Dark Product and White Owls have launched a significant update for their action game, Hotel Barcelona, called “Under New Management.” This update completely revamps the game’s systems to improve how players experience it. It also includes five new collaboration skins available for free, along with other enhancements.
Here are the patch notes:
- 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.
- Doppelgängers 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 .
Hotel Barcelona is now released on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. You can find it on Steam and the Microsoft Store.
Watch the update trailer below. View a new set of screenshots at the gallery.
“Under New Management” Update Trailer
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2026-03-05 07:17