Shovel Knight is joining the Rivals of Aether roster this fall! In a collaboration between Dan Fornace LLC and Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight has been adapted to compete against the other Rivals. Shovel Knight will be available in September on Steam as a $4.99 DLC addition. It comes with the playable character Shovel Knight as well as the Troupple Pond stage from his game.

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Shovel Knight comes with a huge array of tools from his game and puts them all to use in Rivals of Aether. His attacks knock gems out of his opponents which he can collect to increase his treasure. By taunting, Shovel Knight can summon Chester and spend his treasure on upgrades. This allows players to customize each fight to their needs and experience even more of Shovel Knight's abilities.



We are incredibly excited to bring such a well-known and beloved character to Rivals of Aether. We are even more excited about the unique playstyle that he brings to the table. Many of his attacks seem simple on first glance but have intricacies in how you can use them, similar to his abilities in his own game. Shovel Knight's signature Shovel Drop is a big part of his game plan in Rivals of Aether and sets up for his combos.



While Shovel Knight is the last planned character addition to Rivals of Aether, the road does not end here. The team is gearing up for a Definitive Release in early 2019. This will come with all the characters, more online features, and Abyss Mode customizations for every character. We are very excited to be bringing the Definitive Edition to PC in 2019 and plan on bringing it to more platforms as well. Keep your eyes here to see where else you'll be able to grab Rivals of Aether in 2019!

Thank you for checking out Rivals of Aether. Let's get Shoveling!

It's our first patch on an upgraded engine - that's right - we've completed our move to GameMaker Studio 2! This is good news as you'll see some immediate benefits like texture updates and other optimizations to help gameplay run smoother. This also sets us up further down the road to bring Rivals to more platforms.

If you have trouble launching the game, graphical issues, or controller problems on the newest patch please run DXDiag and send us a screenshot of your system and display tabs. To run DXDiag simply type 'DXDiag' into your start bar.

We’ve added even more movement options to Rivals this patch with the advent of moonwalking. This advanced tech is great for microspacing or when you just want to show off.



RIVALS OF AETHER is now available in Japanese! We’re excited to announce that our first localization efforts are complete, allowing players to switch from English to Japanese text through the in-game options menu.

• Forward Special now has double the endlag if it whiffs, but only if it was started on the ground (or within 32px above ground) and not reversed.

• Clones will not jump for 10 frames after you release the Special button.
  This change is to make it possible to command super clone to attack offstage while still preventing his jump, since previously he would jump on the frame that you released special.

• Last patch 3 frames of extra endlag were added to Absa's Up Special. This endlag now only happens on whiff, instead of always.

• Armored Up Strong final hitbox position changed to match non-armored Up Strong.

• Down Air can now be cancelled with Up Special (at the same time that it can be cancelled by jumping).
• Charged flame sweetspot knockback scaling decreased from 0.75 > 0.6.
• Bug fix: Ori can no longer issue orders to Sein while teching the ground.

• Forward Special now checks 32px downward to determine if it will be cancellable.
  This prevents Clairen from doing short hop instant Forward Special to avoid the endlag of grounded Forward Special.

• Off-grass landing lag multiplier decreased from 2x > 1.5x.
• 10 frame hit lockout added to Up Strong, Down Strong, Back Air, Down Air (spike hit only), Forward Special, and Up Special bite (to prevent Neutral Special from cancelling their knockback).
• Solo Up Air2 base knockback increased from 7 > 9.
• Forward Air endlag increased from 10 > 12 on hit.
• Forward Air landing lag increased from 6 > 8.
• Sweetspot Forward Air base hitpause increased from 6 > 10.
• Jab 1 endlag increased from 12 > 15 (still cancellable on same frame).
• Jab 2 endlag increased from 12 > 18 (still cancellable on same frame).
• Forward Tilt now reaches 8px farther inward.
• Up Tilt hits 1 and 2 angle adjusted to 90 > 75 inward.
• Dash Attack endlag increased from 16 > 19 on hit.
• Forward Strong knockback scaling increased from .95 > 1.05.
• Down Strong knockback scaling increased from .8 > .85.
• Back Air endlag increased from 18 > 25.
• Up Special startup increased from 4 > 8.
• Down Special now activates grass attacks radially away from Sylvanos instead of all at once.
• Bug fix: Up Air2 sound effect fixed.
• Bug fix: Up Special no longer crashes the game when breaking the walls on Aether Frozen Fortress.

