>its another heavy
why is rivals 2 like this?

>>717028867 (OP)
>not elliana
it's shit

'lympia 'ost

>>717028867 (OP)
Because heavies are fun.

>>717029093
That's 2 character trailers in a row that end with Oly getting bullied. What's their deal?

>still no fleet buffs

>>717029273
the only buffs she needs is around her chest area

This guy won't be happy about this https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/716833615/

Reminds me of Tunnel Rhino from X3.

this platform shit is going to be way too strong for edgeguards

>>717029332
She just needs a birthday suit like Maypul.

heavies of aether

Le no workshop seethers, status?

>>717028867 (OP)
Rivals of Aether 1 is so much better.

>>717031334
>workshop added
>people just start ripping UMVC3/DBZF models to the game wholesale and repurposing their animations to fit RoA2 gameplay
Let it happen please, we have no MUGEN equivalent for platform fighters that isn't shit.

>>717031334
>Buddies
what does that mean

>>717028867 (OP)
>october 7th
Did they HAVE to pick that date?

>>717031728
Cosmetic minion to add to the visual cluster.

>>717031334
I have a dream, bros...

Has any other character been butchered as hard when brought to a new game?

>>717032192
kirby from smash 64 to melee

>>717032192
It's pretty strong now. Absolutely awful on release, though.
So far, Olympia's been the only character busted out the gate.

>>717028867 (OP)
what is Dan thinking????

IT'S UP

>>717032861
> He rose from ancient times and now bring terror to the present
> DRILL STEGALOID

>>717033320
where?

>>717033491
evoexlineup1

>>717033637
I hate how much better the models look without the game's shitty outline shader or binary toon lighting drowning out the colour tones.

>>717028867 (OP)
no one plays this game

>>717031703
just play modded brawl

>>717033810
People make new shit for that? I thought it was nothing but model swaps and tweaking values on the existing attacks.

>>717033747
I play it

>>717033875
yeah you and like 5 other people

>>717033907
I'm ok with that, you just need 4 players for a FFA lobby

>>717033747
Not bad, honestly. It could be a discord fighter like pic related

>>717033859
yeah its pretty active someone's even making slippi like matchmaking for p+ (project m) and there's something called rex releasing soon with a lot of custom characters and backports from ultimate

>>717034051
its on its way unironically

>>717028867 (OP)
He's cute

>>717029249
I need to eat her cunt NOW

>>717034051
gonna be honest i tried it but smash and tilt buttons are separated and i didn't like it

>>717034559
did you respond to the wrong post?

>>717032145
none of the silhouettes line up with the actual character

>>717034594
no you replied to me so i replied to you

Earlier I was like "Hey, I haven't played Rivals in a while, I should it again!" so then I opened the game, went online and only then did I remember I'm bad at fighting games and this Ori just casually 3 stocks me while I'm flailing on the controller like a dog chewing on a toy

>>717034641
>>717034594
I am replying to you both

>>717034756
*I should play it again!
i always forget to include words when i type and i no clue why, i might have problems

>>717034118
I just checked and the numbers look pretty steady over the last few months. I used to play Multiversus and probably 80% of that game's community was on console, so I expect that Rivals will have a pretty healthy playerbase after it releases there, especially if there's no new Smash any time soon.

>>717035018
you can see from the roadmap (>>717031334) that the console launch has been delayed

>>717032192
Played him once on release then never again
tragic

>>717028867 (OP)
>it's another heavy
Kino

>>717029249
>That's 2 character trailers in a row that end with Oly getting bullied. What's their deal?
It's cathartic because she bullies everyone else in-game

>*Slaps you're main's ass*
What do you do?
What CAN you do?

>>717033810
Don't get me wrong, PM and all PM spin-offs are great, but Brawlback is fucking never coming out and there's no matchmaking. RoA2 with Workshop support and matchmaking that accommodates it will be a fuck-around simulator with infinite replay value.

>>717034610
They line up broadly, but obviously they're not exact matches. I'm not going to go back and screencap the 2025 one, but Absa's and Galvan's silhouettes were close matches.

>>717032145
I think it'll be La Reina.

