A new Rivals of Aether II update 1.1.1 patch notes are released for players. Since the last major update, players have been experiencing multiple issues and bugs Hopefully, today’s Rivals of Aether II update 1.1.1 will address some of these issues and bugs.
Read what is new and fixed in today’s Rivals of Aether II patch. Read the official patch notes below.
Rivals of Aether II Patch 1.1.1 Notes- January 29, 2025
GENERAL
- Hard-pressing left or right before performing an Up/Down Special will no longer turn that special around.
- This input often led to unintentional reverse specials after performing certain actions, like releasing ledge by pressing backward.
- Grabs will now whiff against opponents that are more than 2 meters above or below you.
- This prevents situations like grabbing Etalus’ Up Strong after shielding it on a platform above him. This does not apply to command grabs.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where grabbing 3 opponents on the same frame would leave one of them in an unintended state.
ZETTERBURN
- Aerial Down Special cancel window fastfall frame: 27 > 14.
- Locking Zetterburn out of fastfalling for the entire cancel window was more punishing than intended.
WRASTOR
- Neutral Special can now fastfall during the startup and looping active frames.
- Fastfall is still locked out during the final hit’s startup, active, and recovery windows, and is reenabled once Wrastor goes into special fall.
FLEET
- Uspecial’s launch direction is now chosen 1 frame before the first launch active frame, instead of 1 frame after.
- This means the launch direction won’t change if you hit an opponent and then release your joystick.
ORCANE
- Forearm hurtboxes shortened so they don’t stick down so low in his idle state.
ETALUS
- Roll speed: 25.5 > 28.
- Ledge roll speed: 24 > 26.
- Getup roll speed: 25.5 > 27.
- These put a little more distance between him and his opponent, which is important since he’s such a wide character.
- Forward Air can now hitfall when armoring an attack.
- This unlocks new options for Etalus when using rising Forward Air against an incoming attack.
- Forward Strong hit 1 now has a front and a back hit. The front hit is much weaker so opponents don’t end up too far away for the 2nd hit to connect.
- It will still not connect 100% consistently, but this should make it much less frustrating.
- Forward Strong final hit knockback: 7 + 1.05 > 7 + 1.1.
- Slight buff to its KO power, since linking into the final hit can be inconsistent.
- Down Strong sourspot knockback: 7 + 0.3 @ 90 > 6 + 0.6 @ 60.
- This sourspot was extremely frustrating to land, especially when playing against wider characters, since it could hit them even if their center of mass was far from Etalus’ center.
- Armored Strong Attack ice shards will no longer scale damage with charge.
- If all eight shards of a fully-charged strong attack hit an opponent at once, it would deal 32%. This was only possible at a very specific spacing, but was overtuned regardless.
- Bug fix: Neutral Special’s sweetspot now has priority over the sourspot, allowing it to hit on the 2nd active frame.
- Neutral Special sourspot knockback: 10 + 1.15 > 9 + 1.3.
- The sourspot felt a little too weak for such a high-startup attack. This change makes it stronger starting at 56%.
- Up Special can be airdodge-cancelled after 2 frames of traveling if it was started from the ground.
- This allows Etalus to place ice on the ground with Up Special and then waveland on a platform above him.
- Holding Up+Special at the end of light/medium hitstun will now buffer an Up Special the same way that it does at the end of heavy hitstun.
- Down Special’s shockwave will no longer freeze teammates if Team Attack is turned off.
- The innermost hitbox of Getup Attack is now clamped to the gameplay plane.
- This prevents it from whiffing against opponents right in the middle of the attack.
Download Rivals of Aether II update 1.1.1 on PC.