White Owls has released the Under New Management update for Hotel Barcelona, which adds a wealth of improvements to the game including changes to combat, flow and player control. Among the adjustments include faster recovery from attacks with expanded cancel timing into jumps, dodges, and more, plus a fully reworked parry system. Beyond that, support for the DualShock controller has been added, while enemy HP, attack ranges, and reaction timing have been adjusted across multiple types. Finally, the durability of bosses and behaviour adjustments for Jacob, Nigel, and Eve have also been implemented. You can read the full Hotel Barcelona Under New Management update patch notes below.
- Combat, Flow, and Player Control
- Faster recovery from attacks with expanded cancel timing into jump, dodge, guard, and follow-up attacks.
- Reduced stamina friction and shortened attack animations for a more aggressive combat rhythm.
- Increased base dodge distance and rebalanced dodge skills.
- Fully reworked parry system. Precise guard timing now triggers parries and rewards HP Recovery Orbs.
- Guard now consumes stamina, creating meaningful defensive decisions.
- Multiple new parry skills added to the skill tree. Skill layout and progression reworked.
- New skill “Enhancement Luck+” added.
- Weapon balance adjustments including Flamethrower AP tuning.
- Enemy and Stage Rebalancing
- Enemy HP, attack ranges, and reaction timing adjusted across multiple types.
- Phantom Lost removed from Normal difficulty and below.
- Boss durability and behavior adjustments for Jacob, Nigel, and Eve.
- Terrain, camera distance, and door placement improvements in key stages.
- Invasion Multiplayer Improvements
- Reduced imbalance caused by player progression differences.
- Improved parry reactions between players.
- Doppelgangers can no longer invade during boss fights.
- Doppelgangers no longer interfere with enemies or environmental systems.
- Matchmaking and multiplayer user interface improvements.
- Quality of Life and Performance
- Optimized performance across the entire game.
- DualShock controller support added.
- Prologue tutorial, layout, and user interface improvements.
- Dialogue autoplay added.
- Extensive UI, localization, boss fight, journal, animation, and achievement fixes.
- Five New Playable Skins, Free for All Players
- Demonschool Faye – A cult indie crossover presence inside the nightmare hotel.
- Slitterhead Alex – A horror infused guest skin with a sharp silhouette in combat.
- Slitterhead Julee – A second Slitterhead crossover that stands out immediately in motion.
- Promise Mascot Agency Pinky – A surreal mascot dropped into violent horror for striking contrast.
- Promise Mascot Agency Michi – A companion mascot skin that heightens the absurdity of the setting .