The season 1 update of the hit game MultiVersus has finally arrived alongside its accompanying patch notes. The season 1 update had been initially slated to release on an early date but had been delayed. Now that the MultiVersus season 1 update is here, a huge patch notes list of various changes and bug fixes are brought to the newest platform fighter. In addition, the latest MultiVersus season 1 update will bring a host of balance adjustments, mission improvements, and four new characters to the game.
The current season 1 update patch of MultiVersus will arrive in two parts, with the first part coming today in the afternoon and available to check out in the patch notes. Players will see the second part of the season 1 update patch go live in a week or so, adding everything else that the developers intended. The official patch notes list for the MultiVersus season 1 update is below.
MultiVersus Season 1 Update Patch Notes
General
- Morty will be arriving on 08/23! He will be our first Plumbus-wielding character!
- The patch will come in two parts. The first will be on August 15, and the second will come shortly afterward (hopefully in the next few days). So not every change, but most will be in the August 15 patch.
New Free Character Rotation (8/15 – 8/30)
- Arya
- Batman
- LeBron
- Steven
Meta Systems
- Free Rotation Characters now have an icon in character select to identify them.
- Battle Pass XP match rewards increased to 10 for wins and 5 for losses, up from 5 for wins and 3 for losses.
- Disabled class-based Battle Pass missions other than for Tanks
- Developer Note: Since players might not have access to fighters in specific classes other than Tank (thanks to Wonder Woman), we felt like relying on rerolls was not a reliable enough method to work around those missions.
- Lowered the requirements for a number of seasonal missions:
- Ringout a player from the top of the map 50 times (previously 75)
- Ringout a player from the side of the map 50 times (previously 75)
- Ringout a player from the bottom of the map 50 times (previously 75)
- Get 50 assists (previously 125)
General Perks
- Clear The Air
- Increased consistency on perk effect.
- We are aware of inconsistencies in this perk’s interaction with Velma’s speech bubbles and Batman’s Batarang. We will address these interactions in a future patch.
- Make it Rain, Dog!
- Projectile speed is now properly applied to thrown items.
- Painted Target
- Fixed an issue where projectiles weren’t applying bonus damage
- Retaliation Ready
- Reduced unstacked gray health from 3 HP for 3 seconds to 1 HP for 3 seconds
- Reduced stacked gray health from 4 HP for 3 seconds to 2 HP for 3 seconds
- School Me Once…
- Increased consistency on projectile block spawn. Notable – getting hit by Jerry will now spawn a projectile block buff
- Slippery When Feint
- Fixed an issue where evade distance was not increased on hit cancels
- Snowball Effect
- Fixed an issue where projectiles weren’t applying bonus damage
- Static Electricity
- Increased consistency on projectile electric damage application. Notable – thrown items will now apply electricity
Gameplay Systems:
- Ice Debuff
- Movement speed slow at 1 stack reduced from 20% to 15%
- Slow now scales linearly with each stack of Ice Debuff
- Removed a bug where fighters affected by Ice Debuff took additional knockback
- Ability Cooldowns
- fixed a bug where cooldowns would not trigger properly if used near an ally Jake
Gameplay Modes:
- FFA
- Fixed a bug where pop-up text would display the incorrect point value.
UI:
Developer Note: Since players might not have access to fighters in specific classes other than Tank (thanks to Wonder Woman), we felt like relying on rerolls was not a reliable enough method to work around those missions.
Ringout a player from the top of the map 50 times (previously 75)
Ringout a player from the side of the map 50 times (previously 75)
Ringout a player from the bottom of the map 50 times (previously 75)
Get 50 assists (previously 125)
Increased consistency on perk effect.
We are aware of inconsistencies in this perk’s interaction with Velma’s speech bubbles and Batman’s Batarang. We will address these interactions in a future patch.
Projectile speed is now properly applied to thrown items.
Fixed an issue where projectiles weren’t applying bonus damage
Reduced unstacked gray health from 3 HP for 3 seconds to 1 HP for 3 seconds
Reduced stacked gray health from 4 HP for 3 seconds to 2 HP for 3 seconds
Increased consistency on projectile block spawn. Notable – getting hit by Jerry will now spawn a projectile block buff
Fixed an issue where evade distance was not increased on hit cancels
Increased consistency on projectile electric damage application. Notable – thrown items will now apply electricity
Movement speed slow at 1 stack reduced from 20% to 15%
Slow now scales linearly with each stack of Ice Debuff
Removed a bug where fighters affected by Ice Debuff took additional knockback
fixed a bug where cooldowns would not trigger properly if used near an ally Jake
Fixed a bug where pop-up text would display the incorrect point value.
