Aw man imagine if this character was in rivals 2 with a fully functioning grapple mechanic. it would be so cool for him to air throw everyone

More like blackpeak

When they run out of stocks and the fight continues, their feather particle continues to spawn at the player spawn zone.

What a delightful character!

bird with a gun (it's a bird with a gun)

This is a 10/10 in my book. excellent work

Thanks for answering! I was hoping it was because his gameplay looks sick!

@Monagression

He's an OC I made only for rivals, so yes, he was made as if he was a part of the world of rivals.

Quick question: would you say this character could be classified as a character born in the rival of aether world, or are they from their own canon? I'm making a list of rival canon workshop characters

I'm still leaning how to best use the perches but Blackbeak is nuts. I love the crazy movement and managing to pull off a kill with dspecial feels great. Fantastic work!

Blackbeak is so cool bro, I wish I could be like him

thank you ;w;

now its fixed :)

so... uhh... (sorry for this again...)
this is now a visual bug, but when you place more than 3 perches, the one that should disappear despawns now on a weird way
the interaction area disappears for the one despawning, but the thing still stays on the stage for a few momends slowly going downwards

@LilacIsle alright! its much faster now
having all 3 perches active its so much stable now, its incredible

Sorry for bothering you with this, but at the same time Im thankful you went and optimized the character, not many devs put this much care and love on their projects

</3 | Fennie

I optimized the verlet integration- hopefully it plays more smoothly..

@LilacIsle 2nd perch still slows down but its just a little bit, the 3rd one still caues the game to run around 75% while its active
I wish I knew what exactly its causing the slowdown, but my knowledge about articles its a bit limited :<

</3 | Fennie

I optimized the draw function, hopefully it's improved again!

@LilacIsle the perfomance did improve, having 1 perch is alright now, 2 of them lags a little bit and all 3 of them still makes the game slower but not as much as before

@</3 | Fennie

the performance should be better
Rivals as a whole doesn't push my computer at all so I can't really test performance
anything which lags rivals for me is a limitation of the engine itself

but I realized that it was doing collision checks for every segment of every perch against every hitbox every frame
so now it only does collision checks while any blackbeak is using fspecial, which is significantly better.

if you still have performance issues, do let me know!
I don't want computing power to be a barrier.

whaaat the grapple looks sick LOL. love the physics

best character because gun and grappling hook

This character is really cool, love the mechanic and how smooth it feels to hook and swing in the perches, but oh my good, they have some issues
Their normals dont mix very well together, its complicated to land combos with them cause of the normal movement stats being so limited, I know its intentional to encourage using the perches, but in actual matches its hard in general to optimally play the character, a bit more of running speed and slightly higher jump stats wouldnt hurt them
and another issues... (this one is a really problematic one) its that setting up the perches lags the game really badly in some computers, having just 1 of them already makes the game kinda slow, all 3 of them at the same time is.... rough, playing them online lags the game a lot

still, I really like this character and just wanna see them shine
keep up the good work

texasm oment

Amazing character, really fun, insane gimmick, just a blast to see in action.

bruhm oment