Beastieball news & patch notes

A new experimental balance patch is here! On PC ONLY, players on the experimental branch now have access to some new mechanics and parameter adjustments. We welcome your thoughts, your feedback, and your playtesting! I encourage dedicated coaches to join us in our Discord community to discuss these changes live with other players.

How to Access

Right click Beastieball in your Steam library > Select "Properties" > Go to the "Game Versions and Betas" tab > Select "experimental" from the dropdown menu. Your savedata is not be at risk when changing to different game branches. If your Beasties have plays on the default branch which they do not have access to in the experimental branch, they will be removed. Or, if you use new plays which are introduced on the experimental branch, they will be removed upon switching back to the default branch. Plays which have been added or changed will be completely free to tutor to your Beasties at the Beastierball Academy on the temporary experimental build. Take this opportunity to try out new tools and let us know how they're feeling!

⭐New Stuff

There are a couple new experimental feature items we want players to be aware of, and welcome testing/feedback on these during the experimental period. All of these are now available in the SportNet menu.

• Beastie Analytics: From here, you can browse detailed analytics on Beastie popularity, as well as commonly used traits, plays and teammates. There's data for matches played since the previous Milestone update, and historic records for every single Bigmoon Bash event too. Going forward, Bash analytics will appear here automatically without us needing to post a new blog post/spreadsheet.
• Leaderboards: This lists the top-scoring players in each Bigmoon Bash. In the future we'd like to expand this to be able to show your individual ranking on the list, but those features are still in development.
• Trading: You can now create private lobbies to trade Beasties with another player.

🔧 Balance Changes

This follows the trend set by the previous Milestone, featuring a minimal set of changes meant to address only a few key standout points. Still, each change is one we've considered carefully and there are some fun new toys here... I hope players enjoy them!

⚙️ General Mechanics Changes

💧 WEEPY

A Beastie overcome with WEEPY now loses 50 STAMINA (down from 100). We've been overall really happy with Weepy's impact on the game, giving some teams a way to slow down offense and pressure tagouts. Weepy's 100 damage has been very punishing, though, and it can make the afflicted player feel many lines are closed off to them and their agency is reduced to an unfun level. The reduced damage here keeps Weepy as a big potential threat, but afflicted players have a bit more optionality in whether they choose to tank the damage and continue their offense VS. pivoting out to conserve their bench health later on.

👨‍👨‍👧‍👧 Rally

RALLY now boosts the damage of only one team at a time. After attacking, any RALLY crowd on the attacker's side will move to the opposing side. This small change means that in practice, RALLY is almost identical to before; but, after scoring a point with a RALLY-boosted attack, your subsequent serve can't be boosted by RALLY, which reduces the ability of this field effect to snowball damage for a team already in advantage.

🍄 Traits

• (NEW) Enchanter: Net-boosted attacks make the target 1 SHOOK.
  • 🔄Given to Conjarr in place of Precise Precise was an imperfect fit for Conjarr, and wasn't used much by players, especially after sources of redirection were reduced in the previous Milestone. We decided to give Conjarr something brand-new and custom tailored to them. This trait synergizes nicely with Conjarr's numerous net plays and attack options, giving them a way to control the opponent's tempo.
• (NEW?) Fearless: Immune to NERVOUS. Doesn't experience negative effects from their own attacks.
  • 🔼Given to Daredillo in place of Self-Assured Daredillo has been one of the most-used Beasties since we finished their animation in December, and their popularity spiked particularly after we gave them Dodge Roll in the previous Milestone. Daredillo's ability to gracefully hit and run with Dodge Roll combined with their Acrobat trait has made for a very fun playstyle, but it made their already-strong offense feel a little too difficult for opponents to manage. We're tweaking some things in Daredillo's kit to mitigate the power of Acrobat, and changing Self-Assured to something which enables their offense just a bit more effectively to compensate.
• Power Up, High Spirits and Full Focus:
  • 🔄New effect: Corresponding type attacks do +50% damage when STAMINA is below 34 (from +15) This reverts a change we applied in Milestone 4 in March. The goal at the time was to normalize the power level of the 3 starters by increasing the value of the damage boost for weaker hitters like Bandicraft while reducing its value on Kasaleet. Having now collected analytics and observations across a couple Milestone seasons, we found this change did not have the intended effect. Kasaleet was as dominant as ever, and Hopra/Bandicraft both struggled to succeed with more aggressive gameplans even more than they had before. With that in mind, we're rolling this change back and addressing the slight imbalance in other ways.
• Confident:
  • 🔼Gets +1 Body POW Boost and +1 ALL DEF Boost when TAGGED IN. (Prev: Body POW +1 and Body DEF +1) Supilero has generally seen good success with their other trait, Scavenger, and recently gained some traction using High Five in tandem with Confident to efficiently pass boosts to an ally. That combo was deemed a little too strong by some players, but outside of it Supilero wasn't getting much use with Confident... so we're taking High Five away from them and making them more competent with Confident, to better distinguish their two traits' playstyles.
• Slippery:
  • 🔼Removed the damage reduction from this Trait This reverts a change we applied all the way back in Milestone 1 in June 2025. Since that change, Gremlur has found some success and popularity with their secondary trait, Adaptation, but has struggled to be as effective with their original Slippery gameplan. In the time since that change was applied, we gradually applied many other changes to other interactions around Slippery, including more traits and plays which can circumvent it, and also took away its ability to interact with a TOUGH ally. We want to try letting Gremlur out of its cage and see if it is still as evil as we remember more than a year ago.
• Momentum:
  • 🔼Added to Blitzwift as a recessive Trait Blitzwift has always been near the bottom of usage stats, owing in part to their high-skill niche. We figured it was about time we gave them another way to play that might help them fit onto more teams.

🏃 Plays

• (NEW) Kick: BODY Attack, 75 POW. Always targets back row. Can use without volleying.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Kasaleet, Garood, Opposur
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 Lunaptra, Magpike/Maraptor, Goofsder
  This is a new semi-generic midgame body play that can have some fun use cases, but mostly is here to fill what we saw as a gap in flavor.
• (NEW) Flying Kick: BODY Attack. 95 POW. Only used when the ally has the ball. SHIFTs to ally row before hitting.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Kasaleet
  Of the 3 starter Beasties, Kasaleet has been the most lacking in playstyle that sets them apart from other Beasties, and that's been reflected by their lack of a signature play. Flying Kick is our answer to that, and it gives Kasaleet a completely unique way to attack that still feels very uniquely "Kasaleet." Because this always moves Kasaleet to its ally's row, this play is inherently weak to sideways offense pressure, but when used in tandem with other attacks it means Kasaleet can just about always get a strong hit no matter where they are or who receives the attack. There are a lot of fun synergies and combos here - I can't begin to list them all, but I hope players enjoy discovering the new options this gives to Kasaleet.
• 🔄 Burnout: Renamed to Explosive Spirit
• (NEW?) Burnout: SPIRIT Attack. 100 POW. -15 STAMINA.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Daredillo, Scauldra
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 Froofulks
  We've renamed Burnout to Explosive Spirit, and created a new iteration of Burnout that is better matched to Daredillo's particular kit, as well as fitting with a couple other less-appreciated Spirit attackers.
• (NEW) Squeeze: SUPPORT. Can target allies or opponents. Advances target's FEELINGs by 1 turn.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Diggum, Duggout, Mistic
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 Mudslee, Froofulks, Scauldra, Hydrolm
  This strange new play and effect has a surprising diversity of use cases that we want to see players mess with. It can function as a soft heal, ticking down bad FEELINGs from allies. But it can also function as an insidious passive aggression tool, juicing more damage out of SWEATY opponents or pushing stacks of WEEPY.
• High Slam
  • 🔼POW to 110 (from 80). Always targets straight ahead.
  • 🔻No longer can hit without volleying
• Tracker
  • 🔼Now ignores BLOCK This is a very small and un-flashy change, but it means Tracker has additional utility to reduce opponent action economy and force them to volley. With BLOCK being so common, we thought there ought to be some more ways to mitigate it for teams that want to slow the game down.
• Precision Strike
  • 🔼Now ignores shields and Boosts Another light touch to a rarely-used low-power play. This is a subtle extra utility that might make this play a bit more attractive on slower teams.
• Inspiring Defense
  • 🔻Applies 3 ANGRY to the user (from 2). We want this play to keep pace with Shield as far as the ability to loop TOUGH over consecutive turns/attacks. It's not a fun interaction to play into and we don't want it to be a defining strength of Servace over other attackers.

👹 Beasties

• Kichik, Ostrisigh, Kasaleet
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Launch This play on this Beastie has been a constant fixation among top-level players for a while, with it serving as a high benchmark for offensive power and utility. We love the power of this play and don't see it looking too overtuned on other Beasties as much as it has been on Kasaleet, so we're trying out giving Kasaleet a more unique and technical SHIFT attack in Flying Kick.
• Rookee, Garood
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Bump They can Kick now
• Shooga, Supassum, Supilero
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Shake Off, Quick Breath
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: High Five, Deep Breath
• Radillo, Daredillo
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Explosive Spirit (formerly Burnout)
• Wottle
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Net Rush, Fall Back, Hum
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Beginner Effort, Raw Fury, Tough Front
  • 🔄 Adjusted level-up plays Wottle is still not seeing too much use, so we've decided to clean out some of the lesser-used plays from their kit and gift them some more new toys. Net Rush and Fall Back let them take more advantage of their unique positioning trait to get more bulk or offense as needed, with Hum giving them a way to power themselves up while they camp the net and eventually become a second offensive threat.
• Turogue, Turtaneer, Tortanchor
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Daring Pass We feel Tortanchor lost something essential with this play cut in the previous patch. Although they already have plenty of top-tier support plays, we figured they deserve to have this one back too. This helps diversify the Beasties that work together on Spirit-focused teams. Although we generally enjoy Daring Pass being on frail, high-risk Beasties, adding it back to Tortanchor also means they get a unique role as the sole bulky Daring Passer.

🚧Other Fixes and Changes

• Many more small fixes and tweaks, but I don't want to write them all out right now.... stay tuned for full patch notes in the Milestone Update!

Another BIGMOON BASH is beginning soon in Beastieball! During Bigmoon Bashes, coaches can challenge each other in open matchmaking for a limited time. When: Friday, July 31, 2026 04:00 PST to Sunday, August 2, 2026 04:00 PST Theme: NONE! All Beasties are allowed! During the event you'll have a Bash Rank, which will improve based on your performance. After it's over, you'll receive in-game rewards based on your participation, such as Social Battery and Sports Points. Players of all skill level are invited! All you need to do to participate is to play the game on that day and join the Bash on SportNet! SportNet is typically unlocked within the first 2 hours of your adventure, after beating your first Ranked boss. And if you aren't confident in your own Beastie team, you can use a randomly generated one instead - just go to Team Setup and set "Random Team" as your current team.

Official Game Rules:

First to 2 Points wins

Standard time limit on move selection

No Undos allowed

No duplicate Beastie species allowed

Relationship Combos are disabled

All Beasties are set to Level 50

This weekend we held a BIGMOON BASH! This Bash was a rematch between the 3 starting Beasties players can choose between. Last year, Hopra took the win... it's time to see if they could repeat that!

🏆 Final Results

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224870/0005dfc62770ca2408adfa02ee158d32924925e1.png KASALEET is the Starter Champion! Congratulations! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224870/36cde3d003a56a8e3392eb74a38291622e439a28.png Now let's take a look at the coaches who scored highest this time around!

👑 Top-Scoring Players

Arc Tech (The Arcane Machines) | Bash Score: 3107

cammy (The Sleeping Dragons) | Bash Score: 2926

Score (The Jamming Ballers) | Bash Score: 2903

Astra (The Tiny Girls) | Bash Score: 2892

Bolimar (The Crimson Angels) | Bash Score: 2872

Cavalo (The Valiant Storms) | Bash Score: 2823

苍庁龙 (紫罗兰幽灵) | Bash Score: 2816

P3Rcarus (The Relentless Storms) | Bash Score: 2812

Marby (The Silver Wolves) | Bash Score: 2759

Igor (The Rutile Artists) | Bash Score: 2733

Mari (The Sharp Girls) | Bash Score: 2729

Stardust (The Starbound Raptors) | Bash Score: 2705

Charge (The Crimson Jokers) | Bash Score: 2695

Griffin (The Ill-fated Dogs) | Bash Score: 2614

Akio (The Arcane Enigmas) | Bash Score: 2608

GFZA (The Fun Pizzas) | Bash Score: 2599

Pix (The Raremorph Drums) | Bash Score: 2528

Hallow (The Nefarious Pants) | Bash Score: 2522

WebBowser (The Questing Beasts) | Bash Score: 2522

Dino (The Divine Thunders) | Bash Score: 2500

Boris (The Rutile Lights) | Bash Score: 2489

📊 Beastie Usage Stats!

As has become tradition, we've collected a ton of data on Beastie usage during this event and we're happy to share that data with you for further investigation!

> Check out the STATS here!

In addition to these usage stats, here's a look at the most common pairings in each guild this Bash! Kasaleet

Goofsder - 40.2%

Daredillo - 33.9%

Supilero - 33.5%

Riplash - 24.6%

Cherrily - 17.3% Hopra

Debugly - 21.5%

Beetlback - 20.1%

Fetcham - 18.8%

Servace - 17.3%

Demolipede - 17.2% Bandicraft

Illugus - 28.6%

Vultoxin - 19.4%

Kaleidarn - 19.2%

Psylusc - 19.1%

Fetcham - 17.9%

🙇 Thank you!!!

As always, we'll be taking results and stats into account as we ponder changes to put into the game for the next milestone update. The next Bash will be an open-format one... we'll see you there! -Greg & the Wishes team

Another BIGMOON BASH is beginning soon in Beastieball! During Bigmoon Bashes, coaches can challenge each other in open matchmaking for a limited time. During the event you'll have a Bash Rank, which will improve based on your performance. After it's over, you'll receive in-game rewards based on your participation, such as Social Battery and Sports Points. In 2025, Hopra took the crown in the Starter Bash! But a lot has changed since then... how will these iconic Beasties stack up this time around?

🏁 Rules & Details

When: Friday, July 17 @ 4PM PST to Sunday, July 19 @ 4PM PST Guild Beasties: Kichik, Axolati and Bildit! To compete in the Bash, coaches must have exactly one of the theme Beasties on their team. Your games will count towards that team's score, and after the Bash a winning Beastie will be crowned! If you aren't confident in your own Beastie team, you can use a randomly generated one instead - just go to Team Setup and set "Random Team" as your current team. Players of all skill level are invited! All you need to do to participate is to play the game on that day and join the Bash on SportNet! SportNet is typically unlocked within the first 2 hours of your adventure, after beating your first Ranked boss.

Official Game Rules:

• First to 2 Points wins
• Standard time limit on move selection
• No Undos allowed
• No duplicate Beastie species allowed
• Relationship Combos are disabled
• All Beasties are set to Level 50

This weekend we held a BIGMOON BASH where all Beasties were allowed! It was also the first Bash on the new balance patch. Let's take a look at the current shape of the Beastieball meta, starting with this weekend's top-scoring coaches!

👑 Top-Scoring Players

GFZA (The Fun Pizzas) | Bash Score: 2916

Akio (The Arcane Enigmas) | Bash Score: 2880

Charge (The Crimson Jokers) | Bash Score: 2859

Score (The Jamming Ballers) | Bash Score: 2839

Juninho (The Valiant Storms) | Bash Score: 2832

Arc Tech (The Arcane Machines) | Bash Score: 2831

Marby (The Silver Wolves) | Bash Score: 2748

Jack (The Mega Beasts) | Bash Score: 2743

Pummy (The Tiny Tacos) | Bash Score: 2715

Dino (The Divine Demons) | Bash Score: 2675

Stardust (The Starbound Raptors) | Bash Score: 2671

cammy (The Sleeping Dragons) | Bash Score: 2665

Hallow (The Nefarious Pants) | Bash Score: 2651

Ket (The Lonesome Lovers) | Bash Score: 2648

P3Rcarus (The Relentless Storms) | Bash Score: 2621

UrBestie (The Midnight Mages) | Bash Score: 2612

Darc Tech (The Arcane Robots) | Bash Score: 2609

苍庁龙 (紫罗兰幽灵) | Bash Score: 2556

WebBowser (The Questing Beasts) | Bash Score: 2544

Bolimar (The Crimson Angels) | Bash Score: 2510

UnknowGuitar (The Unknown Punks) | Bash Score: 2507 Congratulations to these top scorers!! GFZA, who got the #1 score this time around, has been a mainstay in PVP for a long time innovating clever strategies. And apparently for this Bash he ran a team with Sprecko... in the past I've said "any Beastie can be strong if you believe in them," but to be honest, I did NOT think that included immature ones with Sprecko. What does this say about the meta...? I have no idea.

📊 Beastie Usage Stats!

As has become tradition, we've collected a ton of data on Beastie usage during this event and we're happy to share that data with you for further investigation!

> Check out the STATS here!

Thank you!!!

We'll see you in the next Bash! But in the meantime, if you're looking for more opportunities for competitive Beastieball matches, check out the official Grassroots League!

This is a hotfix/amendment to our previous game update! We occasionally push small game updates without noting changes each time. This patch has a few changes we thought players might want to know about.

✨Changes and improvements

• Updated our game engine, primarily to address extreme "laggy/delayed" screens for users on Windows 11 with AMD Radeon graphics cards.
• Fixed textures on certain Domain Park playground assets + added more interactions
• Beasties are now cured of WEEPY after being overcome with WEEPINESS and losing 100 STAMINA. This is completely irrelevant in 99% of matches but does make WEEPY less effective on Rowdy bosses or in Expeditions.
• Pickup Court opponents now use steadily more tactical AI after getting 5+ wins
• Added the new Pickup Court as a possible location for online/recorded matches
• Made changes to internal IDs for modded plays so that there aren't conflicts with plays from different mods sharing the same name, particularly for PVP matches. This does mean that save data from the previous version might scramble learned modded plays, since the old IDs won't be recognized. However...
• Changed modded plays to cost 0 SP for tutoring in the Academy, so they're much easier to acquire/test now.
• Data-altering mods are now identified on the title screen with a gear icon

We'd really like to add tags to uploaded Workshop items too, by the way. This feature is coming... we are waiting on a critical fix from the GameMaker engine team before we can enable this for players.