Announcer Pack
You can now preview a character’s announcer pack before deciding to unlock it.
Tutorials:
- Various Bug Fixes
- Fix for tutorials causing stage hazards to toggle off in other game modes.
- Down spike tutorial has been fixed so that it requires an actual spike rather than any aerial attack.
- The Reindog tether step of the intro tutorial no longer counts if you pull your ally in after they have been rung out.
- Fix for Shaggy falling off the map during the aerial combat tutorial demo.
- Added a wall to the second step of the KBI tutorial.
Glossary and Terms:
- New Terms
- Added Wall Fatigue to the glossary.
- Added the terms Block, Hazard, and Wipe to the glossary and updated move lists accordingly.
Characters
Legend: + = Buff – = Nerf ~ = Change Note: Attacks callouts reference default controls.
You can now preview a character’s announcer pack before deciding to unlock it.
Fix for tutorials causing stage hazards to toggle off in other game modes.
Down spike tutorial has been fixed so that it requires an actual spike rather than any aerial attack.
The Reindog tether step of the intro tutorial no longer counts if you pull your ally in after they have been rung out.
Fix for Shaggy falling off the map during the aerial combat tutorial demo.
Added a wall to the second step of the KBI tutorial.
Added Wall Fatigue to the glossary.
Added the terms Block, Hazard, and Wipe to the glossary and updated move lists accordingly.
Arya
The goal of these changes was to make Arya’s combos be more consistent and successful at lower skill levels.
- Air/Ground Up Special
- Hitting a fighter will now more accurately launch them at an angle to allow follow-ups for Arya
- Air Up Attack
- The first hit will now more accurately combo into the second hit.
- Neutral Air Attack
- Now has earlier branching on hit.
- Ground Side Attack
- Arya will retain velocity on first hit of side attack.
- Ground Down Attack
- Now has slightly earlier dodge branching
- ~ Air/Ground Neutral Special
- Fixed a bug where Arya would not copy over capsule hitboxes on her normal neutral attacks when stealing a fighter’s face.
- Set Arya’s hurtbox to match her victim’s hurtbox while she is disguised as them.
- Fixed a bug where Arya’s top UI would be offset incorrectly when she steals a face.
- Fixed bug where Arya’s disguise attack hitbox could get disconnected.
- Fixed bug where Arya’s original hitboxes would be useable during disguise attacks.
- Fixed bug where the hitboxes from Arya’s disguise would stay active during her normal attacks.
Batman
- ~ Air/Ground Side Special
- Fixed bug where Batman would overshoot his grapple destination if the fighter he was grappling to dodge.
- Increased the overshooting distance when grappling to an ally.
- Fixed Batman grapple failing at short distances under high latency
- – Ground Side Attack
- First hit added 3 frames of whiff recovery.
- – Air/Ground Neutral Attack (coming in patch 2):
- Batarang pick-up will now return 9.45s of its cooldown down from 11.55s. This change helps create a window from when the batarang is used for the opponent to react. With perks like Coffeezilla causing this cooldown to be even shorter, we felt this change was necessary to create counterplay against the batarang.
Bugs Bunny
Bugs Bunny is a bit too safe in everything he does. We’ve given him some additional whiff punish windows to help address this.
Hitting a fighter will now more accurately launch them at an angle to allow follow-ups for Arya
The first hit will now more accurately combo into the second hit.
Now has earlier branching on hit.
Arya will retain velocity on first hit of side attack.
Now has slightly earlier dodge branching
Fixed a bug where Arya would not copy over capsule hitboxes on her normal neutral attacks when stealing a fighter’s face.
Set Arya’s hurtbox to match her victim’s hurtbox while she is disguised as them.
Fixed a bug where Arya’s top UI would be offset incorrectly when she steals a face.
Fixed bug where Arya’s disguise attack hitbox could get disconnected.
Fixed bug where Arya’s original hitboxes would be useable during disguise attacks.
