'Brawl Stars' Patch Notes: Get a Colored Name and Rosa

Steven Asarch

By Steven Asarch

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A brand new April update has just been released for Supercell's Brawl Stars. This patch for the mobile hero shooter allows players to change the color of their username, unlock new Brawler Rosa and play with a ton of balance update changes. This patch is available on both iOS and Android right now, so let's just dive right in.

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Brawl Stars Name Color Change

After this patch, players can change the color of their name for free. If you click on your profile icon in the upper left, you'll be taken to your Trophy Road, where you can see the rewards you've earned. Clicking on the small, white square to the left will move the screen towards your character profile. Clicking the gear icon next to your profile avatar will allow you to pick one of 12 different colors that will appear whenever your name is shown.

Brawl Stars Patch Notes

Here are the patch notes for the latest Brawl Stars update, straight from reddit.

New Rare Brawler - Rosa (Coming soon)

Main attack - Hands of Stone: Flurry of punches
Super - Strong Stuff: Rosa creates a tough second skin of vines, preventing 80 percent of incoming damage for 6 seconds
Star Power - Plant Life: Rosa regains health while inside bushes

New Skins (Coming soon!)

Bunny Penny
Shiba Nita

New Maps & Dynamic Map Element

Gem Grab: Minecart Madness
- Carts travel on the railroads on certain intervals
- Carts block shots, deal damage and push back Brawlers when hit
Showdown: Flying Fantasies(with Launch Pads!), Royal Runway
Brawl Ball: Center Stage
Siege: Junk Park, Sparring Match, Straight Shot, Assembly Attack
Boss Fight: Danger Zone

Showdown

Meteors now target grouped players with better logic and the Meteor explosion radius is bigger
Healing mushrooms and Energy Drinks are now more likely to spawn farther from grouped players

Siege

Bolts spawn a little bit closer to the middle
Frank's stun only works for a split second on the IKE
IKE no longer creates area damage with its projectile.
IKE projectile now homes to the target (but not against flying units)

Other

UI - Some homescreen Buttons Moved into Menu
Brawl TV - Watch high-level gameplay live!
Training Cave - Preview and test new brawlers! Available from the Brawler info screen
Localization - Added Polish and Hebrew languages
Name Change for Gems - First is free! Then 60, 90, 120, 150 Gems for each consecutive change
Golden Week event (Coming soon) - New Menu background and music
Matchmaking Improvements - Slightly more difficult matchmaking for teams
Support for color tags removed (color codes can be removed with one free name change) Players have an option to pick a color from their profile screen.
Tutorial improvements
Improved poor connection symbol display during battle
Increased Super button's tappable area
Spawn the second Gem in Gem Grab later
Shows Star Icon under Pets if they are affected by Star Power

Character Sounds & Visuals

Bo - In-game model rework, New Effects and Projectiles
Carl - Audio Voice Overs
Leon - New attack projectile
Little Helper Penny - New Effects and Projectiles
Boombox Brock - New animation
Spike - Effects polished
Primo - New main attack effect
Golden Barley - New projectile

Bug Fixes

Robo Rumble: Fixed an issue in Robo Rumble where the enraged melee robots were not hitting the safe
Brawl Ball: Fixed an issue that caused Ball to bounce from walls that were destroyed while the ball was moving after a kick
Brawl Ball: Own goal is attributed to the last player from the opposing team to touch the ball
Brawl Ball: When Penny's Star Powered Mortar explodes after a goal it no longer shoots out cannon balls
Fixed an issue that prevented spectating while ready in a game room
Fixed double rank up token reward not being visualized correctly in the battle end screen
Fixed an issue that caused a player to be unable to reject/accept Game Room join requests
Fixed an issue that caused online time for new Club members to be shown as "< 1 month ago>"
Fixed an issue that caused Club member statuses to not update instantly
Matchmaking hints are no longer displayed for unreleased Brawlers
Season end trophy decay handling improved
Fixed a bug where you could end up having the super button stuck down if you shot your super the exact same time when you got hit by a pushback
Pet spawning will occur even if the Brawler dies while activating Super

Character Balance & Bug Fixes

Crow

Increased main attack damage from 280 to 300
Increased super damage from 280 to 300
Increased poison damage per second from 70 to 75

Carl

Increased boomerang speed by 25 percent
Increased Super duration from 2.5 sec to 3.0 sec
Stuns, pushbacks and pulls now interrupt Carl's Super ability
Fixed a bug causing Carl to not reload when the boomerang returned
Carl no longer has a reload animation when he spawns
Carl's Pickaxe now returns even if Carl dies when the Pickaxe is flying towards the target

Darryl

Increased health from 4000 to 4200

Shelly

Increased main attack range from 7.33 tiles to 7.67 tiles
Increased main attack projectile speed by 5 percent

Piper

Increased the number of Bombs dropped from Super from 3 to 4
Increased Super Bomb damage from 800 to 900
Bombs now spread on a little bit larger area (+10 percent diameter)

Gene

Fixed a bug that allowed Gene to pull the Robot boss so that it got stuck in Boss Fight
Fixed a bug that caused Gene's pull to stick enemies inside walls when pulling close to an indestructible wall
Fixed a bug that didn't allow Gene to pull enemies with his Magic Hand while being poisoned by a lvl 10 Crow
When a pulled enemy dies during the pull the hand no longer destroys the environment
When Gene is pulling a target with his Magic Hand the target cannot be pulled by another Gene
Quickfire now takes into account the added range from the projectile splitting

Pam

Decreased main attack damage from 260 to 240
Decreased health from 4400 to 4300
When Nita and her Bear and Pam attack Pam's Healing Stations they now receive the star power healing effect

Leon

Decreased Super Invisibility time from 8.0 sec to 7.0 sec

Spike

Quickfire now takes into account the added range from the projectile splitting

Poco

Increased Super healing from 1840 to 2100

This Brawl Stars update could completely shift the meta. Spike and Leon are two of the strongest Brawlers in the game and both have received minor nerfs. This won't be enough to knock them off their pedestals, but it might help other Brawlers take their place. Poco, Crow and Carl also received major buffs, giving them enough power to stack up against the competition. I am absolutely loving Brawl Stars this patch, with my boy Barley surviving unscathed. Supercell is taking their time to balance the game and make sure they don't release anything stupidly overpowered.