In all of this i’m just glad Master Zangief got one more W, are so rare that should be celebrated
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kicks open door
https://twitter.com/Capcom_UK/status/1265659167643230210
“We know our players are wondering what’s next for Street Fighter V, so we have some exciting news to share. Due to the positive reception to Season 4 and Champion Edition, we are planning to do a final Season “V”, which will add “V” more fighters to the roster. Three new stages are also being planned.”
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5 new characters which means 5 more character stories coming to SF5!
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Excellent news! This brings the total # of characters to the final SFV game to 45. Not bad.
Any predictions? Any takers?
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Rose, Viper, Oro, Eagle, and Fei Long. One character from each era.
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Oh, just to conclude the research… The “Blanka was hombre blanco” explanation actually comes from an unsourced comment by Saiki IN THIS VERY FORUM, dated JANUARY 2003.
So, let me summarise:
Jan 2003: Saiki comments in the old story thread of the Shoryuken forums that
Blanka was actually called “hombre blanco”, which means white man in spanish. Originally, Blanka had very, very white skin and in time, I guess it went from “hombre blano” to Blanka in little Jimmy’s mind.
Pure guess, then.
By 10 October 2005, that factoid is included in the Old Plot Guide.
6 December 2006, it’s included in the English Wikipedia page about Blanka.
27 February 2006, it’s included in the Japanese Wikipedia page about Blanka.
Interesting note, the English wiki now doesn’t cite that factoid anymore, while the Japanese wiki still has it, albeit unsourced.
Oh, this is for @Arc_Hound: in May 2006 Tiamat admitted to Vasili that he didn’t remember where he got Lucia’s last name from. So, unless it turns up some unexpected source… Tiamat created Lucia MORGAN.
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Good choices.
Any chance they might add an original character, for the SFV era?
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I mean, we don’t need Eagle do we?
Usually two characters are new. I guess one will be this time.
Oro and Rose were in the rumors
Wich leave room for 2 more males and 1 female, who’s likely to get it… the usual long list of names, many can have a good claim
If i could chose these 3 i will go with Fei Long, Abel, Elena… but is not likely what they will do, of these Fei got easily best chance
Good news btw
Just give me Rose with that epic Venice stage, fighting on the Bucentaur while it navigates the Grand Canal.
Then I’d like Ingrid with the Iceland stage I imagined, but maybe it’s too late to hope to influence Capcom like Tiamat did. 
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the guy that leaked season 4 said Rose was a finished character ages ago. So I guess with covid-19, some of those finished characters that had been cancelled, are now coming out cause SF6 is most likely delayed
Guys… I will love a season like S2 with 1 classic and 4 “New” (playable debut)
Rose, Maggio, Effie, Haggar and Vivian 
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Eagle/Lee, Sodom, Haggar, Viper and Noembelu
One new character, I want to see.
She would finally give a proper conclusion to T-Hawk, Juli and the rest of the dolls along with them being free. I always like her if we can’t get the twin Xianyu and Jianyu switching to each other like Zeku is able to switch to a younger form.
Talking about absence:
Im fine with the absence of Rose with Menat, Rose showing up for future titles is better. Since she was already in SF4. Her absence is meaningful and probably up to something, The story give it sense and why menat is there instead of her, Unlike Viper because she is directly involve with Urien. So her inclusion is hard deny unless she would play a bigger role in future SF title, that she is always behind the scenes and intentionally avoid unnecessary encounters. We already knew she was also present in SF2 timeline because of the SF4 aftermath video. The real problem of Viper is her absence in SF3 not really in SF5.
While Oro has multiple excuse not being in SF5 and because they gave a preview already of what he is doing(Dhalsim & Menat) and his doing usual hermit stuff unlike Viper which was directly involve. So him not being in SF5 is just fine.
Forcing Oro in SFV makes him dumb like making him scouting Ryu since wayback from the start and only talk to him latter is silly. Oro made sense being interested with Ryu after being better and stronger than Evil Ryu.
…And Ryu progress of moving away of SNH and Evil Ryu just started in SFV by being to finally separate Kage away himself entirely to it’s influence, which is just the start of Ryu training of self to be being better than Evil Ryu not making him instantly better. So making Oro jump into Ryu in SFV or wayback in past is silly. So Oro doesn’t have an interesting inclusion SFV or isn’t needed, unless they want to force him to Ryu.
Yet Capcom might pull in a Goutetsu as a surprise for telling a backstory from the past not in the present.
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I have done concepts for all of them but Sodom. I probably would have gotten to him If I didn’t write that book that no one has read 
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I dont think they’ll put in highly requested characters, 1 or 2 at most.
Good call, Lowering expectation mostlikely we’ll have more SF3 characters this time.
Decapre is guaranteed imo
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She would be fine, how I wished that her story would conclude Thawk, the doll along with Juli and Noembelu.
Interesting that Capcom is still adding content to SFV with the next console generation on the horizon. Especially given how season 4 had Kage/Gill as “asset reuse” characters building off of existing models, which Capcom traditionally saves for the end of a game’s life cycle. There are a couple of ways I can read this:
- Capcom did have another fighting game in development but it’s been delayed/canceled (possibly COVID-19 related), so the team needs to put out something to generate money in the meantime
- Capcom originally structured SFV’s next release schedule around the 2020 Olympics, which are now cancelled
Also note the confirmation that Gill/Seth are considered part of S4 instead of their own season, which I remember some people trying to argue against back when CE launched.