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• FAQ: Updated multiple sections, added link to Steam page
• Modding: AttackConfig can now set hit/block stun values to "skip" to prevent interrupting the opponent
• Modding: Fixed bug where FrameConfig.behind ignored FrameConfig.mirrorImage

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• Modding: InstallConfig.input fixed (never worked, whoops)
• Modding: SequenceConfig.canTech added
• Modding: TumbleConfig.juggle = "keep" added
• Modding: TumbleConfig.restandStun added

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• Summer skins: Fixed missing texture in Noodle's Whip Splash
• Cabinet Mode: Added separate DipSwitches and editor in Debug Tools
• Removed TODO page

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• Summer skins: Fixed missing texture in Beef's uppercut
• Versus CPU: Adjusted AI to reduce the number of random parries in neutral
• Modding: Fixed bug with configs not loading when "projectiles" was left undefined
• Modding: Fixed bug where FrameConfig.behind was ignored outside of particles
• Modding: RemoteAnimationConfig.behind added

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• Summer patch!
• Six new Summer skins have been added (one for each character)
• The skins will be freely playable online for the month of July, then locked to offline only starting August 1
• Check out the free online tournament for a chance to permanently unlock summer skins! challonge.com/tlasummer24
• Cabinet Mode: Enabled faster rematch during the win screen
• Cabinet Mode: Changed Character Select to make it more obvious how to play local versus
• Cabinet Mode: Disabled pressing Heavy to exit Character Select

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• Animation: Garlic has been fully animated and polished
• Animation: Garlic has new options for alternate colors
• Cabinet Mode: Fixed bug where you could not access all the flavors
• Cabinet Mode: Fixed bug with the Winner screen still accepting rematch inputs
• Modding: Upgraded engine to 18
• Modding: Garlic mods made before engine 18 will be upgraded to use new sprites

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• Character Select: Fixed bug where you had to pick characters for both players despite it not mattering (playing online, tutorial, etc)
• Cabinet Mode: Fixed bug where it was loading the incorrect default settings
• Cabinet Mode: Stage now automatically changes between each match
• Cabinet Mode: Hide Boss characters from Character Select even if unlocked / playing on Steam
• Menus: Fixed bug where mouse cursor wouldn't auto hide unless you've moved it at least once
• Menus: Decreased time for the mouse cursor to auto hide from 5 seconds to 3 seconds

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• Gameplay: Fixed bug where missing asset prevented matches from loading

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• Cabinet Mode added under Advanced Extras
• Cabinet Mode, like Event Mode, locks the game into an alternative menu system that restricts game modes and is ideal for specific offline gameplay scenarios
• If you wish to exit Cabinet Mode, you must use your mouse to click the P button in the bottom right
• Modding: Updated docs to cleanup removed fields and fix typos

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• Pork: Chop blockstun increased by 1, making it no longer punishable by Onion/Garlic Sweep
• Onion: Flick can now cancel into Hopkick (L > S)
• Cryptic Carb: Shrunk hitbox on Shockwave to make it easier to low profile

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• Versus CPU: Added boss character "Cryptic Carb"
• Modding: CancelConfig.onContact added for convenience

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• Gameplay: Adjusted inescapable multi-hits (Rice Swat) to only KO on the last hit
• Combo Trials: You can now verify that a hit was a "punish" or "antiair" (see Rice #4)
• Combo Trials: Fixed bug where some combo progress persisted across position resets
• Modding: AttackConfig.cannotKO added

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• Ranked: Search range for "Similar Opponents" expanded 150 > 200
• Ranked: Search range for "Stronger Opponents" expanded 400 > 9999
• Steam: Disable clicking on the version modal to open up the status page
• Modding: FighterStatsConfig.startMeter added

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• April Fools gameplay changes have been reverted

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• April Fools: Updated Rice and Pork with bugfixes and balancing

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• April Fools: Updated Rice with bugfixes and balancing

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• April Fools: Updated Rice, Beef, Pork, and Garlic with bugfixes and balancing

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• April Fools: Update Noodle, Rice, Pork, and Garlic with bugfixes and balancing
• April Fools: Disable "Account Favorite" allowing players to access base characters

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• April Fools patch! All characters have been swapped with modified versions for the next week

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• Maintenance: More changes in prep for upcoming April Fools event

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• Combo Trials: You can now press 0 on the keyboard to reset position
• Maintenance: Misc changes in prep for upcoming April Fools event

