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[rrc1594]

Okay maybe sooner then 6 because one of the best teams in Halo just got 4-0

 

[Shpeshal Nick]

Something is definitely coming. Hype me up.

I would be okay with this route, I'd prefer all new stages but if nothing else at least have remixed existing stages for the other 5+ characters this season that don't get their own.

When a Rash match starts, why not have the combatants crash through the floor of TJ's gym roof to reveal a boxing ring underneath? Which becomes Rash's stage.

 

[Dai101]

EST

Thanks!

 

[rrc1594]

I think they are going to do it between a match

 

[Skab]

give it to meeeeeee

Also like 85% of this stream chat is people there for KI lol.

 

[Doukou]

Release date also!
March 26th

 

[Shpeshal Nick]

That was fucking hot.

 

[Remapped88]

March 26th release date!!

 

[JayWood2010]

Looks amazing xD Also KI Season 3 is releasing March 26th!!!

 

[Poker Face]

Arby looks SO GOOD, and the music was so much better than Kim Wu's. GREAT trailer, awesome job Max and co!

Where did you guys hear the 26th? It sounded like March Twentysix...teen to me

 

[The Flash]

Arby Art

Arby looks SO GOOD, and the music was so much better than Kim Wu's. GREAT trailer, awesome job Max and co!

Where did you guys hear the 26th? It sounded like March Twentysix...teen to me

He just flubbed a little. Rukari confirmed it.

 

[Poker Face]

Arby Art

He just flubbed a little. Rukari confirmed it.

Awesome. Glad we finally have a release date...and somehow hero art for arbiter before Kim Wu lol

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RIP

 

[The Flash]

Awesome. Glad we finally have a release date...and somehow hero art for arbiter before Kim Wu lol

No I mean the announcer flubbed trying to say March 2016. Rukari confirmed that the release is TBA. My bad.

 

[rrc1594]

Awesome. Glad we finally have a release date...and somehow hero art for arbiter before Kim Wu lol

edit

RIP

Good March 26th is to far

 

[Remapped88]

Welp......the wait for the March release date begins again. Hopefully they announce it next week since it's the END of FEBRUARY.

 

[The Flash]

Good March 26th is to far

Well I hope it's not to soon. The art that I commissioned isn't going to be 100% complete for a decent amount time.

 

[Skab]

Well I hope it's not to soon. The art that I commissioned isn't going to be 100% complete for a decent amount time.

March is already confirmed though.

 

[The Flash]

March is already confirmed though.

I know but the later in March the better. Trust me.

 

[BananasWithGuns]

You guys should be used to the KI release schedule by now. As late in the month as possible.

 

[RaySpencer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIxkQLaW0Ao


Here's a link, since you guys are always terrible about talking about things, but not posting links

 

[.la1n]

Awesome. Glad we finally have a release date...and somehow hero art for arbiter before Kim Wu lol

I am thinking they might be holding off on the Kim Wu hero art because she is undergoing some tweaks following her reveal ala TJ Combo or Cinder.

 

[Shpeshal Nick]

Is KI Central hinting/saying the release date is the 25th of Feb? Impossible right?

Edit. They're probably referring to the 25th Xbox event as when they'll announce the release date.

 

[BananasWithGuns]

Is KI Central hinting/saying the release date is the 25th of Feb? Impossible right?

Doesn't make sense if they're still saying "coming in March."

 

[Shpeshal Nick]

Doesn't make sense if they're still saying "coming in March."

See my edit.

 

[The Flash]

Is KI Central hinting/saying the release date is the 25th of Feb? Impossible right?

The Xbox/Windows 10 event is on that date. They'll probably announce the release date then.

Edit:

 

[BananasWithGuns]

Gonna make a prediction and say that the character that's teased on Wednesday will be the final launch character for season 3.

 

[The Flash]

Gonna make a prediction and say that the character that's teased on Wednesday will be the final launch character for season 3.

I think that's a safe bet. More than S2, less than S1.

 

[.la1n]

Gonna make a prediction and say that the character that's teased on Wednesday will be the final launch character for season 3.

Yeah four at launch seems fair.

