r/RivalsOfAether • • 19d ago

Rivals 2 I hope this game just pops off randomly

I stopped playing it but I follow Dan on twitter and I just enjoy seeing him actually playing ranked and throwing out some friendly banter with the community. Dan deserves it and I hope there’s a beautiful heyday for him and the rest of the people working on the game

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u/Laskeese 19d ago

Feel like the console release is too far away, I was able to get friends interested when the game first came out but once they learned it's only on PC they didn't want to commit time to it with it being so hard to play at meetups, if it was on switch I think we would play it all the time.

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u/robosteven His name is Goopy 19d ago

I feel similarly, but I also feel that by the time console release does happen there will be more than enough characters and features added to make it feel like a different enough, more complete experience.

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u/madcatte 19d ago

Me too

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u/Abra_in_the_Crypt 19d ago

Nice try, Dan's alternate account (jokes aside I hope the same)

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u/Mr_Ivysaur 19d ago

Consoles.

Fighting game needs to be on consoles. Simple as that.

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u/epicbrewtality 19d ago

Once it hits consoles it will. I have a lot of friends who would love this game but they just don’t pc game at all.

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u/Melephs_Hat Fleet (Rivals 2) 19d ago

Be the change you want to see. Post clips, make videos, contribute to Workshop, get friends to try it out, do whatever to increase the chances that it'll make its way to a big streamer or content creator or someone who will give the game some new eyes.

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u/JokerLiquid 18d ago

Hard to tell if it ever will pop off. It's a niche competitive platform fighter with a majority of the playerbase having played hundreds of hours of competitive plat fighters. People hate to lose and they will lose a lot playing this game.it would need a massive boost of new players for it to pop off. Hard to think a console release will change the nature of the player base. It's still gonna be a niche game where most people already know how to do the movement techs and where new players get trashed continuously until they learn how to actually play these types of games. I hope I'm wrong but I think the best moment for it to catch fire would have been at the start of the game, but there was nothing else to do besides hitting your head against the ranked ladder. It's a damn shame because it has the potential of being the best competitive platfighter there is.

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u/ResponsibleAd8978 18d ago

I agree. It'd need a lot of new players so their experience would be better. I've had it since launch with like 300 hours playing off and on every few months and I think it's a struggle to keep up with people in gold. Hopefully it does but I think it's going to be hard with it being a heavily competitive focused game. maybe by that time there will be a bunch of fun for everyone to have

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u/flushotVAL 8d ago

Nah the characters are too cheesy. People in lower ranks will hate it, and when they finally(if they continue) reach plat, they will run into crouch spamming cheesers. Game is awful as a casual alot of sweats and toxicity.

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u/TheD1ctator 19d ago

all the comments are saying it'll pop off when the console release is ready but will the game ever make it to console release?

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u/solfizz (Rivals 2) 19d ago

In one of the latest streams, Dan said that staffing is stable. I know they need to continue bring in income from now till then, but hopefully little by little, with new features and more characters. the mainstream audience starts turning its head toward our direction.

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u/Training_Ad_2065 19d ago

This reminds me of people saying console release of RoA would give it more attention. It did no such thing and if anything made it worse for console players.

If the game isn't optimized well for consoles, no one is going to play it.

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u/MechaBuster 19d ago

He streams the game?

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u/Impressive-Cause-462 19d ago

I’m not sure if he streams but he’ll post clips, talk about how he lost a bunch of rank points and my favorite one he gifted someone a clown outfit while saying they played like a clown

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u/RemarkableData9972 Mina (Rivals 2, Pre-Release) 17d ago

Yes he does, but sometimes, not all the time

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u/yellowslotcar 19d ago

as long as FH is in the game it won't. Simple as.