Notice of Patch Update 1.6

Thank you for playing JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R.

The 1.6 Patch will be out with balance adjustments, the scheduled date is Monday, March 20th at 1 AM UTC - 10 AM JST .

The fully detailed Patch Notes is available HERE .

General Changes

Backstepping

• Standardized the hurtbox area around feet. → Eliminates differences in ability to avoid certain deployed projectiles (e.g. Ghiaccio's "Any form of attack stops cold when it hits my ultracold temperatures!" skill) by stepping backwards. *The purpose of this is to remove imbalances in different characters' ability to escape deployed projectiles while getting up from being downed.

Direction of counter HHA flying

• Adjusted the force that sends opponents flying to the direction the initiating character is facing. → Under certain situations, when performing a successful counter, the target would go flying in the opposite direction from that suggested by the attack animation.

Guardbreak

• Added damage reduction to combos that start out of guardbreak. → Reduces the reward for performing a guardbreak while maintaining the ability to pursue that guardbreak.

Damage received during skills that don't cause the victim to recoil e.g. Jonathan Joestar's "Tackle" special

• Allowed damage taken during rebound protection to receive damage reduction.
• Changed counterstrikes to not occur while taking damage from attacks that do not cause rebound. → Improves usability in neutral.

Damage received during attacks that do not cause recoil while in Resolve Mode.

• Allowed damage taken during rebound protection to receive damage reduction.
• Changed counterstrikes to not occur while taking damage from attacks that do not cause rebound. → Improves usability in neutral.

Recoil caused by leg sweep attacks

• Shortened animation lead-in and sped up transition to downed state. → This was changed due to certain attacks that allow additional attacks on downed opponents to fail due to recoil invincibility.

The pivot line when characters swap positions in the air.

• Resolved inconsistencies between characters' positional pivot lines and the center of their collision detection. → Under certain circumstances, when jumping attacks hit the opponent in the back, they were less likely to fall frontward. *This prevents confusion from guard direction working opposite to what is expected.

Collision detection (determines when characters push against each other)

• Removed Stand collision detection during standing and crouching recoil animations. → Under certain circumstances, when jumping attacks hit the opponent in the back, they were less likely to fall frontward. *This prevents confusion from guard direction working opposite to what is expected.

Crouching recoil animation

• Fixed a rare issue where being hit during the Stylish Guard's recovery would cause the crouching recoil animation to trigger. → Ensures that recoil animations are appropriate to the situation.

Character Specific Changes

Jonathan Joestar

• Dash Forward
• "Sendo Overdrive" skill
• "Overdrive Barrage" skill

Dio Brando

• Dash Forward
• Crouching strong normal attack
• "Useless, useless, useless, useless!" skill
• "I'll suck you dry!" skill
• "That must be five or six ribs broken!" skill

Robert E. O. Speedwagon

• "Martial Arts, the Eastern mystery!" skill
• "Don't try to bluff, you rich little snot!" skill
• "Aren't you acting tough!" skill

Joseph Joestar

• Backstepping
• "Clacker Boomerang" skill (Hamon version)

Lisa Lisa (Elizabeth)

• Standing strong normal attack
• Jumping strong normal attack
• "Blasphemy is prohibited!" skill
• "Hamon Master" skill
• "All I need is this scarf!" skill
• "You picked a bad time to test me!" skill
• "Die with regret" skill
• "Snake Muffler" skill
• "Settle this with style" skill
• "Prepare to die!" skill
• "Smooth as silk" skill
• "Futile!" skill
• Cancel Hamon Chain recovery into GHA

Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli

• "Seated Jump" special
• "Bubble Launcher" skill (aerial)
• "Hamon Kick" skill
• "Gliding Bubble Cutter" skill

Esidisi

• "Think fast!" HHA

Wamuu

• "He bent backwards!" skill

Rudol von Stroheim

• Reversal Assist
• "Farewell, you annoying Englishman!" skill

Mariah

• "If you're not allowed to touch something, it makes you want to touch it more..." style
• "Sorry, but you'll have to die now." skill

Iggy

• "Ha ha, sucker!" skill
• "A nasty habit" skill

Old Joseph Joestar

• Assault Assist
• Reversal Assist
• "Hamon Overdrive!" skill

Jean Pierre Polnareff

• "Reap as you sow!" skill
• "My secret weapon!" skill
• "Off comes the armor!" HHA

Hol Horse

• "Come get us!" skill

Josuke Higashikata 4

• "Break through, beat you up!" skill (weak version)
• "Meet my homing missile!" HHA *HHA secondary skill
• "You're already fixed!" GHA

