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Melty Blood: Type Lumina (Switch): all the updates (latest: Ver. ???)

On this page, you will find all there is to know about the various updates for Melty Blood: Type Lumina on Nintendo Switch (originally released on September 30th 2021 in Europe, North America, and Japan)!

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Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. ???

  • Release date: May 2024 (North America, Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:

No patch notes available yet. This update brings the following to the game:

  • game balance adjustments
  • Additional notes: none.
  • Source: Type-Moon (Twitter)

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. ???

  • Release date: October 4th 2023 (North America) / October 5th 2023 (Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
  • Fixes rare crashes in Boss Rush
  • Minor bug fixes
  • Additional notes: none.
  • Source: Type-Moon (Twitter)

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.4.3

  • Release date: June 8th 2023 (North America) / June 9th 2023 (Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.4.2

  • Release date: February 15th 2023 (North America, Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
  • Improved game stability.
  • Fixed some translation issues.
  • Additional notes: none.
  • Source: Type-Moon (Twitter)

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.4.1

  • Release date: January 5th 2023 (North America) / January 6th 2023 (Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:

The following character defects have been fixed:

  • The Count of Monte Cristo
    • Fixed a bug that was causing End Flame – Fallen Angel to draw the opponent at the edge of the screen even if it did not hit the opponent at the edge of the screen.
  • Ushiwakamaru
    • Fixed a bug that was causing Rapid Beat to draw the opponent at the edge of the screen even if it did not hit the opponent at the edge of the screen.
    • Fixed a bug that was causing Moon Skill Usumidori – Heavenly Blade Steps to draw the opponent at the edge of the screen even if it did not hit the opponent at the edge of the screen.

The following system bugs have been fixed:

  • SINGLE PLAY
    • A temporary fix has been made to a problem that sometimes causes force termination during pre-battle staging.
  • Shield
    • Fixed a bug that caused a slight difference in the situation when shielding certain attacks, depending on whether the player was 1P or 2P.
  • Fixed other minor bugs.
  • Additional notes: none.
  • Source: Type-Moon (Twitter)

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.4.0

  • Release date: December 14th 2022 (North America) / December 15th 2022 (Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:

This update brings the following to the game:

  • adds two new playable characters: The Count of Monte Cristo and Ushiwakamaru
  • adds two new stages: “Prison Tower – Hall” for The Count of Monte Cristo and “Face the Surging Waves” for Ushiwakamaru.
  • adds another Boss Rush, with story written by Kinoko Nasu
  • adds 10 new remastered music tracks:
    • Basilica
    • Noble Mind
    • Strange Dreamer
    • Nightmare Teller
    • Beat from “Melty Blood”
    • Wonderbul boy
    • Tenseness
    • Fairy Tale transparently
    • Rhythmical Bustle
    • O-sutra Hit
  • adds 4 colour variations and 4 colour palettes for all characters
  • adds about 530 free words that can be used in “CUSTOMIZE”
  • adds 3 more languages (text-only): Spanish, French, and Brazilian Portuguese
  • Known issues:
  • issue may force the application to close during the pre-battle performance.

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.3.7

  • Release date: October 10th 2022 (North America) / October 11th 2022 (North America, Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:

No patch notes available yet. This update brings the following:

