• Fixed a bug that occasionally led to different hit-check order between sprites on Mac and Windows/Linux, causing extremely rare desyncs between them. The order is now guaranteed to be the same on all platforms. Thanks, and sorry, both to Lawnba!
  
• Hopefully fixed a code-signing issue affecting Skullgirls on macOS Yosemite.

• Fixed a bug that prevented Beowulf and Fukua from doing air specials using assist inputs right after jumping. (Note that Squigly has a height limit on Fallen Woman, which is why this doesn't work with her. She was not affected by this bug.)
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause Big Band's Cymbal Clash to hit overhead instead of mid if done as a frame-perfect reset after Sound Stun was already used.
  
• Reordered which Robo-Fortune intro is chosen by which behind-the-scenes random number to match other characters' script order. Nobody will notice, but I did. :^P
  
• Fixed a localization error in the Art Gallery in French.

• Fixed one more shader interpolation bug that made teeny holes in sprites at resolutions higher than 720p.
  
• Fixed an old shader bug that made occasional incorrect horizontal lines in shadows at resolutions higher than 720p.
  
• Fixed VERY minor cleanup errors in Eliza's standing idle and walk back, and Cerebella's tag out.
  
• Fixed shadows on macOS that we broke with this shadow fix. Sorry! :^)

Note: The shader bugfixes were NOT applied to the -disablelighting version of the shaders on Windows, in the interests of keeping the game as fast as possible for the people who use that option out of necessity. Though if you're running that option at high resolution it sort of defeats the purpose of making the game render more quickly. :^)

Title screen build ID 17098.

• Second (probably final) pass on death VO! Big Band's now properly plays, Valleywheel has her own, removed the 'regular' get-hit versions of sounds that became death VO, and redid the effect on all of them. Thanks, mix master Vince!
  
• Fixed Fukua's pupil color in her HUD portrait.
  
• Updated Fukua's character select VO with a line that suits her better.

*picks lint off suit jacket*
*sniffs exactly once*

Title screen build ID 17021.


And there are absolutely no problems whatsoever...

• Added new intros for Fukua, Ms. Fortune, and Robo-Fortune!
  They were feeling left out, so now everyone has at least three!
  
• Updated lobby matching code again, to match you with the person you've played least recently, instead of fewest-total-times. This should fix cases where someone new joins a lobby and is repeatedly matched with the same person. We hope it works!
  
• Copying lobby URLs should now work on Mac and Linux with Command-C / Ctrl-C!
  
• Fixed the small visual bugs in the Undizzy bar and the edge of the healthbar in 1v1 at higher screen resolutions, we hope.

Title screen build ID 16963.

Throw your hands in the air!

• I had a goal, but not that many... And I reached one!
  FIXED the throw-vs-hits P1/P2 difference! P1 Death Crawl and SSJ no longer lose to a P2 meaty throw. Yay? Yay! (This involved a substantial reorganization of the code for handling hits, so please report any NEW weirdness that doesn't work like OLD weirdness. :^)
  (FIXED a bunch of new weirdness that didn't work like old weirdness, from 16906. Heh.)
  
• Pressing Ctrl-C in a Windows PC lobby will now copy the "join this lobby" URL to the clipboard! Thanks Mr. Peck!
  
• Added fast-forward and rewind to Replays! Press HP to rewind by 1 Skullsecond, or Left+HP to rewind 5 Skullseconds. Hold HK to fast-forward, and additionally hold left or right to go slower or faster. Thanks again Mr. Peck!
  
• Hopefully FIXED the crash going from Quick Match to Lobbies, and also quite possibly the crash at the end of a Quick Match game if your opponent quits, (nope, aww) and also maybe the weirdness going from lobbies to Quick Match, all of which were likely the same thing. If any of these still happen to you on this build, please report it!
  
• Reassigned the button shortcut for Class Notes to be what it used to be (i.e. swapped the shortcuts for No Man's Land and Class Notes).
  
• Fixed the lobby All-Play matching code EVEN MORE, to further ensure players don't repeat matchups until they have exhausted all other options. Thanks again-again, Mr. Peck!
  
• Fixed death VO not playing if you got chipped out while pushblocking. Oops.
  
• Fixed a bug where trading with Cerebella's s.MP would cause a stagger as P2 but not as P1. This was unrelated to the other P1/P2 difference.
  
• Improved the framerate of the lobby search and in-lobby screens a bit. There's more to go.
  
• Hopefully fixed avatars not showing up in lobbies sometimes.
  
• Fixed stray middle-of-nowhere pixels nobody will EVER notice in Valentine's standing idle pose. Thanks Gelato, who apparently noticed them.

Launch party, celebrate every day!


Title screen build ID 16912.

• Fixed the color of the first lifebar in 1v1.
  
• Squigly #29 flame color edited slightly because the flame flickering was causing problems for some players.
  
