The EARTHBENDING VR game deserves better.

The skill ceiling and evolution of this game is insane. Seeing people do basic earthbending at first and then watching the community evolve towards FLIGHT is actually insane. This game is goated with so many little techniques or combinations that it’s truly a unique experience.

To make a quick point, yes the game community is rather small, however in the official and unofficial discord servers there are loads and loads of people willing to help, play with, or teach any new player. Like literally the whole community is awesome, and if you ask someone to show you a move in the middle of a game, or to go easy, 90%+ players will do it.

The skill ceiling is still evolving, Flick: the highest level move was deemed useless until recently when people started experimenting and finding insanely high skill techs.

It's worth noting that the game is still in Early Access, so it makes sense to keep it PC exclusive until they finish the game. People playing it right now are, essentially, beta testers. If they launch the game on Quest right now, there's a risk of it flopping (or at least, the devs likely perceive that), because the game isn't where they want it to be yet. The Quest audience is huge, so they want to have the best launch on Quest possible. If it flounders on Steam, it's not like there were more than about 4 million possible sales there to begin with, while on Quest, there's >20 million. So I think you'll just need to be patient. When the release version comes out, I'm sure it'll hit Quest shortly thereafter, and you'll see the player count explode.

Just called in the rumble community. They’re coming

Some people may have commented essentially this, but I'll drop my two cents really quick. As someone who's played Rumble a lot (450 hours), the biggest problem with the game is definitely the progression and the content, not the lack of a Quest version or player base. As is, the game essentially ends once you hit black belt, other than extrinsic rewards. For some, getting better and training will keep them going, but for many the lack of actual content will, and has, turned them off. This wouldnt change if a quest port dropped today. It makes more sense, in my opinion, to update the game, and get it to the point that it's better at retaining players than to hard focus on a quest port, release it, and end up with half or more of those new players leaving after they get black belt (essentially the game's end state currently). We've had surges in the player base in Rumble before, and they’ve followed the trend of a few days or a week of a ton more players and then back to 15 people online. Id hate for the quest version to essentially become the same story if it was released too soon, before the game feels more complete for a large portion of players

Cheers for the shout-out! If you ever need a sensei just let me know ;) P.S. as a long-time viewer gotta say the new branding looks sick!

Even though the player base may be smaller than the game deserves, this is one of the best communities I’ve seen so far. Every game I’ve been in with a black belt (I’m yellow rn) and I’ve been messing up my moves, they would always take the time and help me get better, and show me different combos I didn’t know existed. Great community for a greater game

glad people are finding this game it seems like a lot of new creators are looking at it.

0:55 is the kind of moment that hooks you on a game. I can’t wait to get VR and try this game out

i actually like the fact that you need to wait between matches and i absolutely love how hard it is in the beginning. this keeps people who have no patience and can't handle frustration away from it. and the few times that no one is on the servers at all, i just train some combos

You get xp for winning or losing. You get the moves way faster than you think. You can get max level in about 30 matches or 70ish is you NEVER win. The quest can't handle this game currently, but it's not because of the graphics. Its literally everything else that was programmed before the quest was even a thing. It was made for pcvr because that's what people played at the time. The time between matches is the perfect time to practice and I never have to wait more than a couple minutes if that to find a match in the US east server. I make some tutorials for RUMBLE. This game is VR done right! This game feels SO good, and it's definitely been my favourite since its release! Thanks for bringing it to more peoples attention👍

I remember seeing about this game and watching videos about it back in around 2020 or so and I was so excited and I will be here to support you all the way

new intro got me feeling something 🕺🏻

There's a more underlying issue than the low player count. It's the fact that the servers are exclusively pier to pier. This means computers are connecting directly to each other, so whoever's computer is doing all the physics calculation (the host) has a huge ping advantage on the other person. This means that if you aren't the host all your moves will be significantly delayed, meaning you're disadvantaged from the beginning of the fight.

So glad this incredible game is getting the recognition is deserves!

Quest development gets considerably more difficult even when the game is already fairly simple graphically. Content development on games from smaller studios (A Township Tale comes immediately to mind) slows down drastically as more time needs to be put into optimizations for the game to run smoothly on the hardware. While it would be great for the game to come to quest asap, it’s probably for the better that Rumble stays on PC for now while they develop features they believe will be more valuable to the core experience of the game before digging into the beast that is Quest development.

Okay, I need to get a source for that wired quest catapulting fail. I can't stop laughing 😂

Rumble exclusively is not the problem of rumble. And by adding it in quest store you wont solve the problem THE problem of small player count - that usual player will immediately drop the game because of frustration, after trying to summon disc for 20 minutes in tutorial zone

LOVING THE NEW LOGO!!!!