Rawr Its Ry
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Street Fighter V Roster Discussion |Thread 2| Deal with it & place your hope for DLC
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Next weekend friend.
MrSamsaZ
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I totally forgot to put Makoto in mine. Due to the popularity poll I and common sense I would say that Akuma, Sakura, Ibuki and Juri will be in the game at some point. I would also bet that Alex will be added to the roster as well. It seems like its more a question of how long we will have to wait for the specific characters we want.
Shadoken
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I mean you can say that for almost any character. Ryu is just a Karate guy , Cammy is just a blonde wearing a leotard. Very few SF characters are truly unique. What you said already puts him above some.
Sodom was a pretty funny joke character unlike Rufus or Fuerte who ended up becoming more annoying than funny.
Plus Sodom would be even more hilarious now as a joke character because of the whole Otaku/Weaboo thing.
I love his grab where he drags you across the floor ,its just so sick. I think he will be good , Just look at how Birdie ended up.
Rawr Its Ry
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PadWarrior
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The guys on Shoryuken said he had his 360 motions.
Tizoc
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Wonder if that'll change though, like how they gave Necalli charge moves.
Year 1
Dee Jay
T. Hawk
Balrog
Adon
Year 2
Juri
Hakan
Abel
Alex
Year 3
Twelve
Makoto
Akuma
Decapre
Year 4
Blanka
Evil Ryu
C. Viper
Sakura
Pick and choose the years and characters. But I think 4 characters, one every 2-3 months is a good, consistent release schedule if you include balance patches and whatnot. Maybe do 1 every 2 months and take a bit of an off-season for an extra mode or something.
Dee Jay
T. Hawk
Balrog
Adon
Year 2
Juri
Hakan
Abel
Alex
Year 3
Twelve
Makoto
Akuma
Decapre
Year 4
Blanka
Evil Ryu
C. Viper
Sakura
Pick and choose the years and characters. But I think 4 characters, one every 2-3 months is a good, consistent release schedule if you include balance patches and whatnot. Maybe do 1 every 2 months and take a bit of an off-season for an extra mode or something.
I just sorta made the list and put the Years part afterwards. It's just an example, in any case. I just think that's the kinda setup they need to keep the community going, especially since they expect some people to never pay for DLC characters. They have to drip feed it, as much as that will piss people off.
Anymore and I don't think it would be possible. I mean, one per quarter/season makes the most sense metagame wise anyways.
I'd say it takes about 3 months to just about figure out all of a characters tricks.
Plus, I don't think capcom can handle making quality characters that fast tbh. Emphasis on QUALITY.
Then there's stuff like story/voice work/PR materials.
PadWarrior
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True. Was it ever stated why they changed Necalli?
I doubt the wait between characters would be that long. And I highly doubt that any of those Year 1 characters'd in there before Year 3; I think it'd be Alex, Juri, Akuma, and maybe Sakura for the first year? Either way, I do think they'll reveal characters in terms of Years, though.
The LOL model requires updates more frequently than that. One per 6 weeks would work.
This seems like the longest it's taken for someone to snap a pic of the command list.
C'mon, Russia! Get your shit together!
Re: character release schedule, I'm betting it'll be fairly aggressive at 6-8 per year. There's zenny to be made.
This isn't lol. And this is capcom, not riot (or whatever they are).
I seriousy doubt 6-8 HOLY SHIT ARE YOU GUYS CRAZY. Im ready to eat crow, but I highly doubt that would happen.
Eh...it's just an example/outline, not a full blown marketing plan.
I feel like because of all the stuff involved with SF5, the cross-platform play, the back end, the F2P model of DLC (sorta) that bull rushing it would be a bad idea. This game has to last a pretty long time. They can't release 8 characters in 12 months consistently. It's just not feasible. They need to stretch it out. 32 characters after 4 years isn't too bad, all things considered. Like I said, the characters I listed and when I listed them really wasn't important to me when I did it.
I speculated that this would be the case a while ago. We'll get the main and alt palettes that have been shown and then must "buy" more.
Not great, but I tend to stick with the same color once I settle on one so it wouldn't be a huge deal for me.
That Dude John
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I hoping it's like Killer Instinct with characters released monthly and an off period later in the year.