Fixed bug where the hitboxes from Arya’s disguise would stay active during her normal attacks.
Fixed bug where Batman would overshoot his grapple destination if the fighter he was grappling to dodge.
Increased the overshooting distance when grappling to an ally.
Fixed Batman grapple failing at short distances under high latency
First hit added 3 frames of whiff recovery.
Batarang pick-up will now return 9.45s of its cooldown down from 11.55s. This change helps create a window from when the batarang is used for the opponent to react. With perks like Coffeezilla causing this cooldown to be even shorter, we felt this change was necessary to create counterplay against the batarang.
~ Air Up Special
Fixed an exploit where Bugs could spawn two rockets.
~ Air Side Special
Fixed an exploit where Bugs could spawn two rockets.
– Air/Ground Neutral Special
Fixed an exploit where Bugs could spawn multiple safes without triggering his cooldown.
– Safe HP reduced from 16 to 14.
~ Air Down Special
Bugs’ previous tunnels will now disappear when creating new tunnels.
– Air Up Attack
Added 4 frames of whiff recovery.
– Air Side Attack
Increased whiff recovery by 5 frames.
– Air Neutral Attack
Increased whiff recovery by 5 frames.
– Ground Down Attack
Pie max lifetime set to 8 seconds, from infinite.
– Pie no longer applies a slow
Finn
Fighting against Finn felt too difficult as Finn felt a bit too safe and could throw out attacks without much fear of punishment due to how quickly he recovered. Hurt/Hitbox foundational updates are coming soon but will not be in this MultiVersus season 1 update patch.
Fixed an exploit where Bugs could spawn two rockets.
Fixed an exploit where Bugs could spawn multiple safes without triggering his cooldown.
– Safe HP reduced from 16 to 14.
Bugs’ previous tunnels will now disappear when creating new tunnels.
Added 4 frames of whiff recovery.
Increased whiff recovery by 5 frames.
Pie max lifetime set to 8 seconds, from infinite.
– Pie no longer applies a slow
– Passive –
Attacks affected by Attack Decay no longer spawn coins
Finn now spawns with 100 gold instead of 200
- Air Down Special
Fixed an issue where the gem required 200 gold to spawn but only cost 100 to spawn. Gem now requires and costs 100
– Air Side Special
Added additional whiff recovery.
– Ground/Air Up Special
Reduced the strength of the vacuum effect on the backpack
Weaker hits of the backpack will no longer “overwrite” stronger knockbacks from other attacks
Whiffing with all hits will still drop a coin
Added whiff recovery.
Hitboxes should better match the attack (not perfect until our planned hurt/hit box system overhaul)
– Air Side Attack
Reduced active frames to diminish Finn’s ability to hit fighters behind him
– Ground Down Attack
The distance Finn covers with this attack now scales with how charged the attack is.
– Ground Side Attack
Increased whiff recovery for the first hit.
- On The House perk
Fixed an issue where Finn still spent gold on gems spawned by the perk
Slightly reduced the launch speed of gems spawned by the perk – this should fix issues that arose when this perk was combined with the “Make it Rain, Dog!” perk
Garnet
- Air/Ground Neutral Special
- Song activation starts earlier on frame 12 instead of frame 30.
- ~ Air/Ground Down Special
- Fixed bug where Garnet would be stopped by Iron Giant’s collision when she moves with her down special.
- Air Neutral Attack
- Slightly higher base knockback
Harley
- ~Stuffie Bat – Harley bomb VFX shrunk to better match the explosion radius
- Weight – Increased from 42 to 44.
Iron Giant
- ~ VFX –
- Global fighter VFX now better matches Iron Giant’s size without making the screen too busy. Notable adjustments include Projectile Block buff, Speed Boost buff, and Steven Bubble debuff
- – Air/Ground Down Special
- Fixed an issue where VFX trails would persist and fill up the screen
- Can no longer use cannonball attack when out of air specials
- Knockback angle changed to send fighters more horizontally and away from Iron Giant.
- Fixed issues that allowed for infinitely bouncing on enemies near the ground
- – Air/Ground Neutral Special
- Gray Health from activation reduced from 2 + #bolts HP for 5 seconds to #bolts HP for 3 seconds
- Gray Health from ally overlap reduced from 5 HP for 5 seconds to 3 HP for 3 seconds
- ~ Ground Forward Special
- Iron Giant grabs are correctly blocked by incompatible states.
