasn't chained into.

Bug Fix
- Enemies held by Excellebella are always considered to be very far in front of her, because on the frames during the settling after being grabbed where that was not the case. This should fix randomly getting attacks facing the wrong way or backward motions during the first part of Excellebella assist grabs.
Changes
- Pummel Horse is now IPS tracked, and can grant Undizzy or IPS bursts if not chained into. (For IPS it now counts as Excellebella, because they are both comboable grabs.)
- The last hit of Excellebella assist only and all followup damage is force-scaled to 33% maximum. (Raw assist 1650 dmg to 1047 dmg.)
- j.HP scales damage to 75%, to give her slightly less reward for how much blockstun and priority it has.

Bug Fix
- The middle hits of j.HP now have the same momentum fix as the last hit does. This may not change very much, it is more for consistency.

Bug Fix
- Sekhmet doesn't turn around when hit from the back by certain moves like Zoom!

Bug Fixes
- Instant-air beams are now always possible with assist commands (D,DF,F,UF/U+P+K). Previously this was glitched during jump-rise unless the Kick button was pressed before the Punch button.
- All allied sprites will never blow up Headrone Impact mines. (This was a few bugs combined.)
- Removed leftover buggy script from armor reactions. (thanks EU SG!)
- Headrone Salvo missiles “Kitten Moussles”, free unused pun to good home now properly display IPS and Undizzy sparks when they hit, if those conditions are active.
- Lv1 and Lv3 Catastrophe Cannons now pull the opponent downward more, hitstop on each Cannon hit increased by 4f, and lowered the launch height of the individual hits, to help make many DHCs from Cannon not randomly miss half the time.

Bug Fix
- Countervenom and Acquisitive Prescription properly set the DHC number, so the correct DHCs are always available no matter which supers Valentine has done previously. (thanks amabane!)
Change
- Purple poison decides whether it will be max-undizzy-scaled or not when the syringe hits, and doesn't change any time after that.

Title screen build ID 15667

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiCZFhEpRDI

If you're missin' out on watching people get bopped in Skullgirls, the top 8 from Frosty Faustings will be broadcast on twitch.tv/meleeeveryday this Saturday at noon PST / 3pm EST / etc.

(Also, twitch.tv/rsblackrose is broadcasting the entire pools and finals for Guilty Gear Accent Core +R at Frosty Faustings today, right now, so stop on by and watch another game I really love!)

Full Frosty's schedule is here.


Like I keep sayin', if you're only going to travel to one tournament this year, go to Combo Breaker. It's the best tournament series I have ever attended, and that's not hyperbole. 24-hour venue with available stations for all tournament games. You wanna play at 4AM? Go on down to the venue! And last year they had GIANT PRETZELS!
[Mike Z Stamp of Approval :^]

If you play Skullgirls and can get there, or even if you don't play SG, REGISTER ALREADY! Support the tournaments that have supported us for years!


Each and every Friday from ~8:30 PST to 2-3AM, Game Realms in Burbank, California hosts Salty! and broadcasts on twitch.tv/game_realms. There's SG, there's GG, there's VSav, there's sometimes 3s, and heck, I even talk on the mic. NSFW.
(It was formerly known as Salty Cupcakes, but there are no more cupcakes so we replaced them with an exclamation point.)

The opinions expressed herein are my own, obviously. Lab Zero The Corporation does not endorse them, and gave me a stern look for even having them.

If you're missin' out on watching people get bopped in Skullgirls, the top 8 from Frosty Faustings will be broadcast on twitch.tv/meleeeveryday this Saturday at noon PST / 3pm EST / etc.

(Also, twitch.tv/rsblackrose is broadcasting the entire pools and finals for Guilty Gear Accent Core +R at Frosty Faustings today, right now, so stop on by and watch another game I really love!)

Full Frosty's schedule is here.


Like I keep sayin', if you're only going to travel to one tournament this year, go to Combo Breaker. It's the best tournament series I have ever attended, and that's not hyperbole. 24-hour venue with available stations for all tournament games. You wanna play at 4AM? Go on down to the venue! And last year they had GIANT PRETZELS!
[Mike Z Stamp of Approval :^]

If you play Skullgirls and can get there, or even if you don't play SG, REGISTER ALREADY! Support the tournaments that have supported us for years!


Each and every Friday from ~8:30 PST to 2-3AM, Game Realms in Burbank, California hosts Salty! and broadcasts on twitch.tv/game_realms. There's SG, there's GG, there's VSav, there's sometimes 3s, and heck, I even talk on the mic. NSFW.
(It was formerly known as Salty Cupcakes, but there are no more cupcakes so we replaced them with an exclamation point.)

The opinions expressed herein are my own, obviously. Lab Zero The Corporation does not endorse them, and gave me a stern look for even having them.

And lo, the Beta becometh Retail; the transformation is complete. Prepare the rites, my brethren and sistren, for now is the moment of truth!

Shout it from the rooftops, dance in the streets, play some video games maybe...with the release of the US PS4 and Vita patches just in time for Frosty Faustings, it's time to update the Steam version too!

Full patch notes here! If there are any problems with the Linux or Mac builds functioning, please let us know, they were created literally minutes ago. :^P

No, this does not yet include Japanese voices, those are waiting until after the physical version is out, but this is the end for gameplay updates. And yes, the 360 version is still getting lobbies! :^)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qRcxYtCahg
It's an old version of the credits, heh, oh well...

Title screen build ID 15489.

Also:
The old retail SG2E build has been archived. If you've ever got a hankerin' for some o' dat previous version (for some strange reason), go to your Steam library, rightclick Skullgirls, Properties, choose the Betas tab, enter
ireallyfearchange
in the box and click Check Code. Then you can choose between the old version and the current version using the dropdown menu on that tab.

And lo, the Beta becometh Retail; the transformation is complete. Prepare the rites, my brethren and sistren, for now is the moment of truth!

Shout it from the rooftops, dance in the streets, play some video games maybe...with the release of the US PS4 and Vita patches just in time for Frosty Faustings, it's time to update the Steam version too!

Full patch notes here! If there are any problems with the Linux or Mac builds functioning, please let us know, they were created literally minutes ago. :^P

No, this does not yet include Japanese voices, those are waiting until after the physical version is out, but this is the end for gameplay updates. And yes, the 360 version is still getting lobbies! :^)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qRcxYtCahg
It's an old version of the credits, heh, oh well...

Title screen build ID 15489.

Also:
The old retail SG2E build has been archived. If you've ever got a hankerin' for some o' dat previous version (for some strange reason), go to your Steam library, rightclick Skullgirls, Properties, choose the Betas tab, enter
ireallyfearchange
in the box and click Check Code. Then you can choose between the old version and the current version using the dropdown menu on that tab.