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• Combo Trials: Reworked some Noodle and Beef trials to be less flaky
• Modding/Combo: Adding auto scaling so longer combo trials will fit on screen
• Modding/Combo: Added experimental new trial system for the April Fools event

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• Modding/Combo: Fixed display names not working on new seqIds
• Modding/Combo: Fixed Garlic's combos being accidentally added to Secret Spice
• Modding: Removed duplicate boss configs in main header

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• Modding: Added combo trials! Test with the new Combo button in the top right of the Mod Menu. Updated docs coming soon
• Modding: Fixed ProjectileConfig.displayHide
• Lobbies: Fixed bug where copy/pasting a URL would retain any periods

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• Modding: SequenceConfig.displayHide added
• Modding: Added support for the Throw icon in Frame Data
• Maintenance: Updated URL for accounts API

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• Gameplay: Slightly increased delay before a match starts to mitigate audio and loading issues
• Gameplay UI: The WINS counter now updates immediately once the match ends
• Gameplay UI: Added a star next to the WINS count to indicate the most recent winner
• Gameplay UI: Added a win-streak indicator next to the WINS count once 2+ games have been won in a row

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• Lobbies: Added new host feature "Prevent Start" that lets the host prevent the game from automatically starting when both players mark themselves READY
• Lobbies: Fixed bug where the P2's READY status wasn't being reset when P1 left the queue
• Mobile: Hid the matchmaking button during gameplay since it was interfering with the controls
• Mobile: Made the social icons closer on the main menu to make it easier to click the matchmaking button

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• Noodle: Frenzy pushback increased by 50% to limit oki options
• Rice: Teleport can now cancel the end of their recovery into throw
• Rice: Removed startup invulnerability from Swat
• Rice: 5H > 5H > 4S now teleports back a fixed distance away from the opponent
• Pork: Fixed Caber Toss to auto tech when thrown out of the run animation
• Pork: Fixed Caber Toss tech to put characters at the same distance as a normal throw tech
• Modding: CancelConfig.onHitTumbling added

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• Rice: Added new move Quickport, which allows Rice to teleport a short distance after attacking
• Rice: You can perform Quickport by canceling Light and Heavy attacks into back Special (retreat) or forward Special (close)
• Gameplay: Throw tech animation extended 20 > 40 frames to give players more time to react

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• Matchmaking: Fixed bug where it wouldn't ask for permission to show notifications
• Matchmaking: Fixed bug where you couldn't block anonymous accounts
• Matchmaking: Fixed bug where you could queue while in a private match or lobby

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• Halloween theme will be live October 9 through October 31
• Matchmaking: Fixed bug where you could search for a Ranked match after logging out

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• Matchmaking has been rewritten to now run in the background
• Now when you start matchmaking, you can back out and go do other things like Local VS or Training
• There is a new matchmaking indicator in the bottom left, above the game version
• When the matchmaker is idle, click the indicator to start searching for a Casual Match
• When the matchmaker it in progress, click the indicator to stop searching
• Whenever you finish fighting, you will now have an option to requeue
• Ranked: You can now see the MMR you gained from an opponent rage quitting

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• Pork: If Pork is grabbed during Caber run, they will now automatically tech the throw
• Rice: Swipe can now hit vs airborne, opening up new AA combos

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• Modding: Fixed bug where particles were trying to load from the wrong folder

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• Added Throw Teching and removed throw-invulnerability from all grounded attacks
• Press Throw within 8 frames after getting thrown to "tech" the throw and escape
• If you are thrown during the startup for a throw, you will automatically tech
• Both players recover from the tech animation at the same time
• If a throw connects on the same frame as an attack, the throw wins
• Noodle: Fixed bug where Soup could be hit by throw hitboxes
• Gameplay: Removed ability to kara cancel up the attack chain (L > H > S > T)
• Menu: Fixed bug where the "Patch Notes" displayed on launch were out of date

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• Beef/Pork: Heavy Punch damage decreased 90 > 80
• Beef/Pork: Palm damage increased 60 > 70
• Beef/Pork: Jump knee hitbox slightly reduced to better match animation
• Beef/Pork: Hitting airborne Tackle relaunches with 1 juggle points (always combos into Uppercut)
• Pork: Jump Cancel changed back from Caber Run to an empty jump
• Onion: Followup parry (for multihit moves) has been moved to Light, removing accidental cancels
• Secret Spice: Limit afterimage animation to only attacks
• Maintenance: Added features to Canary test site

