Author: Franz "d3v" Co

Last week, ARIKA announced that a patch was incoming for Fighting EX Layer; now, they’ve dropped additional details on what the patch may be addressing. In a series of tweets on the game’s official Twitter account, ARIKA have listed possible changes that are coming to the game in the patch, based on people’s feedback.

The changes include fixes for training mode (possibly including the After Guard recovery issue that our own Crow_Spaceboy reported on), as well as the aforementioned character bug fixes, as well as some others. We’ve compiled these all below.

These might not be all the changes in the patch however, as they’ve also stated that there may be more changes that they will share once the patch is out.

Other adjustments will be reported after updating.

(If you can not understand the meaning or if I made a mistake in English, please ask or point out to me.)

posted by Marina

— FIGHTING EX LAYER (@FightingExLayer) July 2, 2018

Additionally, ARIKA has also stated that they are listening to players’ feedback and considering their suggestions, but that implementing these might take time.

We are considering other requests such as additions and corrections positively, so it might take some time but we are glad if you wait.

– Motion after jumping from Training Mode -> Matchmaking
– Trial production in Offline Mode
– etc.

— FIGHTING EX LAYER (@FightingExLayer) July 2, 2018

Fighting EX Layer is currently available on PlayStation 4.

Source: Fighting EX Layer (Twitter)

Fighting EX Layer was announced as a real game on the main stage of Evo 2017 last year, so it should come as no surprise that ARIKA is continuing to work with Evo. Specifically, FEXL will be getting an official side tournament at Evo 2018!

No specific details yet for the official Evo 2018 side tournament for Fighting EX Layer have been revealed — the only thing that has been confirmed is that it will be at the Side Stage at Evo.

We’re happy to announce @FightingExLayer will be having an Official Side Tournament & be featured on the Side Stage at #Evo2018 ! More details to come at a later date! @arika_co_jp pic.twitter.com/YTAOpP5JmJ

— EVO (@EVO) July 1, 2018

As the tweet above states, more details on the official side tournament at Evo will be revealed at a later date.

Fighting EX Layer is now available for PlayStation 4. Meanwhile, Evo 2018 will be taking place at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV from August 3 to August 5, 2018.

Source: Evo

Hot off the release of Fighting EX Layer, ARIKA has already announced the first patch for the game. The patch — which comes out sometime next week — is set to fix some bugs with a few characters. Affected by the patch are the characters Sanane, Kairi, and Hayate. Now, the patch isn’t to nerf or buff these characters, rather the ARIKA statement seems to indicate that it’s to fix some actual bugs with some of their moves.

What exactly these bugs are is unknown as of the time of writing; so far, nothing about them seems to have been shared in the community yet. That said, whatever these bugs are, ARIKA’s statement indicates that they’ve already scheduled the patch, which may show that they already found them before release, but not before having sent the game in to Sony for certification.

Source: ARIKA (Twitter)

Hot off the release of Fighting EX Layer, ARIKA has already announced the first patch for the game. The patch — which comes out sometime next week — is set to fix some bugs with a few characters. Affected by the patch are the characters Sanane, Kairi, and Hayate. Now, the patch isn’t to nerf or buff these characters, rather the ARIKA statement seems to indicate that it’s to fix some actual bugs with some of their moves.

What exactly these bugs are is unknown as of the time of writing; so far, nothing about them seems to have been shared in the community yet. That said, whatever these bugs are, ARIKA’s statement indicates that they’ve already scheduled the patch, which may show that they already found them before release, but not before having sent the game in to Sony for certification.

Source: ARIKA (Twitter)

This weeks issue of Famitsu has revealed two new characters for My Hero One’s Justice. Joining the cast of Bandai Namco’s My Hero Academia-based arena fighter are Gran Torino and Muscular!

The elderly former homeroom teacher Gran Torino can use his quirk “Jet” to shoot of air from boosters on his feet. He can use this to fly around the battlefield and attack at high speed. The villain Muscular, on the other hand, lives up to his name with his “Muscle Augmentation” quirk that sees him able to dramatically augment his muscle fibers. In-game, this makes him something of the opposite of Gran Torino, focusing on his immense strength (instead of speed) to deal damaging blows.

Check out a scan of the issue (care of YonkouProd) below:

My Hero One’s Justice arrives on PlayStation 4 and Switch on August 23 in Japan, and for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC sometime in October for the West.

Source: YonkouProd (Twitter) via Gematsu

Traditionally, tournament winners at Community Effort Orlando receive a championship belt, however, for this year’s Super Street Fighter II Turbo tournament, they’ll be getting something else. Capcom has just unveiled their special trophy for the winner of Super Turbo at CEO 2018.

The trophy, as you can see in the tweet below, is a blue and gold recreation of the classic, American-style, stand-up cabinet for Super Street Fighter II Turbo. This includes a backlit “screen”  with the words “Grand Master Challenge” (“Grand Master Challenge” being the subtitle for the Japanese version of the game, and also the name of the special tournament event CEO is holding for this game).

Feast your eyes on the first place trophy for the Super Turbo tournament at #CEO2018 this weekend!

There's still time to register for the #SF30th Anniversary Tournament series!

️ Register now: https://t.co/N2B4TNE1dO pic.twitter.com/9v9y3XSeQd

— Street Fighter (@StreetFighter) June 27, 2018

Of course, the fact that Capcom has a special trophy for the game shouldn’t be surprising — considering that Super Street Fighter II Turbo at CEO 2018 is part of the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection Tournament Series. That said, this does beg the question of whether or not the two other games on the series, Street Fighter Alpha 3, and Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike will also have their own special trophies…

Source: Street Fighter (Twitter)

The upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch is bringing back all of the characters from previous entries in the franchise. And with this announcement, some have wondered if all of the stages from those previous entries would be getting the same treatment as well.

But unlike the characters, not all stages from past Super Smash Bros. games will be returning in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. This much was confirmed in a recent Famitsu interview with Nintendo of America’s Bill Trinen and Nate Bihldorff. So while Super Smash Bros. Ultimate does have about 75 known stages, these won’t cover every stage in the franchise, ever.

In addition to this, they did confirm that the stages coming from Super Smash Bros. for 3DS will be given a graphical upgrade — no surprise there, really. Additionally, there will be no differences in the stages, whether or not they’re played in docked or portable mode.

Other details discussed in the interview include the possibility of a beta; while they state that Nintendo doesn’t have finalized plans yet, they do hope to announce something related to it later this year.

Source: Famitsu