Koichi Hirose

• Stand Mode crouching strong normal attack

Shigekiyo Yangu

• Standing strong normal attack
• Crouching strong normal attack
• "Don't come any closer!" skill
• "Don't underestimate Harvest!" skill
• "I can get anything I want!" skill

Jotaro Kujo

• User Mode standing medium normal attack
• All User Mode and Stand Mode jumping attacks
• "ORAAAA!" special
• "ORAAA!" skill (medium attack)
• "ORAAA!" skill (strong attack)

Yukako Yamagishi

• Jumping medium normal attack
• "Love Deluxe" style
• "You shithead!" special
• "You dumbass!" skill

Akira Otoishi

• "Spitfire!" skill

Giorno Giovanna

• "This doesn't feel good..." special
• "WRYYYYYYYYYYY" skill
• Dashing *Golden Wind Requiem only
• Crouching medium attack during GHA effect *Golden Wind Requiem only
• "Can you escape destruction?" skill *Golden Wind Requiem only

Guido Mista

• "Places, everyone!" special
• "Time to get to work!" special

Bruno Bucciarati

• "I've got you!" special "Pass, pass, pass!" skill

Diavolo

• Forward Step
• Backward Step
• User Mode standing medium normal attack
• User Mode standing strong normal attack
• User Mode crouching strong normal attack
• User Mode jumping medium normal attack
• Stand Mode jumping medium normal attack
• Stand Mode jumping strong normal attack
• "The passage of time resumes!" skill
• "This is the end!" skill
• "Time has been erased..."

Narancia Ghirga

• Stand hurtbox
• User Mode standing medium normal attack
• User Mode crouching medium normal attack
• User Mode jumping medium normal attack
• Stand Mode standing weak normal attack
• Stand Mode standing medium normal attack
• Stand Mode standing strong normal attack
• Stand Mode crouching weak normal attack
• "I'll make you swiss cheese!" skill
• "Attack!" skill
• "Yes! Right on time!" follow-up skill
• "I know how to waste you!" follow-up skill
• "I'm gonna kill you!" follow-up skill
• "Blast off!" skill

Trish Una

• User Mode crouching medium normal attack
• User Mode crouching strong normal attack
• "With the force of a vise!" special
• "Something soft is even more unbreakable than diamond!" skill
• "Spicy Lady!" skill
• "Crush!" skill
• "Nobody's getting taken out today." skill
• "Make any material soft!" HHA

Ghiaccio

• "Will you lay off?" special
• "And now you're frozen solid!" skill

Risotto Nero

• "Assassin" Style (vanishing while jumping forward)
• "Assassin" Style (vanishing while jumping backward)
• "Assassin" Style (vanishing while stepping backward)
• Crouching medium normal attack
• Jumping weak normal attack
• Jumping strong normal attack
• "You can find iron anywhere in this world." skill
• "Control iron within 5-10 meters" skill
• "The assassin that no one could find" skill

Jolyne Cujoh

• Stand Mode crouching strong normal attack
• "String Barrier" skill

Narciso Anastasia

• User Mode standing strong normal attack
• Stand Mode standing weak normal attack
• Stand Mode standing strong normal attack
• Stand Mode crouching weak normal attack
• Stand Mode crouching medium normal attack
• "Shut yer trap!" special
• "You're in range!" skill
• "And... RELEASE!" skill
• "Dive!" skill
• "Go to hell!" skill

Gyro Zeppeli

• User Mode crouching medium normal attack
• Steel Balls returning after a skill
• Golden Spin Mode
• "Scan" skill
• "Raaaaugh!" skill
• "One moooore shot!" HHA

Diego Brando

• User Mode crouching medium normal attack
• "My speed is supreme." special
• "You flinched!" special
• "Gouge" skill
• "Useless, useless!" skill

Ikuro Hashizawa

• "This is Baoh!" Style
• "Baoh Melting Acid Phenomenon" skill
• "Baoh Break Dark Thunder Phenomenon!" skill

Assists

• Adjusted uses of Assault Assists and Reversal Assists - Hol Horse: 2/1 (-1 Reversal Assist) - Josuke 4: 1/2 (-1 Assault Assist) - Narancia Ghirga: 2/1 (-1 Reversal Assist) - Father Pucchi (Final): 2/1 (-1 Reversal Assist) - Diego Brando: 2/1 (-1 Reversal Assist) → Brings it more in line with other characters
• Adjusted cooldowns (time until Assists are usable again)

General

Practice Mode

• Fixed issue where Recording Mode would not record Stand Mode follow-up skills and Stand Rush. → This was a bug and has been fixed.

We hope you continue to enjoy JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R.