TFB Labs Shuffle Playlist

• TFB Labs modes are now bundled into a playlist available at least a few days each week.

New Map: Artisans Arena

• Gulp has found a new overlook, filled with familiar friends and foes.
• This map features new relic stations themed around Fairies, Ice Wizards, and Gulp.
• Look for healing Sheep when you need a quick recovery!

New Map: Summer Forest

• The forests in Avalar are renowned for their lush trees, crystal clear rivers, and taunting thieves.
• This map features the new relic stations: Moneybags, Enchanted Tower, and Elemental Orbs.
• Did we mention the taunting thieves?

New Hero: Spyro

• Everyone’s favorite purple pal will officially join Crash Team Rumble in Season 3!

New Hero: Elora

• The fiercest faun in Avalar is on her way! Expect to feel the heals and fear the hooves later this season.

New Power: Bank Portal

• Portal your way to the banks on-demand when this new power arrives in Season 3.

New Feature: Emotes in Lobby!

• Players can now play their selected emotes while waiting for other players to ready up, as well as see other players’ emotes.

New Feature: Career Stats

• Players can now see their Career Stats tracked for all competitive matches played.

Heroes

• Ripper Roo
  • Fixed strafe animation bug.
  • Bombs will now explode on Blues Beatdown station.
• Coco
  • Fixed bug where achievement/trophy for hitting 20 enemies with Quantum Wall did not always get awarded properly.
• N. Brio
  • Slime potion throw projectiles no longer explode in mid-air and will continue until hitting a solid object.
  • Brio can now transform into brute form in mid-air.
• Catbat
  • Now gets one flap back after being knocked back.
• Neo Cortex
  • Vertical dash is restored after being knocked back.
• N. Gin
  • Homing Shots targeting and splash improved to better break crate clusters.
  • Blast Off and Boombox now partially refund their cooldowns when the ability is interrupted by knockback.
• Ripto
  • Tsunami now refreshes double jump.
• General
  • Character ability cooldowns will now reset correctly upon starting a new wave in Party mode.  Some abilities that required landing to come off cooldown were not resetting properly in these scenarios.
  • Strafe Mode: added backpedal animations.
  • Dash attacks are now affected by speed de-buffs.
  • Fixed a bug where N. Brio slimes would cause your own team’s banking to be slowed.

Powers

• Power Drainer now damages nearby placed enemy powers such as Fridges, Gasmoxian Guards, Flytraps, etc.
• Garbage Dump now distributes garbage more evenly in the danger area.

Maps

• Players should now be fully immune in spawn-in area.
• Fixed an issue where some players would not be able to see the speed line visual effects on their heroes when using air vents and launchers
• Bouncing Bubble and Slow Shroom relic stations have returned.

Relic Stations

• Fixed certain relic stations to prevent them from being inappropriately attacked by N. Brio slimes.
• Slow Shrooms and Bouncing Bubble are now back.
  • Bouncing Bubble has slightly different functionality where bouncing 3 times will charge the bubble up for the remaining duration.
• Bouncing Bubble and Akano will now lose more often to other attacks instead of always trading.
• N. Brio players in Brute form can now equip the Smog Surge relic power.
• Shrink Ray – Certain attacks will no longer deal knockback to shrunken enemies such as Dingo vac and vac pull, smog surge gas, etc.
• Fixed an issue where picking up stashes from Big Bonsai counted towards your powers used on the scoreboard.
• Fixed an issue in Jazz Junction where destroying a Blue Beatdown musician would cause players not to be able to place powers at that location for the rest of the match (like Fridges, Gasmoxian Guards, Flytraps, etc.)
• Fixed issues with Ika Ika and Bouncing Bubble where the effect would last too long if the player never jumped.
• Fixed and issue where Uka Uka’s flame pool effect left by a meteor would damage players for too long after the flame went away.
• Fixed an issue where players could get certain relic stations like Beachballs while in N. Brio’s Brute form.
• Damage regions from Akano, Bouncing Bubble, Beachball etc should be more size accurate and responsive (this should lead to fewer corrections when being knocked back by them).
• Fixed an issue where certain characters would have Akano’s damage region in the wrong location.
• Fixed an issue where the Bouncing Bubble would deal too much damage.

Modes

• Party Mode’s Speed Run should no longer spawn clocks inside of bumpers in wave 4.
• If a collectable respawns on top of you (like a Cooking ingredient) you will pick it up immediately now.
• In TFB Lab’s Wumpa Whale, the whale can now be deactivated by collecting ducks.  Cost and wumpa collection rate have been adjusted to compensate.
• In TFB Lab’s Gem Carry, the scale of the gem will no longer scale up infinitely if dropped and equipped by a scaled up hero.

User Interface

• Hero Customizations no longer reset when restarting the game.
• Map loading screens now have the epic relic station in the center if there are 3.
• Fixed misalignment of Stats on Scoreboard in Party Mode on Match Results screen.
• Low teammate health “Heal Alert” tracker added to HUD for Heroes with heal abilities. (ex: Catbat).
• Text in “more details” pop-ups within specific events has been properly padded and centered within the widget on screen.
• Optimized sizes of event inventory and collectible icons.
• Removed the event details timer (it was not displaying in local time properly). Daily limits on collectible reset every 24 hours after the start of events that use them.

Badges

• Fixed a bug with Ripto Mastery badges, multiple Ripto players should now be able to earn the badge in the same match without unintended resets.
• N. Gin’s Gem Jam badge is now earnable for successful boom box damage near gems. This adjustment should allow the badge to be more reliably earned.

Other Updates and Additions

• New announcer VO lines will play when team stack boosts.
• Bots use triple spins and slides/spirals to navigate around level.
• Overall App stability improvements.
• Movement stability improvements.
• Fixed issue where heroes load into match in default skins instead of selected skins.
• Fixed issues with predictive destruction of crates.
• Fixed misprediction problems with mask relic stations.
• Fixed misprediction issues with respawn speed boost.