Invincible VS Hotfix Addresses Some of the Game's Pressing Issues

Invincible VS recently had a major balance patch that made significant changes to how the game plays. Not just adjusting characters, but introducing major changes to core mechanics.

Somewhat expectedly, some stuff fell through the fingers or emerged as a result of these changes, but the latest hotfix attempts to cut out the most egregious issues. Some of the major issues addressed here are the imprecisions or overlaps in motion control inputs, and some very problematic super loops.

However, it also introduces more core changes with throw invincibility and push block adjustments.

If you want to see more detailed changes, you can find them below:

Core Systems Updates

General 

• Throws (forward & back) will now make the attacker invulnerable 
• Push block is now more reliable and should help combat unblockable setups 

Active Assists 

• Grounded Active Assists (Forward Assist during combo) have been adjusted to visually appear more like overhead attacks where appropriate 
• Grounded Active Assists received a consistency pass on height to hit smaller crouched characters 
• Grounded Active Assists now have a more consistent distance so that they will not fullscreen overhead in cases of large pushback on block (except Battle Beast whose bloodlust could not be contained) 

Motion Controls 

• An overall priority pass has been done on special moves when using motion controls so they’re prioritized over macro buttons (dash, taunt, throw, etc) 
• The DP > Medium input should now be more consistent (This was a bug with the input buffer on motion 2) 
• The second forward input when doing a Manual Dash should now correctly chain into a DP input. (Previously, three forward inputs were required to Manual Dash + DP; Thanks: Chewie89) 
  • Note that DP motions are prioritized over QCF after a Dash, as with other fighting games performing a full half circle can override this priority 
• Made adjustments so back throws (Light + Special) are more consistent  

Active Tags 

• You should no longer be able to circumvent the Active Tag interaction with Jumping Down Heavy -> Active Tag (Heavy) 

Fighter Updates

NOTE: Any change where we state “no longer applies multiple instances of damage scaling” means a combo with this move will now result in more damage than it did before today’s hotfix. 

Allen the Alien 

• Air Boosted Special no longer applies multiple instances of damage scaling 
• Neutral Special no longer applies multiple instances of damage scaling 

Atom Eve 

• Super 1 Damage scaling has been fixed in combos (less damage) 

Bulletproof 

• Boosted Neutral Special no longer applies multiple instances of damage scaling 
• Boosted Forward Special no longer applies multiple instances of damage scaling 

Battle Beast 

• Jumping Down Special no longer applies multiple instances of damage scaling 

Cecil 

• Boosted Down Special (Grounded) no longer applies multiple instances of damage scaling 

Conquest 

• Jumping Charged Down Medium no longer applies multiple instances of damage scaling 
• Neutral Special (Grounded & Air, Boosted & Normal) no longer applies multiple instances of damage scaling.  

Dupli-Kate 

• Boosted Down Special no longer applies multiple instances of damage scaling  
• Boosted Neutral Special (Air) no longer applies multiple instances of damage scaling 
• Jumping Charged Down Medium no longer applies multiple instances of damage scaling 

Ella Mental 

• Jumping Neutral Special (and Boosted) follow-up no longer applies multiple instances of damage scaling 

Invincible 

• Invincible’s Super 2 is now an ‘ender’ and cannot be Active Tagged (similar to Lucan Super 2) 
• Invincible’s Back Assist will now perform his Down Special instead of Boosted Down Special, meaning it will no longer down hit and ground bounce 
• Invincible’s Super 2 can no longer be looped into itself (we’re ending this!) 

Monster Girl 

• Charged Jumping Down Medium no longer applies multiple instances of damage scaling 
   

Omni-man 

• Neutral Special and its Boosted version should now have a startup of 20 frames (previously 18 and 17 respectively) 

Powerplex 

• Jumping Neutral Special (and boosted) Just Frames no longer apply multiple instances of damage scaling 

Robot 

• Jumping Forward Special and follow-up no longer applies multiple instances of damage scaling  
• Jumping Down Medium no longer applies multiple instances of damage scaling 
• Robot can once again Boosted Dash Cancel his Divekick on block 

Thula 

• Corrected all of her Specials to no longer apply multiple instances of damage scaling. This should help her combos a lot. 

Titan 

• Boosted Jumping Neutral Special should apply one less hit of scaling. 
• Jumping Down Charged Medium no longer applies multiple instances of damage scaling 
• Boosted Down Special no longer applies multiple instances of damage scaling

Bug Fixes

• Fixed several bugs with multi-hit projectile attacks applying damage scaling too quickly 
• Fixed a crash regarding Arcade mode 
• Fixed an issue that prevented SteamOS devices from launching the game