• Added Launch Option
  -socdlikehitbox
  which will handle Up+Down as Up, for people who play on keyboard but prefer that behavior.
  
• Added missing 20-30% range for Health in Training Mode. :^P

Title screen build ID 16882.

• Choosing "Play Again" now updates which variation of the stage you're on, if it has any. (!)
• Attempted to fix the random crash after playing in Quick Match and returning to the main menu or proceeding to lobbies. Don't know if it worked.
  
• Changed "Pushblock" to "Reaction Shot" in the Training Mode menu.
  
• Fukua (in full Filia costume) is now the one on the train in the background of Meridian Area Rapid Transit. Previously it was Double. Thanks, comment section yesterday!

Title screen build ID 16872.

We've finally finished a project that our UI guru Ashuraou began a long loooooooong time ago:
Here's a comparison image: (obviously the thumbnail is not in HD :^)

Please enjoy this free, super-crisp graphical update - it was definitely a labor of love!
We hope it fits in your GPU memory. :^)

• The Windows version correctly switches audio output devices - and doesn't outright crash - if your sound output device changes! HECK yeah!! Thanks Mr. PECK yeah!!
  
• Fixed Double's Lv5 having the highest input priority during special->super cancels ONLY, where it should have been the lowest. Thanks Mao!
  
• In Training Mode settings, added all the health values 1%-100%, moved "Normal" from before "1 pixel" to after "100%", and changed the Drama setting from 10%-100% to an actual value (0-240) by 5s.
  
• Autoscrolling on all options speeds up if you keep holding the direction for a while. All those new numbers made this a real thing that needed adjusting. :^P
  
• Fixed the position of Robo's small character select sprite, thanks SkullgirlsRussia!
  
• Fixed a very minor old bug where characters went into post-block animation after recovering from blockstun, instead of the block-idle loop. It looked a bit worse, now it looks a bit better. :^P
  
• And, for everyone who expressed opinions about the SonicFox NPC, good news! We fixed his* feet, the shadow is correct now. :^)

Title screen build ID 16849.

* The NPC is a "he", I asked.

This has gone up by ~200 in the past few days. I don't even know how to check whatever it is. :^P


Anyway:

• Fixed a bug where in certain circumstances Lenny explodes earlier than it should(!) ever since the bugfix where it doesn't get lifted into the air. :^P Thanks Mr. Peck!
  
• Fixed missing character shadows on random types of graphics cards since the last update.
  
• Fixed missing palette effects and lighting on Ms. Fortune. Get back here!
  
• Fixed graphical lines in front of Fukua's drill and Painwheel's taunt. (They had always been in the source art, but only the graphical update made them show up, hahaha.)
  
• Attempted to fix..."huggies"? Ending Double's Hornet Bomber motion with any of B/DB/D+K (4/1/2+K) will now always give the normal attack instead of a Hornet Bomber, similar to (but different from!) the protection provided to Fortune and everyone else with a DP, which Hornet Bomber didn't have. Dash crouch Light Kickers rejoice!
  
• Fixed some more bugs in Double's VO set.

Title screen build ID 16816. What a nice number.

• Added every number between 0-100 for all the "volume" options. Numberrrrrrsssssssss!
  
• Reduced overall game volume by 20%, because Skullgirls is a very loud game.
  
• Replay Theater now doesn't crash on Mac! Sorry about that...
  
• Fixed multiple graphical issues with sprites when running at resolutions higher than 720p - even some very old bugs. Skullgirls quite literally looks better than it ever has! (This'll be a big download again, sorry.)
  
• Enabled crash dumps in an extra case that might not have had them. If your game was crashing without making one, maybe now it will.
  
• More credits updates. I know what you're really here for!

• FIXED the last remaining audio issue with rollbacks! Sounds should no longer be occasionally skipped. Bursts - and most importantly Big Band's trumpet - should work great now! :^)
  
• Online color choice conflicts are now resolved separately on each side during loading, in favor of the local player on either side, so you can no longer steal the other player's color via hacking (or bugs). Character select can look all kinds of weird, but the match will look correct. :^P
  
• Hopefully fixed some people being unable to set a name for their lobby!

• Fixed every character being able to do an Outtake on the first airborne frame of a jump. (Oops, that's been there since 1.0.)
  
• Fixed a bug where Squigly playing her (updated) original intro would allow her to tech the first knockdown of the game. Thanks Shakyfingers!
  
• Fukua is now armored on the first active frame of Inevitable Snuggle, to prevent her armored grab losing to a frame-perfect trade only as P1. All other interactions are unaffected.
  
• Cerebella can no longer wrongly do an airborne ground-preblock after Magnet vs whiffed Battle Butt.
  
• Fixed a bug in Valentine and Double's s.LK where motions were accepted backwards for 1f right before it hit.
  
• Beowulf's grab hits and finishers now make the enemy play hit/death VO.
  
