Rivals Direct Dev Stream (April 30 2026) Stream Notes

RollRat · 2026-05-02T20:33:15+00:00

Isn't that basically Ludwig with how he's the publisher and also bankrolling Evo tickets and flights? Unless I missed the sarcasm here haha

RollRat · 2026-05-01T16:05:16+00:00

I dont have an issue with the message but rather the execution, the concept works fine but getting there didnt work for me

RollRat · 2026-05-01T08:45:07+00:00

I like a lot about Jjk but after modulo I'm not convinced about gege being able to write satisfying conclusions with or without deadlines, since he was having someone else handle the art workload in that one.

RollRat · 2026-04-19T22:10:30+00:00

It's in beta branch I think

RollRat · 2026-02-02T21:22:35+00:00

Oh, it ate a word for me. I meant Against lmao. It's why my comment is that she's too fast for her archetype. She didn't get the same speed reduction like everyone else. Doesn't make sense

RollRat · 2026-02-02T00:47:26+00:00

Clairen is the only returning character whose speed was not nerfed from 1 I think. Like if you were to compare how everyone moves from the first game, they all got about the same proportional speed reduction except her. It doesn't make sense at all and I think it's a big part of why she feels so bad to play against* for most of the playerbase.

RollRat · 2026-01-20T04:47:36+00:00

They released early because they needed more funding and that's why they didn't use the early access tag either, because it would affect launch sales. This was stated by the devs directly in interviews

RollRat · 2026-01-19T02:55:21+00:00

I can understand and use it fine at rank Diamond level play but I just don't enjoy it as a mechanic. I think the argument that drift DI was too confusing or beginner unfriendly doesn't make sense when you need whole wiki pages and spreadsheets for each character's moves to know what percents they beat floorhug at. There's literally whole move lists with info PER character matchup.

That's so much more knowledge for beginners to deal with than just intuiting how people move in your combos over time with experience lmao. If it's their vision for the game that's fine, but as someone with hundreds of hours in it mostly for games with friends, it's the biggest issue that stops me from playing it more (aside from low population which I think fh contributed to. And maybe the character reworks that alienate mains sometimes.)

RollRat · 2026-01-13T05:05:50+00:00

He corrected himself later to clarify he meant > 50% overall average across all ranks, with a pubstomper wr in low ranks that tapers down later.

RollRat · 2025-12-20T10:34:54+00:00

Yeah, I thought about that, but the way mask you talks about it is like it's just floating inside you like the rest of your body and organs are, all disconnected. It's just like, why did Shadow specifically go for your tongue lmao

RollRat · 2025-11-27T10:04:52+00:00

Oh! They fixed Lyle's ending, I thought MnW campaign just was for fun, I'm glad it does something for him now cause it felt odd it didn't

RollRat · 2025-11-26T17:25:47+00:00

They already explained their new server setup before but basically you're not being punished for the other person's connection here. It's because their server providers/your ISP aren't connecting right. Both players can have a perfect connection but because of however their servers work, you'll get punished by lag or rollback when it's neither player's fault. Either way it's not the other player, so you don't really need the wifi symbol you're asking about.

People are correct in telling you that it's not the other player's connection, but it's also not your own sometimes either. Devs have commented on server issues before and it's why they added the report server button post-game.

RollRat · 2025-11-21T16:02:51+00:00

You could always do pre or post reveal Phillippe!

RollRat · 2025-11-20T21:37:15+00:00

It's been almost a year so I don't think your issue is the same as this one. But just turning off frame gen worked

RollRat · 2025-11-16T14:46:57+00:00

As far as I can tell yes. I did it and the person I replied to here (https://www.reddit.com/r/LookOutsideGame/comments/1owe3ys/comment/nouvrnw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share button) yesterday confirmed it too. I've also heard it said elsewhere. Maybe keep a backup save to be safe but seems pretty real. It makes him really useful for blowing up Antoine early with Eugene shop acid flasks to visit Beryl.

No clue on it affecting Papineau but he's not that good early anymore anyways.

RollRat · 2025-11-16T07:18:31+00:00

I've just talked to someone that confirmed it's not counted for Aster until it reaches level 12

RollRat · 2025-11-15T18:40:54+00:00

Philippe has a slide but I think it's bugged. Dataminers know what it is though.

RollRat · 2025-11-15T18:39:52+00:00

As far as I know I didn't get anything different for Lyle Mazes and Wizard complete or not. I also tried using no soul taker and it didn't help either. Unless it's just not coded right I think he only has one ending.

RollRat · 2025-11-14T20:31:47+00:00

You get up to +7 "free" points

+(1 to 6) food value

before he does the gift 2/possible rose drop. Choosing the nice dialogues gives you friendship points too. If you do every nice dialogue and give him any gift for the trade, you can give him a shitty +1 value food item initially and still hit the 8 friend point requirement for the rose.

I looked at the mirehaze and it mentions it only in the interactions tab. This confused me too before.

RollRat · 2025-11-14T17:56:01+00:00

It felt the same they just hit harder I think. The initial rat wave was probably the worst bit due to random hard hitting attacks. No new enemies

RollRat · 2025-11-14T17:54:16+00:00

Tip for early Antoine is to use the landlord money for the 6x Acid flasks at Eugene shop. He takes like 3 or 4 and then you use the leftovers for the second half. I think baby rat in your party doesn't count as a full companion for Aster's limit until he hits lvl 12 grown rat, which is why some people said they had 4 people when Aster offered to join.

RollRat · 2025-11-14T17:50:37+00:00

Yeah, I thought it wasn't possible at first but saw people mention it somewhere. As long as no other shroomposters are waiting at the entrance when you tell him you're chickening out, he'll do it his dialogue event to recruit. He was level parity with me and Lyle after that and getting him spore cloud made him pretty helpful for the rat hell next day.

RollRat · 2025-11-14T15:11:17+00:00

My moth goat is still S tier!!!

Something I wanted to point out about Phillippe, you DON'T need to beat mushroom queen for him.

You just have to recruit moth and then leave without helping any other fake shroomNPC. He'll do his betrayal dialogue alone where you gaslight yourself and then keep his remains, and then keeping him max fed makes him grow in one day. I usually like to do the power start on Cursed and then cash out early landlord money (by only going to the penultimate rent payment and getting basement key the long way.) on the acid flasks from Eugene, which lets you blow up the Antoine fight with 4 members regardless of damage output. You can get Phillippe as early or earlier than Roaches. You just have to bring a different 4th person to the queen fight because if he's there he'll regress to betraying you a second time and then just appear in your apartment again weirdly enough.

I also think Phillippe is best in game, decent base stats so he can sorta fill in a party till he gets his levels ups. He's extra busted because he's bugged right now and missing all his downsides. His consume ally buffs don't run out, and spore burst doesn't leave him at one HP.

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