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Participant First Video games has launched a brand new replace for its enjoyable and chaotic crossover fighter MultiVersus, however followers hoping for brand spanking new phases, characters, or stability updates must hold ready, as this replace appears purely centered on bug fixes and hit/hurtbox tweaks.

The brand new replace, obtainable now on all platforms, features a handful of fixes for numerous characters, together with hitbox enhancements on Iron Large, bug fixes on Garnet, stat tracker fixes on LeBron, and down particular fixes for Morty. Sadly, there’s little extra in the way in which of gameplay tweaks, character balancing, or further characters, phases, or fixes. This has seen gamers getting greater than a bit of shouty on social media. One thing which by no means, ever occurs in gaming communities.

Launched in open beta in July 2022, MultiVersus received off to an impressive begin. Hundreds of thousands of gamers dove into its free-to-play, Tremendous Smash Bros.-style shenanigans in native, on-line, and match scenes. The next weeks and months would see the arrival of latest characters and phases, together with DC Comics’ anti-hero Black Adam, edgy cartoon stars Rick & Morty, and Gremlins‘ Stripe and Gizmo. However issues have been very quiet for the previous 4 months, with the November 2022 arrival of Marvin the Martian representing the latest main content material replace the fighter has acquired.

Now, after all, it must be reiterated that MultiVersus is in open beta mode, and as such, there’s most likely a lot happening behind the scenes in regard to the fighter’s precise launch. In spite of everything, there have been inklings, (albeit unofficially) of some cool characters supposedly lined up for the roster. These included DC Comics’ villain Joker, in addition to film characters equivalent to Beetlejuice, The Goonies, and even The Wizard of Oz‘s Depraved Witch of the West.

The Warner Bros. IP catalog, which incorporates DC Comics, Mortal Kombat, The Lord of the Rings, Looney Tunes, and essential different standard worlds and characters is, on paper, a gold mine of roster additions.

Combating sport communities are flighty and brutal mistresses: Exhausting to construct, onerous to keep up, and most actually onerous to recall, as soon as their curiosity has wandered elsewhere. Hopefully MultiVersus — which is a enjoyable scrapper — will be capable of resurrect the joy of its launch months, At this stage, MultiVersus wants “an occasion”: Both an official launch date, a contemporary entrance finish/U.I. replace, or a “Roadmap” (ugh) of incoming content material. The shrinking participant neighborhood wants proof that the fighter has a future, and isn’t on the highway to getting insta-canned by the Cash Males, like so many free-to-play hits earlier than it.

MultiVersus is on the market now on PlayStation, PC, and Xbox platforms.