Month: October 2017

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Project Gorgon – UI Reworked from the Ground Up for Ease of Use & Max Information

The Project Gorgon site has been updated with an interesting look at the fully reworked UI that will be coming to the game soon. The UI, according to the team, has been fully redesigned using the latest Unity Engine tech, while the design was produced by “a top-rated UI artist”. The goal is to provide a cleaner, more intuitive appearance, while also allowing for flexibility in the number of functions and features it can provide to players.

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The next BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle character is most likely from the Persona franchise

We’ll soon know the next combatants who can’t escape crossing fate — there will be a new BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle character reveal on October 20th. While we already know that much, we are left to speculate as to who the characters will be… The last reveal, showing Hazama, Rachel, and Weiss, left out the other franchises in the dust.

It’s not surprising that Arc System Works will now likely turn to Persona and possibly Under Night fans. A Japanese Persona news account is teasing a reveal, saying that — although only two Persona characters have been shown so far — Persona fans should eagerly watch the coming reveal.

It seems like a natural guess that the two leading ladies from Persona 4 will make the cut next; I’m betting on Yukiko Amagi and Chie Satonaka, personally. We’ll know very shortly, as Arc System Works will show it during a stream on Twitch and niconico on October 20th, 8:00 PM JST.

Source: @p_kouhou via Persona Central

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X-Kira unearths classic Capcom character costumes for Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition’s Extra Battle mode

Earlier this week, we reported on more information about new content coming to Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition this January, as found by notable dataminer X-Kira. He’s since come forward with even more content — particularly a large number of the new costumes obtainable in the upcoming Extra Battle game mode.

We already know that Rashid will be able to obtain a costume based off of the highly-popular Viewtiful Joe, but apparently 15 other outfits will be available, referencing a wide variety of both classic and current Capcom characters. Included will be attires for Resident Evil‘s Albert Wesker and Nemesis, Ace Attorney‘s Phoenix Wright, Darkstalker’s Morrigan Aensland and Donovan Baine, Devil May Cry‘s Dante, Mega Man Legends Tron Bonne, Onimusha: Dawn Of Dreams’ Kaijin no Soki (for Necalli), Dead Rising’s Frank West, Red Earth‘s Tessa, Captain Commando, Cyberbot’s Jin Saotome, Capcom Fighting Evolution’s Ingrid, Axl from Mega Man X7, and Asura’s Wrath’s Asura.

However, his most interesting revelation is that these will not just be simple “cosplay” Costumes for the SFV:AE cast, but that they will actually have unique frame data and movesets, essentially letting you play as these characters, with additional moves only usable within the confines of the Extra Battle. However, don’t get any hopes of being able to use these “characters” in actual matches, (especially you PC modders), as the frame data and additional moves will be supposedly tied directly to Capcom’s personal servers, preventing it from being accessed and modded into the main game.

He also reveals that the Color Edit feature will be returning from Street Fighter X Tekken, though it will be very limited; players will only have two slots for custom colors, one for the Player 1 side and another that can only be used when on the Player 2 side.

X-Kira also notes that, “after the launch of the Extra Battle mode, many attractive things will be coming, such as complete online support to ‘server requests,’ Online vs. matches (casual), controllable NPCs (at some point, there will be a way to play with the Dolls), Endless (similar to Battle Lounge), Quiz (where are Marz and Fevrier?) and many other things.” He also states that Extra Battle will also be related to the upcoming Dojo mode.

Next, X-Kira says that, “It’ll be fun to see Dan as Donovan at mini-cross events with Extra Battle and Dojo, and yes, Donovan is the Cosplay Costume for Dan. Two P. will also have a Costume.”

X-Kira closes with the revelation of a comically dark challenge that can randomly in Extra Battle: a fight against the Legendary Sheng Long!

“And at Extra Battle, also we can count the presence of a character that Electronic Gaming Monthly created on April 1st of 1991. Yes, I’m talking about Sheng Long. He’ll be at eventual moments of Extra Battle, present as an overpowered “Boss.” He then tweeted, “The Sheng Long Event is crazy. It promises 1 Million Fight Money if you win, but it’s a lie. There’s no way you can beat him. He will always get up when defeated.”

He’s also randomly uploaded a video of Cody’s Super Street Fighter IV Theme to his YouTube channel. Perhaps implying that the cuffs are about to come off (again) for Season 3?

You can see all of his Tweets below, which also include Taito cabinet profiles for the debut of the Arcade version of SFV at Toushinsai 2017 this weekend.

As datamined claims of upcoming content, this is all subject to change before verification from Capcom — though X-Kira has been reliable in the past.

Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition will be released on January 16th, 2018, as both a free update for existing owners of SFV, as well as a new release including the Season 1 & 2 DLC fighters.

Source: X-Kira (Twitter)

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History Behind The Warrior discusses some of Tekken’s and Darkstalkers’ spookiest combatants for Halloween

In celebration of Halloween, History Behind The Warrior will be looking at some of Bandai Namco Entertainment’s — and Capcom’s — most frightening fighters throughout the month of October.

He begins by examining Unknown, a mysterious woman — who appears to be the currently-missing Jun Kazama — who is possessed by some sort of evil wolf spirit, who also sports a visible Devil Gene tattoo on one of her shoulders. Seemingly a “non-canon” character, as she only appears in Tekken Tag Tournament and Tekken Tag Tournament 2, a lot about her origins, whereabouts, and overall role in the greater Tekken storyline remain deeply shrouded in mystery.

He also chronicles the brief history of one of the newest cast members of Tekken, the narcoleptic vampire Eliza, who debuted in the free-to-play PlayStation 3-exclusive Tekken Revolution before finally making a proper appearance in the main series as the pre-order incentive/first DLC character for Tekken 7.

Finally, looking to stray into new territory, History Behind The Warrior decides to journey into the Darkstalkers universe, looking at series mascot and royal Scottish succubus, Morrigan Aensland. He is also looking to do another video on the “Distressed Lord Of Death” Jedah Dohma in the coming weeks. You can see all three videos below.

If you’re looking for more Darkstalkers history, The Nostalgic Gamer recently returned with his “Meet The Darkstalkers” series, with the latest episodes looking at Huitzil and Rikuo, which you can see here.

Source: History Behind The Warrior