Skullgirls 2nd Encore - Mike Z
At CEOtaku, a number of people approached me and asked if I would add an option to the PC version to increase the input lag by 1 frame so they could practice for PS4 tournaments on PC.

Well, I done did it.

If you use the launch option
-ascendhigher
(which, you may remember, existed before)
it will now add the option
EXTRA Frame Delay (0 to 10)
to the Settings menu in-game, below GGPO Frame Delay.
This will let you choose from 0 to 10 extra frames of input lag at all times, and you can even change it from the pause menu. (That's 3-13 frames of total input lag, because the base amount is 3f.)

Online GGPO delay will be modified by this setting as well - if you choose 1f of EXTRA delay and 1f of GGPO delay, the actual GGPO delay will be set to zero so you still experience 1f of total lag. If you choose less GGPO delay than your local lag, GGPO delay will be set to zero.
Making it work the other way around was impossible, sadly...

To those of you hoping for more: I'm going back to working on Indivisible now, ya louts. :^P
Skullgirls 2nd Encore - Mike Z
Hot on the hooves Oh c'mon you knew I would! of the launch of Them's Fightin' Herds, we have a patch fixing one last Skullgirls bug!

General
- Hopefully fixed the issue where Training lobbies would sometimes be a normal lobby (without infinite life/meter/etc.) for one of the players. Thanks to Mane6 for discovering the cause and providing the fix!

Title screen build ID 15795
If this issue still happens on that build, please tell me!
Skullgirls 2nd Encore - Mike Z
Hot on the hooves Oh c'mon you knew I would! of the launch of Them's Fightin' Herds, we have a patch fixing one last Skullgirls bug!

General
- Hopefully fixed the issue where Training lobbies would sometimes be a normal lobby (without infinite life/meter/etc.) for one of the players. Thanks to Mane6 for discovering the cause and providing the fix!

Title screen build ID 15795
If this issue still happens on that build, please tell me!
Skullgirls 2nd Encore - Mike Z
Them's Fightin' Herds, the second game to use Lab Zero's Z Engine*, is now released on Steam!
For the next Two Weeks™, Skullgirls owners get 25% off purchasing TFH...and owners of GGXrd, BlazBlue whatever the latest one is now, and Skullgirls all get exclusive unlockable cosmetics for TFH's "pixel" characters!
Them's Fightin' Herds' store page is here.

And if you haven't yet registered for Combo Breaker 2018, do it!

* Mad props to the dev team for wading through my code, fixing it, and somehow still managing to make a game. :^)
Skullgirls 2nd Encore - Mike Z
Them's Fightin' Herds, the second game to use Lab Zero's Z Engine*, is now released on Steam!
For the next Two Weeks™, Skullgirls owners get 25% off purchasing TFH...and owners of GGXrd, BlazBlue whatever the latest one is now, and Skullgirls all get exclusive unlockable cosmetics for TFH's "pixel" characters!
Them's Fightin' Herds' store page is here.

And if you haven't yet registered for Combo Breaker 2018, do it!

* Mad props to the dev team for wading through my code, fixing it, and somehow still managing to make a game. :^)
Skullgirls 2nd Encore - Mike Z
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. :^)

General
- 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.
Skullgirls 2nd Encore - Mike Z
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. :^)

General
- 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.
Skullgirls 2nd Encore - Mike Z
Combo Breaker is NOW!
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....!

Skullgirls Mobile is out!
...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.

An update about the Limited Run Games physical version
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!
Skullgirls 2nd Encore - Mike Z
Combo Breaker is NOW!
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....!

Skullgirls Mobile is out!
...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.

An update about the Limited Run Games physical version
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!
Skullgirls 2nd Encore - Mike Z
** The Windows build is now fixed. If ya didn't get the update, exit and reopen Steam! Wouldn't be Skullgirls if something didn't go wrong. :^S **

Japanese Voices added!
- 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!

Launch Option added
- 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.

General Bug Fixes
- 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
Linux
- SDL has been updated to version 2.0.5, which should fix the framerate issues on certain systems that have weird DBUS configurations.
MacOS X
- 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

Overall Gameplay Changes
- 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.

Big Band
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.

Beowulf
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.

Cerebella
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.

Double
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.

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

Robo-Fortune
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.

Valentine
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
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