Patch 3.0.0.0 is a major content update for Indie Pogo. It introduces 2 new characters, a new stage, stage variants & many changes to balance, alongside various bug fixes.
Patch Notes
Additions
2 new characters; Kick and Yolk .- New stage, Dragon Valley, and many new unlockable stage variants for existing stages.
- New feature - Emblems! Icons that can be attached to your profile that will display next to your name and your battle UI.
New feature - Leaderboards! Ranks the best performances worldwide for single-player challenges, like Arcade mode and Infinite Pogo.- Kick & Yolk palettes are now purchasable in the shop.
- New DLC skins available for purchase:
- Birthday Blockman
- Rainbow Viridian
- Lovers Orcane
- New Gachapon trophies, as well as Kick & Yolk arcade trophies.
Characters & Balance
- Universal Changes
- Air Dodge
- Added 5 frames of vulnerability at the end of dodge right before players enter helpless state.
- Added 5 frames of startup to all dodges.
- Jumpsquat slightly extended after landing in Helpless state.
- Parkour
- Added a couple frames of startup to Rolling Leaps and Wall Jumps.
- All Rolling Leap/Wall Jump hitboxes have been changed from boxes to ellipses.
- Super Armor
- Added I-Frames between hits on Super Armor. Flinch hits have a shorter I-Frame duration. This should prevent instances where characters take unintended bursts of damage while Armor is active.
- Now breaks after a limited number of hits. Damage does not determine when Armor breaks.
- Air Dodge
- Blockman
- Up Melee
- Damage reduced from 6 to 5.
- Startup slightly increased.
- Grounded Charge | Double Uppercut
- Changed the hitbox shape from a rectangle to an ellipse.
- Lowered minimum damage from 5 to 4.
- Neutral Special | Tetro Twist
- Blockman can now interact with his own blocks, as well as Crow's bombs, CV's Beat, and Diogenes' Hammer Throw.
- Fixed a bug that caused grabbed players/projectiles to stay in place if this move was interrupted.
- Down Special | Piledriver
- Fixed a bug that prevented Blockman from kicking blocks if this move was used too high up.
- Up Melee
- Bullet Kin
- Dodge Roll
- Fixed a bug that allowed players to Dodge Roll at a faster rate than intended.
- Chests
- Glass Guon Stone pickups now give the collector 3 Guon Stones instead of 1.
- Magnum
- Reload buff damage reduced from 4 to 3.
- Poxcannon
- Increased wind knockback.
- Phoenix
- Now deals 1 damage on initial impact.
- No longer contributes to Pogo.
- Dodge Roll
- CommanderVideo
- Passive | Extra Multiplier
- Damage buff now affects Melee attacks.
- Up Melee
- Can now only be used once per jump.
- Grounded Charge | Slide Strike
- Damage now scales depending on how long the move is charged.
- SUPER | Void
- Changed the shape of the hitbox to more accurately match the sprite.
- Passive | Extra Multiplier
- Diogenes
- Pot Nap
- Diogenes can no longer negate damage from Throws or SUPERs using Pot Nap.
- After a Throw, Diogenes can no longer enter Pot Nap until he collides with terrain, transitions into tumble, gets hit again, or dies.
- Fixed a bug that allowed Diogenes to negate damage when using a move after leaving Pot Nap state.
- Up Melee
- Upward damage reduced from 4 to 3.
- Can no longer destroy Penelope's Vampire Mines.
- Side Melee
- Sweetspot damage reduced from 7 to 6.
- Can no longer destroy Penelope's Vampire Mines.
- Pinned state can now be cancelled by pressing down on the control stick.
- Down Melee
- Can no longer destroy Penelope's Vampire Mines.
- Pinned state can now be cancelled by pressing down on the control stick.
- Grounded Charge | Grabbyhands'
- Fixed an audio-related bug that would trigger a sharp, loud sound upon use.
- Side Special | Hammer Throw
- Diogenes can no longer use Rolling Leap if his hammer is on cooldown.
- Diogenes can no longer use Up Special if his hammer is on cooldown.
- Fixed a bug that allowed Diogenes to cancel hammer cooldown by jumping on an opponent's head.
- Down Special | Waft Wallop
- Fixed a bug that messed up characters' gravity if they were interrupted by this move's windbox while using certain attacks.
- Fixed a bug that allowed this move's windbox to nullify Orcane's puddle.
- Damage reduced from 8 to 7.
- No longer resets landing flag if Diogenes touches the ground while using this move.
- SUPER | Bucket Rope
- Fixed a bug that caused Diogenes' bucket to disappear upon death.
- Pot Nap
- Fishy
- Neutral Special | Cannonball Shot
- Fishy can now change the direction that the projectile is fired, similarly to CV's Side Special.
