my that ultra or whatever is quite colorful

The story goes: During a busy media drop I posted pictures en masse. But certain posters couldn't load the pages fast enough. So I figure I post pics under tags and leave YouTube links alone. I didn't aim to hide the characters, I just put pics under tags more often.

Thank you.

Love that Pandora Mastadon, btw.

Guess they went with karate Jin. That's fine.

Ogre vs Akuma is epic.

GOD, everyone already new that :roll:

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Just an amusing video I came across:

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I have never wanted the month of February to end, as much as I want it to end right now. Thank fuck it's a short month.

Live stream of the final build in action on Eventhubs.

New stage on show. Fighters are on a hover craft in the arctic being chased by a wooly mammoth in Pandora mode.

An interesting detail of Bison's character, his Pandora form is barely different from his usual self.

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Psycho power = Pandora all along?

Why is their a snake in the background? No one else has things like that in their character artwork.

I'm not sure, but I'm going to assume that the snake represents a new mode where you play through a shot for shot remake of the film Anaconda, with your world warrior of choice playing the Jennifer Lopez role.

Solid Snake DLC hint.

I was thinking the other day that with gems, tagging and Pandora, they have crammed pretty much everything into the gameplay.
Then I thought the only thing they didnt put in was transformations. Ryu becomes a dragon, Zangief becomes a bear, Sagat becomes a Tiger etc. Then I realised it would just be Bloody Roar if they had transormations.

The Bloody Roar announcer always sounded so bored on the title screen.

That's a pretty random thought.

I was just thinking Pandora is some link between the Devil Gene and Satsui no Hadou. This crossover isn't treated with the usual 'portal' hopping story, instead treating the characters as if they always lived in the same world (just like the CvS series). So in this alternate universe for both camps, the DG and SnH could very well be linked by Pandora. Not that a strong mythology may come of this one-off crossover, just a thought.

May 11th on PC.

Going to probably rent the 360 version or something and buy the PC one if it's any good.

Yes, it is.

Jokes on him.

Take it with a grain of salt since only some can be confirmed but a few new details are rumored to have been leaked.

Day 1 DLC will be just the color edit and costume swap packs.

Capcom is planning at least 5 character DLC packs with 3 confirmed and 2 packs still in discussion. The sizes will be different since some are just unlock keys while others contain the moves not found on the disc. They will also be arriving about once every month at the price of $3 per character or $10 for a set of 4.



No chance at Blanka or R. Mika ever appearing because Capcom has no plans for them to be in the game regardless of fan feedback. No Alex or Karin either because Ono hates those characters.

Capcom also confirmed no Super/Ultimate version of the game because of the backlash from UMvC 3. Instead they are loading up the game with a ton of DLC packs as a way to create their "Super/Ultimate" version.

The Arcade Mode final boss is always Akuma & Orge but the 2nd to last fight mini-boss depends on the characters you selected for a team.



Some of the other potential rumors deal with the story itself so that is staying in the link.

http://www.capcom-unity.com/knuxpyro...new_sfxt_leaks

Yeah if those DLC packs are accurate, shut up and take my money Capcom.

Christie and Lei is a lock for me.

I hear that. Fuck Alisa though. For real.

So so excited. And yeah, if those DLC characters are true, I'll probably get all of them. Sadly.

No interest in any of the DLC characters, what so ever. Jack...meh, maybe if he was sold seperatley or something. Though I doubt that.

I'm a little confused by the Blanka/Mika/Alex/Karin thing. So, Ono is powerful enough to have 2 characters he hates left out of the game but he's not powerful enough to have 2 characters he loves be included?

I'm not sure about that work policy, anyway. Ono can have characters left out because he doesn't like them and Capcom wont include specific characters regardless of what fans want. Wouldn't it be more profitable to sell characters players want, regardless if Capcom, Ono, Seth or whoever else loves or hates them?

The characters are going to be sold separately but are arriving in sets which is how the discount is possible ($2 savings if all 4 are bought at once).

From what I understand about the new details, he just doesn't want those characters included but it didn't specify why besides him not really liking those characters. Capcom is currently working on a small pool of reserve characters meant for the final 2 DLC packs and it happens that those 4 are not in the reserve pool.

That kinda sucks. Was really hoping for Alex. However, with Elena, Bryan, and Christie now as DLC, Alex is the only omission I care about, so I am pretty stoked about the roster regardless.

What scares me is the pricing for all these DLC characters based on previous character pricing. I still haven't bought AE 2012 because it hasn't seen a price drop. Same with the UMVC3 characters, though I can live without both of them.

