Combat Arena: Alpha 2.1 Patch Notes — Kindred Fates: Combat Arena Steam update #596041

Oops, all improvements! This time we’ve made improvements to Shielding, Dodging, Dash Attacks, AI, and performance! For the Slyphur mains, there’s a new ability to try out called Counter. To top it off we’ve made balance changes to account for the Dodge rework, and fixed several notable bugs. Gameplay Changes General Improvements Shield is no longer an ability! It is now a dedicated button just like Dodge. It’s bound to the Ctrl key by default. You can now enter the practice room while offline. Attacks have received an optimization pass! In local testing, our frame rate went from around 10 while fighting all 7 NPCs in the practice room to over 60. In PvP, you can expect to see improvements while fighting against other players while lots of attacks are happening at the same time. Dash Attack Improvements Dash Attacks are now frame rate independent and more smoothly move the character. Das...