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Mech F.A.N.G and Mech Juri are the next two costumes coming to Street Fighter V’s Extra Battle mode

Hopefully they don’t just break down in “two minutes”.

You can ensure the safety of the Shadaloo skies with Mech Zangief this week by completing his final challenge in Street Fighter V‘s Extra Battle mode. To follow the Robo-Cyclone in Extra Battle, it seems more mechs are coming off the assembly line. The next Extra Battle costume will be Mech F.A.N.G — probably the flesh-and-blood F.A.N.G’s own creation — and a mech version of Juri will follow afterwards.

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As usual, to unlock these costumes you’ll have to complete four Extra Battle challenges (costing Fight Money), one per week. You can activate ohmymy.exe when Mech F.A.N.G’s challenges begin this week on October 26, while we’ll see how sadistic an artificial Juri can be when Mech Juri arrives on November 23.

Source: Street Fighter (Twitter)

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The Saints Are Gonna Come Marching In as You Collect Them in Follow JC Go

Italian site Corriere.it (via Eurogamer) is reporting that the Vatican has given its literal blessing to a new Pokemon Go-inspired game called Follow JC Go. The game, like Pokemon Go, uses augmented reality to send players off on a hunt for “saints, blessed and other biblical characters”. Rather than catch them via a fight, players will be challenged with answering questions. Successful interaction will see the character join a player’s team.

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In News You Didn’t Expect Today – Hellgate: London Is Returning to Steam

If you woke up today thinking that it’s “just another Wednesday”, have we got news for you! It appears that Hellgate: London, originally developed at Bill Roper’s Flagship Studios, is coming back to Steam. After Hanbitsoft bought the rights to Hellgate: London in 2010, it went largely silent after it failed as a F2P title (2011) before turning up again in 2014, this time on Steam Greenlight. Perhaps the 2018 version will prove that the third time is the charm?

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Flipsid3 Tactics signs Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition player Angel “Lilo24k” Cruz

Flipsid3 Tactics has added Angel “Lilo24k” Cruz to their Fighting Game Division roster. He will be joining 2016 Evo World Champion Darnell “HollywoodSleep” Waller and Allan “LuCkyL0opZ” Paris. Lilo24k is a Balrog main from the Dominican Republic and his recent accomplishments include placing 5th at the second Capcom Pro Tour Latin America Online Event and placing 7th at Defend the North 2018 in July. His first event under the Flipsid3 banner will be the North American LAN Finals in Washington, D.C.

Earlier this year, Antwan “Alucard” Ortiz and Thomas “Brolynho”Proença both left Flipsid3 Tactics. The departure of the two well-accomplished SFV players left a void in Flipsid3’s Fighting Game Division roster. But no longer — the Dominican Republic has proven itself to be a powerful region for SFV, with RISE|MenaRD and RISE|Caba participating in this year’s Capcom Cup. All of us here at Shoryuken have high hopes for the young Dominican Balrog player.

Sources: lilox24k (Twitter); FlipSid3Tactics (Twitter); flipsidetactics.com

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2018 Tokyo Bay Area Cup Volume 9 Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown VODs now available

Virtua Fighter 5:Final Showdown continues, now and forever, to draw consistently large and high level groups of players in Japan. The 2018 Tokyo Bay Area Cup — a 3-on-3 team tournament in Japan feature 30 teams — is a testament to that as it enters its 9th iteration.

If you missed the action, VirtuaFighter.com admin Mike Abdow put together an excellent highlight reel for the tournament, which you can watch below. He also put together a breakdown of character usage, which you can check out here.

If you like what you saw, you can watch the full VF5:FS tournament VOD, too:

Source: Mike Abdow

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novriltataki shares what makes Samurai Shodown V Special in latest intro video

It’s no surprise that, in the light of a new a Samurai Shodown game, that interested parties would look to older titles again with new inspiration. Of the many games in the Samurai Shodown series though, there is one that consistently brings together all walks of life from inside and outside the SamSho fanbase: Samurai Shodown V Special.

If you, too, were wanting to glance back to the SamSho series, novriltataki has made an excellent primer video on why SSVS has survived after all this time. Not just among other SamSho properties, but as its own unique, footsie-focused, creative powerhouse in the FGC.

Source: novriltataki

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WydD releases input latency test results from the most recent patch for Street Fighter V on PlayStation 4

For the last few weeks, Capcom has touted a new patch that they stated aimed to reduce input lag within the game’s engine — a problem that has plagued players since the release of the title in 2016. Questions lingered on how much the patch would actually do, and further still, whether the patch would do anything about the stability, which caused lag to be higher at certain points — the infamous “lag cycle”.

With the patch now out, Loïc “WydD” Petit has put the PlayStation 4 version through his stress test. The verdict is in, and input latency has been reduced from 5.4 frames of lag to 4.5 frames of lag — a lag window that is closer to other titles, Fighting EX Layer being just over 4 frames — but still outside of the input lag window of Ultra Street Fighter IV which clocks in at 3.5 frames.

Further, stability has improved drastically, up to 77% from a staggeringly low 40%, meaning that while there will be occasional random issues with lag and inputs, the dreaded lag cycle has been put to rest.

This bodes well for the title, as input latency and instability are issues for which fixes have been long-desired by the SFVAE playerbase.

Source: WydD (Twitter)

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Akira Toriyama’s new villain Kane is revealed for JUMP FORCE

“The world needs to be remade…”

One of the draws to Bandai Namco’s upcoming tag-team arena fighter JUMP FORCE are new character designs from manga legend and Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama. And via their social media Bandai Namco is now teasing some shots of one such character: Kane, a new villain created just for JUMP FORCE.

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JUMP FORCE is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in February 2019.

Source: Bandai Namco US (Twitter)

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Street Fighter V servers down for maintenance today, adding input speed improvement patch

We’ll soon see the effects of Capcom’s promised input latency improvements…

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Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition will be offline-only between 11:00 AM PT and 5:00 PM PT for another round of server maintenance, during which we can expect the implementation of the promised input latency improvement patch.

For fans of classic Street Fighters, Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection is also getting an update today to patch in a number of fixes.

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Source: SFV Server Status (Twitter)

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Switch fans launch community-led matchmaking site “Switcher.gg”

While Nintendo’s console portable hybrid Switch has been getting a number of multiplayer games — including fighting games — actually connecting to people can be a chore. While Nintendo has made some steps to remedy this, the system in place for most games is still far from ideal.

To respond to this challenge, a Switch fan who goes by the handle “bezzaton” on Reddit has created a new multiplayer match up site for players on the system. Called Switcher.gg, the site aims to connect Switch players who want to play together, either through online or local multiplayer.

Interested players can sign up via either email or Discord. Additionally, the site features integration with the latter, so any messages sent via Switcher.gg can be received on Discord. That said, players still have the option of simply using their Nintendo IDs instead.

Source: r/NintendoSwitch, via Siliconera