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• Boss Characters: Fixed bug where Boss Characters weren't selectable after being unlocked

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• Boss Characters: Fixed bugs caused by real Boss and playable Boss having the same backend ID

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• Boss Characters: The version you unlock has normal health values to make them more fair in casual play
• Maintenance: Cleaned up dependencies and refactored dev tools

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• Accounts: Fixed login bug caused by JWT tooling
• Maintenance: Changed tool used for copying lobby/replay codes to clipboard

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• Event Mode: Changed "unlock bosses" cheat code to persist across refreshes

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• Win Screen: Pressing Throw acts the same as pressing Light (to match other menus)
• Maintenance: Updated Node (v14 > v16) and various dependencies

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• Maintenance: Refactored a lot of menu components and added more automated testing

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• Modding: Any details that are filled out (version, author, description) will now be displayed when uploading and selecting mods

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• Maintenance: Added more automated testing and cleanup noisy logging

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• Onion: Fixed animation glitch where the some colors would flicker while standing
• Maintenance: Improved tooling for enabling/disabling event features

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• April Fools balance patch has been reverted

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• Noodle: Added SFX to Fist
• Pork: Nerfed damage on Chop1 and Chop2 but removed the scaling penalty on Chop1, for net higher damage
• Garlic: Clones can no longer be hit, but will still disappear if Garlic is hit
• Garlic: Special Clones spawn with slightly different locations and speeds, removing the infinite combo in the corner
• Lobbies: Re-enabled the setting for allowing mods

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• Gameplay: Fixed bug where Install state could be inproperly loaded during rollbacks, causing desyncs

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• Made some secret balance changes
• Enabled Frame Data, Modding and Debug Ref menus
• Modding: SequenceConfig.onLand added
• Modding: InstallConfig added
• Modding: FrameConfig.setInstall added
• Modding: FrameConfig.exitInstall added
• Modding: SequenceConfig.requireInstall added
• Maintenance: Fixed copyright date

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• April Fools patch!
• Gameplay and balance changes have been made to the entire cast
• We will let the players figure out what changes have been made :)
• Some menus and game modes have been temporarily disabled. No spoilers!
• While the patch is active, the "normal" skins are unlocked for all players
• This patch will be reverted after the tournmanet on April 7

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• Maintenance: Engine changes in prep for upcoming April Fools event

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• Pork: Fix Caber Toss cancel to work when pressing back + any button
• Secret Spice: Reduced afterimage effect and made them disappear on hit
• Modding: AfterimageConfig.dieOnFighterHit added
• Maintenance: Engine changes in prep for upcoming April Fools event

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• Noodle: Reduced advantage on block for Buzzsaw +2 > +1
• Noodle: Reduced chip on Buzzsaw 120 > 90
• Rice: Reduced damage on Swat 50,100 > 40,80
• Beef/Pork: Uppercut now forces knockdown on airborne opponents
• Pork: Caber Toss can empty cancel before running forward
• Event Mode: Added buttons to custom controls to save and load presets

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• Steam: Added "Quit Game" button to main menu

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• Modding: Negative damage now heals the opponent
• Modding: Default hitstop and meter gain now scale off the absolute value of damage
• Modding: FrameConfig.opacity added
• Modding: FighterSetupConfig.introSequence added

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• Added Push Notifications for matchmaking
• When you search for a match, your browser will prompt you to allow push notifications
• If enabled, you will receive a notification if/when you find a match
• Push notifications are currently only available on Desktop Web
• Maintenance: Refactored character config files to make future development easier

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• Beef/Pork: Palm has been moved from Heavy > Special to Heavy > Light
• Beef/Pork: You can now cancel both your Light and Heavy attacks into Special for your neutral Special move
• Rice: Swat now has airborne invulnerability frames 5-11 instead of a mix of armor and invuln
• Rice: Teleport now has armor for the first 10 frames instead of full invulnerability
• Rice: Jump Drill is now -1 on both hit and block when connecting on the first frame

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• Seasonal themes (Birthday, April Fools, Halloween) will now be automatically turned on/off by the calendar rather than requiring manual updates
• When a Theme is active, the splash screen is changed and that theme's flavors are unlocked and made the default choice
• Additional behavioral changes (e.g. April Fools balance changes) will still require manual patching