🚧Other Fixes

• Fixed some errors on the file select menu + replay menu (we saw some new issues emerge as a result of data handling which had to be altered to accommodate mods...)
• Significantly refactored opponent AI to fix some issues and improve speed, at the cost of some intelligence for certain teams
  • AI opponents could sometimes get "stuck" and never resolve their turn. We found a major cause for this and fixed it, so players should not see these "softlocks" anymore.
  • The AI will start to randomly ignore certain options if there are too many possible actions available to them in a given turn. This should not impact any of the designed campaign encounters; however, for player-made teams which have extremely high variance in turns (ways to get extra actions, 2+ Quick Tag users, etc) you'll see teams process their turns much faster at the cost of some intelligence. In the most extreme cases we tested, we reduced time spent on turns by 85% (and they still play well!).
  • We'll continue to make more passes at improving the AI
• Fixed issues with private lobbies getting stuck on "getting data..." before a match
• Fixed display issues with player emotes at some camera angles
• Made it so opponent Emote faces appear if popped during a match, as intended
• Texture memory usage is now reduced/cleared regularly during Pickup games, reducing the chance of out of memory/crashing issues from long sessions
• Improved audio transitions when entering a screen with a monorail
• Made it so you can't get a "balance patch" phonecall/warning in a new game file
• Fixed many crashes and load errors to do with mods
• Made the "charge meter" mechanic more robust to interact better with modded plays. You can now have meters of any size.
• Added a visible "mod" tag to tracks addd via mods to the Music Setup menu
• Fixed an issue with buggy/duplicate Valeries appearing during a certain story scene
• Fixed an issue where Riley could spawn in crowds at a point in the story where she shouldn't
• Adjusted a couple map screens to match up better with the game
• Tweaked an inconsistency in Bongus' colors
• Fixed an issue with an extra quest marker appearing on the map at a certain point on the way to discovering the Academy
• Fixed an out-of-bounds clip on a particular trashcan in Domain Park
• Fixed an issue with certain story scenes triggering during Pickup games
• Added a couple more icons on the title screen menu
• Fixed/adjusted a couple sets for Tower/Random Team Beasties
• Fixed an issue wherein a nervous Beastie could still use Teleport

These are all the most urgent issues we've been aware of. Always lots more to do... Thanks for supporting Beastieball!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224870/09dac513f4e18b4e88ca4802f3a3e11d95bae62e.png Even before Beastieball launched into Early Access, our community was active in self-organizing regular competitive events, and still is to this day! And: although the game is primarily a single-player RPG, we always have been mindful of how the game's player-vs-player experience is designed... so the ongoing interest from fans to take the game seriously and play at a high level has always been exciting to us. We don't want to change what players are already doing, or try to change the game into something it isn't. But at the same time, we want to show our appreciation for the players and organizers who make the Beastieball community what it is. Enter: The Beastieball Grassroots League! We've created a limited supply of special merchandise which will never be available for sale. Instead, these items will be shipped only to players who place in certified competitive Beastieball events. For more details on what events qualify, how to sign up, or how to organize your own, check out the official page here!

Another BIGMOON BASH is beginning soon in Beastieball! During Bigmoon Bashes, coaches can challenge each other in open matchmaking for a limited time. When: Friday, June 26, 2026 04:00 PST to Sunday, June 28, 2026 04:00 PST Theme: NONE! All Beasties are allowed! During the event you'll have a Bash Rank, which will improve based on your performance. After it's over, you'll receive in-game rewards based on your participation, such as Social Battery and Sports Points. Players of all skill level are invited! All you need to do to participate is to play the game on that day and join the Bash on SportNet! SportNet is typically unlocked within the first 2 hours of your adventure, after beating your first Ranked boss. And if you aren't confident in your own Beastie team, you can use a randomly generated one instead - just go to Team Setup and set "Random Team" as your current team.

Official Game Rules:

First to 2 Points wins

Standard time limit on move selection

No Undos allowed

No duplicate Beastie species allowed

Relationship Combos are disabled

All Beasties are set to Level 50

This weekend we held a BIGMOON BASH where all teams were randomly generated! Playing with Randoms is extremely fun, in my humble opinion. In fact, it's the only way I play in every Bash. After months of practice with only random teams, I figured I would have a pretty big edge over everyone else coming into this Bash. I thought I might have a shot at placing in the top ranks. Well, once again, that did not come to pass. So here's a list of just some of the nerds who played better than me this time.

👑 Top-Scoring Players

Mabel (The Clashing Roses) | Bash Score: 2971

Bolimar (The Crimson Angels) | Bash Score: 2841

Arc Tech (The Arcane Machines) | Bash Score: 2835

HP (The Jolly Jokers) | Bash Score: 2784

Hallow (The Nefarious Pants) | Bash Score: 2783

UrBestie (The Midnight Mages) | Bash Score: 2771

Zonk (The Violet Enigmas) | Bash Score: 2709

Dino (The Wayward Pirates) | Bash Score: 2696

Charge (The Crimson Jokers) | Bash Score: 2639

Akio (The Arcane Enigmas) | Bash Score: 2636

Juninho (As Tempestades Valentes) | Bash Score: 2633

Marby (The Silver Wolves) | Bash Score: 2561

Astra (The Tiny Girls) | Bash Score: 2557

UnknowGuitar (The Unknown Punks) | Bash Score: 2520

Pummy (The Tiny Tacos) | Bash Score: 2499

Stardust (The Starbound Raptors) | Bash Score: 2496

Celever (The Caffeinated Punks) | Bash Score: 2484

Hisuian Snow (The Eternal Spirits) | Bash Score: 2473

Izzy (The Wayward Legends) | Bash Score: 2465

WebBowser (The Questing Beasts) | Bash Score: 2457 Losing with a random team feels nicer because you can always just blame the team you rolled. And yet, I think the players who manage to win consistently with random teams have more than just good luck on their side. A big congrats to the top-scoring coaches!

📊 Beastie Usage Stats!

...Well, this isn't as informative as usual, but for posterity I've collected stats on the top most-used Beasties. In this case, it's really just a reflection of what Beasties are more likely to appear on generated teams. But for folks who played in the Bash, it might be interesting to see which of the more and less common Beasties you wound up playing with.

> Check out the STATS here!

For those curious, I gave a bit of insight into how the random teams are generated in the results for the previous Random Bash. You can read about that here!

And by the way...

If you enjoy Randoms as much as I do, you can always play with this mode by setting the game mode to Random teams in any PVP lobby. That's all for now. See you in the next Bash!

This is Milestone 5 out of 9! Check out our Road to 1.0 post for info on planned updates and schedule!

⚙️ Steam Workshop Support!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224870/55f1b897a287b4481206c0a4fe6ab43f1e025ea5.png Surprise! With this update, players can create, share and and download all sorts of content including entirely custom Beasties, re-colored or modified Beasties, new Plays, and music tracks! Players with matching mods can even play together in online lobbies! There are already some mods ready and available for you to try on our Workshop page! And for all the dirty details on how to create and share your own content, check out our Official Guide! We worked to make the process and tooling as user-friendly as possible. We're incredibly excited to see what players create!!!

🖼️ Beastie Art Updates

• Skorock: Animation COMPLETE!
• Noizard: Animation COMPLETE!
• Merrifly: Animation COMPLETE!
• Scrubbub: Animation COMPLETE!
• Grubiron: Animation COMPLETE!
• Beetlback: Animation COMPLETE!
• Armantis: Animation COMPLETE!
• Wottle: Animation COMPLETE!
• Webbounce: Animation COMPLETE!
• Goofsder: Animation COMPLETE!
• Varkabond: Animation COMPLETE! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224870/e37aa7d639c78fb5bccc01b6a7ccc8d9d88bad4f.gif The number of Beasties marked as complete has gone from 60 to 71. PHEW!!!!!!

⭐New Stuff

• NEW AREA: Burblog {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224870/8d7d7c3575affe522908bca160349516009eef76.png
  • Explore Geo City's more quiet, suburban district!
  • Burblog is home to a notorious neighborhood Pickup Beastieball Court where strong teams gather for casual games. It's the perfect spot for coaches who want to play practice games and level up their team!
• NEW FEATURE: Emotes!
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  • You can now hold down the "Clap" button to strike a pose with your Beasties!
  • Emotes make it easy to line up your team for screenshots...
  • ...They also add another way to communicate with online opponents! React to exciting moments in-game, or send emotes from the post-match results screen as a friendly "GG"!
  • Design your own set of Emotes in a new Coach sub-menu!
• NEW BGM: Burblog
• NEW VS. MUSIC: VS. The Silent Warriors
  • This track features live bass guitar and drum performances from peak divide, the composing duo behind games such as Unbeatable! It's a standout track amongst our game's colorful array of boss themes... We're sure you'll enjoy this one!
  • Players who have already passed their point the story will have the new songs available in Music Setup.
  • The OST is updated on Steam and Bandcamp!
• Environmental improvements
  • A monorail now runs through Geo City!
• New Steam Achievements
  • Added achievements for certain main story events as well as post/late-game challenges, including the new Pickup Beastieball Court.
  • We mainly wanted to add these because we frequently see players wondering what is available in the post-game, or how to gets stars on their save file, so the added achievements are meant to codify what is already established in-game.
  • We still intend to add more achievements in the future and don't consider the current set as "true 100% completion," so we are still maintaining the placeholder "unachievable achievement"... for now!
• All Beasties are now voiced! Here are the new voices added:
  • Grubiron
  • Beetlback
  • Orgella
  • Waglash
  • Vultoxin
  • Magpike
• The game is now fully playable in Brazillian Portuguese! Enquanto o Hexa não vem, bora jogar vôlei!

✨Major changes and improvements

• ICYMI, check out our Springtime Bonus Update patch notes - we added many cool features in that update, with some getting further improvements today!
  • The Beastiepedia pose viewer has been greatly expanded and improved!
  • Beastiepedia metamorph data is now available in all languages.
  • Preset Beastie tags are now available in all languages.
  • Updated Jack encounters are now available in all languages.
• Bigmoon Bash Rank & Reward Changes
  • We've massively increased the SP awarded to players for competing in Bigmoon Bashes - including retroactively! If you've played in Bashes before, open SportNet for an SP bonus!
    • As the premier way of playing PVP with others, we want to reward players who participate in events, since more participation makes it more fun for everyone!
    • Our hope is that the extra SP makes it easier for players to stay up to date on Bash events, re-building and updating their PVP teams without needing to grind single-player content.
    • We're continuously looking for ways we can gracefully improve the experience of PVP-focused players without compromising the balance/pacing for those who favor single-player content.
  • We've increased how quickly players Rank up from losses in a Bigmoon Bash when in early Ranks.
    • This change was in effect during the most recent Open Bash, but wasn't mentioned in patch notes.
    • Since SP is awarded based on Ranks, combined with the above change, this helps players get more rewards for the same amount of participation, even if they're struggling to win.
    • This also helps to normalize the number of games required to reach 5 stars. Previously, players with a typical 50-50 winrate would have to play many more games to get to 5 stars than those who won nearly every match. By bringing their experience a bit closer together, we hope to reduce some frustration and also make Bash Scores a fairer value of comparison between players.
• View Past Bash Records
  • A new menu on SportNet allows you to browse your past Bash records!
  • Note that older Bashes only stored the bare minimum data for rewards, so some data will be missing from those
• Greatly expanded NPC crowds!
  • Many more characters can now appear in the background during matches!
  • As you progress through the story, fans of the coaches you've defeated might show up to cheer for you in future games!
  • Characters in the crowd now emote and react to events during the match as well!
• Increased rewards for Rank Defense! Playing Rank Defense creates fun interactions for other players, and exposes users to the widest diversity of opponent teams, so we want to encourage players to return to this post-game challenge.
• Performance optimization! In particular; we discovered our auto-calibration was not properly detecting the impact of certain 3D effects on some graphics cards. We've improved this calibration so that users' automatic settings should be much more accurate.
• Overhauled playbook and encounter designs across the game to account for balance changes and new traits, including/especially for procedurally-generated teams (Random teams + Tower Tourney).

🌕 Upcoming Bash

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A Bigmoon Bash is coming this weekend! This one features only random teams, so no teambuilding is necessary! Jump into the game and see how you roll with random Beasties!

🔧 Balance Changes

This is the smallest list of Balance Changes we've considered for a major update since the game's first release. The truth is that overall, the range from the best-performing to the worst-performing Beasties is the smallest it's ever been, and team diversity is overall as high or higher than ever. So we're now able to hone in on smaller problems and make surgical tweaks to hopefully keep things in balance without upsetting too many existing teams and strategies out there. This patch's largest single focus is in curbing Spirit offense in subtle ways, but there are a few other changes we anticipate getting a lot of discussion. Without further ado...

🍄 Traits

• (NEW!) Fortress: When at the net, can attack without volleying and restores 12 STAMINA after Defense
  • 🔄 Given to Armantis in place of Power Forward We love Power Forward, but it never felt *perfect* for Armantis, especially after we decided to redesign Ricochet to be more flavorful. It felt like a missed opportunity that Armantis didn't get to make good use of the play that really was designed in honor of them. So we're debuting a new design which is meant to keep the spirit of Power Forward but enables Armantis' more unique gameplan. This notably has virtually no impact on the strength of their net Perfect Shot, which is their current "strongest" attack.
• Plucky
  • 🔻New effect: Can't be given FEELINGs (except BLOCKED) Yeah, it was always kind of weird that Plucky also stopped BLOCK. Goofsder finally had enough positive results that we could justify making this tweak.
• Watchtower
  • 🔄New effect: Applies +1 BLOCK to attacks targeting adjacent allies This trait has been the center of debate, complaint, and adjustment for many patches. Its ability to redirect attacks exposed a lot of unfun interactions and pushed us to make a lot of careful adjustments in an effort to keep space for this trait and the gameplay it enabled. We decided to take a step back and re-examine what we like about Watchtower, and whether we could come up with something that achieved the parts we liked without carrying the bad, and this is what we came up with. We like this trait's unique positioning interactions, and the way it allows players to safeguard a brittle Beastie with planning and teambuilding. But its redirection ability took a lot of agency from the opponent and removed a huge variety of counterplay. We're excited to see what players can build with this iteration; it still enables "free" position-based defensive support but without invalidating the opponent's targeting choices.
• Deviant
  • Renamed to Rogue
  • 🔼New effect: POW x1.5 and ignores BLOCK when their target is changed Deviant/Rogue hasn't quite had enough of an edge for its difficulty to trigger, and we wanted it to still feel relevant especially with the above change to Watchtower.
• Decoy
  • 🔄New effect: Always the nearest to opponents. Becomes the target of opponent Support and Defense plays. We tried really hard in the last patch to give Boldlur a new more effective gameplan, and in many ways we succeeded; Boldlur saw increased usage, and went from bottom-performing to a very balanced winrate. But their ability to wall out teams under certain offense thresholds made them grindy and unfun to play into. Boldlur best excels at being difficult to wipe out, which is not as valuable a gameplan in Beastieball as it would be in conventional tactics games, so we struggled to find a way to make Boldlur relevant. This new Decoy iteration is our new best idea after throwing out quite a few other concepts.
• Stagecraft
  • 🔼 When active, reduces to damage to 50 (from 66) We're making a couple tweaks around Plumask in an experiment to see if we can make them work better in their intended role. The addition of Rousing Strike made Plumask shine as a supporter, self-ramper and attacker all in one and made them easier to slot onto more teams. We are shifting that tool away from Plumask for being a bit centralizing, and looking for other ways that Plumask can be more consistent without relying on it.
• Synchronize
  • 🔄New effect: Gets any 🔼BOOSTs that their ally gets. This suggestion came from a player feedback and we like it enough to try it out. Our intention with the previous iteration of Synchronize was to give Crabaret a new trait that still let them function as an explosive offensive pivot in ways similar to how they did with Agile. In practice the trait was difficult to build around and therefore felt underwhelming. This iteration has many more interactions to build with and keeps the most fun elements of Synchronize, although it also means pushing Crabaret's playstyle further from their origin.

