JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R/Patch Notes/Ver. 1.60

Official Patch Notes: https://www.bandainamcoent.com/news/jojos-bizarre-adventure-all-star-battle-r-patch-v-1-6-details

Italics denote undocumented changes.

General Changes

• Backstepping
  • Standardized the hurtbox area around feet.
    • Eliminates differences in ability to avoid certain deployed projectiles (e.g. Ghiaccio's "Any form of attack stops cold when it hits my ultracold temperatures!" skill) by stepping backwards. *The purpose of this is to remove imbalances in different characters' ability to escape deployed projectiles while getting up from being downed.

• Direction of counter HHA flying
  • Adjusted the force that sends opponents flying to the direction the initiating character is facing.
    • Under certain situations, when performing a successful counter, the target would go flying in the opposite direction from that suggested by the attack animation.

• Guardbreak
  • Added damage reduction to combos that start out of guardbreak.
    • Reduces the reward for performing a guardbreak while maintaining the ability to pursue that guardbreak.

• Damage received during skills that don't cause the victim to recoil. e.g. Jonathan Joestar's "Tackle" special
  • Allowed damage taken during rebound protection to receive damage reduction.
  • Changed counterstrikes to not occur while taking damage from attacks that do not cause rebound.
    • Improves usability in neutral.

• Damage received during attacks that do not cause recoil while in Resolve Mode.
  • Allowed damage taken during rebound protection to receive damage reduction.
  • Changed counterstrikes to not occur while taking damage from attacks that do not cause rebound.
    • Improves usability in neutral.

• Recoil caused by leg sweep attacks
  • Shortened animation lead-in and sped up transition to downed state.
    • This was changed due to certain attacks that allow additional attacks on downed opponents to fail due to recoil invincibility.

• The pivot line when characters swap positions in the air.
  • Resolved inconsistencies between characters' positional pivot lines and the center of their collision detection.
    • Under certain circumstances, when jumping attacks hit the opponent in the back, they were less likely to fall frontward. *This prevents confusion from guard direction working opposite to what is expected.

• Collision detection (determines when characters push against each other)
  • Removed Stand collision detection during standing and crouching recoil animations.
    • Under certain circumstances, when jumping attacks hit the opponent in the back, they were less likely to fall frontward. *This prevents confusion from guard direction working opposite to what is expected.

• Crouching recoil animation
  • Fixed a rare issue where being hit during the Stylish Guard's recovery would cause the crouching recoil animation to trigger.
    • Ensures that recoil animations are appropriate to the situation.

Character-specific Changes

Jonathan Joestar

• Dash Forward
  • Increased dash speed.
    • Improves usability in neutral

• "Sendo Overdrive" skill
  • Decreased projectile speed.
  • Shortened recovery period.
  • Extended pushback on hit.
    • Improves usability in neutral. *Combined with the anti-air capability of "Scarlet Overdrive", this improves the ability to bait and counter the opponent.

• "Overdrive Barrage" skill
  • Increased forward motion.
  • Shortened recovery period.
  • Improves usability in neutral and in combos.

Dio Brando

• Dash Forward
  • Increased dash speed.
    • Improves usability in neutral

• Crouching strong normal attack
  • Increased forward motion.
    • Improves usability in neutral and in combos.

• "Useless, useless, useless, useless!" skill
  • Reduced the number of button presses required to receive the damage increase.
    • Reduces difficulty of control.

• "I'll suck you dry!" skill
  • Reduced the number of button presses required to receive the damage increase.
    • Reduces difficulty of control.

• "That must be five or six ribs broken!" skill
  • Shortened recovery period.
  • Increased launch power when hitting an airborne opponent.
    • Improves usability in neutral by reducing recovery. The launch power increase is to prevent infinite combos possibly resulting from the recovery reduction.

Robert E. O. Speedwagon

• "Martial Arts, the Eastern mystery!" skill
  • Removed ability to continue the attack if it's guarded.
  • Shortened attack activation time.
  • Changed recoil from medium attack. (Now triggers when dropping to the ground.)
    • Reduces The Asian's ability to sustain a safe position while preserving his combo-centric strengths.