>>717037345
He wouldn't cheat on his wife, the numbers don't lie

>>717037182
> ≈28,58% of the roster are now heavyweights

>>717029430
Smash fanboys are so used to boring movesets that the idea of everyone having something unique is too much for them. Little do they know games like Blazblue exist

>>717037636
Lightweight:
>Wrastor (71)
>Olympia (78)
>Absa (80)
>Maypul (82)
Midweight:
>Fleet (85)
>Clairen (87)
>Ranno (90)
>Zetterburn (95)
>Forsburn (95)
Borderline obese:
>Orcane (100)
Heavyweight:
>Etalus (106)
>Kragg (108)
>Loxodont (110)
>Galvan (?)

Perfectly balanced...

>>717029430
This game exists in a state where two completely contradictory complaints are voiced depending on the flip of a coin
>it's too easy but I keep getting my ass kicked
>it's too hard even though everything is too easy

>>717038012
Don’t call Orcane obese. Thats not nice.

>>717038412
If you’re a game dev and you get these complaints tf do you even do

>>717038803
the complaints are from different people.
>its too hard
people who have never played smash
>its too easy
people who have played smash, probably melee or pm

there are very clear solutions to satisfy both groups

>>717037636
american fighting games be like:

>>717038803
you please the hardcores by raising the skill floor on the braindead characters like zetter and clairen (shrink their hitboxes)
you please the casuals by adding singleplayer modes

>>717029249
The devs want to see the mouse tomboy get raped by big guys until her pride is broken.

>>717038672
I'll stop calling him an obese faggot when he stops spamming FH dtilt for 50% of every fucking game

>>717039071
Dan is my dad, the Clairen hitbox nerfs are coming with the mecha event patch

>>717039245
Silly Maypul. Humans aren’t real.

>Ads after every set
I always forget how ass evo is to watch.

>>717028867 (OP)
I kind of want them to bring back Guadua to demonstrate Workshop again, pretty fun character. Alternatively base roster

>>717041581
Gwadwa was boring

So what do we think of a future 2026 character, La Reina? I think she will transfer well to 2 as a grappler.

>>717041957
>La Reina might be yet ANOTHER heavyweight

why are you niggas so scared of heavyweights? i love fightan em. combo food.

Real raccoon sex with me (real)

>>717043074
there needs to be a balance of characters. for every heavy there needs to be like 8 non heavies. theres already too many of them in the game. i thought there was too many heavies in the BASE roster. then we got a dlc heavy and now we have another dlc heavy. TOO MANY HEAVIES. i understand the devs are former mid tier shitters on smash but jeez at least try to be normal here

>>717043675
>for every heavy there needs to be like 8 non heavies
oops you forgot to put in any arguments as to why you believe this

>>717043754
because its the normal order of fighting games. theres ALWAYS just a fraction of heavies in any given fighting game. in rivals 2 its like 35% of the characters. this is NOT normal

>>717043935
Why is it not normal?

>>717043989
i just answered that question you fucking retard

>>717043754
it's a sentiment, people just don't like heavyweight characters. Compare the hype for olympia and absa in constrast to etalus and this new character

>>717044027
No you did not.

>>717043935
>it's not normal
Again this is not an argument. Appealing to what is 'normal' is not an argument.

>>717041957
I really like Incineroar's mechanics and animations in Ultimate, but I don't really like Incineroar, the Pokemon, and Ultimate sucks. So I'm really looking forward to her.

>>717042629
Do people really not like playing or playing against heavyweights?
>if you play them, your advantage state is fun
>if you play against them, your advantage state is fun
It's a win/win.

>>717043935
The normal order fucking sucks ass

>>717045040
wrong, you pic is preferable to whatever dan is doing

lmao at the commentator getting cucked by the olympia player SDing under air armada

This game has some of the worst barrier of entry iv ever seen in a fighting game.

>>717030127
These devs are retarded

>>717030127
I don't think it's significantly stronger than Kragg's, but you better believe I'm going to try to do as much retarded shit as possible with it

>>717045183
>DOOD WOULDNT IT BE FUNNY IF HALF OF OUR CHARACTERS WERE HEAVIES AND WERE FAST JUST LIKE NORMAL CHARACTERS AND WERE ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD AN OPPRESSIVE AND ANNOYING TO PLAY AGAINST?!?!?! LMFAO IM SOOO SURE PEOPLE WOULD ALSO THINK THIS IS FUNNY LIKE I DO THIS WILL DEFINITELY GET PEOPLE TO PLAY MY GAME XDDD

>Game is too similar to smash
>Wooooooooooow no one is original now the game will die anyway! Nothing can beat Smash!
>Game tries to be different to Smash
>Woooooooooooooow just do what already works, why try to add shit no one cares when Smash gets it right?
Maypul stinky pussy

>>717045361
Have you considered combo'ing the big, fat characters with big, fat hurtboxes who are at combo-able %s forever due to their weight

>>717045492
I think trying something different is a good thing but only if the different thing in question isn't also fucking retarded

>>717045492
unironically, I wish this game was more like modern smash bros.

