I played 10 hours of Rivals 2 

Played DoA today, I love that idea

I hope they just give her an rng thing lol They won't but All the staples of plat fighters have a lil rng as a treat

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@@d.s.alcoda Yes

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Unfortunately it seems like most platform fighters are made for competitive people, and thus lack in casual-friendly stuff

Theres a bit of hope, albeit with some time after release. Rivals 1 has "Aether" mode for its stages, which are basically equivalent to "hazards on" in smash. The devs have said for release theyre focused on competitive stages first, but later on in future updates we might be seeing more casual fun in our stage select screen

This.

Its definitely going to change / gonna get fixed, since seeing as this is a pre-alpha, no reason it wont.

Love to hear that, hope you have fun with it!

I'm waiting for him to see it still, haha

He finally saw it LOL

Pfp (Profile picture) and / or Banner Sauce (Source [Artist])? 🗿

Well, he's also _not_ Darai, so it only makes sense he contradicts himself.

This is really cool to hear, thank you

Thank you! It's a Rana Digital from Rana Labs.

I have, but I'm actually making a full video about controllers soon! Mine is the Rana Digital by Rana Labs.

Pfp (Profile picture) and / or Banner Sauce (Source [Artist])? 🗿

@@SimoneBellomonte I think you're asking who my pfp is? It's casca from the berserk manga. This specific panel of her is a very important moment for the story and my life. 💓

I've heard it's good, just haven't had time to check it out yet

Luh you Dhir

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Thanks! It's actually one of the prototype builds!

Blue Hills by Yellowbase

I had to look up 'Kemetic' and I'll be calling him that too from now on, thanks

@@atWisely It rolls off the tongue!

Yup. Definitely looks like a reference

The team is hiring more people so they can have more features (characters, skins, ranked, etc) ready for launch. It's things they'll add eventually no matter what, but this will get the game to a fuller state much sooner. The Kickstarter has full explanations, stretch goals, etc.

iirc they only didnt have ledges in the first game because it wouldve been hard to code and animate

Inviting people over for a 6 hour fest really helped, haha

While moving to get out of the way is definitely a more interesting defensive option, I have always been of the opinion that having more options to choose from each with their own pros and cons is more interesting. You need to decide in the moment what option will work best based on what your opponent is doing. Shielding is quicker and safer, but may still leave you on defense against advantageous moves, not to mention being vulnerable to grabs. Dashing back can lead to big punishes due to not being put in block stun, but is more precise and can be misspaced, and you don't have the hitstop/hitpause to react to what your opponent through out. Same goes for parrying, crouch canceling, or honestly any other game mechanic, defensive or offensive. Each have their own use cases, and to me the fun comes from the on-the-fly decision making that comes with having to weigh those different options.

I think an upcoming "Rivals 2 Mechanics" video I'll be working on should explain a bit more in detail, but from my time playing it feels like neutral is a little bit slower, but combos are the same pace. I think the pace of neutral is subjective on if you prefer one or the other. It doesn't feel like a downgrade to me though, I felt like I was more precise and could make more openings by calling out defensive habits. Moving around is just as fast, but you have a few more ways to punish someone for *bad* movement or throwing out hitboxes. It certainly doesn't feel slow at the very least, just less chaotic.

@@atWisely that's interesting, I'll definitely watch your vid on it too!

Wanna be clear, it's not a video on that specifically, but just "how these mechanics are different than Smash and Rivals 1". So I think it'll still answer your question a bit at least, haha

