New Legend: Seven, Brawlhallidays, and New Challenges! – Patch 8.03
A sentient robot with a passion for engineering, Seven is ready to build her way to victory in Brawlhalla! With her trusty Mega Wrench Spear, Handcrafted Cannon, and custom mechanized creations, she’s a formidable foe in the Grand Tournament.
Along with Seven’s debut, we’re celebrating the Brawlhalliest, jolliest time of the year! Sentinel brings justice no matter the temperature in his new cold weather suit, and Fait’s brought her coziest sweater and a cup of hot cocoa. Also featuring a new Sidekick & Emojis alongside many more seasonal favorites!
Patch 8.03 also includes a balance pass, new features like Bot Behavior Improvements, new Scythe and Katars challenges to the preview in Offline Play, full localization in Turkish & Latin-American Spanish, and much more. The fight for Glory begins again in Ranked Season 31 starting on January 10th!
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- Seven – “The Free Heart Engineer”
- Weapons: Spear, Cannon
- Stats: 7 Strength, 3 Dexterity, 8 Defense, 4 Speed
- “The Grand Tournament is a perfect testing ground for Seven’s new creations. In between matches, she’ll often hop the fence to collect the leftover bits of weaponry and armor to build something out of.”
Seven launches with a new feature on her Spear Signature attack kit called Mode Swapping. Using Spear Down Signature will add or remove a flamethrower attachment to her Spear.
- Normally, Seven’s Neutral, Side Spear, and Down Signatures are electricity based attacks, which are good for strings and combos.
- With the flamethrower equipped, her Neutral, Side Spear, and Down Signatures are fire based attacks, which hit harder and are better for KOs.
The Free Heart Engineer is always modifying her appearance – Seven arrives with 3 new Skins!
- Firefighter Seven –“Stay calm! Stop, drop, and roll!”
- Tinyfigure Seven – “Watch where you step!”
- Wanderer Seven – “A masterless robot seeking atonement, and freedom for all mechanized beings.”
Jingle brawl the way! Celebrate the holiday season with brand new Skins for Sentinel & Fait, the first ever Brawlhallidays Sidekick: Miki, an ice crystal castle Winner Wonderland Podium, and an abundance of limited-time Items all available by following the snowflakes in Mallhalla.
Legend Skins:Frost Tech Sentinel
- “With cutting-edge tech that improves his night vision!”
- The newest entry in the franchise sends Sentinel on a cold weather mission. He’s ready to fight any bad guy in his way with his Frostbitten Justice Hammer and Icy Slicers Katars.
- “Ready for some hot cocoa and KOs!”
- Bundled up and ready to battle! Fait’s in the festive season with her Hot Choco Orb and Merry Jingle Scythe.
- “He stole August 32nd so winter would come sooner.”
- “The polar bears and the powder are awesome this time of year”.
- The eyes on Jaeyun’s cap change color during lock-in & certain attacks!
- “He never misses a delivery.”
- “She makes death cookies for the other skiers.”
- “Oh what fun it is to blast your opponents far away, hey!”
- “Slashing through a winter wonderland.”
- “Ready to lead the cavalry this holiday season.”
- “He’s making a list and KO-ing you twice!”
- “The ghost of knockouts yet to come.”
- “Exterminator. No job too big, or small, or seven-headed. Open holidays and nighttime.”
- “Neither mouse nor king can stand against true bravery.”
- “Don’t put rocks in snowballs. Someone could get hurt.”
- “He’s got this in the bag.”
- “Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Stock.”
- “Who’s the most famous now?”
- “Yo ho ho ho!”
Sidekick:
Miki
- “Hoot hooooot!”
Emoji Skins:
Snowman Sweat
- “That game was too close, I’m melting!”
- An animated Emoji Skin!
- “Om nom nom
- “Try again next time!”
Emote:
Snowball Juggling
- “Easy as knocking out your 3 stocks!”
Podium:
Winner Wonderland’23 Podium
- “Welcome to Ice Crystal Castle!”
- A festive Podium with all new art and sound effects exclusive to this year’s event!
Colors:
Winter Holiday Colors
- Show off festive spirit with these red, green, and white colors!
- Available for every Legend with your hard-earned Gold.
KO Effect:Frostbite
- “Hope you brought a coat.”
- Knock out your opponents with chilly flair.
Weapon Skin:
Winter Daggers
- “Watch out for frostbite!”
- Exclusive to the seasonal event, this Katar Weapon Skin is the pointiest icicles you’ve ever seen!
Avatars:
Bomby the Snowman
- “And he waved goodbye, saying don’t you cry. Stand a safe distance away.”
- An exclusive animated Avatar!
- “Only Thor can catch this on his tongue.”
- Can be purchased with your hard-earned Gold!
The Brawlhallidays 2023 event also features:
- A free “Most Famous Reindeer” Title by logging on to Brawlhalla during the event!
- Daily login bonus of 250 Gold to celebrate.
- Snow spread across a few Maps in Brawlhalla.
- Holiday-themed UI Takeover!
- Follow the snowflakes in Mallhalla to find all the exclusive items.
Are you ready? Koji sensei has added 2 more Challenges for you to sharpen your skills! You may have studied the blade, but have you mastered the sharpened blades of Katars and Scythe?
Katars Bread n` Butter
- Two basic Katars bread and butter true combos. Great for starting strings or to force your opponents to dodge!
Scythe Punishment Combo
- Become just like your favorite Fenrir Mordex player with this lengthy Scythe Punish Combo that utilizes both normal and active input attacks. Very useful against players caught with their dodge on cooldown!
For Patch 8.03, we’ve added new supported languages to Brawlhalla: Turkish and Latin-American Spanish! To change the language in-game, go to the “Options” tab from the Player Menu at the top right of the screen, select “System Settings” and toggle through the left/right arrows next to “Language” until you find your preferred one.
We want these new supported languages to work best for you, the players that will be using them, so we’re treating them the same way we treat other Experimental features. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let us know on our socials like Twitter and Discord.
Bots have many different personality traits now! Some like to jump more, some like to aggress and dash, or maybe you fight a Bot that likes to stay back and see what you do! Depending on the difficulty level, the Bots will have better control of their movement options and have many different levels and combinations of these personality traits and more.
Easier Bots (“Easy” through “Medium”) are able to be defeated/overpowered much quicker.
More difficult Bots (“Hard” through “Chosen”)
- Now utilize Dash and fast falling in ways they didn't before and make use of more subtle movement mechanics.
- Now have the ability to “Weapon starve” (depending on the Bot) in different ways.
Beyond Glory, there is immortality! Get ready to collect your Glory and begin the Ranked climb once more.
Are you ready to take your place among the Legends and earn the highly coveted Valhallan Rank? The battles begin on January 10th, 2024!
With the Brawlhalla World Championship behind us, we are now in the official esports offseason. The esports offseason is a time where we can be more experimental with competitive gameplay updates.
During this offseason, you can look forward to new competitive features like the recently graduated Backdash update, a new tournament Map pool, and more frequent balance changes leading up to the start of Esports Year Nine. With each change, we will be sure to monitor feedback closely.
In Patch 8.01, the tournament Map pool was updated to feature a selection of Maps that encourage counter-picking during a best-of-three or best-of-five set in competitive play.
Competitors can now choose from a diverse selection of Maps that fit specific platform archetypes. The increased Map pool size and variety of archetypes creates situations for players to ban opponents to the kinds of Maps they want to play on. Counter picking should now have a more tangible impact on the Map pool than previously.