Marceline the Vampire Queen joins the Multiverse! Marceline is now available for purchase with Gleamium, a Character Ticket, a direct purchase, or through the “Vampire Vibes: Marceline’s Sun Hat” bundle. She can be purchased for 6,000 Fighter Currency or accessed through the Fighter Road starting December 20th.
Other General Updates
Shields have been enabled by default in Training and Local
Decreased variability in time for games to start after perks selection or arena shopping
Rifts
The “A Festiversus Vampire Invasion” PvE Rift is NOW AVAILABLE
The “Rogue Rift” PvE Rift has been added and be released later in the season.
Events
“A Merry MultiVerse” Event is NOW AVAILABLE
“The Frosty Fray” Event will be released later in the season.
Maps
New Maps:
Candy Kingdom
Candy Kingdom 2
New Bonus Maps:
Space 2
Castle
Castle 2
Castle 3
Castle (Funhouse)
Ranked Map Pools
Candy Kingdom 2 has been added to the 1v1 and 2v2 pools
Castle has been added to the 2v2 pool
Castle 2 has been added to the 1v1 pool
Unranked Map Pools
Candy Kingdom 2 has been added to the 1v1 and 2v2 pools
Candy Kingdom has been added to the 2v2 and FFA pools
Castle has been added to the 2v2 pool
Castle 2 has been added to the 1v1 pool
Castle 3 has been added to the 2v2 and FFA pools
Castle (Funhouse) has been added to the FFA pool
Arena Map Pool
Candy Kingdom 2 has been added to the arena map pool
Castle has been added to the arena map pool
Castle 3 has been added to the arena map pool
Netcode
Game start synchronization between clients improved. This should help initial performance in most cases
Improved reliability of initial connection between clients
Fixed occasional issue with rift calculation that was causing clients to continually run behind the server
Arena
Improved reliability of players making it through different phases and speeding up how long the Arena needs to wait in cases where players are hitting long loads