I looked briefly at the sun accidentally and there was a huge circle in my vision for 15 minutes

First Corrin and now Ridley. We WILL find a Steve killer eventually

I am the target demographic for Ridley

12:02 time to point out how Banjo and Kazooie use the same animation and even effects from the day break when using the egg shooting variant. The part where banjo holds Kazooie out and stuff. (Effects being the complete stop of momentum similar to the ice climbers, but only when you turn around holding the weapon. It's really noticeable when sliding on ice.)

The pressure plate being activated by your feet is honestly true to Minecraft. You cant punch then to activate them in game, only step on them, wo that makes a lot of sense😂

R.O.B. is kneeling. Do with this information what you will.

I main Ridley and didn't know that. That's actually super cool! This game's attention to detail is really special.

13:20 I was jumpscared by Robin's "mircosword"

Yo! That pressure plate thing sounds like a hitbox assignment feature. I bet it works in a way where every body part of a character is given a tag that is also shared by other characters. I bet they use it when assigning hitboxes. I bet dark samus is a special case where her foot tag is not in a posistion where it can touch the pressure plate, so they assigned it the default y axis of her model. And for ROB, I believe where his wire connects to his base extends a bit lower than his base so due to that I believe the pressure plate was coded to get the lowest point of that foot tag and trigger on that point touching it, with a bit of padding.

Piranha Plant mains have been doing hitstun combos for years

the final boss of Steve tech: feet detection

5:45 ROBs buttcheeks LOL now I wanna hear the reverberated fart sound played over his back or down air

PKBeats kinda riffing in this video. Jokes were landing left and right

1:15 "And in some demographics... Hotter." Damn... Not even two minutes in and I already get called out.

HOLY SHIT HE UPLOADED

I DID know it was a solar eclipse... because you posted it on Twitter.

1:14 i feel so called out.....

This whole time i didnt even know you could double jump while shooting things like the ray gun and fire flower 🤦🏻‍♂️

Glad to have you back, man

Seems like with the pressure plate, it's where the "foot" bones are, with the specific exception of perpetually floating characters like mewtwo and dark spamus. and ROB's foot bones are probably where the what i'm going to call back wheels (idk what it is) are.

mario's double jump sound is more of a "hoohoo" than a "wahoo"

Ridley mains in doubles got buffed in this video W When I saw this upload in my feed I immediately thought of Agent Stone yelling HE'S BAAAAAACK! Good to see your content man. Hope you are doing well in life, and things get better from here.

"You can do this super gnarly spin attack" I love the silly things you add in >w

I think that the rob pressure plate discrepancy might have something to do with the fact he slightly "hovers" in all spots above the ground except for the back rear wheels (you can see his gap between the floor especially on mega smash where the gap is bigger than the pressure plate itself), and i do see that rob has wheels in the front that dont press it down but perhaps thats similar to dk's fists where they slightly miss it and dont count or something

1:12 PK BEATS LOL I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU ACKNOWLEDGED THOSE WHO WOULD FIND THAT HOTTER LOLLLLLLLLLLL

I love how much your sense of humor has shown in more recent videos haha keep it up!

The reason the tnt doesnt change with steves size is probably because its on the grid along with all his other blocks they had to remake litterally every smash stage with a grid for Steve's blocks so i bet they judt decided that size change because itd require 2 more large and small grids for all his moves to adjust

Well I guess I can add "ambiguous feet", to the list of things I never thought I would ever hear.

A lot of pressure plate shenanigans are probably because Smash is 3d, and it's hitboxes actually reflect that. I think the thing with Rob happens because his rear platform dips a bit lower than the rest of his body, and the thing with Dark Samus is probably because in some situations Smash can be a bit spaghetti-coded.

You left for 2 months and came back with your best jokes. I was thinking that they were different than normal, but I could've just been imagining things. Until that Halloween candy joke. Never would've expected that. Glad to see you back, PK.

It's been a bit since your last video, great to see your videos again.

super interesting, one of your best videos for sure

Hi pkbeats i'm a BIG fan of your videos i rewatch them WAY to many times your one of my if not favorite favorite smash bros fact channels(whatever you call those) ever

God I love PKBeats videos because you just end up watching a guy talking about Smash characters’ feet, in a completely professional and scientific way. Unrivaled experience I say (BDG does come pretty close to this effect though)

Idk about Rob. But for most other it seem that it's just that their feet hit box is set to detect grounded trap like idk maybe pitfalls too. But probably just Steve plate. And to make it at least consistent with every run animation or quirky stuff like floating Chara tears. They also made the icb activate it. Or just if the center of the icb pass over the plate while grounded on the same plateform as the plate it activate as a fail safe

