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Nominate Us for the 2024 Steam Awards

27 Nov

Calling all Rivals fans - we need your support for the 2024 Steam Awards! Please consider nominating our friendly little indie game for the "Best Game You Suck At" category. We've checked your ranked scores and have confirmed that this is the best category for us.

Jokes aside - it's been a long journey to come out with our take on the next generation of platform fighter. This is always a great category for fighting games, so even though we're being a little cheeky with it, we think we have a shot at getting nominated with your support! We're proud to see how much everyone is enjoying the game so far and this would be a great way to close out 2024 for our community.

Of course we've got our eyes on the future as well, and are already working hard on continuing support with planned features like free character updates, new modes, and more. Thank you again for helping make our launch last month such a success, and here's to the future of Rivals II!

With Love,
The Aether Studios team

P.S. To vote for us - just click the box in the widget at the top of this post.

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Game get stuck often after finishing a vs bot game

I'm having fun with the new Bot lite game mode but it's really ruined by a bug that's here since release: sometime after ending a game vs a bot I cannot go back to the character selection by pressing start no button presses does anything besides start that fill my character stats in black like so: https://ibb.co/gDSjx63 when this happens it seems to be no other solution besides force closing the game, and it happens really often (I don't think I can chain more than maybe 7 games if I'm lucky without that...

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Spyko

2 hours ago

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Steam Autumn Sale Mini-Patch

27 Nov

The Steam Autumn sale is live! From now until next Wednesday (12/4) at 10am PT, get Rivals of Aether II at 20% off. Along with the sale we've also got a mini-patch today with a new feature plus some other improvements. Enjoy your holiday weekend and tell your friends to pick up the game on sale if they've been holding out!

1.0.2.1 Patch Notes

New Feature: Bot Match Lite

This is a new mode that loads you right into a 1v1 match against a random level 1 bot. If you can beat it, the bot levels up, but if you lose, it goes down. We have more plans for this feature in the future, but for now we thought we'd add the light version as a way for new players to find a good training ground that scales as they get better. This is a good place to start before you go online!

Added the Bot Match option to the Local menu.
Load right into a 1v1 match against a random level 1 bot, with locked match settings similar to what you'd play online.
Bot starts at level 1: win a match and it levels up, lose a match and it de-levels.
The Stage is selected at random so you can just hit start to play.

CPU Enemy Adjustments

CPU difficulty scaling adjusted to be easier at lower levels (mostly unaffected at higher levels).
Abyss CPU levels adjusted based on new CPU difficulty scaling.

Settings Updates

Separated Gameplay and Menu Frames per Second into two settings.

Gameplay FPS applies during gameplay and the results screen, Menu FPS applies everywhere else.
Menu FPS defaults to 60. This helps prevent resource hogging when just navigating menus.
Fixes a UI crash that could occur.

Matchmaking

This patch includes some small matchmaking polish to build on our updates from the mid-month patch.

If you have no regions selected and queue, the game will now ask you to select at least one.
Fixed a rare beacon ping crash.
In the last update we put in some new region preferences, and we're aware that there are still some cases with issues. Please bear with us as we work on a solution.

Tourney Mode

Good news for doubles enjoyers!

Fixed Doubles Tourney Mode / Stage Banning bugs.
Stormswept Pillar properly shows up as struck by the system in the first round of a doubles tourney bo3/bo5.
Fixed your ban getting eaten in an online doubles match if you banned the same stage as a teammate right as they also banned it.
Fixed the stage ban process not moving forward properly if each teammate banned one stage each.

Miscellaneous Updates

Winter Stoat Maypul belly/nose graphics fixed.
Improved visual effects for Ladybug Kragg and Bluejay Wrastor.
REALLY fixed Fleet's HUD UI bug. Now only 1 empowered arrow will show at a time.
Ranked score should now always update properly.
A "Lost connection / Server crash" pop up will now appear when arriving back on main menu for one of these reasons.
Abyss Clairen now has teeth. (The better to eat you with.)
Attempted to fix a bug that causes Loxodont's limbs to stretch when graphics quality settings are low.

What Else Is Up?

After this patch, our next update is planned for December 3rd. This next one will be a larger update - featuring a new monthly event rollout + some gameplay changes.

ICYMI: You should also check out the LACS Rivals event which just happened last weekend. This invitational featured platform fighter pros with an amazing commentary couch of Ludwig, EE, GPik, Alpharad, and Dan.