• Fixed Death Crawl playing multiple death VOs, and other similar instances of this bug. Sorry, everyone who memed about it...
  
• Fixed another edge case where death VO wouldn't play on...death.

Title screen build ID 16782.

This weekend would have been Combo Breaker 2020. (;_;)7

Since the very first year, Combo Breaker has been the Skullgirls tournament, embracing the game and welcoming the community with open arms*. Combo Breaker is the very definition of a "player-centric major", and the cancellation of this year's event due to current world circumstances was a great sadness for all of us.

...but that doesn't mean nothing's happening. In fact, quite the opposite!

Combo Breaker always had some amazing apparel, and this year is no different!
We're honored to present this dope CB x SG Eliza shirt:
(Proceeds from shirt sales benefit Combo Breaker!)

And for those of you sitting at home, i.e. everyone reading this, Team Spooky is running a Combo Breaker retrospective stream all weekend!

Which brings us to the reason for these patch notes...

In honor of Combo Breaker's commitment to the Skullgirls community, we're proud to present
Hoo boy, it's a lot.

• New intro animations for Beowulf, Double, and Squigly, courtesy of Skullgirls Mobile!
  
• A SonicFox NPC !!!!!!!! and associated update for the Class Notes variation!
  
• KO screams for all characters when they're KO'd in the air!
  
• Rebuilt character art with those all-important extra pixels!

Surely you all have the DLC by now, right? It's been four years. :^)

• Two new colors per character from Skullgirls Switch, courtesy of Skybound Games!
  
• Even more extra colors for various characters, also courtesy of Skullgirls Mobile!
  
• A new stage, No Man's Land, also-also courtesy of Skullgirls Mobile! Seriously, try SG Mobile. It's free, and it has PvP using GGPO on your phone for cryin' out loud!
  
• Several more revived, previously-removed colors for various characters. (We did what we could, but much has been lost to time...)

That's a total of over 40 additional colors!

• Removed the cap of 3 wins in Quick Match - now you can rematch forever!
  
• The first hit of Beowulf's snapback no longer wrongly breaks all hyper armor. It still correctly breaks Sekhmet.
  
• Beowulf's Geatish Trepak correctly deals only recoverable damage.
  
• Cerebella's Grab Bag now properly scales followups to 55%, if you somehow manage to follow up.
  
• Fixed the frame of Grab Bag recovery where Cerebella would not go into hitstun if she got hit.
  
• Double's airthrow correctly deals only recoverable damage.
  
• Added half-circle-forward (41236) overrides to Double's Lugers, so dashing forward and performing a half-circle using an assist input correctly gives Luger instead of Hornet Bomber.
  
• Increased the size of the hitboxes on snapbacks for Filia, Fukua, Painwheel, Parasoul, and Peacock, in order to better match the animation and/or be able to properly OTG opponents during certain frames.
  
• Remove the last possibility of a Happy Holidays after hitting Fukua's air Drill of my Dreams.
  
• Fixed the bug where Painwheel's Hatred Install would not end after a properly-timed sliding knockdown.
  
• The last hit of Peacock's Lv3 correctly deals only recoverable damage.
  
• Peacock's Lonesome Lenny can no longer be lifted off the ground by certain attacks, e.g. Big Band's Cymbal Clash.
  
• Robo's Magnetic Trap no longer affects opponents after a snapback, removing a timeout exploit.
  
• Removed extraneous DP (623) motions for Robo's Danger specials and Magnetic Trap, they are now properly QCT (236) only.
  
• Added electric palette effect on opponents hit by Robo's s.HK because it looks cool.
  
• Reduced the duration of Robo's taunt by 20f to bring it more in line with other taunts. Even with the reduction, it is still the longest taunt in the game.
  
• Squigly can now cancel held stances between Downs in a 1v1 fight.
  
• Squigly's Seria Sing->SBO now properly activates air-unblockable protection on the opponent, removing the unblockable Seria Sing setups using the choice of Daisy Pusher or SBO+(antiair grab).
  
• Solo Squigly's Inferno of Leviathan properly disappears if she is snapped by a duo or trio.
  
• Reduced the duration of Squigly's taunt by 15f to bring it more in line with other taunts.
  
• Added ground-tech voice lines for Double.
  
• Headless Fortune properly plays tag in/out voice lines.
  
• Fixed the button functions in Replay Theater to match the rest of the game.
  
• Fixed a bug where Cilia Slide, Updo, Fiber Uppercut. and Countervenom could become airborne under extremely specific circumstances.
  
• Fixed a rare bug where characters who were KO'd, hit a wall, and then got revived were no longer able to be juggled the next time they were KO'd.

These all qualify as "fixes". There will be no further gameplay updates until after Evo at the earliest.

The goal is to bring all this to PS4 (and Switch, hopefully). We're working on it.

Title screen build ID 16730.

* Yes, this implies two different sets of arms.

Hi, sharpie.