As I recall, not all the DLC characters will be available from launch and that they’ll be released at timed intervals. I think EX Iori is first but we have to wait on the others. I really need that EX Kyo so I could just tier whore and play my 98 og Team.
Am I the only one who wants Rugal to make it in some how some way?
rumors floating around that perhaps the leaks are fake, despite looking really legit. lets see what happens in a few days…
I think that they’re trying to damage control by saying there’s some false facts in the pdf. The main thing is that Saiki and Billy shouldn’t be considered part of the 5 characters for DLC so technically the claim that those are all DLC characters are wrong.
Mr. Karate seems like an oddball choice to me since I wouldn’t have ever thought SNK liked Takuma that much, but I’m sure as hell not complaining. Takuma is the only character I play that I can do well with against Ash, so now I have a counter pick for Ask/Saiki teams 
Sadly, EX Kyo and Mr. Karate (dunno which version they’ll use) along with EX Iori make the most sense as DLC characters because they’re swaps, i.e. SNK doesn’t have to spend enormous amounts of time to make new characters from scratch. They probably ble their load on Billy (who, from what little I’ve seen, seems to be a bit half-assed; or maybe it’s just his regular stance that’s unusually static). I’m leaning towards the list being legit, i.e. the “5 new characters” being just Billy and a bunch of swaps.
But I could be wrong.
I hope Mr. Karate is SvC Mr. Karate just because Takuma with a DP is fucked up.
Hopefully you learned some fundamentals in the time that has passed since we last played.
I’m still fairly ass at KoF but I’d like to think I got better. Vegas’ scene is so ass though, I’m one of the best KoF players here when I really shouldn’t be.
Oh well, hopefully you could kick it up. Heading to Socal Regs at least? It’ll host KOFXIII as one of the main tournies.
I might be able to make it down. Mostly depends on the Hit Box situation there, and of course if the tourney is ran on the arcade board or not since if it’s on stick I’m not playing.
SoCal Regionals is in December (the 17th-19th); ergo it’s a console tournament.
Thank god, I missed out on two KoFXIII tourneys already because they were sticks only.
it looks real enough to me
stream from the UK for console version this weekend!
I’m personally glad EX-Kyo is in, 2002um Kyo has probably my favorite moveset out of the Kyos.
I don’t quite get why people think he isn’t different enough.
There’s all his Rekka links, qcb C/D moves and the lack of fireballs, that rising kick and the running grab.
Seems different enough to me.
If it’s about sprites, then i have no objection that they’re taking a few shortcuts
after SNK.P went so far with the main cast.
Hoping Karate is his SVC incarnation as well.
If anything, Normal Kyo should’ve had his Rekkas with or without his projectile attack to begin with.
I can see EX Kyo’s movelist being something like this-
Rekkas (2-3 versions)
Normal DP
HCB+K from 2000, etc.
RED Kick
Double kick or wheel kick
If that is the true list I can say I’m happy with it for now but I really would like to see:pray:VANESSA, Rugal, and Geese make it the game as dlc.
I can see the list making sense but I also wish it’s not.
it makes sense cause it’s SNKP. not the first time they’ve called new characters EX versions. But I also hope it’s not true since I was expecting some more boss characters from either the Saikai crew or just bringing back the traditional Rugal/Geese combo. But since SNKP has little to no staff to push out new character models in the time given, it’s hard to write this list off at the moment.
It’s also pretty weird that Saika all of a sudden is “Different Ash”
IIRC, that picture isn’t official, I saw posted at 4chan first.