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• Pork: Caber Toss now has shorter range, but after a brief pause, runs forward for a hug
• Pork: Caber Toss active frames increased 10 > 64
• Pork: Caber Toss recovery frames increased 10 > 15
• Pork: Caber Toss reach changed from 0.6 to a starting range of 0.2 and max range of 3.85 (about half screen)

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• Gameplay: Fixed bug where the "READY" sfx would not play after Round 1

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• Gameplay: The first round in a set now plays a short falling in animation
• Play Online: Added quick fading animation when quitting back to Character Select
• Play Online: Now when you are disconnected, there is a 2 second window where inputs are ignored so you can see the error w/o exiting accidentally
• Welcome: The splash screen only has a minimum load time the first time, and afterwards will go the menu ASAP
• Event Mode: Pressing Heavy at Character Select bounces back to Welcome screen (previously did nothing)
• Event Mode: Added instructions to Debug Tools > Event Mode DIP Switch

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• Steam: The game now boots in fullscreen
• Steam: To exit fullscreen: Use F11 on Windows, Cmd+Ctrl+F on Mac
• Event Mode: Removed behavior where the game would auto-fullscreen on first user action (replaced with new app-level fullscreen)
• Event Mode: Fixed bug where clicking "Load Recommended Event Settings" wiped the dipswitch
• Event Mode: Hide the News

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• Event Mode has been revamped
• Entering Event Mode will now persist if you refresh
• To exit Event Mode, you need to use the Pause menu (clickable

  in the bottom right)

• Extras > Advanced Extras > Debug Tools > "Event Mode DIP Switch" added
• This provides precise control over esoteric settings that only apply while in Event Mode

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• Controls: You can now map the number keys
• Controls: Mapping a number key for either P1 or P2 disables that shortcut for emotes and Training

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• Gameplay: Kara canceling is disabled if the starting move has armor frames that take a hit

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• Controls: You can now map a combination of keys/buttons to an action
• This allows you play with a three button controller (e.g. map Throw to Light + Heavy)
• To do this, while setting controls, hold the first button and then press the second
• NOTE: The feature is still experimental and needs polishing. Use at your own risk

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• Gameplay: Throws can no longer counterhit (e.g. vs Frenzy startup)
• Maintenance: Rewrote platform detection and behavior for WIP mobile apps

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• Removed Halloween patch
• Maintenance: Added more options to asset loading for WIP mobile apps

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• Gameplay: Throws (including Caber Toss) are now throwable during startup
• Buffed Beef/Pork: Heavy Punch damage increased 80 > 90
• Adjusted Beef/Pork: Heavy Punch pushback reduced 0.3 > 0.2, Palm pushback increased 0.3 > 0.4
• Nerfed Beef/Pork: Heavy Punch advantage on hit reduced +7 > +5 (removes Heavy Punch > Gutpunch link)
• Nerfed Beef/Pork: Uppercut now slides forward during recovery, making it easier to punish optimally on block
• Nerfed Beef/Pork: Uppercut recovery increased 30 > 34 to prevent new forward slide from enabling certain mid-screen juggles
• Nerfed Onion/Garlic: Walk backward speed decreased 0.06 > 0.05 (Meat is 0.04 and Carb is 0.035)
• Adjusted Garlic: Sneak now dives in at an angle, landing closer to the opponent and preventing whiffs
• Combo Trials: Beef and Pork have been updated

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• Lobbies: Added HOST button to allow the host to promote someone else w/o leaving the lobby
• Lobbies: The SWITCH button has been removed and replaced with clicking on the status (e.g. WAITING, SPECTATING)
• Lobbies: You can now press Enter/Escape to save/cancel when editing the lobby message or your nickname

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• Secret Spice: Added afterimage effect
• Training: Fixed bug where Random Counterhit could trigger mid-throw
• Maintenance: Added deployment tooling for WIP mobile apps
• Modding: FrameConfig.afterimages added (for specific frames)
• Modding: SequenceConfig.afterimages added (for all frames in a sequence)
• Modding: DefaultConfig.afterimages added (for every sequence)

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• Halloween patch!
• Tough Love Arena is getting spooky to celebrate the official tournament happening October 28
• While the patch is active, the halloween skins are unlocked for all players
• This patch will be reverted on November 1