Actually these characters are cheaper than Jill/Shuma. AE is a good deal and the 2012 update is free after that.

But I'm probably gonna get all of that DLC, even the gems. I love this game.

Clutching at straws but, whatever. 17 days until release.

If anyone is buying the SE from GAME, in the UK, check your preorder. I had mine preordered at £59.99 and GAME are supposed to update the price if and when they lower it.
They knocked it down to £49.99 and didn't alert me or automatically adjust what they were going to charge me.
In the end, I had to cancel the SE preorder and re preorder it. I used £2 I had on my reward card so I'm getting the SE for just £8 more than the price of the standard version.
Considering 40 DLC gems alone will likely cost over £8, that's not so bad for the SE, gems and other extras.

Vita version wont be released until Autumn. It'll get 12 additional characters. Most likely have these guys added as DLC, IMO. Some have already been confirmed as such, like Guy & Cody.

Source.

Well the Vita extras are basically the DLC we'll get? Nice: Sakura.

I wonder why they never brought back anyone from SF1. Ryu/Ken and Sagat don't really count because they've been pretty much everywhere the entire time. Someone like Eagle, Joe or something.
I wouldn't say no to Eagle, even if he isn't exactly my style. It would just be cool to see him.

I thought Genki would be perfect simply as an alternate costume for Vega.

Also, this DLC business sounds a bit sketchy to me.

First off, it's not Capcoms style to release things separately. They always release stuff in packs, to squeeze more dollars out of people.

Second, the sheer amount of characters is a bit of a red flag. All told, the game will have 58 characters on 360 and 61 on PS3. That's more than even MvC2. Pretty common knowledge that the more characters there are, the tougher it is to keep everything balanced. With that many characters AND the gem system thrown in, it seems like a herculean effort to keep it all balanced.

Finally, we get a report that says Blanka definitely won't be in, and then several days later he is stated to be in the Vita version and likely DLC for consoles? Sounds fishy to me.

I remember Seth giving an interview months ago saying the final roster might rival MvC2.

As for the imbalance a big roster would cause, that could be what the gems are really for. To have players balance the game themselves to a degree.

I take it we'll have Endless Lobbies on par with SSF4 when this drops. No excuses. Maybe a team tourny, why not. No excuses.

I'm up for it, once I get a grip on things.

Edit: Some guy called Desk has the game already. So, with it being out now, probably through dodgey means, anyone know if the endings are animated, CGI or just still images with text?

Hoping it's animated, be it anime or CGI.

Probably more pics.

And Desk most likely got it from Capcom.

Ono got tweeted about the exclusive characters and responded.

Gotta be the stupidest humans on earth, to not think these are tacit DLC reveals for the consoles. Jesus.

It would help if they'd just come out and say it. Rather than say "exclusive", say "temporarily exclusive" or something.

I know that defeats the purpose of having exclusives because then people just wait, rather than buy a Vita and the Vita version of SFxT, but it would save on a lot of crying, confusion and repeating questions.

I wonder how much money Sony spat out to have Capcom give them a total of 17 extra characters, 3 of which will definitely be 100% exclusive.

Money beats crying, confusion, and repeated questions any day.

I'd rather they get cracking with the DLC. I wanna add Elena to the line up as quick as possible.

Pretty surprised Eddy Gordo is no where to be found.

The Elena x Christie face off could not be ignored.

Never played a Tekken game after 3 so Eddy was who I'd have put in against Elena.

Guess Christie is more popular? Or maybe just so we have a girl vs girl match up.

>>> Boobs.

I thought so.

Christie could also be a part of my team. I prefer Eddie, but they're close enough that I can use both.

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Those walk thrus are pretty good.

Nina has been my main in Tekken since I started playing the series when Tekken 2 hit arcades, and that doesn't seem like it's going to change in this game. She seems like a blast to play, especially with her chain grabs being normal moves instead of just thrown into a super or cross art like I thought they would be. Though I do wish she had a second chain string to do. I think her jumping leg scissors, where she finishes with a string of moves on the ground would have translated well in this game.

Heihachi looks beastly. Was planning on making Heihachi one of my guys, and this just makes me more excited to try him.

I kind of think Steve Fox is going to be the Makoto of this game. Just seems like all his moves and combos are going to take a lot of practice to be used effectively. Fuck, I'm still struggling with Makoto in SSF4, so I dunno if I will want to take up another character like that.