• Up Air endlag increased from 16 > 20.
• Steam Strong attacks now have real hitboxes that accompany the steam.
• Strong attack cooldown removed.
• Charged Forward Special knockback scaling increased from 0.7 > 0.9.
• Up Special rebuild time increased from 24 > 32 frames.
• Using Up Special now destroys Down Special's mine.
  Elliana now has to sacrifice her Down Special to use Up Special as a combo breaker or recovery option. This gives the opponent a strategy once they've been stuck: get Elliana offstage so she has to Up Special.
• Down Special's mine explosion will now remove the mine from stuck players.
  This makes it impossible to stick someone with Down Special while they're trapped in the Down Special explosion. Elliana can still stick opponents immediately after the 3rd explosion hits (making the required timing a little more precise).

Now that the dust has settled from our recent major update, we've had some time to squash a few bugs. Thanks to everyone who helped report these. Please continue to send us your suggestions and feedback so we can keep Rivals excellent.

• Holding down during the flinch state will no longer crouch cancel unless you were previously in the crouch state.
• Opponent's speed is now capped when they're sent into parry stun from a projectile. This prevents a weird bug where players would go flying after getting parried.
• Wrastor Aerial Dspecial hurtbox corrected.
• Fixed scenarios in Kragg's and Elliana's tutorials that would prevent completion.
• Forsburn's clone will no longer use the default color for Elliana's mine when
  stuck.
• Ori's bash is no longer techable before the launching hit connects.
• The detection radius for Ori bashing Elliana's mech has been corrected.
• Elliana's guided missiles will no longer pass through low crouching characters on a platform when moving vertically.
• The charged version of Elliana's guided missile will now correctly break Kragg's rock.
• Kragg can no longer airdodge out of Elliana's mine explosion.
• The moves below have been fixed to work correctly when Team Attack is turned on:
  
  • Ori's Spirit Flame
  • Clairen's Plasma Field
  • Elliana's Steam

• Uair hit 1 and 2 SDI modifier increased from 1 > 1.2.
  This prevents uair > tether > uair from being guaranteed which had somehow worked its way back into the game.

• When Elliana's Uspecial is parried she now receives extended parry stun.
• Utilt can no longer hit frozen enemies.
• Holding the attack button will only cause you to hover if you're doing an aerial, instead of any air attack.
  This change allows people who use the "strong attack" control scheme to do smashes without flying to the top of their screen.

We've got a small patch today featuring some quality of life changes, a few bugfixes, and other balance changes we've made in respect to Sylvanos' and Elliana's launch last week. There's also some fixes for controller issues that had arisen from our revamp last patch. If you're looking for older notes since there's been a few patches recently, here's 1.3.0 and 1.3.1.

• Trading with a move that hits inward will no longer turn you around.
• Fixed a bug that prevented multihit projectiles from being crouch cancelled correctly.

• Switching the window focus away from Rivals of Aether will no longer reassign Dinput controllers' ports or unassign player profiles once focus is returned.
• Fixed a bug that caused one controller to control multiple ports at once.

Last week patch 1.3.0 revamped how Rivals detects controllers, allowing players to use Dinput and Xinput devices at the same time without setting a controller mode. This also solved one of the largest common controller issues in Rivals where crashes would occur when players were added or removed (more commonly seen during live events).

