Hey everyone! Welcome to the
Skullgirls Mobile 7.1 update!
We’re deep into December and the Holidays are just around the corner! In the spirit of the season, we come to your door not singing carols nor bearing mistletoe, but offering one final
SGM update for 2024!
Update 7.1 serves as a companion piece to our previous release while paving the way for the launch of our 2025 season. Update 7.1 brings six new Monthly Fighters, a slew of in-store offers, and a round of all-important bug-squashing! We also have a sackful of exciting freebies to roll out over the Holiday season - so you can spend some fine festive evenings with our friends in the Canopy Kingdom.
The weather outside is frightful, but
Double is so delightful!
Ain’t nothing to it but to do it - let’s get into the
7.1 Update Notes! Feel free to share any queries in the comments below and, as always, thank you for your continued support of
Skullgirls Mobile!
Here’s a quick rundown of what’s covered in these notes:
- New Monthly Fighters
- Shard Exchange Store & Holiday Specials
- Relic Fighters
- 7.1 Launch Celebration
- Viewing Parlor Changes
- 12 Days of Gifting
- Happy New Year Gift
- Economy Updates
- Other Changes
- Coming Soon
And…
Action!
NEW MONTHLY FIGHTERS
To kick off 2025, six new
Monthly Fighters will join the
Skullgirls Mobile roster!
Each month sees the launch of a new
Gold and
Diamond Fighter. As always, these new sluggers can be pulled from in-game Event Relics. Additionally, each month’s Gold Fighter can be earned by completing the All Access Track of that month’s
Backstage Pass!
The six new Monthly Fighters are as follows:
January:
Glacial Ghoul (Diamond) -
Wave Warrior (Gold)
February:
Don Passione (Diamond) -
Stellar Huntress (Gold)
March:
Shear Force (Diamond) -
Rhythm Rider (Gold)
That Big Band sure fills a room, right? As well as being absolute lookers, each of the three new Diamond Fighters features a bespoke
visual flourish, so keep your eyes peeled for that little extra flair in battle!
Each pairing will launch consecutively over the next three months. In the meantime, players may spot all six new Fighters chilling in the Recruitment Nodes of
Parallel Realms, or making early appearances in random battles throughout
Skullgirls Mobile! If you’re lucky enough to encounter one of our newcomers, then be sure to take a snapshot and share it
on our socials! (including our
new Bluesky account!)
SHARD EXCHANGE STORE
If you missed out on your favorite monthly Fighter in our
Sep-Nov seasons, you have a new opportunity to add them to your roster! The six Fighters who debuted in those updates are headed to the
Shard Exchange Store in 2025!
Near Death, Spell-Bent, Masked Menace, Chaos Theory, Locked In, and
Pickle Baller will all be available in the Shard Exchange Store over the coming months! If you have enough Gold and Diamond shards saved, you can exchange them for your favorite Fighter from our previous season! Look sharp!
Gold Fighters cost
5,000 Gold Relic Shards. Diamond Fighters cost
5,000 Diamond Relic Shards.
Here’s the schedule of upcoming Fighter availability:
January:
- Diamond - Valentine - Near Death
- Gold - Marie - Spell-Bent
February:
- Diamond - Painwheel - Masked Menace
- Gold - Double - Chaos Theory
March:
- Diamond - Parasoul - Locked In
- Gold - Beowulf - Pickle Baller
Don’t forget you can also
convert any unopened Gold and Diamond Relics into their respective Shards.
SHARD EXCHANGE HOLIDAY SPECIALS
From today through to
January 2025, the
Shard Exchange Store will welcome a selection of special Holiday offers, giving players a new opportunity to pick up some favorite Fighters from the 2023 Holiday season. As requested by you, the community, these 12 Fighters will appear in the Shard Exchange Store for the
very first time, so don’t miss this opportunity to pick up some classic characters!
The Fighters
Red Rider, Blue Streak, Final Fang, Altar Ego, Psy Kid, Starlight Rose, Scare Giver, Foot Soldier, Primal Prodigy, Bombshell, Demon Artist, and
Web Crawler are available now in the Shard Exchange Store, each purchasable for
5,000 Gold or
Diamond Relic Shards, respectively.
The
Shard Exchange Holiday Specials offer will end on
Wednesday, January 1st, 2025.
PREVIOUS MONTHLY FIGHTERS ADDED TO RELICS
The Monthly Fighters from our
June-August seasons have now been added to standard Relics!
Deal Breaker, Curl Scout, Grin Reaper, Brass Bandit, Noble Mogul, and
Hex Caliber can now be acquired via all of
SGM’s regular routes - including Character Relics, Premiere Relics, and Elemental Relics. On rare occasions, Gold Fighters can even turn up in the mysterious
Cabinet of Curiosities!