🏃 Plays

• (NEW) Passion Strike: SPIRIT Attack, 105 POW. Feel 1 WEEPY before contact.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Plumask
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 Crabaret, Squimage, Diabloceras, Orgella
  We're tweaking the power and distribution of some Spirit attacks, and in the process we felt there was a vacuum for this power level of attack for Plumask and other Beasties.
• (NEW) Copycat: SUPPORT. Can target opponents or allies. Copies target's trait.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Gremlur
  Since the introduction of Adaptation, Gremlur has found an exciting spot on a lot of teams and as part of a lot of creative combos, to the detriment of their original trait, Slippery. Since Gremlur has proven to be a good boy when allowed to have any Beasties' trait, we decided to codify it by giving them a signature play that allows them to change their trait. This allows a Slippery Gremlur to get some of the fun of Adaptation at the cost of a move slot, or for an Adaptation Gremlur to adjust their strategy without TAGGING OUT.
• (NEW) Dodge Roll: DEFENSE. Nearest opponent feels +1 BLOCKED. TAG OUT with benched ally.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Wottle
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 Daredillo
  With the change to Daring Pass, some players felt Wottle was lacking in interesting tools to build with, and we tend to agree that historically Wottle has had a challenge carving out its own niche. We really want to see them succeed as a defensive support/pivot Beastie first and foremost, and we think Dodge Roll is a potentially exciting addition to their kit in that light.
• Faith: Renamed to Daring Pass, with distribution adjusted significantly (see below). Faith is one of the oldest plays in the game and something we distributed sort of "automatically" without a lot of intention. When looking back over the gameplay of Spirit focused offense over the last while, we felt that Spirit had too much similarity with the gameplan of Body and Mind, and we wondered whether we could do more to further differentiate the different type playstyles. The solution we're experimenting with is to overall reduce Spirit's access to "easy" offensive support in the form of boosts from tanky or supportive Beasties. Instead, we're giving access to this play only to relatively frail or aggressive Beasties who would prefer to be the main attacker. In this way, Spirit-focused teams need to field multiple offensive Beasties to get mounting offensive pressure, or they can rely on Rally... but it is difficult to get the benefits of both without compromising defense.
• Share Snack: SUPPORT. Evenly split the STAMINA of target and self. Can target any Beastie in an adjacent row. Previously, Diggum could target opponents as long as they used Share Snack from the net. Now, when at the net, Diggum can only target opponents in the front row. We're excited about the ways this play has empowered more use of Diggum, but its all-powerful effect also warped many games around them and made Diggum function all too well as an offensive Beastie when they're meant to shine even more as a support. We hope with this change that Diggum is still effective as a support, but in more passive ways, either intimidating the opponent to keep their healthy Beasties back or restoring their own ally's STAMINA more often.
• Supercommit
  • 🔻 95 POW. (From 100 POW)
• Rousing Strike
  • 🔻 60 POW. (From 65 POW) Our main reasoning for setting Rousing Strike to 65 POW was by comparison to Thriller; Rousing Strike gets to be same power level (65 + jazzed), but takes an extra turn to "activate" in exchange for being able to support an ally or boost a different play. In practice, its best use cases saw players trying to use this play to score a point, and then chain the Jazzed boost to a powerful serve on the following turn. We enjoy that and other creative uses of this play, but we want to make them a bit more rewarding by making this play a bit more difficult to score wipes with.
• Distraction
  • 🔻 Removed the POW debuff effect This play had sat unchanged in the game's repetoire for many months and patches, and went mostly ignored. In the previous patch, we tried to find a way to make it more relevant while better enabling defensive playstyles. While we're happy with the improvement to other defensive tools, with this one we may have gone a step too far, making Distraction into a play that was simply grindy and unfun to play into. Now that players have had a taste of the power of controlling targeting from the net, we're curious to see whether this play finds continued use on some Beasties while being less overbearing.
• Launch
  • 🔄POW to 65 (from 100). Now calculates based on front-row bonus instead of back-row bonus.
  • 🔄 Updated text to clarify that it SHIFTs before contact; can now be used even if the space ahead is obstructed (this was a hidden feature not mentioned in the text before). ⚠️ This changes how power is calculated, but the result roughly identical to before. Our only intention is to clarify the effect text and order of operations with Traits such as Unpredictable.

👹 Beasties

• Bildit, Handicoot, Bandicraft
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Lure Shot This is just clean-up...
• Axolati, Hopsong, Hopra
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Faith (Daring Pass)
• Illugus, Shloom
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Feint
• Collarva, Wormask, Plumask
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Rousing Strike We love seeing Plumask succeed as an offensive threat, but Rousing Strike made them very efficient at ramping, attacking and supporting and could easily bend the games they appeared in. It was mainly added for Hopra and we would rather keep the move powerful in their hands rather than try to balance it for Plumask's kit. Instead we're giving Plumask other ways to more easily slot on different teams.
• Merrifly, Cherrily, Mascurry
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Swarm
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Faith (Daring Pass), Confident Pass Cherrily has consistently hovered around the top of usage and winrate for a long time, and for good reason; they are the best in the game at supporting offensive strategies with their incredible trait and support access. What gives us some pause is that Cherrily has become a staple on mixed-type teams as well as type-specialist teams, which to us indicates that they were just a little bit too good at too many roles. We are removing some of their type specialization with the goal to see a wider variety of Beasties shine in offensive support roles. We also want Cherrily to be more of a defensive liability, but their access to powerful passes often meant that opponents didn't want to target attacks into them lest they simply use the opportunity to get more boosts.
• Platypulse
  • 🔼 90 SDEF (from 85)
  • 🔻 115 MDEF (from 120)
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Zigzag
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Ricochet Platypulse is in a tight spot where they are one of the less-used Beasties, and performing perfectly fine, but players frequently bring up how swingy they are into different matchups (being too strong into mono-Mind teams and weak into anything else). We're trying a light touch to even up their matchups. This is where their MDEF was in the game's initial release, but way back in January 2025, players didn't know how to make good use of Platypulse and felt it was weak in its role as a mind defender, while feeling irate about the strength of Mind offense at the time. We're in a different world here in May 2026, so maybe Platypulse can inch closer to what we originally intended for them. Ricochet is something we gave to Platypulse without enough forethought, in the wake of having to remove it from Armantis. Now that it's back in its rightful owner's hands, we reexamined its place in Platypulse's kit, and feel it's not quite the right fit. We see Ricochet as an above-curve power attack that is mostly used by Beasties lack high Mind POW or ideal synergy with it; Platypulse is a perfect storm of both. We're changing it out with Zigzag, which has slightly less power at its peak and better synergizes with Platypulse's deep pool of strong passing plays.
• Radillo, Daredillo
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Daring Pass
• Diggum, Duggout
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Lure Shot
• Beetlback
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Mark, Lock Target
• Wottle
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Faith (Daring Pass)
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Flight
• Armantis
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Ricochet
• Turogue, Turtaneer, Tortanchor
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Faith (Daring Pass)
• Squimage, Diabloceras
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Supercommit, Counter This is just a minor clean-up of rarely used plays in light of their new addition of Passion Strike.
• Crabaret
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Daring Pass&
• Conjarr
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Distraction
• Opposur
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Daring Pass
• Grazada
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Distraction

🚧Other Fixes and Changes

• Adjusted some Beastie spawn locations in light of the new area added
• Improved safety checks on file saves to ensure that corrupted save files are not stored as backups.
• Added a sound for when time is running out during an online match.
• Greatly improved error messaging/handling if there's a network issue when sending out an Away Team
• Added much more robust checking on imported Rank Defense teams, filling in missing plays if illegal ones are removed (we suspect illegal plays are typically being added via Randomizer modes or out-dated balance patches)
• Added universal drop shadow to text on clickable buttons, and adjusted some text/icon colors in accordance
• Added visual FX for "field clearing" play effects
• Made many subtle adjustments to certain traits and ball effects to help clarify confusing interactions. Some of these do impact how some traits match up into certain interactions.
  • Unpredictable now applies 1 NERVOUS to the attacker before receiving the ball (so all subsequent movement effects are cancelled)
  • Power Forward now applies 1 JAZZED before receiving the ball
  • Overwrite now triggers even if the target is WIPED OUT by the attack
  • Ball attack side effects which apply field effects, clear field effects, change traits, or force tag-outs now trigger even if the target is WIPED OUT. (Many already did, but some didn't; we've made this more consistent now).
  • In The Clouds prevents damage changes from either using or receiving SPIRIT or MIND attacks in Rally
  • When a Maverick Beastie attacks an In The Clouds Beastie in Rally, In The Clouds is ignored and Rally damage changes are applied
  • The Block applied by Watchtower is now properly reflected by Stirring
  • Adjusted wording on Slippery and the Tough-redirection rule; fixed such that Slippery can no longer redirect ball attacks to TOUGH allies.
  • Fixed an issue with Flee not triggering in certain interactions
  • Adjusted wording on Bouncy, Galaxy Brain, and Nimble. Trait text is now much more consistent about communicating whether they trigger "when" receiving an attack (before side effects/attacker traits trigger) VS "after" receiving an attack (after side effects/attacker traits trigger)
• Tweaks to opponent AI
  • AI is much more respectful of WEEPY buildup and is more likely to tag out a WEEPY Beastie
  • AI doesn't value a Beastie feeling TOUGH if they have 1 STAMINA or less
• Fixed an issue with missing Team Name text when the Sports King initially unlocks Team Titles in non-English languages.
• Fixed an issue with missing names for incidental Beastie text in Russian
• Updated the sprite for Muffin (Party Pirates assistant character)
• Added a 10% chance for orange Humflits to appear in Garcinia Meadow
• Fixed collisions on certain trees in Attalea Path
• Fixed inconsistent text saying how long a Streak was required to get Gold Level sponsorship from Staying Power Fitness
• Improved text scaling in some languages where text didn't fit on specifically-sized clickable buttons
• Fixed issues with Gym stat point allocation that made it possible to use/buy tokens which didn't get applied
• Added more robust safety nets for sending feedback reports (re-sending if they fail to send initially)
• Reduced feedback report log file sizes so sending is much more consistent
• Some small improvements to online lobby stability
• Removed mistaken pop-up indicating Sweep is weakened by Rally
• Shortened text on plays that SHIFT Beasties
• Fixed an issue where Marcy's pose wouldn't reset to neutral if the player says "no" when asking to begin their ranked match.
• Fixed an issue where Marlin's dialogue would loop if the player left and returned to a specific tutorial-only area
• Added repeating text for Beastie recruit failures during the tutorial
• Added extra safety checking on imported "Frontpage News" data to avoid broken or crashing elements
• Fixed a softlock wherein playing Elena very early on in the Crown Series would prevent you from making progress in her Ranked Match storyline
• Fixed a rarely seen crash when highlighting play data for certain plays in certain story matches
• Minor adjustments to various areas to correct camera issues, collisions, add missing ball shrooms, etc.
• Fixed more typos ======= Subsequent fixes were added in hot patches shortly after release =======
• Fixed a crash in Team Setup menu opened from Rank Defense
• Fixed a crash on file select with weird/bad savedata mod state data
  • ...Twice! Still may be some unresolved background issues here but our priority is to make the game successfully load and play for everyone
• Improved save file hash checking to circumvent regional OS differences
• Fixed music ending prematurely during Pickup Games
• Added Music Setup/custom music to Pickup games
• Adjusted Burblog layouts with better secrets
• Fixed doubling characters during a certain tutorial scene
• Fixed Marlin appearing in the crowd for his own match in the tutorial
• Fixed issue with users not getting historical SP bonusses if they had used SportNet on the experimental build prior to the milestone release
• Fixed dialogue typo
• Fixed issues with mouse inputs in Emote Editor
• Fixed issue where Dominic didn't use his own music for some matches
• Fixed missing play effect text for mods
• Changed URL opening to use Steam's overlay browser to improve behaviour when closing the game
• Added missing ballshrooms to some Burblog areas
• Fixed issue with Gene potentially having one of your Beasties in the audience if they were on an away team

Another BIGMOON BASH is beginning soon in Beastieball! During Bigmoon Bashes, coaches can challenge each other in open matchmaking for a limited time. During the event you'll have a Bash Rank, which will improve based on your performance. After it's over, you'll receive in-game rewards based on your participation, such as Social Battery and Sports Points. Back by popular demand, in this Bash all games will be played exclusively in Random Teams mode. That's right... your team will be randomly generated every match! No need to prepare a team for this one. Just have fun and try to roll with the punches!

🏁 Rules & Details

When: Friday, June 12 @ 4PM PST to Sunday, June 14 @ 4PM PST Guild Beasties: NONE! You don't get to decide anything! Players of all skill level are invited! All you need to do to participate is to play the game on that day and join the Bash on SportNet! SportNet is typically unlocked within the first 2 hours of your adventure, after beating your first Ranked boss.

Official Game Rules:

• Random Teams Mode
• First to 2 Points wins
• Standard time limit on move selection
• No Undos allowed
• No duplicate Beastie species allowed
• Relationship Combos are disabled
• All Beasties are set to Level 50

& = Changed in update on 06/01 ^ = Changed in update on 05/28 * = Changed in update on 05/26 A new experimental balance patch is here! On PC ONLY, players on the experimental branch now have access to some new mechanics and parameter adjustments. We welcome your thoughts, your feedback, and your playtesting! I encourage dedicated coaches to join us in our Discord community to discuss these changes live with other players.

How to Access

Right click Beastieball in your Steam library > Select "Properties" > Go to the "Game Versions and Betas" tab > Select "experimental" from the dropdown menu. Your savedata is not be at risk when changing to different game branches. If your Beasties have plays on the default branch which they do not have access to in the experimental branch, they will be removed. Or, if you use new plays which are introduced on the experimental branch, they will be removed upon switching back to the default branch. Plays which have been added or changed will be completely free to tutor to your Beasties at the Beastierball Academy on the temporary experimental build. Take this opportunity to try out new tools and let us know how they're feeling!

🔧 Balance Changes

This is the smallest list of Balance Changes we've considered for a major update since the game's first release. The truth is that overall, the range from the best-performing to the worst-performing Beasties is the smallest it's ever been, and team diversity is overall as high or higher than ever. So we're now able to hone in on smaller problems and make surgical tweaks to hopefully keep things in balance without upsetting too many existing teams and strategies out there. This patch's largest single focus is in curbing Spirit offense in subtle ways, but there are a few other changes we anticipate getting a lot of discussion. Without further ado...

🍄 Traits

• (NEW!) Fortress: When at the net, can attack without volleying and restores 12* STAMINA after Defense
  • 🔄 Given to Armantis in place of Power Forward We love Power Forward, but it never felt *perfect* for Armantis, especially after we decided to redesign Ricochet to be more flavorful. It felt like a missed opportunity that Armantis didn't get to make good use of the play that really was designed in honor of them. So we're debuting a new design which is meant to keep the spirit of Power Forward but enables Armantis' more unique gameplan. This notably has virtually no impact on the strength of their net Perfect Shot, which is their current "best" attack.
• Plucky
  • 🔻New effect: Can't be given FEELINGs (except BLOCKED) Yeah, it was always kind of weird that Plucky also stopped BLOCK. Goofsder finally had enough positive results that we could justify making this tweak.
• Watchtower
  • 🔄New effect: Applies +1 BLOCK to attacks targeting adjacent allies This trait has been the center of debate, complaint, and adjustment for many patches. Its ability to redirect attacks exposed a lot of unfun interactions and pushed us to make a lot of careful adjustments in an effort to keep space for this trait and the gameplay it enabled. We decided to take a step back and re-examine what we like about Watchtower, and whether we could come up with something that achieved the parts we liked without carrying the bad, and this is what we came up with. We like this trait's unique positioning interactions, and the way it allows players to safeguard a brittle Beastie with planning and teambuilding. But its redirection ability took a lot of agency from the opponent and removed a huge variety of counterplay. We're excited to see what players can build with this iteration; it still enables "free" position-based defensive support but without invalidating the opponent's targeting choices.
• Deviant
  • Renamed to Rogue^
  • 🔼New effect: POW x1.5 and ignores BLOCK when their target is changed Deviant/Rogue hasn't quite had enough of an edge for its difficulty to trigger, and we wanted it to still feel relevant especially with the above change to Watchtower.
• Decoy*
  • 🔄New effect: Always the nearest to opponents. Becomes the target of opponent Support and Defense plays.& We tried really hard in the last patch to give Boldlur a new more effective gameplan, and in many ways we succeeded; Boldlur saw increased usage, and went from bottom-performing to a very balanced winrate. But their ability to wall out teams under certain offense thresholds made them grindy and unfun to play into. Boldlur best excels at being difficult to wipe out, which is not as valuable a gameplan in Beastieball as it would be in conventional tactics games, so we struggled to find a way to make Boldlur relevant. This new Decoy iteration is our new best idea after throwing out quite a few other concepts. &We saw players express that the new Decoy felt a little too low-value with its at-net condition, especially given that it still allows the effects to happen and simply redirects to Boldlur. We're experimenting with a more open-ended effect which lets Boldlur protect its ally without any setup, and also changes targeting on mechanics like Mimicry, Tool, and Tractor Beam.
• Stagecraft^
  • 🔼 When active, reduces to damage to 50 (from 66) We're making a couple tweaks around Plumask in an experiment to see if we can make them work better in their intended role. The addition of Rousing Strike made Plumask shine as a supporter, self-ramper and attacker all in one and made them easier to slot onto more teams. We are shifting that tool away from Plumask for being a bit centralizing, and looking for other ways that Plumask can be more consistent without relying on it.
• Synchronize&
  • 🔄New effect: Gets any 🔼BOOSTs that their ally gets. This suggestion came from a player feedback and we like it enough to try it out. Our intention with the previous iteration of Synchronize was to give Crabaret a new trait that still let them function as an explosive offensive pivot in ways similar to how they did with Agile. In practice the trait was difficult to build around and therefore felt underwhelming. This iteration has many more interactions to build with and keeps the most fun elements of Synchronize, although it also means pushing Crabaret's playstyle further from their origin.