Thanks to players' feedback we've been able to work out a few of the kinks in the new system and we appreciate all of your help as we make this change for the better. We're still working on re-adding support for a few adapters. If you find your controller not working, unchecking Steam's controller configuration settings under manage game has gotten many players back up and running. If you're still experiencing issues please email contact@rivalsofaether.com so we can help!

• Dspecial now only restores Wrastor's jumps on hit instead of always.

• Smoke is now destroyed by steam and Elliana's uTilt.
• Holding the special button will prevent clone from jumping or using Uspecial while offstage.
  This allows Forsburn players to get even more creative and sneaky when spawning clone offstage.

• Ustrong shard damage decreased from 6 > 3 (to match Fstrong and Dstrong shards).

• Can now bash Elliana Dspecial and Uspecial.

• New sound effect added when starting Fspecial, making it slightly easier to react to.
• Gravity reduced while channeling bubble movement.

• Projectiles are no longer active in the plasma field for 1 frame.
• Ori can now counter Elliana's steam and Utilt.
• Plasma field will now disable Elliana's Uspecial mech.

• Uair has been redesigned to be a two-part multihit. The second hit is unchanged, but only if you miss the first hit. If you land the first hit, the second will have the strength of the previous patch's first hit. This means if you want the strong hit, you'll have to intentionally miss the first part of the attack.
• Time between Uair hits decreased from 10 > 4 frames.
• Uspecial multihits can no longer destroy projectiles.
• Flower hp reduced from 10 > 1.
• Flower is now immune to projectiles that deal less than 8 damage for the first second after it's planted.
• Flower dies when Sylvanos dies.

• Jab hit lockout time increased from 0 > 6 frames.
• Dash attack no longer builds any heat during the first 3 cycles (since these cycles happen even if you aren't holding the attack button).
• If Utilt is interrupted, the opponent will take minimal knockback instead of the full cannon knockback.
• Utilt claw now appears closed when it can no longer grab players.
• Fair/Dair multihits now force flinch on grounded opponents.
• Dair hit one and two hitstun modifier increased from 1 > 2 frames.
  This move now has 1 frame less overall hitstun on grounded opponents because of the above flinch change.
• Uair is now a single-hit sweep attack.
• Uair endlag increased from 14 > 16 frames (on hit).
• Disjoint added to dash attack and fair.
• Fair final hit damage increased from 2 > 4.
• Consecutive strong attacks without touching the ground release less heat.
• Rocket fist now detonates when colliding with Sticky Bomb.
• Rocket fist's explosion becomes stronger when hitting Sticky Bomb.
• Can no longer control Guided Missiles while dead.
• Charged Fspecial is no longer breakable by attacking it.
• Uspecial is invincible for the first 3 frames after dropping the mech.
• Uspecial is projectile invincible while rising.
• Uspecial landing hurtbox changed to just be her idle hurtbox instead of the full cloud.
• Snake hurtbox now matches her sprite.
• Snake walljump horizontal speed decreased from 7 > 4 (so she can recover using walljump without the use of an airdodge).
• Sticky Bomb explosion is now bigger.
• Sticky Bomb cooldown increased 30 > 90 frames.
• Sticky Bomb is now removed from the stage when Elliana dies.
• Steam influence from hitboxes reduced from .5x base knockback > .3x base knockback.

Surprise! Patch 1.3.0 was not an April Fools' joke (unlike most of what we revealed this weekend). We’ve got two brand new characters, revamped controller support, a host of balance changes, and more to dig into. Read on for the detailed notes and other good stuff.



Sylvanos, The Heart of the Forest and Elliana, The Aerial Arsenal are now available on Steam! These Rivals come as a DLC two pack and can be added to your roster for $4.99.

Sylvanos is our third Rival to represent the earth element while Elliana rounds out our roster as the final air Rival. Both of them are also unique in that they’re our first Rivals who are also villains. Pick them up today or try them for free in their tutorials, accessible through the solo menu in game.