Man, why are ya'll aiming so low for characters in a year? None of ya'll played KI?
Man, why are ya'll aiming so low for characters in a year? None of ya'll played KI?
I just hope there isn't an extended period of off-time like Smash 4's DLC character distribution. It's really killing the hype for me.
Cool. We'll reconvene in spring 2017.
At any rate, I'm confident we're going to be seeing the roster expand faster than IV did thanks to the business model.
That we will. I have already obtained crow.
That Dude John
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I'm curious how much Sakurai is winging it, tbh lol
Honestly, the only character that we can easily pin as likely to be next is Wolf, but even he's not a sure deal. There have been rumors here & there (the most prevalent one being Shovel Knight), but nothing from any Ken Bogard-tier sources. My guess, Sakurai's just cherry-picking characters that stick out to him from the Top 10 or 15 characters in the Ballot, plus Wolf, & going from there. I wouldn't be surprised if Shovel Knight was amongst those Top 15, which would tie back into the rumor.
I'm hoping for at least a character a month for Street Fighter V's DLC releases. And since I grind fighting games to the ends of the Earth, I won't have a problem paying for character with Fight Money.
KI has issues maintaining 1 character/month thing, and when they do there's always a lot of issues with each one.
Arc Christelle
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Yun
Yang
Remy
Sean [NG/2nd Impact inspired]
Yang
Remy
Sean [NG/2nd Impact inspired]
That would be some grade A BS. They should unlock for a character by simply playing with that character in arcade, online, or missions.
I think everything should be unlocked with FM, just a boatload cheaper.
I say that just because he's very close to the bottom of the popularity poll compared to R. Mika or Karin who, like you said, were in far less games.
6 characters a year seems both plausible and plenty. 8 border on crazy and any more just seems absurd unless Capcom is willing to spend BIG bucks to get enough manpower to make so many characters and actually balance and test them. There will be other non-character DLC content to fill out the schedule.
What about the hype of playing the game or even watching high level tournaments?
What about the hype of playing the game or even watching high level tournaments?
Sigismundo
Member
With very few exceptions you can't just play or watch games for the love of it now. There always has to be a carrot on a stick.
ShogunDarius
Member
I say 8 characters a year, Killer Instinct gets that and its fine, though 1 a month wouldnt be so bad either (with 2 on the opening month)
Shadoken
Member
Yea but that doesn't make him forgettable. People know him but they just don't like him. He could end up like the next Birdie.
8 a year is reasonable. Eventually a lot of assets will get re-used to speed things up. Doll and shoto fans are likely to benefit from that. Six original or highly re-worked characters and either character based heavily on existing ones, like Decapre, or alternate forms, like Evil Ryu, would probably work.
I think i'd rather they release them in 'packs'. 3 at a time every 4 ish months would be ideal. Watching literally the whole internet pick the same character for a month straight in KI got annoying rather quickly. It would also give capcom enough time to collect feedback on balance changes that they could drop in with every subsequent update so they dont shit the bed NRS style.
I really have no clue how they go about making characters, but one every 6 weeks or every other month seems reasonable. I wonder if they'll be doing seasons like KI. Or perhaps they'll wait a bit and drop two or more characters at a time?
Ohh,rip off take a look at Tekken Tag 2's Fight Lab. That was pretty fun.
Agreed. A solid Story or World Tour mode would be fun to mess around with for a good while. Or gimme a gallery full of cool stuff to spend FM on.
Ohh,
I'd prefer clusters as well, and it makes sense from a zenny perspective as well. You'd have to pick one char to cash out on and then grind more lol
A World Tour mode would make very, very, very happy. I played that shit for a million hours back in the day.
I'm on that boat, too, I don't want to spend every month playing against the OP's character of the moment (because I assume they will all be broken at release, sue me).
I'm on that boat, too, I don't want to spend every month playing against the OP's character of the moment (because I assume they will all be broken at release, sue me).
Truuuuuuue... that sounds just devious enough to work!
Dark Ninja
Member
why do people keep saying Keh-ren when its pronounced Kah-rin
ShogunDarius
Member
yeah I can agree with that, a 3 pack every 3 months, maybe even have a pack discount if you get all 3 characters at once