The King of Fighters XIII GAMEPLAY Discussion Thread

Current Fighting Games King of Fighters
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Some snippet’s from the new Arcadia magazine (thanks to KusoGaki and his blog)

It looks like Chin gained a new move/DM that has wall bounce properties when he’s drunk (probably works like Xiangfei’s Chou Pairon DM from KOF), says something about wire damage

Shen got his Tamaken (reflect projectiles) back, says rocket projectiles away using the player’s voice or something like that lol

Mai fan club

K’ Team, You can see K’s neomax in the upper left corner and something about color variation at the bottom, on the second scan Kula and Maxima along with a small section about their neomax’s

Something not shown, Kuso said Leona has a new DM that’s a lot like her Grand Saber move

Scan about the KOF 2002UM V-1 KOF Versus Festival
Most used characters

  1. K’ (5 times)
  2. Kasumi (4 times)
  3. Nameless (4 times)
  4. Kula (3 times)
  5. Benimaru (2 times)
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Thanks for the scans!

I hate to accidentaly start a hypocthetical tier list discussion but I was thinking about K’ and how I think he is going to be really good. It just looks like he has a ton of tools.

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The rest of the stuff i didn’t take photos of earlier:

Leona’s super:

And some bits about NeoMax:





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It’s starting to look that way with a lot of characters imo

Thanks Kuso, nice to see characters are still getting new moves/DM’s, hopefully Maxima/King/Clark will get something before the game is complete

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Really stupid question but can you HD cancel on block?

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HD canceling a guard into an attack? I doubt it, your best bet would be if you did a GCA first then see if you could HD cancel that

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sorry i didnt word that right. I mean like HD cancel if the opponent blocks your attack. EX: K’ does dp+C and the opponent blocks it, could HD into qcf+A? or does the special have to hit in order to be HD Canceled?

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Yeah you can Drive cancel while the opponent is blocking your attacks, around 1:27 in the video below you see Leona do a jump D (it hits but everything after that is blocked), st. C, f+B, qcb+P (DC), qcf hcb+P

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=6rIHgCZssfk

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Ok cool. Using HD cancels to make you safe makes you forfeit your ability to do big dmg. I like that.

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Seems like HD canceling will add a depth of mind games to XIII

Hmm look at the part with Duo Lon, does that character pic in the upper right corner look different? eh it might just be me

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Looks like Ash to me.

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King can now do her projectile in the air? Well, that ought to make for some interesting matches since you just know some people will be spamming that to death.

What is the glowing bar above the super/stock bar?

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I thought so, my eyes are screwing with me

I dunno from the looks of it the recovery on that move doesn’t really look good enough to make it shoto hadouken spam worthy (the D version in the air kinda makes her float after using it so it’ll be unsafe just to throw out), all in all it seems like people will have to space accordingly when they use it

HD (Hyper Drive) gauge, used for Drive Cancels and Hyper Drive mode

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Here’s a little write up I did for Ash’s video because I have too much free time and theory fighter got boring

http://shoryuken.com/media.php?do=details&mid=3184

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Ash’s EX Fireball not only throws 2 fireballs but also go through other ones? I likey. Looks like Ash’s dmg output really grows in the corner.

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What are the requirements for the NeoMax moves? Anyone know if there will be a limit to them?

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You need 3 bars and a full HD gauge

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From the looks of DC vs Hyperdrive mode is that just doing a regular DC out of Hyperdrive mode doesn’t scale, but when you DC in Hyperdrive mode you scale. I thought that was pretty interesting.

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Think this game will have any 100% combos? because at the moment the damage does look more scaled compared to say 2k2

the only thing I could think of is Shen Woo doing “Bakuten” then a HD combo to neomax but even that will get scaled to a certain amount

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I don’t think they will have 100% combos. Cause the only way to do a 100% combo is to do it in HD mode and when in HD mode after the 5th or 6th hit it starts to scale hella.