Notice board · questions, fixes and online
How to play, why online won’t connect, and what to do about “update the app”. It’s all pinned to this board. Not here? Write to us.
First lesson free
How do I learn to play?
The main menu has a Walkthrough: sixteen short lessons taught inside a real match, from walking and blocking to EX, super and ultra. The How to play screen explains every button, and every fighter has a full move list.
Want to practise without pressure? Training: a dummy, a clock that never runs, frame data on every hit.
Handover
What does each button do?
PKSPSUPERFP+K
Lost
How do I unlock the Voter?
Clear Arcade: five fights, easy to hard, then the Cabal. Beat it and the Voter is yours in every mode.
Can you play as the Cabal? No. It plays you.
Wanted
No sound, or too much of it
On iPhone, check the silent switch on the side. In the game: the gear on the main menu, Settings › Sound & haptics, with separate switches for music, sound effects and haptics.
Swap
How do I change the language?
Settings › Language: Hebrew or English, instantly. Every menu flips to the right direction; the ring stays put, and player 1 is always on the left.
Notice
What do I do when something breaks?
We don’t collect crash reports ourselves, so your message is usually the only way we find out.
Lost
Nearby games don’t show up
Found
How do I play a friend who isn’t here?
Online › Over the internet › Create a room. You get a four-character code, like K7QX. Send it to your friend, who picks Join with a code and types it in.
The room waits ten minutes. Codes leave out look-alikes, so there’s no O next to 0 and no I next to 1. Whoever opened the room hosts and plays on the left.
Opponent wanted
What is quick match?
It pairs you with whoever is waiting right now on exactly the same version. If nobody is, you wait in the queue until someone turns up, and you can cancel any time.
Coalition agreement
Can iPhone and Android play each other?
Yes, in every online mode: same Wi-Fi, room code and quick match. Same ring, same frame data, same 60 frames a second. The one condition: the same version on both devices. (The Android version is on its way to Google Play.)
Urgent
What does that mean?
The two devices are running different versions of the fight engine. To keep the match fair and in sync, both sides must run exactly the same version. In the nearby list this shows as “Different version”.
Update both devices from their store. A new version sometimes reaches one store a day before the other; if so, wait until it’s on both.
Fault
Lag, jumps or dropped matches
Online play uses rollback: when a packet is late the game predicts and then corrects, so you may see a small jump. Your ping is shown in the lobby and during the fight.
Personal
What name does my opponent see?
The one in Settings › Your name, up to 16 characters. It starts out as your device’s name: on iPhone that’s just “iPhone”, and on some Android phones it’s the name you gave the device, which may include a first name. While you host on the same Wi-Fi, anyone browsing for games on that network sees it. Rather not? Change it to a nickname.
Paid advertisement
Where are the ads, and how do I get rid of them?
The ads, from Google AdMob, pay for the game and the online server. They show up in menus and between fights, and never mid-fight, online, in the Walkthrough or in Training.
One purchase, Settings › No ads › Remove ads, makes all of them disappear for good. There’s no account, and you never have to sign up for anything.
Found
How do I get Remove Ads back?
Settings › No ads › Restore purchases, on a device signed in to the same Apple or Google account you bought with. The purchase moves between devices of the same store, but not from iPhone to Android or back: each store only knows its own receipts.
Privacy
How do I limit personalised ads?
All the details are in the privacy policy.
Lost
New phone, or I deleted the game. How do I get it back?
There’s no account, so nothing is stored with us. Settings and progress (language, CPU level, sound, name, Arcade and Walkthrough) live only on the device, with no sync between devices.
A full device backup and restore (iCloud or Google) usually brings them back along with the app. Deleting the app deletes them. Want a clean slate? Delete and reinstall. (Remove Ads lives in your store account, and is restored separately.)
Advanced
How do I change the difficulty?
Settings › CPU level: Rookie, MK, Minister or PM. It applies to Arcade and VS CPU. The higher they climb, the less they apologise.
Everyone
What accessibility options are there?
There’s no button remapping or controller support yet. Missing something? Tell us, seriously.
Didn’t find your answer here? Write to us. To help quickly, tell us your device, your iOS or Android version, which mode you were in and exactly what you saw. A screenshot is worth a thousand words, and with a bug, a thousand lines of code.
A human answers, in Hebrew or English. Quite possibly the one who wrote the bug.
Questions about data and privacy: the privacy policy.
