bit late to this party but i was wondering if you still take commissions for characters?

why him
why not stormi folf

Dusk needs an update imo.
-increased damage on all specials.
-increased knockback on all normals

to be honest i main dusk

oh
ok

I always assumed it was the same deal like with Lucario, where is just saggy pants and not actually thick.

but
did you know i main dusk

...
ok

Update: I unfortunately must inform you that Animee has confirmed Dusk to be, and i quote, "not thicc". Apologies for the inconvenience.

I'm glad you've come to a conclusion Grainneagalvin

i think dusk is thicc

dusk must be thicc

You have no idea of how happy it makes me anytime I read that you are working on WayForward

UWU

Also, if you can't find forsburn and he's taking constant damage, he's not very obscured at all. You know exactly where he is from the sound, hit effect, and constant damage, just don't go towards your cloud or at the very least *blow it up with a special* lol. The forsburn is actively putting themselves in harms way by doing this, and is literally taking/setting themselves up to take free damage.

@GodSlayerFenrir once again this is something out of my control as far as I know. Base cast code is not something we can touch, and attempts to do so often result in hard crashes. This is something wired into Forsburn's code (evidently it's his whole gimmick) and so not much can be done in this regard. Honestly, it's kinda funny that he can hide behind Dusk's cloud, and I had no interest in changing that once I noticed it.

And as you mentioned and I have mentioned in many places so far, major overhauls will not be happening with dusk from me since it was a commissioned character and I am busy working for wayforward and making more characters. I will only be perseuing small patches to fix things and adjust a certain level of balance, but once dusk is functioning as the commissioner intended, I will see no reason to go back to them, and will preserve what they are as what they were ordered to be for the ammount that the task was worth.

Right, so you know how i mentioned Forsburn earlier? Uh... Forsburn is obscured by Dusk's smoke cloud. His down b is more useful to his opponents, than it is to him.

@godslayerfenrir dspecial will probably be getting some slight damage buffs. The smoke covering the stage was considered but I really didn't feel like it actually served much purpose, especially since you could only make 1 cloud. As for the directional input, you can hold the direction to make it easier when doing dspecial. It's a rather long startup which if anything might possibly get cut down even. The endlag can be canceled into other moves pretty smoohly for combo stuff but it's definitely the most practical as both a recovery tool and a ledge guard, as well as a tad bit of stage control. It's not supposed to be an overwhelming force your opponent has to worry about, but if they ignore it you can punish them for it, or at the very least they'll take a bit of extra damage.

As for the portrait, I have no say over that. That was handled by another artist, as per request from the commissioner. You might be able to tell from my usual artwork and portraits that that's not my style.

Upon further testing, i've realized that you can in fact teleport up and down with down special, however the acceptable range for the input is so small, that 9/10 times I accidentally teleport to the left and right. And this last thing is more of a nitpick than anything. But the character portrait could use some work. Compared to the portraits for Slashe and Ashe, this one just feels so much... less, for lack of a better term. I know this is very much a furry game, but the current portrait makes me wonder where the "OC do not steal" is hiding.

I like this character, i really do. Fun and punchy just like Slashe and Ashe. The only real complaint i have with him is his down special. I'm sure it's thematically appropriate to the character, but i barely ever use this move. It doesn't obscure like Forsburn's smoke clouds do, and as a teleport it's awful. You get two directions to pick from, the distance is terrible, the endlag too high to do much off of, and the cloud itself does minimal damage. Even the explosion feels really underwhelming to hit. I'm not sure how much you can change given that you were commisioned by someone to make this character. This probably says more about my skills as a player than the character itself but I never need this move to net kills or build damage, the rest of his kit does that just fine. I'd recommend replacing or overhauling this move so that it's a more useful part of his kit, because as it is it feels extraneous compared to everything else he can do.

@Ghiaman1334 if you like dusk you might like Hikaru as well, she is also a fursona put into the game

Love seeing people put their or other people's fursonas into this game haha honestly, love having such a fluffy furry roster XD

Eh. At least one guy will be happy that his character's in Rivals.

Personally this guy isn't for me, I don't really like him. But at least the guy who commissioned for this got what he wanted.

No abyss support?

@Dee Slashe, a previous character of mine! They can be found here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2013408541

Wait whos the knight character also?

imagine paying for a workshop creation to be made

You work for wayforward now? dude congrats, thats amazing!

oh new character dont mind if I do (but on a serious note) cool character and congrats on working for wayforward CHAOKOCartoons heres hoping the next shante game has penguin shante in it.

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I did 1 year ago, only 1 though because I ended up getting hired to work on a platform fighter and later hired to work for Wayforward ^^;
I don't think I'll be taking another Rivals commission anytime soon, and if I did, I'm not sure if people could afford what I'd currently cost, as back then it cost about $700 to make total

Wait, hold up. You take character commissions?

dusk