SFV Character Request/Anticipation Thread

Street Fighter V
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It’s very likely some of these guys coming up with “leaked lists” saw characters who were never planned to be in the initial roster…

At this point, it doesn’t even matter who is rumored because we know new characters will be coming out months and months and months after the initial release…

Street Fighter III and IV characters will be DLC, most likely. They never reached the exposition and/or popularity of series like II or Alpha.

Probably those extra chars will be later bundled in SFIV and SFIII “fighter packs”.

Hope SF1, Final Fight, Rival Schools and SFEX “fighter packs” are planned too…

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There was a whole video on this where the British Action Figure Guy said Capcom probably made 32 characters and will switch them in and out depending on various circumstances like leaks.

Depends on the character, Juri is stupid popular in the community and seems to be the only SF4 character with any chance of surviving to SF5. According to the popularity list, she’s more popular than a lot of the World Warriors.

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Dude, she will survive… everyone will have a chance to survive. Just not in the initial roster, the slots are very few to have everyone popular there.

Dan, Rose, Cody, Guy, Sakura, for example… all of them good and popular Alpha characters, but there’s just not enough space for them to fit from the start.

I think they’re working by “sections”. Just like in the first Street Fighter iterations, where they didn’t just picked random characters from any “episode”… they saved the SFIII and Final Fight characters for the “Super” version, even when some of them were far more popular than other characters in the initial roster (Gen?). So, I guess, this is Street Fighter IV all again.

I’d say they’ll probably work with an order, probably after the first roster they will release 4 more SFII characters, then 4 more Alpha characters like Sakura, Dan, Rose, etc., then 4 “Street Fighter III” characters, then 4 “Street Fighter IV” characters… or probably with an order like:

First one SFII returning fighter, then another one from Alpha, then another one from III, then another one of IV… I just think they’ll do the things with an order and not just including random characters from any chapter they feel like. The initial roster seems very well organized to begin with, I can’t really imagine them going random after that.

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We agree then, I’ve been floating that idea of seasons of DLC based on games for a while. Good shit homie.

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Don’t forget Alpha Pack as well - We can have Rose, Sakura, Rolento, Dan and Juni/Juli bundle pack

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Yeah, II and Alpha and probably IV would have “extra packs”.

5 extra characters per chapter looks like a good deal.

“Extra Alpha” pack could be Gen, Rose, Sakura, Dan and Ingrid (she debuted on Alpha 3 MAX). I wouldn’t be surprised if Sakura makes it into the initial roster instead of Karin, though.

“Extra II” pack: Guile, Akuma, Fei Long, Blanka and Balrog (assuming Sagat and Dhalsim are the last two in the initial roster). Akuma would be an unlockable boss or something.

Rolento, Sodom, Cody, Guy and Haggar could be the **Final Fight **pack.

Alex, Urien, Dudley, Ibuki and Sean/Necro/Makoto/Elena/Oro for the Street Fighter III pack.

Juri, Rufus, Abel, Viper, Gouken and for the “Street Fighter IV” pack.

But of course they’re not adding everyone there. Wouldn’t be surprised if there’s no Final Fight pack and we have Karin, Dan, Rose, Guy and Cody instead as the “Alpha pack”.

Or they will just have 3 more characters per “chapter” and that’s all (like III: Alex, Ibuki, Dudley; IV: Juri, Abel, Viper; II: Balrog, Sagat, Guile; Alpha: Dan, Sakura, Rose; Final Fight: Cody, Guy, Haggar).

There will probably never be a “Street Fighter One” pack, since Capcom prefers to pretend it never existed and the Street Fighter II and Alpha chapters have “absorbed” those characters instead…

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I expect 25-30 characters max over the course SF5 lifespan.

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Ken Bogard never disconfirmed R.Mika tho. He was joking, used “XD” (silly face) and said she might be in five years from now. I already explained it all no need to hate him now that she’s officially confirmed.
I’m happy to have her back in SF, 100% maining her.

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No hate or anything. I just can’t openly believe him based on the fact that a lot of leaks are fakes and Mika being confirmed (whether he was joking or not is an easy cover up).

I’m all for a new fighter from Brazil. A female, too.

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Why do you keep mentioning these “packs”? You do realize that Capcom is gonna release characters one by one (and obviously put them in Season-like bundles and the end of every DLC wave), right?

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Wow opened up facebook and the first thing I see is R.mika artwork for V. Like I said, I wasn’t really a big fan of her but I really am happy for her fans. Hopefully she’ll play MUCH better this time around.

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In the capcom unity blog on Mika’s release it mentions her idol being Zangief. I think the red cyclone will be part of the initial 16 man roster.

I didn’t really enjoy playing her in Alpha 3 either, but she looks really fun in this game. The tag team stuff is really cool IMO.

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One of the two remaining green slots is Balrog, I am pretty much certain of this. Every green character is connected to Shadowloo in some way and Balrog is one of the more unpopular characters meaning he’s most likely main cast or bust. Last green is a toss up between Sagat and Juri. Pretty comfortable with last blue slot being Urien or Karin. Urien has to have some connection to the game through Charlie and Karin is too popular to be excluded completely meaning she’s either going to be last to be revealed or the established characters (the pattern after Birdie and Cammy has been original, SF4, non-SF4) or be one of the first DLC characters.

Another original character looks to be the next reveal though.

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Then my faith is back and stronger than before. I’m sorry I ever doubted our savior.

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mah nigga

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That’s exactly what I’m saying. Character bundles = “packs”. The idea is tempting you to buy with different bargains… First they attempt to sell you individual characters, if you think indiv. characters are too expensive, take 3 with an overal 30% discount… then, if you think that’s still expensive, take 10 with a 40% discount or something…

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Didn’t they say you could buy character via two ways. Zenny (with real money) or in game fight money.

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I’m not so certain that Balrog will make. I think it would be appropriate since Vega is there, but beyond that, I see no reason for him to be there. As for his popularity, I think he’s got more fans than you give him credit for. I don’t think it’s too unlikely for him to be added later.

That said, it’s slightly weird to not have a boxer initially, so who knows?

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But what you’re saying in your post implies that Capcom is gonna do character releases era-by-era, or thematically (i.e. elpha chars first, then 3, then 4, for example). Otherwise these “packs” won’t make sense (and I don’t think Capcom would’ve put up them preemptively like “Preorder this DLC now to get 5 Alpha characters!”).

And they wouln’t do this until all those characters are released and up for purchase, which is like several years from now

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To form packs, they’re going to group characters thematically, I think there’s no doubt about that. About the actual order they’ll start releasing characters individually, I have no idea.

I think they will. They release 3 new characters, then they could say “you missed the NEWEST characters for three months, buy all three of them at only a fraction of the price!”.

“mega Season Packs” could come out later than that…