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Hello there, DinoMan here with a new public release for CBLT! I give thanks to the entire dev team, who have been a big help in regards to the development of this update, as well as the betas who have been hard at work testing for bugs. A huge shoutout to my Patrons as well, who have been willing to help financially support the development of the game.

As always, don’t forget to give any feedback and report any bugs on:

THE CBLT DISCORD SERVER

For Windows Users – It’s suggested you install the Avenir Medium and the Avenir Edited fonts from the /fonts folder to prevent a possible bug when using the phone.

That said, without further ado, here are the patch notes for RECODE version 0.4!

WHAT’S NEW IN CBLT RECODE 0.4?!

Week Three 85.714285714286% Complete – Cobalt’s quest to improve his capabilities in melee combat continues! Cobalt currently believes that having the axe and the gun separate is just fine for him, but will an encounter with the delectable Mina change his mind?

New Backgrounds (Bunnyvoid) – Bunnyvoid continues to create amazing backgrounds for CBLT! And now CBLT can go outside their dorms and explore new hallways, the balconies and rooftops of their dorm buildings, classrooms, the Mess Hall, the Amphitheatre… And for the first time ever, WE HAVE PROPER LIBRARY BACKGROUNDS! This is something that we’ve been waiting literal years to get around to fixing, since all we had up until now was a screenshot from the show. WOO!

New Music Pieces (PlotTwistStudios) – PlotTwist continues to make new music pieces for CBLT! Joining the CBLT Soundtrack this time are pieces such as “Break Happy”, “A Two Three Battle”, “Fun Respite”, “Bouncing City Life”, “Snowy Memories”, “Tension Ahead of Schedule” and “Intensement!”

Scroll Update! – The functionality of the scroll has been expanded upon! You are now able to track your relationship progress with Teams CBLT, RWBY, JNPR and MAGI! Starting with this update, social stats have also been added to the game, and you will be able to track them through the scroll now. The last piece of added functionality in this update is the ‘Items’ menu, where you can see exactly how much Lien you’ve got in the game at any given moment!

DUST EXPERIMENTS! – For those players who are daring enough, you can now help Professor Peach with some more elaborate dust experiments! Just investigate the classrooms during the afternoons, any time after her first introduction. The potential rewards are great, but are they worth the risks? Or Goodwitch's ire?

Help Bella! – And for those of you joining us from 0.3, you may remember how Isabella approached you asking for help with setting up something. Well, in this update, you can go find out exactly what that something is! You can go investigate at the classrooms during the night, but remember to bring a friend along! I don't trust Bella with Cobalt's fidelity.

Combat System! (Applicable to Blaze’s Spar Fight Pre-initiation) – The first fight featuring CBLT’s combat system has now been coded into the game! Start up a new save file for this one, because the fight in question is Blaze’s spar the day before initiation! The combat system is choice-based, and the choices will be presented to you on a menu that gives you a handful of options, like blocking, attacking, or dodging. Each choice you make will start a unique sequence of events that play out like a story, the consequences of which will vary based on what you decide to do at each menu. The new combat system does not involve any grinding or leveling up, meaning that you don’t have to spend hours in the gym increasing your combat skills!

Aureum Pendragon (New Character) – Aureum Pendragon, the heir to the Valean throne. Or… at least he would have been, if his grandfather hadn’t abdicated after the end of the Great War. But this knight in shining armour will be making his debut in this update, and just in time to lend Cobalt and Teal a hand with a history assignment.

Mina Seong Juhong (New Character) – Mina Juhong comes to Beacon Academy! She’s not only in the same year level as CBLT, but she’ll also be going up against their fearless leader in combat class. What happens next…. will not be revealed in these release notes. (The CBLT veterans should know how this fight goes down, though.

Garland Isley (New Character) – 0.4 isn’t just introducing Mina, but her remaining two teammates as well! The first to be introduced is Garland Isley! He’s a bit on the shorter side, much in the same way Neo is, but he has an incredibly cool hat. He doesn’t like ice cream though. No, his thing is plants, to the point where his semblance allows him to ‘plantbend.’

Irina Paletina (New Character) – Finally, to round off the unique team of MAGI is Garland’s new partner, Irina Paletina. Except… Irina doesn’t seem like she wants to be part of MAGI, much to the annoyance of Garland, Aureum and Mina. With Beacon so heavily focused around teams, how will they be able to solve this dilemma?

Horatio Soplar (New Character) – Two Cobalts!? Is Blaze dreaming? No, it just happens to be the leader of the second year team HRIS, Horatio Soplar! If you’re familiar with the fanfiction RWBY HEROES: A Double Edged Sword, then you’ll recognise Horatio as the protagonist from that series, and is written by the author himself, Dman! (DinoMan and Dman… the confusion continues!)

Read RWBY Heroes: A Double Edged Sword here!

Artemis Chrysanta (New Character) – Continuing the crossovers from SASI is Artemis! You can’t miss her, she’s the big redheaded Amazon who’s taller than Teal. Eight feet and one inch tall, in fact. And be warned, she has some serious ab work going on.

Rei Glacis (New Character) – Lastly, the final character being introduced through the main storyline in this update, much to Lilac’s horror, is Rei Glacis – a young woman who looks back on the glory days of the kingdom of Mantle… a little too fondly for the Atlesians’ tastes. And with her incredibly rare Mantalian uniform (inspired by the real life British Redcoats), she shouldn’t be too hard to miss.

Weiss Schnee (Updated Sprite) – Weiss has gotten a new sprite in this update, courtesy of Amaco as always!

WHO THE HECK DID GIVE US ALL THESE SPRITES!? (PSA) – In addition to the continually commissioned works created by Amaco and Bunnyvoid, a new deal has been negotiated between myself and Meinos Kaen, from fellow RWBY fan-made visual novel JPDE. For those of you who may remember, drama between the two development teams two years ago had led to a parting of the ways, and Meinos had told the CBLT team that we could use the JPDE art assets as placeholders while we replace and recode the game to be completely separate from his game. Much more recently however, he and I managed to negotiate a new arrangement that allowed us to continue to use art assets from his game on a much more permanent basis, and vice versa.

What this means is that we have a much more expanded library of sprites and backgrounds to use for CBLT. However, this does NOT mean that JPDE OCs created by Meinos will be appearing in the game, such as David di Kabegis or the Boss, or that we will be following a similar storyline to JPDE. Fellow writer Arc Alpha 12 is already well into writing a unique plot for CBLT that follows the canonical RWBY timeline more closely, and you will be seeing that storyline beginning to take shape in Updates 0.6 and beyond.

That’s all for RECODE 0.4! If you haven’t already, I encourage you to check out Rooster Teeth’s RWBY, at Roosterteeth.com/rwby.