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Street Fighter V servers down for maintenance today, adding online Dojos, Halloween & Darkstalkers costumes

Lots of new content is coming for Street Fighter today.

It’s one of those Tuesdays for Street Fighter V: expect to see online functions shut down between 11:00 AM PT and 5:00 PM PT to accommodate some new stuff being added:

The stuff in question this time are a swath of Premium DLC costumes — offering a new selection of Darkstalkers outfits (for Chun-Li, Ed, and Menat again) and this year’s batch of Halloween costumes (this time for Guile, Abigail, Kolin, and Falke) — and the new Dojo system, which will allow players to team up in their own Dojos, along with their own customized Dojo stages.

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Chun-Li (Morrigan)
Ed (Demitri)
Menat (Felicia)

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Look for these goodies to be available once servers come back up around 5:00 PM PT.

Source: SFV Server Status (Twitter)

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History Behind the Warrior tries to predict SoulCalibur VI’s unrevealed DLC characters in latest video

In less than a month, we’ll be able to make a grand return to the Stage of History, with the release of Bandai Namco Entertainment’s much-anticipated SoulCalibur VI. Currently the game’s launch roster sits at 20 characters with the recent official reveals of Cervantes de Leon and Raphael Sorel. Though Hwang and Lizardman have both been spotted in recent gameplay footage, their roster fate is currently unknown. There is also the matter of the game’s Season Pass, which will contain four DLC characters, including the Day 1 bonus fighter Tira.

Taking all of this information into account, as well as an official character popularity poll that has largely influenced the makeup of the current cast, History Behind the Warrior attempts to predict which warriors could most likely fill those 3 remaining DLC slots, assigning them a personal chance rating of 1 to 5. You can catch the entire video below, and be sure to let us know which three characters you’d like to see join Tira in the Season Pass in the comments section below.

SoulCalibur VI will be released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam on Friday, October 19th.

Source: History Behind the Warrior

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The combo craziness continues in SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy with these exhibitions from Combonauts and Persona Z

More examples of the madness that lies within this game engine.

SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy is definitely proving a good base for over-the-top crazy combos, as evidenced by its fans on YouTube. Combonauts is still hard at work going through the cast, this time offering a combo exhibition for Luong, and one for Samurai Shodown guest Nakoruru.

And Persona Z is joining in with their own take on Sylvie Paula Paula.

Sources: COMBONAUTS; Persona Z

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VesperArcade talks about the strengths and weaknesses of Street Fighter V’s President of the World, G

“Come, shake the hand of the President of the World!”

VesperArcade is back to take a good look at Street Fighter V‘s newcomer — not the King this time, but the President, G. As they were released on the same day, the comparisons are unavoidable… and VesperArcade has mostly positive things to say about G’s tools, declaring G’s V-Triggers to be better than Sagat’s, and going as far to say that G is outright the strongest character added in Season 3. He feels almost everything about G is well-designed at the least, and in some cases powerful enough to invite nerfs at most. G’s lack of a 3-frame normal and an invincible reversal are virtually the only complaints one can make about this President.

Source: VesperArcade

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Mech Zangief returning to Street Fighter V as the next costume available in Extra Battle mode

The Protector of the Russian Skies has been upgraded.

Following Cammy’s foray into survival horror, Capcom is “switching gears” for the next unlockable costume in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition‘s Extra Battle mode.

It’s clear from the teaser image that Mech Zangief has seen some upgrades in his armor — and flight capabilities — since the costume’s last appearance (below) in Super Street Fighter IV as an alternate for regular ‘Gief. It also confirms Mech Zangief’s role as a Shadaloo-developed anti-Zangief weapon, made clear by the Shadaloo crest on robo-gief’s chest. Different versions of Mech Zangief appear as far back as Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter.

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Mech Zangief in the Street Fighter IV series

You can get started on collecting the four pieces of this costume in Extra Battle starting on September 27th. You’ll need to earn all four pieces over the next four weeks, and each attempt at each challenge will cost you 2500 Fight Money.

Sources Street Fighter (Twitter)

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“NKI Volume XII” shows off disjointed hurtboxes, soft-locks, and more oddities of Super Street Fighter II Turbo

Few people have the understanding of Super Street Fighter II Turbo‘s science as the creator of NKIvideos. He’s been breaking Street Fighter for an extraordinary amount of time, and his combo videos are the results of an incredible amount of experimentation and understanding of the game’s stranger mechanics and behaviors. His latest (excellent) video is no exception:

If you love reading about the weird ways these interactions came to be, you owe it yourself to check out the transcripts here. More than just a combo video, the full transcript lays out the exact details of every combo, odd interaction, and glitch.