>>717045551
I don't want to play vs a heavy every other match, it's rly boring sorry

>>717045492
It's time to post it

>>717045665
Why is it boring? I'd gladly fight a dozen Kraggs than have to fight yet another Maypul or Clairen

>>717045702
>I am right because I made myself the chad and you the soiboy wojak

>>717045773
>winning for free
>fun

>>717045805
>hes the soiboi wojak

>>717045805
Sorry chuddie, that's how the internet works.
Now scram before I get my soijak folder, you don't wanna see me mad, do you?

>>717045876
>playing a game
>fun

>>717045876
It's not a free win, Kragg is a great character and both Loxodont and Etalus are good. Orcane is the fourth heaviest character and he's arguably one of the top 3 characters right now.

>>717046324
>>717046134
Let me give you a different reason. I don't want to play against a billion heavies for the same reason I don't want to play against falco #623628732 on melee. I think this is pretty reasonable, no?

>>717046413
You're not playing against a billion heavies, though. The character distribution on ranked clearly favors midweight characters (Clairen, Olympia, and Zetterburn) and Orcane. Kragg is the most common heavy, while Loxodont is somewhat common.
If you're talking about when the character releases then yeah, just don't play for two weeks.

>>717046575
I don't know why I put Olympia in midweight, she's light as fuck but I always feel like she's midweight because she can recover from the depths despite her weight.

>absa set on stream
interested to see how this plays out, because every time i've matched into absa as kragg i've gotten raped.
and there it is lmao. she can land so much fake shit on kragg.

>>717046697
ABSEXOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>717045361
Okay it finally comes out that you struggle against heavies. Work on your punish game, mate. Also I don't think you have to worry about there being more heavies in queues, i doubt clairen and zetter shitters will pick up galvan

>>717046862

>>717046956
Have you taken the time out to actually learn any of heavies? By actually playing as them?

>>717047476
I said heavies were annoying to play against, not hard to play against. There is a difference. Just because I can beat heavies doesn't mean I'm not bored out of my mind playing against them. And no, I have not played any of them. I like when heavies are slow because I find it challenging in a fun way to win neutral as a much slower character. The heavies in this game are too fast to be fun for me so I haven't played any of them

So am I just never supposed to press the jab button when my opponent is below 70%? fh is so gay

Link to the private server:
https://www.roblox.com/share?code=0571d249312b4c49b427022bc15b4b7f&type=Server

>>717033320
just got my rewards

>>717048740
>forgot to do this
>stream ending soon
FUCK

>>717049002
don't worry, you still have 2 more days

>>717028867 (OP)
>still no mod support
game is a walking corpse

>>717049159
read the thread nonny

>>717029502
>tfw mogs every single character design in rivals

>>717049159
you mean workshop support, right?
mods have been around since launch

>>717049159
retard

>>717049285
>re-texture mods
Not real mod support. You can re-texture literally almost any game ever made. This is like saying window tint is a mod on a car.

>>717049159
Pools is ending in 1 match, anon. You don't need to post retarded bait to keep the thread alive.

>>717049252
>>717049436
Working hard shills? Or hardly working?

>>717049530
?

>>717049464
you clearly don't know what you're talking about. There isn't a single outfit like the one in the webm in the game

>rivals ends
>swap to street fighter
>jwong and yipes commentating punk
perfect
give me the punk impression yipes

>>717049854
you're misinterpreting him
he's talking about workshop support, but he's retarded because it's being added in 2026 and the game is perfectly stable / profitable without it
meanwhile you're talking about modded skins / palettes, which do exist but aren't what he's talking about

>>717045702
I hate Rivals for its characters but I've never once shitposted about the game.
I just don't play it.

>>717049854
Show me custom characters/movesets and custom stages on the level of roa1 then I'll kneel and start shilling your dumb melee-clone game.

>>717050101
Okay, come back in like a year

x1tt8r
I'm bad at the game.

>>717050186
>gets delayed to 2027 because the devs mismanaged the project like all indie devs do
sure buddy

>>717050481
They've delivered on everything so far

>>717050506
Even the shilling campaign