Check out the Top 8 highlights here:

And the full VoDs (including the crew battle!) over on VGBootCamp here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF2oIoM78bM&list=PLcMdMmtHkPpRAJ3h6ffQ9mR_sRDxfvZdo&index=35

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GameUserSettings.ini

After the latest update the ini sets the ResolutionQuality back to 100, when mine was set to 35. Whenever i try to change it and restart the game, it resets again, what can i do??

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Sr. XF

3 hours ago

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I Hate Fleet

I understand shes not OP. But jesus, its so boring chasing her.

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Jobbernowl

27 Nov @ 2:51pm

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November Mid-Month Update and Patch Notes

19 Nov

It's time for our first mid-month patch! Each mid-month update will feature a new epic skin plus other features and bugfixes we can roll out. This November, shred with the new Rockstar Bundle including the Rockstar Kragg skin, icon, emote, Rock Out Death Effect, plus coins and Aether Bucks. We've also got plenty of other updates players have been asking for including some big improvements to matchmaking, controls, and more.

Patch 1.0.2 Notes

Matchmaking

Per-server region-preference matchmaking:

Region Preferences menu now allows you to select which of the available server locations you would like to play on. Deselecting less ideal servers or a server that is being problematic will now no longer place you there, so you can select just the servers you like to play on there and then only play there in the majority of cases.
Region Preferences menu now shows full list of server locations with ping or approximated ping in cases where there's not an exact beacon. Each location has an associated list of beacons, the pings to the beacons in their list are averaged to determine the approximate ping for a location, locations with no good beacons are sorted to the end of the list.
- Region preferences are now saved to disk.
- Region preferences and region override lists are now properly sorted by average ping.
- Adjusted leniency setting ping values.

Added a limited-form of player rematch protection. After any 1v1 match you are locked out of matching into your previous opponent for ~40 seconds.
Ranked matchmaking now takes into account your Rank in addition to your Elo. This helps us prevent matches with large Elo disparities while still accounting for the Ranks at the ends of the skill curve that cover a wider range of Elos.
Matchmaking no longer automatically times out after 2 minutes, so in smaller regions at slower times of day you should no longer need to babysit the queue and can alt-tab and wait for the Match Found notification sound.
Fixed Matchmaking exploit that allowed you to match with players far outside your actual Elo.
Fix for online results stats showing all 0s for players 1-3.

Online

Increased Match Prep time to 25s. Match Prep is the time after one player has connected until all players have connected. If not everyone connects the server will cancel the match. For some slower PCs the 15s time was too short and sometimes they were unable to load into the server and would arrive after the match was cancelled.
The game will now stop the connection loop when processing a forfeit / match cancellation. This fixes an issue where if you forfeit or otherwise left the server during the window of time before your client confirmed your connection it would place you back on the server incorrectly.
Locked InputProcessor from assigning a controller to a slot when alt-tabbing in, helps prevent the keyboard from claiming your slot incorrectly if you were alt-tabbed while matchmaking.

Controls Refactor Pt. 1

New Taunt bindings: : All Taunt, Taunt 1, Taunt 2, Taunt 3, Taunt 4.
- Taunt 1-4 only shown for Keyboard players.
- Taunts are set to dpad on controller by default. If you prefer dpad movement, there is a new bind for controller called "All Taunt" which is a single button you press that will taunt based on the direction your movement stick is being held.
Can now unbind a binding without binding it somewhere else.
Added Shorthop Attack during jumpsquat macro binding.
Changed cursor movespeed logic / curve.
Cursor now interacts with edges of screens differently in a way that allows for snapback testing.
Nothing option added for choosing what your grab or parry buttons do in the air.
Save tag for players who sit out when playing rotations.
Hard Press Threshold added to Stick Sensitivity settings.
- This highly requested controls setting from Rivals of Aether allows you to choose how far you have to move your joystick for it to be counted as a hard press (e.g. dash and fast fall inputs). Previously all players had the default value of 80%, but now you can choose any value between 50% and 95%.