- – Air Up Attack
- Can no longer hit the same target multiple times
- – Air Neutral Attack
- Final hit knockback angle changed to send fighters more horizontally and away from Iron Giant
- Increased knockback scaling
- – Ground Up Attack
- Gray Health from scrap reduced from 3 HP for 5 seconds to 2 HP for 3 seconds
- Allies that consume scrap will overwrite any existing gray health they have from consuming scrap
- ~ Ground Forward Attack
- Fixed attack decay not triggering for all parts of forward attack combo
- – Ground Down Attack
- Gray health from art reduced from 10 HP for 10 seconds to 6 HP for 3 seconds
Jake
- – Air Down Attack
- Removed instant cancel out of the attack to prevent skateboard infinites
- No longer bounces off allies
- – Ground Up Attack
- Additional whiff recovery; Slightly later charge cancel window to make it a bit more committal
LeBron
- ~ Air/Ground Side Special
- LeBron’s solo dunk no longer spawns a shockwave on the ground.
- The alley-oop teleport version of LeBron’s dunk spawns a shockwave and will launch fighters into the shockwave. The shockwave will launch fighters into a final hit that applies Weakened debuff.
- Solo dunk knockback and hitbox size increased
- Fixed a bug where LeBron could dunk himself into the sky
- ~ Ground/Air Down Special (No Ball) – Adjusted to prevent ball spam
- Air Side Attack – Branches earlier on hit; fix for hitbox hitting behind him too much
- Air Neutral Attack – Branches earlier on hit to increase combo potential.
- Fix for ball neutral air branching into no ball neutral air.
- Ground Side Attack/ Ground Down Attack – Removed shared attack decay from side attack and down attack
- Ground Side Attack – 3-hit combo hits more consistently.
- ~ Ground Neutral Attack – Fixed angle of attack.
- ~ Basketball – Fixed some team color issues that would occur when reflecting LeBron basketball.
- Fixed an issue where LeBron could be stuck attacking without his ball while visually holding his ball
- ~ Hot Hands perk – When an ally catches a no-look pass while the Hot Hands perk is equipped, the basketball pass buff will emit flames to let allies know they will throw an ignited basketball
Reindog
- Air Up Special
- Removed hitpause on ally that threw Reindog when Reindog connects in ball form
- – Air/Ground Neutral Special
- Increased cooldown from 13s to 14s
- Air Up Attack
- Hitbox size increased
Shaggy
Shaggy’s Side Special felt a little too unpunishable, so we’ve added a bit of Whiff Recovery.
Attacks affected by Attack Decay no longer spawn coins
Finn now spawns with 100 gold instead of 200
Fixed an issue where the gem required 200 gold to spawn but only cost 100 to spawn. Gem now requires and costs 100
Added additional whiff recovery.
Reduced the strength of the vacuum effect on the backpack
Weaker hits of the backpack will no longer “overwrite” stronger knockbacks from other attacks
Whiffing with all hits will still drop a coin
Added whiff recovery.
Hitboxes should better match the attack (not perfect until our planned hurt/hit box system overhaul)
Reduced active frames to diminish Finn’s ability to hit fighters behind him
The distance Finn covers with this attack now scales with how charged the attack is.
Increased whiff recovery for the first hit.
Fixed an issue where Finn still spent gold on gems spawned by the perk
Slightly reduced the launch speed of gems spawned by the perk – this should fix issues that arose when this perk was combined with the “Make it Rain, Dog!” perk
Song activation starts earlier on frame 12 instead of frame 30.
Fixed bug where Garnet would be stopped by Iron Giant’s collision when she moves with her down special.
Slightly higher base knockback
Global fighter VFX now better matches Iron Giant’s size without making the screen too busy. Notable adjustments include Projectile Block buff, Speed Boost buff, and Steven Bubble debuff
Fixed an issue where VFX trails would persist and fill up the screen
Can no longer use cannonball attack when out of air specials
Knockback angle changed to send fighters more horizontally and away from Iron Giant.
