Each month we hold a free to enter, online major with fantastic prizes for beginners and veterans alike. This month is our epic finale!
Our finals comes to a close with our Top 8 competing for their share of a prize pool of $10k+
In addition to our usual Twitch Stream featuring favorite community commentators, we will also be broadcasting once again on Steam. Make sure to catch the action, as players compete for massive prizes!
Here is the information for Top 8 of our Finals Stream:
Date: January 17, 2020
Singles Top 8: 7PM ET / 6PM CT / 4PM PT
All matches can be viewed right here on our steam store/event pages, or on our Twitch.
For our main event, Rivals Singles, all participants will receive a Champion Ori skin just for participating. Players who reach phase 2 will earn the brand new Champion Shovel Knight skin. Top 32 finishers will earn their share of a $10k+ cash prize pool from the RCS Championship Chest. + even more league prizes for continued high placement and participation...
Join our official discord to get the latest updates on the event and talk to other players. We are also holding separate finals event for our European and Australian communities.
RCS Finals - Day 2
Each month we hold a free to enter, online major with fantastic prizes for beginners and veterans alike. This month is our epic finale!
Today, we broadcast the Top 8 bracket of our Workshop event, and the Top 32 bracket from our main Singles event.
In addition to our usual Twitch Stream featuring favorite community commentators, we will also be broadcasting once again on Steam. Make sure to catch the action, as players compete for massive prizes!
Here is how our Day Two Finals Stream will play out:
Date: January 17, 2020
Workshop Top 8: 12PM ET / 11AM CT / 9AM PT
Singles Top 32: 3:30PM ET / 2:30PM CT / 12:30PM PT
Singles Top 8: 7PM ET / 6PM CT / 4PM PT
All matches can be viewed right here on our steam store/event pages, or on our Twitch.
For our main event, Rivals Singles, all participants will receive a Champion Ori skin just for participating. Players who reach phase 2 will earn the brand new Champion Shovel Knight skin. Top 32 finishers will earn their share of a $10k+ cash prize pool from the RCS Championship Chest. + even more league prizes for continued high placement and participation...
Join our official discord to get the latest updates on the event and talk to other players. We are also holding separate finals event for our European and Australian communities.
RCS Finals - Day 1
Each month we hold a free to enter, online major with fantastic prizes for beginners and veterans alike. This month is our epic finale!
On the docket we have 4 events over the course of 3 days, all being streamed on Saturday and Sunday.
In addition to our usual Twitch Stream featuring favorite community commentators, we will also be broadcasting once again on Steam. Make sure to catch the action, as players compete for massive prizes!
Here is how our Day One Finals Stream will play out:
Date: January 16, 2020
Tetherball Doubles top 4: 1PM ET / 6PM CT / 10PM PT
Singles To Top 32: 4PM ET / 3PM CT / 1 PM PT
Doubles Top 8: 8PM ET / 7PM CT / 5 PM PT
All matches can be viewed right here on our steam store/event pages, or on our Twitch.
For our main event, Rivals Singles, all participants will receive a Champion Ori skin just for participating. Players who reach phase 2 will earn the brand new Champion Shovel Knight skin. Top 32 finishers will earn their share of a $10k+ cash prize pool from the RCS Championship Chest. + even more league prizes for continued high placement and participation...
Join our official discord to get the latest updates on the event and talk to other players. We are also holding separate finals event for our European and Australian communities.
Rivals of Aether: 2020 Developer Recap - 2021 Developer Preview
It's been two years since our last recap and preview. With the crazy year that was 2020, we wanted to come back and write up another one. We accomplished a lot in 2020 and there is even more coming in 2021!
This recap and preview contains more than just Rivals of Aether news, so the full article can be read on medium. In it studio head Dan Fornace discusses:
If there is anything that you are excited about in the Aether universe, be sure to let us know. We look forward to sharing more information on the exciting projects above with you all later this year.
NA RCS Water
The final regular season event for North America's Rivals Championship Series Season 5! Top competitors fight for their share of a $2,000 prize pool!
Kingpin 4
This Sunday, enter The Kingpin: a free-to-enter online monthly hosted by Drexel University's Rivals of Aether scene!
All players in the NA region are welcome to enter.
Signups are open up to half an hour before the event starts at smash.gg/Kingpin4
Prizes For Beginners and Veterans Alike
$500 Pot Bonus!
All participants are entered into a raffle for a Nintendo Switch, drawn at the end of the event on stream.
Additional DLC skin giveaways for stream viewers.
Details
Date/Time: November 22nd 2020 at 7PM ET / 6PM CT / 4PM PT.
Check-ins open 30 minutes before the event starts.
Open to North American players only.
Make sure to join The Kingpin discord to communicate with TOs and other players.
