Choose your fighter, or just watch

Picking a character now happens when you join a game, not in the main menu.

Joining a game

• When you join, a character selection window opens.
• The host must pick before they can play. Somebody has to be in the game.
• Everyone else can cancel and spectate instead.
• Press / at any time to reopen the window and switch characters, whether you’re playing or spectating.
• Number keys pick the matching character while the window is open.

Spectating

A spectator gets a free-flying camera: mouse to look, movement keys to fly, and E/Q to rise and fall, always straight up and down whatever way you’re facing. It’s purely local: nothing is spawned and nobody else can see a spectator. The camera stops while a window is open, so it doesn’t spin while you’re trying to click an icon.