I think Capcom missed a chance to put in remakes of classic stages from SF and Tekken. A redone version of Balrogs Las Vegas stage from SFII would have looked great, for example.

Wouldn't say missed a chance so much as didn't wanna do it. Some Tekken stages would have been interesting.

The only Tekken stages I can think of are the big grassy field with the palm trees, the top of a skyscraper at night and some machine heavy stage.

On the other side of the coin, it would be cool seeing 2D stages in 3D in TxSF. There was a video of Hondas bath house that someone remade in 3D but I can't find it on YouTube anymore.

Julia has always struck me as a very bland character, both in design, and fighting style. That said, her style does seem a bit more interesting to me in 2D than it does in 3D. I like the mix up options her wind roll and dash start ups give her. I'll definitely give her more of a chance in this game than I have in Tekken.

I'm betting that we will see a lot of Ravens online. Both because he has a "badass" design, and because he seems pretty beastly. He also seems like he will be pretty annoying to play against in skilled hands. Raven was never one of my mains, but I did still use him quite a bit in Tekken 5. For whatever reason, I've never really cared for the playstyles "Ninja" characters in 2D fighting games, outside of Vega. I know one thing though. Funky Fly's brother will pick Raven. He'll pick Ibuki WITH Raven. And I wil get very VERY annoyed.

This is the first video I've seen of Asuka where she isn't getting her ass kicked, and holy shit snacks does she have a lot of special moves. If the amount of options isn't too overwhelming for me, she might become one of my go to choices, because I like what I'm seeing. She kind of strikes me as a more grounded version of juri with all the different variations of kicks, ex wall bounce move, and low/overhead mix ups. And as a Juri, Dudley, and Gouken player, I'm very familiar with counter moves, so that's a big plus. In that tournament vid, they state that many of the tekken characters have these counter moves, and I think I'll take an immediate interest in any characters that have them. Well except for steve fox, since his seems to be pretty useless.

Kuma seems just as hard to use in this as he does in Tekken, but I want to play as him just for his facial expressions alone. I've been experimenting with grapplers as of late, since I find them easier to use with the arcade stick, and I think I'll find them even easier once I get my octagon gate. So Kuma is definitely a character I am looking forward to.

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When this game was announced, one of the characters I anticipated the most was King, and they didn't disappoint here. He looks like an absolute blast to play as. No 360 motions is surprising to me, but certainly not in a bad way. He'll definitely be one of the first Tekken characters I put in time with.

Anyone who's spent time with me in SSF4 knows that I'll be using Juri in this. I think I'll feel right at home, from the looks of things. Her MK overhead is what it should have been in SSF4, so that's a big plus. I like the new cross up shes got now as well.

Ken and Ryu are Ken and Ryu. Nothing really unexpected in the vids. I'll probably take up Ryu.

Chun Li with circle motions? Yes please. Another one of my mains from SSF4, and another character I'll probably use quite a bit in SFxT

Chun Li gets charge moves changed to circle motions, and Abel gets circle motions changed to charge moves. Don't particularly like that, to be honest. Abel was my main in Vanilla SF4, but he's since fallen down the pecking order. I'll have to wait to see how useful the shoulder charge is, and how difficult the super art is to pull off, before I decide to use him. I do like that his anti air grab seems to be easier to combo into.

That's all the videos they have up, atm. Hopefully they do one for each character.

Some of the music from some of the stages. Some stages have multiple background themes:

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Music from a stage that is probably linked to the story. Normally, I'd hate getting stuff that could be story related spoiled but I saw this stage coming so it's not a big deal to me.

I'm thinking the SF cast should have received new target combos to coincide with the TK's cast of heavy pressure mix-up games. I'll say it right now, the TK cast by themselves present a better game than SF. I'll further say they're the best thing to happen to 2D since SNK's move-set philosophy (which is imo better than the SF series).

If Sakura's gonna work the way I think she will in this environment, you guys have seriously seen nothing yet. It'll just suck that I won't be able to use her until Vita's little exclusivity deal ends in a few months. With no 'Super/Ultimate' version of the game in sight, and quite of bit of extra content expected, they're probably gonna space DLC out for the long haul. The opportunity to have Cammy and Sakura on one team literally makes me hard.

Not that we'll do too many 1v1 matches, because me and Khuntry already decided we'll do 2v2 as the default game on/offline.

I can believe that.

Thank you.

This game makes me hard. Believe that.

Sounds good.

Edit: Added the music to the Antartica stage to the post above. It's the one I mentioned a week or so ago that was shown on the stream.

