This reduced meter gain state is represented by the same purple combo counter as before, Buffed Noodle: Frenzy now keeps opponents grounded for the first 4 hits, allowing for more interesting RAPID followup options, Buffed Noodle: Short Fist (5SL) now appears slightly closer to Noodle, making conversions off Slap / Frenzy more consistent, Buffed Pork: Chop now slides slightly forward during armor frames, Nerfed Pork: Chop hitbox size has been slightly reduced to match the art (but it reaches net-further if you take the new forward slide into account), Nerfed Pork: Chop active frames reduced 10 > 5, Buffed Garlic: Backflip now travels slightly further. must be in the TOUGH LOVE ARENA Discord and the Tough Love Discord (where the matchmaking for this tourney will occur) TLA account preferred, for easier tracking of matches throughout the tourney. Noodle's buff isn't large, but is merely meant to give Noodle more interesting options in an existing scenario. NOTE: Old Lobbies will be phased out once Server Lobbies are stable. Josie Brechner - Tough Love Arena 00:00 / 02:00 Digital Album Streaming + Download Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Got a game with friends? Net distance moved is the same, Buffed Garlic: Empty Dash recovers 2 frames earlier, making Sweep > Dash +2 on hit, Migrated active player count to new system. Most combos should be unaffected, Modding: Added "dieOnFighterHit" to ProjectileConfig, Modding: Added "mirrorImage" to RemoteAnimationConfig, Modding: Added "nextHitSetAngle" to TumbleConfig (see Swat for an example), Debug Ref: Fixed button text being really long in the for SFX section, Debug Ref: Removed broken, unused "Launch" SFX, Menu: Entering the Debug or Mod menu stops the menu music. All rights reserved. This is my first mod of TLA, on my main Rice. Frame 6, active 2 frames, recovery 8 frames. God is smiling down on the modders bringing joy to bored cagey broke ass gamers everywhere by keeping this game fresh and amaziing. The Caber Toss change should play similarly to the current version, but with more consistent execution, more options, and less corner carry. Required fields are marked *. Will it be once it becomes a beta branch? Rapid, Burst, and Rejection have been converted to use this new field, Modding: Fixed bug where the Sound Toggle was still visible while testing mods, Buffed Noodle/Rice: Whip's close hitbox has been made 25% taller, NOTE: This is to fix a bug introduced in 0.65.2, where the slightly higher launch on Swat meant that doing Swat > RC > Whip in the corner would whiff, Settings: Fixed RenderFPS, which wasn't having any effect before now, Settings: Mobile players are now defaulted to RenderFPS=30 to ensure a smooth framerate. Therefore, we have decreased Lemon's strength slightly, while trying to keep all the core play patterns. WAITING, SPECTATING), Lobbies: You can now press Enter/Escape to save/cancel when editing the lobby message or your nickname, 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), 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, 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, Gameplay: Fixed bug where throws could trade with armored attacks. Can cancel into self and swat on hit. It is now +1 as originally intended, Buffed Rice: Swat now places the opponent slightly further away, to better match the art (Spice Sweep still reaches), Nerfed Rice: Removed ability to cancel Whip Pounce into Swipe, Nerfed Rice: Reduced meter gain on Swat 200 > 100, Buffed Onion: Cackle has been redesigned to lead to more combo opportunities, Cackle now attacks 10 frames after the parry freeze with a lightning bolt, dealing 100 damage and leaving Onion +12 on hit to continue a custom combo at close range, Cackle has the same freeze/startup timing as Beef's Flex, making it viable as an anti-air attack (though still difficult to time), Cackle's animation has been adjusted to fit this new timing and make the lightning bolt more visible, Cackle's attack reaches far, has no pushback on hit, deals 100 damage / 50 chip, and is safe (though minus) on block, Cackle's meter gain on activation has been reduced 200 > 100 (though the followup attack now adds 100 meter on hit), Cackle is vulnerable before the lightning bolt, so you still want to parry multiple times against Frenzy and other multi-hit attacks, Cackle's attack hits once, but acts like 5 attacks for scaling (the followup combo will do much lower damage than normal), Modding: Added "addScaling" to AttackConfig, Buffed Onion: When parrying a multi-hit attack (eg Frenzy) by canceling Cackle into another Feint, the followup Feints have a larger parry window (5 > 10 frames), making those followup parries very easy to time, Training: Change default meter setting to "Refill", Welcome: Fixed bug where the controller config button was visible on the Welcome screen, Mobile: If you connect a gamepad, it will automatically open the controller config menu. Tough Love Arena is an indie