🏃 Plays

• (NEW) Passion Strike: SPIRIT Attack, 105^ POW. Feel 1 WEEPY before contact.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Plumask
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 Crabaret, Squimage, Diabloceras, Orgella
  We're tweaking the power and distribution of some Spirit attacks, and in the process we felt there was a vacuum for this power level of attack for Plumask and other Beasties.
• (NEW) Copycat: SUPPORT. Can target opponents or allies. Copies target's trait.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Gremlur
  Since the introduction of Adaptation, Gremlur has found an exciting spot on a lot of teams and as part of a lot of creative combos, to the detriment of their original trait, Slippery. Since Gremlur has proven to be a good boy when allowed to have any Beasties' trait, we decided to codify it by giving them a signature play that allows them to change their trait. This allows a Slippery Gremlur to get some of the fun of Adaptation at the cost of a move slot, or for an Adaptation Gremlur to adjust their strategy without TAGGING OUT.
• (NEW)& Dodge Roll: DEFENSE. Nearest opponent feels +1 BLOCKED. TAG OUT with benched ally.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Wottle
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 Daredillo
  With the change to Daring Pass, some players felt Wottle was lacking in interesting tools to build with, and we tend to agree that historically Wottle has had a challenge carving out its own niche. We really want to see them succeed as a defensive support/pivot Beastie first and foremost, and we think Dodge Roll is a potentially exciting addition to their kit in that light.
• Faith: Renamed to Daring Pass, with distribution adjusted significantly (see below). Faith is one of the oldest plays in the game and something we distributed sort of "automatically" without a lot of intention. When looking back over the gameplay of Spirit focused offense over the last while, we felt that Spirit had too much similarity with the gameplan of Body and Mind, and we wondered whether we could do more to further differentiate the different type playstyles. The solution we're experimenting with is to overall reduce Spirit's access to "easy" offensive support in the form of boosts from tanky or supportive Beasties. Instead, we're giving access to this play only to relatively frail or aggressive Beasties who would prefer to be the main attacker. In this way, Spirit-focused teams need to field multiple offensive Beasties to get mounting offensive pressure, or they can rely on Rally... but it is difficult to get the benefits of both without compromising defense.
• Share Snack: SUPPORT. Evenly split the STAMINA of target and self. Can target any Beastie in an adjacent row. Previously, Diggum could target opponents as long as they used Share Snack from the net. Now, when at the net, Diggum can only target opponents in the front row. We're excited about the ways this play has empowered more use of Diggum, but its all-powerful effect also warped many games around them and made Diggum function all too well as an offensive Beastie when they're meant to shine even more as a support. We hope with this change that Diggum is still effective as a support, but in more passive ways, either intimidating the opponent to keep their healthy Beasties back or restoring their own ally's STAMINA more often.
• Supercommit
  • 🔻 95 POW. (From 100 POW)
• Rousing Strike*
  • 🔻 60 POW. (From 65 POW) Our main reasoning for setting Rousing Strike to 65 POW was by comparison to Thriller; Rousing Strike gets to be same power level (65 + jazzed), but takes an extra turn to "activate" in exchange for being able to support an ally or boost a different play. In practice, its best use cases saw players trying to use this play to score a point, and then chain the Jazzed boost to a powerful serve on the following turn. We enjoy that and other creative uses of this play, but we want to make them a bit more rewarding by making this play a bit more difficult to score wipes with.
• Distraction*
  • 🔻 Removed the POW debuff effect This play had sat unchanged in the game's repetoire for many months and patches, and went mostly ignored. In the previous patch, we tried to find a way to make it more relevant while better enabling defensive playstyles. While we're happy with the improvement to other defensive tools, with this one we may have gone a step too far, making Distraction into a play that was simply grindy and unfun to play into. Now that players have had a taste of the power of controlling targeting from the net, we're curious to see whether this play finds continued use on some Beasties while being less overbearing.
• Launch^
  • 🔄POW to 65 (from 100). Now calculates based on front-row bonus instead of back-row bonus.
  • 🔄 Updated text to clarify that it SHIFTs before contact; can now be used even if the space ahead is obstructed (this was a hidden feature not mentioned in the text before).

👹 Beasties

• Bildit, Handicoot, Bandicraft
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Lure Shot^ This is just clean-up...
• Axolati, Hopsong, Hopra
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Faith (Daring Pass)
• Illugus, Shloom
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Feint
• Collarva, Wormask, Plumask
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Burnout^, Rousing Strike^ We love seeing Plumask succeed as an offensive threat, but Rousing Strike made them very efficient at ramping, attacking and supporting and could easily bend the games they appeared in. It was mainly added for Hopra and we would rather keep the move powerful in their hands rather than try to balance it for Plumask's kit. Instead we're giving Plumask other ways to more easily slot on different teams.
• Merrifly, Cherrily, Mascurry
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Swarm
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Faith (Daring Pass), Confident Pass* Cherrily has consistently hovered around the top of usage and winrate for a long time, and for good reason; they are the best in the game at supporting offensive strategies with their incredible trait and support access. What gives us some pause is that Cherrily has become a staple on mixed-type teams as well as type-specialist teams, which to us indicates that they were just a little bit too good at too many roles. We are removing some of their type specialization with the goal to see a wider variety of Beasties shine in offensive support roles. We also want Cherrily to be more of a defensive liability, but their access to powerful passes often meant that opponents didn't want to target attacks into them lest they simply use the opportunity to get more boosts.
• Platypulse
  • 🔼 90 SDEF (from 85)
  • 🔻 115 MDEF (from 120)
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Zigzag*
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Ricochet* Platypulse is in a tight spot where they are one of the less-used Beasties, and performing perfectly fine, but players frequently bring up how swingy they are into different matchups (being too strong into mono-Mind teams and weak into anything else). We're trying a light touch to even up their matchups. This is where their MDEF was in the game's initial release, but way back in January 2025, players didn't know how to make good use of Platypulse and felt it was weak in its role as a mind defender, while feeling irate about the strength of Mind offense at the time. We're in a different world here in May 2026, so maybe Platypulse can inch closer to what we originally intended for them. *Ricochet is something we gave to Platypulse without enough forethought, in the wake of having to remove it from Armantis. Now that it's back in its rightful owner's hands, we reexamined its place in Platypulse's kit, and feel it's not quite the right fit. We see Ricochet as an above-curve power attack that is mostly used by Beasties lack high Mind POW or ideal synergy with it; Platypulse is a perfect storm of both. We're changing it out with Zigzag, which has slightly less power at its peak and better synergizes with Platypulse's deep pool of strong passing plays rather than their matchup-dependent trait.
• Radillo, Daredillo
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Daring Pass
• Diggum, Duggout
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Lure Shot^
• Beetlback
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Mark, Lock Target
• Wottle
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Faith (Daring Pass)
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Flight*
• Armantis
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Ricochet
• Turogue, Turtaneer, Tortanchor
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Faith (Daring Pass)
• Squimage, Diabloceras
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Supercommit^, Challenge, Counter^ This is just a minor clean-up of rarely used plays which are too similar to their new addition of Passion Strike.
• Crabaret
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Daring Pass&
• Conjarr
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Distraction^
• Opposur
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Daring Pass
  • Fixed an issue where they lost access to Counter temporarily&
• Grazada
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Distraction^

🚧Other Fixes and Changes

• ^Made many subtle adjustments to certain traits and ball effects to help clarify confusing interactions. Some of these do impact how some traits match up into certain interactions.
  • Unpredictable now applies 1 NERVOUS to the attacker before receiving the ball (so all subsequent movement effects are cancelled)
  • Power Forward now applies 1 JAZZED before receiving the ball
  • Overwrite now triggers even if the target is WIPED OUT by the attack
  • Ball attack side effects which apply field effects, clear field effects, change traits, or force tag-outs now trigger even if the target is WIPED OUT. (Many already did, but some didn't; we've made this more consistent now).
  • In The Clouds prevents damage changes from either using or receiving SPIRIT or MIND attacks in Rally
  • When a Maverick Beastie attacks an In The Clouds Beastie in Rally, In The Clouds is ignored and Rally damage changes are applied
  • The Block applied by Watchtower is now properly reflected by Stirring
  • Adjusted wording on Slippery and the Tough-redirection rule; fixed such that Slippery can no longer redirect ball attacks to TOUGH allies.
  • Adjusted wording on Bouncy, Galaxy Brain, and Nimble. Trait text is now much more consistent about communicating whether they trigger "when" receiving an attack (before side effects/attacker traits trigger) VS "after" receiving an attack (after side effects/attacker traits trigger)
• ^Fixed a crash in scenes where the player character spectates sport matches
• ^Fixed issues with targeting Share Snack
• ^Added a 10% chance for orange Humflits to appear in Garcinia Meadow
• &Fixed issues with Gym stat point allocation that made it possible to use/buy tokens which didn't get applied
• ^Added more robust safety nets for sending feedback reports (re-sending if they fail to send initially)
• ^Adjusted Airblast to keep it original intended power; it was temporarily mistakenly debuffed by some internal damage calc changes
• ^Removed mistaken pop-up indicating Sweep is weakened by Rally
• ^Changed pop-up resolution order so Anticipation correctly indicates its in effect when a Block is triggered by Watchtower
• ^Shorted text on plays that SHIFT Beasties
• Many more small fixes and tweaks, but I don't want to write them all out right now.... stay tuned for full patch notes in the Milestone Update!

This weekend we held a BIGMOON BASH where all Beasties were allowed! It's also the final Bash on the current balance patch. Let's take a look at the current shape of the Beastieball meta, starting with this weekend's top-scoring coaches!

👑 Top-Scoring Players

Bolimar (The Crimson Angels) | Bash Score: 3078

Marby (The Silver Wolves) | Bash Score: 2904

Griffin (The Ill-fated Dogs) | Bash Score: 2886

Mabel (The Clashing Roses) | Bash Score: 2879

Ket (The Lonesome Lovers) | Bash Score: 2873

Darc Tech (The Arcane Robots) | Bash Score: 2831

Matt (The Hello Hellos) | Bash Score: 2816

Juninho (The Valiant Storms) | Bash Score: 2809

Astra (The Tiny Girls) | Bash Score: 2800

Dino (The Wayward Pirates) | Bash Score: 2798

Vega (The Dancing Dragons) | Bash Score: 2767

Mari (The Sharp Girls) | Bash Score: 2764

Juninha (The Valiant Hearts) | Bash Score: 2731

Luna (The Shining Girls) | Bash Score: 2626

Marz (The Jamming Jokers) | Bash Score: 2597

Akio (The Arcane Enigmas) | Bash Score: 2540

Charge (The Crimson Kings) | Bash Score: 2524

Nalathni (The Tiny Dragons) | Bash Score: 2493

Moose (The World-class Nightmares) | Bash Score: 2486

Termax (The Violet Cats) | Bash Score: 2485

Pyryn (The Psychic Raptors) | Bash Score: 2482 Congratulations to these top scorers!!

📊 Beastie Usage Stats!

As has become tradition, we've collected a ton of data on Beastie usage during this event and we're happy to share that data with you for further investigation!

> Check out the STATS here!

At a glance, a couple things stand out to me. The percentage usage of top Beasties has slightly reduced compared to recent Bashes; at 20% usage, Hopra is still the most popular Beastie, but the distribution of the others below her has equalled out a little, suggesting there's less centralization in the meta right now. There's a slight uptick in usage for Cherrily, which isn't so surprising with her broadly useful kit, but there's also more users of Goofsder and Boldlur, more off-the-wall picks with unique gameplans.

Thank you!!!

We're looking at all this data and other player feedback/discussion as we start planning out the next balance patch. We intend to have something new available for testing within the next week. We'll see you then!

Another BIGMOON BASH is beginning soon in Beastieball! During Bigmoon Bashes, coaches can challenge each other in open matchmaking for a limited time. When: Friday, May 22, 2026 04:00 PST to Sunday, May 24, 2026 04:00 PST Theme: NONE! All Beasties are allowed! During the event you'll have a Bash Rank, which will improve based on your performance. After it's over, you'll receive in-game rewards based on your participation, such as Social Battery and Sports Points. Players of all skill level are invited! All you need to do to participate is to play the game on that day and join the Bash on SportNet! SportNet is typically unlocked within the first 2 hours of your adventure, after beating your first Ranked boss. And if you aren't confident in your own Beastie team, you can use a randomly generated one instead - just go to Team Setup and set "Random Team" as your current team.

Official Game Rules:

First to 2 Points wins

Standard time limit on move selection

No Undos allowed

No duplicate Beastie species allowed

Relationship Combos are disabled

All Beasties are set to Level 50

This is a hotfix/amendment to our previous game update! Usually we regularly upload small fixes without releasing new patch notes for each one but this one introduced a couple changes we thought were worth noting.

🚧Fixes and Changes

• Addressed extraordinarily long "lag spikes" / "input delay," including situations where it would appear the game took several seconds to respond to input
  • After a lot of investigation we learned this was due to Windows 11 throttling GPU performance. In effect, even if your computer can reliably run the game, Windows 11 may disable the graphics card temporarily to reduce temperature/load, which can then cause the game to stop visually updating, appearing as "input lag"
  • This can typically be disabled in OS/graphics card settings, but we don't blame users for not knowing about this. Our goal was to adjust the game so that users don't need to know about obscure graphics card settings to run the game properly.
  • We were able to improve performance on SSAO effects to a great degree such that more devices should be able to process it flawlessly.
  • We changed default quality settings to reduce SSAO quality on Windows 11 devices by default.
  • We also updated our auto-calibration, adding some extra delay to try to capture whether your device throttles your graphics, so that we can measure your effective FPS more accurately. This means that returning users will have their performance settings recalibrated the next time they boot the game up.
  • We were able to reproduce this issue on a Windows 11 device, then corrected it to the point where we couldn't reproduce it anymore. However, because this is a somewhat unpredictable OS-level issue, we can't guarantee that the issue will be resolved for all users, so we encourage further reports if you continue to encounter this issue.
• Fixed issue with the screen being partially frozen / smearing old frames across the screen on big camera moves
  • This is something reported by many players, but it took us a while to reproduce!
• Added Chroma Sea areas to potential online and replay arena locations And a couple other reaaaaallly small things:
• Fixed a passthrough collider with bookshelf on the ground floor of the Academy
• Adjusted the location of the Neptune Stadium campsite on the map

This weekend we held a BIGMOON BASH! This Bash was a rematch between the Spreckomorphs, various forms of the Beastie which every players begins their adventure with. Last year, Bongus was the winner, and they went on to become the Champion Beastie of 2025. It's time to unveil whether they could claim victory once more in 2026!

🏆 Final Results!

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👑 Top-Scoring Players

Charge (The Crimson Kings) | Bash Score: 2832

Dino (The Tenacious Five) | Bash Score: 2812

Phoenix (The Snarky Kids) | Bash Score: 2811

Igor (The Rutile Artists) | Bash Score: 2797

Bolimar (The Crimson Angels) | Bash Score: 2770

Akio (The Arcane Enigmas) | Bash Score: 2736

Juninho (The Valiant Storms) | Bash Score: 2736

GFZA (The Fun Pizzas) | Bash Score: 2732

Mabel (The Clashing Roses) | Bash Score: 2720

Ket (The Lonesome Lovers) | Bash Score: 2701

Arc Tech (The Arcane Machines) | Bash Score: 2672

Pummy (The Tiny Tacos) | Bash Score: 2656

Boris (The Rutile Lights) | Bash Score: 2637

Juninha (The Valiant Hearts) | Bash Score: 2633

ence (The Gods) | Bash Score: 2565

Darc Tech (The Arcane Robots) | Bash Score: 2552

Moose (The World-class Nightmares) | Bash Score: 2540

Marby (The Floppy Dogs) | Bash Score: 2484

Astra (The Tiny Girls) | Bash Score: 2418

Ultra-Nero (The Newborn Novas) | Bash Score: 2398

Termax (The Violet Cats) | Bash Score: 2389 Even through these more casual themed Bashes, the competition at the top of the leaderboards remains fierce as ever. Congratulations to anyone who was able to claw their way to the top, and to everyone competing!

📊 Beastie Usage Stats!

As has become tradition, we've collected a ton of data on Beastie usage during this event and we're happy to share that data with you for further investigation!

> Check out the STATS here!

In addition to these usage stats, here's a look at the most common pairings in each guild this Bash! Bongus

Trat - 23.8%

Tortanchor - 22.8%

Garood - 19.5%

Hopra - 19.5%

Mascurry - 19.1% Surgus

Heliath - 38.4%

Fetcham - 31.2%

Cherrily - 26.9%

Bindiva - 26.2%

Grazada - 24.6% Illugus

Zefyre - 33.0%

Hopra - 26.8%

Cherrily - 24.0%

Demolipede - 20.9%

Vultoxin - 20.9% Shloom

Diggum - 42.0%

Hopra - 36.1%

Maraptor - 24.8%

Kaleidarn - 23.8%

Bandicraft - 21.1%

🙇 Thank you!!!

As always, we'll be taking results and stats into account as we ponder changes to put into the game for the next milestone update. The next Bash will be an open-format one... we'll see you there! -Greg & the Wishes team

✨Major changes and improvements

• Keyboard Shortcuts
  • When playing on PC, you can use use keyboard number keys to quickly select plays. This was a highly-requested feature!
  • Note that we did look into implementing keyboard shortcuts for other selections such as picking attack targets, despite nobody asking for that. We found that there was no good implementation of this due to the various camera angles and arrangements Beasties can be in during matches...
• Different locations for replays and online matches
  • When viewing a replay, or playing a match online, you can appear to be in different locations! This was a highly-requested feature!
  • Online locations are based on where your character is standing when you open SportNet
  • During Bigmoon Bashes, games are always held outside so you can clearly see the Bigmoon.
• Simplified Beastie stat training
  • Previously, each bonus added to a Beastie's stat was split into 4 sub-points which they could gain from allies or from items. For each 4 points, they got 1 "bonus."
  • We've hidden these "sub-points" so that now you only see the current total bonus added to each stat. Ally training is now described as a % chance of adding a bonus to the ally, rather than as a precise sub-point addition.
  • Under the hood, (almost) nothing has changed! There are hidden sub-points accrued from training which add up to visible bonusses over time, and nothing is based on random chance. Mainly this change lets us greatly simplify the UI and explanations of stat training so it doesn't seem any more complex than it really is.
  • The one meaningful under-the-hood change is that when new stat training is added, if the Beastie's sub-points are maxxed out but not evenly distributed into visible "bonus" points, those now-invisible "junk" points will be silently removed to make room. This removes the frustration of Beasties not getting the full value of their training points if they weren't allocated into perfect groups of 4.
• Beastie Metamorph Data in Beastiepedia
  • When viewing a Beastie's entry, if they can Metamorph and their next form has also been fully researched, the Beastiepedia will detail the conditions you need to fulfill to make them Metamorph. This was a highly-requested feature!
  • Note that we don't want this entry to "spoil" some surprises for players, hence why it only reveals the data when the player has already discovered the next form. This feature is meant mostly as a convenience for late/post-game players that want to train additional Beasties
  • Certain hints have not yet been localized and will appear differently if the game is set to a language other than English.
• Beastie Poses in Beastiepedia (In English only)
• Preset Beastie tags (In English only)
  • When assigning tags to your Beasties, any previously used tags can be selected from a dropdown menu, so you don't have to re-type the same tag for each Beastie.
• Better placement of Jack rival encounters (In English only)
  • Because of the game's open-ended structure, it was really common for players to get very far in the story without encountering Jack as often as we intended
  • We've now added more encounter locations and created more variations so that these memorable story encounters aren't missed as often
• Since we only update localization for Milestone updates, please excuse us for holding some features back & for others being available only in English. More developments are on the way!

