Darun & Garuda stuff by Fuudo
Confirmed
- Hokuto (Shirase)
- Kairi
- Garuda
- Skullomania
- Darun Mister
- Allen Snider
- ???
- ???
- ???
- ???
Remaining SF EX characters
- Ace
- Area
- Blair Dame
- Cracker Jack
- Doctrine Dark
- Hayate
- Nanase
- Pullum Purna
- Shadowgeist
- Sharon
- Vulcano Rosso
Given how Allen has been there since Fighting Layer and is now in FEXL - I’d say Blair Dame will make the cut as well. EX1 also had Pullum, C.Jack and D.Dark. That’s 4 remaining reveals right there
The remaining 7 could then be released as DLC, unless they want to bring some more Fighting Layer classics instead of focusing on EX-only for DLC
They apparently didn’t want to crowdfund it because they thought the crowdfunding campaign would be a failure. If people hype about this game go out and purchase it and we surprise Arika with how much we love the EX series, that will pretty much guarantee more support and DLC characters, if the sales are poor it will be tough for them to do DLC and that might be a wrap on the game, but if the game turns out to be fun and has good netcode we should be supporting its purchase so Arika can be surprised and earn some income back that they can put towards DLC characters.
Personally id like to see Blair Dame, Doctrine Dark, Cracker Jack and Vulcano Rosso. I really like shadowgeist, hayate and nanase though so i hope those get in as DLC. Ideally we’d get a 12 or 13 character roster, but it makes sense considering Arikas isnt exactly the most financially well off company ever.
If they’re going for a 10 character roster, that means there’s only four characters left to reveal. I think we’re going to get the remaining EX1 characters for the initial 10, seeing as everyone in the game that’s currently announced originated from EX1 (with Garuda being from EX1 plus), and then get the rest of the EX characters if the game does well (based on the info bakfroman posted above). So I think D.Dark, Blair, Pullum and C.Jack are going to the be the other four characters.
I could be completely wrong of course, but it’s fun to speculate.
Regarding the crowd funding topic. They said during the Q&A that they considered the option of doing a Kickstarter but ultimately they felt that the game wouldn’t raise the funds they needed that way… 
That makes no sense lol, some money is better than no money, and a crowdfunding campaign is a great way to gauge interest.
Better than finding out there’s not enough interest after putting money from their own pockets.
I respect the decision. Especially if they plan to release the game at a discounted price as DLC only. They’re obviously not planning to do a big store release for this game with only a 10 character roster of niche fighting game characters and likely not enough time to add a lot of single player content. Putting the game out for sale on their own guarantees the game goes gold and if made on enough of a budget can get enough return to keep adding DLC over time. Max can always shill the shit out of the game (aka like the game a lot) on his channel any way and he’s the big factor for stuff like this getting bigger among the common internet man.
I’ve grown to like the EX series over time and love Fighting Layer so I’m definitely buying this day one regardless. Good luck to the team and hopefully the game gets somewhere in the tourney scene and in the market.
Releasing an unfinished game and then adding content later didn’t work for Street Fighter V. Why would it work for Arika?
Doing a Kickstarter would allow them to make a couple more characters and polish the game more to have a better product than doing it on their own budget. There’s interest, game looks good, I doubt a Kickstarter would fail. If Arcana Heart pulled it off they can.
Right now, I dislike a few part on the gougi system and a bit of minor stuff on the visuals but everything I see is an okay to me. I still expect them to reach at least 12 for the character and just polish the gougi system just a bit!!
- Cracker Jack
- Doctrine Dark
- Pullum Purna
- Nanase
- Vulcano Rosso
- Shadowgeist
Blair Dame will get in before Shadowgeist. She’s one of the OG Arika characters
It didn’t work for a multitude of reasons, most of which because simply put, they’re Capcom. They should be better than that.
Whereas for Arika, everyone understands their situation. People will accept almost anything if the contextual situation meets their standard.
If they add my boy D. Dark, day 1.
If they don’t, still day 1. That’s how much of an avid fan I am.
I really like what I’ve seen from this game. Definitely going to help support Arika. Hopefully it has some success.
“HAHAHAHAHAHA
SKULLOMANIA IS VERY STRONG!!!”
It would be a cool option to choose PS1 sound effects if you wanted to.
Difference is, Capcom is more of a bigger name than Arika is around the world, especially as they’ve been handling the SF series for 3 decades now. That’s why it was inexcusable for Capcom to release SF V in the state that it was in.
Arika is in even worse shape than Capcom is financially & because they’re a very niche company like Arc System Works & SNK are. That’s why they can get away with it.
No need for an option, theyr’e already in the game
kappa
A game is a game though, and a 10 character fighter with little content from a lesser known company will struggle. I don’t think they will “get away with it”.
If they would bringing in more variant multiplayer mode and single player content it would worked even without any story mode.
Thinking lately of the armor and infinity super…
The armor should have been for attack moves like normal or specials instead of just being neutral stance and the infinite super should be like max level 3 when successfully meet the conditioned but after using 3 level of super it regenerates each level in a not instantaneous way to avoid locking your opponent into blocking until mistake.
10 characters? That’s kinda meh but I understand
Plus they could still add dlc later on