Castle Crashers

Hear ye, hear ye! We’re BACK with yet ANOTHER patch for Castle Crashers and Painter Boss Paradise! Today’s updates include some fixes for bugs reported by the community, quick art patch-ups, and instructions for alt-tabbing in the game with ease! Thank you to all community members who have reported issues to our team. This big chicken is filled with appreciation!

NEW Alt-Tab Setting

• Adding -nopausewhenfocuslost to the command line will now disable pausing when the window loses focus!

How do????

• In your Library, right-click Castle Crashers and select Properties.

• In the General tab, go to the Launch Options section at the bottom.

• Copy/Paste -nopausewhenfocuslost in the field.

• Close the window and experience non-pausing when focus is lost in Castle Crashers like never before! Alt-tab feeling a sense of WONDER and EXCITEMENT!

Painter Boss Paradise

• Fixed the King's Fresh character art when facing away from the screen.

• The Beefy Boulder Thrower™ near the start of Full Moon will now use proper Fresh art and replacement skins.

• Fixed Arena banners being invisible for custom skins in Beefy mode.

• Fixed Arena banners occasionally sorting incorrectly behind custom skins.

• Fixed a Fresh art visual issue with spawning Cultists during the final boss battle.

• Fixed a bug where the magic splash attack damage of replacement characters using Smith magic did not affect the player.

• Fixed air magic attack for enemies using replacement skins with Sand magic.

General

• Fixed an issue with specific enemies having an incorrect attack power when doing a Tornado magic attack in Insane mode.

• Fixed enemy “fake crits”. This previously occurred when an enemy randomly dealt instakill damage.

• Fixed a bug in BoB where the Green Knight character art would appear for one frame when enemies spawn. Oops!

• Fixed some corrupted BoB character art that was caused when scaling them down.

• Adjusted BoB character art to be more centered in the tile.

• Fixed an issue with the Gray Knight’s elemental attack not matching other non-elemental characters.

• Fixed an issue where the Beefy Boulder Thrower™ at the start of Full Moon would briefly appear unbeefy.

• Fixed the ability to throw other players in Beefy Arena.

Mac

• Fixed mouse cursor sometimes being offset when going into windowed on macOS.

Greetings to all knights, young painters, and every Painter Boss Paradise custom character in between! We’re back today with another patch to deploy some fixes for Mac, in addition to fixing some reported issues within Painter Boss Paradise and the base Castle Crashers game. As always, let us know what you think, and don’t forget to stock up on potions before your next adventure!

Mac

• Added borderless fullscreen support.

• Fixed issue with Rich Presence not working properly.

• Now shows the default ‘pbplocal’ folder when importing skins in the Painter Boss Paradise DLC editor.

• Assigned controller push-to-talk to left analog stick similar to Windows.

• Fixed rumble on PS4 and PS5 controllers.

Painter Boss Paradise

• Scaled down Back Off Barbarian Fresh character art .

• Skeleton eyes are now purple in Back Off Barbarian.

• Fixed an issue with custom heads being flipped backwards during certain animation sequences.

• Fixed an issue with the Necromancer’s skeleton magic so that it uses Fresh art.

• Paint Jr. no longer does the eyeball emote when failing the catapult in Flower Field.

General

• Adjusted the Catfish and Cyclops attack hitboxes back to their original range

• Fixed some offset collision near the Swolien in the Alien Ship.

• Players now maintain the previously equipped item when auto-using last potion.

• Fixed an issue where the parade background would sometimes disappear.

• Fixed an old issue where the player would sometimes get stuck in a weird animation state during Rapids Ride when getting knocked off a log.

• Improved beefy kick animation.

• Removed unused DirectX files from game files.

• Fixed music pausing when exiting audio settings in an online lobby.

Community Creator Spotlight

Thanks for providing such a cute character for our team to use during testing!!! :)

Happy November, knights! Can you believe it’s been three months since the release of Painter Boss Paradise? We hope you had an amazing Halloween, but it’s time to move on to a VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT we’re sure you’ve all been excitedly anticipating. Cheeks. Are. Back!!!!!

