Crash Team Rumble: Midseason Patch Notes

NOTES UPDATED AS OF 12PM 7/20/23

^{Live 9am Wednesday, July 19th}

Features

• Ripper Roo will be live on 7/20 for all players! He can be unlocked by earning 50 Blocker badges. (Earn Blocker badges by knocking Wumpa away).

General:

• Signing out and signing back in during the intro cutscene will no longer leave players on a black screen until the title closes.
• An infrequent crash on startup has been resolved.
• An infrequent issue that resulted in players becoming stuck in a black screen when the last person readied up is now resolved.
• Players no longer need to accept a friend request twice before that friend populates the Friend’s tab.
• Players can now progress through and participate in practice mode after selecting a power.
• When a party host backs out of a competitive lobby, the rest of the party will now appropriately follow that party host out of the lobby.
• Several issues were resolved which allowed teams with more than 4 players.
• Translation coverage has been improved across the game in all launch languages.
• Accepting an invite into a party or lobby in a variety of situations will now appropriately move players to the correct party or lobby.
  
• Audio now consistently plays when in the main menu.
• Stability around the completion of private matches has been improved.
• Teams will appropriately be notified if their party leader leaves the party.
• If a player unlocks two heroes in a single match, the announcer will correctly say both of their unlock announcements.
• Bots will no longer use slam attacks while carrying Wumpa and banking.

Maps:

• The spawn barrier can no longer be bypassed by enemies. 

• Tar Valley
  • The potential for network instability after the Aku Aku Epic Relic Station effect expires has been resolved.
    
  • The level 3 Aku Aku power no longer damages friendly Slow Shrooms.

• Calamity Canyon
  • The forcefields can no longer be passed through by enemy players.
  • Oxide’s UFO model is no longer invisible if opposing players are looking away when it activates.

• Rusted Refinery
  • Enemy bots are now affected by Sandstorm.

Heroes:

• Heroes no longer have a chance to appear extremely distorted.

• Dr. N. Brio
  • An infrequent crash surrounding use the of Dr. N.Brio during a competitive match has been resolved.
  • Slimes can no longer be used to attack enemies in their own spawn area.
  • Slimes will now stay on the banks or gems they are spawned on.
    
  • Slimes no longer occasionally spawn at the center of the map when a thrown flask hits an enemy.
  • Dr. N. Brio will no longer become stuck if he transforms while standing right next to a gem.

• Coco
  • The final reward box will no longer be checked before the player finishes the final requirements for the “Earn Scorer Badges by Scoring Wumpa” challenge.

• Tawna
  • The location of the hookshot projectile will now more closely indicate the direction the hero will travel.

• Dingodile
  • Fixed a bug that sometimes allowed players to use the Tailwhip attack more often than intended. 
  • Dingodile no longer stutters during his hover animation when viewed by other players.

• N. Tropy
  • The staff will no longer revert to the default option after completing a match.
  • The mastery badge will now be easier to acquire, players need to deny Wumpa without getting knocked out instead of getting hit.
    

Powers:

• Power Drain’s collision has been improved so it no longer blocks the use of a Relic Station it may be placed on.
  
• When powers with multiple charges are completely full, the colors on the power icon are no longer muted.

Events:

• Using the zapper in Zap Trap will now appropriately track KO’s and grant the Multi-KO Badge to players that get multiple KO’s in a row.
• Zap Trap no longer displays the team total as “1/8”, and now appropriately shows “1/4”.
• The issue that caused players playing Zap Trap to occasionally be put into a standard competitive match has been resolved.