- Side Special | Fishbowl Cannon
- Fishy can now dodge cancel after launching out of the cannon.
- No longer grants Super Armor.
- Down Special | Friendship Tether
- Fishy now has more horizontal control while throwing the box projectile.
- Projectile now briefly stuns victims upon hit.
- Fishy can now use the second half of this move without having to land.
- Fishy now has slight gravity during this move's startup.
- SUPER | Shütshimi
- Grants up to 4 Fishlets upon use.
- Active Fishlets will now automatically fire smaller shots that deal 1 damage, independent from Fishy's cannonball cooldown.
- Water bullet delay decreased after launching a spikeball.
- Water bullets now disappear upon contact with a blast zone, rather than having a set lifetime.
- Neutral Special | Cannonball Shot
- Jack
- Side Special | Sickle / Pollen Boomerang
- Pollen Boomerang hitbox size increased.
- Side Special | Sickle / Pollen Boomerang
- Lilac
- Grounded Charge | Dragon Star
- Side Special is no longer empowered by Dragon Star, and thus does not consume it anymore.
- Neutral Special | Cyclone
- Hitbox size slowly increases by 20% over the course of the attack (previous hitbox size is now the current minimum size).
- Side Special | Blink Dash
- Damage increased from 4 to 5.
- Up Special | Dragon Boost / Boost Breaker
- Lilac's hurtbox now properly aligns to the direction she is dashing.
- Changed hitbox shape from a rectangle to an ellipse.
- Down Special | Dragon Kick
- Fixed a bug that caused Lilac's sprite to always face to the left when landing after a stomp.
- Grounded Charge | Dragon Star
- Orcane
- Parkour
- If Orcane rolls over a puddle, he will now create a new puddle in the location where his roll ends, whether it be from a roll cancel, a Rolling Leap, etc.
- Up Melee
- Orcane charges up and shoots a pillar of water above him, reminiscent of his Up Aerial from Rivals of Aether.
- Side Melee
- Orcane quickly swipes his tail in a forward arc, reminiscent of his Back Aerial from Rivals of Aether.
- Down Melee
- Orcane spins in place, hitting enemies multiple times and setting up for combos. Reminiscent of his Down Aerial from Rivals of Aether.
- Neutral Special | Downward Droplet
- Increased the height of the bubble hitbox when Orcane detonates an active puddle. or creates one with Down Special.
- Detonation distance and duration on active Droplet projectiles increased.
- Now spikes wet victims downwards upon use.
- Bubbles can no longer drop enemies below 1HP, similar to Zorbie's Gas.
- Down Special | Bubble Dive / Butt Bash
- Bubbles no longer drop enemies below 1HP, similar to Zorbie's Gas.
- Puddle Roll
- Now does not consume the puddle, and instead drops it at the ending location.
- Parkour
- Penelope
- Grounded Charge | Bullet Spray
- Penelope's aim now correctly adjusts to where the player is aiming when she starts shooting.
- Down Special | Harpoon
- Fixed a visual bug that caused Penelope's hook to draw a Blockman sprite at the tip if used on Crow.
- Grounded Charge | Bullet Spray
- Shovel Knight
- Shovel Drop
- Hitbox is no longer active when Shovel Knight travels upwards with this move.
- Side Melee
- Can now reflect Bullet Kin's RC Rocket projectiles.
- Up Melee
- Changed the hitbox shape from a rectangle to an ellipse.
- Neutral Special | Flare Rod
- Shovel Knight can now change the direction that the projectile is fired, similarly to CV's Side Special.
- Damage increased from 1 to 2.
- Now has a cooldown indicator that shows when the move is ready to be used again.
- Down Special | Fishing Rod
- Fixed a bug that caused Shovel Knight's calling reel state to setup multiple times.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Shovel Knight from using Parkour if he died while his lure was cast.
- SUPER | War Horn
- Shovel Knight is no longer invincible during this move's duration.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Shovel Knight's gravity from resetting if his SUPER was interrupted by the windbox from Diogenes' Down Special.
- Shovel Drop
- Stardrop
- Up Special | Cosmic Comet
- Changed the shape of the hitbox to more accurately match the spritework.
- Hurtbox size increased.
- Hitbox size decreased.
- Up Special | Cosmic Comet
- Teslakid
- Grounded Charge | Ball Lightning
- Added slight startup to the projectile launch.
- Side / Up Special | Blink Boots
- Added a small window of startup before Teslakid teleports.
- SUPER | Teslamancer's Might
- Reduced lightning strike damage from 10 to 8.
- Reduced blast aura damage from 9 to 7.
- Grounded Charge | Ball Lightning
- Velocispider
- General
- Fixed the running sprite for the Skeleton Velocispider skin.
- Grounded Charge / Neutral / Side Special | Charge Shot
- Fixed a bug that caused Velocispider to fire 2 shots if they released a Charge Shot right before Pogo'ing an opponent.
