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| Esports | Live Now: Chatting Workshop Contest + More Character Highlights There were so many incredible entries in the Workshop contest that we can't resist gushing about it some more. Join developers Giik, SBS, and Etalus for a casual dev stream right here on Steam (or your choice of the Rivals Twitch or YouTube pages) where we highlight more great characters and chat about the contest. | — | |
| Community | Rivals Workshop Character Contest: Winner Revealed! Last year we announced a one-of-a-kind contest where Rivals Workshop creators had the chance for their own character to be officially added to Rivals 2. Creators had six and a half months to design, animate, and code their creations before submitting them to our dev team for a rigorous judging process. Today, on the one year anniversary of the contest, we're finally revealing the winner and 4 r… | — | |
| Game update | Rivals of Aether Bugfix Patch 2.1.7.4 We're back with a bugfix full of bug squashing and a few QoL changes for Hodan. This is a smaller patch leading up to our potential final patch with more balance changes and a Switch update in the next few months! · Bug Fix: Fixed custom color skins applying to Story Mode due to some skins causing issues in gameplay. · Bug Fix: The Rollback Settings button is now unclickable while readied up. ·… | 14164468 | |
| Game update | Buddy Up with Mawson A new buddy is available today in Rivals of Aether: introducing Mawson from Cross Blitz! Mawson is the beloved chief of the Mawpaws – a cat-like race of creatures that live deep within their island’s mana mines. He’s one of the few Mawpaws who are brave enough to communicate with outsiders, and looks to be adventurous enough to have made it all the way to Aether to be your next battle buddy. Yo… | — | |
| Esports | Workshop Contest Update Stream Event Join Dan and Trevor over on our twitch this Thursday at 2pm ET / 1pm CT / 11am PT as they play contest entries and chat about the process behind the scenes for adding a character to the Rivals universe. As always, questions are welcome in the chat. At the start of this year, we closed submissions for our Workshop Character Creation Contest, a contest where we asked the community to make their o… | — | |
| Community | Workshop Character Contest Update Hello to our beautiful Rivals Workshop enjoyers today! We’ve got a small update to announce when we plan to reveal a winner as well as a few other events related to our Workshop Character Contest. Contest judging is well underway and we’ve combed through almost one hundred characters to make sure the winner and four runner-ups are chosen with care. We plan to choose the winner and get them sign… | — | |
| Sale | Steam Spring Sale Final Day Rivals of Aether and all of our cosmetic DLC is on sale for just one more day at 50% off! Don't miss out on the end of the Steam Spring Sale. It's the perfect time to get your friends in for Rivals Workshop, or just pick up the game at a discount if it's something you've had your eye on. | — | |
| Community | Exclusive Rivals of Aether Skin Available TODAY! Get an exclusive Rivals of Aether skin when you back the Rivals 2 Kickstarter HERE . We have some Early Bird Specials, so be sure to back before it’s too late! | — | |
| Community | Rivals Workshop Character Creation Contest Today we’re kicking off a competition with one of the coolest prizes we can think of – a chance for your own character to officially join the Aether Universe! We’re inviting the community to create their dream character in our new contest and share it with the world for a chance to be added to Rivals 2. If you’re new to Rivals or the Rivals Workshop and want to get involved, we’ve got great new… | — | |
| Community | NA RCS Season 7 June Online Major Get ready for our first online event of Season 7! start.gg/RCSJune Prizes · Champion Olympia skin for ALL participants. · $1000 in prize money provided by start.gg for premier RCS events! Our first ever event on rollback netcode features Rivals Singles on Saturday, June 11th where all participants will earn a brand new Champion Olympia DLC skin and a chance at $1000 in prizes provided by start.… | — | |
| Esports | Rivals 2 Officially Announced Last Friday we officially announced the sequel to Rivals of Aether through a trailer packed with fast-paced gameplay, beautiful stages, and even a tentative release date to look forward to. Zetterburn, Ranno, and Wrastor were revealed as the first three characters in the game, along with promises of more favorites returning. We have an admittedly bad habit of making our biggest announcements on… | — | |
| In-game event | Rivals of Aether Balance Patch 2.1.2.0 After over a full month since the release of our four free newcomers, we are back once again with another round of balance changes! Last patch aimed to clean up some obvious troublemakers and mechanics. This time we intend to really dig deep and focus on fine-tuning our new friends. This is not by any means our final balance patch, but this will be our last balance touch-up before Genesis 8 and… | 8384378 | |
| Game update | Rivals of Aether 2.1.1.1 Hot Fix Update MOLLO: · Mollo no longer gets stunned from parrying his own Finisher. · Bombs now push out of each other correctly. · When hitting mollo with a primed bomb in his hand, the timer should now reset on each hit (meaning it won't interrupt your combo) . · Thrown bombs no longer teleport to the center of Mollo during the throwing animation. HODAN: · Fixed Hodan getting stuck in his Up Tilt animation… | 8264508 | |
| Major update | Balance Patch 2.1.1.0 A few weeks ago we added a whopping FOUR new characters to the PC and Switch versions of the game for free. Since then we’ve been able to collect feedback and bug reports from the community, allowing for our first balance patch since their release! While this is by no means the final balance patch these characters will see, our intention with this round of changes is to hit the big troublemaker… | 8228474 | |
