Hidden Mechanics, Easter Eggs & Secrets

Slide Jumping

The easiest movement tech in RIVALS: sprint, press slide, then immediately jump. It boosts speed and makes the player harder to hit, and pairs well with speed-boosting items like Knife, Daggers, and War Horn.

Grenade Boosting

A competitive tech where a player cooks a grenade, back-slides, and jumps the instant before it detonates (facing away from their direction of travel) to gain a large burst of horizontal speed — heavily used to cross maps like Arena quickly.

Rocket Jumping

Firing the RPG or Grenade Launcher into a nearby wall or the ground at a downward angle while airborne propels the player with extra speed and momentum; the Grenade Launcher's multiple rounds let players chain shots to keep adding momentum.

Subspace Jump

Placing a Subspace Tripmine on the ground and stepping on it launches the player into the air (using the mine's own-team damage negation), reaching heights close to a full grenade boost — most useful on maps with little aerial cover.

Triple Jump

Rapidly swapping between any two of Bow, Fists, and Daggers while jumping chains each weapon's individual double-jump together for extra air mobility, useful for reaching rooftops on maps like Docks and Station.

Quadruple Jump

An extension of Triple Jump using all three of Bow, Fists, and Daggers together, letting the player chain four jumps in a row every time they touch the ground — used to scale buildings and confuse opponents with unpredictable movement.

Quintuple Boost

A combo tech that layers a Grenade Boost on top of a Quadruple Jump (Bow, Daggers, Fists, and a cooked Grenade) for the largest single burst of mobility documented on the wiki's tech list.

Triple Satchel Boost / Satchel Strafing

Placing and detonating all three Satchel charges — on the ground, on a wall, or mid-air — launches the player with a speed boost; the mid-air variant (“Air Strafing”) is considered the most useful since it keeps enemies in view while moving.

In-between Satchel (offensive tech)

Throwing a Satchel and detonating it immediately (toss then instantly right-click) delivers quick close-range damage; it was especially strong before Satchel received reduced damage while not attached to a surface.

Freeze Ray + instakill combo

Freezing an opponent with the Freeze Ray, then finishing them with a high-damage hit (classically a Knife backstab or Shotgun blast) breaks the ice for a guaranteed elimination — a skill-dependent one-two combo popular in 1v1s.

Grenade Snipe (removed tech)

Shooting a live grenade out of the air made it explode immediately, dealing near-unavoidable blast damage to anyone caught nearby. It was viable on open maps like Crossroads and Station but was removed from the game in Update 7.

Splash Freeze Ray noclip

An impractical, situational tech exclusive to Splash and Big Splash: freezing an opponent while they're jumping over the water causes them to fall through the water into the void and be eliminated instantly.

Airblast void launch

The Flamethrower's Airblast ability can knock an enemy standing near a map's edge far enough to launch them out of bounds and into the void for an instant elimination, though players with an extra double jump or the Scythe can sometimes recover.

Cone jumping on Legacy Docks

Sliding and jumping into the traffic cones scattered across Legacy Docks gives the player a boost upward onto the rooftops — a named traversal trick documented in the map's own trivia.

Katana can't deflect several ranged weapons

The Katana's deflect ability cannot block projectiles from the Slingshot, Bow, Crossbow, or Daggers, and does not stop splash damage from the RPG, Grenade Launcher, Flare Gun, or Exogun — a mechanical exception not obvious from its basic stats.

Spray bypasses both Katana deflect and Riot Shield block

Spray is one of the very few weapons whose shots cannot be stopped by either the Katana's deflect ability or the Riot Shield's block.

Distortion, RPG, and Grenade Launcher bypass Riot Shield

The Distortion is one of the few long-range primary weapons whose attacks bypass the Riot Shield's block entirely, alongside the Grenade Launcher and RPG.

Bow can occasionally shoot through walls and Riot Shield

Due to hitbox jank, the standard Bow used to be able to shoot through walls and through the Riot Shield; this is still possible today but only rarely, by luck.

An unequipped Riot Shield still blocks shots from behind

When the Riot Shield isn't actively held up, it rests stationary on the player's back and continues to protect them from bullets fired from behind — a passive defense not obvious from normal play.

