Nothing since the last announcement. They’re probably working on more new characters, so we won’t get another announcement for some weeks.
New character.
New Panda outfit.
Looks like Rufus crossed with Gaira Caffeine from Samurai Shodown.
Or that dude from Last Blade.
Wait, hasn’t the panda dude been on the character select and other places for a long time?
That’s why I said outfit and not new character. His name is actually Panda.
lol @ YunYang dude with Hwoarang’s pants.
So as probably everyone was expecting, he’s a Yun/Yang kinda character, except with the added inclusion of Kim Dong Hwan, Kim Jae Hoon, Lee Rekka, and Hwoarang PLUS demon flips and jaguar kicks for seemingly no reason, but god damn it’s awesome.
Also, S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier.
YouTube video in case that’s more your speed:
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You know, if I had the capital I’d try to persuade this company to consider localizing this game. It’s not a DIRECT rip off of a KoF game, it just uses a lot of animations but the character designs are for the most part unique (let’s not look at Kaoru…).
It’d be nice if the PC platform could have a real fighting game to call its own. XD has a style that separates it from the rest of the 2D fighting crowd (due to its use of 3D models as sprites it doesn’t really impinge on anything else out in the world).
Killer Instinct
Chaos Breaker
KI wasn’t using sprites (well, the SNES version did for lack of processing power). That game actually used real 3D models, just limited to a 2D plane. But the characters were actually texture mapped skeletons, not simple digitizations.
Can’t really comment on the second one.
Uh, no, both Killer Instinct games definitely used sprites for the characters.
edit: two other examples off the top of my head are Rise of the Robots and Ragnagard. GBA versions of Tekken and Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance too I guess, lol
Research.
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I hate looking bad.
Hmmmn… with Wy Xie (and Sheva, thanks Youtube search) it seems that they are more going for the “inspired” route than the actual lifting of animation frames, the moves are familiar but the individual sprites with close inspection bear less similarity.
- I’m miffed with Wy Xie’s use of a fan tho… could’ve used it more with his moves?
- The developers love Ranbu type supers so much. kanye shrug
Sheva is an almost one to one rip off of Benimaru. Wy Xie is more of a mixed inspired character though.
Ranbu supers are a staple of the KoF series, it only makes sense that a series that imitates KoF would be similar. And I wouldn’t even say there’s a lot of Ranbu supers. Besides Wy Xie, only Yan, Arashi, Long, Ameth, and Shirley have Ranbus. That’s 6 out of 19 characters with a Ranbu super.
The more i see of this game the more i get upset…
Wy Xie looks like he could be fierce in the right hands. So many hits in such a short amount of time.
I wanna use him.
I don’t know how anyone can get upset over this. It’s F2P and no one’s forcing it on you. Don’t like it then play KOF 98/02 on GGPO or try 13 if you have a local KOF scene. Personally, this game looks pretty hype. I also like that you can go 1 v 1 or 3 v 3 style. I prefer 1 v 1 because it gives me more time to learn a character.
On that note; in 1 v 1 mode is the damage and health changed ala Skullgirls?
No. It’s just like KoF, 1v1 is the exact same except instead of having a team it’s 2 out of 3.
Me too, but because I can’t play it.
This is the reason why…