🌕 Upcoming Bash

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224870/1c131356cd4f3b56763efea33b124f5c0f54b866.png BIGMOON BASH: SPRECKOMORPH SHOWDOWN!

A Bigmoon Bash is coming this weekend! This one is a contest between the Spreckomorphs!

🔧 Balance Changes

👹 Beasties

• Diggum, Duggout
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Whistle
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Distraction (... this just undoes one of the buffs we gave Diggum in the previous Milestone. We're thrilled to see Diggum doing so well, but all their new tools together made them a little too easy to use into too many different teams.)

🚧Other Fixes and Changes

• Made it possible to highlight icons for clothing shops, gyms and other minor locations when zoomed in on the map screen
• In the match results screen, the opponent's team title is now displayed (if they have one)
• Added 1365x768 resolution option, by request
• Fixed issue with no team appearing when using a "Random" team to test your Rank Defender
• Fixed issues with particle sizes on certain effects (Rowdy Beastie steam, Jack jet smoke)
• Made it so Away Teams appear with greater frequency after defeating all ranked bosses, even if you haven't yet finished the story (as a way to help players grind for the end bosses)
• Fixed a text issue in the Weepy tutorial
• Added a missing symbol used in Spanish translations
• Fix for online games sometimes showing results twice and then locking menu input when players are mashing ESC
• Made it so pressing Control+V in a fullscreen text entry menu should paste in text
• Added missing Log messages for TOUGHness preventing redirection
• Fixed some broken colliders particularly in the Academy tower
• Fixed an issue where Beasties on the player's current Away Team wouldn't be "cleaned up" on file load, preventing adjustments due to balance patches or other fixes being applied
• Adjusted position of interactable objects in Jasper Mines, to avoid characters getting stuck in walls
• More stable and debug-friendly tracking of post-game rematch dates (fixing bugs to do with characters thinking you've already rematched them, or making them easier for us to debug if they do happen)
• Improved optimization on certain props in the city area
• Tweaked the priority of certain settings in the game's automatic quality settings routine on first startup
• Fixed a physics interaction that caused beasties to stick together and slowly float away diagonally
• Adjusted UI layout for the final boss match in Detail View
• Fixed Raymond's body being transparent when appearing in the crowd at Crown Stadium
• Fixed more typos

These fixes + changes were added quietly in updates over the last month, and are not new, but haven't yet been noted:

• Added Spanish Beastie names and nicknames to the internal whitelist
• Certain level geometry that can be visible from the bottom now has visible solid geometry on its underside
• When queuing for matches during Bigmoon Bashes, your time spent waiting in the queue is now displayed
• Fixed issues with AI when using a Moist Beastie
• Minor improvement to accuracy when using an analog stick to select Beasties during matches
• Removed an erroneous pop-up when Sweep is used in Rally

Another BIGMOON BASH is beginning soon in Beastieball! During Bigmoon Bashes, coaches can challenge each other in open matchmaking for a limited time. During the event you'll have a Bash Rank, which will improve based on your performance. After it's over, you'll receive in-game rewards based on your participation, such as Social Battery and Sports Points. One year ago, we held a Spreckomorph Bash that ended in victory for Bongus... who then went on to win the 2025 Championship Bash and become the Beastie of 2025. Will Bongus reign supreme once more? Or is it time for a new Spreckomorph to take their place?

🏁 Rules & Details

When: Friday, May 2 @ 4PM PST to Sunday, May 4 @ 4PM PST Guild Beasties: Sprecko, Bongus, Surgus and Illugus To compete in the Bash, coaches must have exactly one of the theme Beasties on their team. Your games will count towards that team's score, and after the Bash a winning Beastie will be crowned! If you aren't confident in your own Beastie team, you can use a randomly generated one instead - just go to Team Setup and set "Random Team" as your current team. Players of all skill level are invited! All you need to do to participate is to play the game on that day and join the Bash on SportNet! SportNet is typically unlocked within the first 2 hours of your adventure, after beating your first Ranked boss.

Official Game Rules:

• First to 2 Points wins
• Standard time limit on move selection
• No Undos allowed
• No duplicate Beastie species allowed
• Relationship Combos are disabled
• All Beasties are set to Level 50

*Some players may be wondering about a certain other unnamed Beastie and whether they're also competing in this Bash. The answer is, for the sake of this event, they will be playing for the Sprecko guild.

This weekend we held a BIGMOON BASH where all Beasties were allowed! This was the first open Bash since our huge March balance update! Who came out on top in this newly-forming meta?

👑 Top-Scoring Players

Sadie Bear (The Baby Monkeys) | Bash Score: 2992

Vega (The Dancing Dragons) | Bash Score: 2984

Jack (The Mega Beasts) | Bash Score: 2916

Arc Tech (The Arcane Machines) | Bash Score: 2912

Juninha (The Valiant Hearts) | Bash Score: 2860

Darc Tech (The Arcane Robots) | Bash Score: 2848

Bolimar (The Crimson Angels) | Bash Score: 2840

Ket (The Lonesome Lovers) | Bash Score: 2820

Pix (The Raremorph Drums) | Bash Score: 2804

Phoenix (The Cosmic Friends) | Bash Score: 2796

Wavewhyse* (The Secret Socks) | Bash Score: 2784

Marby (The Floppy Dogs) | Bash Score: 2768

GFZA (The Fun Pizzas) | Bash Score: 2756

Charge (The Crimson Kings) | Bash Score: 2701

Igor (The Rutile Artists) | Bash Score: 2698

Mabel (The Clashing Roses) | Bash Score: 2692

Malbyte (The Iconic Colors) | Bash Score: 2640

Astra (The Tiny Girls) | Bash Score: 2536

Hallow (The Nefarious Pants) | Bash Score: 2512

Davis (The Freaky Folks) | Bash Score: 2500

CryoPhoenix (The Goofy Feathers) | Bash Score: 2444 Congratulations to the top-scoring coaches!!! We've also been treated to another breakout performance from Jack & The Mega Beasts, who won't let a little thing like being fictional keep them from success on the player leaderboards.

📊 Beastie Usage Stats!

As has become tradition, we've collected a ton of data on Beastie usage during this event and we're happy to share that data with you for further investigation!

> Check out the STATS here!

As someone who always jumps in for some games myself, it's always wonderful to see the diversity of teams that players run. What's interesting to me this time around is how stable some of the popularity rankings are; even with some notable play adjustments, Hopra is still firmly on top in popularity, with Beasties that got exciting new tools like Magpike and Crabaret still sit relatively low in usage. Even the least-used adults are seeing >1% in usage though, and that goes to show just how much players are still exploring in this balance patch.

Thank you!!!

I just want to express my heartfelt gratitude to all the players who choose to play Beastieball... It's a dream to get to make a game I'm so excited about and to foster a thriving community of fun opponents. We'll be looking at stats and issues that surfaced from this event and continue our efforts to make the game the best it can be!

Hang on a second. Guys. YOU GUYS!!!! I was checking the game and I realized we totally screwed it up. For some reason we had creatures playing sports, with humans coaching them. That makes no gosh darn sense. Aren't sports played by humans?! Well, not to worry! For April 1st only, we (mostly our community manager Elena...) have put together a very special game update for you all that fixes everything. We strongly encourage you check the game out today - OR the free demo! * NOTE: This update is purely cosmetic. The game looks different, but the underlying data is still the same as before. Your save data is safe and sound, and you can even continue to enjoy PvP. * If you want to play the unmodified game, you can access the experimental branch by right clicking the game in your library > select "Properties" > go to the "Betas" tab > select "experimental" from the dropdown menu. * If you want to enjoy this modified version of the game after today, it will be available in the same menu as above in the "april-fools" branch.

Another BIGMOON BASH is beginning soon in Beastieball! During Bigmoon Bashes, coaches can challenge each other in open matchmaking for a limited time. When: Friday, April 10, 2026 04:00 PST to Sunday, April 12, 2026 04:00 PST Theme: NONE! All Beasties are allowed! During the event you'll have a Bash Rank, which will improve based on your performance. After it's over, you'll receive in-game rewards based on your participation, such as Social Battery and Sports Points. Players of all skill level are invited! All you need to do to participate is to play the game on that day and join the Bash on SportNet! SportNet is typically unlocked within the first 2 hours of your adventure, after beating your first Ranked boss. And if you aren't confident in your own Beastie team, you can use a randomly generated one instead - just go to Team Setup and set "Random Team" as your current team.

Official Game Rules:

First to 2 Points wins

Standard time limit on move selection

No Undos allowed

No duplicate Beastie species allowed

Relationship Combos are disabled

All Beasties are set to Level 50

This weekend we held a BIGMOON BASH! This Bash was a contest between 3 ocean Beasties. It's time to unveil the results and the new Ocean King!

🏆 Final Results!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224870/78f2f5b328e5425e86c979888841c39782afc8a8.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224870/be3dbe2af573d3e0da4b18974ec11f88a75d92d7.png Tortanchor is your Ocean King! Congratulations! Surprisingly, Tortanchor was the clear underdog for popularity - that honor instead was held firmly by Broslidon. But Tortanchor's strength and teamwork on the field set them apart in a big way and got them this Bash win. Now let's take a look at the coaches who scored highest this time around!

👑 Top-Scoring Players

Juninha (The Valiant Hearts) | Bash Score: 3016

Ket (The Lonesome Lovers) | Bash Score: 2992

Vega (The Dancing Dragons) | Bash Score: 2988

Boris (The Rutile Lights) | Bash Score: 2956

Darc Tech (The Arcane Robots) | Bash Score: 2924

Sadie Bear (The Sea-faring Salespeople) | Bash Score: 2908

UrBestie (The Seaside Stars) | Bash Score: 2884

Mabel (The Clashing Roses) | Bash Score: 2880

Score (The Jamming Ballers) | Bash Score: 2868

Phoenix (The Flaming Feathers) | Bash Score: 2800

AirMan121 (The Bugs) | Bash Score: 2768

Zonk (The Violet Enigmas) | Bash Score: 2764

Arc Tech (The Arcane Machines) | Bash Score: 2724

Ultra-Nero (The Newborn Novas) | Bash Score: 2692

ence (The Legendary Items) | Bash Score: 2648

cammy (The Sleeping Dragons) | Bash Score: 2640

WebBowser (The Questing Beasts) | Bash Score: 2624

Sabrewoif (The Inglorious Shamblers) | Bash Score: 2616

Jack (The Mega Beasts) | Bash Score: 2600

Hallow (The Nefarious Pants) | Bash Score: 2594

Nalathni (The Tiny Dragons) | Bash Score: 2592 Despite the strict team themeing, this Bash was no less competitive than others. A lot of familiar faces gave it their all to make it to this leaderboard. Congratulations! I have to give a special shout-out to Jack and The Mega Beasts. I hear they're a bit of a dark horse shaking things up in the League. Their bond with their Beasties must be something else to come so far in this contest!

📊 Beastie Usage Stats!

As has become tradition, we've collected a ton of data on Beastie usage during this event and we're happy to share that data with you for further investigation!

> Check out the STATS here!

In addition to these usage stats, here's a look at the most common pairings in each guild this Bash! Tortanchor

Mascurry - 23.3%

Lunaptra - 18.2%

Bandicraft - 17.2%

Plumask - 16.2%

Bongus - 15.6% With their defensive profile and access to the Spirit-boosting pass Faith, Tortanchor is a great support for Rally teams. But largely it seems they're even more beloved for their synergy with Rhythm and body offense! Mascurry, Lunaptra and Bongus all work great with Tortanchor to deliver heavy hits while passively recovering stamina, advancing on opponents inexorably. Broslidon

Supilero - 31.2%

Goofsder - 20.8%

Bandicraft - 20.3%

Daredillo - 15.7%

Beetlback - 13.6% Broslidon's favorite teammates don't favor healing so much, but they all pack or enable a fast-moving offensive style! Broslidon fits flexibly as an great attacker or offensive support themselves, so it makes sense to see them working well with these sorts. Riplash

Bandicraft - 24.9%

Kasaleet - 20.8%

Hopra - 20.5%

Noizard- 18.3%

Cherrily - 13.9% Riplash is the least flexible of the guild Beasties this time around; if you have a Riplash, they're there to hit stuff hard. So their common teammates are mostly supporters who help Riplash do that job... with Kasaleet apparently often thrown in as a back-up attacker who can easily benefit from the same support that synergizes with Riplash. I think it's pretty neat to see all 3 starters represented in Riplash's partner list. It's giving main character energy.

🙇 Thank you!!!

This was the first Bash after a major balance patch, so I know many players are still experimenting to figure out what the new best thing is and are also sensitive to anything that feels stronger or weaker than it did just a week ago. The next Bash will be an open format one where we'll be able to collect a lot more useful balancing data. I'll say that results from this Bash haven't highlighted any balance emergencies yet. Everything is performing within ranges that we like so far. It'll be exciting to see how players develop their teams for upcoming events! -Greg & the Wishes team

This is Milestone 4 out of 9! Check out our Road to 1.0 post for info on planned updates and schedule!

🖼️ Beastie Art Updates

• Waglash: Animation COMPLETE!
• Riplash: Animation COMPLETE!
• Leobro: Animation COMPLETE!
• Broslidon: Animation COMPLETE!
• Turtaneer: Animation COMPLETE!
• Tortanchor: Animation COMPLETE!
• Xiphosaur: Animation COMPLETE!
• Skiffrig: Animation COMPLETE!
• Petula: Animation COMPLETE!
• Orgella: Animation COMPLETE! (*With some tweaks to the base design)
• Flowish: Poses + Move animation added!
• Gullit: Bonus animation added! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224870/e3eaa7f173f95a45f274d6d076dc575e5a80c88e.gif The number of Beasties marked as complete has gone from 50 to 60. We can now officially say the majority of Beasties are fully animated!

⭐New Stuff

• NEW STORY CONTENT
  • You can now max out your hearts with Sunsoo.
• Environmental improvements
  • Added new details and models to towns in Chroma Sea, namely Chartreuse, Gamboge and Beryl
  • Look out for Gullits on the roofs of seaside towns!
  • Added more detailed models for islands when sailing
  • Added flying cars to Geo City
• NEW BGM: Coquelicot Village
  • Players who have already passed their point the story will have the new songs available in Music Setup.
  • The OST is updated on Steam and Bandcamp!
• Approx. 25 new unlockable Team Titles added!
• The game is now fully playable in Spanish!

✨Major changes and improvements

• Huge Lighting and Rendering update!
  • Added SSAO, chromatic aberration, and many other hand-designed lighting and color improvements across every area of the game
  • The game's 3D world is now much more rich and detailed feeling!
  • *Certain effects are disabled on Mac due to graphics issues we're still resolving. We will update Mac with fixes at a later date!
  • Note that the addition of new effects means performance settings will be reset on bootup so the game can auto-calibrate to its new performance benchmarks.
• Plays that can be tutored at Beastieball Academy have had their price reduced across the board, roughly 33% on average
  We originally set prices to make it relatively cheap to build a team from scratch. But we didn't fully consider the flexibility players would want to experiment with different plays before locking in their team. This reduced price should make it a lot easier to try lots of plays on your Beasties, not just the final ones you go with!
• Recruit Streak adjustments
  • When you get 5 Recruit Streaks in a row, the payout is now x10 instead of x7. This is called a "Streak Clear" instead of a "MAX Streak," to better communicate that it resets after reaching this milestone.
  • We don't want Recruit Streaks to be something players mindlessly grind through for hours to accrue resources. They're intended to be a short and sweet challenge that's very rewarding when players are able to clear them. The payout from 1 Streak Clear should usually be enough to cover most of the cost of building a new team.
• Gain Social Battery by defeating wandering Beasties!
  • Wandering Beasties can appear from Mountai Expeditions or from Indie tracking Raremorphs.
  • This feature allows you to choose to abandon a wandering Beastie, so you can remove them from your map without having to recruit them.
  • This does come with a corresponding change to Indie's Raremorph tracking, namely that she will only ever track one raremorph of every given Beastie specie once, at most. Just note if you abandon the Raremorph she tracks, she won't ever find one like it again!
• Beasties on your Away Team now appear in your Reserves, to reduce confusion especially when returning to the game after a prolonged break.
• Changed wild Beastie AI so that they never MOVE during Defense
  This is a seemingly obscure change, but it just makes targeting, researching and recruiting way less frustrating by removing the element of chance that an opponent will randomly empty a lane and throw the game, or fill a lane and block an intended fee point.
• Overhauled playbook and encounter designs across the game to account for balance changes and new traits, including/especially for procedurally-generated teams (Random teams + Tower Tourney).

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🌕 Upcoming Bash

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A Bigmoon Bash is coming this weekend! This one is a contest between ocean Beasties. Jump into the game next weekend and challenge coaches around the world to help your favorite Beastie win the event!

🔧 Balance Changes

This patch employs very few nerfs but a lot of strategically employed buffs. We aren't seeing many or any Beasties who are overly dominating the meta, which is great! We took the opportunity to fine-tune a few highly-used Beasties, while adding some fun new flavor and tools to lesser-appreciated Beasties.

⚙️ General Mechanics Changes

🛡️ TOUGH

We've added one new bit or errata to the effects of TOUGH: A TOUGH Beastie can't change the target of a ball attack. After testing this condition on traits Decoy and Watchtower and seeing it well received, we've decided to extend this condition to all target-changing effects, most notably NOISY. Although it is generally difficult to combine NOISY and TOUGH, and fun to find combinations that enable it, the situations where it did come up would be uninteractive to play into without meaningfully advancing the game. Ultimately this change will have a negligible effect on what is currently in the game, but it's something we've seen players bristle against and we can see how the game may be healthier without this combination being possible. It means we can now remove wordy errata from traits like Decoy and Watchtower.

✋ Interaction of BLOCKED with flat damage

Previously, damage reduction from an attacker being BLOCKED would be applied before any flat damage adjustments, such as the additional damage added by the Rally field effect or the Cheerleader trait. This order is now adjusted so that BLOCK applies afterward. This means that BLOCK is more effective at curbing damage from these sources, and also makes damage calculation a little bit easier for players to do on the fly.

