Posted October 22, 2023 by Cosmic Hat Games
Happy Spooktober, Duelists!
The Halloween season has rolled around once again, and in Cosmic Hat Games tradition, that means it's time for some specially themed costumes! This year, we've brought you three of them: Invisible Man Johnson, Witch Lumina, and Rag-Z, the latter of which is a new character-swap costume for Derrick! Like other character-swap costumes, he's functionally identical to Derrick, but features some unique animations to add a little more flavour!
As an extra bonus, we're also throwing in a new crossover costume: Star Guardian Annie, based on the game 8-Colors Star Guardians + by our good friend Andrea Demetrio! It's a charming, bite-sized, sentai-inspired RPG about a dysfunctional group of heroines trying to save the world! It's got a heavy focus on strategy, which introduces some cool puzzle elements to the game's combat, and its cast of characters is an absolute treat! You can buy the game on Steam, and for only 5 dollars, it's WELL worth the purchase!
To compliment these new costumes, we've also added a couple new Missions to unlock some of them, and we've done the usual bug fixing as well.
Also, in case you missed it, this will be the last content update for Duels of Fortune for a few months, as we're taking a break from this game in order to work on a new side-project. Working on the same thing for 5 years is bound to cause burnout eventually, even for devs as insanely stubborn as us! We'll still be putting out bug-fixing patches as needed though, and maybe a little something for the holidays as well, but no promises on that just yet. In any case, we're looking forward to showing off this new project of ours in the near(-ish) future, and we hope you'll be interested in checking it out! If not, then don't worry, we're sure DoF updates will be back before you know it! You can read more about this hiatus here.
But for now, let's not worry about that, and just enjoy this little update for the spooky season!
Here are the full patch notes for this update:
| CPU | Change | Higher-level CPUs now have a higher chance to break out of throws |
| Throws | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue where holding down the Heavy button would automatically tech throws |
| Miscellaneous | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue where moves that can only hit airborne opponents (such as Chip’s “Timber”) could still be blocked while standing on the ground |
| Battle Portraits | Change | Updated every battle portrait render (the headshot render next to the health bar) to a different resolution to allow Unity to compress them more easily, which should help reduce the game's file size (NOTE: If any battle portraits look slightly off, let us know. Since all of them had to be altered, it's likely that a mistake was made somewhere) |
| Character Select | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue where selecting colour 01 for a character would not prevent the other player from scrolling to colour 01 for the same character, which caused some visual discrepancies |
| Music | Addition | Added alternate music tracks for some stages, which have a chance to play when using the Auto music option - "Skate Park" now has a chance to play on Back Alley - "Fractured Dimension" now has a chance to play on Unknown Plane and The Void |
| Meteor Shower Town (Future) | Fix | Fixed a missing texture on some lights in the background |
| Mission Mode | New | Added 3 new Missions: - Let Me Be Clear - Pumpkin Patch Match - Plague Be Upon Ye |
| NEW COSTUME | !!! | Added a new crossover costume: Star Guardian Annie (Based on the game “8-Colors Star Guardians +” by Andrea Demetrio!) (Like other Andrea Demetrio-themed costumes, using Star Guardian Annie will allow you to fight the special alternate Arcade Mode boss when playing on Hard difficulty!) |
| Royal Armour Costume | Addition | Added a new EX colour to the Royal Armour costume |
| NEW COSTUME | !!! | Added a new character-swap costume: Rag-Z (To unlock: Beat the Mission "Plague Be Upon Ye") |
| NEW COSTUME | !!! | Added a new costume: Witch Lumina |
| Timber (Up Special) | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue where Timber wouldn’t freeze the opponent in hitstun while grabbed, causing the combo to reset with the opponent still unable to escape |
| Miscellaneous | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue where, against Full House Sylvan, Chip could be teleported into the secret baseball minigame, causing your computer to crash |
| Suit Costume | Fix | Fixed a formatting error which caused Callowman's Suit costume to display as his Judo costume when viewed in the Lore Journal |
| NEW COSTUME | !!! | Added a new costume: Invisible Man Johnson (To unlock: Beat the Mission "Let Me Be Clear") |
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| Masked Oni (Miscellaneous) | Fix | Fixed Masked Oni’s move list displaying his Back Special as being Air OK |
| Donner (Miscellaneous) | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue where Donner used a broken version of Ember's victory animation instead of his own |
| The Pill (Miscellaneous) | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue where the Pill could sometimes use its anti-air shotgun blast before the round started |
| The Pill (Miscellaneous) | Bug Fix | Fixed an issue where the Pill’s intro animation sometimes wouldn’t play |