 

[hwalker84]

If it's just the Arbiter trailer extended I'm going to be pissed. Please stop this trend.

 

[Poker Face]

Gonna make a prediction and say that the character that's teased on Wednesday will be the final launch character for season 3.

I'm gonna say three characters at launch. Tease will be tusk, you won't see him only hear the DAH and maybe see his sword

 

[The Flash]

I'm planning on having a KI Community section for the S3 OT. It's going to highlight notable players, streamers, and the like. Who would you put in such a section?

 

[rrc1594]

I'm planning on having a KI Community section for the S3 OT. It's going to highlight notable players, streamers, and the like. Who would you put in such a section?

LCD- The Mick Ross of KI lol
Rico- KI's best player
Max- It's Max
Gutter Magic- A top player
UltraArcade

 

[Sydle]

I'm planning on having a KI Community section for the S3 OT. It's going to highlight notable players, streamers, and the like. Who would you put in such a section?

Rico (all characters lol)
Paul B (I think he's dropping Wulf, planning to main Rash, Hisako, and Riptor)
KI4Life (great Orchid and Hisako)
CStyles (Aganos)
LCD (Orchid and Kim Wu)
Max (tries everyone, but I think he leans towards Fulgore)
PinkDiamond (Maya, I think she started streaming a bit)
Rebelo (TJ Combo, Shadow Jago)
Sleep (Kan Ra, ARIA, Glacius)

 

[Troubled Bat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIxkQLaW0Ao


Here's a link, since you guys are always terrible about talking about things, but not posting links

That stage is so good. I wasn't really sold much on Arbiter, but I'm sure that could change when I see some match footage with him.

Gonna make a prediction and say that the character that's teased on Wednesday will be the final launch character for season 3.

Bring on the vampire!

 

[Doukou]

Rico (all characters lol)
Paul B (I think he's dropping Wulf, planning to main Rash, Hisako, and Riptor)
KI4Life (great Orchid and Hisako)
CStyles (Aganos)
LCD (Orchid and Kim Wu)
Max (tries everyone, but I think he leans towards Fulgore)
PinkDiamond (Maya, I think she started streaming a bit)
Rebelo (TJ Combo, Shadow Jago)
Sleep (Kan Ra, ARIA, Glacius)

I would add Domi also for international players.

 

[rrc1594]

I would add Domi also for international players.

Also OGTY

 

[The Flash]

Can someone make a Rash and Arbiter buddy cop cartoon pls?

 

[Uraizen]

Can someone make a Rash and Arbiter buddy cop cartoon pls?

... I would watch it.

 

[shingi70]

Thinking of buying that MKX fightpad, I like the game but it feels like playing with a normal Xbox Controller is hindering me.

 

[.la1n]

I'm planning on having a KI Community section for the S3 OT. It's going to highlight notable players, streamers, and the like. Who would you put in such a section?

Steve "Sajam" Lyon - http://www.twitch.tv/sajam

would also include his youtube for great character tutorials at https://www.youtube.com/user/SupermanSajam

8bit Beatdown Online Tournaments - http://www.twitch.tv/omgwtfzombiebbq

and website - http://www.8bitbeatdown.net/ (down for now but back up for Season 3 launch.)

Rico Suave is http://www.twitch.tv/imricosuave

Max is http://www.twitch.tv/maximilian_dood

would probably include his youtube for great tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/user/Miles923

Paul B is http://www.twitch.tv/llpaulb

Bass (notable top Spinal) can be found at http://www.twitch.tv/xibassix

LCD is http://www.twitch.tv/gamerlcd

of course Brandon Alexander and founder of KI World Cup over at http://www.twitch.tv/ultraarcade

Killer Instinct official twitch also regularly host battles from time to time http://www.twitch.tv/killerinstinct
I'm sure they'll be ramping up at Season 3 launch.

 

[The Flash]

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Cheers

The Everlasting Child
Hisako's back story

The year that Chiharu was born the peach tree blossoms clung to their trees longer than anyone could remember, and so her mother and father gave her a name that meant “One thousand springs.” She was the eldest daughter of a rōnin—a samurai without a leader. For her father’s shōgun had been assassinated by a rival, and Chiharu’s father had returned to the village of his birth to start a family and become a farmer.

