Rivals of Aether News

A small patch containing mostly fixes for some odds and ends. This patch will be what the RCS World Finals are played on at Genesis 7 later this month!

• Basic version of Merchant Port/Swampy Estuary dimensions fixed to match the Aether version (side blastzones increased by 2px).
  
  • This fixes a bug with Sylvanos on Merchant Port that allowed him to grow grass underneath already existing grass.

• If Fspecial's fireball hits an opponent after you start a strong attack, it will no longer activate the fire-consume hitbox on whiff.
  

• Environmental collision is now disabled when Orcane teleports to a puddle until the first hitbox disappears. Prevents situations like these.

• Vertically moving seeds will no longer be destroyed when touching Lily unless she is idle.
  

• Ice on the ground can no longer freeze opponents when they are invincible due to their hurtbox being nonexistant (e.g. Clairen's Dspecial).
  

• When parried, Dair will go into pratfall when bouncing off an opponent/object.
  

• Holding the special button during Dspecial (spawning the bubble) will now allow you to freely move the bubble as if you had performed another Dspecial with the bubble out.
  

• Ftilt physical hitbox BKB reduced from 6 > 4.75.
  
• Ftilt physical hitbox angle changed from 55 > 30.
  
• Ftilt physical hitbox is now untechable.
  
  • Previously, DIing away and teching in place would cause you to be actionable 4 frames before Sylvanos, making the move punishable on hit.
• Flowers now have a distinct visual for when they're projectile immune and a more distinct visual for when they're the oldest of 3 flowers.

It's time for the last North American Rivals Championship Series event of 2019. This free, online tournament has prizes for everyone. On top of that our stream will also feature a rare tri-cast with a special guest - one of the developers who worked on Shovel Knight!

In addition to being eligible for the Chalice of Champions provided by Yacht Club Games, this event is also an instant qualifier for an RCS voucher. That means the highest placing player who isn't already getting a voucher through the standings will receive a travel voucher worth $500 to our live finals at Genesis 7.

If this is your first online RCS event of season 4, you will also receive the Champion Forsburn skin just for competing.


Saturday 12/14/2019 @ 4 PT / 6 CT / 7 ET


You can sign up and learn how to participate at our event page on smash.gg: https://smash.gg/RCS-December

Patch 1.5.7 is our latest update for the Workshop Beta branch, and it includes the next big feature from our road map – the Stage Editor. If you need help accessing the beta version please visit our original article announcing its public launch, or take a look at our in-depth technical manual for building content. Now on to the notes!

• The Stage Editor is now accessible from the Workshop menu. Create custom stages directly in the game using standard controls or your mouse.
  
• There are two types of stages you can make:
  • Standard stages: Built entirely with ingame assets, these are a good starting point for beginners and for prototyping new stage layouts quickly. There are 8 tilesets / stage backdrops available in this first beta release, with more to be added in future updates.
    
  • Advanced stages: Enables you to create your own background graphics, audio, and more. Additionally, custom scripting support will be coming in a future update. Any Standard stage can be converted into an Advanced stage in the Stage Editor menu.
    
• Config files now have a 'Finished' flag. Set this to true and tag your item as finished so players can filter out work-in-progress items.
  
• Both friendly and casual matches have a new change rules menu that allows you to enable workshop characters. NOTE: Make sure to enable this option to play with workshop characters and stages.
  

• Fixed a crash on casual 1v1 startup with custom characters selected.
• Fixed a crash caused by different character loading times on different machines.
• Fixed custom items' version mismatch popup triggering at wrong times.

We're grateful for the amount of support and activity that the Workshop Beta has received so far. If you're ready to dive in and make your own stages, make sure you check out our latest manual entry on the new stage editor. We can't wait to see what you make with this latest update!

This patch includes some small balance changes along with the Halloween seasonal skin rotation. We've also updated the Workshop Beta Branch. Read on for the full notes.

• Halloween colors are back! This year Rivals are wearing their costumes before the match starts.
  
• You can no longer fastfall after being parried.
  
• With strong attack option on: letting go of the direction before pressing attack will no longer activate a strong attack.
  
• Hitting Eid (the guy in Tower of Heaven's window) will no longer cause hitpause for the attacker.
  

• Dash Attack hitstun multiplier decreased from x1.0 > x0.85.
  
• Dash Attack angle flipper changed from 6 > 0.
  
• Grounded dash attack is now jump-cancellable on hit after 8 frames of endlag.
  
• Dair angle adjusted from 50 > 361 (45 in air, 40 on ground).
  
• Slipstream height reduced from 44px > 40px.
  

• Opponents will no longer move when in hitpause on top of a falling pillar.
  
• Holding left or right when starting pillarless Uspecial will give the same boost as when cancelling Fspecial.
  

• Charged Fspecial now has invincibility when spawning the super clone that lasts 4 frames after the clone is created (30 frames of invincibility total).
  

• Uspecial hit 1 now moves opponents while in hitpause, but only if their hurtbox will not be hit by the 2nd hitbox (shouldn't affect normal usage of the move, but should make it still connect when hitting extended hurtboxes).
  

• Fspecial explosion base damage: 2 > 3.
  
• Holding down during the first 5 frames of Dair's descent makes Ori fall through platforms.
  

If you're helping us test out the Workshop Beta Branch with our new netcode and workshop beta features, you'll find these changes are now live:

• Error messages now display during gameplay.
  
• set_attack now works correctly.
  
• Miscellaneous gameplay bug fixes.
  

Added the following functions:

• get_player_damage(player)
  
• get_player_stocks(player)
  
• get_player_team(player)
  
• get_game_timer()
  
• clear_button_buffer(input_index)
• get_state_name(state_index)
  

Rivals of Aether is coming to Glitch 7 with Ultimate Rivalries! As a part of this special event, some of the top players in both Rivals and Ultimate will be competing in each other's games. With an added bounty for these players the rivalry is just heating up!

Tune in to watch the best Rivals players in the world compete for the title.

Saturday (9/14):
Channel: https://twitch.tv/VGBootCamp2
Time: 5PM PT / 6PM CT / 8PM ET

Sunday (9/15):
Channel: https://twitch.tv/VGBootCamp
Time: 8AM PT / 9AM CT / 11AM ET

Bracket:
https://smash.gg/Glitch7


Glitch 7 is part of the Rivals Championship Series, the premier circuit for players who want to test their skills against the best. Players compete for prizes and standings over the year to be crowned the season 4 champion.

Find more information about Rivals esports at: https://smash.gg/RCS