Category: Fighting Games

Xbox One KI owners are in for a brand new combo!

Xbox announced today that the previously Xbox One exclusive, Killer Instinct: Definitive Edition, will now be playable on Windows 10 PCs. This marks Killer Instinct as the newest addition to the Xbox Play Anywhere initiative.

The Xbox Play Anywhere program grants players free Windows 10 copies of specific Xbox One titles and vice versa. So anyone who has already purchased the title digitally will now be able to access the Windows 10 version on their PC for free. The program also syncs player data over the cloud, allowing users to pick up wherever they last left off. Killer Instinct: Definitive Edition is now a cross-play title as well, allowing players to compete against each other regardless of their platform.

Killer Instinct: Definitive Edition includes the 26 characters, 20 stages, and costumes that were released in the first three seasons of content. Players will also find trailers, music tracks, and behind-the-scenes content inside their compilation package.

Xbox also disclosed information about a brand new character costume for KI veteran, Chief Thunder. During the development of the most recent entry in the series, the KI team asked the Nez Perce tribe from Lapwai, Idaho, for assistance with re-designing Thunder to be more culturally appropriate.

Three years after its release, Xbox is saying thank you to their Nez Perce friends by releasing a brand-new, “100 percent authentic warrior outfit derived from Nez Pere cultural traditions and dress.” Owners of Killer Instinct and Thunder, through the free-to-play version,  will be able to obtain this costume free-of-charge on Wednesday, December 21.

Within these announcements, Xbox also promises that they’ve “got some awesome surprises in store for fans soon.”

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As we are all saying our farewells to Season One of Street Fighter V, many players and video creators are choosing to remember this year by creating final combo videos ahead of the December 20th switch over. Pepopulo has gone all out with this memorial to Season One, creating a cracking CMV which shows off the crazier combos that the SFV cast could pull off.

While pepopulo chooses to focus on the madness that comes from Urien’s Aegis Reflector and Guile’s Sonic Boom loops, Laura, Birdie, Ken, Ibuki, Juri, Alex and Balrog also get some time to show off some of the wild stuff that was possible in Season One. Let’s just hope Akuma and his cohort of new fighters can create equally as creative combos.

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Creators of the Bishoujo line of character figurines, Kotobukiya is returning to the realm of Street Fighter with its new Ibuki figurine. Using her initial design from Street Fighter III and then re-imagined by master illustrator Shunya Yamashita, this Ibuki figurine would suit any Street Fighter collection, joining Poison and Sakura who have also been given the Bishoujo treatment.

Ibuki stands at 9.65 inches tall and can be pre-ordered for $74.99 over on Kotobukiya’s official website. If you do order now, figurines are set to arrive sometime in March 2017. Do note that there will be an alternate release of this Ibuki figurine in the future, which will have her ninja mask included. Check out the shots below to see both a front and back view of this Ibuki figurine.

 

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Alongside the reveal of Panda, Kuma and Tekken 7’s Online Tournament feature, the King of the Iron Fist Global Finals brought with it another big announcement for fans of both real and virtual fighting. In a collaboration with New Japan Pro Wrestling, Tekken 7 will feature a special outfit for King, based on the wrestling attire of current IWGP Heavyweight champion, Kazuchika Okada.

A new trailer was released showing off this new outfit, and showing Kazuchika Okada talking about this new “Rainmaker” outfit for King. King has even gained the use of Okada’s Rainmaker finisher as one of his new moves in Tekken 7, making this collaboration an absolute dream for wrestling fans.

Source: Fighters Generation

Alongside the reveal of Panda, Kuma and Tekken 7’s Online Tournament feature, the King of the Iron Fist Global Finals brought with it another big announcement for fans of both real and virtual fighting. In a collaboration with New Japan Pro Wrestling, Tekken 7 will feature a special outfit for King, based on the wrestling attire of current IWGP Heavyweight champion, Kazuchika Okada.

A new trailer was released showing off this new outfit, and showing Kazuchika Okada talking about this new “Rainmaker” outfit for King. King has even gained the use of Okada’s Rainmaker finisher as one of his new moves in Tekken 7, making this collaboration an absolute dream for wrestling fans.

Source: Fighters Generation

While every character in Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- has the same value of hit points — 420 — calculating exact damage and overall health is much more complicated than that. The RISC gauge scales attacks after blocking, everyone has an individual defense modifier, and there’s also the Guts mechanic, which decreases damage further the closer a player is to defeat.

Reddit user dhamster brought those values under a scope to statistically calculate just how much effective hit points each character has. The first chart, made on Dustloop, has the Guts and defense modifier values for characters (0 being the worst, 5 the best):

Guts Rating	Character	<50% Life	<40% Life	<30% Life	<20% Life	<10% Life
0	Bedman, Elphelt, Faust, Zato	90%	76%	60%	50%	40%
1	Axl, I-No, Ramlethal, Sin, Slayer, Sol, Venom, Dizzy	87%	72%	58%	48%	40%
2	Ky, Haehyun, Jack-O’	84%	68%	56%	46%	38%
3	Johnny, Leo, May, Millia, Potemkin, Jam	81%	66%	54%	44%	38%
4	Chipp	78%	64%	50%	42%	38%
5	Raven	75%	60%	48%	40%	36%

With a few assumptions, dhamster made a formula that incorporates Guts to see an estimation of what a character’s actual health comes out to:

HP	Defense Modifier	Effective HP – No Guts	Guts Rating	EHP – With Guts	EHP (% of median)
Chipp	420	1.3	323	4	480	84%
Millia	420	1.21	347	3	504	88%
Zato	420	1.09	385	0	524	91%
Axl	420	1.06	396	1	549	95%
I-No	420	1.06	396	1	549	95%
Ramlethal	420	1.06	396	1	549	95%
Dizzy	420	1.06	396	1	549	95%
Sin	420	1.04	404	1	559	97%
Venom	420	1.03	408	1	565	98%
Elphelt	420	1	420	0	571	99%
Faust	420	1	420	0	571	99%
May	420	1.06	396	3	575	100%
Jam	420	1.06	396	3	575	100%
Ky	420	1.03	408	2	581	101%
Jack-O’	420	1.03	408	2	581	101%
Sol	420	1	420	1	582	101%
Raven	420	1.1	382	5	587	102%
Slayer	420	0.96	438	1	606	105%
Johnny	420	1	420	3	609	106%
Leo	420	1	420	3	609	106%
Bedman	420	0.93	452	0	614	107%
Haehyun	420	0.96	438	2	624	108%
Potemkin	420	0.93	452	3	655	114%
				MEAN	572.3
				MEDIAN	574.8
				STD DEV	38.2

“Most characters have effective HP that falls within a few percentage points of the median, but some characters are notably more or less resilient than the rest, by up to 15%,” dhamster points out in his post. “That’s not much different than the scale of hit points in Street Fighter IV, where Akuma had 850 HP and Zangief had 1100-1200 HP (depending on the version). Raven’s high Guts rating more or less balances his bad defense rating (1.1), but for the most part, the defense rating seems to be a bigger factor overall. Millia and Chipp have good Guts ratings, but their abysmal defense ratings send them to the bottom of the charts.”

Aside from these detailed numbers, it’s important to keep in mind that Guts doesn’t work on poison and chip damage, and that damage cannot be reduced below one. This was covered in the last Guilty Gear Crash Course.

Source: r/guiltygear