Bandai Namco and Dimps have announced that the SUPER-LIMIT BREAKING NEO expansion for Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is now available.
A special launch trailer was posted for the occasion, featuring various fan-favorite characters in a climactic showdown.
The full patch notes are as follows:
Changes and Adjustments Affecting the Entire Game
- Stages
- Added Rocky Land (White Valley), City Ruins (Clear Skies), and Molten Lava.
- BGM
- Added “ZERO”.
Feature Changes & Adjustments
- Options
- Added an option to toggle the aura change that occurs when characters trained in “Limit Breaker Journey”, a mode added in the Super Limit-Breaking NEO DLC, perform a Ki Charge.
Game Mode Changes & Adjustments
- Custom Battle
- Added high-difficulty battles to Extra Battle.
- Added new editable elements such as 2D cut-ins and text.
- Offline Battle
- Adjusted CPU behavior.
- When characters trained in Limit Breaker Journey are available, a rule setting has been added to enable or disable their use.
- Player Match
- Added the ability to enable or disable the use of characters trained in Road to Ultimate Limit-Breaking when creating or searching for rooms.
- Survival Mode
- Increased the number of battles in the round-robin survival challenge.
Battle System Changes & Adjustments
- New Action
- Added Linked Blast, a new action that allows a switched-in character to immediately fire a Blast attack upon entering battle.
- Added Sparking! Boost, a new action that consumes additional Skill Stocks to enter a more powerful Sparking! Mode.
- Z-Search
- Adjusted the duration before Z-Search is lost so that it varies depending on the opponent.
- Melee Attacks (General)
- Defending characters now recover a small amount of Ki when hit by melee attacks.
- Burst Melee
- Adjusted to make activation easier even when Guard Assist is enabled.
- Smash Ki Blast
- Adjusted hit stun on impact to reduce the likelihood of consecutive hits.
- Short Dash
- Adjusted so that stepping is easier to perform when closing to short range via Short Dash.
- Ascend / Descend
- Destructible buildings and rocks can now be destroyed through rapid ascents and descents.
Skill Changes & Adjustments
- Vegeta (Super), Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan – Limits?! I Break Them!
- Reduced Skill Stock consumption.
Blast Changes & Adjustments
- All Rush-type Blasts that can cancel certain Energy Projectile Blasts
- Adjusted to make it easier to nullify applicable projectiles.
- Majin Duu – Rolling Attack
- Can no longer be countered with Super Perception.
- Ribrianne – Maiden’s Charge
- Can no longer be countered with Super Perception.
- Kakunsa – Primal Charge
- Can no longer be countered with Super Perception.
- Vegeta (Mini), Super Saiyan 2 – Head-On Impact
- Can no longer be detected/countered with Super Perception.
Character Changes & Adjustments
- Adjusted Skill Stock Recovery from Ki Blast Deflection
- Goku (Teen)
- Videl
- Master Roshi
- Master Roshi, Max Power
- Mr. Satan
- Saibaman
- Guldo
- Android 19
- Dr. Gero
- Frieza Force Soldier
- Broly (Z)
- Lord Slug
- Spopovich
- Goku (Mini)
- Attack Power Now Increases as Health Decreases
- Goku (Z – Early)
- Goku (Teen)
- Majin Vegeta
- Future Trunks
- Future Trunks, Super Saiyan
- Goku Black
- Goku Black, Super Saiyan Rosé
- Shallot
- Gohan (Future)
- Gohan (Future), Super Saiyan
- Bardock
- The following characters now recover Ki more quickly while stunned, and gain more Ki from button inputs during recovery:
- Goku (Teen)
- Majin Vegeta
- Gohan (Future)
- Gohan (Future), Super Saiyan
- Super Trunks
- Master Roshi, MAX Power
- Frieza (Z), 2nd Form
- Frieza (Z), Full Power
- Majin Buu
- Mr. Satan
- Bardock
- Nappa
- Super Zarbon
- Dodoria
- Recoome
- King Cold
- Broly (Z), Super Saiyan
- Broly (Super), Super Saiyan
- Super Garlic Jr.
- Lord Slug
- Cooler, Final Form
- Bojack
- Full-Power Bojack
- Syn Shenron (GT)
- Spopovich
- Fused Zamasu, Half-Corrupted
- Ribrianne
- Majin Duu
- Third Eye Gomah
- Shallot
- For all of the following Vegeta variants, Ki consumption for Rush Ki Blasts, Dash Rush Ki Blasts, and Jump Rush Ki Blasts has been reduced, while their attack power has been decreased:
- Vegeta (Z – Scouter)
- Vegeta (Z – Early)
- Vegeta (Z – Early) Super Saiyan
- Super Vegeta
- Vegeta (Z – End)
- Vegeta (Z – End), Super Saiyan
- Vegeta (Z – End), Super Saiyan 2
- Majin Vegeta
- Vegeta (GT), Super Saiyan 4
- Vegeta (Super)
- Vegeta (Super), Super Saiyan
- Vegeta (Super), Super Saiyan God
- Vegeta (Super), Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan
- Baby Vegeta (GT)
- Vegeta (Mini)
- Vegeta (Mini), Super Saiyan
- Vegeta (Mini), Super Saiyan 2
- Vegeta (Mini), Super Saiyan 3
- Vegeta (DAIMA), Super Saiyan 3
- When reflecting a Blast with Super Perception, the reflected Blast will now travel toward the opponent.
- Goku (Z – End) Super Saiyan 3
Others
- Font
- Changed the game’s font.
- Other
- Improved overall stability and performance.
The centerpiece of the expansion is Limit Breaker Journey, a new single-player mode that lets players strengthen an individual character through repeatable runs. Players travel across a map by choosing different routes, battling opponents, and triggering events that grant experience, stat-boosting Battle Art, or additional training opportunities.
The mode also introduces a stamina system. Traveling between encounters consumes stamina, reducing a character’s starting health in the next battle. Enemy strength is measured by an SP rating, with tougher opponents rewarding more experience. As players increase their SP, they earn points that can be invested into six different attributes. Those upgraded stats aren’t limited to the mode itself, as enhanced characters can also be used in Player Matches and Offline Battles.
The DLC also adds 33 playable fighters pulled from Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Super, and Dragon Ball GT. The DLC also includes four new Episode Battles, additional Extra Battles, and four original stages.
Players who don’t purchase the expansion will still receive new content through a free update launching the same day. The update adds two combat mechanics first shown during the DLC’s announcement.
Sparking! Boost allows players to spend additional Skill Stock during Sparking! mode to dramatically increase attack power for a short burst before suffering a temporary stat penalty once the effect expires. Chain Blast lets players extend combos by tagging in a reserve teammate after launching an opponent, continuing the assault with a Blast attack. The update also includes three new variations of existing stages.
Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam.