- Velocispider's Pogo hitbox now disappears after turning past a certain point.
- General
- Viridian
- General
- Fixed a bug with Viridian's jumpsquat while upside down.
- Changed Viridian's crouch sprite while in move state.
- Neutral / Side Special | Orbit
- Fixed a bug that caused this move's hitbox to stay active while Viridian lands.
- Up Special | Warp
- Viridian can no longer spawn a new Warp portal if one is already active.
- General
- Welltaro
- Passive | Gem High
- Pogo Combo cost to activate increased by 1 (now requires a 3-Combo to activate).
- Grounded Charge | Rocket Jump
- Reduced hitbox height.
- Slightly increased startup.
- Neutral Special | Triple Module
- Bullets now have knockback falloff. Knockback decreases the farther bullets travel.
- Up Special | Triple Module
- Removed Heart Balloon's collision with players.
- Can no longer be ignited during the initial jump.
- Blast Module
- Blast Module particles should now match the color of the skin the player is wearing.
- Hot Casings
- Casings can no longer drop enemies below 1HP, similar to Zorbie's Gas.
- Passive | Gem High
- Zorbie
- Up Special | Mustache Flap
- Slightly decreased eject knockback.
- Down Special | Shoe Stomp
- Now puts victims into facedown state upon contact with a flat surface.
- Up Special | Mustache Flap
Misc / Bugfixes
- Stages
- Bouncy Castle
- Fixed a bug that caused the off-screen sound cue to play repeatedly if one player went off screen.
- INK | Default
- Lowered the bottom blast zone.
- Polar Dimension | Default
- Lowered the bottom blast zone.
- Space Junction | Default
- Lowered the bottom blast zone.
- Bouncy Castle
- Crown Pogo
- Velocispider can no longer cash in crown points while running faster than a certain speed.
- The following attacks now cause victims to drop the crown:
- Blockman: Neutral Special
- Diogenes: Side Melee & Grounded Charge (knockback)
- Penelope: Down Special
- Zorbie: Up Special
- Arcade Mode
- Updated Coin Minigame UI and patterns.
- Adjusted Crow's damage and attack power to account for changes to Air Dodges.
- Added a bunch of new Arcade Bonuses to earn during playthroughs.
- First Strike - Land the first hit of a match.
- Melee Master: Hit each enemy with Up, Side, and Down Melee in one match.
- Special Striker: Hit each enemy with Up, Side, Neutral & Down Special.
- Burning Sensation - Light an enemy on fire.
- Well-Rounded - Use all Specials, GC and Melees at least once.
- Pacifist - End a match without damaging an opponent.
- Throw-Down - Kill an opponent with a throw (either damage from hitting terrain, or from blast zone).
- Challenges
- Fixed a bug that caused Blockman's skin to change color rapidly in the Death's Doorstep challenge.
- Fixed Runbow's platforms in the Fire at Whale challenge.
- Fixed a bug that prevented players from moving in the Vs. Crow challenge.
- Increased spikeball knockback in Shovel Knight's Shovel Pogo challenge.
- Infinite Pogo
- Fixed a missing platform on the Infinite version of Runbow Volcano.
- Character Select Screen
- Removed Diogenes' sprite offset when hovering over the Random Fighter option.
- Online
- Bubble Swap is now turned ON by default in Online Lobbies.
Patch Notes - Patch 3.0.0.1
This is a small patch that fixes a Leaderboard bug and brings in some changes to the game's Tourney mode.
Changes
- Tourney Mode
- Afterlife Hub is now a counter-pick stage.
- Bouncy Castle is no longer legal.
- Dragon Valley is now a starter stage.
- Single-Player
- Emblems should now show up in the single-player modes.
- Leaderboards
- Fixed a sorting issue related to Infinite Pogo scores.
- Keyboard users should now be able to set their profiles as default.
- Shop/Trophies
- Fixed some grammatical errors.
Patch Notes - Patch 3.0.0.2
This is a small patch that fixes a bug related to keyboard controls, as well as a couple other minor changes.
- Diogenes
- General
- Added a minimum distance that Diogenes travels down the snake for his death animation.
- General
- Zorbie
- Down Special | Shoe Stomp
- Can no longer eat Viridian's blue VVV projectiles.
- Down Special | Shoe Stomp
- Single-Player
- On the Solo Select screens, it now remembers which character you hovered over, so you don't need to scroll down each time.
- Options
Fixed a crash related to keyboard button mapping.
Trivia
- The patch added several trophies designed by external artists for the first time.
- "Kiki" from Gato Roboto was created by "Prosciutto Man".
- "FlagSeed" from TumbleSeed was created by "BrawlersintheZone".
- "Masked Kid" from Underhero was created by "Water".