At the end of last week, an in-game message for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate revealed that an update to Version 2.0.0 would be released within the next seven days. It would appear that the update is now just hours away, with new information suggesting that it could land tonight.
The news comes from an automated system set up by data miner OatmealDome, which aims to detect any pop-up messages scheduled to appear in the game ahead of time. According to this system, version 2.0.0 will launch at 1:00 GMT on Wednesday 30th January (so that's 5pm PST / 8pm EST tonight, 29th January, in North America).
So why should we be so excited for an update? Well, while nothing is confirmed just yet, the update is expected to bring with it all necessary character data for the game's first slice of DLC, Piranha Plant. Registrations for claiming this character as free content end on the 31st, and the fighter has been confirmed to become available "around February"; the update to a full version "2" certainly suggests that this could be the start of the DLC process.
It's worth noting that this doesn't necessarily mean that Piranha Plant will be playable from tonight, but we're definitely one step closer to having our 75th(!) option on the roster.
Are you still enjoying your time with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate? Are you looking forward to playing as Piranha Plant? Tell us below.
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Praying my boy Piranha gets in 🤞
PLEASE be pirhana plant! I can't wait to play as him!
One step closer to finally living the planty boi dream.
Can't wait to flex my leaves on people.
Planty the potted plant lives!
Hopefully a direct will be announced today, too...
Especially with all the dataminers scooping around.
Hopefully better online coop options.
Just a generic message to approve and join in with the various Planty love shared above.
While everyone else is playing this "Kingdom Hearts" nonsense I'm gonna be studying the art of the plant
@DayOfLavos I’ll be trying to do both. RIP free time.
Yes I'm excited and can't wait to play as the first ever legendary baddie in a Smash Bros. game.
I like gardening. It’s my other hobby
Luckily I converted all my replays to videos already. I'd encourage you all to do the same if you haven't already!
Thanks for the update.
Time to harvest the plant.
Day of the triffiths
I need to play this more as I’m absolutely no where near unlocking the roster!! Seems to be taking forever!
All the others will be pushing up daisies soon. Very soon.
Probably stability, maybe some new spirits, and if were lucky some new language options.
Hopefully it’s actually Plant Time(TM) and not just Random Version Number Skip Time (TM).
@Ryu_Niiyama Best joke on here so far!
Really hope there are no nerfs. Game is really well balanced. Everyone is viable in their own way with just weaknesses in certain match ups.
I wonder how the DLC characters would appear on a fresh character select screen with no-one else unlocked yet? It’d be weird for them to be there with just the Original 8...
@Ryu_Niiyama That's great! I dont see a lot of Daisy players online, so it'll be cool to see her get more attention very soon. V:
I wonder if ninty will nerf anyone on these updates... Cool if Piranha plant came today to the roster though.
So so tired of data miners. Can we just have one surprise every once in a while that’d be nice.
Please don't nerf my boi Chrom
Anyone know how big the update will be???
CONVERT
YOUR
REPLAYS!
...or lose them forever!
@imgrowinglegs
Kingdom hearts at home, plant study on the bus and train before and after work
Ugh! Just as I was able to break away from Smash and finally take the cartridge out to play some Splatoon. Well, that was short lived.
@DTFaux it was a plant joke.
Bring on the Piranha Plant!
"the update to a full version "2" certainly suggests..."
The Switch version update to 7.0 suggested only more stability.
Nerf Kirby. He's the worst.
@Ryu_Niiyama I know, but I guess my own joke didnt carry too well.
Can we get a DK nerf? Please?
I wonder if Piranha Plant may come with a surprise or two. Perhaps a new stage or the return of something like Home Run Contest as well. Even if not, I'll be happy just to get the new fighter, but it'd be pretty cool if there was some other content to drop along with him.
Why are folks asking for nerfs? I've not come across a match yet that I felt was unfair. I mean...maybe you just need to git gud?
@JackEatsSparrows Yeah, I honestly don't get it. We still don't have the full picture of how well everyone balances out, we're only a month and a half into the game. Let a few more tournaments play out and give it a few more months and then I think we can more reasonably talk about nerfs and buffs, because as it is, I see some people saying one character needs to be nerfed, while others say the same character needs to be buffed. Their are far too many possible fight combinations to really have a full firm grasp on this yet if you ask me.
