Work on the character animations is underway. First up we have Bzzt's new slick electrifying animations and general character balancing. I'm going to be tweaking a number of values and even whole moves as I go through each character to bring the overall standard and quality of the game up a few notches. Additionally I've added a brand new game mechanic, or rather a new wrinkle to an existing game mechanic. By dashing the moment you touch a ball you'll perform a Perfect Parry. This is a good mixup tool to add to your arsenal! Finally here is the updated road map:
As you can see, there's a lot more going on in this first phase now than originally planned, but it's good reasons now that I can see how development is going and how long certain things will take. Next on my hit list is Ringressa's animations. Quite a few of these characters are gonna really benefit from these animations so I can't wait to make my way through them. On the side, I have my background artist getting ready to work on the Museum Gallery. This set of features might not be available until the next phase depending on how long it takes to implement, but it might end up being pulled forward. We shall see! ----PATCH NOTES----- [ADDITIONS]

• Added Bzzt's move, dash, melee, projectile, super, hyper, hit, stun, wall stun & quick recovery animations
• Bzzt's super has been completely changed again. Using it now will cause a lightning bolt to begin to appear vertically at the opponents x position at the point of initial use. In 90 frames (1.5 seconds) the lightning strike will occur at that position for 15 frames electricuting the opponent if it touches it whilst active or adding the electric status effect to any balls that pass by it
• Added the "Perfect Parry" mechanic. By dashing the moment a moving ball is in contact with your character, you will perform a much quicker parry that's even quicker than a normal melee. It still has the usual restrictions of a regular parry (no ball aura, reduced ball speed etc), but could be a useful mixup to surprise opponents with

• Fixed bug where pausing a match during the last 5 seconds countdown would cause the announcer's voice to keep playing the current second voice clip on loop until the game resumed
• Added slight knockback from hitting the ball with an uncharged melee
• Fixed an issue with Ringressa's Hyper where you'd hit the ball multiple times

• Title screen characters and game logo now bob
• Menu song title in the academy now shifts up slightly when in the training menu so it doesn't occlude or get occluded by the training menu screen

• Changed the way the "Darken BG" profile setting works so that it darkens the holofield layer rather than a separate BG layer. I've also changed the default setting for this to be 50% when choosing no profile or creating a new one
• Fixed Bzzt's electrical particles so they correctly draw in the currently selected Bzzt's electricity colour
• Fixed dash angle drawing during the dash start up for every character
• Fixed hitstun, stun and wall stun image orientations for players on both sides of the field
• Fixed edge light drawing issue with projectiles happening when the projectile was effecting the characters lighting from too far away
• Fixed music duplication issue during the advanced tutorials from changes to the music filtering introduced from last updates