  • adds 10 remastered tracks from Melty Blood: Actress Again (available in VERSUS, NETWORK, TRAINING, and GALLERY):
    • Encount(高層建築・シュライン)
    • Elegant Summer(遠野邸ホール・夜)
    • The end of 1000 years(千年城ブリュンスタッド)
    • Midnight Raider(無影公園)
    • The theme of Arcueid(死角の辻)
    • for Crimson Air(シュライン最上階・朱月)
    • SAKURA-KOI-UTA(桜花繚乱)
    • Fearless(影絵の悪夢)
    • Obscure Zone(廃棄空間)
    • Modernism Street(不夜の賑わい)
  • improves the “COLOR CUSTOMIZE” and “STAGE SELECT” functions
  • makes it so the “BOSS RUSH” final game can be retried
  • makes it so “RANKED MATCH” matching results are displayed faster
  • The following character defects have been fixed.
    • Hisui&Kohaku
      • Fixed a bug that caused a successful Tech Throw to continue incorrectly.
  • The following system bugs have been fixed
    • Super Armor
      • Fixed a problem in which Super Armor was sometimes not removed after receiving an armor break.
    • Shield
      • Fixed an issue where a Shield Failure Guard would not occur correctly while shielding a multi-hit projectile attacks.
    • RANKED MATCH
      • In network mode rank matches, RP (rank points) are no longer increased or decreased by incorrect values.
  • Fixed other minor bugs.

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.3.5

  • Release date: TBA
  • Patch notes:

No patch notes available yet. This update brings the following:

  • Fixed bugs.
    • Neko Arc
      • Fixed a bug in which if “Luck” was too high, “Luck” would not decrease correctly even if you drew the jackpot slot in “Cat Packet 2022” or “Abaddon Force”.
    • Super Armor
      • Fixed a bug that could cause the effect of armor to end when hit by an attack that was not an armor break.
    • Shield
      • Fixed a bug that sometimes caused extremely short recovery after stopping a hold.
      • Fixed a bug where Shield back and Shield Failure Guard would sometimes not work properly when shielding attacks and projectile attacks at the same time.
    • Shield Counter B+C
      • The phenomenon where a slight difference in situation was created depending on whether the player was 1P or 2P when using Shield Counter B+C near the edge of the screen has been alleviated.
  • Fixed other minor bugs.
  • Additional notes: none.
  • Source: Type-Moon (Twitter)

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.3.4

  • Release date: TBA
  • Patch notes:

No patch notes available yet. This update brings the following:

  • The following systems have been adjusted
    • Combo System
      • The no-tech duration of ground-bouncing attacks has been changed to shorten only in the case of extremely long combos
      • Changed so that the no-tech duration for jump attacks is also applied to aerial unique skills. The no-tech duration for aerial unique skills has been reduced only for extremely long combos.
  • Fixed a bug in the game system.
  • Fixed other minor bugs.

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.3.3

  • Release date: August 30th 2022 (North America, Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:

Full patch notes not available yet. This update brings the following:

  • Fixed a bug in the following characters
    • Red Arcueid
      • Blowback Edge Standing C cannot be guarded in mid-air
    • Saber Fixed
      • First Air Add→→ was prone to unintended triggering
    • Mario
      • Blowback Edge Crouching B is easier to cancel
    • Neco-Arc
      • Aerial ↓+B changed to be able to shield back on landing
  • The following system bugs have been fixed
    • Shield
      • Changed behavior when quickly pressing the D button twice
      • Changed the behavior of shielding back in mid-air at low altitude
      • Stopping time for shield failure guarding has been abolished.
    • Down-Left+C
      • Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the opponent to not start moving faster than the opponent when offsetting with a jump attack.
    • Ground Throws
      • Fixed a bug that prevented the throw from occurring at certain times.
    • Combo System
      • Fixed a bug in which the no-tech duration for ground-bouncing techniques did not decrease correctly according to the length of the sequence.
      • Fixed a bug in which the process of increasing the no-tech duration of jump attacks was also applied to unique skills in the air
      • Fixed a bug in which the no-tech duration was shorter in some cases than in previous versions.
  • The following game mode bugs have been fixed
    • Ranked Match
      • Fixed a bug that caused Rapid Beat Type to return to default after training standby ended.
    • Replay
      • Fixed a bug where Rapid Beat Type was not properly reflected when recording replays in network mode.
  • Fixed other minor bugs.
  • Additional notes: none.
  • Source: Type-Moon (Twitter)

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.3.0

  • Release date: August 22nd 2022 (North America, Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:

No patch notes available yet. This update brings the following:

