Update log
Full Rivals of Aether II update
The complete published notes, normalized for clean reading and source attribution.
Extracted changes
- Store
- Gameplay
- Balance
- Fixes
New Event - Dreamscape
Ready to get tucked in? Well, don’t close your eyes just yet, because it’s time for the Dreamscapes event! Our latest bundle includes 2 new Dreamscape skins - Pajama La Reina, and Pajama Zetterburn with their own icons to match, plus coins and bucks.
The free event track includes the Quilted Forsburn Skin and Icon, plus the Dreamscapes Platform, Pajama La Reina emote, and Dreamsplosion death effect.
Players equipping any of the new event skins above, or any of the following skins will receive 20% Bonus XP on the event track: Night Owl Fleet, Clown Ranno, Santa Zetterburn and Early Bird Wrastor. The Night Owl Fleet skin has also been added to the Feature Store for Aether Coins.
This month you'll notice we have a smaller bundle just like March, with more currency included to offset there being one less skin. There's no event trailer this month, but next month we have some changes coming to the event track and patch schedule, so keep an eye out for a trailer then to kick off the big summer event together.
New Shop Items and Features
Item Gifting to recently played players
You can now gift items to players you have encountered in online battles !
On the Item Gifting screen, press a trigger button to switch between your friend list and your recently played list.
Palettes
Mint Hearts Orcane
Cool Blue Night Owl Fleet
The Don Loxodont
- CosmeticSpecial Note on The DonThis skin is currently only available by beating top player Stang0 in his Loxodont Challenge. Keep an eye out for other ways to grab it in the future though!
Black Baker Olympia
Icons
Jellikid Icon
Tentacopter Icon
Tsuclami Icon
Minto Icon
Searscale Icon
Flitch Icon
Dreams Punched Icon
Dreams Safe Icon
Dreams Sheep Icon
Dreams Sheep Angry Icon
Dreams Wail Icon
New Ranked Shop Items
Champion La Reina has been added to the Ranked Shop! This includes a skin, two emotes, and two icons for The Crowd Magnet.
Matchmaking Adjustments
The unranked 1v1 hidden elo matchmaking constraint now starts considerably tighter, and widens more slowly. This is intended to help address unranked having high variability in match quality depending on where on the skill curve you were positioned. It will still expand eventually to encompass a wide pool, to help account for the outer edges of our skill curve.
We may make more changes to this in the future depending on feedback and how it feels in practice, to try and find a good balance between match quality and matchmaking time.
Additionally, playing Ranked will now pull your Unranked hidden elo towards it if the two have grown far enough apart.
Fixes
Fixed the Profile Screen showing an outdated match history. The match history is now re-fetched after any online battle.
The item gifting feature should now load your friends a little faster.
Gameplay Changes
Knockback velocity will now decay at double the character's grounded friction value if they're in the KnockdownStart or Knockdown states
Previously, it would only do this if the character was sliding along the ground faster than 9cm/frame, which made sliding off platforms more common than intended.
Fixed a bug that would cause characters to get ground-bounced when hit during certain attacks that are technically grounded but the character is not visibly on the ground, such as Maypul Getup Special and La Reina Ledge Special.
Item throws will now remove
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