7.1 LAUNCH CELEBRATION
When you log into Update 7.1 for the first time, you’ll find a
FREE gift waiting for you! This special package includes a
Guest Star Relic, 3
Premiere Relics, a
4hr XP Boost, 100,000
Canopy Coins, and 5
Gold Gifts to share among your friends! ‘Tis the season, after all, and no need for gift wrap.
For the
free avatar, it appears Nadia has not turned up to photo day looking her best! This avatar is, admittedly, a lil’ bit dopey, but we hope you don’t lose your head over it! You can find the 7.1 Update Gift and all of its associated freebies waiting for you in the Store, so go get it!
VIEWING PARLOR CHANGES
We have made some additional changes to the way rewards are handled in the
Viewing Parlor.
As of
Update 7.1, we are
removing the five-videos-per-day limit.
Videos will now refresh
every 30 minutes, with players free to watch as many videos as they choose. Rewards for watching videos will now alternate between a
1-hour 2x XP Boost, and a standard reward, which can include
Canopy Coins, Theonite, XP Treats, or a variety of
Relics.
The
1-hour 2x XP Boost will activate
automatically as soon as it is earned. The duration of these XP boosts is also stackable, and can be used in conjunction with manually activated XP Boosts, mode-based XP boosts, (such as those found in the
Holodeck), or even with additional Viewing Parlor XP Boosts.
Utilise video-based boosts alongside other boosts in your inventory for
huge XP gains!
12 DAYS OF GIFTING RETURNS!
We are excited to announce the return of our popular end-of-year giveaway: the
12 DAYS OF GIFTING!
From
Saturday, December 14 through
Wednesday, December 25, players can log in to
Skullgirls Mobile every day to receive a new gift absolutely
FREE. The gifts range from
in-game currency and
XP Boosts to
Canopy Coins, Vouchers, Relics, and
Guest Star-related goodies! Each day’s gift will
only be available for 24 hours, so be sure to log in on all 12 days to bag all of the available treats!
The 12 Days of Gifting is our way of celebrating the Holiday season while toasting another wonderful year of Skullgirls Mobile. We are pleased and grateful that we have been able to share 2024 with you.
Remember, the 12 Days of Gifting begins
Saturday, December 14. See you there!
HAPPY NEW YEAR GIFT
But that’s still not all! To celebrate the start of the new year, another gift parcel will be winging its way to all players’ accounts on January 1, 2025. This package will contain a
Guest Star Relic, 3
Retake Relics, 100
Theonite, and 100,000
Canopy Coins. All of which should help you gleefully ring in the new year!
As you can see, there are
a lot of goodies on deck in the coming weeks, so be sure to grab them all!
ECONOMY UPDATES
2024 MONTHLY JACKPOT RELICS RETURN
From
Wednesday, December 25th through
Tuesday, January 14th, Every 2024
Monthly Event Jackpot Relic will be made available in the Gacha Store! So, if you missed out on any exclusive Fighters from this past year, don’t miss this limited window to add them to your collection!
MISC
- The new year brings with it a new gallery of shiny avatars! These delightful icons will roll out over the first three months of 2025. Players can find them in the Skullgirls Mobile store and as rewards on the Free and Premium tracks of the Backstage Pass. Some avatars feature bespoke artwork from our Backstage Pass artists - not found anywhere else in-game!
OTHER CHANGES
COMBAT
- Big Band: Retuned Prestige Ability: Ability reverted to its previous status before Big Band’s 2024 overhaul. PA now charges for every 10 hits landed on either Big Band or his opponent.
- Black Dahlia: Retuned Marquee Ability: No Time to Die now has a 30-50% chance to grant 10 seconds of Regen & Haste when she takes a critical hit.
- Guest Stars: Fixed issue where using a Blockbuster & Guest Star together would not cost meter.
- Guest Stars: Fixed issue where Brain Drain could cause Fighters to loop in infinite bounces.
- Guest Stars: Fixed rare issue where meter would fully recharge during Guest Star activity.
- Guest Stars: Fixed issue where Psychic Jumble could result in mismatched icons/moves.
- Guest Stars: Fixed issue where Psychic Jumble could lock out player’s Tag options.
- Guest Stars: Fixed issue where CPU could activate Guest Star right after their Fighter was KO’d.
- Eliza: Fixed Issue where Eliza would gain Guest Star meter when hit in Sekhmet mode.
- Cerebella: Fixed mismatched skin tones on Scare Giver.
- Robo-Fortune: Fixed an issue where Reimaged head drones displayed incorrectly.
- Ms Fortune: Ms. Fortune no longer gains Guest Star meter from attacking her own head.
- Parasoul: Fixed issue where performing Egret Dive would not earn Guest Star meter.
- Umbrella: Fixed issue where Feeding Time caused increased Guest Star meter for rest of battle.
- Umbrella: Fixed issue where Palace Plunderer’s teammates recovered too much health on hit.
- Umbrella: Fixed issue where Umbrella would gain Guest Star meter when a Fukua clone hit Bobblin’ Bubble.