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• Buffed Rice: Swat now has armor frames 6 - 10, making it more reliable as an anti-air
• Nerfed Beef: Air Lemon has 6 more frames of startup, ensuring that no parry timing covers both Jump Attack and Air Lemon
• Nerfed Beef: Air Lemon has a shallower arc, making it as easy to antiair as their normal Jump Attack
• Buffed Pork: Removed landing recovery from Empty Jump and now it auto-cancels to Caber Toss
• Nerfed Onion/Garlic: Jump cancel is now 5 frames earlier to allow for a lower jump arc (nerf because it is now harder to execute)
• Nerfed Onion: Long Jump has a shallower arc, making it as easy to antiair as their normal Jump Attack

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• Gameplay: Fixed bug where throws could trade with armored attacks. Armored attacks are back to beating throws during active frames
• Modding: Fixed bug introduced in 0.97.0 where Onion and Garlic mods with projectiles wouldn't load
• Todo: Updated TODO

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• Animation: Onion has been fully animated and polished
• Animation: Onion has new options for alternate colors
• Modding: Upgraded engine to 16
• Modding: Onion mods made before engine 16 will be upgraded to use new sprites

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• Lobbies: Added support for setting a "Nickname". This makes it easier to identify yourself within a lobby, with the fail-safe that if you pick an unsuitable nickname, the host can always kick you
• Lobbies: Nicknames are saved as a local setting. To remove your nickname, simply set it to empty and save
• Lobbies: Fixed bug where the Pause Menu would open while updating the Lobby Message

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• Menu: Moved the game version on the splash screen to the corner for easier reference
• Menu: You can now exit the EULA in Advanced Extras by pressing Light Attack
• Maintenance: Added tooling and documentation around deploying to mirror/proxy URLs

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• Beef/Pork: Fixed bug where they counted as airborne during certain landing frames
• Rice: Hitstop on Jump Drill increased 10 > 12
• Training: Hitbox display now includes text showing if a frame is considered airborne
• Modding: Fixed bug where setting FrameConfig.isAirborne to false wouldn't override SequenceConfig.isAirborne

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• Nerfed Noodle: BuzzSaw meter gain nerfed 600 > 300 on hit, 480 > 240 on block
• Replays: Fixed bug introduced in 0.95.10 where you couldn't disable hitbox display
• How to Play: Updated phrasing in Slap tutorial for Noodle/Rice
• Leaderboard: Fixed issue with displaying long names

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• Buffed Beef and Onion: Parry duration increased 5 > 8 frames
• New Special Jump Attacks: Every character now has a unique new attack that can be performed by jumping forward and then holding back before the descent
• Noodle: Added "Buzz Saw". Does massive chip on block
• Rice: Added "Jump Drill". Dives down with a quick attack
• Beef: Added "Air Lemon". Approach from far away and get some extra damage
• Pork: Added "Empty Jump". Skip your attack and surprise your opponent with a delayed ground attack or sudden throw
• Onion: Added "Long Jump". Cover extra ground to try and get in
• Garlic: Added "Jump Roundhouse". Teleport to the ground to punish their anti-air with a Roundhouse
• Garlic: Changed Backflip > Jump cancel from Light to Special, to make mashing Light after Backflip easier
• Gameplay: Hurtboxes are slightly wider during landing frames, so whiff punishing a jump attack as they land is now easier
• Fixed Beef/Pork: Jump's rising attack now has armor vs air attacks AND projectiles (to handle Air Lemon)
• Fixed Rice: Swat can no longer trade with projectiles
• How to Play: Added a section for special jump attacks to each character's Strategy section
• Modding: AttackSequenceConfig.displayCancelsFrom added (to better display Frame Data for moves you can only do by cancelling something else)

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• Menu: Pressing Throw works the same as pressing Light on most menus
• Training Mode: Toggling hitbox display while gameplay is frozen will now update immediately, rather than requiring a frame step
• Event Mode: You can toggle hitbox display from the Pause Menu (this is tracked separately from Training Mode)
• Event Mode: There is now a controller preview on the main menu (this is temporary for an offline event)

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• Attract Mode: The setting to enable this is now enabled by default if playing on desktop
• Attract Mode: You can now exit by clicking, just like the Welcome screen
• Event Mode: Fixed bug where rebooting would immediately play music
• Event Mode: Enable all flavors when playing Human VS CPU

