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Welcome to the Rivals of Aether General. Here we discuss things in the Rivals of Aether franchise and other Aether Studios games.

>Latest Patches (Rivals II): https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2217000?emclan=103582791473410752&emgid=523103429639276474

>Rivals of Aether official site and social media:
https://rivalsofaether.com/
https://rivals2.com/
https://youtube.com/@RivalsofAetherOfficial
https://x.com/RivalsOfAether

>Where to get the games (on PC):
>Rivals of Aether
https://store.steampowered.com/app/383980
>Rivals of Aether II
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2217000
>Lovers of Aether (Free Game)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1043180
>Dungeons of Aether
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1668290
>Dreams of Aether
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3463050

>Feedback form:
https://rivals2.com/nolt

>Rivals of Aether 2 resources:
https://dragdown.wiki/wiki/Rivals_of_Aether_II

Removed rivalsframedata.com from the OP because it's been dead for a few weeks. But have a picture of Clairen's dash grab.

Best wife.

Hello everyone complaining about Clairen, I just wanted to talk about how everyone complaining has been blatantly spreading misinformation about a character they know nothing about. The amount of people who clearly have ZERO understanding of how to fight Clairen is crazy. And not only that but all of you idiots who play other characters do not understand the amount of work a lot of Clairen players put into labbing out certain routes and situations. I know that most of the other character playerbases barely even attempt to do this. I, Rongunshu, Boiko, Nard, Vibe, Stroder, Landon, and other really good Clairens are discussing things DAILY to try to improve and everyone complaining has very clearly not put a single amount of work into actually trying to understand the character. If other characters put the amount of time we did into ours, maybe you could actually be half decent at the game and not hardstuck diamond. Most of you mfers complaining are either just complete dogass at the game or complete dogass against Clairen. GROW UP!

What's everyone favorite flavor of Galvan player
>the neutral special spammer
>the reverse nair spammer
>the dair spammer
>the dtilt spammer
>the chaingrabber
>the chaingrabber (literal)
>the one who actually knows how to play Galvan

It's over!
galvan killed this game.

Is RoA2 now a Discord fighter? Came across the Melee subreddit seething at Nintendo. Reminded me of this game and NASB2. Bought it a while back but forgot about it. Game looks much less gimmicky than Melee and supports higher frame rates. Hope Dan fixes the game and makes it bounce back like Ubisoft did with Siege and For Honor.

>>2020778
NA West and I can easily find matches any time except ass o'clock on weekdays, by which I mean 3AM - 5AM PST. Weekday afternoons and weekends (any time) I find opponents within 5-30s. So no, it's not a Discord fighter. Maybe if you live outside of the US or EU it is, though.
>Game looks much less gimmicky than Melee
Are you talking about NASB2 or RoA2? RoA2 is fundamentally more gimmicky than Melee, but it's by design - whereas Melee's gimmicks are mostly esoteric miscellanea, like Peach's dsmash hitting you for 60+% if you CC, Game & Watch being unable to L-cancel, Mario being able to wall jump out of up B, Dr. Mario being able to up B cancel, Link's moonwalk up B cancel, ICs desyncs, wobbling, etc.

>Hope Dan fixes the game
I think the game is in a good spot as far as balance and character balance goes. Maypul and Clairen are still obnoxious as fuck to fight, though. tl;dr we'll have to wait until 1. Workshop support and 2. console release before we're able to judge whether the game gets a broader audience.

Forsbone

>>2020859
Was talking about RoA2 being less gimmicky than Melee. Good to know the game still has more chances. Today, I'll try to see if I like Forsburn.

>>2021139
Good luck. He's fun but has to work a bit harder than other characters, at least as soon as you encounter people who know how to floorhug cape.

>>2020869
>against a heavy
Not a real clip, sorry
>>2020872
This counts as the only actual clip ever posted to this general, a bit noobie but I'll take it

Crew battle mode is great, but there's something wrong with the netcode. It feels fine until there's a near-miss, and then the rollback is very noticeable. I guess it's a "beta" for a reason.