Being descended from a famous onna-bugeisha (a female samurai), Chiharu’s father felt that it was his duty to train his eldest daughter in the arts of war. The times were dangerous with many warring clans, renegade shōguns, and bandits on the roads; and every member of the village needed to be capable of bearing arms in case of invasion. Around his neck he always wore a strip of red cloth torn from his late shōgun’s battle banner in remembrance of him.

Chiharu became adept with sword and bow, but her weapon of choice was the naginata—a long pole with a blade on one end. It was the same weapon that her ancestor had used, and it was good for keeping the enemy at bay as well as unseating horsemen. Her father told her that she would inherit the naginata upon his death. But he gave her a Ninja’s weapon called the neko-te—the cat’s claw. It was a gold blade that fit over her finger and could be laced with poison. Chiharu was to use this if any man ever tried to abduct her.

When Chiharu wasn’t training she worked diligently in the fields side by side with the men and women of the village. But every action she performed was done with the intention of practicing her military art. The planting of a rice shoot was the same as the downward motion of a katana sword thrust. The pulling of a weed mimicked a defensive naginata maneuver.

One day a traveling theatrical group came to the village and performed a puppet show called The Story of The Ghost Wife—the tale of a woman who died and then came back from the dead only to murder her husband’s new bride by ripping off her head. The Ghost Wife’s puppet scared Chiharu with its pale skin and long wild black hair. For years afterward she had nightmares about it.

When she was about to turn nineteen a young aristocrat passed by the village on horseback. He saw Chiharu fetching water from the river and instantly wanted her, teasing her about her mud-caked feet. He tossed a beaded prayer bracelet on the ground and mockingly asked her to marry him, but Chiharu laughed in his face. She wanted to be a samurai, not somebody’s housekeeper. Especially not for a prissy-looking oaf like him. The wealthy young man—the son of a vicious renegade shōgun—became angry and drew his sword, and so Chiharu knocked him off his horse with her bucket, and beat him soundly. The humiliated man jumped on his mount and rode away from the village in shame; and Chiharu continued her training with renewed vigor. She wore the prayer bead bracelet to remind herself to never marry a fool.

Chiharu often practiced in a bamboo forest near the village, cutting down the thick stalks with her katana. A week after her nineteenth birthday, when all of the fruit tree blossoms had fallen and covered the ground like a white carpet, she was training in this spot when she caught her kimono on a sharp piece of bamboo. She ripped off the entire bottom part of the kimono so that she wouldn’t trip on it, and continued until twilight when she became aware that the air was thick with smoke. She sprinted out of the forest and across the fields toward the village. It was on fire! And there were armed horsemen everywhere. She reached into the folds of her robe and slipped on her poisoned cat’s claw.

As she got closer she saw that the invaders had slain many of the villagers. Chiharu ran toward her house, turned a corner and came face to face with a sight that made her knees buckle: her mother, grandmother and two younger siblings lay dead, piled on top of each other like butchered animals, their clothes slashed and their blood staining the stones of the street. And there was her father’s corpse nearby. His head had been cut off, and the red strip of battle banner that he had always worn around his neck lay at her feet. She picked it up with a trembling hand.

Chiharu’s heart broke in that instant…and then it turned to a burning coal inside her breast. She grabbed her father’s naginata, pulling it from his dead hands, then charged the horsemen, screaming at them, calling them cowards, and ripping them apart like a force of nature. Positioning herself between the warriors and some buildings where many of the village children were being held, she fought with inhuman endurance, slaying a dozen of the attackers before succumbing to her own wounds and collapsing on the ground.

The last thing that she saw in this world was a young man’s face grinning at her—the man whom she had spurned by the river. With her dying effort she swiped her cat’s claw across his cheek…and then she died with his screams of anguish echoing in her ears. But Chiharu had not passed in vain. Her act of bravery against overwhelming odds rallied the surviving villagers to fight back, and they drove the soldiers out of the village, shooting many of them dead with arrows as they fled.