👨‍👨‍👧‍👧 Rally

When RALLY is active, SPIRIT attacks do +20 damage (from +15) In the previous balance patch, Rally was changed from +50% to +15 damage. This change combined with the BLOCK change now brings Rally's overall power level very close on average to where it was at +50%. The main difference is its impact at the extreme ends of offense; it's much harder to convert a powerful attack into a guaranteed one-hit kill with +20 than it was with +50%, so this is still a healthy mitigation of the dominance Rally had in past seasons. We hope this tweak makes Rally more fun to play, both for its wielders and opponents.

🥱 Receive Weariness

Once a Beastie begins taking bonus damage from Receive Weariness, TOUGH loses its ability to sustain their STAMINA at 1. Receive Weariness almost NEVER comes up in a match, and this is by design. (For those who may not know what it does; after a Beastie receives 7 attacks in the same point, they begin taking bonus damage from successive attacks). This mechanic only exists to ensure that all games end eventually, and this change is implemented only to support that goal. In general we don't want this to ever interfere with a legitimate match. If it was made more relevant by activating sooner, for example, then it could easily risk becoming a new win condition for players to strive for, which ultimately would be monotonous and unfun.

🍄 Traits

• (NEW!) Synchronize: On TAG IN, copies BOOSTs from their ally
  • 🔄 Given to Crabaret in place of Agile
  • (Also, updated Crabaret's recruit condition to something less confusing.) Crabaret is a personal favorite of mine. After taking time to allow the meta to develop, I found that with Agile, their most effective playstyle boiled down to tagging them in to receive a reckless attack and then using Cheer+Dive to try to get a surprise one-shot kill in retaliation. While fun, this was very linear and didn't really feel like it fully expressed the playful personality of this Beastie. With Synchronize, I hope to keep their general playstyle as an offensive pivot, but create more depth and team synergies for them.
• (NEW!) Extrovert: This Beastie's attacks are always strengthened by Rally
  • 🔄 Given to Magpike in place of Crafty We were really excited to debut Crafty for Magpike, but in practice it didn't excite players much, didn't seem to synergize effectively enough with anything, and always was out-competed by Trusting. We're trying out a new trait that leans in to Magpike's strength as a high-power attacker, but with a role on totally different teams.
• (NEW!) Deviant: This Beastie's attacks do @1.5x damage when their target is changed
  • 🔄 Given to Maraptor in place of Roaring
  • 🔼 Given to Varkabond+Troglum as a recessive trait SIGH....... Maraptor........ We were inspired by themeing to give Maraptor "Noisy"-themed traits. But the last 2 iterations all proved imperfect; the way Noisy compresses the opponent's options always wound up making Maraptor unfun to play into when well utilized. We're attempting a different idea that makes Maraptor's traits both offense-oriented, aligning more with Magpike, while keeping a whiff of their "Noisy" theme in a different way.
• Power Up, High Spirits and Full Focus:
  • 🔄New effect: Corresponding type attacks do +15 damage when STAMINA is below 34 (from +50%) In some cases, some players felt that these traits created too high a damage opportunity when active on their corresponding Beasties. I considered a few options on whether or how to address this; these traits were designed to make the starter Beasties easy and exciting to use even for beginner-level players, and that made them very difficult to redesign. What I found was that +50% had a very variable impact depending on which Beastie it applied to, which made it poor fit as a trait that applied to both defensive-style and offensive-style Beasties. The change to +15 makes it higher value for low-power plays and lower value for high-power plays, helping to normalize the power level of the 3 starters.
• Vampire
  • 🔻Restores 1/4 of damage dealt (from 1/3) Across many patches, we've tried 1/6, 1/5, 1/4, and 1/3rd damage. And after all this testing, I think we've confirmed that 1/4 was in fact the perfect number. Thanks for your participation in this experiment.
• Majesty
  • 🔼New Effect: When they TAG IN or attack, -1 SPIRIT POW to opponent team
• Sauna
  • 🔼New Effect: Sweaty opponents lose +10 STAMINA (No longer applies to allies)

🏃 Plays

• (NEW) Rousing Strike: SPIRIT Attack, 65 POW. Fielded allies feel +2 JAZZED.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Hopra
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 Plumask, Crabaret
  Unlike Thriller, which applies JAZZED before contact, Rousing Strike applies JAZZED on hit - meaning its first use has lower power, but if you continue to use it it can keep the user and their ally continuously JAZZED on successive hits. Hopra's playbook was adjusted slightly to correspond with this addition - see below for more details.
• (NEW) Swarm: SPIRIT Attack, 40 POW. Before contact, SHIFTs self and ally to the net.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Kaleidarn, Blitzwift
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 Heliath, Lunaptra, Zefyre, Froofulks, Orgella, Daredillo
• (Exert has been removed from the game.) When Exert was originally added to the game, our intention was for it to be a strong new serving option for Spirit attackers, making them TOUGH so they could safely rush the net on Defense. However, in exchange for this awesome boon we wound up needing to aggressively mitigate its effectiveness, and the resulting play was certainly INTERESTING but it was mostly unusuable unless hyperexploited by certain combinations. The ability to apply TOUGH on an attack also combined with existing TOUGH applications in a way that made it too easy to stay protected for too long. We're accepting our failure on all that and are introducing a much more generic, Spirit-themed utility attack that can fill Exert's intended role alongside Rousing Strike.
• (NEW) Sweep: MIND Attack, 50 POW. POW x2 if there are any field effects. Clears all field effects.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Trat, Magpike
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 Bandicraft, Illugus, Shloom, Armantis, Crawlurk, Maraptor
  You might notice this play is a close to how we initially implemented Demolish. And you'd be right! But this time we're trying a different allocation of POW and on a different set of Beasties. We see this play as a potential new option for Mind-focused teams to fight back against protective opponent field effects (like Rally or Drum), or take advantage of their own (such as Trap) to convert into high-damage attacks. Alongside this change, we also gave a few MIND-focused Beasties access to Clear Field (see below), so that mono-mind teams have more flexibility into some matchups.
• (NEW) Wink: SUPPORT. Can target opponents or allies. Non-SWEATY target feels 1 SWEATY.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Skulkapi, Mudlsee
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 Grazada, Bindiva, Mistic
• (NEW?) Heat Wave: Spirit attack, 1 POW. Every fielded Beastie feels +1 SWEATY.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Scauldra
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 Mudslee, Heliath
• Steamer
  • 🔼 10 POW. Target feels +2 SWEATY. (Previously: Only targets straight ahead)
  These changes offer a fairly big re-thinking of the major SWEATY-applying plays! Previously, Steamer was very ineffective and rarely used. Heat Wave has been variously overpowered, or nearly useless, except when wielded by Beasties that took excessive advantage of it like Mudslee. We've now pivoted Heat Wave into a new and improved sweaty attack that fully sacrifices your offense damage for a hugely impactful status application. We hope this helps center Heat Wave as a staple play for Sweaty-focused passive teams. We also added Wink as a way to give more passive offense utility to a wider range of Beasties, filling a role similar to the Support version of Heat Wave while limiting its capacity to flip the entire game state in one click.
• (NEW) Fortify: DEFENSE. +2 to the lowest DEF on every fielded ally.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Diggum
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 Trat, Armantis, Wottle, Duggout
• (NEW) Share Snack: SUPPORT. Evenly split the STAMINA of target and self. Can target opponents from the net.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Diggum
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 Duggout
• (NEW) Reign: SUPPORT. -10 STAMINA to target. +20 STAMINA to self.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Skulkapi, Scauldra
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 Psylusc, Yamyth, Diabloceras
  We also created a few new tools for defensive-oriented teams. We want to help expand the role of some Beasties whose effectiveness was curbed by previous patches that mitigated the effectiveness of many healing plays. Rather than strengthen flat healing, which can neutralize the game state in a boring way, we hope these inspire fun synergies that are fun to both wield and play against.
• True Strike
  • 🔻 80 POW. (From 85 POW)
  The addition of True Strike in the previous patch seems to have single-handedly shifted the meta towards body offense and raised the profile of many less-appreciated Beasties. We're pretty happy with where things landed overall, but we do feel that the move's power may have made it too much of an auto-include staple attack that ended up flattening body-focused teams a little bit too much. We want to see how it works with a slight step back in power so players can better weigh it against other body options.
• Jeer
  • 🔼 New effect: BODY, SPIRIT, MIND POW -1 to target.
• Goo-Goo Eyes
  • 🔼 New effect: User feels +1 WEEPY. -2 BODY POW to target. Target feels +1 BLOCKED.
• Chill Out
  • 🔼 New effect: Clears BOOSTs from target. -2 SPIRIT POW to target.
  We want to try adding more of an edge to these plays to make them more viable on high-level teams. Straightforward power reduction on its own has never been enough to curb offense, as there are many other sources of damage ramping that a player needs to address. These changes make these plays a bit more effective in general cases, and potentially open the possibility of splashing them on a team that otherwise struggles with certain type matchups without having to swap out an entire Beastie to address it.
• Shield
  • 🔻 New effect: Feel 1 TOUGH + 3 ANGRY. (From 2 TOUGH + 2 ANGRY).
  Although players initially lauded the change from 1 to 2 TOUGH on Shield, after seeing it in play for a while we've decided to walk back this change. At 2 TOUGH, if you clicked Shield on the wrong target and lost a point as a result, your Beastie would remain shielded on the following turn, allowing you to safely tag out the wiped ally without much risk. This made Shield less punishing to mess up with when on the back foot, but it also made it too noncommittal to click in too many situations. This change restores the high-skill margin for correctly reading Shields and in particular it vastly ups the inherent risk of relying on Shield to sustain two low-stamina Beasties on the field, as a misplay can cost you 2 points, rather than allowing you to safely convert 1 point loss into an advantage. The change to 3 ANGRY is primarily to resolve the huge advantage gained when a Beastie Shields and then scores a point, allowing the to Shield again on their subsequent Defense. The secondary downside of 3 ANGRY is it prevents offense-phase support actions on the 2nd offense after they Shield. But they can still Shield every other turn and be interrupted by Provoke as before.
• Distraction
  • 🔼 New effect: DEFENSE. Only used from net. Feel 1 NOISY. -1 B/S/M POW to target.
  We're also giving a glow-up to Distraction, in line with our reasoning for buffing other debuff support plays. Distraction has always been just a bit too weak to be usable. We'd love to see it fit onto more teams.
• Echo Strike
  • 🔼 80 POW (from 70)
  We think Echo Strike is fun, has distribution to interesting Beasties, and it tends to spice up the games it appears in. But its utility to disrupt is not as stable as we anticipated when we first added it, and we've seen that it can be quite hard to build around. So we're trying out a power increase to compensate for its limited utility value.
• Hex
  • 🔄 New effect: SUPPORT. Target and self trait changes to Haunted (Always feels 4 TIRED and can't be targeted).
  • Also: added more special VFX for "Haunted" Beasties Hex is evil, and generally players find it obnoxious. We're aware of the player consensus that this play would work well if it simply applied TIRED to the user and target. However, we want this play to be obnoxious and strange. This tweak now removes its egregious combo with Tractor Beam but keeps it as weird as ever.
• Smack
  • 🔻 New effect: DEFENSE. +1 B/S/M POW to benched ally. Benched ally feels 2 ANGRY. TAG OUT with benched ally.
  We saw some murmurings that Smack could too freely enable some easy one-turn kill setups. And we can definitely appreciate its capacity to densely pack a lot of value into one Beastie very quickly. We like the high highs of this play, but are testing out a drawback that makes it more risky and less flexible.

👹 Beasties

• Bildit, Handicoot, Bandicraft
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Chill Out
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Clear Field
• Axolati Hopsong, Hopra
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Tornadoball With the changes to Rally and High Spirits, I took a closer look at Hopra, and I started to take issue with Tornadoball in their kit. It is likely the most high-utility Spirit play in the game and can single handedly shore up a lot of otherwise bad matchups, making it a staple on Hopra sets. But it also is something that felt off-brand for them, and with enough flat damage boosting on top of their high spirit offense it was able to deal a little too much damage on top of its highly effective disruption. Not to mention the fact that Hopra has frequently drawn attention for their high utility on an unusually wide range of teams. With all this in mind, I took Tornadoball off their kit and redistributed it to a couple other Beasties who it fits better with. Rousing Strike takes its place in Hopra's playbook as a very high-utility secondary spirit attack that better fits their themeing.
• Bongus
  • 🔼 45 MPOW (from 40)
• Surgus
  • 🔼 45 BDEF (from 40)
• Illugus
  • 🔼 45 SPOW (from 40)
• Shooga, Supassum, Supilero
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Thump With True Strike being slightly lower power, we want to give these Beasties back an option to get a bit more power in exchange for less utility.
• Woolie, Fetcham
  • 🔼 80 BPOW (from 75)
  • 🔻 50 MDEF (from 55)
• Radillo, Daredillo
  • 🔼 101 BDEF (from 95)
• Diggum, Duggout
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Distraction
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Whistle
• Skulkapi
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Goo-Goo Eyes
• Troglum, Varkabond
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Clear Field
• Webbounce, Goofsder
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Twist
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Whistle
• Wottle
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Set, Cover
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Whistle, Quick Set Wottle has seen gradually increasing usage for the last couple balance patches, and has been a healthy mainstay since the game's initial release. Lately players particularly optimized it towards offensive support using Quick Set, which it turned out to excel at a little bit too well for our liking. In our minds Wottle fits best as a defensive support, while other Beasties are meant to outperform it in offensive support utility. Wottle is good at camping the net and getting blocks, so it should still see a lot of effectiveness using Set, but not as much burst value as it did before.
• Kaleidarn
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Distraction
• Gullit, Skiffrig
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Tornadoball
• Xiphosaur
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Shake Off
• Crabaret
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Slide
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Vigor Beam Vigor Beam has always been a tricky play that lives on the edge of being overtuned. We think it's really fun and interesting on most users, but for Crabaret, who already has so many Rhythm synergies, it felt a little bit too easy to get too much value from this play. It also encourages them to play very boring and safely, tagging in under redirection and maintaining stamina while camping at the net. In line with the changeover from Agile, we want the Crab to play a little more fun and silly on the field without necessarily losing their edge.
• Waglash, Riplash
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Vigor Beam Mirroring the above changes with Crabaret, we took a closer look at how Vigor Beam was distributed and how much damage it could do from different sources and setups, and we found that Riplash wielded the best Vigor Beam in low-risk circumstances. There are still some crazy Vigor Beam users out there who can take advantage of Quick Tag/redirection, but the remaining ones come with less power, less bulk, or poor trait synergies which make it a little more interesting to play around.
• Mudslee
  • 🔻Plays Removed: Heat Up
• Conjarr
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Tornadoball
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Distraction
• Millimine, Demolipede
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Distraction
• Jellibat, Froofulks
  • 🔻 86 SPOW (from 93)
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Goo-Goo Eyes
• Beelb
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Confident Pass We're excited to see Beelb's usage grow since their glow-up in the previous patch! Their ability to stick on the field and build up power until they become a scary threat is central to their playstyle. Confident Pass enabled them to make their ally into a threat as well, and we think this made them synergize a little too well with some partners. We're making them a little more "selfish" to bring their performance in line and make them closer to our vision for them.
• Bindiva
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Clear Field, Distraction
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Assess
• Punkchirp, Magpike, Maraptor
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Faith, Pipe, Rally, Lock Target
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Finisher, Kneebender, Reposition, Distraction These Beasties' move pools became bloated as we piled options onto them over patches and also tried to make Crafty work. Now we're trying a different but roughly equally large pile of options that might synergize better with Extrovert.
• Calcroach, Debugly
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Mindfield
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Twist Some players have felt that Debugly's use of Twist has been a little too difficult to deal with, since they can lock an opposing attacker out of the game while buillding themselves up with Telekinesis. We think Twist, annoying as it is, fills an important niche in the meta and it isn't something we want to remove from the game. In terms of statistics, Debuglys using Twist also have never particularly stood out as overperforming. But in an effort to make the game more fun, we've passed ownership of Twist to Goofsder, who fits with it more thematically, while lacking the ability to ramp its Mind power on its own. In its place, we're giving Debugly a new high-utility play that can slow down opponent action economy but in a way that's hopefully less frustrating.
• Grazada
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Chill Out
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Distraction
• Druppa, Scauldra
  • 🔼 99 BDEF (from 95)
  • 🔻81 SPOW (from 85)
• Heliath
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Distraction
• Deluja
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Heat Wave