  • adds new playable characters “Neco-Arc” and “Mash Kyrielight”
    • adds new character stories and battle stages (Great Cats Village R and Crossroad of Fates)
  • adds 5 new color variations/color palettes for all characters
  • increases the number of custom color slots by 3
  • adds scenarios to “Arcueid” and “Ciel”!
    • the scenarios are drafted and supervised by Kinoko Nasu and written by acpi.
  • adds “Boss Rush 2”! Expect higher difficulty levels and more scenarios for “Noel”!
  • adds new moves for all characters
  • makes adjustments to battle balance and battle system (Shields, Neutralizations, Moon Drive and Moon Skills, Dash and Aerial Dashes, Combos)
  • makes improvements to some game modes
  • Full patch notes (click here if images don’t display correctly for you):
  • Known issues:

The developers are aware of the following issues and currently working of fixes for them:

  • bug related to battles
  • bug in which some of the pre-battle staging has omissions
  • some icons and results are not displayed correctly in the Network Mode ranking
  • some of the “COLOR CUSTOMIZE” of characters may not be displayed correctly.

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.2.7

  • Release date: June 28th 2022 (North America) / June 29th 2022 (North America, Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
  • Addition of commemorative plates to “CUSTOMIZE”
    • adds 2 plates
  • Addition of titles to “CUSTOMIZE”
    • adds approximately 400 titles
  • Addition simple messages to player matches
  • Fixed bugs.
  • Additional notes: none.
  • Source: Type-Moon PR / Type-Moon (Twitter)

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.2.6

  • Release date: June 16th 2022 (North America, Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
  • fixed a bug that could cause the application to crash under certain conditions
  • Additional notes: none.
  • Source: Type-Moon (Twitter)

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.2.5

  • Release date: June 9th 2022 (North America, Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
  • fixed a bug causing profiles not to be displayed correctly in the ranking in the network mode.
  • Additional notes: none.
  • Source: Type-Moon (Twitter)

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.2.4

  • Release date: May 26th 2022 (North America, Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.2.2

  • Release date: May 9th 2022 (North America, Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
  • fixed a bug that prevented the Boss Rush mode from being released.
  • Additional notes: none.
  • Source: Type-Moon (Twitter)

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.2.1

  • Release date: April 14th 2022 (North America, Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.1.7

  • Release date: TBA 2022 (North America, Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
  • Minor bug fixes.
  • Additional notes: none.
  • Source: Type-Moon (Twitter)

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.1.6

  • Release date: March 10th 2022 (North America, Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
  • Additional notes: none.
  • Source: Type-Moon (Twitter)

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.1.5

  • Release date: January 24th 2022 (North America, Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
  • Additional notes: none.
  • Source: Type-Moon (Twitter)

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.1.4

  • Release date: January 18th 2022 (North America, Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
  • Additional notes: none.
  • Source: Type-Moon (Twitter)

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.1.3

  • Release date: January 12th 2022 (North America) / January 13th 2022 (Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
  • Additional notes: none.
  • Source: Type-Moon (Twitter)

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.03 and Ver. 1.04

  • Release date: TBA
  • Patch notes:
  • Additional notes: none.
  • Source: Type-Moon (Twitter)

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.02

  • Release date: October 19th 2021 (North America, Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:

No patch notes available. This update provides the following:

  • fixed an issue causing the game to stop when the character displayed by L / R is switched on the RANKING screen in “NETWORK” mode.
  • Additional notes: none.
  • Source: Type-Moon (Twitter)

Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Ver. 1.01

  • Release date: September 30th 2021 (North America, Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
  • Fixed text.
  • Additional notes: none.
  • Source: Type-Moon (Twitter)

How to download updates for Melty Blood: Type Lumina for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for Melty Blood: Type Lumina, you have three options:

  • let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off

If not…

  • try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;

OR

  • select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet.

To check that you have the latest version installed, simply select the game on the Home Menu, and press – or + to go to the Options: the version number is displayed just below the game title.

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