Street Fighter V Roster Discussion: P-P-P-P-PATTERN BREAKER

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Stone Ocean said:
It had more than 16 characters and no Claw
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Right, but it had Karin and Mika and Alex and Urien. Perhaps it's standard roster + DLC, and just left out Claw somehow? If Karin and Mika are enough to give credence to Siliconera, surely it's enough for that list as well. And the characters it has just happen to be the other four rumored characters?? That's an outrageous coincidence.
 
Beelzebufo said:
Doesn't Zangief have as reliable a leak as Siliconera? Or does the fact that it's Siliconera alone make that leak reliable? Same characters.
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To my knowledge, Zangief has no Siliconera-tier leak supporting him. If he did, we would have heard about it by now. That being said, Siliconera has proven to be reliable in the past.

ThirtyPlus said:
I know this, you do not want to save Gief and Sim for your last returning reveals. Talk about anti-hype.
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This guy gets it.
 
Beelzebufo said:
Right, but it had Karin and Mika and Alex and Urien. Perhaps it's standard roster + DLC, and just left out Claw somehow? If Karin and Mika are enough to give credence to Siliconera, surely it's enough for that list as well. And the characters it has just happen to be the other four rumored characters??
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That's way too lax and convenient, don't you agree?

Siliconera did their leaks in a very specific way, leaking characters in pairs. Maybe half of their info is bad, but it's clearly distinct pieces of info with one of them checking out. That leak list was claiming to be one whole thing and once Ken Bogard's info checked out, in hindsight we always knew there were 16 characters in the starter roster so guessing obvious DLC like returning World Warriors is something anyone can do.
 
ThirtyPlus said:
I know this, you do not want to save Gief and Sim for your last returning reveals. Talk about anti-hype.
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that's the only thing I don't get. unless they subsequently tease/announce some heavy hitter DLC (Alex, Urien, Akuma, Guile, Juri) along with non-character hype bombs

I'm sure gief and sim will be pretty sick tho
 
Still waiting on either C. Viper, Zangief, Dudley, or Poison.

If I don't get my hands on any of them, I might give non-charge Vega a shot until somebody I really like comes along.
 
Wish my dream of monthly character dlc like a moba was possible.

Alas, it is not
for a fighter
 
ThirtyPlus said:
I know this, you do not want to save Gief and Sim for your last returning reveals. Talk about anti-hype.
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This makes no sense though

1. Lots of people love Gief and Sim, and they particularly are great for people who are becoming disinterested in the roster now because they have no idea who Mika and Karin are and are wondering where the wrestler from Wreck it Ralph and the stretchy guy are. Now you could make the argument that they'd still get hyped for Mika and Karin because they look awesome, but that applies to Gief and Sim as well 😁
2. Even if you were right for some reason, they could still show Alex and Urien as DLC in like January before the game's launch. This won't get any backlash because these are fan favorites and they're free DLC.
3. Even if it was anti-hype or whatever the game still has an amazing roster. Nobody's not gonna by this game because Urien is day 1 DLC instead of on the main roster.
 
I have lost faith that my main man, Blanka, is going to make it at release. Only room for one hunched over wild man with charge attacks, and grunts and howls for sfx. Hope he is one of the first DLC characters.
 
Gief and Sim would be as hype as Claw.

A.k.a. let's spend a few dozen pages talking about how their face/hair is shit instead of what cool new things they can do.
 
ThirtyPlus said:
I know this, you do not want to save Gief and Sim for your last returning reveals. Talk about anti-hype.
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A certain Raging Demon will be the final reveal, don't worry about that. The reason why Gief/Sim dominate a lot of lists imo is because of their unique gameplay styles which would be absent from this game. But, that can be easily fixed if Laura and Zen are an evolution of Gief and Sim gameplay.

And if that is the case, then the remaining 2 classic characters would have to be zoners, so Sagat and Guile.
 
Mika is about as much a grappler as Abel is. Her normals are strong and she has multi-hit combo chains. I think, similarly to Abel, throws will be used as setups more so than primary damage dealers, with charged FKs and EX specials doing the most damage, with Nadeshiko being a combo extender.

It does leave room for a grappler that relies less on command normals and more on throws to do damage. Doesn't mean that Gief is coming, they could just as easily give Alex some godlike grabs and make him the opening rosters most pure grappler.
 
I'm kinda thinking Zen might be like Gen. Or maybe he'll fight with a weapon.

