The first season of our online ranked mode is officially ending next Tuesday night. This means the season one leaderboard will move to the history books and scores will be reset in preparation for season 2.



We've been working on something special for the occasion as well so make sure you get your games in this weekend if you were aiming for a bronze, silver, or gold placement.

The first season of our online ranked mode is officially ending next Tuesday night. This means the season one leaderboard will move to the history books and scores will be reset in preparation for season 2.



We've been working on something special for the occasion as well so make sure you get your games in this weekend if you were aiming for a bronze, silver, or gold placement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvGtlx8nMsI

Ori from Ori and the Blind Forest is joining the Rivals of Aether roster this summer! In a collaboration between Dan Fornace LLC, Microsoft Studios, and Moon Studios, Ori has been recreated in beautiful pixel art to compete against the other Rivals. The Ori DLC will be available later this summer on both Steam and Xbox One for $4.99. It comes with the tag team fighters Ori and Sein as well as The Spirit Tree stage.



Ori and Sein bring their abilities learned throughout Ori and the Blind Forest and put them to the test in Rivals of Aether. While Ori works to Bash, Stomp and Glide his way to victory, Sein can use the Spirit Flame or the Charged Flame to put enemies between a rock and a hard place.



The new Spirit Tree stage comes with both a casual Aether version and competitive Basic version. On the Aether version, players will have to look out for Kuro as she dives toward the screen, striking those who have not taken cover under the platforms. Gumo, a fan favorite from Ori and the Blind Forest, also makes an appearance on the Aether version of the stage as he moves a platform around. Competitive players can play on the Basic version for a fair fight while enjoying some great music inspired by Ori and the Blind Forest.




You'll be able to grab this amazing pair later in the summer. In late Fall 2017, you can look forward to four original DLC characters expanding the Rivals of Aether roster even further. Now is a great time to dive into Rivals and get some practice before Ori and Sein shake up the competitive scene!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvGtlx8nMsI

Ori from Ori and the Blind Forest is joining the Rivals of Aether roster this summer! In a collaboration between Dan Fornace LLC, Microsoft Studios, and Moon Studios, Ori has been recreated in beautiful pixel art to compete against the other Rivals. The Ori DLC will be available later this summer on both Steam and Xbox One for $4.99. It comes with the tag team fighters Ori and Sein as well as The Spirit Tree stage.



Ori and Sein bring their abilities learned throughout Ori and the Blind Forest and put them to the test in Rivals of Aether. While Ori works to Bash, Stomp and Glide his way to victory, Sein can use the Spirit Flame or the Charged Flame to put enemies between a rock and a hard place.



The new Spirit Tree stage comes with both a casual Aether version and competitive Basic version. On the Aether version, players will have to look out for Kuro as she dives toward the screen, striking those who have not taken cover under the platforms. Gumo, a fan favorite from Ori and the Blind Forest, also makes an appearance on the Aether version of the stage as he moves a platform around. Competitive players can play on the Basic version for a fair fight while enjoying some great music inspired by Ori and the Blind Forest.




You'll be able to grab this amazing pair later in the summer. In late Fall 2017, you can look forward to four original DLC characters expanding the Rivals of Aether roster even further. Now is a great time to dive into Rivals and get some practice before Ori and Sein shake up the competitive scene!

In just 1.5 hours our second RCS monthly for the year will be live! All players who participate will receive a Champion Kragg skin. If it's your first ever RCS tournament you'll also receive Champion Etalus.



Event starts at 4 PDT / 6 CDT / 7 EDT

Tournament Registration: https://smash.gg/tournament/road-to-shine-rivals

Stream: https://twitch.tv/bigbluegg
*Even if you're not playing come out to the stream to hang out with some other Rivals players, see some good games, and get lucky with some chat giveaways*


A thourough description on how it all works for new players is available here.

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Hope to see you on stream or at the event!

In just 1.5 hours our second RCS monthly for the year will be live! All players who participate will receive a Champion Kragg skin. If it's your first ever RCS tournament you'll also receive Champion Etalus.



Event starts at 4 PDT / 6 CDT / 7 EDT

Tournament Registration: https://smash.gg/tournament/road-to-shine-rivals

Stream: https://twitch.tv/bigbluegg
*Even if you're not playing come out to the stream to hang out with some other Rivals players, see some good games, and get lucky with some chat giveaways*


A thourough description on how it all works for new players is available here.

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Hope to see you on stream or at the event!

Community Roundup #10

Check out our favorite fan-made art, clips, and more in the latest community roundup: http://www.rivalsofaether.com/blog/?p=1762

Community Roundup #10

Check out our favorite fan-made art, clips, and more in the latest community roundup: http://www.rivalsofaether.com/blog/?p=1762

With The Bigger Balc coming up this weekend we wanted to put in some changes we’ve been working on before the big event. Though most of this patch was catching up on bugs, we’ve made some changes that will affect competitive play as well as big improvements to keyboard controls. We’ve also added the Champion skins that people earned last Saturday during the Road to Shine. Read on for the full patch notes.



Several of the new stages have been tweaked with competitive play in mind.

• Tempest Peak - Platforms now indicate when they are about to move with visual cues on the air council statues. The platforms also move less often. Top and side blast zones reduced by 16px.
• Aethereal Gates - Players now start the match further apart.
• Endless Abyss - The huge space, lack of platforms, and massive blast zones really limited approach options and caused some slow play that was uncharacteristic of Rivals. We've reduced the size of this stage all around, taking 36 pixels off the sides and decreasing the total ground width by 160.

New promo skins are on the way as we get ready for summer events and season 2 of the Rivals Championship Series.

• New Seasonal Colors: Summer - In honor of the beautiful weather and summer themed events coming our way, a new set of summer colors are available for each character.
• New Champion Skins - Champion Kragg and Champion Wrastor have been added to celebrate the start of season 2 of the RCS. Earn these by playing in free online RCS events. You can https://smash.gg/rcs-2.

• Team Spawns Updated - Spawn points for team matches have been made more symmetrical. Teammates now also spawn on the same side of the stage so that players can no longer start in an advantageous position below their opponent.
• Keyboard C Stick - Right stick buttons have been added to the keyboard controls.

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• Zetterburn's Fstrong hit 1 is now properly untechable again
• Etalus can no longer pull frozen enemies through moving platforms
• Fixed an Etalus shader issue that caused him to become oddly shiny in playtest
• Etalus Freeze can no longer cause an invincibility bug on the Aether version of Air Armada
• Players are no longer able to be frozen when standing on ice after a successful parry of hit 1 of Etalus' Dspecial
• Orcane's puddles now behave properly on platforms
• Strong attack press no longer makes Maypul Fstrong to the right in playtest
• Throwing a rock down now pops Kragg up the same amount whether he is on the ground or a platform
• Fixed a parry invincibility bug discovered by Arcanine
• Fixed a crash that could occur when equipping runes and switching characters
• Fixed a playtest issue that produced a fatal "Out of Bounds" error
• Fixed a crash with Etalus ice in online playtest
• Fixed a crash involving Abyss XP Piñatas
• Fixed a replay desync issue involving custom controls
• Stage data corrected on stage select menu
• Hitboxes can now correctly hit both a rock and a pillar, instead of just one or the other
• Red team is no longer invincible to lightning on the Aether version of Tower of Heaven
• Cleaned up stray pixels on Absa's character art
• Corrected menu issue where the cursor didn't work for some players in the Custom Color menu