Are you going to check out the new Rivals 1 Throwback queue? I think it'd be nice if there was a 1v1 queue option, but from the little bit I've played so far, the modifiers feel a lot closer to R1 than they did last patch, the new R1 camera is pretty much the icing on the cake!

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I like the shields.
I like the grabs.
I'm not good enough to know if I like floorhug yet, I don't know how to use it, and I don't really think about beating it.
I think the get up specials are neat.
I think we're spoiled by the devs.
My condolences to all the other mechanics people have lost from transitioning from Rivals 1 to Rivals 2, but that game still exists.
I don't want Rivals 2 to turn into Rivals 1, because that means we'd have 2 Rivals and I like Rivals 2

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So on the last battle pass, we got the summer theme skins for Clairen and Absa along with 2 recolors, that's over 2000 in-game bucks they helped me save since I never bought them. For this upcoming track I was not expecting them to GIVE the Gundam-themed mecha skins for the 3 or 4 characters that are in there.

I think I only have Wrastor's mecha skin, but everyone else's I would be getting for free on top of the Gundam color scheme. That's insane imho, especially for a dev team who are struggling financially, and I think us players really should consider helping them out for providing so much bang for the buck. Of course I can't tell anyone else how to spend their money, but this is just my thought process that I hope many others will adopt toward how they're handling their recent battle passes.

HOLA!! Earlier this season I took up the challenge for Wrastor to GM. Lots of IRL stuff happened to keep me from being able to grind consistently, peaking at 1600.
In order to compensate for my transgressions, this season I will bring Wrastor to Aetherian.
If you have any questions about Wrastor play in the meantime, feel free to ask c:

I will properly host a Q&A once I hit this goal.

Thanks!

The latest update with new song isn't my thing. Thankfully I can still get Slade's intro to work with audio at game startup. Added bonus, it mutes that annoying goey

Playing unranked. I kept matching against a guy that was much better than me.

I never dodged at the character select screen. I would play a match with him, try my best, but still get 3 stocked and leave to requeue and hope to get someone else.

I got temp banned for an hour?

Am I required to play a best of 3?

"Where my GOOP at?" - A combo video of my first patch Gouie! It's nothing special but I wanted to get all my first month clips together into something before we got too far into the new and improved Gouie

I tried the Rivals 1 throwback mode once and it wasnt for me (would be better if it was 1 vs 1 and without the feather), if i wanted to play that with friends i would just boot up rivals 1. Casual was my second most played mode, so im kinda bummed...

Besides abyss. I'll buy it. Thank you!

There is an argument for it being too far now, but it feels like I can read the game much better with everything zoomed out. Like taking an FPS FOV from 75 to 95.

Edit: To be clear, I believe I like the stock camera's dynamic view better vs rivals 1 almost static, but it needs to be pulled back a decent ways back to increase the FOV.

I really like this game and I want to play it often but playing with bots gets really boring. I want to play online but I always get destroyed even during unranked play. If there are other people here like me who are interested in playing with others but not with tryhards please let me know and we can try to play together! I don't lab combos or situations, I just like hitting buttons and hoping stuff works. Thanks!

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I just played a game where I got 0 points, and I placed a lot lower than I normally do (normally place 1200, placed 975)

Will be usable as of tomorrow's update. Not in game files currently.

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I had been waiting for so long to play rivals! But it’s on pc only, then I found out the first one dropped on the switch and I immediately copped!!

This was recently posted about and I wanted to follow-up having played in the bracket. The bracket is here for reference. This was the ruleset used for the "no floorhug" settings (taken from the event page):

floorhug: off

quick parry: on

quick wavedash: on

tilt cancels: off

preserve ledge invulnerability: off

I wanted to give some thoughts on the experience.

While I only played 3 matches total in the new format, it still made quite an impression on me and how similar the game still feels with floorhugging off (yet was more rewarding in neutral). Fair disclaimer (for bias), I hate floorhugging with a passion and am a Loxodont main.

• First off, I can't tell you how good it felt to hit a plat-drop fair on my opponent (who was not crouching, crouch cancel still works with these settings) and not be punished or grabbed directly for it. It provided a far more rewarding feeling in neutral of actually winning it by hitting my opponent with a decently strong aerial.

• One thing that was particularly interesting was that the game didn't really feel that different at all, just more rewarding in neutral. There was maybe a little more "cautiousness" when approaching... but I also didn't feel certain attacks were being abused and I wasn't running into otherwise inescapable combos (which happens all the time anyway with Loxodont even with floorhugging). I've often seen suggestions that if floorhugging were removed, it would break the balance of the game, but I didn't feel that off the bat. The neutral felt...solid, more like Rivals 1 where mixing opponents up with your movement and spacing were key to winning neutral. Again, hitting your opponent with different attacks and not being punished for it in and of itself felt amazing. It really emphasized to me how awful floorhug feels.

• While I was most interested in playing in the tournament to try a bracket without floorhugging, the other settings were nice too. Parry felt like it actually had a real use case and while shield was still better in almost every circumstance, the fact that it comes out quicker (and I personally believe it really should as in the current meta, parry feels like it has not purpose outside of extremely hard reads or blocking projectiles) made a difference.

Not having tilt-cancels was brutal for Loxodont's kit, but I digress on that. Overall, it was very interesting to play without floorhugging. While it was only a few matches and I'm sure there's things in the meta that would be "abused" without floorhug...but I personally found the neutral to be far more satisfying. It felt far less limiting about what choices I had in neutral. And with quick parry, if my opponent is seeing that I'm using plat-drop fair too much...then they can simply parry it and punish me for it too.

Definitely worth giving it a try! I'd also love to hear from others who played in this bracket on what their thoughts were as well.

feels literally awesome to play in, takes out all the frustration the game had, even gouie is not that annoying to play against, both kinds of camera are fine to me honestly, would like to try it with the rivals2 camera settings

the real question is, was shields and grabs really a good idea? and a character with half of its attacks being grabs on top of it?
what was the problem with the old format exactly? did parry's stun set the entry barrier too high? shields set it much higher

and isnt it too much things to do with 10 fingers?
shift, wasd, space // numpad0789+, i dont have that wavedash thing as a seperate button, or parry, and grabbing with the pinky finger is too risky considering the reaction time, (this could be a me problem)

would really love to see the game with the old format, and without the characters that are much more advantageous on a controller, yk, the game is on steam, xbox/ps releases years away, nintendo already has smash, "veterans of the genre" is fine to an extent, but is it really a good idea to build the whole client to be controller-first in consideration?

-and few characters, i assume absa's setups are easier to manage on a controller, for example. i didn't try on controller, just assuming, though 16 directional zetterburn sspecials and diagonal ftilts on maypul are obvious-

also, olympia's sspecial gets you falling off the platform if you miss.
wrastor gets locked to walkmod after you dashattack.

when i redeemed the code it said: received item name, without showing a picture.

when i tried to redeem again it said that the code was already redeemed. I tried to restart the game, but still dont have the skin.