You know you love the Pepe. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Nobody played him on the stream and if he was playable he would have headlined the title of the stream or something. They didn’t even bring up the character’s name other than when Kenny off the random brought him up
he must be broken in some way.
They’re not allowed to per Capcom’s rules. We don’t know why said rule is in place though, if he’s broken or they just want to save him for launch
Yeah I think they just want to save him for launch. He’s the only core 16 character left and if they release him its pretty much like they’ve let you play most of the game already. Having one character left out where it’s like “you gotta buy the game to play him” makes sense.
They said he will be available to play at the launch event next week. My thought is they want to build hype for the event in London
People are gona go bonkers with him in that time frame before launch.
If they are leaving a character unplayed to build hype, Fang is like the worst possible contender. Fang is the weirdo meant to appeal to fringe audiences, he’s not exactly Ken.
I think that’s a good way to do it too though. Make the weird character seem elusive and get people to wonder why they’re being so discrete about him.
That WSO session was painful to watch though. It was just kenny getting bodied. It seemed rather unfair tbh. Had he even ever touched SFV before? It didn’t seem like he understood anything about anything.
He only had the beta with the grapplers available. He did pretty good against someone like hart who has tons of exp. I congratz him. Honestly considering his time with SFV exp and he had so little mika exp to boot. He has potential. I can’t wait to see him at majors.
That would make FANG an unknown variable then, since he’d be the only launch character released without being playtested by the community first. Also once you’ve made 15/16 characters available, withholding one makes for a weak incentive to buy the game. Keep in mind that for people like us, it feels like they’ve let us play most of the game already because we’d be happy with just Versus Mode and Training Mode. Casuals care more about the extra modes, so the beta is very limited in that regard. All in all, I’m fairly confident he’ll be available during the final Beta.
Edit: Apparently the Winner Stats On session was using the final Beta build, and FANG is in the character select screen. Still can’t be certain, but that’s a good sign!
I think he was in the character select screen at other events, but still could not be used.
Yeah FANG isn’t a huge incentive, but for people who haven’t paid and are just stuck playing the free beta code they got for a friend or something, could make difference for them.
That’s true, as well as the promise of more characters to come, could make a difference.
He was in the character select screen, but they were prohibited from playing him? Capcom are god tier at blue-balling.
that poison lasted a fucking long time
~30 ingame seconds
super looks like it can be done on the ground. I’m putting my money on it can’t be done in air but just pure speculation
Vtrigger seems pointless other than roman cancel
and why do people do vskill as a meaty wakeup? doesn’t even work :\
Why does his V Trigger seem pointless? It basically allows him to be offensive and force you to into mind games with his poison. When he’s in V Trigger if he poisons you you can’t hit him to remove the poison. The poison stays until the V Trigger is over it seems. That’s gonna get pretty scary. He’s going to have one of the few V Triggers where people are going to be legit running away from him when he pops it with no way to stop the poison.
My god I did such a 180 on this character it’s almost hypocritical. FANG is quickly becoming my favorite new Street Fighter character since 3s. Such a creative and fun design! <3
ah, my bad
Didn’t know it had different properties from the normal poison
Any form of contact between the fighters cause poison when VTriggered, so it really changes the dynamics quickly.
I know it’s charge but his fireball seems pretty ridiculous.