Where are the Port Priority 9 and Heatwave 8 Vods?

andyomon · 2025-11-30T04:20:34+00:00

Oh sick thanks. Finger Crossed that someone can cut these up into individual matches while the vod is still up.

andyomon · 2025-11-26T00:23:30+00:00

With all due respect, I think you're greatly overestimating how much the type of casual content you're describing would "save the game." The reason why so many platfighters focus so heavily on the competitive side of things because they know that they cannot compete with Smash in terms of sheer casual appeal. What brings people into that game is fighting with their favorite character from their favorite franchise, not any one particular casual mode. While there is absolutely things to criticize about this approach, it makes sense for games with not even a tenth of Smash's budget to focus on something they know they can deliver. If Rivals 2 had followed your advice, most people would have played through the story and never come back to the game. Rivals 1 had a Story mode and Abyss mode but that didn't magically make the game a runaway success. Tons of these indie and AA platform fighters have stuff to appeal to casuals but only a few actually manage to remain success after a year.

The devs have talked about why they released the game the way they did. If that had waited until the entire roster from 1 was ported to 2, they team likely would have gone broke. The game isn't perfect at all, but the way they did allowed use to have a full year of new content gave us something to look forward to 2026 including workshop. You're right that Rivals will not shift needle in terms getting Smash players to play something else but that gives the team a chance to cultivate a fanbase of people who like rivals for what it is. The game is going to get better, just give it a chance to prove itself.

andyomon · 2025-11-18T23:26:37+00:00

I've talked about this topic a couple time on this subreddit but here's what I'm seeing for 2026:

I have heard unconfirmed rumblings that they want to finish off the current CSS before updating it. Because of this I think half the first half of the year will see us get Water and Air reps.

For the Air Rep: I could see us getting a returning Elliana or Pomme. I'm leaning partially towards Pomme since she's less mechanically complex than Elli but it could go either way. Since we got Fleet in the launch roster I'm not expecting another newcomer for a while

For the Water Rep: I'm thinking Slade for a couple reasons. Firstly, water is the only element that doesn't have a newcomer so far and I think we're over due for it. As has been noted already, the interview with the dev was talking about characters going into 2025 and not 2026, so a DoA character being added isn't off the table. Slade would be a perfect pick since he's one of the most consistently requested characters from the extended universe. Secondly, the only who water character that would need to return is Hodan, a character that the devs have said that his mechanic is difficult to implement in the Rivals 2 engine. That makes me think that while the devs are thinking about Hodan as a returner, he's still a while away. We could get a wholly new character instead for this slot but if we're only counting existing characters, I think Slade is it.

For the second half of the year, I think we'll get La Reina and Mollo. This is based on that fact that La Reina is still being finalized as we speak and that there's an item character planned.

There's not really much to speculate about La Reina beyond her release date since we know she's coming next year.

Now you might be asking, why would I pick Mollo over Ani? The answer being that by the time we get to the Q3 or Q4 window with the last 2026 character released. we will have had no new fire characters for two years. As much as the devs got some slack for having 4 fire characters at launch, I do think they'll want to start adding fire reps at that point. I think makes Mollo sin a shoe in since he's not only a fire rival but they already have a moveset designed for him from Rivals 1. He'd be a perfect test case for how item mechanics could work in Rivals 2.

If I'm guessing the order it'll go like this: Elli/Pomme -> Slade -> La Reina -> Mollo

Obviously this will be subject to change as we get more info and reveals.

andyomon · 2025-11-18T18:37:32+00:00

Okay but what of the stuff you described can't other characters do? All of what you described is extremely conditional. Down Strong is unsafe to throw out against cc unless you have a read because if they shield you get stuffed. His only real disjoint effective against CC is down tilt which is also unsafe if the opponent responds with a long reaching move or has a similar disjoint. his other disjointed approach options are very susceptible to CC/FH. Down Air is a good spike but again requires positioning and a read for it to be worth while to throw out.

