Rivals of Aether Balance Patch 2.1.7.3

We’ve got some changes to Hodan and our new Green Screen feature in today’s patch, along with a BRAND NEW gameplay feature that will surely get the community wrapped up in all its glory. There’s also a friendly new crossover buddy visiting from Ghost Croquet, a multiplayer platformer by friends of the studio ampersandbear and YellowAfterlife.

Read on for the full patch notes.

Introducing Screen Wrap mode!

We’ve got a brand new feature, a new buddy, and several bug fixes!

• Added a Screen Wrap setting. Players will wrap around blastzones and won’t be able to die by going offscreen until they hit the set percentage.

The Screen Wrap mode gives players a fun new way to play. Turn it on in the options and choose a percentage of either 300, 600, or 999. Once it’s set, instead of dying when you reach the sides of the screen like usual, you and your opponents will wrap around until you hit your chosen percent. Go wild offstage and pull off insane combos that defy the normal laws of Rivals as you chase your opponents all over the screen.

• Green Screen now hides foreground elements when hiding the entire stage.
• Added the Ghost Crab buddy from Ghost Croquet!
• Bug Fix: Fixed Green Screen not resetting when leaving a replay.
• Bug Fix: Fixed some visual issues with Early to Bed Maypul while using custom colors.
• Bug Fix: Fixed Abyss Zetterburn skin not having fire particles.
• Bug Fix: Fixed a crash when changing colors on certain workshop characters.

This patch we took a swing at balancing Hodan Neutral Special around the new hitboxes added last patch.

• Neutral Special: Side hitboxes are now untechable.
  • This will keep opponents from teching out of the move before it finishes.
• Neutral Special: Reduced side hitbox hitstun, 1.2 > 0.7.
  • This will cause offstage spikes to be less deadly if the opponent ASDIs out of the attack.
• Neutral Special: Side hitbox angles changed, 75 > 55.
  • This will make it more difficult for opponents to fall out of the side hitboxes of the move.
• Bug Fix: Fixed sweatwhirls spawning spirits when grabbed by Neutral Special.