Rivals of Aether

Rivals of Aether

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20 Dec, 2021 @ 12:02am
21 Mar @ 11:06pm
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Retroblast

Description
The Robo-heroes wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Robo-bullies!
Play as Retroblast to utilize unique approach options like a massive leap or a vehicle mode, then finish enemies off with throws or a powerful blast attack!

nspecial - Robo-grab: Grab an opponent and throw them in one of 4 directions. It can even hold multiple opponents at once!
uspecial - Robo-jets: Take to the skies, fueled by your energy meter. Energy starts recharging as soon as you touch the ground, and keeps recharging until you spend energy!
fspecial - Robo-leap: Consume a portion of your energy meter to quickly close the gap. It doesn't get much height but covers a great distance!
dspecial - Robo-crash: Ram into opponents in vehicle mode with immunity to projectiles. Goes faster at full charge!

Cool Robo-tips:
* Energy recharge is only interrupted by spending energy, so don't feel stuck to the ground - keep moving!
* Retroblast can drive around while crouching. It's even faster than dashing!
* nspecial's grab has a short range, but back-throw and up-throw can be devastating even at low percents if performed near the edge of the stage!
* fstrong can be angled up or down, which will affect your momentum. This attack still has an active hitbox even as you go flying backward!
* dspecial hurts just as much with no charge as with full charge. Throw off you opponents' timing by attacking early or late!
* Technically, there are no speed limits for robots!

Please don't be afraid to let me know if you run into any issues.

Special thanks to:
Frtoud and Supersonic for answering code questions
Muno for the character template
Hyponia for the CSS template
Supersonic for dust functions
gnome for playtesting
Bar-Kun and Supersonic for some code from the Tester template
All of Team Grappler Project for a supportive environment
and the whole RoA community (including you)! Thank you! : )
30 Comments
dragonstar_1001 22 Mar @ 7:59am 
ah, interesting. Thanks!
Robot  [author] 21 Mar @ 10:45pm 
The bonus taunts are periodically disabled for tournament play because they reference copyrighted material.
I'll go ahead and re-enable them. Thanks for the reminder!
dragonstar_1001 21 Mar @ 11:22am 
were alt taunts removed? i can't get them to work
Exit.9B 2 Sep, 2023 @ 10:31am 
WAS THAT A transformers G1 reference?
Vinyl 28 Jan, 2023 @ 3:57pm 
one of my favorite custom heros :steamthis:
soup 30 Dec, 2022 @ 12:00pm 
how much of his filesize is dedicated to cabinet man i need to know
you're a legend for adding the alt specific taunts
Flowslikepixelz 21 Dec, 2022 @ 8:06am 
ha ha grab go brrrr
Robot  [author] 15 Oct, 2022 @ 3:22pm 
The flip kick was moved to uptilt, and upstrong is now a rising kick that pulls the opponent in. Hopefully it's been tweaked to the point where it feels better to play now : )
Erans 3 Oct, 2022 @ 6:12am 
Wait is his upstrong still his flip kick?
Robot  [author] 1 Oct, 2022 @ 3:31am 
Latest patch sped up and cleanded up ustrong quite a bit, hopefully it feels somewhat better now.