GPO • Controller Support Update — May 17, 2026

GPO • Controller Support Update — May 17, 2026

SYSTEMS / QOL

• [NEW] Controller Support — Added controller support to the main game. Gamepad players can now use controller input, prompts, and UI navigation.
• Initial rollout — some menus and actions will continue receiving improvements in future updates.
• Recommended: enable the virtual controller cursor to navigate UI.
• Arena — Players can now press reset when at 25% HP or below while in combat.
• Counters opponents stalling at low HP.
• Disabled in Battle Royale.
• Boss HP Bars — Boss HP bars now stack multiple bars.
• Crew Actions — Crew actions now properly respect combat state (e.g. can no longer leave crew mid-combat).
• Flag Capture — Logging out from a safe area while a crewmate pushes enemies off the capture point now results in an infamy loss.
• Fruit Despawn — Fruits with Rare rarity or below now despawn 10 minutes after being dropped to help reduce server lag caused by fruit farming (e.g. Factory raids).
• Idle Performance — Optimized idle performance for mobile and low-end devices.
• Infamy — Can no longer lose infamy in private servers from being gripped.
• Inventory UI — Optimized inventory UI performance. Players with large inventories should notice fewer FPS drops when opening inventory.
• NPC Performance — NPCs have been optimized by 60-70%, resulting in significantly fewer ping spikes when there are large numbers of active NPCs in the server.
• Ocean Movement Setting — Added a setting to disable ocean movement (helps with FPS).

BALANCE CHANGES

Devil Fruits:

Buddha:

• Judgement Impact — Hitbox changed from a cube to a sphere, reducing unfair hits on targets at the corners of the hitbox.
• Heaven-Sent Impact Leap — Second hit hitbox reduced and changed to a sphere. Now cancels the second hit if the first is perfect blocked.
• Heaven-Sent Impact (Full Form) — Now cancels the second hit if the first is perfect blocked.
• Heaven-Sent Impact (Full Form) — First hit now applies a stun. M1 final hit also now applies a stun.
• Full Form M1 — Second hit stun re-enabled.
• Impact Leap — Fixed noclipping through the floor when the client window is frozen.

Horo:

• Kamikaze Hollow / Negative Hollow — Fixed ghost getting stuck above head and being unable to cast.

Pika V1:

• Light Flight — Cooldown no longer starts until the player lands on the ground while in combat.

Pika V2:

• Radiant Flight — Cooldown no longer starts until the player lands on the ground and exits their flight while in combat.
• Radiant Kick — Now functions as a combo ender instead of an extender. Knockback now pushes the target away from the caster.
• Starlight Rapier: Blitzstrike — Final hit damage reduced by 50%.
• Hitbox significantly reduced — previously extended far above the target, hitting bystanders in a large vertical column above the kick-down.

Pteranodon:

• Winged Flight — Cooldown no longer starts until the player lands on the ground and exits their flight while in combat.

Yami:

• Black Hole — Vertical hitbox reduced by 30% to match the VFX.

Bomb:

• Explosive Mines — Added a hitbox above each mine to prevent floating idles from skipping over them.

Weapons:

Boneshiver:

• Rib Smash — Knockback increased horizontally, vertical lift reduced. Now functions as a proper combo ender.
• Bone Frenzy — No longer launches targets. Now stuns in place, similar to Kiribachi extenders. Stun duration increased.

Crab Cutlass:

• Cutlass Lunge — Damage increased by 30%.
• Cutlass Ladder — Damage increased by 20%.

Festival Shield:

• M1 Hitbox — Hitbox increased to match Inverted Spear of Heaven.

Iceborn Blade:

• Flames Of Frost — Guard break removed on first hit.
• Second hit now functions as a true extender.
• Endlag reduced by 0.1 seconds.

Black Pitchfork:

• Pitchfork Impale — Cooldown increased from 15 to 17 seconds to match Trident Impale.

Snowcap Scepter:

• Scepter Storm — Startup reduced by 0.2 seconds.

Combat:

• In-Combat Healing — Healing effectiveness while in combat increased from 35% to 50%.
• Soru (Low HP) — At 30% HP or below, Soru is replaced with a regular roll dash to avoid the reduced movement speed at low HP.
• Barrier Sphere — No longer usable when PVP is off.
• Paw Rendezvous — No longer reactivatable after swapping to a V2 fighting style.

Other:

• Mini Bunny — No longer deals damage while its owner is in a grab or has iframes.

BUG FIXES

• Hitbox Accuracy — Fixed hitbox inaccuracies to VFX for the following:
• Hollow's Great Sword: Ghost Barrage
• Dashing Pyrotechnics
• Gravity Dominance
• Snow Blizzard
• Shock Repel
• Paw Bomb
• Firework Rocket Skyhigh
• Firework Rocket
• Demon Brick Fist
• SUPER MEGA DEATH ROCKET!
• M1 — Fixed rare movestacks with M1.
• Horo — Fixed bugs where some Horo moves would get stuck.
• Cyborg — Fixed Cyborg ultimate interaction on mobile.
• Smoke — Fixed a bug on White Out.
• Crew UI — Fixed crew UI displaying inconsistent data.
• Jump Cooldown — Fixed a bug with jump cooldown.
• + many more