Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero Patch Adds New Battle Options Before July 30 DLC

Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero received a large patch on July 29, one day before the scheduled launch of the Super Limit-Breaking NEO DLC. The update adds new arenas and music, changes several modes, and adjusts a wide range of combat systems.

The patch also prepares the game for characters trained through the DLC’s Limit Breaker Journey mode. Players can now control whether those fighters are allowed in certain offline and online battles.

The upcoming expansion will add more than 30 playable characters from Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Super, and the franchise’s movies. It will also introduce four stages and a solo mode centered on training a chosen fighter. More details about that content are available in the Super Limit-Breaking NEO DLC announcement.

Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero Patch Notes

The biggest changes affect the battle system. The update adds Linked Blast and Sparking! Boost adjusts Z-Search and several movement options and gives defending characters a small amount of Ki when they are hit by melee attacks. Several character skills and Blast attacks also received targeted adjustments.

Changes and Adjustments Affecting the Entire Game

• Stages
  • Added Rocky Land (White Valley), City Ruins (Clear Skies), and Molten Lava.
• BGM
  • Added “ZERO”.

Feature Changes & Adjustments

• Options
  • Added an option to toggle the aura change that occurs when characters trained in “Limit Breaker Journey”, a mode added in the Super Limit-Breaking NEO DLC, perform a Ki Charge.

Game Mode Changes & Adjustments

• Custom Battle
  • Added high-difficulty battles to Extra Battle.
  • Added new editable elements such as 2D cut-ins and text.
• Offline Battle
  • Adjusted CPU behavior.
  • When characters trained in Limit Breaker Journey are available, a rule setting has been added to enable or disable their use.
• Player Match
  • Added the ability to enable or disable the use of characters trained in Road to Ultimate Limit-Breaking when creating or searching for rooms.
• Survival Mode
  • Increased the number of battles in the round-robin survival challenge.

Battle System Changes & Adjustments

• New Action
  • Added Linked Blast, a new action that allows a switched-in character to immediately fire a Blast attack upon entering battle.
  • Added Sparking! Boost, a new action that consumes additional Skill Stocks to enter a more powerful Sparking! Mode.
• Z-Search
  • Adjusted the duration before Z-Search is lost so that it varies depending on the opponent.
• Melee Attacks (General)
  • Defending characters now recover a small amount of Ki when hit by melee attacks.
• Burst Melee
  • Adjusted to make activation easier even when Guard Assist is enabled.
• Smash Ki Blast
  • Adjusted hit stun on impact to reduce the likelihood of consecutive hits.
• Short Dash
  • Adjusted so that stepping is easier to perform when closing to short range via Short Dash.
• Ascend / Descend
  • Destructible buildings and rocks can now be destroyed through rapid ascents and descents.

Skill Changes & Adjustments

• Vegeta (Super), Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan – Limits?! I Break Them!
  • Reduced Skill Stock consumption.

Blast Changes & Adjustments

• All Rush-type Blasts that can cancel certain Energy Projectile Blasts
  • Adjusted to make it easier to nullify applicable projectiles.
• Majin Duu – Rolling Attack
  • Can no longer be countered with Super Perception.
• Ribrianne – Maiden’s Charge
  • Can no longer be countered with Super Perception.
• Kakunsa – Primal Charge
  • Can no longer be countered with Super Perception.
• Vegeta (Mini), Super Saiyan 2 – Head-On Impact
  • Can no longer be detected/countered with Super Perception.

With the patch already available and Super Limit-Breaking NEO scheduled for July 30, players have a fresh set of systems to learn before the expanded roster arrives. The changes may also affect team choices, especially in modes where trained DLC characters can be enabled.

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Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero

Developed by Spike Chunsoft

Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero takes the legendary gameplay of the Budokai Tenkaichi series and raises it to whole new levels. Make yours the destructive power of the strongest fighters ever to appear in Dragon Ball!

• Genre: Fighting
• Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch
• Perspective: Third person
• Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
• Release: 2024-10-11
• Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment
• Age Rating:
• IGDB Rating: 95.9/100

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