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Ave Patronus,

Tomorrow is the glorious day we finally can jump right into the arena - but don't underestimate your opponents. They will come prepared - so should you!

We just freshly opened up 2 more platforms, next to our discord, where you can ask questions, get answers or just share your experience on the bloodgrounds:

• You prefer Reddit over Discord? We got you - Feel free to discuss and share to your hearts content: Bloodgrounds - Reddit
  
  
• You prefer playing with ALL the knowledge you can get? Check out our new Wiki page (some areas are still a work in progress): Bloodgrounds - Wiki

See you tomorrow!
Vale, Patronus!

The French and Japanese version are currently in the works and coming soon!

If you already own the game and are interested to help us proof read the French or Japanese versions, please feel free to reach out to us on Discord for more details.

Many thanks!

Dust off your cartridges as the beloved Rivals 3D event returns on its one year anniversary! This time experience the next dimension with SUPER Rivals 3D.

The paid bundle includes 3 new Low Poly skins - Low Poly Etalus, Low Poly Orcane, and Low Poly Olympia with their own Low Poly icons to match, plus coins and bucks. The free event track includes the Low Poly Zetterburn Skin and Icon, the Low Poly Platform, Orcane emote, ‘Game Over’ death effect, plus coins and bucks.

All Low Poly skins also include a custom victory jingle, with stylistic bitcrush effects in their sound effects and voice overs!

Players equipping any event skins above, or any previous Low Poly event skins, will receive 20% Bonus EXP on the event track. Speaking of past event skins - we're also excited to share that the old Low Poly Ranno skin has gotten a graphics update to bring him up to the SUPER Rivals 3D level.

Give Fire Capital a retro makeover with its brand new Low Poly stage skin. The Low Poly Fire Capital bundle is just $4.99 in the Featured Shop and includes an exclusive icon. You can also pick up the stage skin by itself in the bucks shop for 1000 AB, or for 100k coins in the Featured Shop.

After our rollout of crews a few weeks ago, we are happy to bring lobby and local functionality for Team of One to crews! This means you can now play as multiple Rivals as a single player offline or in lobbies, just like you could in the 'Team of One' queue.

Stages now have ambient audio! This means beautiful environmental audio is now included on every stage to bring even more life to the world of Aether. For example, in Merchant Port you can now hear the ocean, birds, and the sound of raindrops hitting the deck and water.

Champion Orcane has been added to the Ranked Shop! This includes a skin, two emotes, and two icons for the adorable Puddle Jumper. Get these with your medals that you earn from playing ranked.

• Midnight Abyss Loxodont

• Yellow Smokeclan Forsburn

• Black Spotted Olympia

• Orange Axolotl Orcane

• Orange Low Poly Wrastor

• Orange Low Poly Ranno

• Freyden Icon

• Firefang Icon

• Porcuber Icon

• Maypul Up Air Emote

When someone leaves in Casual 2v2 or FFA mode, the matchmaking server will now automatically find more players via our new backfill feature.

November is kicking off with a bang and a blitz week! Three events are happening in quick succession:

• This weekend the circuit visits the legendary Port Priority 9 in Seattle on 11/8 - 11/9.

• Followed by a brand new Hungrybox Online Qualifier on 11/12 with a voucher to Genesis X3.

• Then returning to the storied grassroots Rivals major, Heat Wave 8 in Phoenix on 11/14 - 11/16!

Esports Palettes

Rep Port Priority 9 with the all new Port Priority Lovers Zetterburn palette, available now in the Featured Shop:

Similar to the previous Hungrybox Qualifier Events, participants will receive the HungryBox Baseball Clairen palette for free. Registration will be available soon for this event in a separate post:

Finally, the Heat Wave Baseball Clairen is here to celebrate the tournament’s 8th installment. The event is on the cusp of breaking yet another attendance record, so check it out if you want something a bit more focused on Rivals of Aether!

• Right stick down/backward on ledge will now be processed after left stick down/backward and grab.

  • This makes sure the right stick input results in an aerial if it is in the buffer at the same time as the left stick input or grab. Previously, the right stick input would be processed first, causing the character to drop from ledge without performing an aerial.

• Joystick downward hard press inputs will now be cleared when entering the Land state.

  • This prevents an extremely niche bug where a frame-perfect fastfall input that is held for exactly one frame directly above a platform would cause a buffered platdrop after landing.

• The input buffer will no longer be cleared when ledge canceling a waveland.

• Grab trades will now restore all resources for both characters.

