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Invincible VS Open Beta April 9-11th

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Arsic

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https://invinciblevs.com/open-beta

Anyone else playing? I tried it on a whim since I love the show but have been pretty turned off by this game.

After playing a few hours I think it's super fucking good. It's the most accessible 3v3 fighter and oozes style. Great soundtrack, easy to pick up, lots of good mechanics without being overwhelming, and clearly a passion project.

The only bad thing is the graphics are hit and miss. Battle beast looks like dog shit and shadows are jaggy and poor.
 
Thanks for the post/reminder.

Downloaded it and will give it a run this weekend. My initial impressions match your take in terms of the visual inconsistencies but as long as the gameplay is smooth i can forgive that.

Every video I have watched gives me the impression of a more refined (better animation blending and flow) than Battle for the Grid.
 
Been LOVING the latest season. Love Invincible. Love all the characters. Hope this does well.

Battle Beast is literally me.

It's like American DBZ. It's good stuff!

Not as good as some anime, not as good as Batman The Animated Series but better than just about all other cartoon shows. Equal to Primal and Scavenger's Reign. To compare it to anime, it's Frieren level. The animation sucks, sure, but that's not why it's good(animation is also not why Frieren is good).
 
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Zacfoldor said:
Been LOVING the latest season. Love Invincible. Love all the characters. Hope this does well.

Battle Beast is literally me.

It's like American DBZ. It's good stuff!

Not as good as some anime, not as good as Batman The Animated Series but better than just about all other cartoon shows. Equal to Primal and Scavenger's Reign. To compare it to anime, it's Frieren level. The animation sucks, sure, but that's not why it's good(animation is also not why Frieren is good).
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I heard that this is some of the people who did Killer Instinct and it feels like that game a bit. Im interested to try it.
 
DenchDeckard said:
What about that season 4 episode 5!
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ELITE! Maybe the best episode of the show. I've watched the ending like 10 times. Just watched the next ep after that. It's so good.

I know Tech Jacket is a gender flip, but I think they did it perfect. I love her character honestly, lol and always loved Allen! This is a cool character:
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Zacfoldor said:
ELITE! Maybe the best episode of the show. I've watched the ending like 10 times. Just watched the next ep after that. It's so good.

I know Tech Jacket is a gender flip, but I think they did it perfect. I love her character honestly, lol and always loved Allen! This is a cool character:
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Yup. Incredible show i love it a lot too! Can't wait for the last two episodes.
 
Tried it, uninstalled after a few matches. Sadly fighting games still not for me, but i do like watching them. From what i played, it played really well tho, so fighting game fans will probably like it. I cant even play 1 character in these games let alone 3 lol
 
If Vultrimite vs Vultrimite combat is accurate to the show, then it is "Run at each other and then spam the attack button as fast as possible!" They are the most boring fights in the series because they have ZERO skill, it's just charge and smash.
 
I normally don't care about the visuals if the story is good, but the animation in season 1 was so bad (they couldn't even get a walk cycle right), I gave up on the series until I heard they'd gotten an entirely new studio for Season 2+.

Loving Season 4, and last night was great - the amount of story you get per episode is pretty great.
 
I was struggling with motion controls as it seems my execution has suffered from not playing fighting games for a while.
With the standard (simple) controls, you really have to rewire your brain with the button setups.

I'm struggling to find a good setup for simple controls on the 8 button fight stick even though it feels dirty to use that scheme instead of motion inputs.
Maximillian Dood played the hell out of it last night. I went to bed around when he started and he was still playing when I got up the next morning.
 
I love the show and the comics but this game isn't for me. Tried it last night and I didn't think it was very good. Feels weird to play and the animations look off.
 
Icymanipulator said:
The voice work is fine, but it's not some of the cast from the show.
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Fixed. Some of them are in the game. Others aren't.

I think it was worth them finding soundalikes for some of the larger stars as to not drain this game's budget.

I'm waiting to see how the campaign is for the game. Some people are wanting an Injustice-style campaign, others are wanting a Soul Calibur challenge mode-style campaign. I guess we will see.
 
Zacfoldor said:
Is there much voice work I wonder? Done by the TV show VAs?
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I think it's a mix of OG cast and new VAs.
VA is fine and lines are pretty good for a fighting game, especially some of the banter that goes on during the match are customized to each opponent.

I played the last beta and there is a lot of improvement in the visuals and even some of the animation. There are some animation that does need work, but nothing that couldn't be patched in.

Having fun with it so far, but I do wish it had local co-op for the beta, but since this is primarily a network tests as well as PR, I'm not surprised it isn't in there.

Edit: Beaten like INVINCIBLE by March Climber March Climber
 
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I know some people will hate this but I think this genre could benefit most from AI partners. Like AI in fighting games is already and has always been important. One thing that makes fighting games good is a good co-op partner. Xbox has a patent to create local coop partners from llms aimed at the Xbox pc iirc. I think there are a lot of people who once loved FGs but don't anymore because their friend/family partner is no longer available to play. Could be a good use for AI to create like a more realistic training buddy. Think of like a DBZ fighting game with a campaign where you play as Kakarot and the LLM plays Vegeta. Same could be implemented here.
 
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BurningNad said:
I'm PC only so I couldn't play the beta, but I'm in day 1. Was a huge KI player, the current popular fighting games aren't too appealing to me.
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This game is just pure fun and easy to hadle.

I'm day one digital deluxe. As a KI enjoyer this is great until Tokkon later this year to scratch that fighting game itch.
 
As i said i suck at these games, but the gameplay is definitely fun here. Wish it wasnt a tag fighter tho, i can barely control 1 character lol. Also the characters in this game looks so uninteresting, but its the invincible universe not the games fault obviously
 
It's a fun game, but they need to fix the EX loops where you can essentially do 3 of them in a row into a Super assuming you have the meter.
Also, not built for this, but I wouldn't mind seeing team supers and DHC Supers ala UMvC3 although Super into tag into Super is similar. I'm not sure if can "break" Super into tag, but I assume you can
 
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