Category: Fighting Games

While these last few days were supposed to be an exciting time for the fighting game community as they got their first opportunity to test out Street Fighter V’s netplay, a bevy of server issues have kept all but a few from accessing the beta. In order to give themselves time to craft an experience suitable for public consumption, Capcom has decided to postpone this first beta period until a later date.

Fortunately, this won’t change much of their plans other than delaying the initial testing phase. According to a new post by Peter “Combofiend” Rosas on Capcom-Unity, there will still be thee total beta periods before Street Fighter V’s launch next spring. The developers are also in talks to provide additional incentives to players across all regions for the inconvenience these problems have caused.

As of now, this offline maintenance will continue for an indefinite amount of time. Capcom is still unsure when Street Fighter V’s servers will be ready for the massive strain, but they plan to keep us in the loop moving forward. Stay tuned for more details.

Source: Capcom-Unity via mollipen

Three pillars of the fighting game community have come together to create a game that’s looking to turn the fighting game genre on its head. Rising Thunder is an upcoming online PC fighter from the minds of Radiant Entertainment: Tom Cannon, Tony Cannon and Seth Killian. Their team is working to a make a title that’s open and welcoming to all players, novice and master.

There are a few things that set Rising Thunder apart from traditional fighting game titles. One is its controls. Execution can be a difficult barrier for newcomers to the genre to overcome. Rising Thunder eschews the quarter-circles and back charges of typical fighting games and goes for simple control scheme that executes the majority of your moves with a single button press. The setup may seem basic, but there’s still plenty of style to be had.

Second, Rising Thunder is online-only. The game is specifically designed to be played with two screens, with abilities that take advantage of the setup, like a character being visible on the controlling player’s screen but invisible on the opponent’s. This means that the game unfortunately does not support local multiplayer. On the bright side, with the game’s online infrastructure powered by GGPO3, you can expect a solid online experience.

Finally, Rising Thunder is free-to-play. The game will use a model that keeps the gameplay experience free of charges. No worries, just have fun!

If you’re looking to try out Rising Thunder, you won’t have to wait long. The technical alpha for the title starts tomorrow, July 28. If you’d like to sign up, head over to risingthunder.com. Also check out pieces from GameSpot, IGN and other outlets for more on the philosophy behind the game.

Sources: Rising Thunder, GameSpot, IGN

The following article solely represents the opinions of the author themselves, and does not necessarily speak for Shoryuken as a whole.

Yesterday, Community Effort Orlando founder Alex Jebailey announced that his new aidasher focused event, CEOtaku, will be taking place at the Wyndham Orlando Resort in October, the same venue in which he hosts his much larger annual event. While a more accommodating venue for this event, it also comes with the challenge of filling up and using all of that space to help cover the increased cost.

In order to help achieve larger attendee numbers, the organizers have proposed to add an Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 tournament to the event by way of a poll over on the event’s official Facebook page. This stands in contrast to the original image of CEOtaku as an “all anime” event that was introduced to help smaller games get the full spotlight they deserve.

This is where the debates began. As a member of the more niche communities, I’ve been watching my social media feeds all day and have seen reactions ranging from fear and anger to understanding and agreement. Jebailey has reassured many players that the focus will still be on the smaller games regardless of turnout and will first and foremost be about celebrating their communities. At the same time, it is pretty disheartening to be handed an event to help boost your own scene only to then be told a game that has eclipsed you for years may also be present.

It’s completely understandable to have some worries considering how smaller scenes within the fighting game community have been treated in the past . The “anime” community has been an extremely hardworking group of players for many years, and they have been dealing with poor exposure and outright awful tournament support from major events even as recently as this year. Some players feel like they’ve been given a prime opportunity to shine, and this development only serves to remind them of all those times they’ve been denied due to being a smaller audience. It’s especially unnerving to some to have been told they’d have a special event this way, only to be asked to change that when numbers come into question. Many are eager to take the risk and attempt to prove they can fill out the venue without any additional help.

At the same time, however, the future of events like this depends on the success of CEOtaku, and everything that can help should not be discounted. Jebailey has addressed many concerns in a fair manner, and is still focusing on anime first while trying to make sure this is successful enough to warrant continuing. It’s wise to do everything in our power to make this worthwhile for the organizers without jeopardizing the original vision of the event and, fortunately, that appears to still be the plan.

Also, on a more personal note, the community headlining this event is a very special thing that is always looking to grow, and I see no reason to exclude more players from enjoying it based on what they play. Yes, this is a smaller event with a primary focus, so everything can’t and shouldn’t be included, but when other folks can share the same place as us, we should show them the same respect our community strives to receive.

Jeff “ZomB” Powell summed up the situation pretty nicely earlier today, and has agreed to let us share them here to help close out my thoughts on the matter. His original post follows below without any editing on our part.

It’s been a busy day for the folks over at Capcom with all the issues plaguing the Street Fighter V beta. After multiple reports of errors trying to log in, the developers was forced to take the beta servers down this morning to figure out the issues.

As part of this process, Capcom has announced that they will be running a test of the servers for North American players tonight from 7:00 PM to 1:00 AM PDT. During this time, participants in the region can try to jump into the servers and play Street Fighter V.

According to Capcom’s Peter “Combofiend” Rosas, the reason that it’s limited to North America only is to reduce the strain on the servers and provide a better network environment for them to fix the problem. Once they’re able to get things up and running, then they will do a global test with Europe and Asia.

Further updates regarding server status will be posted every 20 minutes over on Capcom-Unity.

Source: Capcom-Unity