The thing everyone seems to have forgotten in the shuffle is the new play mode(s) supposedly being added. Wonder what those will entail…
New play mode as in something like team battle/tournament or as in something like challenge? Either way I’m stoked but no one seems to play the other online features they have anyways, so what’s the damn point (if that is the case)?
I’m hoping for a retooling of Ranked Match myself, but I guess well just have to see.
I’m excited… can’t wait to see who the new guy is… especially since the possible options are limited. Having a lot of online modes is great but isn’t really beneficial to the long-term viability of the game… too many online modes and you have fragmentation. This isn’t really a problem in America or Japan where someone is always online playing… but here in Israel it’s not always easy to find competition with a decent ping.
Here is a thought: What if the 5th character is a car out to get revenge for it’s fallen brothers from Final Fight / SF2 / SF3?
Wouldn’t be the first playable car in a fighting game though, but it could fit the criteria depending on the car they choose!
A re-worked Championship mode would be amazing. C’mon, combine Tournament and Ranked, make it 2 out of 3 Finals. You start at 0 points when you select a different character, like Ranked is now. Gimme, Capcom.
(yes, I know they said Championship Mode won’t return, doesn’t mean they can’t do something similar damnit!)
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I’d like to have some kind of combination of a good Mortal Kombat/Tekken style story mode and kumite mode from Virtua Fighter. Expand on the mythos a bit more. But really, I’ll buy the game no matter what. SF is still my favorite game after all these years.
It would be nice to allow tournament mode as an offline mode as well.
Just make it easier to arrange brackets with friends etc…
Maybe just for kicks you can make tournaments with different difficulty cpu characters
There’s a rumor that Ultra will introduce a new mechanic called “Red Focus”, where a character absorbs multi-hits, but uses 2 meters. Have to wait and see if that’s true or not…
Focus attacks are already too strong as is IMO. I don’t know how I feel about this Red focus. Does that mean it would be immune to armor break also?
From what little info I read, it will eat up anything that isn’t armor breaking.
Well if u can still armor break it that isn’t too bad, though certain characters with poor AB options may suffer. Also some supers and ultras don’t have armor break property.
Is two bar worth it, really? I don’t think so.
not to throw out randomly, but at the end of a match or round, it could have some strategic application.
think about fighting ryu or akuma or some other character with common 2 hit normals or 2 in 1combos. you just made it so they cant use those things without getting crumpled
So basicaly footsies is already a pain because of the focus, but now it’s even worse… what kind of street figther is this ?
Okay, I admit I got a little hard when I heard about about a multi-hit focus attack.
What would be the input for red focus though? There’d no way it would kick on automatically while you’re doing focus with proper amount of meter. There would be a massive backlash to the game deciding how you use meter like that. Perhaps taunt will get moved to back/select, and red focus will be both heavies?
Can we also have the Vanilla corpse juggle back. I miss that.
Think of the new armor break like guys run stop armor.
the rumor says it will cost 2 bars. it wont always be worth it just to focus some normals.