Freezing a player over water in Splash kills them instantly

Using the Freeze Ray on a player while they're airborne over the water on Splash or Big Splash causes them to noclip straight through the water surface into the void, eliminating them instantly.

Explosive self-knockback launches you without self-damage

Explosive weapons like the Grenade Launcher, Grenade, and RPG launch the shooter's own player character in the opposite direction of the blast without dealing self-damage, letting players use their own explosions purely for repositioning.

Slingshot can fling a placed Subspace Tripmine

Firing Slingshot balls at your own placed Subspace Tripmine and then pressing Quick Utility flings the Tripmine forward, because the Slingshot's balls have collision with it. The wiki notes this has been confirmed by developers as an intentional mechanic rather than a bug to report.

Gunblade and Scythe can switch modes by breaking windows

Hitting a breakable window with either of the Gunblade's two modes (or the Scythe) registers as a strike and automatically switches the weapon to its other mode.

Sniper and Shotgun shots pierce through multiple enemies

Sniper and Shotgun rounds, along with a few other weapons, can pass through an enemy's body and continue hitting anyone standing behind them, making double, triple, or even quadruple kills possible with a single Sniper shot.

Smoke Grenade extinguishes Molotov fire and Flamethrower streams

Throwing a Smoke Grenade over an area doused in Molotov fire fully extinguishes the flames, and Smoke Grenades can also deflect or slow down Flamethrower fire.

Sniper has unusually small hitboxes

An in-game developer tooltip confirms that Sniper hitboxes are deliberately much smaller than those of other weapons, a balance detail not stated anywhere in the weapon's basic stat sheet.

Golf ball hidden in Backrooms and Crossroads

The Backrooms map hides a golf ball in a corner, referencing Super Golf, another Nosniy Games title. The same golf ball reference appears under the billboards in Crossroads and Big Crossroads.

Katana secret inspect is a Fruit Ninja reference

Repeatedly inspecting the Katana triggers a secret animation referencing the mobile game Fruit Ninja, where the player throws an apple, a banana, and a watermelon into the air and slices them. The Keytana (gold) and Pixel Katana (pixelated) skins have altered versions of the same animation.

Cuddle Bomb Grenade whispers a secret line

The Cuddle Bomb skin for the Grenade is the only Grenade skin with a secret inspect animation: the bear held in the player's hand says, in a robotic voice, “I love spending time with you.”

Handgun's secret inspect inverts the screen

The “Hand Gun” skin for the Handgun has a secret inspection animation that inverts the player's entire screen while ambient music plays for 30 seconds; the animation itself may reference an attack used by Frieza in Dragon Ball.

Trowel's Snow Shovel skin hides a “yellow snow” joke

The Snow Shovel skin for the Trowel has a small chance of spawning an easter-egg yellow brick when building, a reference to the phrase “yellow snow.”

“dumbkin” display name swaps the Trowel Paintbrush avatar

The Paintbrush skin for the Trowel normally paints bricks with the player's own avatar face. If the player adds “dumbkin” to the start of their display name, the avatar on the bricks is replaced with a different image.

Medkit's Laptop skin can show a cat meme

When inspecting the Laptop skin for the Medkit, there is a small chance the laptop screen displays the “Happy Happy Happy Cat” meme, which originated from a 2015 post by X user @1Nssu.

Satchel's Notebook skin has the devs' faces on the cover

The Notebook skin for the Satchel featured the faces of Nosniy and SenseiWarrior, the game's two lead developers, printed on its cover.

“00bandoboy wuz here” references an in-lore hacker

One of the game's loading-screen “Fun Fact” tooltips reads “00bandoboy wuz here” — 00bandoboy is an in-universe hacker character blamed for hacking the game during the April Fools events of both 2025 and 2026. Prefixing “00” to your display name unlocks the secret “Easy Exploits” gamemode in private servers as a joke tribute.

Charks invaded the water during the 2024 April Fools event

During the 2024 April Fools update, “Charks” (a chicken/shark mutant referenced in the tooltip “There be charks in these waters”) appeared in the water on Splash and Big Splash and would leap out to instantly kill players.