- Marie: Fixed issue where Gravedigger’s SA2 wouldn’t stack Precision alongside Immunity.
- Marie: Fixed rare issue where Marie’s animation frames would display incorrectly when thrown.
CATALYSTS
- Cripple Decker has been rebalanced:
OLD: Inflict CRIPPLE for 5-15 secs & FATIGUE for 15-5 secs when an opponent's attack inflicts at least 15% - 8% health.
NEW: Inflict CRIPPLE for 5-15 secs & FATIGUE for 18-8 seconds when an opponent's attack inflicts at least 15% - 8% total health.
- Wither Forecast has been rebalanced:
OLD: Every 20-5 secs, opponents suffer WITHER for 5-15 secs. WITHER removed if opponent uses Blockbuster.
NEW: Every 12/9/7 (char-specific B/S/G) or 15/12/10 (generic B/S/G) seconds, opponents suffer WITHER for 5-15 secs. WITHER is removed if the opponent uses a Blockbuster.
- The Angry Flinch has been rebalanced:
OLD: 25-100% chance when knocked down to gain UNFLINCHING for 5-15 secs and 1 stack of BARRIER.
NEW: While below 65% (char-specific) or 50% (generic) health, 25/50/100% (B/S/G) chance when knocked down to gain UNFLINCHING for 5-15 secs and 2 stacks of BARRIER.
- Autoimmune has been rebalanced:
OLD: 25-50% chance when suffering DEBUFF to remove all debuffs gain IMMUNITY for 1-6 secs.
NEW: While suffering from at least 1 (char-specific) or 2 (generic) DEBUFFS, 25/50/100% (B/S/G) chance when suffering another DEBUFF to remove all debuffs and gain IMMUNITY for 1-6 secs.
- Shot In The Dark has been rebalanced:
OLD: 25/50/100% (B/S/G) chance when blocking a hit to inflict WITHER for 5-15 secs.
NEW: 25/50/100% (B/S/G) chance when blocking a hit to drain 5-15% of Blockbuster meter.
- Futile Resistance has been rebalanced:
OLD: Opponents suffer 1-6% damage when landing a hit that deals less than 1% of Big Band's max health. While facing Big Band, opponents have their PIERCING ignored.
NEW: Opponents suffer 1-6% damage when landing a hit that deals less than 1% of Big Band's max health. While facing Big Band, opponents have their PIERCING reduced by 35%
MISC
- Players now earn 3 Universal Retakes as the final milestone in Seeing Stars Prize Fight.
- Fixed issue where Pausing the Game would not Pause the Game.
- Player Profile now includes a Top Guest Star section, showcasing the highest level of each move type owned by the player (e.g. Dim Sum Delivery, Psychic Jumble etc.)
- New pop-up warning when the player is about to sell Shiny Guest Stars.
- Resolution optimization on multiple UI elements.
- Fixes to non-English text occasionally misaligning with cards/pop-up boxes.
- Additional localization fixes.
- Additional minor bug fixes.
KNOWN ISSUES
- There are still some known issues with some Fight Replays becoming desynced. We are still investigating this, but some replay issues will unfortunately persist in this update. A disclaimer, added to the in-game Replay area, explains the situation while we continue to work on this.
COMING SOON
As we approach the final embers of the year, we at HVS hope you’ve been enjoying the many features and additions to Skullgirls Mobile over the past 12 months. Since January, SGM has received:
- An amazing 24 new Fighters - featuring some of our most popular palettes ever!
- A new stage (Hilgard’s Castle - Nightmare)
- A gallery of colorful new avatars
- A new weekly Prize Fight (Seeing Stars)
- Overhauled CPU AI
- Multi-speed auto battle functionality
- A not-at-all-controversial Tier List
- Replay support
- Faster, slicker fight transitions
- A reworked Big Band
- Free first-time Prize Fight refreshes
- A revamped Viewing Parlor with juiced-up rewards
- Expanded online presence via a dedicated Discord, a new Bluesky account, and the launch of the Skullgirls Mobile Hub!
None of this is to mention
SGM’s biggest, most ambitious addition this year; the arrival of our
Guest Stars! We hope you’ve enjoyed teaming up with
Minette and
Brain Drain, and we’ve been highly impressed with some of the creative, jaw-dropping combos players have been putting together since the duo’s arrival. Work continues on our third Guest Star,
Roxie, whom we hope to see arrive, wrench in hand, in 2025.
As
Skullgirls Mobile approaches its eighth year, we want to thank you, our community, for your continued dedication and support. Your endless enthusiasm - demonstrated through your fantastic artwork, cosplay, patronage, streams, ideas, and feedback - inspires our efforts to develop and deliver new and exciting ideas within the
Skullgirls universe. Thank you for being part of this wild ride!
Here’s to another marvelous year in New Meridian! We look forward to sharing it with you!
Until next time…
That’s a wrap!
- Happy Holidays from all of us at Hidden Variable and Autumn Games <3