Hey! Why did no one inform me a video was made from my tweet? Glad to see this got covered though so thanks @PKBeats You can call it the Juicy Lucy to refer to it if you want to, I don't think there will be an actual official name for it because it's so niche and I'm not good with names, I just keep referring to it as his Special 3rd Throw. Definitely just waffling here for the next part because I love talking about the Ridley Steve MU With all the tools Ridley has and the side b interaction with blocks Steve is honestly my number 1 favourite match up to fight. There will probably be some nay sayers but with the tools and kit Ridley has you'd be surprised at how well he does to shut down a lot of Steve's stuff, blocks indirectly buffing him and also being destroyed easilly and safely, nair making minecart non existent and Steve can't hit ledgehang with lava. There is also the situations where if the Steve tries placing blocks offstage and near ledge to stop a recovery with side b or so he can stand out there and use a move there are times where this will lead to the Steve getting wall slammed against the stage wall itself and can send them at a nasty angle killing them, it also looks extremely janky animation wise. Now this isn't saying he wins, if anything it just feels really even, there's nothing Steve does that can be considered janky or cheesy on Ridley that a lot of the cast can do to Ridley and way worse. Just comes down to being outplayed in this mu. My favourite use of the Side b is when Steve is making a wall to mine by the edge of the stage, Steve's unaware of this will do their standard strategy of hold shield and punish if someone tries to jump over the wall. What I do is jump over and use the multi jumps to hover over to ledge and then proceed to side b them into their own wall, since they've made the same condition that was shown in the video. High level Steve's I know and play against Like MazeBeans and Susu will try to call out the side b or try and dodge the side b so it adds more mind games in that scenario. Still can't believe I didn't see this video until now.

They put all this work into steve just to NOT balance him

You mean to tell me Rob had just been scooting around on his buttcheeks this whole time? Nasty.

I haven't watched all your recent videos when they came out (i know, blasphemous) but i wish you the best in continuing your series, i love how you do it it's so cool to watch, and good luck for everything else in your life too

As a ridley main I would like to clarify that space pirate rush does not kill that early unless you don't DI. If you DI up and in you can survive for another 20 to 30 percent. Typically, space pirate rush won't kill the normal way until 140. I don't know the percentage about the wall slam but consider it to be 20 to 30 percent higher then said in this video. I will lab it and edit this comment when I know the percentage window for the wall version

Calling it the Juicy Lucy when Sapphire Storm is right there

“Like Halloween candy and fentanyl” had me on the floor

I’ve been eagerly waiting for your next video! Very excited to watch this Edit: wtf is a juicy Lucy. Why would you say that.

We love you PK! You're a human besides being a content creator and I'm glad you're able to balance your YT/life schedule and take a break when you need. Keep up with the great content!

For the double jump while using an item, I noticed that in addition to the sounds not being played, the circle effects (like the character is jumping off of a temporary, invisible platform) are also missing, but with the Daybreak, they are also present alongside the double jump sound effects.

Pichu has a secret animation when using the rocket belt where she/he will put on arm up one down in a hero pose

Mii Gunner can actually use trade combos with up tilt, against multihit aerials! Parry -> up tilt sets it up guaranteed vs certain aerials (e.g. Puff down air)

Steve and Ridley are going to be menaces in doubles

Every time one of your videos includes a PMD song in the backing track I smile

7:50 yeah most likely it’s about the “foot” bone of the skeleton. ROB’s “feet” would be at the rear of his model

I knew about the eclipse, I didn't know that the islands moved though

1:10 okay freakybeats

I beat a guy using Steve online with ganondorf once and I had never used ganondorf before then, the sword went through the blocks and he didn't expect it

0:25 greatest transition in history

1:14 getting called out within the first minute 😭

welp, time to add "DI as Steve to piss off PKBeats" to my wheelhouse that i have to learn, thanks PKBeats

Glad to see you back from you break :)

4:46 "My hard drive got fried" *shows an SSD*

Fun fact I just learned: if you use sephiroth's f-air in the gap created by breaking the ground on green hill as the floor pops back in, you will hear an attack sound, you will hear a sephiroth damage sound, and get knocked out of the pit, but take zero damage

7:50 i think it's because ROB is slightly elevated by his wheels, which act as his 'feet and actually touch the plate. When approaching from front he just hovers over the plate. But when you taunt, his back wheel rolls over and triggers the plate

I wonder if taunts where you lift off the ground would activate the pressure plate? For example Ganondorf's spinning taunt

i almost choked on a french fry when that image of DK appeared for the second time

Me when PKBeats upload: :)

1:14 proud member of some demographics

funniest thing about Steve is that if the communities around modern smash didn't just want soul caliber with funny ragdolls and no z axis, he wouldn't even be complained about as much

“To some demographics, hotter” It’s me, I’m demographics

It’s a good millennium when pkbeats uploads

3:00 I love how you make fun of competitive techniques having stupid names. (Like "tech")

8:48 Dark Samus sets off the plate at the center of mass because it flies by exerting force directly below it, causing it to hover off the ground. 6:18 I guess rob just has a lot of weight where his cord connects to his base? the only thing i can thing of is that it's really hard for a hovercraft to set off land mines, but a hovercraft's weight is distributed evenly... strange...