fighting game with 6 unique, fun, and interesting characters and silky-smooth rollback netcode. EBF Collection: Adding "Sweep > Trip on block" inadvertently made it more simple. Im waiting for it to be out before playing EBF5 (cause I want to have the full experience). The downloads will be listed under Assets. Tough Love Arena is getting spooky to celebrate the official tournament happening tonight! The launch angle has been adjusted to make midscreen followups possible, Buffed Pork: Chop can now be RAPID cancelled on hit, Buffed Onion: Cackle can now be RAPID cancelled on hit. > The goal is to make mobile controls feel more responsive. However, in situations like neutral, blockstrings, and anti-airs, Parries should be functionally unchanged. Does massive chip on block, Rice: Added "Jump Drill". Whip Cross was giving Rice a little too much positioning flexibility and caused problems with the new armor change, so it was removed, Whip Back gives Rice more decisions to make (corner or damage?) Please report any bugs, New animation: Hit Sparks have been recolored, New animation: Burst startup is a little smoother, New animation: Rice Swat has been animated, New animation: Rice Swat followups (chip on block vs slam on hit) now look different, New animation: Noodle/Rice Whip Splash has been animated, New animation: Noodle/Rice Jump Attack startup is a little smoother, Removed the "light stripe" color variation due low popularity + visual ambiguity, Removed unused colors from the game files, New animation: Throw startup, recovery, and whiff for all characters, Changelog formatted to emphasize larger updates. Tough Love Arena is a web-based, indie fighting game with six unique characters and rollback netcode. Lastly, unrelated to these parry changes, Sneak has been given a little chip to make it more viable at high level play as an option, and to encourage players to more proactively try to anti-air it. By making the RC worse, the strength is dialed back a bit, while keeping the chip setups. I always appreciate another excuse to play the game again! Whip Around still cannot RAPID. Fixed bug where default keys controls conflicted with custom controls in menus. Please report any bugs going forward! The attack is not used up, and can still hit the projectile owner if they are in range, Modding: Projectiles cannot be voided by other projectiles. This should not affect existing combos, Buffed Rice: Added new attack Whip Around, a variant of Whip Splash that crosses up. Noodle's new animation has been reverted back to the rough beta sprites, > Noodle will be updated once all their sprites are complete, Added menu sound effect when finding an opponent in Casual Match and when finishing calibration, New animation: Noodle's color has been adjusted to match the brighter blue on the Character Select screen, New animation: Noodle's standing, walking, and Slap animations have been fully animated with the finished design, NOTES: We are currently experimenting with updating the art as it's ready. We will be keeping an eye on whether the damage becomes problematic, Ranked: Reaching "Hot" rank or higher now unlocks the "Plaid" skin for that character, Character Select: Removed version overlay in bottom left to reduce clutter, Online: Slightly shortened calibration time (reduced amount of time spent auditing new method), Maintenance: Added more auditing for new calibration algorithm, Ranked: Added "Max Input Delay" setting within the character select, Ranked: Added preview of what your input delay will be before confirming a match, Ranked: Fixed bug where search range preference wasn't being preserved across sessions, Ranked: Fixed bug where you could fight yourself in another window/browser, Maintenance: Added auditing for new calibration algorithm, Maintenance: Fixed bug in calibration monitoring, Maintenance: Added additional monitoring to calibration, Buffed Garlic: Dash > 4S now cancels into new move "Dash Back" instead of Backflip, Dash Back has all the same cancel options as Dash, except 4S and 6S both cancel into Dash Again, Ranked: MMR boundaries for Spice Levels have been adjusted, Leaderboard: Leaderboard has been been restored, Ranked: Ranked is temporarily disabled as we perform a database migration and reset, Leaderboard: Leaderboard is temporarily disabled as we perform a database migration and reset, Maintenance: Migrated Leaderboard view to a new server with a 1 minute cache, Maintenance: Removed client-side Leaderboard cache management, Buffed Noodle: Fixed bug where the opponent gained much more meter than intended when blocking Grounder and Frenzy, Nerfed Noodle: Grounder hitbox is now shorter, making it less likely to catch opponents jumping, Nerfed Noodle: Frenzy damage reduced 200 > 180, Buffed Beef/Pork: Uppercut travels slightly further, making combos off Heavy more reliable at max range, Status: Updated active player count to update more frequently, Maintenance: Migrated active player count to a new