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SNK and Deep Silver brought the King of Fighters XIV to the Japan Expo in Paris, France this past weekend. As part of this, producer Yasuyuki Oda took the stage to participate in an open Q&A session.

While the Q&A session was in French, BzChoy from the Shoryuken forums has translated and posted notes on some important bits from it.

The session itself covered a plethora of topics concerning SNK’s upcoming fighter. This includes things related to the game’s cast, including whether or not there will be unlockables (only the 2 boss characters need to be unlocked by finishing Arcade Mode), as well as future DLC and whether there will be more characters from Garou: Mark of the Wolves.

On the former, Oda stated that they have no plans for DLC as of yet. Meanwhile, regarding the latter, he stated that he thought that there were enough characters from the Fatal Fury franchise, which is why they didn’t add any MOTW characters. He did, however, made some joking hints about the King of Dinosaurs, who SNK continues to deny is Tizoc, despite the in-game dialogue saying otherwise.

As for guest characters, he stated that he would like to see Street Fighter’s Akuma in KoF.

In addition to this, he was asked questions about some of the features of the game, as well as the game’s online mode. While he didn’t specifically state anything about the game’s netcode, he did confirm that there will be both regular and ranked battles online for both 1-on-1 and 3-on-3 team formats. In addition to this, the online party battle that allows 3 players to form a team will also have the ability to shuffle the player and character orders.

He also dropped a bit of bad news for European players, as he confirmed that there will be no Collector’s Edition for the region. Anyone who wants one will have to import it from the US.

Oda was quite coy about any future projects, stating that anything after KoF XIV is currently being kept secret. As for bringing more of their past games on to PlayStation 4, he stated that there are no plans for releasing any physical remastered classics.

Of course, this is just part of what Oda talked about. For those interested in watching the whole thing, shinblaze was able to record footage from the event, which he’s split into three videos you can see below.

Take note that the session is in french. Additionally, the third video also has some gameplay footage featuring Team Mexico.