When the world needed him most...

I think he reason R.O.B. doesn't trigger the pressure plate when approaching forwards a bit is due to R.O.B. hovering slightly except on the back. R.O.B. has a little protrusion on the back of it's model that raises the entire "foot" up off the ground. So it doesn't trigger until that protrusion touches the pressure plate. It's like high heels except it's only the heel so the rest of the "foot" doesn't properly land on the pressure plate.

i feel the pain of having lost your hard drive to some unforseen circumstances. I lost so much personal work throughout my life. Lost so much pixel art I made, some music I tried making. Thankfully, I still have all my old youtube videos I made as a kid that I deleted from utube out of embarrassment lol. anywho, steve has so much intricacies man its beautiful. you could make multi part 30 minute videos on niche steve interactions and tech. for example if steve throws a gyro at a block some insane shit happens, and the gyro stays the same direction steve threw it in even if it bounced off the wall of a block, which sets up for nasty, nasty trick shit kill confirms

This might be a second comment from me, might be the first, I posted the first one but cant see it anymore, but anyway, glad to have ya back, man

More than likely it relys on the hotbox on the back half of the foot

1:14 oh no, he’s submitting

perhaps the pressure plate thing has more to do with a character's ECB or collision box, rather than anything else. it really just makes the most sense, i'm sure there's visualizations modders have put out there or something

ROB kinda appears to have the two "nubs" in front and a larger "square" in back with most of his base being elevated. This would be what's interacting with the pressure plate, and that giant ROB's gap between, shall we say, "toes" and "heel" is large enough that yes it passes around the pressure plate in the z-axis, failing to trigger it.

"I think we should call it a juicy lu-" *No.* We will not be calling it the juicy lucy :)

7:30 The OG Rob famicon acessory had the battery door on the backside of the robot

Lucina's going to HATE the name of this tech.

Miss ya PK! Any day you pop up on my notifications is a good day 😊

Robin sword acting differently is probably because its technically a seperate item since it can be thrown and picked up

I call that part of R.O.B. his foot but I might start calling it his hoof.

I think the logic behind the ROB thing is that Rob's "feet" is actually starting from the center of mass and forms a straight line to the back, like a triangle kinda deal. The reason the "front feet" doesn't count is because actually the whole thing is jets that aren't supposed to touch anything, so they'd "graze over". And even if we consider that "every part touches", then the battery pack in the back and the center point would STILL be the heaviest part, and ROB's weight actually tilts backwards relative to the center of gravity of the feet...

Try to activate the pressure plate with zss/snake while crouching backwards, that would be interesting as well.

Is the warp pipe pot for Piranha Plant wider at the base than the default pot? Maybe that's why it sets off the pressure plate "early"

Yo I appreciate the plug man

Dunno if it's called elsewhere, but in these part of the woods, a Juicy Lucy is a cheese-stuffed burger.

Day and night? You mean ecli-oh he pointed it out as a cheeky segway. Nice pics

Ridley is the enderdragon ofc he has a special attack for steve

I think the pressure plate might be set off by the character's bounding box. That thing is contantly changing size.

This is probably a stretch, but the ROB base in which all his weight is on looks like the same spot where you’d put his batteries. That actually WOULD be his heaviest spot. I’d usually never argue something so absurd, but the fact that this game has so much detail (see RIB shutting off when missing a tech) makes me wonder if that’s actually the logic behind it

sick video man

I can only assume hurtbox is what triggers the pressure plate, and that maybe there's a slim gap of hurtbox below rob aside from the back, where the thicker motor(?) is

I actually already knew the Ridley fact well before seeing this vid

My guess on the rob thing is it has the spine as thats where his force is mostly going down, and then the back end is some sort of battery pack so the devs gave weight too?

I've been doing that Side B wall with ridley for years now. I'm surprised this is being talked about now.

You can use that Ridley tech in doubles if your teammate is Steve to kill the other team early

So..... in doubles Ridley and Steve have a new thing??

thine mother