Source: NKI Videos

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Tom Cannon offers insight on the classic Umehara vs. Valle Street Fighter Alpha 3 match and origin of “The Beast” with BornFree

A look back at earliest days of the East/West fighting game rivalry.

In 1998, Daigo Umehara came to Nickel City arcade in San Francisco (well, technically a ways south of San Francisco) to fight in the Street Fighter Alpha 3 World Championship — and ultimately faced off against Alex Valle in an East-West battle that has become legendary.

At SoCal Regionals 2018, BornFree took some time to watch the footage of this epic event with fighting game OG and Shoryuken co-founder Tom Cannon, who provides lots of insight into how the whole thing went down — because he was there!

Tom Cannon talks about the California competitive scene at the time, how little was know about Japanese players ahead of Umehara’s arrival in the USA — and how much of an achievement it already was for Valle to come out on top against all the other USA competitors before going up against Umehara. He also explains how, very shortly after this tournament, Daigo Umehara gained his title as “The Beast”!

Source: BornFree

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Hayate shares new SoulCalibur VI gameplay featuring Raphael, Cervantes

French YouTuber and SoulCalibur pro Hayate EIN is back to demo the new options of the returning characters Raphael and Cervantes. As with his other videos, these are the earliest insights we have to the TGS-only build characters, so let’s jump in and take a look at their new abilities!

Raphael has (as far as we can be aware of right now) one of the game’s only cancelable Reversal Edges, and it seems uniquely powerful. His cancel isn’t just a slow return to neutral like Taki’s — he goes straight into his “Preparation Parry” auto-GI stance, able to attack relatively quickly. Fitting for a fencer!

Aesthetically, Cervantes looks fantastic. Several of his advancing attacks now have a visual that show that he’s propelling himself by the musket in his gun. Gameplay wise, there’s some interesting new tools: 1AB has a crazy new followup that may combo on counter-hit and definitely goes into one of the coolest new attack throw animations in the game.

Source: Hayate EIN

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Tekken 7 Season 2 roundup: Eddy late FC 3+4 links, Master Raven wall bounces, and more!

Will the well of tech from Tekken 7 Season 2 ever dry up? Probably not, with over 1,600 changes made this season. You know the drill by now — the community is working hard to break down Season 2, and we’re here to collect their discoveries. Let’s jump in!

Let’s open first with something that isn’t technically new to Season 2 (or even to Tekken, period!) but is likely not well known: a spacing-based link for Eddy!

Asuka was buffed hard in Season 2, so if you want to make the switch over to the most popular Kazama in ranked, these combos are a good place to start.

Master Raven is blessed with a wall bounce not buried underneath a string, and she’s capable of some absurd damage from it to boot. (And check out the 75% F+4 rage combo at the end.)

Amir Ab97 has an excellent multi-character combo video for us, with particular focus on Nina, Anna, and Lei.

Last for today, Napo 2D GR will put the fear of Heihachi in you.

Thanks to everyone that submitted content to us! If you have some Tekken 7 tech you’d like to share with the world, reach out to us through our tipline.

Sources: NORCALsubtL; WonDa GAME; SpiderHam19 Gaming; Amir Ab97; Napo 2D GR

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Capcom launching new weekly Street Fighter stream from ESA Oakland: Capcom Connect

A new show launches tomorrow to keep you in the Street Fighter loop.

Capcom has announced that a new stream show will launch tomorrow, September 25 — and continue weekly, on Tuesday nights — dubbed Capcom Connect, and it aims to provide a recap of new Street Fighter happenings alongside new content. The show will stream from Esports Arena Oakland, premiering tomorrow night at 8:00 PM PT on the Capcom Fighters Twitch channel.

The stream will feature event and news recaps, Street Fighter V matches with guest players (and potentially with unusual rules), and art and cosplay from Street Fighter fans. You can also win content codes by viewing. From Andy Wong’s Capcom-Unity announcement:

You will have the chance to win various codes for Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition just by watching and interacting with our social channels. In the afternoon before each show, we’ll tweet out a specific hashtag on the Street Fighter or Capcom Fighters Twitter account. All you need to do is use that hashtag in a tweet of your own before the drawing begins at around 8:15 PM PT. During the show, we’ll randomly choose winners and announce them on-stream. After the show, expect a Direct Message from the Street Fighter or Capcom Fighters accounts with your code. The codes are currently only for North America.

If you’re an artist or cosplayer, tweet @StreetFighter with pictures of your creation and we just might feature it on the stream with all credit going towards you!

Read more details on the upcoming show at Capcom-Unity.

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Source: Capcom-Unity

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