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• Pause Menu: You can now hold any 1 key/button to switch from Single Player to Two Players controls
• Pause Menu: You can now hold any 2 keys/buttons to exit without saving
• Event Mode: Rebooting exits fullscreen. As a workaround, after it reboots to the Welcome/Attract Screen, when you press anything to proceed it will also go fullscreen

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• Pause Menu: Moved Custom Controls lower down in the options
• Event Mode: Reverted needing to hold Pause for non-gameplay menus
• Event Mode: Will automatically reboot after idling for 45 seconds on the main menu, Character Select or the Win Screen

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• Attract Mode: Added quick loading animation when exiting Attract Mode (used to be instant and jarring)
• Event Mode: Added inner menu where you can choose between 2P or 1P vs Random CPU
• Event Mode: You now need to hold Pause for all areas of Event Mode (to reduce accidental pausing)
• Event Mode: Pressing Heavy at the inner menu takes you to Attract Mode (removed from Pause Menu)
• Event Mode: Idling at the inner menu for 30 seconds will refresh the app
• The refresh will load directly back to the Event Menu and show Attract Mode
• Previously, running Event Mode on the desktop version for 3+ hours could randomly crash the game
• This refresh mechanism is a workaround while we investigate this difficult to reproduce bug

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• Adjusted Garlic: Increased Sneak hitstop duration 10 > 12 frames
• Gameplay: Successful parry attacks will always face the opponent, fixing interaction when parrying Soup placed behind you
• Maintenance: Fixed meta tag for image preview
• Maintenance: Phase 1 of rewriting netcode code for open sourcing

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• Controls: You can now map ShiftLeft and Spacebar
• Controls: Functional keys (F1, F2, etc) are now completely ignored
• How to Play: Fixed typo in Rice strategy
• About: Fixed links pointing to events and the Hall of Fame
• About: Removed community links (now available at about.toughlovearena.com)
• Maintenance: Fixed meta tags so that sharing TLA on social media will now look nicer

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• Menu: Music box in the top right now remembers your music preference
• Attract Mode: No longer saves replays
• Maintenance: Migrated deployment scripts to more maintainable framework

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• Gameplay: Fixed hitstop on REJECT, now there is a slight freeze when it connects
• Gameplay: It is now impossible to combo after a landing a REJECT
• Buffed Pork: Caber Toss is now unburstable until the first hit, making Caber > Jump or Caber > Chop guaranteed. Longer combos can still be bursted
• Training: With hitboxes on, you can now see how many juggle points remain during a combo
• Debug Tools: Fixed issue with inner menu navigation

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• Options: Removed "Unload Stale Sprites" until it can be further tested and debugged
• Debug Tools: Merged public and private debug tools into one ugly menu

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• Buffed Beef/Pork: Palm disadvantage on block decreased -9 > -8
• Nerfed Beef/Pork: Reverted 0.83.0 buff that made Jump > Spike scale as 1 hit, now it's back to 2
• Buffed Noodle/Rice: Increased the juggle height when Slap anti-airs to make hitting with both Slaps less likely
• Buffed Noodle/Rice: Getting hit inbetween the two attacks of Slap no longer registers as a counterhit
• Buffed Noodle/Rice: Whip hitbox is now uniformly taller, making juggles easier and removing the "sweet spot" at the end
• Buffed Noodle/Rice: Whip Splash startup reduced by 3 frames (makes Slap > Whip Splash juggles more reliable)
• Nerfed Noodle/Rice: Reduced horizontal range of Slap's first hitbox by 17%
• Nerfed Noodle/Rice: Reverted 0.91.0 buff to horizontal range of Slap's second hitbox
• Nerfed Noodle/Rice: Reverted 0.91.0 buff to Slap's pushback
• Nerfed Noodle/Rice: Slap's total animation is slightly longer, making it easier to whiff punish
• Nerfed Noodle/Rice: Reduced cancel window of Slap's second hit 8 > 6 frames
• Nerfed Noodle/Rice: Reduced cancel window of Whip Pounce 8 > 6 frames
• Nerfed Noodle/Rice: Increased recovery of Whip Pounce by 5 frames. It has the same advantage on hit/block, but now it gives the opponent more time to react to no cancels
• Buffed Rice: Reverted 0.83.0 nerf to Swat damage, effectively increasing 20,80 > 50,100
• Buffed Rice: Swat juggles higher, making it effectively +9 on hit
• Buffed Rice: Swat can now juggle into Slap in the corner
• Nerfed Rice: Swat can no longer cancel into Whip Back
• Nerfed Rice: Reverted 0.83.0 buff that make Swat scale as 1 hit, now it's back to 2
• Adjusted Rice: Swipe now hits a second time if the opponent is close
• Swipe used to hit once and was +7 on hit and -9 on block
• Swipe's first hit is now -2 on hit and -8 on block
• Swipe's new second hit is +7 on hit and -2 on block
• Like most 2-hit moves, Swipe's meter gain is now distributed across both hits
• Swipe can no longer hit an airborne opponent, making Jump a hard counter to Swipe