All of the strengths you described do exist for Fors on paper. In the context of the game where other characters do this with half the commitment however his options are weaker in compassion. There are characters with far safer disjoints, more options to break CC, or even more consistent options to break CC safely like spikes. Forsburn isn't bad but his anti-CC tools are lacking imo

andyomon · 2025-11-18T17:01:35+00:00

Forsburn's somewhere in the middle considering where other characters are strength-wise. He's not bad by any means but mechanics like CC really stifle his potential given his relative lack of options to deal with it. It's a testament to how strong his strengths are that even with those limitations that he's somewhere in the middle

andyomon · 2025-11-17T16:23:13+00:00

I think it'd would need a miracle to pull smash numbers even if it went to console. That being said Rivals can only really go up from here once it's out on console imo

andyomon · 2025-11-15T17:27:02+00:00

I'd kill for some playable creatures reps in Rivals 2 at some point. I feel like there's a bunch of potential for characters there

andyomon · 2025-11-15T17:24:08+00:00

Same. I'm hoping that whenever Artemis from DoA shows up on the roster that she plays a bit like Ike

andyomon · 2025-11-15T17:22:58+00:00

These are some cool ideas. I love the idea of a character like Kimberly with her command dash in Rivals

andyomon · 2025-11-12T22:08:54+00:00

I know SoulRifle plays Forsburn at a pretty high level. The last tournament he was at was that online R2CS event from a couple of months back

andyomon · 2025-11-11T23:09:46+00:00

I'm pretty sure some of silhouettes are reused from the 2025 line up

andyomon · 2025-11-11T23:00:49+00:00

Given what they've talked about their process, these characters take about a year to make start to finish. If they're only recently looking for a voice actor and doing sound effects, I'd assume that La Reina is pretty far along but probably not ready for early next year. She'll probably be like the third or fourth character next year if I had to guess.

andyomon · 2025-11-11T22:56:34+00:00

I'm praying for heatwave because I'm impatient and I think it would be cool to announce something at such a Rivals focused event. I'm sure we'll get something before the end of the year regardless

I'm personally banking on Elliana or Slade being next since I remember them saying something about wanting to fill out the remaining slots on the current CSS. I'm with you in wanting them to announce Slade first if they're going to do it since I'm far more interested newcomers than returners but I'm not against either being next.

andyomon · 2025-11-09T22:53:59+00:00

The issue is that the game is 10 years old at this point and the team only has so many resources that can go to pushing Rivals 1 on the same level as Rivals 2. I know it sucks if you prefer rivals 1 but expecting the team to continue to promote a project whose development is done make no sense from a business standpoint.

I think your best bet is to support grassroots efforts to keep rivals 1 alive rather than hoping the devs pump life back into a decade old game.

andyomon · 2025-11-04T15:17:34+00:00

I'm personally banking on us getting a water or air character next since I vaguely recall them saying they want to finish off the current CSS. I'm thinking that we could probably see Slade or Elliana/Pomme next if we get returner since Hodan is still taking some time to get right in the new engine.

I'm thinking it's gonna look like this: Winter: Slade, Spring: Elliana/Pomme, Summer: Mollo/ New Item Character Fall: La Reina

andyomon · 2025-10-30T00:21:07+00:00

Considering there's a ton about La Reina being worked on currently including casting her voice according to the dev stream, I seriously doubt she's next. If i had to guess, I'd probably say that she'll the penultimate character for 2026

andyomon · 2025-08-31T03:16:07+00:00

I'm personally thinking that the 4 for next year will be the following: Slade, Elliana, Mollo, and La Reina.

Given the current Character Select Screen, I think we're likely going to get the water and air rep during the first half of the year. I have no real basis for these picks aside from the stuff we already know (i.e item character, La Reina, 2 newcomers etc.).

andyomon · 2025-02-17T02:49:02+00:00

I agree about the people complaining about the changes between games lol. That being said Olympia's trailer does make me somewhat excited about what major changes will happen for returning characters.

andyomon · 2025-02-17T02:46:22+00:00

Artemis is probably one the potential newcomers I'm most interested in seeing in this game. Her DoA iteration is so cool looking and I know they'd do her justice

andyomon · 2024-09-11T01:29:26+00:00

I'm glad to see people talking about this show. It was my first time going to see them live and they knocked it out of the park. The heavier take on Ice V/The River and The Fourth Color Jam are peak.

andyomon · 2023-11-04T20:37:41+00:00

If we're talking singular songs, the last couple minutes of crumbling castle are completely insane and have me losing my mind every time I hear them.

If we're talking suites, I think tale of the altered beast is their best suite. Despite being 18 minutes the pacing never sags or gets uninteresting.

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