You heard that right. Alien Hominid’s butt cheeks are BACK in today’s patch, along with a myriad of updates and bug fixes for both the Global version of Castle Crashers and the Painter Boss Paradise DLC! Let's get right into it, shall we?

Mac

• Fixed an issue with text getting cut off in the Manager menu

• Fixed an issue with vibration/rumble for controllers on Mac

• Fixed an issue with Steam Input recommended configs not working with Mac

Input

• Fixed an issue with push-to-talk key not working when there are only gamepad players

• Fixed inverted left analog stick for PS5 controllers when Steam Input is not enabled

• Fixed an issue with Steam Input not working when controller is plugged in after boot

• Added native support for PS5 DualSense controllers

Painter Boss Paradise

• Fixed an issue with re-uploaded characters not appearing in online games

• Fixed visual bug with dear Herbert’s portrait (we love you Herbert)

• Fixed various visual bugs with Fresh Beefy character art

• Added FRESH Blacksmith Beefy art

• Added new skeleton art for Necromancer projectile magic in Fresh mode

• Fixed an issue where the defeated Painter Boss body would disappear after defeating from underneath the chest

• Updated Skeleton’s portrait art

• Updated Necromancer’s Skeleton magic art

• Updated Main Menu vignettes to reflect new Skeleton art

• Fixed visual art bugs in the attract mode

Global

• Fixed some visual glitches in the Final Wizard Battle

• Fixed attack power being overridden when being hit out of tornado attack

• Fixed visual art bugs in Beefy uppercut animation

• Fixed a visual bug when grabbing chickens in the` Beefy arena

• Added SFX to shield blocking

• Implemented various text and translation fixes

• Implemented various optimizations

• Last but not least: Alien butts have been recheeked!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hopefully we never have to spend a playthrough with cheek-less buttocks ever again.

Searching for characters to download? Look no further than The Behemoth's Found Fortunes Vol. 2, a collection of recreated Castle Crashers characters for you to enjoy:

Happy Monday, knights! How have your Painter Boss Paradise adventures been treating you? We hope you’ve been having a grand time playing as Paint Junior, creating custom knight skins for the Steam Workshop, and enjoying all the new art the DLC has to offer!

Today we have a few bug fixes to deploy, including fixes for the double/overlapped body piece and achievement tracking for Custom Characters. We appreciate your patience as we tackle these issues and thank the community members who have reported bugs to our support team!

Fixes

• Removed the doubled/overlapped body piece for Custom Characters

• Issued a fix for the Hawkster princess fight auto-heal softlock

• Fixed "Bomb A" Custom Character magic option to use standard XXXY damage when not replacing Gray Knight

• Issued a fix for arena stats achievement tracking in save data for Unique slot Custom Characters

That’s all for now!!! Searching for characters to download? Look no further than The Behemoth's Found Fortunes Vol. 1, a collection of Workshop skins we used on stream last week:

Why hello there, crashers of castles! Today we’re back with another small Painter Boss Paradise hotfix to address some issues with online matchmaking and properly allow Mac users to upload to the Workshop!

Fixes

1. Issued a fix for Mac users not being able to upload Custom Characters to the Steam Workshop

2. Slayed a Network Goblin causing issues with online matchmaking

We appreciate your patience as we tackle these issues and hope everyone is having an amazing time with the CCPBPDLC so far!

Good evening all knights and painters! We have a quick hotfix for two issues we ran into during today’s Painter Boss Paradise DLC launch. Our team appreciates everyone who has sent in bug reports for the following issues and hope they didn’t interfere with your DLC gameplay too much!

Fixes

1. Issued a fix for the “Game is no longer available” error in online games when no custom characters are present

2. Issued a fix for when a player character appears as someone else’s Custom Character when in an online game

How are you enjoying the new Painter Boss Paradise DLC? Have you played as Princess Herbert yet? What about Pipistrello??? Let us know below, and happy castle crashing to all!

The Castle Crashers Painter Boss Paradise DLC is now available for Steam! Check out the official announcement and trailer here, or read on to learn about all of the updates now in Castle Crashers!

Global Updates (Classic + Fresh)

The following updates are now present in the base game of Castle Crashers, in addition to the DLC version!