🚧Other Fixes and Changes

• Updated Game Maker (our underlying engine) to its newest version, which introduces more optimizations and stability improvements.
• New SFX for various things such as Beastie wing flaps, rolling, and Rally cheers.
• Fixed a few issues with UI items overlapping in Sport matches.
  • Such as unintentionally opening a Beastie's plays when the player intends to open Settings.
  • Also adjusted size and placement of "feeling" thought bubbles to reduce overlaps
• Fully re-did the layout for a major screen in Geo City to improve navigation and camera visibility
• Refactored the level of Jerseys rewarded for each Ranked win in Ironman mode.
• Added an extra quest marker for Cerise Atoll at a point where some players got stuck/missed the next step
• Changed Field Effect resolution so that the order of Dread and Rhythm effects are consistent
• Fixed issue where the next Draft Challenge recruit was skipped when resuming from a paused challenge
• Made colliders on Ropes much bigger so it's easier to hit them with balls
• Added more robust trait resolution order interactions so that complex traits such as Mimicry/Adaptation resolve consistently regardless of team order (and don't crash)
• Fixed an issue with the Foggy trait overriding True Strike/Maverick
• Fixed issues with Mimicry triggering its copied trait twice in some circumstances
• The trait Vicious has now been modified such that blocked can't reduce its damage below 30, as written.
• Precision Strike, the mind attack, now says "This attack does 30 damage" instead of "Always does 30 damage" to clarify that it DOES interact with mechanics like BLOCKED, Cheerleader, etc.
• Improved/fixed text spacing in many areas including but not limited to Team Titles in online menus, long Recruit Condition text in the "Research Unlocked" screen, and many more.
• The "Double Block" animation is now skipped when fast forwarding through a replay.
• Fixed foot angle for Player Pose 04
• An alert sound is now played when an online challenge is accepted so you won't miss this if it's tabbed/minimized.
• Changed/fixed some confusingly worded Combo effect such as those with Skulkapi and Blitzwift.
• Fix for certain Beasties with "alt" versions not using animation tweens in some situations (applies to Big-can Trat and left-handed Crabaret).
• Fixed an issue with a certain wandering Beastie being Rowdy unintentionally
• Fix for how certain effects target Beasties to fix some trait/play interactions when tagging out. This fixes Cleanup not removing boosts from the ally in some situations, or some "self and ally" effects on ball attacks not triggering correctly if the user is Cycloned out before the attack lands.
• Fixed crash that could rarely happen from certain collision triangles that had data missing
• Reduced memory usage on the map screen
• Added pop-ups to highlight more obscure interactions (TOUGH cancelling secondary effects, Friendship reducing damage on the ally, and more like that...)
• Fixed spacing and placement of Jack's Beasties when they're summoned during a cutscene
• Also made some improvement to how Beasties, including the player's position themselves during key scenes to not block view of main characters
• Fix for player frozen in T-pose during Mountain Expedition final matches sometimes
• Added quick tutorials for the first time the player encounters Jazzed, Tough and Weepy feelings.
• Fixed issues with training point allocation on Random teams/Tower teams
• Fixed collisions on objects in Academy rooms
• Improved spawn points for the sailboat in Chroma Sea
• Fixed an issue preventing solo Beasties (ie. Rowdy) from healing from Rhythm
• Fixed an issue where Kaz's weekly post-game rematch could be unavailable for an extra week if he was challenged just before midnight on Monday night but defeated after midnight on Tuesday "morning."
• Corrected some text errors in the Info menu
• Fix for story flags not being set correctly at the very end of the game if you forgive Riley for the first time after the Crown Series
• Changed some Valerie scene to delay if the player does Callisto's Ranked match early. Previously this was awkwardly/confusingly pile up several Valerie scenes back to back.
• Jack's Team Titles are now awarded earlier in the story.
• Removed an erroneous line that could be spoken by Riley in a certain Valerie scene even when Riley is not present for obscure reasons
• Fixed a crash to do with a very obscure special text line spoken by Riley before the Crown Series.
• Adjusted the position of sparkling flowers during one of Reese's hangouts.
• Changed ambience/reverb settings for some indoor spaces, most notably the Academy Tower.
• Fix for 2x Alessias appearing sometimes at the end of Tower Tourney.
• Added an entry to individual Beastie statistics showing the number of times they felt Weepy.
• Removed the feature whereby the game would lower FPS when the window was out of focus. This was requested by one person but it seemingly annoyed way more people.
• Fixed crashes to do with certain Combo Plays, introduced by the game engine upgrade
• Adjusted in-game analytics; removed a lot of data tracking that was not getting used, and added some extra tracking for fine-tune balance info particularly for competitive online matches
• Rank Defenders with outdated or errored plays will now have their playbooks automatically refilled/corrected rather than set to empty
• Added several misc safety checks to avoid obscure crashes
• Fixed color issues in Servace's animation frames
• Added notifications about BARRIER destruction to the in-game log
• Added more robust logic for player respawning to prevent softlocks even when aggressively trying to break the game (eg. jumping over water and loading a replay just before falling in...)
• Adjusted certain speedrun-specific featuresl The encounter with Korwin, and the abilty of Beasties to have Yearnings, used to be restricted until passing a certain playtime, but this is no longer the case.
• Minor adjustments to various areas to correct camera issues, collisions, add missing ball shrooms, etc.
• Fixed more typos

Ahh... the gentle crashing of waves... the call of distant gulls... and the rising moon. It's the perfect picture of serenity. Wait a moment. That's no moon. It's THE BIGMOON! They say the moon controls the ocean's tides... but just as so, the Bigmoon calls the tides of Beasties to action! Tortanchor, Broslidon and Riplash are competing for the title of Ocean King! Another BIGMOON BASH is beginning soon in Beastieball! During Bigmoon Bashes, coaches can challenge each other in open matchmaking for a limited time. During the event you'll have a Bash Rank, which will improve based on your performance. After it's over, you'll receive in-game rewards based on your participation, such as Social Battery and Sports Points.

🏁 Rules & Details

When: Friday, March 20 @ 4PM PST to Sunday, March 22 @ 4PM PST Guild Beasties: Tortanchor (+Turtanerr, Turogue), Broslidon (+Leobro), and Riplash (+Waglash)! To compete in the Bash, coaches must have exactly one of the theme Beasties on their team. Your games will count towards that team's score, and after the Bash a winning Beastie will be crowned! If you aren't confident in your own Beastie team, you can use a randomly generated one instead - just go to Team Setup and set "Random Team" as your current team. Players of all skill level are invited! All you need to do to participate is to play the game on that day and join the Bash on SportNet! SportNet is typically unlocked within the first 2 hours of your adventure, after beating your first Ranked boss.

Official Game Rules:

• First to 2 Points wins
• Standard time limit on move selection
• No Undos allowed
• No duplicate Beastie species allowed
• Relationship Combos are disabled
• All Beasties are set to Level 50

Incoming Milestone + Balance Update!

A new major update will be releasing releasing shortly before this Bash, on Thursday, March 19! In addition to new animation, music and content it also will feature a balance patch adjusting the parameters of some Beasties. Take a look at our recent Experimental patch notes for a preview of what's to come if you're planning your team early.

# = Changed in patch on 03/13 @ = Changed in patch on 03/11 & = Changed in patch on 03/09 ^ = Changed in patch on 03/05 * = Changed in patch on 03/02 A new experimental balance patch is here! On PC ONLY, players on the experimental branch now have access to some new mechanics and parameter adjustments. We welcome your thoughts, your feedback, and your playtesting! I encourage dedicated coaches to join us in our Discord community to discuss these changes live with other players.

How to Access

Right click Beastieball in your Steam library > Select "Properties" > Go to the "Betas" tab > Select "experimental" from the dropdown menu. Your savedata is not be at risk when changing to different game branches. If your Beasties have plays on the default branch which they do not have access to in the experimental branch, they will be removed. Or, if you use new plays which are introduced on the experimental branch, they will be removed upon switching back to the default branch. Plays which have been added or changed will be completely free to tutor to your Beasties at the Beastierball Academy on the temporary experimental build. Take this opportunity to try out new tools and let us know how they're feeling!

⚠️Rendering/Effects Overhaul

This update introduces a lot of new features both visible and invisible. We've updated our underlying game engine and re-written a lot of individual effects and objects. We're still testing with all this to make sure it's stable before going into the next Milestone, but we'd appreciate your feedback on anything that stands out as a visual, technical or performance issue.

On the bright side, you may notice the game's look has improved quite a lot with improved 3d rendering effects. We're excited to fix the remaining issues and talk more about all the changes in detail come next Milestone!

🔧 Balance Changes

This patch employs very few nerfs but a lot of strategically employed buffs. We aren't seeing many or any Beasties who are overly dominating the meta, which is great! We took the opportunity to fine-tune a few highly-used Beasties, while adding some fun new flavor and tools to lesser-appreciated Beasties.

⚙️ General Mechanics Changes

🛡️ TOUGH

We've added one new bit or errata to the effects of TOUGH: A TOUGH Beastie can't change the target of a ball attack. After testing this condition on traits Decoy and Watchtower and seeing it well received, we've decided to extend this condition to all target-changing effects, most notably NOISY. Although it is generally difficult to combine NOISY and TOUGH, and fun to find combinations that enable it, the situations where it did come up would be uninteractive to play into without meaningfully advancing the game. Ultimately this change will have a negligible effect on what is currently in the game, but it's something we've seen players bristle against and we can see how the game may be healthier without this combination being possible. It means we can now remove wordy errata from traits like Decoy and Watchtower.

✋ Interaction of BLOCKED with flat damage

Previously, damage reduction from an attacker being BLOCKED would be applied before any flat damage adjustments, such as the additional damage added by the Rally field effect or the Cheerleader trait. This order is now adjusted so that BLOCK applies afterward. This means that BLOCK is more effective at curbing damage from these sources, and also makes damage calculation a little bit easier for players to do on the fly.

* The trait Vicious has now been modified such that blocked can't reduce its damage below 30, as written. Precision Strike, the mind attack, now says "This attack does 30 damage" instead of "Always does 30 damage" to clarify that it DOES interact with mechanics like BLOCKED, Cheerleader, etc.

👨‍👨‍👧‍👧 Rally

When RALLY is active, SPIRIT attacks do +20 damage (from +15) In the previous balance patch, Rally was changed from +50% to +15 damage. This change combined with the BLOCK change now brings Rally's overall power level very close on average to where it was at +50%. The main difference is its impact at the extreme ends of offense; it's much harder to convert a powerful attack into a guaranteed one-hit kill with +20 than it was with +50%, so this is still a healthy mitigation of the dominance Rally had in past seasons. We hope this tweak makes Rally more fun to play, both for its wielders and opponents.

🥱 Receive Weariness

Once a Beastie begins taking bonus damage from Receive Weariness, TOUGH loses its ability to sustain their STAMINA at 1. Receive Weariness almost NEVER comes up in a match, and this is by design. (For those who may not know what it does; after a Beastie receives 7 attacks in the same point, they begin taking bonus damage from successive attacks). This mechanic only exists to ensure that all games end eventually, and this change is implemented only to support that goal. In general we don't want this to ever interfere with a legitimate match. If it was made more relevant by activating sooner, for example, then it could easily risk becoming a new win condition for players to strive for, which ultimately would be monotonous and unfun.

🍄 Traits

• (NEW!) Synchronize: On TAG IN, copies BOOSTs from their ally
  • 🔄 Given to Crabaret in place of Agile Crabaret is a personal favorite of mine. After taking time to allow the meta to develop, I found that with Agile, their most effective playstyle boiled down to tagging them in to receive a reckless attack and then using Cheer+Dive to try to get a surprise one-shot kill in retaliation. While fun, this was very linear and didn't really feel like it fully expressed the playful personality of this Beastie. With Synchronize, I hope to keep their general playstyle as an offensive pivot, but create more depth and team synergies for them.
• (NEW!) Extrovert: This Beastie's attacks are always strengthened by Rally
  • 🔄 Given to Magpike in place of Crafty We were really excited to debut Crafty for Magpike, but in practice it didn't excite players much, didn't seem to synergize effectively enough with anything, and always was out-competed by Trusting. We're trying out a new trait that leans in to Magpike's strength as a high-power attacker, but with a role on totally different teams.
• ^(NEW!) Deviant: This Beastie's attacks do @1.5x damage when their target is changed
  • 🔄 Given to Maraptor in place of Roaring SIGH....... Maraptor........ We were inspired by themeing to give Maraptor "Noisy"-themed traits. But the last 2 iterations all proved imperfect; the way Noisy compresses the opponent's options always wound up making Maraptor unfun to play into when well utilized. We're attempting a different idea that makes Maraptor's traits both offense-oriented, aligning more with Magpike, while keeping a whiff of their "Noisy" theme in a different way.
  • &🔄 Given to Varkabond+Troglum as a recessive trait @Originally at +50%, we're experimenting with 1.5x, a fairly large power boost that we very rarely distribute to any trait. However in this case we think it may be warranted as the conditions always require action economy to keep active, for players who want to build around the trait eg. with Lock Target.
• Power Up, High Spirits and Full Focus:
  • 🔄New effect: Corresponding type attacks do +15 damage when STAMINA is below 34 (from +50%) In some cases, some players felt that these traits created too high a damage opportunity when active on their corresponding Beasties. I considered a few options on whether or how to address this; these traits were designed to make the starter Beasties easy and exciting to use even for beginner-level players, and that made them very difficult to redesign. What I found was that +50% had a very variable impact depending on which Beastie it applied to, which made it poor fit as a trait that applied to both defensive-style and offensive-style Beasties. The change to +15 makes it higher value for low-power plays and lower value for high-power plays, helping to normalize the power level of the 3 starters.
• Vampire
  • 🔻Restores 1/4 of damage dealt (from 1/3) Across many patches, we've tried 1/6, 1/5, 1/4, and 1/3rd damage. And after all this testing, I think we've confirmed that 1/4 was in fact the perfect number. Thanks for your participation in this experiment.
• Majesty
  • 🔼New Effect: When they TAG IN or attack, -1 SPIRIT POW to opponent team
• Sauna
  • 🔼New Effect: Sweaty opponents lose +10 STAMINA (No longer applies to allies)

🏃 Plays

• (NEW) Rousing Strike: SPIRIT Attack, 65 POW. Fielded allies feel +2 JAZZED.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Hopra
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 *Fetcham, Plumask, Crabaret
  Unlike Thriller, which applies JAZZED before contact, Rousing Strike applies JAZZED on hit - meaning its first use has lower power, but if you continue to use it it can keep the user and their ally continuously JAZZED on successive hits. Hopra's playbook was adjusted slightly to correspond with this addition - see below for more details.
• (NEW) Swarm: SPIRIT Attack, 40 POW. Before contact, SHIFTs self and ally to the net.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Kaleidarn, Blitzwift
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 Heliath, Lunaptra, ^Zefyre, Froofulks, Orgella, Daredillo
• (Exert has been removed from the game.) When Exert was originally added to the game, our intention was for it to be a strong new serving option for Spirit attackers, making them TOUGH so they could safely rush the net on Defense. However, in exchange for this awesome boon we wound up needing to aggressively mitigate its effectiveness, and the resulting play was certainly INTERESTING but it was mostly unusuable unless hyperexploited by certain combinations. The ability to apply TOUGH on an attack also combined with existing TOUGH applications in a way that made it too easy to stay protected for too long. We're accepting our failure on all that and are introducing a much more generic, Spirit-themed utility attack that can fill Exert's intended role alongside Rousing Strike.
• (NEW) Sweep: MIND Attack, 50 POW. POW x2 if there are any field effects. Clears all field effects.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Trat, Magpike
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 Bandicraft, Illugus, ^Shloom, Armantis, Crawlurk, Maraptor
  You might notice this play is a close to how we initially implemented Demolish. And you'd be right! But this time we're trying a different allocation of POW and on a different set of Beasties. We see this play as a potential new option for Mind-focused teams to fight back against protective opponent field effects (like Rally or Drum), or take advantage of their own (such as Trap) to convert into high-damage attacks. Alongside this change, we also gave a few MIND-focused Beasties access to Clear Field (see below), so that mono-mind teams have more flexibility into some matchups.
• (NEW) Wink: SUPPORT. Can target opponents or allies. Non-SWEATY target feels 1 SWEATY.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Skulkapi, Mudlsee
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 Grazada, Bindiva, Mistic
• (NEW?) Heat Wave: Spirit attack, 1 POW. Every fielded Beastie feels +1 SWEATY.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Scauldra
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 ^Xiphosaur, Squimage, Diabloceras, Mudslee, Heliath
• ^Steamer
  • 🔼 10 POW. Target feels +2 SWEATY. (Previously: Only targets straight ahead)
  These changes offer a fairly big re-thinking of the major SWEATY-applying plays! Previously, Steamer was very ineffective and rarely used. Heat Wave has been variously overpowered, or nearly useless, except when wielded by Beasties that took excessive advantage of it like Mudslee. We've now pivoted Heat Wave into a new and improved sweaty attack that fully sacrifices your offense damage for a hugely impactful status application. We hope this helps center Heat Wave as a staple play for Sweaty-focused passive teams. We also added Wink as a way to give more passive offense utility to a wider range of Beasties, filling a role similar to the Support version of Heat Wave while limiting its capacity to flip the entire game state in one click.
• (NEW) Fortify: DEFENSE. +2 to the lowest DEF on every fielded ally.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Diggum
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 Trat, Armantis, Wottle, Duggout
• (NEW) Share Snack: SUPPORT. Evenly split the STAMINA of target and self. Can target opponents from the net.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Diggum
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 Duggout
• (NEW) Reign: SUPPORT. -10 STAMINA to target. +20 STAMINA to self.
  • Via level up
    • 🔼 Skulkapi, Scauldra
  • Via friendship
    • 🔼 Psylusc, Yamyth, Diabloceras
  We also created a few new tools for defensive-oriented teams. We want to help expand the role of some Beasties whose effectiveness was curbed by previous patches that mitigated the effectiveness of many healing plays. Rather than strengthen flat healing, which can neutralize the game state in a boring way, we hope these inspire fun synergies that are fun to both wield and play against.
• True Strike
  • 🔻 80 POW. (From 85 POW)
  The addition of True Strike in the previous patch seems to have single-handedly shifted the meta towards body offense and raised the profile of many less-appreciated Beasties. We're pretty happy with where things landed overall, but we do feel that the move's power may have made it too much of an auto-include staple attack that ended up flattening body-focused teams a little bit too much. We want to see how it works with a slight step back in power so players can better weigh it against other body options.
• Jeer
  • 🔼 New effect: BODY, SPIRIT, MIND POW -1 to target.
• Goo-Goo Eyes
  • 🔼 *New effect: User feels +1 WEEPY. -2 BODY POW to target. Target feels +1 BLOCKED.
• Chill Out
  • 🔼 New effect: Clears BOOSTs from target. -2 SPIRIT POW to target.
  We want to try adding more of an edge to these plays to make them more viable on high-level teams. Straightforward power reduction on its own has never been enough to curb offense, as there are many other sources of damage ramping that a player needs to address. These changes make these plays a bit more effective in general cases, and potentially open the possibility of splashing them on a team that otherwise struggles with certain type matchups without having to swap out an entire Beastie to address it.
• Shield
  • 🔻 New effect: Feel 1 TOUGH + ^3 ANGRY. (From 2 TOUGH + 2 ANGRY).
  Although players initially lauded the change from 1 to 2 TOUGH on Shield, after seeing it in play for a while we've decided to walk back this change. At 2 TOUGH, if you clicked Shield on the wrong target and lost a point as a result, your Beastie would remain shielded on the following turn, allowing you to safely tag out the wiped ally without much risk. This made Shield less punishing to mess up with when on the back foot, but it also made it too noncommittal to click in too many situations. This change restores the high-skill margin for correctly reading Shields and in particular it vastly ups the inherent risk of relying on Shield to sustain two low-stamina Beasties on the field, as a misplay can cost you 2 points, rather than allowing you to safely convert 1 point loss into an advantage. ^We're trying a change to 3 ANGRY, primarily to resolve the huge advantage gained when a Beastie Shields and then scores a point, allowing the to Shield again on their subsequent Defense. The secondary downside of 3 ANGRY is it prevents offense-phase support actions on the 2nd offense after they Shield. But they can still Shield every other turn and be interrupted by Provoke as before.
• ^Whistle
  • 🔼 *New effect: SUPPORT. Feel 1 NOISY. Heal 15 STAMINA.
  ^With the change for TOUGH to no longer allow NOISY to draw in attacks, we felt that Whistle in particular would suffer from a lack of identity, since the ability to Whistle and then Shield was easily its most common and effective use-case. We've reduced its distribution and are giving it new life as a play that enables both offensive and defensive utility at once *is more self sufficient for sustained redirection.
• Distraction
  • 🔼 *New effect: DEFENSE. Only used from net. Feel 1 NOISY. -1 B/S/M POW to target.
  We're also giving a glow-up to Distraction, in line with our reasoning for buffing Whistle and other debuff support plays. Distraction has always been just a bit too weak to be usable. We'd love to see it fit onto more teams.
• Echo Strike
  • 🔼 80 POW (from 70)
  We think Echo Strike is fun, has distribution to interesting Beasties, and it tends to spice up the games it appears in. But its utility to disrupt is not as stable as we anticipated when we first added it, and we've seen that it can be quite hard to build around. So we're trying out a power increase to compensate for its limited utility value.
• Hex
  • 🔄 New effect: SUPPORT. Target and self trait changes to Haunted (Always feels 4 TIRED and can't be targeted). Hex is evil, and generally players find it obnoxious. We're aware of the player consensus that this play would work well if it simply applied TIRED to the user and target. However, we want this play to be obnoxious and strange. This tweak now removes its egregious combo with Tractor Beam but keeps it as weird as ever.
• Smack
  • 🔻 *New effect: DEFENSE. +1 B/S/M POW to benched ally. Benched ally feels 2 ANGRY. TAG OUT with benched ally.
  We saw some murmurings that Smack could too freely enable some degenerate one-turn kill setups. And we can definitely appreciate its capacity to densely pack a lot of value into one Beastie very quickly. We like the high highs of this play, but are testing out a drawback that makes it more risky and less flexible.