server, Maintenance: Modified UI to better identify footage from a dev build, Animation: Premium colors can be selected in Training Mode without a Premium Account (coming soon), Animation: Noodle has been fully animated and polished, Animation: Noodle has new options for alternate colors, Menu: Character select has been slightly redesigned, Nerfed Noodle: Grounder meter gain reduced (100, 100, 100) > (30, 30, 40), Buffed Garlic: Adjusted distance traveled during Dash and Dash Again to match level before 0.51.0, NOTE: Dash's nerf in 0.51.0 was an accident caused by the Sweep rework. To compensate for this slight nerf, Caber Toss's range has been slightly increased (it now matches the animation). Your email address will not be published. This ensures that slower hardware won't start the game a littler late, which can cause early rollbacks, Online: The victory bell sound now plays when you find a match and successfully connect, Online: Added timeout of 10 seconds between when a match is found and the connection is successful, Lobbies: Fixed bug where editing the host message could accidentally trigger keyboard shortcuts, Accounts: Added "Favorite Character". The first hit bonus is down 50% > 20% and the scaling floor is down 40% > 30%, Gameplay: All normal throws have had their proximity range slightly increased, Gameplay: All Light attacks (except Trip) now apply 2 additional scaling when starting a combo, Gameplay: All Jump attacks now apply 1 additional scaling when starting a combo, Buffed Noodle/Rice: Both hits of Slap do 50% more pushback, Buffed Noodle/Rice: Slap's second hitbox extended to consistently hit with new pushback and better match animation, Nerfed Noodle/Rice: Slap can no longer be RAPID cancelled, but this is mitigated by the new cancel options, Nerfed Noodle/Rice: Starting health reduced 1000 > 950, Buffed Noodle: Both hits of Slap can now cancel into Whip Splash with Forward + Heavy, Nerfed Noodle: Trample hitstun and blockstun reduced on all frames but the last, making trades less advantageous, Nerfed Noodle: Frenzy now applies 3 additional scaling when starting a combo, Buffed Rice: Both hits of Slap can now cancel into Swipe or Whip Splash with Heavy and Forward + Heavy respectively, Nerfed Rice: Swipe disadvantage on block increased -7 > -9 to make approaching easier, Nerfed Rice: Teleport hitbox has been removed, Buffed Beef/Pork: Starting health increased 1000 > 1050, Buffed Beef/Pork: Heavy Punch advantage on hit increased +4 > +7, meaning you can now link into Gutpunch, Buffed Beef/Pork: Palm pushback increased 50% and extended hurtboxes removed, making it effectively safe against light attacks in most situations, Buffed Beef/Pork: Palm damage increased 50 > 60, Nerfed Beef/Pork: Heavy Punch damage reduced 90 > 80, Nerfed Beef/Pork: Heavy Punch disadvantage on block increased -4 > -5, Nerfed Beef/Pork: Heavy Punch pushback increased 50% to mitigate combo options with new frame advantage, Nerfed Beef/Pork: Palm disadvantage on block increased -6 > -9 to make approaching easier, Nerfed Beef/Pork: Uppercut damage changed 50,50 > 40,80 (more damage overall, but nerfs total damage in loops, Buffed Beef: Beefcake Juggle limit increased 3 > 9 and has a new launch angle that makes followups easier, Nerfed Beef: Beefcafe now applies 4 additional scaling when starting a combo (matching Onion's parry), Nerfed Pork: Chop now applies 3 additional scaling when starting a combo, Buffed Onion/Garlic: Sweep can now cancel into Trip on both hit and block, Buffed Onion/Garlic: Trip can now be RAPID cancelled, Modding: AttackConfig.addScalingFirstHit added, Gameplay: Timeouts now check the percentage of health remaining (the bar length) rather than the raw number, Pause Menu: You no longer need to hold the pause button if you're playing a single-player game mode, Desktop: Autohide the menu bar on Windows, Private Match: Fixed bug where you could connect despite having incompatible gameplay versions, Loading Screen: Improved load time by prioritizing larger files first to better leverage parallel loading, Options: Added "On Connect Gamepad" setting to change what happens when you plug in a gamepad, Options: Added "Unload Stale Sprites" setting to periodically unload sprites from memory to improve performance (experimental), Pause Menu: Fixed bug where Custom Controls could appear during gameplay, Loading: Fixed bug introduced in 0.90.7 where the error popup wouldn't appear, Event Mode: Renamed Tournament Mode > Event Mode, Event Mode: Removed lock symbols from character colors, Event Mode: Removed replay button from the win screen, Options: Fixed bug introduced in 0.90.0 where the "Custom Controls" button did nothing, Options: Renamed "Custom Controls" to "P1 Custom Controls", Options: Added button "P1 and P2 Controls", Attract Mode: The two characters will now always be different (no more mirror matches), Tournament Mode: You can now go straight into Attract Mode via the pause menu during Character Select.