Fixed issues that allowed for infinitely bouncing on enemies near the ground
Gray Health from activation reduced from 2 + #bolts HP for 5 seconds to #bolts HP for 3 seconds
Gray Health from ally overlap reduced from 5 HP for 5 seconds to 3 HP for 3 seconds
Iron Giant grabs are correctly blocked by incompatible states.
Can no longer hit the same target multiple times
Final hit knockback angle changed to send fighters more horizontally and away from Iron Giant
Increased knockback scaling
Gray Health from scrap reduced from 3 HP for 5 seconds to 2 HP for 3 seconds
Allies that consume scrap will overwrite any existing gray health they have from consuming scrap
Fixed attack decay not triggering for all parts of forward attack combo
Gray health from art reduced from 10 HP for 10 seconds to 6 HP for 3 seconds
Removed instant cancel out of the attack to prevent skateboard infinites
No longer bounces off allies
Additional whiff recovery; Slightly later charge cancel window to make it a bit more committal
LeBron’s solo dunk no longer spawns a shockwave on the ground.
The alley-oop teleport version of LeBron’s dunk spawns a shockwave and will launch fighters into the shockwave. The shockwave will launch fighters into a final hit that applies Weakened debuff.
Solo dunk knockback and hitbox size increased
Fixed a bug where LeBron could dunk himself into the sky
Fix for ball neutral air branching into no ball neutral air.
Fixed an issue where LeBron could be stuck attacking without his ball while visually holding his ball
Removed hitpause on ally that threw Reindog when Reindog connects in ball form
Increased cooldown from 13s to 14s
Hitbox size increased
– Rage Air Side Special
Recovery increased by two frames; now better matches rage ground side special
Addressed an issue where Shaggy could perform two rage specials
- Rage Ground Down Special
Shaggy’s shockwave will launch fighters into a final hit that applies Weakened debuff.
– Ground/Air Side Special
Added 4 additional frames of whiff recovery
Steven
- – Ground Down Special
- Watermelon Steven ability cooldown now begins when Watermelon Steven is rung out.
- Fixed a bug where Watermelon Steven could spawn inside ceilings and be stuck.
- ~ Air Neutral Attack
- No longer will animation hitch.
- ~ VO/SFX
- Fixed an issue where Steven’s intro VO lines failed to play.
- ~ Taunt
- Fixed an issue where Steven could only perform his up taunt.
Superman
- – Ground Neutral Attack
- Added additional whiff recovery.
- – Ground Up Attack
- Added additional whiff recovery.
- – Ground Down Special
- Added additional whiff recovery.
Taz
This is the start of our tornado changes for Taz. We will be continuing to monitor the tornado with extra scrutiny in case additional changes are needed.
Recovery increased by two frames; now better matches rage ground side special
Addressed an issue where Shaggy could perform two rage specials
Shaggy’s shockwave will launch fighters into a final hit that applies Weakened debuff.
Added 4 additional frames of whiff recovery
Watermelon Steven ability cooldown now begins when Watermelon Steven is rung out.
Fixed a bug where Watermelon Steven could spawn inside ceilings and be stuck.
No longer will animation hitch.
Fixed an issue where Steven’s intro VO lines failed to play.
Fixed an issue where Steven could only perform his up taunt.
Chicken Debuff
Fixed a bug where transformed fighters could receive buffs that would not appear visually when they returned to their normal form
– Reduced chicken duration from 10 seconds to 8
+ Increased the size of the chicken
- Air/Ground Down Special
Adjusted projectile movement direction of Taz spit projectiles to be more forward and less of a lob.
+ When Taz spits a projectile back at a fighter, the projectile will maintain its original speed.
- Air/Ground Neutral Special
If Taz eats a projectile that can’t be spit back out, he will refresh a count of his apple core ability.
Increased size of hit collision for Taz eating projectiles on his neutral special. Also made it possible to eat projectiles a few frames earlier.
Taz deals 1 stack of Weakened debuff everytime he chews an enemy.
Fixed a bug that allowed for ground movement after eating an enemy fighter
– Air/Ground Up Special
Damage reduced from 10 to 9, and base knockback reduced from 1500 to 1350
Fixed a bug where enemy fighters could become invulnerable to the fight cloud after dodging it.
~ Air/Ground Side Special
Now a cooldown move with a 7-second cooldown. While the cooldown is active, side special is a weaker version of the tornado.
Full power tornado has a 1.5-second duration and receives an additional 1-second duration after passing an ally.
