Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid recebe atualização com balanceamentos; patch notes

A nWay divulgou uma nova atualização para Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid (versão 1.23 no PS4).

O update oferece mudanças em relação a balanceamento para todos os personagens. Há também ajustes no sistema de Megazord e mais.

Você pode conferir os patch notes na íntegra (via site oficial) logo abaixo.

PRESENTATION ADJUSTMENTS

• Game camera has been tuned to give high altitude characters more head room. This has no effect on gameplay.

• Game camera has been tuned to widen the field of view more granularly. This has no effect on gameplay.

GENERAL CHARACTER ADJUSTMENTS

• Physics colliders and hurtbox colliders have been normalized and made more consistent across the board.

  • Combos are more reliable against a variety of characters.

  • Pass through and cross over functionality behaves more consistently against all types of character sizes.

MEGAZORD BALANCE ADJUSTMENTS

• Megazords no longer deal unscaled damage.

• Megazord hits do not advance damage proration. A MZ opening hit into a full combo still deals high damage, for instance.

DINO MEGAZORD

• Ultra Power Sword (Heavy): significantly increased startup time.

S.P.D. MEGAZORD

• Delta Arrest (Medium): no longer affects non-leader opponents.

SAMURAI MEGAZORD

• Counterattack: hitbox size increased dramatically.

• Omamori (Light): damage increased slightly per hit.

• Tempered Steel (Heavy): damage increased slightly. First hit can now hit on-the-ground (OTG). Range extended significantly.

GRAVEZORD

• Excavator (Medium): startup reduced significantly. Increased hitstun of first hit.

• Thunderzord Tail Combo (Heavy): Startup reduced slightly. Duration between attacks reduced significantly.

CHARACTER BALANCE CHANGES

TOMMY OLIVER / S01 GREEN RANGER

• Juggle limiter inflation reduced across the board.

• Damage adjustments

  • Standing Light 1: 35 ➔ 40

  • Standing Light 2: 35 ➔ 40

  • Standing Medium 1: 40 ➔ 60

  • Standing Heavy 1: 50 ➔ 60

  • Standing Heavy 2: 50 ➔ 60

  • Crouching Light: 35 ➔ 40

  • Crouching Heavy: 75 ➔ 80

  • Jumping Light: 35 ➔ 40

  • Jumping Heavy: 65 ➔ 70

  • Putty Masher (Forward + Medium): 60 ➔ 70

  • Dragon Wave (Back + Special): 100 ➔ 80

  • Dragonzord Missile Assault (Super): 50*3 ➔ 70*3 (unscaled portion)

• Putty Masher and Axe Kick (Back + Medium): are now “kara” cancelable

• Putty Masher now causes wall bounce.

• Dragon Wave: now causes a reverse launch hit reaction. Startup reduced from F27 to F17. Dragon Wave gains 1 point of armor at frame 6 and lasts until frame 17.

• Dragon Drill (Forward + Special): special cancel window to Dragon Dive expanded.

• Dragon Dive (Jumping Special): hitbox size increased slightly.

• Back Throw: special cancel window to Dragon Drill expanded.

JASON LEE SCOTT / S01 RED RANGER

• Juggle limiter inflation reduced across the board.

• Increased jumping fall speed.

• Standing Medium 2: decreased recovery on hit, increased damage.

• Crouching Heavy: increased launch height.

• Jumping Light and Jumping Medium: increased gravity on juggle hit.

• Titanus Counter (Special): startup reduced dramatically; counter frame starts at frame 10, down from frame 28.

• Back Roll (Back + Special): follow-up input window is now earlier; overall faster to shoot.

• Air Blaster Shot (Jumping Special): increased damage, hitbox height increased.

• Triple Threat (EX): follow-up is now optional. On successful hit, the player can press Special to perform the additional EX attacks.

• Forward Throw now causes wall bounce.

• Back Throw now causes launch.

KIMBERLY HART / RANGER SLAYER

• Increased jumping fall speed.

•  “Normal” arrow target combos reworked.

