TRAINING ARC 0.33.2 patch notes

The islet is now THE STUDIO. A lot has changed since the last build (0.26.0). Here is all of it.

The Studio

Your home base is a run-down warehouse by the river. As you play, the crew turn it into a TV studio: a scrappy set first, then a real studio, then a whole studio lot. Your save loads straight in, with all its progress.
Every station has its own room behind a signed door: the Control Booth, the Powerhouse, the Stage, Wardrobe, Master Ponzu's room, the Kitchen, the Trophy Room and more. Rooms open a couple at a time, and the call sheet walks you to any of them.
Later in the season the front door opens onto the Lobby, and the Backlot is beside it. Boats, fishing, the koi and the News Chopper are out on the dockside.
The Stage room is laid out like a real studio: the stage at the back, the audience in rows, the cameras in between. It grows with the Stage's level, up to an arena.

The Training Yard (on the Backlot): the fighters you aren't playing train on their own, even with the game closed. The stronger your bench, the more PL your main fighter gets from every K.O. (TEAM STRENGTH).
Your fighter keeps farming while you're away, on the deepest zone it has beaten. It never takes a new zone or a story boss. Anything it earns past the next zone's door is stored and pours in when you beat that boss.
Departments collect themselves once they're levelled up a bit.
A new WHILE YOU WERE AWAY card adds it all up when you come back.

Late in the season a capsule-toy machine gets wheeled into the Lobby, with more tiers on the way. Turn the crank for relics found nowhere else, prize gear sets, dyes and titles. A relic you already have levels up, and every tier promises something good within a few pulls. Earned Rin only.

From zone 6 on, fights are tougher and fairer: you meet each zone close to its strength instead of far above it. Later zones come quicker than before.
Grunts you've outgrown still sting, bosses always hit hard, and from zone 9 mashing jabs stops working: guard, counter, launch or use Ki. Ki blasts cost more, and healing is toned down.
Old saves get a one-time PL top-up so your current zone doesn't suddenly hit back.

Jumps are fully animated for every fighter and form, and worn gear stays on through jumps, landings and hits.
Boss fights turn their acts like a show, and the final blow cuts to a comic close-up.
Every K.O. has a finish, in each fighter's own style: suns, leaves, rain clouds, confetti, nuts and bolts, ink smoke. Heavy blows can splat a foe against the TV glass. The last foe of a wave gets a CLEAR! clapper, and several foes in one blow call DOUBLE K.O.! and up.
New-move lessons pause the fight. Pick LEARN IT to practise the move, or SKIP.
The Solari has three new moves: Sundown (Down + X), Morning Glory (Up + Y) and Lens Flare (Down + Y).
The flurry can be cancelled, and Golden Hour no longer drops you out of your form. A few moves were brought in line (Flicker Cuts, Spin Kick, Rapid Rivets, Weather Balloon, The Big Freeze).
Foes' stage entrances got proper art: parachutes, ropes, trapdoors, crates, a stage dolly.

Every fighter who joins you shows up in earlier episodes first, so you already know them when they join. The villain is around from the start.
Lines about your own fighter are skipped when you're playing as them.
The Special Guest Stars talk now, each in their own voice.

Every relic has its own art, drops out of foes in a beam of light, and lives on a shelf in Pause > Relics. Relics level up with no cap, and six new OFF-AIR relics come from the idle side (departments, fishing, the garden, Auto-Battle, time away).
Mentors & Skills is easier to use: every skill you know, what it does, and which button fires it. A new skill can go on a button in one or two presses.

Six new songs for the first couple of hours: the title theme, the home base, zones 1 to 5 and the bosses.
A fresh install no longer starts so quiet. New menu sounds, reward sounds, and each early zone has its own background sounds. Low health muffles the music.

Going in and out of an episode now feels like flicking a TV channel.
The title screen, menus and the results card all animate now (a NEW BEST! sticker when you beat your grade). The fighter select is a line-up on a stage, and every achievement has its own medal.

Charge Ki can be Hold or Toggle (Settings > Controls).
Subtitle size and Reduce motion in Settings > Accessibility. Colour-blind help does more.
If your PC or Deck goes to sleep mid-fight, the fight waits in the pause menu.

The Titans and the sparring dummy aren't drawn stretched anymore.
The studio no longer shakes behind the While You Were Away and Previously On cards on fast screens.
Holding Charge while walking no longer makes your fighter flicker.
A foe could be knocked out twice by one blow and pay out twice.
Every achievement can be earned now.