To celebrate the release of Sylvanos and Elliana, we’re putting on the biggest Steam sale Rivals has ever seen. For just one week, the base game is going all the way down to $4.99, while all of the past DLC (both characters and skins) will be 50% off.

That means you can pick up the base game in addition to all of the characters and skins for just $20 total. If you have a friend who’s been waiting for a sale, make sure you pass on the news!

We’ve completely revamped controller support this patch. Players will no longer need to select a controller mode in the options menu as Dinput and Xinput both work simultaneously now. Support was also added for Switch Pro controllers via Bluetooth.

If you're having trouble with yours on the new patch, make sure you post in our bug support forum so we can dig into the issue.


We've got balance changes for every character this patch and the list gets quite long! To view the full detailed patch notes head over to our website at: http://www.rivalsofaether.com/blog/?p=3023

Surprise! Patch 1.3.0 was not an April Fools' joke (unlike most of what we revealed this weekend). We’ve got two brand new characters, revamped controller support, a host of balance changes, and more to dig into. Read on for the detailed notes and other good stuff.



Sylvanos, The Heart of the Forest and Elliana, The Aerial Arsenal are now available on Steam! These Rivals come as a DLC two pack and can be added to your roster for $4.99.

Sylvanos is our third Rival to represent the earth element while Elliana rounds out our roster as the final air Rival. Both of them are also unique in that they’re our first Rivals who are also villains. Pick them up today or try them for free in their tutorials, accessible through the solo menu in game.

To celebrate the release of Sylvanos and Elliana, we’re putting on the biggest Steam sale Rivals has ever seen. For just one week, the base game is going all the way down to $4.99, while all of the past DLC (both characters and skins) will be 50% off.

That means you can pick up the base game in addition to all of the characters and skins for just $20 total. If you have a friend who’s been waiting for a sale, make sure you pass on the news!

We’ve completely revamped controller support this patch. Players will no longer need to select a controller mode in the options menu as Dinput and Xinput both work simultaneously now. Support was also added for Switch Pro controllers via Bluetooth.

If you're having trouble with yours on the new patch, make sure you post in our bug support forum so we can dig into the issue.


We've got balance changes for every character this patch and the list gets quite long! To view the full detailed patch notes head over to our website at: http://www.rivalsofaether.com/blog/?p=3023

We've just released a small update where we squashed a few bugs, including a tricky Abyss mode crash. Here's the notes for those interested in the details.

• Updated splash screen to prepare for Hyrule Saga. We'll make sure to let everyone know when the Hero Clairen skin becomes available.

• Buffering a walljump after an aerial attack will no longer result in a double jump.
• Zetterburn can no longer jump during the first frame of charged Nspecial, causing the hitbox to not come out.
• Grabbing a rock with Etalus' Uair will now move the rock toward the second hitbox just like it does with players.
• Etalus can no longer walljump or fastfall after being wrapped with super armor.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Clairen Fspecial from rising onto the ledge if started against the wall.
• Gameboy Wrastor slipstream is now translucent.
• Fixed a bug causing Abyss mode to crash on low settings after the break the seeds wave.

We've just released a small update where we squashed a few bugs, including a tricky Abyss mode crash. Here's the notes for those interested in the details.

• Updated splash screen to prepare for Hyrule Saga. We'll make sure to let everyone know when the Hero Clairen skin becomes available.

• Buffering a walljump after an aerial attack will no longer result in a double jump.
• Zetterburn can no longer jump during the first frame of charged Nspecial, causing the hitbox to not come out.
• Grabbing a rock with Etalus' Uair will now move the rock toward the second hitbox just like it does with players.
• Etalus can no longer walljump or fastfall after being wrapped with super armor.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Clairen Fspecial from rising onto the ledge if started against the wall.
• Gameboy Wrastor slipstream is now translucent.
• Fixed a bug causing Abyss mode to crash on low settings after the break the seeds wave.