1. Main Menu Art

8 new background vignettes based on lore from the Castle Crashers universe have been added to the main menu!

**2. Video Settings: Borderless Window Mode and Max Framerate Windows users now have access to Borderless Window Mode in Video Settings. Windows and Mac users can now set a Maximum Framerate.

3. Keyboard Settings**

Magic macro binding options have been added for keyboard users.

4. Gameplay: Z-axis Hitbox

The size of the Z-axis hitbox has been increased. Your attacks will have a better chance to be "lined up"!

5. Gameplay: Health Potions

Main story solo play now has auto-heals enabled for Health Potions.

6. Green Knight Update

Green Knight is no longer allergic to all forms of juggling. What about Allergic Green Knight, you may ask? That’s a story for another time.

7. Art: Chainsaw Weapon

The Chainsaw Weapon now animates when held. WD-40!!!!

8. Art: Back Off Barbarian

All Back Off Barbarian character art has been updated. (Except Hatty because Hatty is perfect.)

9. UI and Menus

The Main Menu, Pause Menu, and Settings Menu buttons have been reorganized and updated.

10. Reset Stats Confirmation

The Reset Stats menu now has a hold-down confirmation when resetting character stats.

11. Attract Screen Update

The attract screen featuring the four base knights has been updated!

12. Steam Input Support Steam Input Support has been added, supporting more controllers and official actions when editing.

13. Enhanced Rich Presence Steam now displays player character, XP level, and bosses, in addition to area.

14. Legacy Bug Fixes Various bug fixes have been implemented to enhance your beat 'em up experience! To the community members who have sent in bug reports over the years - thank you so much from our (actually smoll) big chicken dev team!

Painter Boss Paradise DLC Updates

The following features are only present if you own the Painter Boss Paradise DLC.

1. Character: Paint Junior

A brand new official character has been added to the Castle Crashers roster, complete with a new weapon and fresh magic moveset that can also be used for Custom Character creation!

2. Art: Playable Characters

All official playable characters in the classic Castle Crashers roster have new portraits and in-game art.

3. Art: Equippable Weapons

All equippable weapons from the base game have updated art.

4. Art: World Map

The world map has been completely redesigned for fancier adventuring!

5. Painter Boss Toolkit

An entire DLC toolkit has been added to assist in Custom Character creation! To learn more about the toolkit and download the character template, please visit beh.gg/PBP.

6. Manager Menu

In the “Manager” menu, players can enable DLC characters and override existing playable characters with Custom Character skins.

7. Weapon Skins

Custom Characters can toggle their weapon to be reskinned in the Weapons Frog via the Paint Brush. The weapon skin applied is always tied to the Custom Character’s art template. Only going to the Weapon Frog and choosing a different weapon or using the Paint Brush clears the Weapon Skin.

8. Steam Workshop Capabilities

The Painter Boss DLC brings Steam Workshop capabilities to Castle Crashers for the first time ever! Publish your creations if you wish to share them with the world, or download and enable community creations!

9. Behemoth DLC Character Collection

Enjoy an entire lineup of DLC characters created by our art team, in addition to some of the classic knight designs brought to the Steam Workshop! To get started with downloading DLC creations, you can find all of our Workshop characters here. Toggle them on and off at your whim! Make every enemy in the game Herbert! Save the princess as Ladderlad! Go on, now – Painter Boss Paradise awaits!

I am in your castle...squashing bugs...

Welcome back to the realm for a quick fix!

• We've updated the game to use Steam's DirectX installation feature. This will help new users who are having DirectX installation issues with Win10 and Win11.

May your Castles be Crashed, but not because of this bug in particular. Thanks to all you knights and princesses and penguins for sending in the reports that helped us in catching and fixing this.

Today we have a short but sweet update for Castle Crashers on Steam to address two issues previously plaguing the realm:

• Fixed a bug causing the Arena Leaderboard to crash.

• Fixed a bug on macOS where the game would boot to a black screen. This should now help with Big Sur (macOS 11) systems and later.

As always, thanks for reporting these issues to our team, and happy crashing to all!