  • Ranger Slayer can fire any 3 “normal” medium arrows in succession, as long as moves aren’t repeated back to back.

    • E.g., Medium > Back + Medium > Medium, or Forward + Medium, Back + Medium, Forward + Medium, are acceptable combos.

• Standing Medium is now cancelable into Crouching Medium.

• Arrow projectile strength increased, with normal arrows matching the strength of Mastodon Sentry’s projectiles. Special arrows are slightly stronger.

• Nocked arrows projectile strength increased significantly. Each arrow is as strong as Tommy’s Dragon Fire.

• Standing Light and Standing Light 2: now cancelable into crouching attacks. Reduced hitstun and blockstun.

• Crouching Light: can now be rapid fired. Cancel window moved 4 frames earlier.

• Standing Medium: reduced hitstun, cancel window pushed back.

• Crouching Medium: can now hit OTG; OTG causes a limited spinning knockdown.

• Forward Throw: now causes a sliding knockdown (state that can be OTG’d)

• Jumping Light: startup reduced to 1F, from 3F.

• Pterodactyl Flight ~ Rear Shot (Forward Special ~ Heavy): reworked and replaced with Bird of Prey, a divekick-like attack. Normal version causes spinning knockdown on juggle hit, while nocked causes wall bounce.

• Forward Dash: reduced earliest attack cancel time by 2 frames.

MAGNA DEFENDER

• Increased jumping fall speed.

• Increased dash jump height.

• Moon Splitter (Back + Heavy): now causes a ground bounce on hit. Reduced startup to 21F, down from 23F. Increased forward distance. Reduced blockstun and increased recovery.

• Magna Blaster (Special) reworked

  • Projectile speed increased by 100%

  • Max distance increased by 25%

  • Considered 5 separate projectiles spreading out in a shotgun formation

  • At close range, damage is increased to 134

• Hot Steel (Forward Special): animation adjusted; now travels smoothly and more consistently, making it more reliable in combos.

• Energy Chop (Jumping Special): juggle more consistently on hit. Landing active hit extends behind Magna Defender, significantly.

• Energy Chop: ground bounce is now guaranteed, regardless of how many ground bounces were used in the combo.

• Forward Dash: reduced earliest cancel window to 10F, down from 12F.

UDONNA / S14 WHITE RANGER

• Crouching Heavy: OTG spinning knockdown no longer knocks opponent away.

• Snow Shield (Back Special): reduced total time; frames to 40, down from 57.

• Icicle Strike (Forward Special): startup reduced from 30F to 22F. Juggle and pushback properties adjusted to make it launch more consistently.

• Hail Storm (Jumping Special): third projectile now causes ground bounce (on ground), and spike bounce (in air). Projectile hitbox size increased.

DRAGON ARMOR TRINI

• Increased jumping fall speed.

• Removed juggle limiter inflation on all attacks.

• Standing Medium: can now hit OTG, causing limited OTG ground bounce. First hit now causes no pushback, making it more consistent in juggles.

• Standing Heavy 2: increased forward movement distance.

• Jumping Light: increased hitbox size and increased active window.

• Jumping Medium: startup reduced to 15F, down from 18F; active frames increased to 16F, from 6F.

• Dragon Pound (Jumping Special): launches higher. OTG properties changed to match normal hit property (reverse launch type).

• Mega Beam (assist only): startup reduced to 30F, from 39F.

• Launcher jump distance increased making it easier to convert hits into juggle combos from range.

• Mega Launch (EX): increased startup to 16F, from 12F. Decreased forward movement and increased hitbox width above Trini’s head significantly.

TREY OF TRIFORIA / S03 GOLD RANGER

• Increased jumping fall speed.

• Crouching Light: reduced total frame time; less recovery on whiff.

• Standing Medium: reduced total frame time; less recovery on whiff. Additional upper-body height hitbox added.

• Jumping Medium: increased active frames to 10, up from 4.

• Jumping Heavy: increased active frames to 7, up from 3.

