FEATURES AND MAJOR UPDATES

The Library and Ink

MINOR NOTES AND BUGFIXES

• Full screen will now be operation in the options menu.
• Resolution is now operational in the options menu.
• Full screen will now remember what you set it too
• Resending inputs are completed. (ALARM5)
• When recieving your 2 free fighters, the correct ammount will now appear.

• We have now retired the Avatar shop which has been replaced by the Library.
• Turn timers have now been reduced.
• We have implemented a new VS Screen for future stuff.
• AI Mode is now defaulted, instead of starting on "BOT" in practise mode.
• When accept into a friendly match, AI/Practise is disabled.
• Runes has now been retired for "Ink".
• We have now slightly redesigned the VS Screen for a much more subtle look.

FEATURES AND MAJOR UPDATES

Stability

Economy

Indines Cup

MINOR NOTES AND BUGFIXES

• We fixed options in replay mode freezing when paused.
• When you find an opponent but the game doesnt load correctly, it will now request if it needs to fix this and will kick you out of the game automatically, and re-que you.
• We have fixed a crash on the purchase screen.
• When bug reporting at the end of the game, it does not exit you from main menu if you click.
• Evil Hikaru now say's the correct finisher lines.

• DLC Packs for fighters - Season 1 and Season 2.
• Added Input saving on the client, so we can replay them if a game needs it.
• Added a new server message to tell the client, why the game is stuck and how to resolve.\
• A polling system for products, which fixes when you login into the game, and all your characters are greyed out, It will now try and force it to un-grey and unlock all your characters.
• Fallback system for speech bubbles if they are stuck after 3 seconds they will disappear.
• More error checking for when you leave a Que.

• Optimized the main menu fighter selection faces a bit more, so they load much faster when coming back from a game now.
• Win rates will only be able to been seen after 15 wins with the fighter.

Greetings friends, In order to promote a safe, inclusive, and friendly gaming environment for you, we're updating our community guidelines, as well as the penalties for breaking them. These guidelines are going into effect immediately: These rules will be enforced on official Level 99 Games Community Servers on Discord, in games such as BattleCON Online, on our official facebook pages, youtube page, at official real-world events, and et cetera. Basically, anywhere that Level 99 Games exercises an official presence online and where community members are invited to interact with each other and with our developers, these rules are in full force. Penalties in any one community are enforced in all communities, services, games, and real-world organized play events. Thus, conduct in a Discord server or Youtube channel can result in a ban in BattleCON Online, from our facebook pages, and from real-world organized play events as well. 1. Our communities and games are a safe space for players of all backgrounds. Refrain from any posts, comments, images, speech, or other communication that the moderators of these communities deem to be aggressive, inflammatory, hateful, or otherwise disparaging to any group or subgroup of people, including but not limited to ethnic groups, genders, sexual orientations, religions, nationalities, disabilities, etc. Violations of this policy are determined at the sole discretion of the moderators. Based on the severity of the offense, the response to these actions may range from a warning to a permanent ban. 2. Our communities and games are a safe space for minors. Any content that is illegal, grotesquely violent, pornographic, or otherwise deemed to be in violation of the spirit of these rules is grounds for an immediate, permanent ban. Any solicitation or suggestion of illegal activity to another member is grounds for an immediate, permanent ban. Participating in the extended discussion of these topics is also grounds for an immediate ban, the severity and length of which will be determined by moderators. 3. We value the privacy of the members of our community. Sharing personally identifying information, including but not limited to pictures, addresses, contact information in other communities, IP addresses, et cetera of any other member of one of these communities is grounds for a ban. Furthermore, members of the community are strongly discouraged from posting such materials about themselves, and such posts may also warrant a warning or ban. 4. Our communities and games are a place for good-spirited, friendly, sportsmanlike competition. Win or lose, all members of the community are expected to be good sports and to accept both victory and defeat with good grace. At the discretion of our moderators, any unsportsmanlike conduct, including trash talk, attempts to fix matches, attempts to influence the play or behavior of other players, or attempts to delegitimize the results of official competitions, is subject to warning or bans. The use of game-altering software, or intentional exploitation of known, game-altering bugs are also grounds for a ban. 5. Our communities and games are a place for those activities alone. Members of the community should refrain from active recruitment of members for any outside activity. This includes invitations to participate in other gaming communities or activities, offers to sell or purchase property, and pressuring member participation or abstinence from any particular politics, lifestyles, beliefs, or out-of-game activities. At the discretion of a moderator, these activities are grounds for warnings and bans. 6. Our moderators have the final say in all matters relating to community administration. These moderator powers extend to all members of our staff and development teams. Arguing with, harassing, or disparaging of the moderators, development team, or other members of the Level 99 Staff are grounds for warnings and bans. Direct contact with moderators or staff outside of these community channels may, at the discretion of moderators, be grounds for warnings or bans within the community. 7. We reserve the right to modify these guidelines at any time, as well as to enforce immediately and retroactively any changes made to these guidelines. Furthermore, all warnings and bans from the community are at the sole discretion of the moderators of those communities, and may or may not carry a given explanation with their assignment. With these guidelines in place, we hope to create an inviting, fun, open, and inclusive community centered around our shared love of gaming and a mutual respect for fellow players of all backgrounds. Thank you all for your participation in Level 99 Games, and for your support as we continue to grow and press through the challenges ahead! I look forward to seeing you online. :)

