Unsure if the PC port of Dragon Ball FighterZ will do justice to the Kamehameha? Well, judge for yourself! PC MasterRace Latinoamérica has shared a number of screenshots from the PC version with us, showing off what the game looks like with max settings and Resolution Scale at 200%:
How does it hold up to other major fighting games on Steam? You can see the same tests preformed on PCMR’s site for Tekken 7, The King of Fighters XIV, and Street Fighter V. Note that this is just a small sample of PCMRLA’s gallery. To see the full gallery of screenshots, click here to go to their site!
One of the bigger shocks that occurred at Kumite in Tennessee was New York player’s Gilbert “Punisher” Matos winning Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. Given the field was stacked — requiring him even to double-jeopardy SonicFox to get the title — Punisher rose to the occasion, and beat him in a Rocket mirror which when he spoke to Twin Galaxies, he called “ugly.”
In the interview, he talks about how he has taken advantage of his usage of the Hit Box as a weapon of choice, as well as how he was able to compose himself after losing a 50 game set to Teemo the day before he flew out to Tennessee. He also had encouraging words for Marvel fans who want to keep the scene alive. Check out the full interview here.
Polish your Mirror Shield, restring your Hero’s Bow and sharpen your Master Sword, as 2GGaming are holding a Zelda-themed Saga this summer. Titled 2GG Hyrule Saga, this tournament will see the finest warriors from across the world fighting for control of the Triforce. Alongside the usual singles and doubles tournaments for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, 2GG will be holding a special Hyrule Warriors tournament — I imagine it will be some type of Time Attack event.
As with most 2GG Sagas, expect character specialists to be flown in from all corners of the Earth to champion their piece of Triforce. Link and Toon Link players will represent the Triforce of Courage, Sheik and Zelda mains will be fighting for the Triforce of Wisdom and Ganondorf players will be for the Triforce of Power. Being an ex-Ganon main myself, I hope players like Pon, Opana, GanonTheBeast and the king of all Ganon players, Gungnir, will be able to attend this Saga.
Early bird registration is open until February 26th, so head on over to smash.gg if you’re definitely attending this royal rumble. Rather than the usual venue at Santa Ana’s Esports Arena, 2GG Hyrule Saga will take place at Thunder Studios in Long Beach, California.
Pokkén Tournament DX is already widely considered a balanced game by its community. Even still, we live in an age of constant tweaking to fighting games post-release, and Pokkén is no exception to that.
To check out the patch notes, click here. These notes were graciously translated and provided by @EveryDamnDayyy_.
Upon first glance, it’s hard to believe there will be any major shifting in tiers — many of the changes are quality of life fixes, and a few acknowledgements of long-standing complaints in Pokkén: namely, Lucario losing his strangely “safe only in Burst” Up-Swing and Mewtwo’s Homing Attack losing at least some small amount of damage. Outside of these changes, Pokkén’s top tiers made it out of the patch largely unscathed.
Empoleon, Weavile, and Decidueye all received the largest amount of changes: Empoleon’s quality of life improved all-together with the polishing of his 5X and 6Y, Weavile finally isn’t completely locked into a hopeless gamble with jX in field, and Decidueye received a scattered list of damage nerfs and an improved lockdown tool with 4Y.
The biggest changes, by far, are to “Supports”, which is an important part of Pokkén’s meta. The overwhelmingly strong Jirachi has finally taken a hit, though to what extent its synergy gain reduction will have an impact on its selection by players will remain to be seen. Nearly every healing assist had its secondary buff reduced, and many offensive assists had their properties buffed in some way. This is almost certainly Namco’s way of saying “Please stop picking Jirachi and Eevee all the time.”
Let’s not forget that buffs to supports are also inadvertently buffs to the support-heavy Braixen. Time will tell if this list of changes accidentally gives the queen firefox Pokkén’s crown again.
Jecht — Tidus’s cruel patriarch and demonic bane of the Final Fantasy X story. While he is certainly no recipient of any father of the year awards, there is a lot of hype and anticipation for his appearance in Dissidia Final Fantasy NT.
In response to popular demand, Maximilian Dood has added Jecht to his series of Dissidia Final Fantasy NT breakdown videos. Unsurprisingly, Max insists that Jecht is probably the game’s most aggressive character, and the footage of his attacks shows that he’s got an arsenal of heavy blows that look like they could blow away a Summon with ease.