General Updates

Fixed settings menu input forwarding on character select screen.
Updated button displayer in rebinding tab.
Adjusted UI position of "Steal Stock".
Level 0 will no longer be incorrectly displayed on a character when you received exactly enough XP to level up.
Button bindings now right align in the options menu.
Tweaked tooltip wrapping.
Added padding to the bottom of player slot option scroll boxes so that tooltips dont cut off buttons.
Currency popup edits.
Refactored free cam widget to allow keyboard input for moving up / down. Added follow player camera mode.
Fix timer showing up in matches where timer setting is 0.
Main game clock can now count upward in Arcade mode.
Playerslot Options Menu tooltips now correctly resize when multi-lined.
Player Slot Tooltips now hide themselves when switching tabs.
Fixed Advanced Controls not showing up for keyboard players.
Changed top bar options Discord link to fire off of Select instead of X/Left Face Button, and also does not happen if you're currently rebinding controls.
Playerslot Options Menu tooltips now correctly resize when multi-lined.
Fix for CPUs getting not getting marked as ready correctly + other misc ui fixes.
4 digit character levels no longer extend out of the character box.
- Reset to Default now closes properly on confirm, Added a couple tooltips.
Server properly handles forfeits that occur during the window of time after all players have connected but before the server has rank data.
Miscellaneous crashfixes.
Improved coupon error messages.
Improved ownership checks on items.
Removed dithering from outline clip - cleans up visual in areas with no outline.
Attempted to fix a weird leg stretching bug with Loxodont.
Slam Dunk Ranno skin fixes

What's Next

We hope everyone's been enjoying the launch month of Rivals II. Our next update is scheduled for December 3rd, and includes a new event plus some balance changes. In the meantime make sure to also check out our highlights from some great recent events here:

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Rivals 2 isn't in the TGA nominees?

Well, I'm upset. I don't know why Rivals 2 isn't in the shortlist of nominees in The Game Awards for best fighting game. Maybe it's release date doesn't work for this year? But oct 23 is earlier than Pokemon Pocket's oct 30. Imo, Rivals 2 would have looked better than MvC collection. Sure, it's launch was hyped up incredibly, but it also shrunk considerably. While our game (by steamcharts) pulls in more players daily than MvC C at peak. (Not that I think numbers should be the criteria of the better gam...

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FGCNN | Nurdell

23 Nov @ 7:50pm

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I've created a guide that showcases each of the paid death effects. I'll try to keep it updated if possible and maybe include the unlockable DFX if I grind each of the characters enough.

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Tips for frustration?

Just had quite a bad series of losses. Was getting frustrated with each one. I'm not a pro player. I've never played in a tournament of this. Probably will never be a pro player. I do get that. But I can't help but feel competitive when it comes to fighting games. I usually know its relatively my fault if I lose. Sometimes I do get hit with a move that I don't agree on its hurt box or mine not properly hitting. But besides that, anybody got some tips? And I get the whole "if angry step away, take a breath...

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Hulkinbuster

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Not Recommended

3.5 hrs on record

Posted: 21 November

I am not really the right audience for this sequel, but allow me to elaborate.
I loved the first Rivals of Aether, the gameplay felt very fast, tight and precise, which made it a joy to play, even if you're not skilled in the genre, that and its absolutely amazing modding scene which allowed for basically any character you could imagine to be added meant that for a filthy casual like me, I could enjoy it a lot more.
This game is much more competitive oriented, which makes it harder for me to get into. I feel like the level of precision in this game is a quite a bit lower than the first. I'm probably just bad, but I have the same issue with Smash really, I think it might be that I have a harder time telling what I'm doing with the 3D visuals, but that's probably just an excuse. Additionally, since it has those pretty 3D visuals, which don't get me wrong, are a massive glow up from the old ones, modding is not nearly as easy, which as someone who loved all of the crazy workshop content in the first one, is not ideal. Finally, kind of a separate gripe, but why did they think it was a good idea to have a Fortnite like Item shop in this game? The only time I am okay with this level of microtransactions are when the game is free to begin with, but this game is definitely not.

To end my review, I would like to make the statement, I really don't think that this is a bad game at all, I just don't think I'm the right audience for it, currently this is fantastic for competitive players, but for the people who played Rivals 1 with all of the mods, or lay Smash Bros with items on, then maybe skip out on this one for now...

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It's okay Absa we've all made that mistake

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Like if you like hitting your opponent offstage with your balls

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Not Recommended

8.5 hrs on record

Posted: 22 November

I really hate to give a negative review of this game because I really want to like it.

If you've been playing melee for 23 years then this is the game for you! But if you aren't already competing in platform fighter tournaments though, maybe steer clear of the online. I was a rivals 1 player for years and I'm able to consistently 0 to stock the level 9 cpus in this game, but in the 8 and a half hours i have in this game there is not 1 online victory in there, but there were many 0 to stocks performed on me. Sure, maybe I'm just bad. but if my only choices are easily beating the hardest cpus or getting creamed like i've never touched a controller, then the rest of the gameplay is just practicing to hopefully be just good enough to have a chance at enjoying the online.

Looks gorgeous though!

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Not Recommended

7.5 hrs on record

Posted: 24 November

if you wanna play casually dont buy it. full of sweatlords, who on purpose drop to farm low level players.

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