Nice.

Eventhubs seems to have vanished.

God, the fighting game community has just been bitching not stop about there not being enough "new" characters on the street fighter side.

Let's just forget the fact that there are 19 "new" characters from tekken to play as. I suppose they should have left Ryu and ChunLi out for Eagle and Maki.

Let's not get started on the FGC. They're the cancer.

20 minute video about Poisons history, looking at her origins and gender:

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Great, let's fan the flames a bit.

It's better than most fan videos/comments on the subject. He seems to have done research. Though I do get the feeling he might have missed something on the non-transgender side of the debate. Not that it matters.

Unless they start doing transgender specific storylines where Poison is harrassed by the other characters because of her gender or they start having her walk around without any pants on, the gender of the character isn't THAT important. Although being a MtF TG legally and, for the person = being female. So she's female either way.

I do like the idea that she's transgendered because it gives her a character besides the the usual catagories every female character falls into.

They're making Street Fighter Monopoly btw. Capcom Unity has a vote on which characters should be the play pieces. Why not just put all the SFII characters in? They're only tiny bits of plastic, I'm sure it wont cripple the budget.

Edit: I just saw Cool King mentioned it in the VG News thread. Damn.

Why does the official description call M.Bison "Major Bison"? I thought the M stood for "Master". I know it means Mike in Japan for our Balrog but I thought it meant Master for our Bison.

I will buy the shit out of that game.

I think the only thing I remember ever mentioning her as 100% female was that supposed announcement from capcom, that had no sources. Can't rightly count that.

I know this doesn't play like SSF4, but I am still playing it a lot lately in anticipation of this.

We should get some lobbies going for old times sake. I still play with Funky's Bro all the time, but I haven't had a good 4 person room in over a year.

SFxT stuff for PS home. I'm wondering if the game will have Avatar Awards for the 360 version.

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Either that, or it's yet another PS exclusive, due to MS being painful for to devs to work with yet again.

Not that I care, since this is a dual system buy for me. Just sayin'.

Yeah, I'd probably put up with the PS3 controller for this if I had a PS3. I find the 360 controller suits me better than the dual shock style for fighters. Definitely like that stick up top.

Same here. Remedied that by getting a stick for PS3. So hard to get used to, and I'm not doing myself any favors by playing SSF4 on 360 with a regular controller. Feel like the only way I'll get used to it is to play with the stick all the time, but that would mean buying one on 360 as well. Bullocks.

Probably going to switch the gate out for an octagon, because I kind of suck with the square gate. Great for charge characters, but doing circle motions is kind of a drag. Don't even get me started on 3D fighters.

Thumbstick all the way.

Ordered a new controller this morning actually. The silver one.

So now my shitty white one will be rarely used/mostly for fps games, my pretty good condition black one will be used for everything else, and my brand new silver one will most likely go untouched

Okay.

If the rumors of all these DLC characters prove to be true, then I think Capcom should do a "season pass" deal.

They won't. Would be nice though.

I've never totally understood Season Passes. Do you pay something like 1600 points up front and then get DLC for 400 instead of 500?

You could look at it as just partially paying for DLC in advance, If you wanted to.

Thinking of changing my avatar to something Zangief related. A gif would be cool. I'm not sure though. I've had this avatar since I joined so it might be weird.

Go to my avatar and see his new animation right fucking now.

What?

My XBL avatar. Got him a new prop. Unrelated to this game but check it out.

Did you unlock that or buy it?

SFxT props would be cool. They'd really just be animations like Shoryuken, Hadouken, Flash Kick etc. Unless they let us buy a giant servebot head for our Avatars to hide under, like the guy on the "Urban warzone" stage.

I paid for it. It is very awesome.

Actually a lot of avy animations are way better now. They have ninja stuff that are legit cool and pretty long. They have a Captain America Shield Alva should look into. And some vampire bat wings that's up your alley (I think).

And yeah, they should have SF animations.

I think he already bought the shield. If he didn't, someone from TPWW did.

I'd seen the newer animations but never bought any. I saw the Spiderman animation where you swing through a city and thought that was cool. I totally would have bought the Hulk animation if the Avatar didn't grow giant Hulk hands for it.

I saw the batwings. It looks weird seeing the Avatar "fly" or "run" and seeing he's clearing staying in the same spot. I'm not sure how the could make it look better.

The bat wings do have this black cloud effect that helps. Also look up Battlefield 3's wall prop. Kinda funny.