On cooldown, tornado has a 0.25-second duration and does not gain additional duration by passing an ally.
- Ground Up Attack
Now a two-hit attack. The early hit combos into the sandwich clap
Tom And Jerry
- Tom And Jerry
- Dynamite now applies projectile perk effects.
- ~ Air Normal Attacks
- Fixed a bug that would prevent Tom and Jerry from using normal attacks when Air Special limit had been reached.
- – Air Up Special
- Fixed an issue where Jerry would continue to have active hit frames when falling from the rocket
Velma
- – Air Side Special
- Reduced move distance.
- The distance this traveled before gave Velma additional recovery that wasn’t intended.
- – Air Up Special
- Reduced Weaken stacks from 3 to 2.
- – Will no longer chain into Air Down Attack as easily to prevent easy application of damage.
- – Ground Side Special
- Reduced gray health from 12 HP for 4 seconds to 6 HP for 3 seconds
- – Air Down Attack
- Increased Recovery
- – Air Side Attack
- Added whiff recovery
- – Ground/Air Neutral Attack
- Fixed issues when word bubbles would go through Bugs’ Tunnels.
- Reduced ammo count from 4 to 3
- Reduced ammo return from 11 to 10
- – Weight
- Decreased weight from 63 to 60.
- – Knowledge Is Power perk
- Reduced gray health from 7 HP for 5 seconds to 3 HP for 3 seconds
Wonder Woman
- Ground/Air Neutral Special
Lowered cooldown from 13s to 12s
- Ground Side Special
Projectile Shield comes out earlier to allow her to react better to incoming projectiles.
~ Air Up Attack
Hurtbox should now better match the animation.
- Weight
Increased weight from 65 to 76
~ Shield of Athena Signature Perk
Adjusted scale of projectile shield for Shield of Athena signature perk to cover an edge case where projectiles would pass above it during a dodge.
Fixed a bug where transformed fighters could receive buffs that would not appear visually when they returned to their normal form
– Reduced chicken duration from 10 seconds to 8
+ Increased the size of the chicken
Adjusted projectile movement direction of Taz spit projectiles to be more forward and less of a lob.
+ When Taz spits a projectile back at a fighter, the projectile will maintain its original speed.
If Taz eats a projectile that can’t be spit back out, he will refresh a count of his apple core ability.
Increased size of hit collision for Taz eating projectiles on his neutral special. Also made it possible to eat projectiles a few frames earlier.
Taz deals 1 stack of Weakened debuff everytime he chews an enemy.
Fixed a bug that allowed for ground movement after eating an enemy fighter
Damage reduced from 10 to 9, and base knockback reduced from 1500 to 1350
Fixed a bug where enemy fighters could become invulnerable to the fight cloud after dodging it.
Now a cooldown move with a 7-second cooldown. While the cooldown is active, side special is a weaker version of the tornado.
Full power tornado has a 1.5-second duration and receives an additional 1-second duration after passing an ally.
On cooldown, tornado has a 0.25-second duration and does not gain additional duration by passing an ally.
Now a two-hit attack. The early hit combos into the sandwich clap
Reduced move distance.
The distance this traveled before gave Velma additional recovery that wasn’t intended.
Reduced Weaken stacks from 3 to 2.
– Will no longer chain into Air Down Attack as easily to prevent easy application of damage.
Reduced gray health from 12 HP for 4 seconds to 6 HP for 3 seconds
Increased Recovery
Added whiff recovery
Fixed issues when word bubbles would go through Bugs’ Tunnels.
Reduced ammo count from 4 to 3
Reduced ammo return from 11 to 10
Decreased weight from 63 to 60.
Reduced gray health from 7 HP for 5 seconds to 3 HP for 3 seconds
Lowered cooldown from 13s to 12s
Projectile Shield comes out earlier to allow her to react better to incoming projectiles.
Hurtbox should now better match the animation.
Increased weight from 65 to 76
Adjusted scale of projectile shield for Shield of Athena signature perk to cover an edge case where projectiles would pass above it during a dodge.
After reading the MultiVersus season 1 update patch notes, you can find MultiVersus available now on PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox One & Series X|S, and PC free to play. Additionally, you can read the official patch notes list or follow later updates and development by going to the MultiVersus official website.