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Patch 1.4.4 - Winter Festival 2025

[h2]Winter Festival - New Monthly Event[/h2][p][/p][p]Time to bring out the blankets and sip on some hot chocolate as the season arrives for our Winter Festival 2025 event! From 12/2 - 1/6, earn free holiday cosmetics like the Reindeer Absa Skin and Icon, the Christmas Platform, Elf Clairen emote, Christmas death effect, plus coins and bucks. The paid bundle includes 3 new winter skins - Santa Zetterburn, Elf Clairen, and Artic Fleet with their own icons to match, plus coins and bucks.[/p][p][/p][p]Artic Fleet comes with custom sounds for her Forward Special and empowered Strong Attacks, while Elf Clairen has holiday swipes and custom tippers sounds.[/p][p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p][/p][p]Players equipping any event skins above, and any of the following holiday skins will receive 20% Bonus XP on the event track: Snowday Ranno, Snowman Kragg, Krampus Forsburn, White Elephant Loxodont - all of these skins besides the White Elephant Loxodont have been added to the Feature Store for Aether Coins (White Elephant Loxodont can still be earned for free from the 2024 Winter Event).[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]December R2CS Events[/h2][p]North America has two Online R2CS events happening - first is Platfight Online Gaming Championships on December 14th, and then a brand new Hungrybox R2CS online on 12/20 with a voucher to Genesis X3 that promises to bring the heat![/p][p][/p][p]To celebrate Platfight joining the R2CS, we’ve added the brand new Platfight Lovers Zetterburn palette bundle to the shop![/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Similar to the previous Hungrybox Qualifier Events, participants will receive the HungryBox Baseball Clairen palette for free.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Europe will be hosting their final regular season event at No Time To Tilt 2025 in Deutschland, where the current top 2 players Dia and Neylax will be sure to provide a show![/p][p]
We have added the No Time To Tilt Slam Dunk Ranno bundle to the shop for players to pick up and represent the event![/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]If you purchase any event bundles but already own the base skins, you’ll receive an Aether Bucks refund to make it even just like with our other bundles. These palettes are FREE for all players attending the respective events. [/p][p]
You can check out upcoming & past events and the region leaderboards on our official league page.[/p][p][/p][h2]New Shop Items[/h2]
  • [p]Midnight Abyss Orcane Palette[/p]
  • [p]Purple Winter Stoat Maypul Palette[/p]
  • [p]Pink Forsburn Palette[/p]
  • [p]Black Snowday Ranno Palette[/p]
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  • [p]Mini Plush Zetterburn Icon[/p]
  • [p]Mini Plush Kragg Icon[/p]
  • [p]Mini Plush Wrastor Icon[/p]
  • [p]Capychilla Icon[/p]
  • [p]Brutice Icon[/p]
  • [p]Hornfrost Icon[/p]
  • [p]Zetterburn Neutral Special Icon[/p]
[p][/p][p][/p][h2]New Ranked Shop Items[/h2][p]Champion Forsburn has been added to the Ranked Shop! This includes a skin, two emotes, and two icons for The Exiled Flame.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]Audio Updates[/h2]
  • [p]Clown Ranno, Franketalus and the Low Poly skin will receive custom SFX for the first time/again in the near future but we're keeping them in the oven for a bit longer to ensure they're positive additions and won't be disruptive for players who already bought them.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed a bug that made Fleet's strong attack charging sound silent when she was empowered by NSpecial.[/p]
[p][/p][h2]Controller Updates[/h2][p]We know controllers are still in a tough spot for some people, and wanted to reassure everyone that we're working hard on all of the different complications that have come up in our controller overhaul. We'll continue to improve issues from this transition until everything is fixed, so please continue to share bugs and your hardware information with us. Since we’ve rolled out SDL, we have updated the game with several hotfixes:[/p][p]Past fixes include:[/p]
  • [p]11/21 Steam Article focusing on Steam Controller glyphs, deadzones, mappings and more.[/p]
  • [p]11/26 Steam Article focusing primarily on GameCube controllers and controllers copying existing ones on plugin,  with a few other changes as well.[/p]
  • [p]11/26 hotfix that allows players to use RPS in tournament mode once again.[/p]
[p]New to this patch:[/p]
  • [p]Fixed a bug where GCCs with alternatively installed digital only trigger modifications would not release shield.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed a bug where unplugging and re-plugging in a controller would create a new playerslot instead of taking over the now empty playerslot.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed a bug for playerslots 2 and up where controller glyphs would not update if a new controller was bound.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed a bug where mouse could open a playerslot. Now only a keyboard can open a playerslot and the mouse will funnel its input via the first player with keyboard.[/p]
    • [p]Note: If a keyboard player is player 2 in a local match the mouse hover and click will effect player 1 in the css. However, in a match inputs from the mouse will funnel to the keyboard player if mouse buttons are bound.[/p]