FEATURES AND MAJOR UPDATES

Advanced Replay Controls

Indines Cup

BALANCE CHANGES

Kimbhe:

Kehrolyn:

MAJOR NOTE

MINOR NOTES AND BUGFIXES

• Opening the Request bar in game should no longer crash the game.
• Getting a packet error now checks whether the error is game-related before kicking you back to the main menu.
• Marmelee's music should no longer load into RAM, increasing speed.

• Remaining Elite Skin Avatars are now in-game.

• Bundles have been removed from the in-game store.

Steam Early Access Build v0.24 - "Win or Lose?" Released on June 4, 2019

FEATURES AND MAJOR UPDATES

Win Rates

BALANCE CHANGES

MINOR NOTES AND BUGFIXES

• Players no longer enter a game even after theyve cancelled Match Finding Queue.
• Minor Full Screen Mode adjustments.
• Friends in your friends list no longer duplicate.

• Alt+Enter now turns full screen on/off.
• Fallback system to kickstart stuck games.

Steam Early Access Build v0.23 - "Leaders" Released on April 26, 2019

FEATURES AND MAJOR UPDATES

Leaderboards and Ranking System

Character Select UI Update

Quest Reroll

BALANCE CHANGES

MINOR NOTES AND BUGFIXES

• Speech bubbles no longer stop you from clicking on cards.
• Networking reconfigured. Should improve game responsiveness.

• Portraits in fighter select now use promo art for a better look.
• Avatars should now have borders indicating a players rank.

• Quick Play removed and replaced with Ranked Play.
• Win/loss ratio no longer appears on the loading screen before a match.
• Options are now presented to the player in a different way. Less options means the cards are more spread out, letting the player see more of a card.

Welcome to BATTLECON ONLINE early access version 0.21.0 Released on March 6, 2019

NEW RELEASES

New Fighter: Kehrolyn

FEATURES AND MAJOR UPDATES

Tutorial Update

BALANCE CHANGES

Seven

• Undaunted: Now always Advances 1, 2, or 3; now gives opponents at Range 3+ Power -2
• Friendly: Now heals 2 if opponent was hit but not stunned.
• Heated: Now has +3 Power, from +2.
• Excited: Now has +0 Power, from -1.
• Sympathetic: Now Advances 1, 2, or 3, from 1 or 2.
• Reciprocate: Now has Soak 2; Range to 1~3 from 1~6.
• With Feeling: Stats to 4~6/3/6 with Soak 3. Still upgrades all Styles. Follow-up work to be performed next patch.

MINOR NOTES AND BUGFIXES

• Hovering on an ante while it was disappearing no longer causes desyncs
• Eligor and Khadaths achievements now work properly
• Newer player matchmaking

• New set of achievements for some of the characters. Enjoy figuring them out!
• New zen garden arena background for tutorial and practice modes

Welcome to BATTLECON ONLINE version 0.20.0 Released on January 30, 2019

NEW RELEASES

New Fighter: Rexan

New Costume: Cryostar Kallistar

FEATURES AND MAJOR UPDATES

Matchmaking

BALANCE CHANGES

MINOR NOTES AND BUGFIXES

• Iri price reduction from 1500 to 1000 Runes

• Friends avatars no longer get added to your collection when your friends are online
• Iris Starlight now displays the correct values based on her form
• Sarafinas Silver now displays properly during clashes
• Burmans Dragonbreath no longer causes the game to hang under specific conditions
• Variables player_main and player_other are now setting correctly. This should fix various discard pile and index errors
• Tutorial 3 no longer crashes

