The story mode sucks

[Gamer360]

Frist off the story makes no sense what so ever, Like the orcane one where "water trading company" wants to have a plan about the airships stopping the flagship from moving and them constantly pillages their trade routes, and they want him because... PLOT i guess, so they trade not so much food for orcane to the poor fisherman. So orcane somehow got to the AIRship using water power traviling trough SINKS... okay? And orcane saw two figues having a deal, an eagle who is an commander and fake wrastor who dont have its googles for some reason, trading billions of money for one single scroll, and that one scroll is some sort of map that shows the weak spots of the defense of the civilization across the surface of aether. And orcane knows that scroll contain that sort of thing? And wrastor and orcane fights because its a fighting game what else did you expect? Wrastor fight because he just saw a creature in the building even doe litrally everyone is a creature. There is some of the other storys that is wrong but i dont want to make this thread longers so heres what i hate the most in story mode. THE MEDALS! OH GOD ITS AWFULL. Not only do i have to torture myself just to get seccond slot of custom color by beating the diffuculty of the ai´s, But the medal ranking makes no sense. I got 3 gold medals and 2 silver ranking in the orcane level and what do i get? SILVER! GOD WHY! so i have to get 4 gold medals on some characters that i am not so most good at? Do i just have to edit my ONE custom color slot everytime i want to change my good custom colors? I know im being harsh, i know they are working hard at this game, its a pretty good game, but at least make it fair for all of us who tried their best to play all of the characters even those who dont really like playing as. Thanks for reading if some of you do. And no dont you dare say "Get good at it" i did and the ai is not playing fair at all.

[Triangl]

This game isn't made for its story. Sorry if you expected a telltale level story but this is made for its multiplayer. But I do agree about the medals and the ai... they can be a pain

[Gamer360]

Originally posted by Fether666:

This game isn't made for its story. Sorry if you expected a telltale level story but this is made for its multiplayer.

Yeah its not my biggest probleme with it but the "challange" of getting a seccond custom collor slot

[Butterbeaning]

Originally posted by Knock Knock Its Knuckles:

Originally posted by Fether666:

This game isn't made for its story. Sorry if you expected a telltale level story but this is made for its multiplayer.

Yeah its not my biggest probleme with it but the "challange" of getting a seccond custom collor slot

I thought the second color slot wasnt a thing yet, is that how you get it? something with story mode?

[ZeroJanitor]

yeah if you click on the locked second slot it tells you that you need the swift rival achievement

[Craig Tucker]

If you go into appdata/local/rivalsofaether/saves/progression.ini you can change Second Custom Color Unlocked="0" to Second Custom Color Unlocked="1" and unlock it for free. Be sure to turn off cloud sync for rivals before you do this.

[Cubey3]

Originally posted by Sasha シ:

If you go into appdata/local/rivalsofaether/saves/progression.ini you can change Second Custom Color Unlocked="0" to Second Custom Color Unlocked="1" and unlock it for free. Be sure to turn off cloud sync for rivals before you do this.

I forgot about the cloud sync part but it still worked for me, does cloud sync even do anything?

Also yeah, the medals are kindof ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. If youre off by one second, BAM! Say goodbye to that gold medal, time should not be the only factor deciding metals

[Gamer360]

Originally posted by Sasha シ:

If you go into appdata/local/rivalsofaether/saves/progression.ini you can change Second Custom Color Unlocked="0" to Second Custom Color Unlocked="1" and unlock it for free. Be sure to turn off cloud sync for rivals before you do this.

It worked. Thank you so much :)

[puur]

Originally posted by Cubey3:

Originally posted by Sasha シ:

If you go into appdata/local/rivalsofaether/saves/progression.ini you can change Second Custom Color Unlocked="0" to Second Custom Color Unlocked="1" and unlock it for free. Be sure to turn off cloud sync for rivals before you do this.

I forgot about the cloud sync part but it still worked for me, does cloud sync even do anything?

Also yeah, the medals are kindof ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. If youre off by one second, BAM! Say goodbye to that gold medal, time should not be the only factor deciding metals

imo if you take 0 damage you should get a gold medal regardless of time

[Gamer360]

Originally posted by puur:

Originally posted by Cubey3:

I forgot about the cloud sync part but it still worked for me, does cloud sync even do anything?

Also yeah, the medals are kindof ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. If youre off by one second, BAM! Say goodbye to that gold medal, time should not be the only factor deciding metals

imo if you take 0 damage you should get a gold medal regardless of time

Then how the hell can you win the match

[Cubey3]

Originally posted by Knock Knock Its Knuckles:

Originally posted by puur:

imo if you take 0 damage you should get a gold medal regardless of time

Then how the hell can you win the match

Umm, if you take no damage and destroy the opponent you win the match, i think you might have misunderstood the statement

[Gamer360]

Originally posted by Cubey3:

Originally posted by Knock Knock Its Knuckles:

Then how the hell can you win the match

Umm, if you take no damage and destroy the opponent you win the match, i think you might have misunderstood the statement

I knew for a sec i tought to myself "wait that dosent sound right". I tought he meant if you take no damage to the opponent you win the game

[MoonMoon🐺]

What I think is a pain here is that my Orcane clear of 3:04 went from silver to bronze. No change in time but what the heck... Even Forsburn has more time and has a silver!

[Cubey3]

Originally posted by MoonMoon🐺:

What I think is a pain here is that my Orcane clear of 3:04 went from silver to bronze. No change in time but what the heck... Even Forsburn has more time and has a silver!

Yeah, i had a weird thing happen where my kragg story mode used to be gold but went back to silver for some reason, i had to re earn the stupid gold medal because of it which even with how broken kragg is in story was still more of a chore than it needed to be

[XZero]

Forsburn has his mask and smoke bending powers before he gets them. Maypul leaves her plant but still has it. Kragg sees a suspicious person which bugs him but he fights someone else in the middle of the cutscene. Everyone is undead...

...What? In the Tower of Heaven stage, with stage hazards on, the effect of "don't touch a living thing" doesn't apply to other characters...

I am not being serious. :P


I'll be serious now: These are obviously gameplay/story limitations; I just felt like pointing them out...
The story looks to me like it's set up with unrelated battles between scenes, except a few specific ones like the final battle for each character.

[strata_ranger]

Mechanically, the story is a round-robin between the six story characters. That is fine, as you kind of need the practice fighting against each opponent anyway.

Narratively and thematically ... yeah, this is a fighting/brawling game, don't expect much in this department beyond the interstitial cutscenes.

Personally, (as someone who wasn't following this game's development) I think it's fine, though I wouldn't mind if Absa and Etalus were added to it somehow.