Actually, Piranha Plant is only the 70th fighter according to National Poked... erm... the official site. Stop spreading Fake News.
@duffmmann I know, hard to believe it's not even been a full two months. I mostly play online with Lucas, Ridley, Dark Samus, and Richter. When I'm playing against my bestie, she makes me choose a random, since she's still learning. It all feels good to me.
@DayOfLavos Kindom hearts is not nonsense, But I am going to be playing the Piranha Plant. (HOPEFULLY PIRANHA PLANT WILL MAKE IT IN THE GAME WITH THE UPDATE )
@JackEatsSparrows When I play with my brothers they tell me to go random as well (because they say its doing to give them a chance to win, or make it easier to win) But nope I still win. I usually play as any character because there are so many to choose from so why not.
@Euler He's the '70th' fighter if we don't count the echos as their own fighters. Daisy, Dark Samus, Chrom, Richter, Ken, Dark Pit, and Lucina. He's the 77th fighter when you do count the echos. The article states that Piranha's inclusion will get us to having 75 options to choose from for fighters. (His inclusion will give us 75 options for fighters when you consider that the Pokemon trainer is 3 fighters in 1, and assuming you don't stack echos and the 3 types of Mii fighters). So really no fake news has been spread at all. You just gotta recognize, that how you count the number of Smash fighters depends on how you approach that statistic.
My friend thinks piranha plant is going to be a R.O.B. echo fighter im like where did you get that from.
@Audigore0733 That's the same reason she gives. And I try not to say "Well, it doesn't matter who I pick, bud. You're gonna lose just like every other time."
If we count all the characters and the DLC There would be #80 characters in total. Thanks Nintendo for all these characters.
@Audigore0733 If you count each the Pokemon Trainer as 3 fighters, then the total will be 82. And that's not even considering that for all we know there could be a second fighter pass after the first year. Would be insane crazy cool if after the first year they did 4 more years of fighter passes in an effort to reach 100 fighters.
If my boy makes it today, it will be the happiest moment of my young life.
@duffmmann "Bingo"!!!!! you are correct
Maybe, just maybe update so we can actually play with friends against random people online!!! Biggest multi-player game if the year and we can't play with friends!
The E-shop is wrong on when things come out sometimes. I have Lego marvel superheros 2 With all the Dlc. There was one more Dlc pack to come out, and it said that it would come out at a later date then when it actually came out. So we might actually get Piranha Plant.
I don’t like spoiling things that much however… I run a game studio, I have contacts all over the place and they know my love for Smash. Two separate contacts at different times mentioned that Bandai Namco hadn’t finished work on various modes that didn’t make it into the original release. One mentioned Target Smash is coming back, the other spoke of that Bomb Minigame too. Both mentioned Smash Run is returning as is Homerun Contest, and 8 player Special Smashes. Amiibo gifts are going to be more generous also.
HOWEVER I personally don’t believe we’ll see those tonight as surely Nintendo would mention them in a direct first. Oh and that Splatoon is supposed to be getting a new mode involving 20-50 player matches? I don’t play that game so I don’t know what they were talking about.
They also know who the additional DLC fighters are and were locked in a year ago oh and there will be another free fighter appearing at some point. Though as they know my love for the series I don’t want to know such spoilers, though I’d never post them anyways.
@Grant007 I just set up an open Arena and give them the code for it. Works fine that way.
@Lemmy_the_Koopa Right? With all the data miners, recent leaks, and small scale announcements, I'm wondering if there is enough material to even have a big Direct anymore. Prove me wrong, Nintendo!
@ShadJV sure that's way to play AGAINST your friend, but I want to play WITH (same team) against random people online. Or even play in the same map with my friend and also other random.