Wired ethernet connection strongly encouraged. Players with poor/unplayable connections may be disqualified.
Livestream
Tune into the broadcast to catch the action and be entered into viewer-only raffles for skins. This special edition of the event will be featured on twitch.tv/RivalsOfAether. Stream starts at 7PM ET / 6PM CT / 4PM PT.
RCS Tournament Stream
Each month we hold a free to enter, online major with fantastic prizes for beginners and veterans alike. This month, our theme is focused on the Earth Element!
In addition to our usual Twitch Stream featuring favorite community commentators, we will also be broadcasting for the first time this month on Steam. Make sure to sign up today to get a chance to play on the official broadcast.
Register:smash.gg/RCS5Earth Date: November 14, 2020 Time: 7PM ET / 6PM CT / 4PM PT
All participants will receive a Champion Kragg skin just for participating.
Players who reach phase 2 will earn the rare Champion Maypul skin.
+ even more league prizes for continued high placement and participation...
Join our official discord to get the latest updates on the event and talk to other players. We also hold a separate monthly for our European and Australian communities.
North American RCS November Monthly
Each month we hold a free to enter, online major with fantastic prizes for beginners and veterans alike. This month, our theme is focused on the Earth Element!
All participants will receive a Champion Kragg skin just for participating.
Players who reach phase 2 will earn the rare Champion Maypul skin.
+ even more league prizes for continued high placement and participation...
In addition to our usual Twitch Stream featuring favorite community commentators, we will also be broadcasting for the first time this month on Steam. Make sure to sign up today to get a chance to play on the official broadcast.
Register:smash.gg/RCS5Earth Date: November 14, 2020 Time: 7PM ET / 6PM CT / 4PM PT
Join our official discord to get the latest updates on the event and talk to other players. We also hold a separate monthly for our European and Australian communities.
Mini Patch 2.0.6.0
We've got a small update today primarily to drop the new Champion Elliana skin into the game for our RCS monthly participants. As usual she goes a little overboard with being a trophy winner.
In addition to the new skin there are also a few general changes. Now that the Definitive Edition is out we don't plan on doing many large character balance patches, but we will be keeping an eye on any emerging bugs and improvements we can make.
Fixed custom stage data making CPUs not recover correctly.
Fixed a crash from spawning playtest CPUs until you spawned Shovel Knight.
Fixed Various UI alignment fixes, things overlapping, etc.
Fixed lots of edge-case crash fixes.
Character Specific
Elliana no longer permanently eats Orby in her tutorial with Utilt.
Maypul marks should now have the correct color if parried.
Adjusted Forsburn's Clone Recovery AI.
Rivals of Aether Definitive Edition
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The Definitive Edition of Rivals of Aether is loaded with content. New features, modes, and extras are all bundled up with our full cast of characters from the entire span of Rivals’ development. Instead of buying our original and guest character expansions separately, the game is now one complete package with everything included for $29.99.
Players who already own Rivals of Aether on Steam have been automatically upgraded to the Definitive Edition for free.
What’s Included
Twelve original characters plus indie guests Shovel Knight and Ori and Sein battle it out in this pixel perfect platform fighter. Harness the power of the elements and unravel the mysterious conflicts of the planet Aether in Story Mode, band with friends to take on shadowy creatures in Abyss Mode, and bring your combat skills online to challenge players across the world.
Brand New Modes
The Definitive Edition of Rivals of Aether includes updates to fan favorite modes like Abyss, along with a new game mode – Tetherball. It’s a sports battle mode that allows players to use their character skills to compete in a best-of-three beach tetherball game!
Improved Online
The Definitive Edition also features a massive upgrade to the online functionality in Rivals of Aether. The player count is going up from 2 to 4 players max which introduces 2v2 and Free-for-All to Online Play in Rivals of Aether. We are also introducing online support for Abyss Versus, Abyss Endless and Tetherball.
Unlockable Milestones
The Definitive Edition has a great new system called the Milestone System for unlocking cosmetics. We could explain how it works but no one can explain it better than Adam Carra.
Infamous Skins
Everyone who currently owns the game on Steam has been upgraded to the Definitive Edition for free. Everyone who has purchased a DLC character before the Definitive release will also unlock an exclusive Infamous Skin for that character.
Steam Workshop
Steam Workshop is graduating from beta branches to a part of the base game of Rivals of Aether. We are also introducing Workshop Skins in both the Basic and Advanced varieties. Basic Skins are just visual changes to characters while Advanced Skins feature gameplay changes along with visual changes. Steam Workshop support is not available for the Switch version of the game.
We hope you check out the Definitive Edition of Rivals of Aether, either as a first time player or a returning veteran trying out your free Definitive Upgrade. Thank you to all of our longtime fans and community for your support.