  • This prevents situations such as Etalus Up Air trading with another grab and leaving him with no Up Special resource.

• Anti-infinite pushback velocity is now capped at 48 cm/frame. Sorry :(

  • This prevents some weird situations where holdable moves like Galvan's Jab finisher could build up enough momentum to teleport through solid objects, like Kragg's pillar.

• Bug fix: Critical Hit Effects and Death Effects selections for your profiles will now be saved properly between game sessions.

• Bug fix: Fixed a bug that prevented characters from being grabbed if they were performing a throw.

• Bug fix: Getting bounced off the ground by an untechable spike will no longer retain that untechable status after bouncing.

  • Ground bounces are always supposed to be techable. This was a very niche situation, but could happen with attacks like Forsburn's Ledge Special.

• Bug fix: Fixed a bug that caused hurtboxes to shift unintentionally when a character rotated around their center.

  • For example, Galvan's Forward Special was more disjointed when angling it upward and vice versa. Now it should be consistent regardless of his rotation.

  

• Added a low-reaching hitbox to his standing grab.

  • This helps prevent it from whiffing against shorter characters that are extremely close to him.

• Added a hitbox to the center of Up Special that reaches higher than the other hitboxes.

  • This allows Galvan to break a rock on a platform above it.

• Bug fix: Up Special can now ledge cancel before going into the Special Fall window.

• Bug fix: Aerial Down Special can now be ledge canceled properly.

• Added a low-reaching hitbox to its standing grab.

  • This helps prevent it from whiffing against shorter characters that are extremely close to it.

• Drills can now only hit the player that activated them or their teammates.

  • This prevents a weird situation in doubles where Galvan's teammates could get hit by a drill after knocking an opponent into it.

• Drill hitbox radius: 60 > 75.

  • This makes it less likely for a drill to detect a player and then fail to hit them, since the hitbox is now larger than the detection box.

• Galvan's head hurtbox is now intangible during Forward Special's active frames.

That's all for this update! As always, feel free to drop any suggestions for new features over on our nolt board. Make sure to join the discord to chat all things Rivals, report bugs, and keep up with the latest events!

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We're aware that some players can't connect to Apex Legends right now. We're looking into it and will let you know as soon as it's resolved.

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Hey Legends! Thanks for your patience. You should be able to connect now. See you in the Ring!

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We’ve been keeping an eye on your feedback as we’ve been heading into the launch of the Dynasties of the East expansion on all platforms. We’re rolling out a small patch today that includes some crash fixes, as well as some fixes for known issues.

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Thanks again to our amazing community members, all of whom have helped to make Age of Empires what it is today!

—The Age of Empires Team

Please Note: As part of updating to this latest build, any saved games and observable matches made on previous builds will be unable to be loaded or replayed.

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UX/UI & Menus (Console)

• The “UI Narration” setting no longer resets to default after relaunching the game. If you’re disabling the narrator, you should only have to do so once now.
  
• Fixed an issue where several in-game settings would reset to default after launching the game in offline mode.

General Changes & Bugfixes

• Introduced fixes for two of our top crashes to improve stability, including:
  
  • Fixed an issue that caused the game to crash when accessing old Match History.
    
  • Fixed an issue that could lead to a crash on launch.
• Fixed an issue where some map textures were missing or showing up incorrectly on certain maps and biomes on Xbox One consoles.

Investigation

Known Issues
Please note that we are aware of and reviewing other known issues, which can be found at Age of Empires IV Known Issues & Solutions – Age of Empires Support. We wanted to highlight two known issues along with workarounds here:

• Options menu does not recognize L1 or R1 button presses when navigating through menus.
  
  • Workaround: You can double press the L1 or R1 button to continue navigation as planned.
• If you’re still experiencing a crash on launch on Steam following this update, please reach out to support and attempt to download Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2022 from the Visual Studio website. You can find other steps to try here: The game crashes shortly after it launches or when trying to start a game – Age of Empires Support

Your reports continue being crucial to our prioritization and implementation of fixes and features in the game. Keep them coming!

For other known issues, please visit this page to see what’s being tracked!

:alertalert: DISCLAIMER

This list is subject to change and should not be considered a comprehensive list of all the known issues we’re tracking. The above is to inform you of the team’s current priorities, which will change as other issues arise or take precedence.

For the latest updates and announcements, please visit our social channels.

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Neon Overdrive release date is set! Be ready for the 25th of November, and we hope you are as excited as we are!

~Neon Overdrive Team

Narrated voice-over for Act 3 has been added, along with minor bug fixes and balance adjustments for several quests.