This patch represents a continuation of our efforts to improve the visuals of the game, and some helpful improvements on the technical side. About one year ago we started collaborating with an illustrator, and the game has come a very long way since then. Updated Visuals For Billy

• Nearly all of Billy's animations have been upgraded with more finished sprites as part of our ongoing efforts to improve the game's art.
• Billy has a redesigned air throw that slams the opponent into the ground. His air throw no longer causes push, so the opponent is left knocked down and adjacent to Billy. Jerma Billy also has a new air throw animation.
• The "fling" at the end of Billy's ground throws no longer shows a hitspark or generates hitstop, and sounds more like a fling than a hit. It still technically does damage.
• Many of Billy's sprite pivot positions have been adjusted to be in line with other characters. He will appear slightly taller as a result.
• Billy's normal ground throw brings the opponent lower while he breaks them over his knee.
• The hitspark for Billy's normal ground throw is now lower so it does not obscure his face.

• You can now reset training mode to a corner position (hold forward or back while pressing restart in training)
• You can now change the AI difficulty in training mode
• The default dummy behavior is now repeat custom, with "Dummy" as the action.
• In training mode the AI can now do "Dummy" + a direction to walk without blocking or attacking, or "Dummy" + jump to jump in place without attacking. "Dummy" + "Neutral" is the training dummy's default state (dummy stands and doesn't block).

• Cleaned up several old and unused sprites from the sprite atlas, freeing up ~100MB of size from the game's install footprint. This should speed up load times and reduce memory usage.

• If a player is combo'd into Noel's vine and they are too close to be damaged by the vine, they now take an extra 100 damage (as opposed to 300 for a direct hit).
• Marv Vapor Strike can now be damaged by a vine at the right spacing.
• If Marv uses Tornado Blitz on wakeup, it can now hit two spaces in front of Marv, to match the animation. This change applies to Jerma Marv too.

• Shotokan Artist Paul earned his yellow belt in karate from Sensei Bob in this quiet strip-mall dojo. It is now the game's training and tutorial mode stage, replacing the desert.
• All stage grid lines are now more transparent when the square is unoccupied, they are down to 15% opacity (previously 35%). This is so that they will not clash as much the art of our hand drawn backgrounds.

• Paulcano now appears to travel a shorter distance horizontally. Its range is unchanged.
• The Reset button has been removed. This was an alpha feature that would let you keep playing if you encountered a softlock. Frankly it hasn't been needed for awhile. You can now bind stuff to the "B" and "V" keys, if you want.
• Updated some text in Noel and Marv's command lists to align with the characters' new art.
• BLAZING SALT, the character select theme, has been added to the soundtrack, for those who own it.

• Fixed a bug where Noel's fighting flurry would do no damage if a vine absorbed a fireball on the same turn.
• Fixed an issue involving switching training dummy states during a punish. Now the dummy cancels their punish in this situation.
• Fixed some odd visuals related to delay and fireballs
• Fixed an issue where the wrong category of controls would sometimes appear in the rebinding menu
• Fixed some inconsistent pushing behavior for moves like Fist of Euphoria and Fightning Flail
• Fixed issue where lewis would appear to teleport if he uses his slide on wakeup and is hit out of it
• Fixed wrong command sometimes showing up for Blazing Ent in the command list and other places
• Fixed an rare bug involving certain side switching moves behaving oddly during a trade
• Adjusted position of guide text in character select to be more consistent at different resolutions
• Fixed issue where character archetype labels in character select would sometimes be cut off on the Steam Deck
• Removed a blue stripe on the main menu at the Steam Deck's default aspect ratio
• Fixed issue involving online replays that would occur if a player handle contained a period
• Fixed issue involving hitsparks getting knocked out of place by some moves.