SG Q&A Thread - Launch Party April 10-11th

HigherTomorrow · October 10, 2011, 9:16am

Please, please, please tell me how I can go about auditioning for the voice of the Panzer-character.

Mike_Z · October 10, 2011, 9:20am

I have dibs (^.^) but if you really want to audition for anything, email us!

Jet_Set_Dizzy · October 10, 2011, 9:21am

Seriously? Because that’s fucking awesome.

not_so_saint_1 · October 10, 2011, 11:48am

Question for Mike:
Is speed of meter gaining alters for various team sizes? Because teams needs DHCes to keep damage on par with single char, which means they need more meter. Or is this disparity is just one of single char’s pros to balance out lack of options?

Question for Ravid:
Will we get characters’ color templates you were talking about in palette suggestions thread? I really want to edit the crap out of Ms. Fortune… In good way of course! =]
But if you already gave her Buggy the Clown and Celty Sturlusson palettes then don’t bother. I personally do not want anything else.

Firekid2468 · October 10, 2011, 9:55pm

I have a suggestion! Can the quote for Fortune’s air super be “I am the Cat’s Meow!” as a shout-out to Valk’s super?

MyLifeIsAnRPG · October 11, 2011, 12:22am

Is the game even quicker now? The IGN fight seemed even quicker than fights already sped up by 10%. Also what happened to the Ms fortune blood slide sound effect? It sounded like it was missing.

Loving the new intro btw but i agree you shouldn’t be allowed to act until the screen is clear.

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Miyomei · October 11, 2011, 1:14am

Miyomei:

GG’s mods!

Q: Was there ever any further work on giving a one-person team a way to use/regain red life in any way? I had this weird idea that I wanted to bounce off of you. It’s way late in the game’s dev cycle to implement it, but I’m talking with a friend about making a doujin fighter and wanted some feedback (and maybe you could use it too).

Red life on a one person team gives you several options:

A command that causes a sliding knockdown and gives you a small percentage of red life back, but also costs a meter. Kind of like a universal healing super?

Inputting a DHC command with a one-girl team allows you to sacrifice all of your red life for a super xx super cancel, BUT the second super has a very large amount of life scaling? This could be imbalanced as hell, but is kind of interesting.

Sacrifice red life to do a guard cancel.

Sacrifice red life for a roman cancel.

Just defends to gain back a small tick of red life!

For options 2-4, you would need some sort of alternate use for red life to balance this out. For instance, options 1 and 4 would be pretty cool together. All four would be WAY too many options and commands.

Just reposting in case Mike missed it. Don’t really need a comment on the ideas, just curious to know if they’ve got something in the works.

Mike_Z · October 11, 2011, 1:30am

You reposted on the same page…that’s not really necessary. (^.^) I suppose I’m not allowed to choose to ignore a question…

The short answer is, we tried stuff, but at present single characters are still plenty good without any of this - adding VS life regen was way too much, and even red life alpha counters were very strong.
I’d like to avoid giving them any sort of unique move because I’m not really trying to give SG “grooves” per se, that’s an overall design choice. Single characters are the newbie-friendly team since you don’t have to worry about assists/tagging/etc, so I prefer that your character is who they are and you don’t have to learn additional moves that are then unusable when you decide to try adding a teammate.
I’m open to changing things in the future (in order: red life ACs, VS regen, just defend) if single characters end up completely useless like CvS2, but this is NOT going to be in a knee-jerk patch 2 months after release. At the same time, though, if there has to be a generally stronger team setup I would rather it be 2 or 3 instead of 1, because the dynamics are more interesting…to me, anyway, and I’m the one making the choice, so ha.

SRWPyrit · October 11, 2011, 1:40am

In 1v1 does meter carry over between rounds?

Miyomei · October 11, 2011, 1:45am

Mike_Z:

You reposted on the same page…that’s not really necessary. (^.^) I suppose I’m not allowed to choose to ignore a question…

The short answer is, we tried stuff, but at present single characters are still plenty good without any of this - adding VS life regen was way too much, and even red life alpha counters were very strong.
I’d like to avoid giving them any sort of unique move because I’m not really trying to give SG “grooves” per se, that’s an overall design choice. Single characters are the newbie-friendly team since you don’t have to worry about assists/tagging/etc, so I prefer that your character is who they are and you don’t have to learn additional moves that are then unusable when you decide to try adding a teammate.
I’m open to changing things in the future (in order: red life ACs, VS regen, just defend) if single characters end up completely useless like CvS2, but this is NOT going to be in a knee-jerk patch 2 months after release. At the same time, though, if there has to be a generally stronger team setup I would rather it be 2 or 3 instead of 1, because the dynamics are more interesting…to me, anyway, and I’m the one making the choice, so ha.

I’ll keep it in mind! You’re just way better at answering fan questions than most FG devs so I just kind of expect you to get around to everyone. Stop setting such high standards, man!

After watching the latest FNF, I’ve gotta’ agree that single characters are already…really strong. The Fortune player was barely hitting combos and still took out a team of three with life to spare. It instantly brought back memories of using Ratio 4 Geese in CvS2. The entire other team just had to go all out and still could only whittle her health down. Single characters weren’t ENTIRELY useless in CvS2, but the ones that weren’t were more the exception to the rule than anything.

Speaking of Geese, I’d love to see a counter-focused character in SG. “PREYDEECTABULL!”

Ragnorok64 · October 11, 2011, 2:02am

Is the ability to attack while the giant SHOWTIME is still on the screen, that we saw on the latest FNF, going to stay in?

Pleas say “no”

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Master_Chibi · October 11, 2011, 3:17am

Hey Mike, just a quick question:

What does the game do when you get a ‘double ko’?

What’s it do when it’s the last round of the match and you get the same thing?

How about draw games?

Honor_Basquiat · October 11, 2011, 3:55am

When you get a perfect, does the game tell you? If so how does it say it?
Are there any charge moves that can be used while moving in the game so far? Not charge moves as in Guile moves, I mean moves like Zero’s Buster or Mega Man’s charge shot.

Firekid2468 · October 11, 2011, 4:36am

Right now the game still says cut, but the words are:

Succeed: Player #
That’s a wrap!
Hit on all sixes!

Assuming they haven’t changed it recently

Dr.Grammar · October 11, 2011, 4:37am

What happened to the background music from FNF #3? If it’s been removed, will it (and other deleted tracks) be included in the OST release? Will music from trailers be included as well?

Firekid2468 · October 11, 2011, 4:39am

Last I heard they were thinking of using that as the training stage music, but nothing is final. That song is from a stage that ended up getting cut, I think.

Lethalmind · October 11, 2011, 4:58am

Iirc, this was recorded before the theme for this particular stage was finished. The song was a filler.

guitalex2007 · October 11, 2011, 6:11am

Is Skullgirls being considered for other forms of media, such as card games, TV, books, comics? A good card game for this would be the Universal Fighting System (http://www.jascogames.com/ufs).
Can Ms. Fortune do a head move at the same time as another attack? Say she does f+HP+HK. Does the head move while she throws a kick? If it’s not simultaneous, how close together can the inputs be?

4r5 · October 11, 2011, 6:52am

Random suggestion for what to do with 1 char team’s red life, if something has to be done, have chip damage start at red life. Or is blocking a lot not newbie friendly??

The_Parry_System · October 11, 2011, 7:09am

I think the team have enough harebrained suggestions to last them up through Skullgirls 5 at this point.