| Major update | Rollback Netcode + Workshop Character Pack Release The time has come! Last April, we announced the inclusion of four community-created characters into the base cast of Rivals of Aether. After an intense year of development we've worked internally, with the original creators, and with our closed beta team to finally bring these characters to life in our free update today! What's Included The workshop character pack is filled to the brim with new… | — | |
| Community | Rivals Community Awards Nominations Open The Rivals Community Awards nominations are officially open! Showcase your favorite creators and players in tons of categories spanning workshop, tournaments, and more. Get involved by writing in your top nominees on any category. Nominations run until Dec. 1st, 2021. Visit the Community Awards page to make your nominations > Join us on December 8th as we celebrate our own in a live show hosted… | — | |
| Community | RCS October Online Majors Our Rivals Championship Series majors are now available to register for in October! Get your hands on our latest Steampunk themed skin for this year's Rivals Championship Series just for playing. Sign up for your region below: 10/16 @ 4ET / 3CT / 1PT: smash.gg/RCSMelody 17/10 @ 7:30PM CEST: smash.gg/RCSMelodyEU 10/16: smash.gg/RCSMelodyOCE We'll see you on Twitch for the stream complete with co… | — | |
| News | Rollback Netcode Open Beta Now Available Rollback netcode in Rivals of Aether has been a long time coming, and it's proven to be quite the struggle to rebuild our original 1v1 netcode into something more modern. Today we are finally pleased to share that we have reached a point where we are ready to open our Rollback Netcode Beta to the public. Though this is only an open beta phase, it is the culmination of years of work from our tea… | — | |
| Major update | Rivals Patch Notes [2.0.8.0]: Summer Fine-Tuning and Creatures Steam Launch As we enter August, patch 2.0.8.0 is ready to hit the beach before the Rivals Championship Series starts at Riptide next month. This patch includes a bunch of small balance adjustments that have come from our behind-the-scenes testing as we prepare to release our first new characters in 3 years. Work on both the Workshop Character Expansion and the Rollback Netcode Beta is also moving along so… | — | |
| Esports | Diamond Grove Crossover Stage Skin Coming to Rivals We've got a surprise next week for fans of both Creatures and Rivals of Aether! When Creatures of Aether releases on Steam next Monday, we'll also be adding a brand new stage skin to Rivals styled after the Diamond Grove arena. Players who download Creatures of Aether, our free-to-play card game on Steam, will automatically unlock the stage skin at no charge. Be sure to add Creatures of Aether… | — | |
| Community | Rivals Championship Series Season 6 Get ready for RCS Season 6! Following the record-shattering attendance of Riptide and the recent announcement of Genesis 8 , we are ecstatic to announce the newest Rivals Championship Series installment! Season 6 of the RCS will bring back monthly Online Majors, but will also mark the return of live events with our first hybrid season. Join us as we celebrate Rivals in even more regions on our… | — | |
| Community | Workshop Character Pack Progress Update Earlier this year, we announced that four new characters would be joining the Rivals cast in a free update coming late 2021. However, these characters all shared something never-before-seen in Rivals. Instead of coming from the minds of our dev team, they originated as some of the very best from the thousands of community-created Steam Workshop mods. One character from each element has been cho… | — | |
| Community | Tales of Aether Issue #3 Available Now Part three of the Future Imperfect series is available now! Clairen is closing in on her life-long goal, but first she has to survive the fiery revolutionary Mollo! How far will she go, and what will she sacrifice, on her quest for revenge? We're exited to bring the world of Aether to comics with a star-studded team featuring Dan Fornace, Ian Flynn, Jack Lawrence, Matt Herms, Marc Knelsen and J… | — | |
| Game update | Rivals of Aether - 2.0.7.5 Patch Notes Summer is around the corner and we are excited to rollout some nice quality of life and UI improvements that affect both local and online modes. A few QoL and UI improvements that we've been working on: · The Random Stage rule will now only pick a stage once, not repeating until every stage has been played at least once. (Once that happens, every stage can be picked again.) · You can now use Up… | — | |
| Community | Tales of Aether Volume 2 Available Now on ComiXology The future continues! The world of Aether hits the digital shelves for the second time with the release of Tales of Aether – Future Imperfect Issue 2 on ComiXology . Issue #2 is available now for $2.99, and dives deeper into Clairen's fiery backstory. Learn more about the world of Aether and its heroes in volume 2 of our debut series. Future Imperfect is a 4 part series, and we're excited for T… | — | |
| In-game event | Patch 2.0.7.4 Notes Things have been busy in the world of Rivals since our last patch with the announcement of Aether Studios , new games , characters , projects , and much more ! This update includes some quality of life changes along with standard bug fixes while rollback and other larger content updates are underway behind the scenes. · If you switch characters during a ranked set, losses will apply to the new… | — | |
| Community | Tales of Aether Volume 1 Available Now on ComiXology The future is here! The world of Aether hits the digital shelves for the first time with the release of Tales of Aether – Future Imperfect on ComiXology . Issue #1 is available now for $2.99, and dives into Clairen’s fiery backstory. Learn more about the world of Aether and its heroes in volume 1 of our debut series. Future Imperfect is a 4 part series, and we’re excited for Tales of Aether to… | — |
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