Edit: now that I'm reading this I'm wondering if my mind just made the connection because they rhyme lol
 
Stone Ocean said:
Monthly MOBA characters aren't actually made within a month. League's characters for example usually take 9 months of production before they're ready to ship.
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there's no way capcom is going to work on them one by one. they could manage one per month depending on what they've got set up already. there is surely substantial development already in progress for DLC characters.
 
the funny thing all this fighting over who will be in the core roster then when the game is released capcom puts out a new DLC character weekly

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The actual rate they release characters will be interesting. One every two(ish) months seems ideal to me. More often than that, and we'll end up with some insane roster size very quickly and the quality of characters could suffer. Too much less often than that, and it'll feel like an eternity between character releases. I wouldn't be surprised if characters were released at a more rapid rate in the first couple months after the launch of the game to keep momentum strong though.
 
Rhaknar said:
Wish my dream of monthly character dlc like a moba was possible.
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They said they would be continuously rolling out characters after launch. How frequent is unknown, but it's not entirety impossible if they have a head start on development. Surely they have some at various development stages and some sort of roadmap.

One a month would be amazing. KI did it with a character and stage for each one. I could see it happening in small waves with gaps where needed around tourneys.
 
If we do get Urien and Alex as the leak states what are the odds of Akuma being day 1 dlc? I can't think of a street fighter game without him. ( unless the original sf3 didn't have him)
 
Shadoken said:
What about random Tuesday morning reveals for Gief and Sim just like Bison,Vega.



Maybe they are saving the most drastic Re-designs for last? In that case we could anyone.
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Just to be clear, I don't actually know if there is a redesign. I just know it'll be those two for the returning slots
 
First wave of DLC is probably already being worked on at Capcom.

If we get all the characters by PSX. The only thing left would be minor tweaks and fixes between then and when the game goes gold. The core team of Animators/engineers would have already started work on the first wave of DLC characters. Its just going to be released monthly as a way of spacing it out and keeping the game fresh.

No company is going to work on a character 1 month at a time.
 
SF3 started off without a real grappler. Hugo didn't make it in until 2I, so Alex was the closest thing NG had to it.

MagnesD3 said:
If we do get Urien and Alex as the leak states what are the odds of Akuma being day 1 dlc? I can't think of a street fighter game without him. ( unless the original sf3 didn't have him)
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It didn't. He also came in as a secret boss in 2I.
 
Lulubop said:
What's not to believe? he seems confident, Valle said the same two characters. No one is taking Vulva up on his ten dollar bet ether
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Can't wait to see Sim in action.

Edit: They are explaining some of the character backgrounds on stream, and I can't understand shit!!!!!! I hope someone fluent in Japanese is catching the stream and translating.
 
vulva said:
Just to be clear, I don't actually know if there is a redesign. I just know it'll be those two for the returning slots
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I hope you're right because the amount of salt shown in the Claw thread will be nothing compared to what Sim and Gief will unleash.

Urien & Akuma as boss DLC would be pretty sick too... (than they better have Sak or Juri next)
 
Rhaknar said:
Wish my dream of monthly character dlc like a moba was possible.

Alas, it is not
for a fighter
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KI shipped about a character a month for seasons 1 and 2. However, they were not continuous so they had several months to ramp up characters to various states of development. I could see Capcom hitting about roughly the same pace, probably a bit faster up-front (to sell while the after-release hype is strongest) and with roster/update freezes around Evo and Capcom Cup finals.
 
SF4 went from 16 (arcade) mid 2008 to 44 mid 2014, that's about 1 character every 3 months. Not the best comparison, but maybe it puts things into perspective.
 
Man if greif or sim are shown there's no point in following this roster since there's nothing there for me. If this turns out to be the case the opening roster is rather lame.
 
Hypothesis: what if the 18 character roster rumor was true, but 2 were cut for DLC? Now the last 2 are shiftable, because all 4 are finished.

pizzacat said:
Gief and Sim fused imagine the nightmare of having a long reaching grappler ha
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Those exist. Super-Skrull and Merkava. Though Merkava has attack grabs.

MagnesD3 said:
Man if greif or sim are shown there's no point in following this roster since there's nothing there for me. If this turns out to be the case the opening roster is rather lame.
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You know the last two new characters?
 
vulva said:
Just to be clear, I don't actually know if there is a redesign. I just know it'll be those two for the returning slots
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Bruh, if you had inside information you should have just said so. I'm just out here trying to make educated guesses. I have no doubt that Alex & Urien will eventually be in regardless.
I'm just saying from a marketing standpoint, one would try to plan the most exciting reveals for last.
 
Karsticles said:
Hypothesis: what if the 18 character roster rumor was true, but 2 were cut for DLC? Now the last 2 are shiftable, because all 4 are finished.


Those exist. Super-Skrull and Merkava. Though Merkava has attack grabs.


You know the last two new characters?
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Based on necalli or rashid or any of the sf4 newcomers they won't be worth mentioning.
 
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