Once the fight was over, the people cremated Chiharu with her family, carefully removing the bones from the ashes with chopsticks and placing them in clay urns. They built a shrine for her, to which they regularly made small offerings, burning incense and offering prayers to the brave spirit of the young woman who had saved them from being wiped out. Civil war ravaged the land for decades, but Chiharu’s village endured.

For centuries afterwards local legend told of a mysterious spirit that guarded the ancient village against any intruders. The people who lived in the area called her Hisako which meant “Everlasting Child” because she always appeared in the shape of a teenage girl with muddy feet and a torn kimono. The artificial intelligence ARIA, ever on the lookout for the opportunity to study and observe phenomenon outside of normal human existence, couldn’t resist the chance to meddle.

ARIA orchestrated the defiling of the shrine and ancient graves, causing the ghost of Hisako to return from her long rest in the Astral Plane. The girl sought to recover the artifacts that were stolen from her family’s plot by the assassin Sadira, and destroy those who had caused the desecration of the protected grounds.

Hunting down the perpetrators, Hisako’s energy dwindled the further she got from her resting place. She finally defeated those responsible for the thefts and went back to her grave. But then she was visited by the spirit of her beloved father who warned her that both the Astral Plane and the mundane world were under impending danger. Hisako must do more than simply guard the sanctity of the family burial grounds and the memory of the girl Chiharu. Now she must become a gatekeeper between the two planes, enforcing balance and fighting a terrible evil.

http://www.ultra-combo.com/the-everlasting-child/

 

[Keits]

I'm planning on having a KI Community section for the S3 OT. It's going to highlight notable players, streamers, and the like. Who would you put in such a section?

Others had great suggestions, but here are a few more. If I think of additional ones I'll pop by for sure.

Flashx6666x - great wulf player and streamer
JagoBlake - streams a lot, great jago
KI4Life - NL player and streamer, great orchid and hisako
CStyles - Great Glacius/Kan-Ra/Aganos player, getting back into streaming more regularly
HKSmash - great streamer and TJ player
Bass - Top Spinal, streams often

 

[The Flash]

Others had great suggestions, but here are a few more. If I think of additional ones I'll pop by for sure.

Thanks.

Hey also could you do me a solid and get one of the programmers to make a gif of Rash's taunt but with a transparent background? That would be fantastic. It's a beast to try to do it in Photoshop.

 

[Keits]

Thanks.

Hey also could you do me a solid and get one of the programmers to make a gif of Rash's taunt but with a transparent background? That would be fantastic. It's a beast to try to do it in Photoshop.

I can put in a request if you remind me next week. This week is no good.

 

[BananasWithGuns]

Others had great suggestions, but here are a few more. If I think of additional ones I'll pop by for sure.

Flashx6666x - great wulf player and streamer
JagoBlake - streams a lot, great jago
KI4Life - NL player and streamer, great orchid and hisako
CStyles - Great Glacius/Kan-Ra/Aganos player, getting back into streaming more regularly
HKSmash - great streamer and TJ player
Bass - Top Spinal, streams often

I definitely second HKSmash. He's really great and deserves more love in my opinion.

 

[El Sabroso]

I'm planning on having a KI Community section for the S3 OT. It's going to highlight notable players, streamers, and the like. Who would you put in such a section?

Recomending as notable players my hometown boy Hecrob, Kanra player, he is 3stars right now, hasn't attended pressential tournaments yet but he brings the salt to others in online tournaments

 

[akilshohen]

It would be even better if you could use the classic KI stages in the other modes too...

 

[tapedeck]

Something just hit me.

Arbitor is fighting Thunder in the trailer....CHIEF Thunder..

Arbiter Vs Chief..IG playin wit us.

 

[rrc1594]

Something just hit me.

Arbitor is fighting Thunder in the trailer....CHIEF Thunder..

Arbiter Vs Chief..IG playin wit us.

Damn

 

[The Flash]

I can put in a request if you remind me next week. This week is no good.

Woo! I didn't think that would work. Thanks!

Something just hit me.

Arbitor is fighting Thunder in the trailer....CHIEF Thunder..

Arbiter Vs Chief..IG playin wit us.

Max confirmed that he picked Thunder to demonstrate the height difference as well.

here's a reference i just made