👹 Beasties

• Bildit, Handicoot, Bandicraft
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Chill Out
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Clear Field
• Axolati Hopsong, Hopra
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Tornadoball With the changes to Rally and High Spirits, I took a closer look at Hopra, and I started to take issue with Tornadoball in their kit. It is likely the most high-utility Spirit play in the game and can single handedly shore up a lot of otherwise bad matchups, making it a staple on Hopra sets. But it also is something that felt off-brand for them, and with enough flat damage boosting on top of their high spirit offense it was able to deal a little too much damage on top of its highly effective disruption. Not to mention the fact that Hopra has frequently drawn attention for their high utility on an unusually wide range of teams. With all this in mind, I took Tornadoball off their kit and redistributed it to a couple other Beasties who it fits better with. Rousing Strike takes its place in Hopra's playbook as a very high-utility secondary spirit attack that better fits their themeing.
• Bongus
  • 🔼 45 MPOW (from 40)
• Surgus
  • 🔼 45 BDEF (from 40)
• Illugus
  • 🔼 45 SPOW (from 40)
• Shooga, Supassum, Supilero
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Thump With True Strike being slightly lower power, we want to give these Beasties back an option to get a bit more power in exchange for less utility.
• Woolie, Fetcham
  • 🔼 80 BPOW (from 75)
  • 🔻 50 MDEF (from 55)
• Radillo, Daredillo
  • 🔼 101 BDEF (from 95)
• Diggum, Duggout
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Distraction
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Whistle
• Skulkapi
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Goo-Goo Eyes
• Troglum, Varkabond
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Clear Field
• Webbounce, Goofsder
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Twist
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Whistle
• Wottle
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Set, &Cover
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Whistle, Quick Set Wottle has seen gradually increasing usage for the last couple balance patches, and has been a healthy mainstay since the game's initial release. Lately players particularly optimized it towards offensive support using Quick Set, which it turned out to excel at a little bit too well for our liking. In our minds Wottle fits best as a defensive support, while other Beasties are meant to outperform it in offensive support utility. Wottle is good at camping the net and getting blocks, so it should still see a lot of effectiveness using Set, but not as much burst value as it did before.
• Kaleidarn
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: ^Distraction
• Gullit, Skiffrig
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Tornadoball
• Xiphosaur
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Shake Off
• Crabaret
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Slide
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Vigor Beam Vigor Beam has always been a tricky play that lives on the edge of being overtuned. We think it's really fun and interesting on most users, but for Crabaret, who already has so many Rhythm synergies, it felt a little bit too easy to get too much value from this play. It also encourages them to play very boring and safely, tagging in under redirection and maintaining stamina while camping at the net. In line with the changeover from Agile, we want the Crab to play a little more fun and silly on the field without necessarily losing their edge.
• Waglash, Riplash
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: @Vigor Beam @Mirroring the above changes with Crabaret, we took a closer look at how Vigor Beam was distributed and how much damage it could do from different sources and setups, and we found that Riplash wielded the best Vigor Beam in low-risk circumstances. There are still some crazy Vigor Beam users out there who can take advantage of Quick Tag/redirection, but the remaining ones come with less power, less bulk, or poor trait synergies which make it a little more interesting to play around.
• Mudslee
  • 🔻Plays Removed: Heat Up
• Conjarr
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Tornadoball
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: *Distraction
• Millimine, Demolipede
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: *Distraction
• Jellibat, Froofulks
  • 🔻 ^86 SPOW (from 93)
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Goo-Goo Eyes
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: *Whistle
• Beelb
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Confident Pass We're excited to see Beelb's usage grow since their glow-up in the previous patch! Their ability to stick on the field and build up power until they become a scary threat is central to their playstyle. Confident Pass enabled them to make their ally into a threat as well, and we think this made them synergize a little too well with some partners. We're making them a little more "selfish" to bring their performance in line and make them closer to our vision for them.
• Bindiva
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Clear Field, #Distraction
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: #Assess
• Punkchirp, Magpike, Maraptor
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Faith, Pipe, *Rally, ^Lock Target
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Finisher, Kneebender, Reposition, *Distraction These Beasties' move pools became bloated as we piled options onto them over patches and also tried to make Crafty work. Now we're trying a different but roughly equally large pile of options that might synergize better with Extrovert.
• Calcroach, Debugly
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Mindfield
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Twist Some players have felt that Debugly's use of Twist has been a little too difficult to deal with, since they can lock an opposing attacker out of the game while buillding themselves up with Telekinesis. We think Twist, annoying as it is, fills an important niche in the meta and it isn't something we want to remove from the game. In terms of statistics, Debuglys using Twist also have never particularly stood out as overperforming. But in an effort to make the game more fun, we've passed ownership of Twist to Goofsder, who fits with it more thematically, while lacking the ability to ramp its Mind power on its own. In its place, we're giving Debugly a new high-utility play that can slow down opponent action economy but in a way that's hopefully less frustrating.
• Grazada
  • 🔼 Plays Added: Chill Out
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: *Distraction
• Druppa, Scauldra
  • 🔼 99 BDEF (from 95)
  • 🔻81 SPOW (from 85)
• Heliath
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: *Distraction
• Deluja
  • 🔻 Plays Removed: Heat Wave

🚧Other Fixes and Changes

• The cost of all plays that can be tutored in Beastieball Academy have been reduced by roughly 33%
• &Fixed a few reported interactions, such as Fortify not triggering Protean, Swarm being weird when cycloned, @Foggy ignoring True Strike, etc
• @Fixed an issue introduced during experimental that prevented climbing up ropes
• Many more small fixes and tweaks, but I don't want to write them all out right now.... stay tuned for full patch notes in the Milestone Update!

This weekend we held a BIGMOON BASH where all Beasties were allowed! This is the final Open Bash before our next milestone update which will be sure to shake up the meta with another round of balance patches. How do things stand after a couple months of players optimizing on the current patch?

👑 Top-Scoring Players

Mabel (The Clashing Roses) | Bash Score: 3004

• Pummy (The Tiny Tacos) | Bash Score: 2920
• Zonk (The Violet Enigmas) | Bash Score: 2920

N/A

Boris (The Rutile Lights) | Bash Score: 2912

• Bolimar (The Crimson Angels) | Bash Score: 2904
• Satoros (The Diamond Ducks) | Bash Score: 2904

N/A

Darc Tech (The Arcane Robots) | Bash Score: 2844

UrBestie (The Ill-fated Princes) | Bash Score: 2804

Byrd (The Soggy Dreamers) | Bash Score: 2756

Dino (The 100 Demons) | Bash Score: 2740

苍庁龙 (紫罗兰幽灵) | Bash Score: 2716

Akio (The Arcane Enigmas) | Bash Score: 2696

Juninho (The Valiant Storms) | Bash Score: 2692

• Phoenix (The Flaming Feathers) | Bash Score: 2684
• AirMan121 (The Bugs) | Bash Score: 2684

N/A

Arc Tech (The Arcane Machines) | Bash Score: 2672

Pix (The Galaxy Drums) | Bash Score: 2660

WebBowser (The Questing Beasts) | Bash Score: 2584

Ket (The Lonesome Lovers) | Bash Score: 2572

Matt (The Gutter Ballers) | Bash Score: 2548

Sadie Bear (The Groovy Crabs) | Bash Score: 2528 The median Bash Score this time was 2010. We started sharing the score median by player request, although I do wonder how valuable it is as a measurement. For most every player, Bash Score starts around 2000, so the median is always around there. The variation of median score from Bash to Bash usually says more about who's playing - when many new players join, it's lower, and when the game hasn't been on sale for a bit and is consolidating to high-skill sickos, it usually goes higher. Regardless of the current state of the player base, though, your distance from 2000 is generally always a better measure of your distance from the "average" player rather than your distance from the median score of a given Bash. ...That aside, congratulations to the top-scoring coaches! I heard this time some of the top-scoring coaches tried to compete with 13 different teams using all 64 unique adult Beasties. Isn't that crazy?! Players are always congregating on our Discord to talk play strategy and help each other build better teams. If you want to jump into PvP or up your game it's a friendly place to visit!

📊 Beastie Usage Stats!

As has become tradition, we've collected a ton of data on Beastie usage during this event and we're happy to share that data with you for further investigation!

> Check out the STATS here!

Upcoming balance patch...

Tomorrow, we'll update the experimental branch with a new balance patch featuring a lot of new changes informed by play stats and player feedback over the last couple months. The patch will be in testing for about 2 weeks, and then on March 19 it will join the main game branch as part of our next milestone update! For players passionate about competitive Beastieball, we hope to get your thoughts on those changes so we can make the best game possible! Thank you!!!

Another BIGMOON BASH is beginning soon in Beastieball! During Bigmoon Bashes, coaches can challenge each other in open matchmaking for a limited time. When: Friday, February 27, 2026 04:00 PST to Sunday, March 1, 2026 04:00 PST Theme: NONE! All Beasties are allowed! During the event you'll have a Bash Rank, which will improve based on your performance. After it's over, you'll receive in-game rewards based on your participation, such as Social Battery and Sports Points. Players of all skill level are invited! All you need to do to participate is to play the game on that day and join the Bash on SportNet! SportNet is typically unlocked within the first 2 hours of your adventure, after beating your first Ranked boss. And if you aren't confident in your own Beastie team, you can use a randomly generated one instead - just go to Team Setup and set "Random Team" as your current team.

Official Game Rules:

First to 2 Points wins

Standard time limit on move selection

No Undos allowed

No duplicate Beastie species allowed

Relationship Combos are disabled

All Beasties are set to Level 50

This weekend we held a BIGMOON BASH where all teams were randomly generated! Although the premise was a bit silly, there was some real skill to playing in it too. Rather than competing with teambuilding, it was a contest of your ability to think on your feet and assess a completely unpredictable matchup... and a fair share of luck too. As a Bash player myself, I've always felt the top-level players get way too much time building and practising optimal teams for me to compete with. But in a random bash, with my superior game knowledge, I figured I would surely finally show all you nerds who the real boss was. Well, that did not come to pass... I was once again squarely destroyed. So, let's take a look at some of the sweaty nerds who placed higher than me!

👑 Top-Scoring Players

Zonk (The Violet Enigmas) | Bash Score: 2956

Beat (The Musical Punks) | Bash Score: 2924

Dino (The Chaos) | Bash Score: 2908

Stardust (The Starbound Dinosaurs) | Bash Score: 2872

GFZA (The Fun Pizzas) | Bash Score: 2816

Akio (The Arcane Enigmas) | Bash Score: 2784

Arc Tech (The Arcane Machines) | Bash Score: 2728

Choc (The Ultimate Dinosaurs) | Bash Score: 2724

SPeCtator (The Local Aliens) | Bash Score: 2676

• Pummy (The Tiny Tacos) | Bash Score: 2668
• Score (The Jamming Ballers) | Bash Score: 2668

N/A

Juninho (The Valiant Storms) | Bash Score: 2628

• Naydra (The Starbound Spirits) | Bash Score: 2580
• CryoPhoenix (The Goofy Birds) | Bash Score: 2580

N/A

• Mabel (The Clashing Roses) | Bash Score: 2572
• Charge (The Crimson Kings) | Bash Score: 2572

N/A

Boolerex (The Speedy Racers) | Bash Score: 2560

Lymerin (The Eternal Wings) | Bash Score: 2524

AirMan121 (The Bugs) | Bash Score: 2520

Igor (The Rutile Artists) | Bash Score: 2476 The median Bash Score this time was 1938. Even with the teams being random, it's interesting to see that the average players scores and even many of the top-ranking individuals are quite familiar to anyone who's watched past bash results. Of course, it's not completely familiar. Congratulations to the players who excelled in this chaotic format!

📊 Beastie Usage Stats!

...Well, this isn't as informative as usual, but for posterity I've collected stats on the top most-used Beasties. In this case, it's really just a reflection of what Beasties are more likely to appear on generated teams. But for folks who played in the Bash, it might be interesting to see which of the more and less common Beasties you wound up playing with.

> Check out the STATS here!

For Beasties who appear in the top, it mostly comes down to how diverse their kits are and how many different team compositions they can fit into. Many of the Beasties near the bottom here are ones who aren't available in team generation until you've discovered certain in-game secrets, so it makes sense that they appear less frequently than others. But others may be at the bottom because they lack kits that fit as well into our current generation model. For just a bit of insight; we have 500+ unique predefined Beastie sets in the game, 8 for each "adult" Beastie. The team generator picks a basic playstyle for the team, and then fills it with some combination of these predefined sets, with effort made to create synergistic combinations. ("Synergistic combinations" includes a lot of hand-coded data; for example, if a Beastie is added to the team with a trait that triggers on tag in/out, then the generator will raise the likelihood of adding a partner with tagging plays such as Quick Tag or Flight). Teams like this are generated for in-game challenges like the Tower Tourney. But when we generate teams for players, we do exclude or reduce the chances of certain playstyles appearing, particularly more passive ones, since they can be fun to battle against in the hands of an AI opponent but not so fun to pilot yourself. This adjustment accounts for many of the non-secret Beasties with some passive sets that aren't given to players as often by the team generator. For those curious, here are the individual sets who appeared most often:

Captain-Beetlback: Confident Pass, Smack, Overpower (2.76%)

Avenger-Heliath: Rally, Thriller, Heat Up (2.68%)

Annoying-Noizard: Mighty Yell, Cornershot, Drum (2.68%)

Captain-Bandicraft: Build, Mindfield, Refresh (2.64%)

Shanty-Tortanchor: Boom, Patience, Provoke (2.6%) We definitely will be looking at lots of data from this Bash and look for ways we can improve the predesigned sets to produce even better random teams in the future!

For future Bashes...

With such a different format this time, it's natural that some players liked it more and some less. But at least for me, this was the most fun I've ever had playing in a Bash. Overall I think this experiment was a huge success, and I would really like to feature it again in occasional future Bashes between more competitive open-ended ones and restricted theme ones. But at least for next time, we'll return to a classic Open Bash! I'll see you on the court in 3 weeks!

Another BIGMOON BASH is beginning soon in Beastieball! During Bigmoon Bashes, coaches can challenge each other in open matchmaking for a limited time. During the event you'll have a Bash Rank, which will improve based on your performance. After it's over, you'll receive in-game rewards based on your participation, such as Social Battery and Sports Points. During this Bash, all games will be played exclusively in Random Teams mode. That's right... your team will be randomly generated every match! We've been iterating on the game's team generation across several past updates and it is good at creating teams that are solid and usable. Whether you like the teams you get or not, you'll have to make the best of it and think on your feet! At the very least, you can forget about meticulous team-building this time around and just have fun with it!

🏁 Rules & Details

When: Friday, February 6 @ 4PM PST to Sunday, February 8 @ 4PM PST Guild Beasties: NONE! You don't get to decide anything! Players of all skill level are invited! All you need to do to participate is to play the game on that day and join the Bash on SportNet! SportNet is typically unlocked within the first 2 hours of your adventure, after beating your first Ranked boss.

Official Game Rules:

• Random Teams Mode
• First to 2 Points wins
• Standard time limit on move selection
• No Undos allowed
• No duplicate Beastie species allowed
• Relationship Combos are disabled
• All Beasties are set to Level 50