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• Gameplay: You can no longer be hit by other attacks (e.g. projectiles) while being thrown
• Training: StunPhase (if present) is displayed as text on hitboxes and hurtboxes
• Modding: AttackConfig.stunPhase added (only hits opponents in the matching phase)
• Modding: AttackConfig.setStunPhase added (sets the opponent's phase, making them only hittable by attacks with the same phase)

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• Animation: Successful parries now show a small block impact where the hit was parried
• Buffed Beef: Flex can now parry projectiles
• Nerfed Beef: Extended hurtboxes during BEEFCAKE recovery to make whiff punishing it easier
• Buffed Onion: Feint can now parry projectiles
• When Beef and Onion parry projectiles, the followup attack does not freeze the opponent like a normal parry
• Modding: ParryConfig.onProjectile added

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• Gameplay: Fixed bug where the extended hurtboxes during Onion/Garlic's Sweep were throwable

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• Pause Menu: Custom Controls updated during Gameplay will now take effect immediately
• Pause Menu: Custom Controls now shows both P1 and P2 when opened from Training Mode

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• Gameplay: Throw recovery on whiff decreased 20 > 10 frames
• Buffed Pork: Caber Toss recovery on whiff decreased 20 > 10 frames
• How to Play: Fixed outdated instructions for RAPID/BURST/REJECTION

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• Added 4th button: the Throw button! Press Throw to attempt a throw
• All throw active frames (including Pork's Caber Toss) have been increased 5 > 10 frames
• Walking forward is no longer throw invulnerable
• You cannot be thrown for 3 frames after exiting hitstun, blockstun, juggling, or knockdown
• This 3 frame window provides extra time to start an attack and beat a meaty throw
• Doing anything besides standing or walking will immediately end this window of throw invulnerability
• Therefore, doing an armored attack or parry makes you immediately throwable
• Throwable hurtboxes are now tracked separately vs strike hurtboxes
• Walking backwards slightly increases the width of your throwable hurtbox
• RAPID has been moved from Forward Special to Forward Throw
• BURST has been moved from Backward Special to Backward Throw
• REJECTION has been moved from Back Light to Forward Throw
• Modding: Upgraded engine to 15
• Modding: You can use "d" to map inputs to the fourth button (eg "4d": "SomeAttack")
• Modding: FighterSetupConfig.commands added (customize the inputs for Throw/Rapid/Burst/Reject)
• Modding: SequenceConfig.palindromeAnimation added (backfill to make hitstun/blockstun work)
• Modding: ActionConfig.throwStart active frame duration changed 5 > 10 to make meaty throws easier
• Modding: ActionConfig.throwCheck removed
• Modding: Hurtboxes can now be customized for strikes vs throws
• Modding: DefaultConfig.strikeHurtboxes and DefaultConfig.throwHurtboxes added
• Modding: SequenceConfig.strikeHurtboxes and SequenceConfig.throwHurtboxes added
• Modding: FrameConfig.strikeHurtboxes and FrameConfig.throwHurtboxes added
• Modding: SequenceConfig.hurtboxes and FrameConfig.hurtboxes are still available as a shorthand for both strike/throw
• Modding: Existing hurtbox changes have been ported to strikeHurtbox so as to not extend the throwHurtbox automatically
• Modding: Places where hurtboxes were set to empty have been preserved