In addition to his brute force, Jecht’s EX move is a cancel mechanic, appropriately named the Jecht Cancel, that allows you to chain any of his moves together, should the timing and resources be adequate. Though familiar to anyone who plays classic fighting games, a cancel system of this nature is unique to Jecht in Dissida NT.
Jecht Cancels and more get broken down in Maximilian’s Square Enix-sponsored video, which you can check out right here:
It’s only day two of Dragon Ball FighterZ, yet we already have some information on potential new avatars and DLC characters. Found by YouTuber and Dragon Ball Xenoverse dataminer SergioM3, early datamining of Dragon Ball FighterZ has uncovered entries for lobby avatars which currently are not present in the game. Along with these lobby avatars, SergioM3 also found references to extra game modes called “Z Union”, “Z League” and “Raid Battle”.
The lobby avatars that Sergio found are:
Broly (Super Saiyan)
Broly
Goku
Vegeta
Bardock
Bardock (Super Saiyan)
Vegito
Vegito (SSGSS)
Cooler
Android 17 (Ranger)
Zamasu
Fused Zamasu
Now before you go jumping the gun, this does not mean that these characters are guaranteed to be playable. After all, characters like Mr. Satan, Majin Vegeta and First Form Freeza are lobby avatars, yet they are nowhere to be seen on the character select screen. However, rumors surrounding Dragon Ball FighterZ‘s character pass have hinted at several of these characters — mainly base form Goku and Vegeta, Bardock, Broly and Vegito. When you also consider that all the character-specific assists (the Ginyu Force, Saibamen, Chiaotzu and Android 17) got lobby avatars while Zamasu didn’t, it bolsters previous rumors that he was to be his own character later down the line.
SergioM3 even cross-references his finding with a previous “datamine”, debunking rumors that characters like Jiren, Toppo, Kefla, Janemba and Kid Goku were going to come in the Dragon Ball FighterZ character pass. This certainly doesn’t rule them out for the future, so fingers crossed for more Dragon Ball Super characters later in the year.
As for the extra game modes, there are two spots in the Dragon Ball FighterZ lobby that are currently empty — Kame House and West City. It stands to reason that these modes may be what is planned to go in these two areas, once they are released.
You can check out SergioM3’s findings in the video below but as with any datamining news, always take things with a grain of salt.
Whip finally found her way into The King of Fighters XIV, but that doesn’t mean the world has forgotten about her previous work in other SNK fighters. Given her high tier status of yesteryear, many remember her fondly for her play in The King of Fighters 2002.
In this combo video, we are shown what she can do both meterless, and with varying amounts of bars up to the maximum of five. Either way, people are either getting whipped or getting shot — and seeing the entirety of their health drained, most of the time.
Soon it will be a month since the announcement of the SoCal Smash League, and so far it looks like the community-lead tournament series is off to a good start. Judging by the highlight videos alone, the league is bringing out worthy Smash competitors from all corners of the SoCal scene.
Speaking of highlights, 2GGaming has got a fresh batch from Week 3 of the aforementioned leagues Super Smash Bros. for Wii U weeklies. Each week of highlights brings in a variety of unique main characters. While you get awesome highlights from characters using mainstays such as Fox, Peach and Sheikh, this week’s montage also includes clutch victories from the likes of Lemmy Koopa, Ryu, and even a gnarly Pac-Man.
Check out SoCal Smash League’s Season 1, Week 3 highlights below — and find out how you can get involved in the weeklies here.
Street Fighter V wasn’t kind to Alex in Season 2 — but Season 3, as part of the Arcade Edition balance changes, sees loyal Alex mains rewarded with a buff to his Lariat. In the variety of setups in this video — including options for both quick and back rise — NurseLee works to maximize the Lariat’s potential frame advantage on hit to as high as +10. Check it out below (and keep an eye out for NurseLee’s next Alex video, promising a look at his new Rage Boost)!
Bandai Namco has dropped a couple of new trailers for Gundam Versus. These trailers focus on some of the upcoming DLC characters coming to the game in Japan.
The first of these is the RX-78-XX Pixie Gundam. Specifically, the version of the Pixie shown here is painted in the grey “Slave Wraith Team colors” and piloted by Fred Reber from Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: Missing Link.
Both mobile suits will be available for purchase for ¥300 on the PlayStation Store — in Japan — on January 30. A release in the West will likely follow.