Im sorry to say but this is just an irrational fear you guys are having, and for 2 main reasons, first off, i dont think and cant see a reason for why having these new mechanics will or could possibly slow down the game in any way, meaningful or not,; and second, its Dan were talking about, not Sakurai or any other greedy 3A gaming dev (more like publisher, but alright you know what im talking about) out there, if something doesnt work or its not working, i dont see why Dan just wouldnt change it or fix it, and from what ive seen, the game looks perfectly fine with these new cool mechanics, its just Kragg and Fleet that look slow to watch imho, but idk seeing as i dont have the access to it myself, and lastly i dont think hes going or would be going to remove these mechanics if they were bad, rather than just straight-up fix them so we can have the best of both worlds, like i can honestly see and understand your worries completely if it was something like Smash, where people have been for example basically begging for both Ganondorf and Little Macs buffs for ages, only to get none… and for Sakurai to even say Ganondorf is balanced just because he has a 51% wr in all levels of play. 💀 Then if its just fear of change youre worried about and has actually nothing to do with anything i said above, then im sorry to say this is also irrational lol, i wouldnt want to play something completely identical to the previous games iteration, while also this sequel in particular only removed Drift DI and just only added new mechanics on top of it like the new Special moves, so i understand where series that have been out for long cant always just keep adding new stuff on top of the old because otherwise thatll would be too much to handle, but also the game is going to not only have new mechanics, but also a bigger (probably) roster, and the old characters will be play pretty much the same as they did in the previous iteration, while the new ones can and will bring a nice and fresh coat of fresh air paint for both veterans and newcomers alike, so really again i dont see where the issue is… just try to look at things from a more objective point of view pov, if you wanted it to feel the same, then just go play the old one even if you just wanted updated graphics… But most important point im going to try bringing up again, is that this is Dan, not Blizzard, not Nintendo or Sakurai, they will and are going to listen to player feedback regardless like theyve been doing for ages since the first game came out, while also being and having great balance, after all communicating with the playerbase and the community is also one of the many important things to a games success and its why Rivals 1 is still thriving after so long unlike Smash where its basically just lost almost all of its playerbase (casually-wise speaking), ive also done a few online tournaments in Smash, and seeing as some of the characters were broken and wouldnt get addressed or their pathetic attempts at doing so barely did nothing, along with the bottom-tier characters also getting no buffs neither (and the community just being really toxic and elitist in general lol), i ended up ditching the game completely, oh right lets not forget about the godawful netcode with at the very least a minimum of 7 frames of input lag 💀, yeah ok sorry for going on a bit of a tangent here but its basically like this: TL,DR: Its just an irrational fear for 2 main reasons: 1) I really dont and cant see a possible reason why those new mechanics will or could possibly slow the game down, and judging from the gameplay, they in fact didnt lol, also youre forgetting again that this is a pre-alpha, stuff isnt final and will be subject to change. 2) This is Dan were talking about, not Blizzard or Nintendo or Sakurai, they are and will are going to listen to feedback, also cmon this is like one of the only few games to be actually balanced (other than Dota 2), and the netcode is also pretty much very functional, the only downside is it being stuck on a very trash game-engine lol, i mean just tell me, when do you ever see a combo of a game being fun, great netcode, IS ITS ACTUALLY BALANCED and they listen to both the community and / or player feedback??? So yeah again i see possibly basically 0 actual reasons as to why you shouldnt be optimistic about this game, try to have be having some more faith for once… and LASTLY context is all that matters, as ive said again yeah if this was being developed by Sakurai or Blizzard, where the game is pretty much done after releasing or its DLCs being developed, i would understand the fears, but its not, Dan isnt and is not a greedy person who would do such a thing to his its community…….

Ya mean orcane

@@shenangelo if he is there from the start then 100% but if no orca then def zetter at first

I do understand, i also do hate the battle passes thing and the whole FOMO aspect of it, like the Expeditions in No Mans Sky, they are time-locked and you cant do them again until they go up again or you mod the game lol. 💀 As for the DLC characters thing, i do also agree, and while not all of the characters are definitely broken or really good on launch (Aki in 6, or Banjo in Smash, or Sephiroth too either, or heck yeah heck how could i forget about Hero, a painful mid-Tier Hero character lol 💀), most of them are pretty much just straight-up upgrades over others, and also most importantly, i do feel like DLCs for fighting games just shouldnt be paid, or at the very least have an option, the option to buy them with real money to for (in-game currency*) for F2P players as you said, cuz locking down options to the player even when he already paid for the base game feels cheap, especially more so if the character in question is actually broken and the game isnt balanced properly, and at least in the case of Rivals we already know the game is gonna be probperly be balanced by the time it comes out, and if not, itll take barely a few patches to be in a pretty good or great spot otherwise at least, so this problem is lessened, but i still feel like that characters should either be free updates or give you the option to get them via in-game currency by watching ads or something (COMPLETELY OPTIONAL), sort of like how SFV did it, that way, nobody is at an advantage or disadvantage, regardless if the character is good or not.

Also btw man is your profile pic from SimCity 3 or 4? Or what other city-building game if not 🤔? Or if from none of these either lol then just what game in particular is it from? I do find it kind of familiar tho, but i might be wrong. 🤔

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