• Better crash detection in options

Welcome to BATTLECON ONLINE version 0.19.0 Released on December 19, 2018

NEW RELEASES

New Fighter: Iri

FEATURES AND MAJOR UPDATES

Avatar Shop

Tooltips

BALANCE CHANGES

Burman

• Blistering: Now has 1 Power, from 2
• Dragonbreath: Now has 1 Power, from 0. Now has "Start: You may spend 2 Firepower to deal 2 life loss the first time opponent Advances this beat." instead of its previous On Hit
• Dragon's Descent: Now has 7 Power, from 8. Now has 1 Priority, from 2

Magdelina

• UA: Now loses Trance equal to Level when leveling up (or hitting Level
• Cap), instead of all Trance

Kimbhe

• Expulsion: Now specifies Staff -may- be moved to -unoccupied- space.
• Quake: Stun guard to 3 from 4

Sarafina

• Tactical: Now has Hit: You may spend 2 Force for +1 Power
• Locus: Now has Start: If the opponent is on your Projection, Gain 2 Force and Pull 1
• Field: Now has Hit: Gain 2 Force in addition to immobilizing opponent
• Hollow: Now has Damage: Gain 1 Force
• Silver: Now has -1 Power, +1 Priority
• Fulminating Vortex: Now has 7 Power, from 8
• Ritherwhyte Infusion: Now has Hit: Gain 2 Life

Seven

• Cold: Now has +0~1 Range
• Remote: Now has After: Advance up to 1

MINOR NOTES AND BUGFIXES

• Improved disconnect detection
• Linux and Mac now run on 2k textures
• How textures are assorted for better performance
• Internal game engine to support latest features
• Punctuation for one of Mikhails voice lines
• Discard pile support
• 99% of how Friends Lists work for a more optimized solution

• A bug where your shop would crash from irrelevant data
• A crash in tutorial 3
• Force gauge animation broken in some cases
• Mikhails voice line not playing properly
• Game's icon and title being incorrect
• Game getting stuck on login for some people
• Non-attacking finishers causing the character to say their voices lines the following beat

• Instant status reporting for friends list
• Better support from undefined crashes
• A fix for viewing different shops in different builds
• A whole new animated background for the holiday season
• Profile caching for faster load times for friends and opponents

Welcome to Patch 0.18! This is a small one, with a bunch of bugfixes and the release of our next character: Evil Hikaru! Kickstarter backers have been able to play him for a bit, but now everyone can go at it! Updates:

• Evil Hikaru is now available for all players as a purchasable fighter.
• Evil Hikaru's listed difficulty updated to 4, from 3.
• Cesar's listed difficulty updated to 3, from 2.

Balance Changes:

• Pure Evil - Power raised from -1 to +0. Pure Evil is Evil Hikaru's hardest Style to use due to lack of defenses and low Priority; this should help put the reward in line with the risk.
• Devastator now hits at Range 4 if the Power debuff does not apply (at 2 or fewer tokens). Evil Hikaru's ranges are... spotty at best, and he's particularly weak when at range. Devastator is a hard Base to use due to its movement issues, but this should give him an interesting ranged option that he needs to work for.

Other Bugfixes and Changes

• Added: X-Range / Special Ranges now show an effect pop-up on hit to clarify that they landed a hit through special effects instead of normal range calculation.
• Fixed: (Burman) Dragon's Descent dodge effect did not activate properly.
• Fixed: Hail the King, Aegis, Sweet Revenge now gain Power properly when interacting with Blessing.
• Updated: Seven's card evolutions were changed from End: timing to Recycle: timing.
• Fixed: Evil Hikaru regain life bug with Finisher.
• Fixed: Alexian's Mighty style affecting Finishers.
• Fixed: At 5 clashes, the game will trigger "Auto Cleanup" to clean all statuses.
• Fixed: Bug that caused some fighters to say Finisher voice lines during regular attacks.
• Fixed: A bug on Mac and Linux where the card name color was grey, but was meant to be an non-grey color.
• Fixed: A glitch with force effect in the UI.
• Changed: How ping system works for better Disconnect detection.
• Fixed: Disconnection message will no longer pop up while trying to authenticate if you take too long.

Welcome to BATTLECON ONLINE version 0.17.0 Released on October 3rd, 2018 This may be a light update, but it still has a heavy hittersay hello to Burman! A powerful specialist/heavyweight, Larimore Burman can save up Power and Priority to unleash devastating attacks that force the opponent across the board, shred their defenses, or overwhelm their Priority instantly.

