>Hey folks. Super inspired by your efforts to bring back the game. We'd like to pitch in with a little help. ;)
>So here's what we're doing, all coming this January. We're calling it "Rising Thunder: Community Edition." Our intent here is to give the game back to you guys, the community, and let you run with it.
>Final game build: We've tinkered with the old final build of the game, adding offline, local play (!!!) along with some quality of life improvements. Local play will support keyboard vs. controller only, but it should be straightforward to hack in 1p controller support through external scripting. Just to be clear, this release is basically the same one you had in your hands when we turned off the servers in 2016. Please don't expect new characters, systems, etc.
>Source code for an open-source version of the Rising Thunder server, so you can play matchmade games online. The original RT server is somewhat of a beast, segmented into a bunch of different services that aren't particularly easy to deploy or maintain. So instead we've whipped up a first pass at a bare-bones server that will allow you to play online with rudimentary matchmaking and limited features. And we're making it open source so that if you're inclined you can tinker and improve it.
>All of this is free, and will stay that way forever. In the meantime, our team has moved on to develop something new and we'll share that with you when the time is right. Until then, Happy Holidays from the Rising Thunder team!
>PCshitters are so fucking casual they can't even do 236 and 623 motions lmfao
Justin Parker
yep
Benjamin Wright
>numpad notation lmao fuck off weeaboo go jack off to your waifu fighters
Joseph Hill
>Please don't expect new characters, systems, If they didn't fix the combat it'll never change
Carter Sullivan
I remember Crow was pretty fun.
Justin Gomez
Riot bought these poor guys out like 2 years ago and haven't done shit with them since
Connor Reed
VLAD IS GOOD DOG
Wyatt Allen
I'm happy cause this was the only game I ever drew art for. It's atrocious but still.
Christopher Murphy
Are we back?
Austin Lewis
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Gabriel Bell
holy shit, this is crazy. this was the game that turned me on to fighters, and Riot fucked them without remorse.
definitely gonna grab this again
David Rivera
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Jonathan Martin
Rising Thunder was legitimately trash. china and to a lesser extent shotoclone were blatantly better than everyone else. The fundamental mechanics were horrible (it was effectively SF4 with all of the issues magnified), the character designs were ugly and annoying outside of the ones that were just blatantly anime references.
The game died for a reason.
Jace Kelly
And yet people still want to play it. Which they can now do for free and it doesn't affect you in any way.
Kevin Cooper
Those are much easier with a keyboard though
Xavier Barnes
I'm sure there will be fan patches.
Ian Ortiz
That minute starting at 10:00 is probably my favourite part
Juan Jackson
This is a really cool thing to do.
Nathan Thomas
I have waited for one and a half fucking years to be able to post that picture somewhere and you just did it before I could
Ethan Rivera
So LoL fighter is finally in full development?
Oliver Flores
PUT THE MONEY ON THE TABLE
I can't fucking WAIT to play mah nigga Talos again. It's been too long.
Bentley Wood
Why was it bought out?
Chase Foster
Because the product was promising and Riot has infinite Chinese money?
They're probably gonna use the skeleton of Rising Thunder to make a League of Legends fighting game.