Sort-Moon and French Bread have confirmed the launch date for the Melty Blood: Sort Lumina Summer season 2022 replace. The free patch that primarily provides Neco-Arc and Destiny/Grand Order‘s Mash Kyrielight as new playable characters will seem on August 19, 2022, at 6 AM UTC (2 AM ET).

French Bread additionally revealed extra particulars concerning the Summer season replace through the EVO 2022 Melty Blood event. Improvement director Kamone Serizawa defined the additions and modifications that the staff will convey with the brand new patch in a six-minute-long video.

Serizawa revealed that the Summer season replace will even embrace modifications to the sport’s battle steadiness. The video features a detailed listing of modifications made to fight options, corresponding to Shields, Dashes, Combos, and Moon Expertise. The replace will even add extra options to the Replay Mode and enhance the community matching system.

Sort-Moon and French Bread have revealed plans so as to add a complete of eight DLC playable characters. Thus far, they’ve added them in waves of two, and all of them can be found totally free with none further purchases. The primary wave in January 2022 featured Useless Apostle Noel and Aoko Aozaki. The second in April 2022 added Powered Ciel and Mario Gallo Bestino. The final two characters, who’ve but to be revealed, are scheduled to look in Winter 2022.

Melty Blood: Sort Lumina is obtainable worldwide on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Change, Xbox One, and PC. The Summer season replace patch will arrive on August 19, 2022.