• Gold Rush (Forward Special): now projectile invincible from frame 3 to 24, and nullifies projectiles from frames 3 to 14.

• Gold Rush Retreat (Gold Rush ~ Forward + Special): now cancelable into Gold Rush Dash.

• Gold Rush sequence of Retreat > Dash > Rise > Air Retreat: now allows for one extra Gold Rush aerial maneuver.

• Gold Rush Rise, Retreat, Dash: aerial versions are fully projectile invulnerable.

• Counterfeit (Jumping Special) can be performed 1 frame earlier from a jump.

• Forward Dash: distance increased by ~15%.

ANUBIS CRUGER / SPD SHADOW RANGER

• Increased jumping fall speed.

• Shadow Slash (Special ~ Light)  and Saber Slash (Jumping Special): increased hitbox length significantly.

• Saber Slash: decreased recovery time.

• Jumping Heavy: hitbox height increased.

• Shadow Form (Special): dash cancels can be performed slightly earlier.

• Shadow Strike: reduced pre-teleport (startup) by 5F.

• Guard Breaker (Back Special ~ Back Special): startup time decreased.

• Justice Defense (Forward Special): increased parry active window to 17 frames, up from 9.

DAI SHI

• Wolf Rush (Special): overall dramatically faster. Forward run begins 17 frames earlier and all follow-up attacks execute 6 frames earlier.

• King of the Jungle (Forward Special): prejump frames reduced to 8 frames, down from 16.

• Lion Maul (Forward Special ~ Medium): descends immediately upon activation; much faster overhead attack.

• King Cobra Combination (EX): fully invincible until its first active hit.

ROBERT “RJ” JAMES / S16 PURPLE RANGER

• Crouching Medium: increased hitstun by 2F, making cancels into Wolf Wheel guaranteed on hit.

• Forward Throw and Back Throw: damage increased to 80, up from 70.

• Forward Throw: now cancelable into Pounce.

• Standing Medium: decreased juggle limiter inflation.

• Wolf Wheel (Special) and Wolf Wheel Spike (Special ~ Forward Special): increased projectile damage by 20.

• Wolf Wheel Spike: frames 1 to 11 are jump attack invincible, and the rising hit portion is air unblockable.

• Pounce (Forward Special) reworked

  • Much faster

  • Lower jump height

  • Cancelable into jumping attacks earlier

  • Jump attacks from Pounce now add extra recovery time on landing

• Lunar Cyclone: increased true damage by 20.

RYU / CRIMSON HAWK RANGER

• MP Shoryuken (Medium Shoryuken): increased invincibility frames to 7, up from 4.

CHUN-LI / BLUE PHOENIX RANGER

• Fixed an issue where Chun-Li could perform a ground block while in mid-air.

• Fixed an issue where Chun-Li could cancel into Megazord Ultra off of a blocked EX Spinning Bird Kick.

ADAM PARK / S01 BLACK RANGER

• Health reduced to 900, down from 950.

• Standing Heavy: reduced meter gain. First hit damage reduced to 30, down from 40.

• Standing Heavy 2: reduced hitstun of first hit from 40F to 27F. First hit damage reduced to 40, down from 50. Second hit damage increased to 60, up from 50.

• Crouching Heavy 2: reduced hitstun of first hit from 34F to 28F.

• Shredder Barrage (Back Special ~ Medium): teleport cancel requirement adjusted; now requires non-blocked hit.

• Pond Hopper (Back Special ~ Heavy): fixed an issue with performing assist takeovers.

• Pond Hopper: much more punishable when Adam doesn’t successfully reach the back edge of the screen (e.g., from chasing him).

POISANDRA

• Standing Heavy 3 (Forward + Heavy version): hitstun fixed; comboable into Standing Light.

• Jumping Heavy: decreased overall hitbox size.

• Jumping Special: decreased overall hitbox size. Increased hurtbox size.

• Sledge Splash (Special ~ Back + Special): must be blocked high.

RITA REPULSA

• Swap Strike now transitions to idle state correctly in all situations.