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• Buffed Garlic: Backflip can now cancel it's landing frames directly into Jump or Roundhouse by pressing Light or Heavy respectively
• Gameplay: Reduced the height of all jumping attack hurtboxes to cleanly beat attacks not designed to be anti-airs
• Noodle: Adjusted Trample hitbox height to better match the animation (slight buff to juggles)
• Beef/Pork: Adjusted Gutpunch hitbox height to better match the animation (slight buff to juggles)
• Beef/Pork: Adjusted Jump Attack (Dropkick) hitbox height to better match the animation (gameplay unaffected)
• Beef: Adjusted BEEFCAKE hitbox height to better match the animation (gameplay unaffected)
• Pork: Adjusted Chop hitbox height to better match the animation (gameplay unaffected)
• Onion/Garlic: Adjusted Flick hitbox height to better match the animation (less disjointed, but still a great anti-air)
• Onion: Adjusted Hopkick hitbox height to better match the animation (gameplay unaffected)

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• Performance: Added warning to the menu when using a browser with poor performance (e.g. Firefox)
• FAQ: Updated sections on improving frame rate
• Maintenance: Improved usability of performance debugging tool

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• Gameplay: Rewrote game loop to save up to 4.5ms every frame, dramatically improving performance on slower devices
• Gameplay: Removed RDR counter from the top right of the screen. Current settings are now represented in the FPS label
• Options: Replaced RenderFPS with new option "Frame Rate"
• Frame Rate: The options are 60 FPS, 30 FPS, and Dynamic
• Frame Rate: Dynamic is the default setting for non-mobile devices
• Frame Rate: 30 FPS is the default setting for mobile devices and recommended for slower devices

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• Pause Menu: Fixed UI bug where the button would scroll with the page
• Maintenance: Centralized and simplified z-index layering
• Maintenance: Added more automated tests

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• Throw recovery on whiff increased 10 > 20 frames
• Buffed Noodle: Soup launches slightly higher, making followups a little easier
• Nerfed Rice: Swat no longer has armor during startup, but retains armor during active to prevent trades
• Nerfed Rice: Swat active frames reduced 5 > 1
• Nerfed Rice: Swat total duration on whiff net increased by 5 frames

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• Added new stage "Apartment"

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• Maintenance: Migrated source code to new repo

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• Maintenance: Added more debug tools

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• Redeployed 0.91.16

• Character Select: The clickable back button now acts like pressing Heavy instead of instantly backing all the way out
• Replays: Fixed bug where the Load menu would sometimes load the replay but then get stuck on the menu
• Steam: Changed application icon from flexing Beef to the heart spikeball from the logo (better at low resolution)

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• Maintenance: Migrate Hall of Fame data to new host and new format

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• Nerfed Onion/Garlic: Sweep can no longer cancel into Trip on block
• Accounts: Fixed "Favorite Character" to no longer break when we push new skins (existing favorites have been reset)
• Modding: FlavorConfig.fid added (unique property to help with replay/favorite tracking)
• NOTE: One of the main goals of 0.91.0 was diversifying offense. Adding "Sweep > Trip on block" inadvertently made it more simple. It also introduced undesirable play patterns in the form of long, pseudo-true blockstrings against Pork. Therefore, this buff has been reverted

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• Character Select: Fixed bug where unlocked flavors could not be chosen

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• Character Select: Restyled the flavor select to include the flavor name and a wider preview
• Character Select: You now see all of the flavors all the time. Locked flavors are visible but unselectable
• Character Select: Locked flavors now include text telling you how to unlock them
• Character Select: All locks are removed when playing certain offline game modes (Local Vs, Training, Event)

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• Maintenance: Fixed bug with Feature Flag caching
• Maintenance: Centralize and standardize debug tools

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• Steam: Added unique assets for the welcome screen and game title

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• Steam: Fixed bug where the taskbar icon appeared to be half missing
• Maintenance: Switched Feature Flags to using cache.tla to reduce load on API server

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• Maintenance: Migrated STUN/TURN network servers to new hosting provider and url

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• How to Play: Fixed bug where selecting Custom Controls acted like you clicked on Random
• Maintenance: Switched News to using cache.tla to reduce load on API server
• Maintenance: Added tools for creating debug builds for Steam

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• Maintenance: Finished migrating deployment tools to a new file server for faster deploys

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• Frame Data: Updated information at the top related to health and damage scaling
• Maintenance: Started migrating deployment tools to a new file server for faster deploys
• Maintenance: Cleaned up and refactored deployment scripts
• Maintenance: Added more tools for debugging Steam-specific issues

• Steam: Fixed bug where event skins required being logged in to any account
• Steam: Fixed version overlay in the bottom left to say Steam instead of Desktop
• How to Play: Fixed bug where the parry tutorials for Beef and Onion would sometimes not register a successful parry