BALANCE CHANGES

Hikaru

Rukyuk

Sarafina

CLIENT UPDATES

• Friends matches
• Miscellaneous small bugs

• Burman Imagery and Voice Acting
• Code redemption

• Login system
• Packet system

Welcome to BATTLECON ONLINE version 0.16.0 Released on September 19th, 2018

Updates

• Login should be a lot easier! If you want to register an account it's similar, but you can jump in and play even without it. This should make things a lot more user-friendly when trying to register initially.
• Unique Ability (UA) cards are updated! People wanted more information about how UAs work in detail, so we've added illustrated cards in-game that should help explain!
• Pop-ups and visuals added on a number of cards. These should clarify situations where you need to see what a token does, or otherwise interact with things that were hard to find!
• Flip Viewer and Help Overlay! Press the ? button in-game to see a summary of what everything is on the screen, or click the flip arrow on Kallistar and Seven's cards to see what both sides of the card do.

Balance Changes

Luc:

Kallistar:

Visual Changes and Upgrades

• Kallistar: Life loss now occurs before pairs are set, for consistency with Finisher costing.
• Karin: Full Moon's passive "+2 Power if Jager behind opponent" refactored into a Hit effect for clarity.
• Eligor, Alexian, Seven, Cesar: "Ignore push or pull" effects (Vengeful, Gestalt, Terrified) now have a Reveal trigger popping up the effect, for clarity purposes.
• Khadath: Snare now pops up a Reveal: trigger stating "your trap cannot be moved" if you used it with Teleport, Blight, or Evacuation.
• Hikaru: Added reminder text to token regains to clarify what regained tokens do. Fixed some voice lines.
• Rukyuk:Added reminder text to Ammo spends to clarify what spent tokens do.
• Hikaru, Riflam, Rukyuk: Effects interacting with a single custom token (Geomantic, Substantial, Crossfire, etc.) now use the art of that token instead of the card's art.
• Sarafina, Khadath, Kimbhe: Standardized wording between X-range marker-based Unique Bases.
• Cesar: Cesar's UA better explains Threat Level bonuses at the start of each beat.
• Magdelina: Fixed bug where Solar Soul could not spend Trance for buffs.
• Mikhail: Switch now clarifies that Mikhail does not need to spend a Seal.Fixed some voice lines.
• Sarafina: Fixed a bug where Field could sometimes hit opponents on Space 1.
• Anath: Fixed bug with Dark Revulsion crashing while negating range. Fixed bug with Dark Revulsion using up Cesar's extra life.

Client Changes/Updates

• FIXED: Tutorial is now skippable.
• CHANGED: Removed lock image from unlocked fighters.
• FIXED: Cursor was being displayed underneath dialog boxes in some situations.
• CHANGED: Friends status timer updated.
• ADDED: Added access to DEV Server.
• FIXED: Tutorial not working on mac and linux.
• ADDED: Added all new UA frames/descriptions to fighters.
• ADDED: Bundles to the store.
• ADDED: Unlock Icon added back in.
• ADDED: Staggered reconnection attempts.
• FIXED: Mac - Force particle effects never disapear.
• FIXED: Mac - Dust clouds lasting a long time on movement and attack.
• FIXED: Mac - EXP and Levels Displaying incorrectly.
• ADDED: A redeem code button in the shop.
• ADDED: A Help overlay in game.
• CHANGED: Abilities tab to show UA Frame.
• FIXED: Packet 2022 Error crash.
• ADDED: A Stun Guard cap to 99.
• ADDED: The letters "SI" for when your pair has Stun Immunity.
• ADDED: Clicking on the small arrow on a card (on a card that can transform) in-game will show what it will transform into.
• FIXED: Failed to send packet stalling some games. Packet failures should now resolve more cleanly.

Hey everyone, Thanks so much for participating in the launch of BattleCON Online in Steam Early Access! During this week, all fighters are free to play (those open locks next to the fighters on the select screen mean they are un-locked as part of this week's free rotation). After the week ends, we'll return to our normal 4-fighters-per-week free rotation. We've had a few rough moments with the server, but things have stabilized now. We are actively tracking bugs reported in the forums and in-game. We are also working on additional user interface improvements, updates to tutorials, game effect clarity, and the stability of our servers. If you wish to report bugs or make suggestions for future improvements to the game, please use the in-game bug report feature (in the bottom left corner of the interface, the bug icon) or use our Bug Report + Suggestions Form. Once again, thanks so much for taking the time to play and help us improve our first digital offering! We appreciate your support and encouragement as we continue working to build the best BattleCON Online possible! - D. Brad Talton Jr, Level 99 Games