History of Databrawl/2018

January 2018
Around January 21, Program Chubbs were added to Databrawl as the Program equivalent of Brawlers such as Virus Brawlers, Malware Brawlers, and Firewall Executors. Before this, Programs did not have any other classes besides the standard class.

February 2018
Databrawl continued to develop. Mines were changed so that they wouldn't spawn in one singular spot anymore, and that instead they'd spawn randomly around the map. Spawned Mines were also given a glow to help Corruptions spot them.

Databrawl Roleplay was created on February 12, 2018 as a way to keep non-fighting players (AKA "Friendlies") out of Databrawl. These Friendly players were a persistent issue which the creators of Databrawl had been wanting to solve. Before this, all mentions of Databrawl Roleplay were said as a joke, as the creators of Databrawl never intended for Databrawl Roleplay to exist before the Friendly/Roleplayer issues.

When Databrawl Roleplay was initially created, it was very primitive compared to what it has become currently, with much fewer characters, a simpler logo, etc.

Also, Databrawl hosted a Valentines Day event that changed Programs to Heartgrams, Program Chubbs to Heartgram Chubbs and Heartgram Chubbs looked like cupids.

March 2018
Program Hearts were added to the game sometime between late February to early-mid March. When they were initially added, Programs and Firewalls could force them to despawn by jumping into them, but could not consume them for health, nor hold them or add them to their backpack inventory. Upon making the Hearts despawn, it would make a special sound effect that was only present during the time period when Programs and Firewalls could do this.

Databrawl had an Easter event that changed the colors of the teams. Viruses and Malware remained pink and blue respectively (although, their team headers on the leaderboard were less saturated and more pastel-like), but Firewalls became green, and Programs (on the leaderboard team header) became yellow, and were also changed to Bunnygrams (with Program Bytes becoming Easter Eggs). Giant eggs that could be stood on were placed around the map, and Program Hearts were changed to Golden Eggs.

Databrawl also received its current logo around March 28. On March 26 and before, Databrawl had a more plain-looking text logo.

May 2018
On May 1st, Databrawl's speech bubbles were updated so that they would be black, with the text matching the color of the player. Previously, Databrawl's speech bubbles were like regular ROBLOX speech bubbles whereas they were white with black text. Sometime between late March and May 2nd, badges were added to the game.

June 2018
Sometime around June 24, 2018, in the Test Version the Firewall Security team became a free-to-play team instead of being locked behind a gamepass. It was also around this time that Special Tokens were added to the game for the first time ever in Databrawl's Test Version. During this time period in the Test Version, Special Tokens would spawn in random locations around the map, and they lacked the explosiveness that Tokens currently do in 2021. There were also no Special Character limits, meaning that there could be an infinite amount of any type of Special Character. There were also other differences between the way Special Characters were during this time and the way they are in 2021.

July 2018
On July 4th, Databrawl hosted a Fourth of July event. The teams had different colors. Programs were blue, as one of the national colors of the United States. Malwares were yellow, Viruses were green and Firewall Securities still retained their famous red color. The Roblox building's windows were changed to represent the stripes of the United States's flag. The Program Apartments and Software Sweets buildings were changed to be blue. Additionally, the skybox changed to a somewhat Earth skybox. It was reverted back to normal the next day.

August 2018
On August 15, 2018, Nybbles (Virus, Malware) were added to Databrawl's Battle Zone.

September 2018
Databrawl's first year anniversary took place on Sept. 28, 2018.

October 2018
The 2018 Databrawl Halloween Event took place. In the Battle Zone, Scareware Beast became a token earnable character that replaced its standard Scareware counterpart, Hardware was given flames shooting out of its sword and helmet face holes, and the map changed in appearance, with the skybox becoming purple with a big full moon replacing the monitor screen sun that was once present, the Firewall grid becoming green, and pumpkins being placed around the map. There were not many other changes beyond these.

Additionally, at some point during this month, alternates (such as Pretty, Shy, Love, and Muscle versions of characters) were introduced. The first characters to get alternate variants were Motherboards and Programs. After this, alternate Firewall Security types were introduced, then alternates for Corruptions. Later, around late-November 2018, Alternate Programs and Motherboards were added to Databrawl Roleplay.