Earlier this week we reviewed the Wii U exclusive, Sportsball, and spoke fairly highly of its unique approach to multiplayer gaming. Of course, even for everything we enjoyed, the game was still far from perfect. Thus, developer Too DX released a patch for the game today that addresses some of the title's more apparent issues. Below is a list of all the tweaks and changes:
Changes:
- Changed Sportsbrawl Pro rules to stock with bombs
- Controllers inactive for 1 minute will no longer rumble until a button is hit again
- Added a rumble on spawn
- Changed level background graphics
- Players must now hold the + button to pause matches
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where matches would restart twice in Sportsbrawl when a tackle happened by the winning team after victory
- Fixed memory leaks on exiting the match scene
- Fixed an issue where match number would not save to the replay data, displaying match # 0 on the results screen for all replays
- Fixed an issue with replays where saved object references were not correctly loaded. This resulted in free lances on moving platforms not syncing movement
- Fixed a soft lock issue when saving replays without enough space left in the common block. Now the replay will fail to save and an error message will be displayed
- Fixed an issue where after playing a 60 minute match and watching the whole replay, loading another replay may cause a crash
- Adjusted the timing of the intro animation to sync up the intro music
Thus, if you've been looking for a party game to break up your Smash Bros. sessions, perhaps now is the time to get in on Sportsball; after all, it's only $9.99 on the Wii U eShop.