BradyGames UMvC3 Strategy Guide Questions

[Fr0st_Blade]

Just needed confirmation that it’d be more or less similar to the first guide.
Preordering now.

[Aerial_Screw]

For anyone wondering, Gamestop has the updated bible listed as coming out 1 week before the actual game.

Release Date 11/8/2011

[Capcom]

The fact that there isn’t a “Love” button on this site saddens me. And i hope GS ain’t messing with us, cause i really want that guide.

[Dr.Deelite]

So, y’all didn’t read earlier in the thread, I take it.

[Karsticles]

It’s way too late for suggestions (we’ve certainly kept our ears open along the way! This guide is far from just a retread), but uh, I guarantee you won’t be disappointed. Also I am more or less sure it’s going to be 480~500 pgs.

Are you able to divulge anything about what this guide adds that the previous one did not? I’m getting it regardless just for the frame data. I even still read sections to renew my thinking about characters. For example, I have over 3000 online matches with Dormammu, but last month I sat down and re-read his entire section again, just as a way to prime my thoughts.

You guys do good work, and I’m maybe even more excited about the guide than the actual game right now, hahaha. I love that data!

[Dr.Deelite]

I’ll see if we can’t put out a sample or two in advance via Capcom Unity or something, as we did last time. Gimme a couple weeks though, we still gotta actually finish the thing. ;]

[Karsticles]

Oooo, exciting!

By the way, just a point of curiosity: how are you handling character changes?

Are you just doing a fresh writeup for each character as an independent entity, or do you talk about what has changed in the character compared to MvC3?

It’s more a stylistic consideration than anything.

[Dios_X]

Pre-ordered the guide on amazon. Now to sit on my doorstep and wait for it to arrive.

[Dr.Deelite]

So when I said 480~500 pages I may have meant “as many as 600.”

(We’re very tired.)

[Capcom]

600?! 600?!! 600!!!

Yes.

[DevilJin_01]

Dr.Strange’s guide required 50 pages.

[Dr.Deelite]

Hey, “as many as,” I’m not sure where it actually ends up. ;] But it’s breaking 500, hell bent for leather.

[Capcom]

10 bucks says i read it all within a day of it being in my hands. Can we haz hints about how long a characters section is?

[TheDarkPhoenix]

So when I said 480~500 pages I may have meant “as many as 600.”

(We’re very tired.)

Is it dropping before the game at all?

[MILF]

OVER 9000

[Kaiten92]

Is it dropping before the game at all?

a week in advance IIRC

10 bucks says i read it all within a day of it being in my hands. Can we haz hints about how long a characters section is?

same here bro

[Dr.Deelite]

Is it dropping before the game at all?

I answered this in a post earlier in the thread. (Sort of.)

We will probably put a sample out soon, which will address any curiosities about content.

[Jasin_Walraven]

Amazon’s pagecount is a placeholder. We will almost certainly be over 400 pages this time. We are aiming to exceed the first guide, of course.

Also, just so it’s clear, the content in the guides is entirely the product of the authors listed on the cover. No one hands us data or tips, nor do we just hand over generalized text or notes to some magical “Official” department from which fully written guides spew forth. 100% of the guide is from experienced tournament players. We know what you want because we know what we want, and we will get it to you time/space/circumstances permitting.

And in a general sense we also try to be all things to all people, and we’re a licensed product to boot, so of course we have character art and bios and whatnot, or even stuff like the “History of MvC” piece that is totally unnecessary, but a lot of people liked (which made me glad; I liked writing it).

Anyways, expect a better, bigger guide.

(Edited post for a little more detail.)

I would love it to be, instead of a book like the last one, more of a compendium in a three ring binder that new pages can be printed to replace old ones when the data becomes outdated due to patches/nerfs/buffs (kinda like the AD&D 2nd edition Monstorous Compendium in the 90’s)
Then you could sell a subscription service that allows either a download of the pages or them to be mailed. The way Capcom updates these games so often the guides quickly become outdated

[Oerba]

“as many as 600.”

(We’re very tired.)

I want this…NOW. 600 pgs. of Mahvel info…Mindblown

[Dr.Deelite]

The way Capcom updates these games so often the guides quickly become outdated

People seem to say this a lot for some reason, but it just isn’t true. MvC3 patches changed a single-digit amount of things in our guide, the only meaningful one being Sentinel health. Most of the patch fixes were for things the public never found, and/or weird bugs that weren’t really gameplay related, like sound glitches.