Hopefully Chroms hitboxes get fixed (Chrom isnt even that good, he is just a standard swordcharacter with hitboxs that extend way farther than his sword.), Inkling bury has less duration, Krool belly guard damage last a bit longer, and buff the characters that seem to need it like Game and Watchs forward air and such. A lot of characters are near balanced, its just that there are lots of crutch characters this time around that people use and spam their "OP" move like PK Freeze online to beat less skilled players that dont know how to adapt. I wouldnt say that you should just "get good" since that is a lazy and obvious answer that doesnt help, id say just keep learning that matchup until you figure out how to counter this "OP" character and their "OP" move(s).
Make matchmaking reliable pls, got 8 matches in a row that were no where near my ruleset.
@Grant007 don’t think you can do the team thing but the method I gave let’s you play on the same stage with them and randoms. That’s what me and my friends do. We don’t use friend arenas, we make public arenas and then share the arena code with each other to find it. Limit the arena to 4 players so we can play every battle. After a few minutes usually people join the room. Once again, doesn’t allow for team battles I think, but it does allow you to play with friends and strangers at the same time.
Piranha plant was announced for february. So, I wouldn't get my hopes up too high.
@ShadJV I will give it a shot, thanks
@Ardisan ruleset is picked randomly from the two player’s preferences. The thing is, there’s a lot of permutations of rules and so, outside of the few common rule sets (like the ones tournaments use), a lot of players will be waiting long periods of time and/or matched with people quite far away (increasing lag), as well as against players of vastly different rankings. If you want specific rulesets, I recommend arenas, as you have full control then. Quickplay wants to match players as quickly as possible, ideally with similar rankings who are geographically close, hence why it doesn’t limit searches by rulesets. On average, you should play with your preferred ruleset 50/50, but obviously probability is more complex than that.
@sanderev “around February”. Which technically means it could be a few days before or after. Not super likely but possible. When they announced it they didn’t necessarily know when the update would be ready.
Personally I think they’ll announce it at least a few days before it drops but we’ll see.
@Grant007 no prob. It’s not super intuitive, had to figure it out when I wanted to play with friends. More online features in general would be nice though, I agree. Team battles feel completely different than free for alls.
@ShadJV You are correct, but I'm just not going to get too excited because if it doesn't happen I don't want to be all angry and disappointed
It'd be nice if it was released, but I don't think so.
That's great if they got the Piranha Plant in the game, though, all I care about is that they fix the matchmaking. It shouldn't be so hard to play timed doubles.
They send out emails yet with the code?
i hope the put in more free chracter as echoes fighters and more sprits and add some disscpitions like tropies and what about the amiibo leak.
@Mynameishello i want to believe
My pot is ready!
Ultimate is fast becoming my favourite game on Switch. So much content. Meticulous character balancing. Gorgeous to control, to look at and to listen to. I'm finding it hard to fault it in any way. Take a bow, Sakurai. You are an absolute genius and Nintendo is blessed to have you.
@Stocksy "I need to play this more as I’m absolutely no where near unlocking the roster!! Seems to be taking forever!"
Just a quick 2.30 min Smash seems to be the way to go. I've had new characters appear after every third or four match. World of Light and classic mode takes far longer to unlock characters. I'm up to 68 unlocked now.
@DayOfLavos Hey man..... There's no need to dis KH3. I'll have you know I'm a long running Nintnedo Fan and also a fan of Kingdom Hearts as well as Square Enix. I can enjoy both Piranha Plant and KH3 thank you very much!
@duffmmann That would be amazing! Maybe even a new set of challenges too! (I'm on my very last challenge panel.)
@The_Mysteron Have you played the game on headphones? It sounds..... So Beautiful!! This and Kingdom Hearts 3, I guess I'm booked for the rest of the year!
last I recall, a reliable source said he's coming out on February 3rd
I dunno guys, I think Masked Man from Mother 3 is our new character. :3
It did indeed include Piranha Plant as well as the ability to have up to 4 players when taking on challengers on the spirit board. That's not the biggest of additions, but it does give me hope that other features and modes may get added in later like home run contest or what i really hope one day gets added: Smash Run.
I am uploading mine right now.
Piranha Plant is quite the interesting character. Took some time to get used to, but he's quite good. He feels quite heavy / hard to knock off, and it's quite fun trying to poison gas and neutral B spiny hit ppl
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