>>2021367
I'm going back to fraudulent characters after Halloween, Forsburn is really un-fun to play against players who love floorhugging and sitting in shield.

>people keep ragequitting
Why is everybody such a fucking faggot?

>>2024221
ragequit too
show them that what they're doing is not cool

>>2024221
Do you actually play your wife, by any chance?

To anyone who doubts that the Workshop is going to get infinitely more eyes on the game, here's a Losers top 8 set of Hitfall 4's Workshop bracket outperforming both
>a high level Galvan mirror match
>grand finals
from LMMM. The rest of the bracket isn't a slouch at all in terms of view count.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlSY5LT45v8

>>2024835
Yes.
>>2024841
Its super dependent if the few 3d modders that rivals have the interest or new come in just to make modded characters. The few people doing modding at the moment are super introverted, egotistic assholes, and its impossible to get a project going. I think that, at least, there will be a lot of mesh swap mods so you can have Lucina Clairen and such. (technically you can do it at the moment, but nobody shares their completed work or quits half-way)

>>2024849
It depends on whether PM modders are retarded or not, really. 2D vs. 3D workflow is a matter of personal preference, and there are already a lot of experience 3D modders in the platform fighter community due to PM, Melee, and even Ultimate. The fact that
>RoA2 officially supports modding
>RoA2 will have modding documentation
>RoA2 will allow player to use mods online with the game's own netcode
>Aether Studios won't send you a cease & desist for hosting PM tournaments
is logically enough to attract modders. So it's really up to the modders themselves. I think the only significant issue with RoA2 Workshop is that 3D is a higher barrier to entry than 2D, although it's arguably easier once you know how to do it.

workshop will be fine and will not be dependent on any specific modders

Clairen won

>>2025647
>Clairen is the most popular character
>350,000 match difference between Clairen and 2nd place
>44,000 match difference between 2nd and 3rd places
I'm noticing...

bump

>>2029727
you shouldn't have done that

>got hit by tipper bair into dstrong one too many times
>go into training mode
>turn on hitboxes
>tfw
What the literal fuck is this, Dan

>>2024849
>>2024923
>>2025245
The game feels empty, reminds me of Paladins open beta. Makes me want to stop playing until workshop support arrives. What a shame because modern controller support, high framerates and higher resolutions are great.

>>2031423
What do you mean with "feels empty"

>>2031452
not him but the game barely has content at all. i shouldn't have to post a list of content the game should have, you get the idea

>>2020468
yea

>another low poly event
>which means another month of Ranno not getting a skin
It's getting comical

https://www.twitch.tv/rivalsofaether
these streams are always so awkward.

no skill? no problem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3H22jAcx18
New skinslop, now featuring stageslop
>only have 80k coins banked but want to buy Kragg and Ranno's old retro skins

>>2043651
love these trailers. I love how much Dan and co hate the stupid frog, very based.

>>2043651
wow
more skins...

>>2043938
Rivals 2 is saved

>>2044089
quite the opposite
you can't sell skins if no one is playing your game

>>2044097
There's more than enough skin paypigs out there to justify spamming the game with them

reverse utilt hitbox

>Rongonshu smiling as he hits Clairen cheese after Clairen cheese
>The Zetterburn tranny SD'ing to get out of game 1 early and visibly raging
I formally apologize to all Clairen players. You guys are alright.

>>2050192
umm what are you watching

>Sandstorm in winners
>Sophilo ACKing
>Mystery Sol sneaking his way into top 8 with Galvan
>Elkies in top 8
They're pandering to me hard with this script

>>2050238
port priority 9

>>2050307
>elkies top 8
Damn now I gotta watch this.

tag me when its on or whatever

>>2051284
It's been on: https://www.twitch.tv/rivalsofaether
>Sandstorm brutally mogging
>Ant suffering Absa's MU spread
>Rongonshu making Clairen seem sick
>lolcakewins
>Ranno continuing to get zero representation

>cakewinslol
I'm beginning to believe the "Forsburn is actually broken" propaganda. Great tournament, though.