A blobfish recurs across every Nosniy Games title

A blobfish character appears as a recurring in-joke across multiple Nosniy Games productions, including Super Golf, Treasure Quest, and RIVALS.

A hidden Shady Chicken NPC lurks in Onyx's lava

A hidden instance of the Shady Chicken NPC, normally found in the Boss Arena secret room, can be found sitting in the lava on the Onyx map.

Grappler and its Lasso skin were foreshadowed in the Season 3 trailer

The Grappler weapon and its Lasso skin both appeared in the “RIVALS Season 3 – Official Trailer” before release, shown helping the Redman characters in a cinematic; the Lasso was initially mistaken by fans for a standalone weapon rather than a skin.

Hidden animal models on Splash, Docks, and Crossroads

RIVALS hides small decorative animal easter eggs on several maps: a dolphin and a duck on Splash, a pufferball creature on Docks, and a cow on Crossroads.

RPG's secret inspect: juggling rockets

Every skin for the RPG shares a secret inspect animation in which the player juggles rockets in rounds.

Boss Arena hidden behind the Shooting Range

Shooting 10 specially rotated, X-shaped targets in the lobby's Shooting Range opens a hidden wall on the first floor, revealing a secret hideout where the Shady Chicken NPC lets the player fight the Nosniy Bot or Sensei Bot in a hidden boss arena added for The Hunt event.

Baseplate is a leftover Roblox Studio template map

The secret “Baseplate” map, playable only in private servers, is built directly from Roblox Studio's default “Classic Baseplate” template rather than being a custom-built RIVALS map.

Private servers unlock secret Legacy maps and all weapons

Private servers let players access secret content not available in public matchmaking: Legacy versions of several maps plus the Baseplate map, and every weapon in the game regardless of whether it's been purchased.

Warp Stone glitch escapes the Shooting Range boundaries

A community-documented glitch uses the Warper/Warpstone in the Shooting Range to teleport a player outside the intended map boundaries into an out-of-bounds area.

Monitor-jump glitch escapes the Lobby's play area

Players can jump onto monitors in the Lobby and dash off them to reach areas outside the Lobby's intended playable space.

RIVALS was originally a PvE zombie game

Before its public release as a PvP shooter, RIVALS was in early development as a PvE zombie survival game; beta images shared by animator @nekoanims show zombie designs similar to those later reused in the Zombie Tower map/mode.

Nosniy Games has made games since 2018

Nosniy Games' first title, Halloween Simulator, was published on March 14, 2018, years before RIVALS' June 28, 2024 release.

Arena was built as a 5-minute test map

The Arena map, now one of the game's most frequently voted maps, was originally created as a quick test map and, per the in-game tooltip, was made in about five minutes.

Station began as an unrelated 2018 lobby project

Builder GreatGuyBoom originally created the Station map as a lobby for a different, unreleased battleground game; it was later revamped into a RIVALS map in early 2024, according to his own tweet cited by the wiki.

Factory and Legacy Sandbox are RIVALS' only “experimental” maps

Factory and Legacy Sandbox are labeled by the developers as the game's first, and so far only, maps in an “experimental” map category.

Anti-cheat has stopped over a million cheating attempts

Community contributor Sufi (xlISinner) was publicly thanked for helping build RIVALS' anti-cheat, which lead programmer SenseiWarrior said had banned over 40,000 cheaters in one wave and, as of March 19, 2025, had single-handedly prevented more than 1,000,000 cheaters from winning the game's $1,000,000 tournament prize.

Westown's design was leaked before its reveal

The Westown map was first leaked on an in-game train sign in the Big Station map, then confirmed via an official poster leak; the map's layout is most likely inspired by the Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer map Nuketown.

Bridge map was built to celebrate the Korean community

The Bridge map is set in Seoul, South Korea (likely at the Hangang Bridge) and was created specifically to celebrate RIVALS' Korean player community; it includes a hidden “Property of Sensei & Co” branding on roadside barriers and a highway sign pointing to Seoul.

Early Lasergun 3000 concept art used different colors

Pre-release beta concept art for the “Lasergun 3000” skin looked different from its final version; the design was changed specifically to establish that blue represents “Energy” weapons and red represents “Laser” weapons in the game's visual language.